|
Durdin
|
A family settled in the vicinity of Carrigtuohill near Cork city from the mid 17th century. Alexander Durdin of Shanagarry, born 1712, married four times. His third wife was Anne Penn widow of William Penn, grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania and Sir Bernard Burke states that through her Alexander came to possess estates in Ireland and America. His fourth wife was Margaret daughter of Warham St Leger. Warham Durdin was the eldest son of the fourth marriage. He lived at Sunville, Dromadda and Midleton Lodge and by his wife Anne Garde had 10 children. Their son Thomas Durdin of Shanagarry Castle held land in the parishes of Ballintemple, Ballyoughtera, Cloyne, Kilmahon, barony of Imokilly at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In June 1855 the fee simple estate of Thomas Garde Durdin amounting to 1,650 acres in the barony of Imokilly was advertised for sale. The representatives of Thomas Durdin, Shanagarry, owned 935 acres in the 1870s. Members of this family also owned land in county Carlow.
|
|
Penn
|
Sir William Penn, an English admiral, was granted the castle and manor of Macroom, county Cork, in the mid 17th century. At the restoration of the monarchy he lost these lands and received an estate at Shangarry in 1667 in compensation. This estate amounted to 7,282 acres in the barony of Imokily and 4,859 acres in the barony of Ibane. His son William Penn, a Quaker, founded the state of Pennsylvania in America after spending some time in county Cork in the late 1660s. The Penn estate in county Cork passed into the possession of the Gaskell and Durdin families.
|
|
Dawson (Cremorne)
|
The Dartrey Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland document the estates of the Dawson family of Dawson Grove, Lords Dartrey and Cremorne and Earls of Dartrey in counties Monaghan, Armagh, Louth, Waterford, Tipperary and Fermanagh. The Dawsons were a Yorkshire family who settled in Armagh in the reign of Elizabeth I. In 1672 a descendant Walter Dawson married Frances daughter of Richard Dawson, a Cromwellian soldier, and through this marriage obtained the estate Dawson’s Grove in county Monaghan. In 1667, Richard Dawson was granted an estate in the baronies of Cremorne and Dartree of over 4,150 acres. Richard Dawson, son of Walter and Frances, was a Member of Parliament, an alderman of Dublin city and a senior partner in Dawson’s Bank, Dublin, which failed in 1765. Collins writes that the extent of Dawson land holding expanding greatly under the alderman as he had access to capital. In 1723, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Archbishop John Vesey of Tuam. Their eldest son Thomas was given the title Baron Dartrey in 1770, Viscount Cremorne in 1785 and Baron Cremorne in 1797. Thomas’ second wife was a granddaughter of William Penn but none of his children survived to be adults. He died in 1813 and was succeeded by his grand-nephew Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne, whose eldest son was created Earl of Dartrey in 1866. At this time the county Monaghan estate of Lord Cremorne was located in at least eleven parishes, principally the parishes of Donagh, Errigal Trough, Monaghan, Currin, Drummully and Killevan. Lord Cremorne also held three townlands in the parish of Lorrha, barony of Lower Ormond, county Tipperary and was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Colligan, Dungarvan and Fews, barony of Decies without Drum, county Waterford. In 1876 the Earl of Dartrey owned 17,345 acres in county Monaghan, 1,565 acres in county Armagh, 1,578 acres in county Louth and 7,985 acres in county Waterford.
|
