Landed Estates
University of Galway

Hudson (Glenville)


Estate(s)

Name Description
Hudson (Glenville) Dr Edward Hudson, born at Castlemartyr, county Cork, was an early dental practitioner, who bought an estate at Glenville, near Cork, in the late 18th century. This was his country home as he lived at The Hermitage, later known as St Enda's (the Pearse Museum), Rathfarnham, county Dublin. Dr Hudson married Frances Barton and their eldest son was Reverend Edward Gustavus Hudson (1791-1851), Dean of Armagh from 1841. Another son, William Elliott Hudson (1796-1853), was a collector of Irish music and ancient literature and some of his manuscripts are in the Royal Irish Academy. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Hudson estate was in the parishes of Ardnageehy and Dunbulloge, barony of Barrymore, county Cork. In the 1870s Henry Hudson of Glenville owned over 5,000 acres in county Cork. This estate came into the possession of the Kinahan family through the marriage of Charlotte, daughter of Edward Hudson of Rathfarnham and Robert Henry Kinahan of Dublin. Their son, Edward Hudson Kinahan (1828-1892) was created a baronet in 1887. The Hudsons who lived on the Ponsonby estate at Inchiquin near Youghal may have been relatives of this family.
Kinahan Daniel Kinahan of Roebuck Park, county Dublin was born in 1756 and by his wife, Martha Paine, had four sons George, the Reverend John, Daniel and Robert Henry.. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, George Kinahan held an estate in the parishes of Dorrha, barony of Lower Ormond, Killoscully and Kilnarath, barony of Owney and Arra, county Tipperary. In December 1855 the fee simple estate of Daniel Kinahan and others in the barony of Owney and Arra, amounting to over 4,000 acres, including the model farm at Killeen, was advertised for sale. The return of 1906 suggests that the Earl of Rosse and George Bolton bought this estate. In November 1875 the estate of George Kinahan and Edward Hudson Kinahan at Annagh, 1,432 acres in the barony of Lower Ormond was offered for sale. The Hones and the Kinahans were related.