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Orpen (Elm Park)
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At the time of Griffith's Valuation John Orpen held land in the parishes of
Inchigeelagh, barony of West Muskerry and Cullen, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. John Herbert Orpen was a grandson of John Herbert Orpen, sixth son of the Reverend Thomas Orpen of Killowen, county Kerry and an eminent physician of Cork city in the late 18th century. His uncle the Rev. John E. Orpen was among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry in the mid 19th century. The Reverend John E. Orpen married Frances daughter of Richard Ashe of Coolehane and they had four sons who all died childless. Their second son Richard Ashe Orpen of Lisheens and later of Elm Park, Cork, assigned Elm Park to his nephew Richard Ashe. Richard Ashe Orpen of Elm Park, Farran, owned 2,204 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.
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Hutchinson (Codrum)
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In the mid 18th century Emanuel Hutchinson was resident at Codrum, parish of Macroom, barony of West Muskerry, county Cork. His daughter Hannah married John Herbert Orpen. Hugh Massy of Mount Massy also married a Hutchinson and had a son, Massy Hutchinson Massy, and a daughter, Cherry who married John Warren, a younger son of Sir Robert Warren of Warren's Court, 1st Baronet. John and Cherry Warren were living at Codrum by 1814. Colonel Robert Hutchinson was murdered at Codrum in 1799. The representatives of Arthur Hutchinson are listed as lessors in Griffith's Valuation , both in Caheragh and Kilmocomoge, West Carbery. In 1854 over 3000 acres of the estate of Arthur Hutchinson, deceased, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.
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