POMEROYS on Landed Ireland Estates-17th Century

2023 Update: Food for thought: FTDNA Pomeroy Surname DNA project has shown that a Pomeroy family with strong Brixham origins "probably" descends from an earlier Pomeroy family living in Holne, Devon, and further that the Holne, Devon family most likely descends from the Ingsdon branch (cadet branch) of the Pomeroys at Berry Pomeroy. The YDNA results also tell us that the Brixham Pomeroys share a common ancestor with descendants of the George Pumroy Family of Pennsylvania and the Pomeroys residing at Millstreet, Ireland. The connection then is the Ingsdon branch of the family; the Brixham/Holne Pomeroys share a common ancestor with the Millstreet Ireland Pomeroys, as well as the George Pumroy family of Pennsylvania.

Landed Estates: Ireland:

NUI Galway: Landed Estates Database. National University of Ireland: Galway

A branch of the Pomeroy family was established at Pallas, parish of Roskeen, barony of Duhallow in the early 18th century.

1666:

Samuel Pomroy was granted 520 acres at Palice, barony of Duhallow, in 1666.

Location and settlements

It is located on the borders of counties Kerry and Limerick, and is bounded on the south by the Boggeragh Mountains. The Blackwater river flows southward from Ballydesmond to Rathmore before turning eastward past Millstreet, Kanturk and Banteer, eventually flowing to the sea at Youghal. The main towns in Duhallow are Kanturk, Newmarket and Millstreet, with smaller villages such as Ballydesmond, Banteer, Boherbue, Castlemagner, Cullen, Kiskeam, Kilbrin, Knocknagree, Lismire, Meelin, Freemount and Tullylease.

IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THERE TWO OTHER POMEROYS WHO SHOW up on the Hearth Tax Rolls in Tipperary County:

RICHARD POMEROY IN CULLEN

WILLIAN POMEROY I BALLINCREE

Civil Survey of 1654: Ireland

Name: Richard Pomery Of Cullin Comment: blacksmith, Commissioner Survey Barony: Clanwilliam

=Hearth Tax Rolls: Tipperary County

1665-66: Hearth Tax: Richard Pomeroy of Cullen.

1666-67: Hearth Tax: Richard Pomorie-Cullentowne-Cullen

(Ballincree, Tipperary: William Pomery.)

Richard: in Cullen:

William in Ballincree

Henry BOYLE: Later of Shannon:

National Archives of Ireland: Exemplification of a recovery suffered by William Holmes Pomeroy of Parke, Co Cork, of the lands of Pallis, Gurteenneclomy and Coolekissrar, 4 Jun [1764]. 999/430

(Estate) Pomeroy (Duhallow) - On 11 February 1798 Robert Hedges Eyre leased the lands of Claraghmore, barony of Duhallow, county Cork, to Richard Pomeroy for 3 lives renewable for ever.

Claraghmore, comprised of 462 acres, was advertised for sale in June 1853.

Drishane:

At the time of Griffith's Valuation Robert Pomeroy held land in the parish of Drishane, barony of Duhallow and occupied a house valued at £4.10 shillings, which he held from the Reverend Richard Davis. Claraghmore, comprised of 462 acres, was advertised for sale in June 1853..

Nicholas Pomeroy of Claramore still owned 154 acres in county Cork in the 1870s and the representatives of Henry Pomeroy of Knockcahill owned 233 acres. (Knockagallane?)

House Name / Description Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref

Knockagallane (H3029)

This house valued at £10 was in the occupation of Eugene McCarthy at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held from - Morrison. Knockagallane Drishane Millstreet Caherbarnagh 284 West Muskerry Cork Lat/Lon: 52.05912-9.15486

OSI Ref:

W208 903 Discovery map #79. OS Sheet #38.

