Banfield
The Banfields were a Quaker merchant family of Clonmel, county Tipperary, involved in the milling industry. In the mid 19th century Robert Banfield, William Chaytors and Bernard P. Whelan held 2 townlands in the parish of Kiltegan, barony of Iffa and Offa East. In the 1870s the representatives of Peter R. Banfield, Clonmel, owned 978 acres in county Tipperary. Members of the Banfield family seem to have had connections with the Kinsale and Bandon areas of county Cork from the seventeenth century onwards. The repesentatives of Thomas Banfield (with an address in Bandon) owned over 150 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Seafield (Kinsale) | Ballincurrig | Ringrone | Kinsale | Ballinspittle 203 | Courceys | Cork |
OSI Ref: W597453
OS Sheet: 124 Discovery map: 87 |
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| Aghadown House | Aghadown | Aghadown | Skibbereen | Aghadown South 313 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W049332
OS Sheet: 141 Discovery map: 88 |
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Archival sources
- Papers relating to property of the Duckett family in Clonmel, with mention also of the Banfield family 1804-95. D. 17,103-13: M. 2058: T. 7093-4 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Detailed abstract of will of Francis Banfield of Corrane, Co. Cork 1762. Genealogical Office: Ms. 139, p. 80 ; National Library of Ireland
- Letter to Sir R. Southwell from J. Banfield in Kinsale relating to a large quantity of wine wrecked in different places on the coast of Munster and adjudged in the Admiralty Court of Munster by R. O'Donovan June 11, 1688. Bodleian Library, Ms. Rawl. A. 186 (11,070): (Extracts) ; Oxford University: Bodleian Library
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 158
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 19
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Courceys: 6 (Ballincurrig)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 171 (Aghadown)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 230 (Aughadown)