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Hayes (Vernon Mount)
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Ottiwell or Attwell Hayes of Vernon-mount, county Cork, is listed as a subscriber to Lewis ''Topographical Dictionary'' (1837). In July 1851 the estate of Christopher Hume Lawder provisional assignee of the estate and effects of Ottiwell Hayes and of the estate of Anne Henrietta Hayes in the barony of Glenquin, county Limerick (over 4,000 acres) and small acreages in the baronies of Cork and Duhallow, county Cork, were advertised for sale. The county Limerick lands were held under a lease from the Earl of Limerick to Baron Muskerry and subleased by the Baron to Attiwell Hayes, grandfather of "the present owner" in 1781. The representatives of Sir Henry B. Hayes owned some land in the parish of Abbeyfeale, barony of Glenquin, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. John J. Hayes and Patrick Hayes also held land in the parishes of Killeedy and Abbeyfeale, barony of Glenquin. Sir Henry Brown Hayes was the son of Attiwell Hayes, a prosperous merchant in Cork city, involved in brewing, milling and glass works. Henry was born in 1762, became a freeman of the city of Cork in 1782 and was knighted in 1790. He married Elizabeth Smyth of Youghal and had four children. She died in 1794 and in 1797 he abducted an heiress Mary Pike and was transported to Australia in 1802. He later returned to Ireland and was buried in Cork in 1832. Attiwell Edwin Hayes was a radical journalist based in Sydney, Australia in the mid 19th century. He became editor of the newspaper ''The Australian''.
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Lane (Co Cork)
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The estate of William Lane executor and devisee of Samuel Lane, deceased, in the city of Cork and baronies of Cork and Kerricurrihy, county Cork and in the city of Waterford was advertised for sale in May 1855. In the 1870s various members of the Lane family owned properties of less than 500 acres in the vicinity of Cork city, including William Lane of Vernon Mount who owned 264 acres, Thomas R. Lane of Newenham Terrace who owned 459 acres and James Lane of South Mall who owned 469 acres in county Cork and 226 acres in county Limerick. This family were possibly connected to Sir George Lane, Viscount Lanesborough, who was granted lands in the counties Dublin, Meath, Kilkenny, Longford, Waterford and in the barony of Kerricurrihy, county Cork in 1666.
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