Aghamarta Castle (H3127)

This property was held in fee by the representatives of Carew O'Grady at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £22. Lewis noted it as the seat of Carew O'Grady in 1837. Local sources suggest that he had purchased it, c.1824, from the Pomeroy family, who had purchased it from the Earl of Shannon in the later seventeenth century. The original castle was replaced by the existing house in the 1830s. The property is now a farm and cookery school. See www.thompsonsfarmshop.com

Earl Of Shannan:

Church Hill 99 Duhallow Cullen Millstreet

Claragh More 462 Duhallow Drishane Millstreet

Claraghatlea North 397 Duhallow Drishane Millstreet

Claraghatlea South 185 Duhallow Drishane Millstreet

SEARCH RESULTS: ESTATES

(Estate) Pomeroy (Viscount Harberton) -

Rev. Arthur Pomeroy came to Ireland in the late seventeenth century and obtained the deanery of Cork. He purchased an estate in Templebreedy parish, barony of Kerrycurrihy, from the Earl of Shannon. These lands remained in the Pomeroy family until the 1820s when they were sold to Carew O'Grady.

Private Sources at the National Archives

Small Private Accessions

1972–1997

999/1–999/850

999/430 DONATED

29 Nov. 1982

4 June [1764]

Exemplification of a recovery suffered by William Holmes Pomeroy, Parke, Co. Cork of the lands of Pallis, Gurteenneclomy and Coolekissrar [Co. Cork]

Parchment

B/W illumination

Remains of seal

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/PDF/SmallPrivateAccessions.pdf

Muskerry, he endowed a new church nearer the castle.

Drishane tower is a rectangular structure with an entrance on

the east face. A cylindrical tower was erected later on the south-east

corner. About a quarter of a mile to the south-east is the old graveyard

which marks the site of the ruined church. There are overgrown

remains of the north-west corner, approximately two metres on the

east west axis and 6 metres north south, to a maximum height of 16

metres. This ruined west gable can still be seen between the McCarthy

and Pomeroy tombs. We can surmise that the church was built by the

McCarthys with their patronage and the parish name was changed

from Kilmeedy to Drishane.

Earlier Parish of Kilmeedy.

The earlier church at Kilmeedy was located close to Tobar

Slanan which is about 400 metres to the north of the castle, two fields

in from the Millstreet-Macroom road. It is featured in the 1842

Ordinance Survey map as a sub circular area, enclosed by a field

fence. It includes a holy well surrounded by a wall of loose stones, a

disused graveyard defined by numerous un-inscribed standing stones

or grave markers, a tomb enclosed by a railing marking the burial plot

of the Leader family (Henry Leader, who died aged 62, on November

9th 1809, and his two children were the last people buried there) and

the foundational remains of a church wall of about 10 metres, aligned

in an east west direction. In the 'Archaeological Inventory of Mid-

Cork', (N9347), B. O'Donoghue is quoted as suggesting that this was

the church dedicated to St.Ita (Cill mo Ide).

If this is correct, it marks the site of the earliest known church

in the present parish of Millstreet, which is referred in Papal letters as

Drishane alias Kylmide. Its existence preceded the building of the

nearby castle, built by the McCarthys circa 1435. It is unlikely that

this foundation dates back to the time of St Ita, who died in 570 and

whose Feast Day is January 15th. Her convent was at Cluain Credail

(know known as Killeedy), County Limerick, but there is no mention

of her evangelising in the Millstreet area in the medieval account of

her life. There are, however, a number of churches dedicated to her,

particularly in the counties of Waterford, Cork, Limerick and Kerry.

17th Century Records relating to the Church of Ireland parish of

Drishane and adjacent areas.

King James, before his accession to the throne in 1601, had

made repeated declarations of his desire to afford liberty of conscience

to suffering Catholics. However, as soon as he found himself secure

on the throne, he retracted all his promises and his proclamation of

July 4th 1605 blighted all hopes of religious liberty. He declared that

no toleration would be granted to his subjects in Ireland, All his

subjects were commanded to attend Protestant services and priests

would have to withdraw from his kingdom within a specified time.

