 Kilcrea Abbey
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OVENS
Genealogy & History
RC Parish of Ovens comprises the Civil Parishes of Athnowen, Aglish and Desertmore
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(HC 24/5/1770) – MR. HALY intending to remove with his family to town will immediately let for such terms as shall be agreed on, his holding at Cronody, containing 335 Acres upon which there is an excellent dwelling, with all fixtures and every other convenience …. for a Gentleman. The lands are remarkably good, and the situation so healthful and pleasant on the river Lee within 8 miles of Cork, that nothing further need be said to recommend them. Proposals shall be received by him, or by Doctor Haly in Corke, and the tenant be declared when a reasonable value shall be offered, without preference to anybody. The whole stock of cows, sheep and horses, with all the wheat, barley, oats and potatoes in ground, and the utensils of husbandry, will be given to the tenant upon a moderate calculation of their worth, or otherwise, sold at public cant on the notice. – Cronody, May 24, 1770
(HC May 1772) – ON the 3d instant, one Andrew Kealiher, who said he lived in Cork, sold me a black Milch Cow, with part of her tail white, which I refused paying for till he brought me security for her being honestly got, which he promised to do, but has not since done; therefore I impounded said Cow at Kilcrea, where any person may have her on proving property and paying all expenses. Dated this 7th May. TIMOTHY LANE
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| Ovens-born Soldiers discharged prior to 1853 - From The National Archives (PRO), London; Doc. Ref. TNA(PRO) |
| Indexed by surname and place of birth from the National Archives online catalogues. |
| Place of birth Ovens or Aglish. See also Desert under CLONAKILTY |
| Name | Served in…/Discharged | Covering Dates |
| CONNELL, REDMOND | Born Aglish. 5th Foot Regt.; 87th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 45 | 1796-1821 |
| DESMOND, JOHN | Born ‘Aglis.’ 15th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 29 | 1825-1838 |
| KEELER, DENNIS | Born ‘Arglis.’ 70th Foot Regt.; 90th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 34 | 1803-1816 |
| MACK, JAMES | Born ‘Agless.’ Mayo Militia. Discharged aged 37 | 1804-1829 |
| MC CARTHY, PATRICK | Born ‘Aghish.’ 97th Foot Regt.; Rifle Brigade. Discharged aged 19 | 1850-1851 |
| SHEA, DAVID | Born Aglish. 7th Dragoons. Discharged aged 24 | 1827-1840 |
| SULLIVAN, JOHN | Born Ovens. 31st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 30 | 1808-1814 |
| VAUGHAN, PATRICK | Born Ovens. 49th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 37 | 1818-1834 |
| WALSH, EDWARD | Born Aglish. 28th Foot Regt.; 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 31 | 1810- |
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AGLISH – Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – AGLISH, a parish, partly in the barony of BARRETTS, but chiefly in that of EAST MUSKERRY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 10 miles (W. by S.) from Cork; containing 2782 inhab itants. It is situated on the south bank of the river Lee, between it and the Bride, which winds pleasantly on its southern border; and contains 6701 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £6527 per annum: 5000 acres are arable, 1481 are pasture, 150 are woodland, and 70 are waste land and bog. The land is generally fertile, and the state of agriculture is improving; irrigation is practised very advantageously on the grass lands. On the south side of the parish lies an extensive marsh, reclaimable at a small expense. The gentleman’s seats are Curihaly, that of H. Penrose, Esq.; Farren Lodge, of S. Penrose, Jun., Esq.; Elm Park, of Valentine Barry Esq.; and Rose-Mount, of W. Hawkes, Esq. Here is a station of the constabulary police. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the rectory is partly impropriate in P. Cross of Shandy Hall, Esq., and partly appropriate to the prebend of Kilbrogan in the cathe dral church of St. Finbarr, Cork. The tithes amount to £57 3. 1 1 of which £152. 6. 1 ½ payable to the impropriator, £379. 1. 1. to the prebendary, and £41. 16. 9. to the vicar. The church is in ruins, and until it can be rebuilt divine service will continue to be performed in a house licensed by the bishop. There is no glebe-house. In the R. C. divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Ovens: the chapel is a large old plain building. Besides the parochial school for boys and girls, a school in which are about 60 boys is partly supported by an annual donation of £8.8 from Mr. Rye: there are also two other pay schools.
