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15 This is a detailed and
lengthy Marraige Settlement between two prominent
landowning families. The marraige is to be
between Francis Bernard Esquire, son of James
Bernard, Earl of Bandon, and Lady Harriet Boyle,
daughter of the Earl of Shannon. In the event of
Francis dying before his wife, the settlement
states that she would receive an annuity payment
of £2,400 per annum. The settlement is written
on 8 combined skins of parchment. (13 February
1784) (Bandon Estate Papers) |
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16 Grant by King Charles II to
Henry Wade of 509 acres in County Meath. The deed
was found amongst the papers of the Earl Bandon
Estate, who may have had land dealings in the
area. This deed is visually impressive with some
intricate calligraphic features and a drawing of
Charles II in the top left hand corner. (1669)
(Bandon Estate Papers) |
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24 Appointment of Doherty and
Jones as land agents to the Warren estate. Their
duties will include the collection of rent,
distraining (seizing) of goods in lieu of rent
and legal actions to recover rent. (10 April
1899) (Bandon Estate Papers) |
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54 Lease of 2 dwelling houses,
North Main Street, Cork City, for 200 years.
Penrose estate to John Hurley. Parchment. (13
July 1844) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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56 Declaration of the names of
all those appointed as Justices of the Peace for
County Cork (1881) (Newenham Estate Papers) |
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265 Charter of land by Queen
Anne (Latin) (1702-1714) (Newenham Estate Papers) |
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306 Lease of lands in Sunday's
Well, Cork, by the Earl of Cork to Mathew
Kelleher, Woollen Draper for 99 years. Kelleher
agrees to spend £1000 in improvements to the
land. A small map/plan of the land is included.
(2 August 1805) (Exham Flynn & Son,
Solicitors Papers) |
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309 Lease of lands of Gregane,
county Cork, by the Earl of Cork to Reverend
George Quaid for 31 years. (February 1891) (Exham
Flynn & Son, Solicitors Papers) |
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312 Lease of lands,
Barryscourt, Midleton, county Cork, by William
Coppinger to John Ahern for 21 years. (20 January
1847) (Exham Flynn & Son, Solicitors Papers) |
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313 Lease of Barryscourt,
Midleton, by Lord Barrymore to William Coppinger
for 199 years. (1 November 1801) (Exham Flynn
& Son, Solicitors Papers) |
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318 Last Will and Testament of
Major General William Barry (6 November 1883)
(Preston Estate Deeds) |
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319 Lease between Riggs
Faulkiner and George Patten. The lease is for 300
years on the lands of Dunscombe's Marsh in the
south east of the city. Dunscombes Marsh covered
part what is now the Oliver Plunkett Street/
South Mall area of the City, outside the City
Walls. This area was developed from the 18th
century. (4 August 1762) (Preston Estate Deeds) |
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321 Lease of Pike's Marsh,
Cork City, by Joseph Pike, Merchant, to Ebenezar
Pike, Merchant for 999 years. (18 May 1726)
(Preston Estate Deeds) |
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322 Lease of part of Pike's
Marsh, Cork City, by Samuel Pike to Thomas
Bousfield, for the yearly for 999 years at rent
of £50. (6 February 1744) (Preston Estate Deeds) |
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324 Lease of lands in
Crosshaven, county Cork, by Peter May and Robert
and Anna Maunsell Eyre to Walter James Cummins.
With map/plan of property showing frontage on a
boat house. (3 January 1888) (Preston Estate
Papers) |
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330 Lease of property on
Meeting House Lane, Cork city, by Elizabeth Pike,
Widow to Joshua Beale, Merchant. Property
includes, '...the little stable and dunghole
backward of the Chairehouse and the little yard
thereunto adjoining also the underground cellar
belonging to Joshua Beale's present Dwelling
house situate Meeting House Lane in the City of
Cork.' The lease is for 1 year and a rent of 'One
Pepper Corn only at the feast of Easter'. (3
September 1733) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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331 Lease by Cooper Penrose
Esq. Woodhill, Cork, to Ebenezar Deaves,
Merchant, of a lot of land in the North Suburbs
of the City of Cork in the Parish of St. Ann's
Shandon. (24 December 1800) (Penrose Estate
Papers) |
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332 Deed of Co-partnership
between George Randall, Richard Newanham, Jonas
Devonsher, John Dennis, Richard Pike, and Joseph
Gray of the City of Cork for carrying on the
trade of sugarmaking and sugarboiling in the area
known as Red Abbey in the South suburbs of Cork.
(4 May 1754) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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333 Copy of a legal case
between Cooper Penrose and the Corporation of
Cork, regarding the ownership of the property in
the Kyrls Quay area of the city. Contains a
transcript of a 1729 deed between the Mayor,
Sherriffs and Commonality of the City of Cork,
and John Dennis, Merchant and mentions the
resolution by Cork Corporation Council in 1730
that a new Bridewell be built on lands exchanged
from the Penrose Estate. Property in the City was
often part of a landed estate. The ancient
Corporation of Cork had extensive powers to own,
occupy or transfer property. The site of the new
Bridewell mentioned here is still in use as a
Garda (Police) Station to this day. (1729,
1812-1813) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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334 Lease by Jonas Devonsher,
Merchant to John Dennis, Merchant of '...a
dwelling house messuage and tenement late in the
tenure or occupation if George Harrison Jonner
Deceased, in the Parish of Christ Church in the
North East Quarter of the Citty of
Corke...bounding with the Walls of the Said
Citty, and lands formerly belonging to Domnick
Terry and Clement Skiddies, and others...'. This
lease relates to the North Main Street/ Grattan
street area, close to the City walls. It is
notable that the lands were formerly held by the
Terry's and the Skiddy's, names associated with
ancient Cork from about the 14th or 15th
centuries. The site of 'Skiddy's Castle', for
example, is near the North end of North Main
Street in Cork City. In 1719, a few years after
this lease, the Red House Walk (now the Mardyke)
was constructed to the West of the City walls. (9
November 1716) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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335 Lease by Cooper Penrose,
City of Corke, Esquire, to Thomas Cochran of the
said City, Cabinetmaker of a dwelling house yard
and kitchen on Hamans (Hammonds) Marsh in the
Parish of St. Peter and North West Quarter of the
City of Cork. For 3 lives renewable for ever at
yearly rent of £24. (1 May 1779)(Penrose Estate
Papers) |
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337 Agreement made in the
Kings Court between John Newenham of Maryborough
in the South Liberties of the City of Cork, Esq
and Cooper Penrose, Merchant and others
concerning property in the Parish of Christ
Church 'in the North East Quarter of the City if
Corke and a Timber Yard bounded on the East with
the Walls of the said City situate in the County
of the City of Corke'. (3 weeks from day of the
Holy Trinity, 1774) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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338 Lease by Emanual Pigott,
Chetwynd, to Robert Travers, City of Cork, of 13
acres of land in Ballinloughy, South Liberties if
the City of Cork bounded in part by by the lands
of Ballintemple at yearly rent of £19 and 10
Shillings. Travers will maintain the several
houses, hedges, ditches, fences, trees and all
other improvements. (26 September 1757) (Penrose
Estate Papers) |
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339 Lease by Cooper Penrose,
Woodhill, to Edward Sherrell, Summer Hill of
stores, concerns, tenements and premises in
Pembroke Lane, Cork City near the Coal Quay in
the PArish of the Holy Trinity, and New Bridewell
Lane, for 800 years at a yearly rent of £8. (14
October 1843) (Penrose Estate Papers) |
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