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Spratt (Pencil Hill)
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This Spratts descend from a member of a Somerset family, the Reverend Devereux Spratt, who acquired estates in counties Cork and Wexford in the mid 17th century. The Spratts intermarried with their neighbours, the Foott family of Springfort Hall and Carrigacunna Castle, on a number of occasions. It was through one of these marriages that the Spratts came to own Pencil Hill. The Spratts were located in the parish of Caherduggan, barony of Fermoy, while Messrs Spratt, Nagle and others held land in the parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon. In the 1870s members of the Spratt family of Pencil Hill, Mallow, owned over 850 acres in county Cork between them, while Spratt and Horace owned 860 acres.
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