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Box: Cashel Interest:
A large collection of varied items, ephemera, etc, all related to Tipperary
but principally Cashel, includes. some Printed Rentals & Sale Catalogues for Incumbered
Estates, includes. Burgagery Lands of Cashel, 1859, also Unsettled Estates of Mathew
Pennyfather, with several Premises situated in the City of Cashel, other maps, etc., Cashel
Choral Society Programmes, Old Newspapers, booklets & pamphlets, some Blue Books for
Census of Ireland, 1861, an Abstract of Presentments South Riding Co. Tipp., 1894, some
Government publications on The Rock of Cashel, and numerous misc. items. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
€200 - 300
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Important Archive of 19th Century Kilkenny Deeds
An archive of documents relating to families and land holdings in County Kilkenny,
comprising leases, wills, marriage settlements, legal correspondence and other papers.
Mainly 19th century, but a few of the 18th century (1718 and 1769) and some of the early
20th.
Many of the papers relate to the family of Hutchinson and to lands at Boolyshea (which they
bought from Robert Garrett in 1718), Kiltorcan and Derrynahinch (acquired by fee farm grant)
and Jerpoint Church (acquired in 1801 by marriage between Richard Hutchinson and Mary
daughter of Edward Hunt).
In a curious deed made of 1801 soon after his marriage, Richard Hutchinson grants to
Anastatia and Mary Walsh of Derrynahinch an annuity of £20 on condition that they continue
to clothe, maintain, educate, support and keep Mary, Judith, John, Abigail and Thomas
Hutchinson otherwise Walsh, “reputed children of said Richard”.
Through a series of very detailed marriage settlements it is possible to follow the genealogical
details of later Hutchinsons and the families with whom they intermarried, and their financial
and land transactions. In a curt letter of 1875 to his solicitors John Hutchinson of 89 Waterloo
Road, Dublin, instructs that two of his daughters “should be cut out and excluded from any
share in my will”.
These documents provide an insight into the affairs of a Kilkenny family of substance, but
which did not meet the qualifications for an entry in Burke’s Landed Gentry and whose
genealogy is therefore not easy to trace.
The archive also contains a number of documents relating to other families of Co. Kilkenny
during the second half of the 19th century, mainly of the farming class rather than of gentry
status. The largest file contains 25 documents of the Phelan family of Ballyragget, 1824-1897.
As an archive, w.a.f.
€600 - 800
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Co. Wexford:
Two framed early indentures
relating to grants of land to the Grogan family
of Johnstown, Co. Wexford.
(1) Lease for a year dated 1691 whereby
Thomas FitzHenry of Kilbryan (?) Co.
Wexford and Joan his wife grant to John
Grogan of Wexford one-third of the lands of
Waddingsland, Redmondstown, Lattimerstown,
Whitestown, Johnstown, Little Hayestown, and
Scamosane, all in the barony of Forth.
(2) Lease for a year dated 1753 whereby
John Jervis White of Ballyellis grants to John
Grogan of Johnstown the towns and lands of
Clorogemore, Ballyconeran, Ballyrobbuck and
Ballyshane in the barony of Scarawalsh. Small
armorial seal.
As documents, w.a.f. (1)
€200 - 300
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Co. Cork - 18th Century Deeds
Five deeds on vellum relating to property in
Co. Cork:
• Indenture of 1731 whereby the Mayor etc.
of Youghal grant fields near the town to
Alderman Thomas Uniacke.
• A large indenture (4 skins) of 1749 comprising
a settlement of the estate of EdwardWebber of
Cork. In his will made in 1730 he put his lands
into the hands of trustees for the use of his
children George, Edward, Mary (who married
Henry Mitchell of Dublin in 1736), Anne
(who married Christopher Carleton in 1734),
Catherine and Elizabeth who both remained
unmarried. There is a detailed list of the lands,
and of the terms under which they were held;
they included Ballyphehane (which he held as
of fee) and property in the barony of Barretts
and the south suburbs of Cork (held on lease).
• Three indentures dated 1774-1780 whereby
John Viscount Clanwilliam grants land in
Douglas to William Lamb, Daniel Perdrian and
John Hawkes.
• These documents give much genealogical
and topographical information relating to the
environs of Cork and Youghal in the mid-18th
century. A detailed list is available on request.
(1)
€300 - 400
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Co’s Tipperary & Kildare
- 18th & 19th Century Deeds
• Five deeds on vellum relating to property
in the Town of Cashel and the lands of
Mooretown, Co. Kildare.
• Large indenture dated 1741/42 between
Arthur and Margaret Dobbs of Dublin, Thomas
Hughes and Richard Kyffin of Cashel, and
the Rev. John Kearney. Cites a mortgage
made in 1703 of Mooretown, Co. Kildare,
by Patrick Sarsfield and his wife and son to
Richard Reddy of Dublin. Traces in great detail
the progress of this mortgage down to the
present grant made by the Dobbs to Kearney.
• Four deeds dated 1772, 1792 and 1834
conveying property in John St. Cashel and
involving the families of Lockwood and
Hemphill.
These documents contain much
topographical information and illustrate
the complexities of land tenure in mid-18 th
century Ireland. A detailed list is available on
request. (1)
€220 - 350