The rectory and tithes of Dromharrasse, Dressane, Dirrivalie

in Lord Roche country and of Kilbinny and Collin in Dowallie, in the

O'Keeffe McDonagh country were granted to Lawrence Esmond,

knight, and his wife and son to keep up the parsonages and buildings

and pay curates a grant for 21 years at a rent of £100 per annum.

(Patent Rolls of James I, 1603, p. 60). (NB. The underlined places are

variant spellings of Drishane and Cullen)

http://aubanehistoricalsociety.org/aubane_collection/parish.pdf

originand development of parish of millstreet..

Research Notes: The connection of William Holmes Pomeroy to the George Pumrey family of Pennsylvania is a fabrication, and in spite of copious notes and references, is not supported in fact.

IMPORTANT BACKGROUND REGARDING POMEROYS IN IRELAND IN THE 17TH CENTURY

Boyle (Broghill) went back to Ireland: Page 200, Cromwell in Ireland: Openlibrary.org.

On arrival in Ireland he raised a well appointed body of 1,500 foot and a troop of horse among the retainers of his family, English settlers chiefly from Gloucester, Somerset and Devon, whom his father had planted on confiscated lands of Gerald, the great earl of Desmond, purchased by him from Sir Walter Raleigh and other undertakers in Munster.

Of these many having adopted Puritan principles, had been obliged to flee from their homes in England, on account of the heavy penalties to which all professing such opinions were put during the Civil War; they were the most decided enemies of the Stuarts. Through these he soon opened communication with the officers of the different garrisons of the south, who were ready to embrace the first opportunity that offered of breaking what they termed an unholy alliance with the Confederate Catholics.

Colonel Richard Townsend was sent to induce the southern garrisons to revolt.

They argued that it wasn’t between the King and parliament, but rather a national one between the English and the Irish; they seized the lands and reduced the people to the state of serfs.

The soldiers of the garrisons around Cork..under Inchiquin’s command since 1642, had revolted with him from the King’s service to the parliament in 1644, and back again to the Royalists in 1644 and 1648; and then submitted to Cromwell. Their temporary revolt from the parliament barred their claim to the reward due to “constant good affection,” and made them transplantable. An Act of Indemnity, however was, at the instance of Cromwell, passed 5 years later in 1654, on behalf of the officers and soldiers under Ormonde’s and Inchiquin’s command: and “in consideration of their voluntary rendition of Cork and the adjacent garrisons, and that at a time,” says the Act, “when the army under the command of his Highness, Lord Protector, etc, was at a great distance from them, and the winter season rendered his access to them improbably,” it was enacted that such of them as could prove themselves active in the rendition in these Munster garrisons should be allowed to state their arrears accrued due since June 1644, and before June 5 1649, and receive lands in satisfaction, as if they had never lapsed from their obedience to the Parliament. These were called the Forty Nine Arrears,” The rest of the army much against their will, were obliged to assign or give up to them the three counties of Donegal, Longford, and Wichlow,

A commission was issued by virtue of the Act of Indemnity to take their despositions. So they could prove that he and his comrades had been active in the revolt. But before the lands were set out to them, the Restoration took place.

The King returned from exile and with him came many officers who had been driven out of Ireland by Cromwell for their loyalty; these were styled

“The Protestant Royalist officers who had served the King before Jun 1649, or the “49 Officers>’

Through the Act of Settlement they were granted the lands that had been assigned by the Commonwealth for the 49 ers of the Cromwellian officers and soldiers.

The above mentioned depositions were now set to bar the Munster revolters of their claims.

Account of the Carte MSS> p 139: though the act of Settlement pretended to exclude the betrayers of the Munster garrisons, yet they were allowed to retain their debenture lands, if they could prove that they made some reparation for their former faults by their timely appearance for the king’s restoration.

Those men received land in undesirable counties…not in the immediate area of Cork..

Samuel Pomeroy was not treated as a simple ensign; like those assigned arrears lands in far off area, but received lands within the barony of Dunhallow.