Landed Estates
University of Galway

Firmount

Estate(s)
Townland Firmount
Civil Parish Donaghmore
PLU Cork
DED Firmount 101
County Cork
Barony Barretts
Description A Townsend family home, occupied by Horace Townsend in 1837 and by William Coghlan at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It was then valued at £14.10 shillings and was held from Horatio Townsend. The sale rental of 1877 records a fee farm grant of Firmount from John Crewe Chetwood Townsend to Arthur Chute dated 1871 and a fee farm grant from Arthur Chute to J.C.C. Townsend executed the following year. A house is still extant at the site.

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