Woodroffe
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Samuel Woodroffe was granted 1,136 acres of land in the barony of East Carbery, county Cork in 1667 while Holmstead and Jedediah Woodriffe were granted small acreages of land in the barony of East Carbery in 1669. John Woodroffe, with an address in Dublin, was the owner of over 800 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. He was the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Desertserges, barony of East Carbery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Other members of the family owned smaller amounts of land in the county.
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