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Ware (Woodfort)
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The Wares were Elizabethan settlers in county Cork. Early generations married members of the Newman, Baldwin and Webb families. By the mid 18th century the family were resident at Woodfort. In 1785 Thomas Ware of Woodfort married Mary Beamish of Willsgrove, county Cork and had four sons. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Thomas Ware held land in the parish of Mourneabbey, barony of Barretts. In 1825 Nathaniel Webb Ware married Elizabeth Stawell of Crobeg, Doneraile. The estate of Thomas Ware at Farranivane and Lisnabauree, barony of Kinalmeaky, was advertised for sale in January 1851. In the 1870s Nathaniel Webb Ware of Woodfort owned 1,717 acres and the representatives of Thomas Ware of Mallow owned 1,122 acres in county Cork. In the 1850s the representatives of William Ware were among the principal lessors in the parish of Kinneigh, barony of East Carbery. Over 500 acres of his estate was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in July 1862. The Irish Times reports that it was purchased by Mr.Murphy.
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