ATHNOWEN – Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – ATHNOWEN (ST MARY), or OVENS, a parish partly in the barony of BARRETTS, but chiefly in that of EAST MUSKERRY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 1 mile (W) from Ballincollig; containing 1953 inhabitants. This parish, which is generally called Ovens, is situated on the south line of road from Cork to Macroom, and is bounded on the north by the river Lee, and intersected by the Bride. It comprises 4660 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £75 per annum: the soil in the northern or hilly part is rather poor and stony, but in the vales extremely rich, lying on a substratum of lime stone forming part of the great limestone district extending to Castlemore on the west, and to Blackrock on the east. The limestone is quarried to some extent for burning into lime for the supply of the hilly districts to the north and south for a distance of several miles. The principal seats are Grange, the residence of J. Hawkes, Esq., which occupies the site of Grange abbey (said to have been founded by St. Cera, who died in 679), and includes part of the ancient walls; Sirmount, of G. Hawkes, Esq., which occupies an elevated site commanding an extensive prospect over a highly interesting and richly cultivated tract of country; Spring Mount, of S. McCarthy, Esq.; Clashenure, of Kyrle Allen, Esq.; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. W. Harvey. There are two boulting-mills on the river Bride; one at Killumney belonging to Mr. D. Donovan, jun.; and the other at Ovens, belonging to Messrs. R. Donovan and Sons. The petty sessions for the District are held every alternate week at Carroghally. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, united by diocesan authority; in 1785, to the prebend of Kilnaglory in the cathedral church of St. Finbarr, Cork: the tithes amount to 425. The church is a neat ancient structure with a square tower crowned with pinnacles. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 20a. 2r. l7p. In the R. C. divisions this parish is the head of a union or district called Ovens, which includes also the parishes of Desertmore and Aglish, and the plough-lands of Millane and Killumney, in the parish of St. Finbarr, Cork: the chapel, erected in 1835 is a handsome edifice of hewn limestone, in the mixed Gothic and Grecian styles of architecture. The male and female parochial schools are supported principally at the expense of the rec tor. There is also a national school, in which are 140 children, under the patronage of the Roman Catholic clergy, for which a spacious school-room has been built near the chapel. A dispensary has been established for the relief of sick poor. Near the bridge of Ovens over the river Bride is the entrance of the celebrated limestone caves, which Smith, in his history of Cork, describes as 18 feet in height; but from the accumulation of rubbish they are now not more than three feet high and are nearly filled with water. They branch off into several ram ifications, and from the roofs of some of them depend stalactites of var ious forms: their dimensions have never been satisfactorily ascertained. There are some remains of the ancient castle called Castle Inchy.
DESERTMORE – Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – DESERTMORE, a parish, partly in the barony of but chiefly in that of EAST MUSKERRY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 8 miles (S.W by W) from Cork; containing 1147 inhabitants. Here was a convent, of which St. Cyra, or St. Chera, was abbess, but when founded cannot be ascertained; it stood on the margin of a small stream, called the Bride, in honour of St. Bridget, to whom the convent was dedicated. Cormac McCarthy the Great founded here a Franciscan monastery also in honour of St. Bridget. In the civil war of 1641, the castle of Kilcrea, in this parish, erected by the same McCarthy, was garrisoned by the Irish; it was subsequently cannonaded by Cromwell; a fissure in the wall, caused by the cannon, is still conspicuous. The parish is situated on the river Bride, and comprises 3844 statute acres, of which 480 are in the barony of Barretts, and are valued in the County Survey at £452 per annum; and 3422 are in East Musketry, valued at £2599. 11. 10.: about seven-eighths are arable, the rest being waste and bog. The land is generally good, though the soil is light, the greater part to the south of the limestone valley being hilly, and the soil shallow, yet, under an improved system of agricultrue, it produces excellent crops. An exhausted bog of great extent here is capable of being brought into cultivation; and an excellent limestone quarry is worked for the purposes of building and agriculture.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Cork, forming the corps of the prebend of Desertmore in the cathedral of St. Finbarr, Cork, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £350. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £100, and a loan of £600, in 1814, from the same Board; and the Ecclesiastical Conmiissioners have recently granted £140. 13. 6. for its repair. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Ovens. The parochial schools, in which are about 20 children, are entirely supported by the rector, who provides the school-house and master’s residence rent-free. The ruins of the Franciscan abbey are approached by an avenue of ash and sycamore trees, leading to the nave and choir of the church, which was a handsome structure 150 feet in length, with a transept to the south 68 feet long, opening into an arcade or aisle, extending along both transepts and nave by five arches springing from circular pillars of hewn marble. The dormitories, refectory kitchen, and other domes tic buildings, are to the north. Between the nave and choir rises a light tower, 80 feet high. This venerable pile of ruins, shaded by the lofty trees of the avenue, and viewed together with an ivy-mantled bridge of eight arches, built by order of Cromwell, forms a very interesting feature in the landscape, the beauty of which is much increased by the remains of the castle of Kilcrea, consisting of a massive oblong tower, surrounded by a moat, and part of the barbican, with its towers and platforms in good preservation.
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(CE 8/9/1843) - O CONNELL TRIBUTE FOR 1843 - FROM the united parishes of OVENS, DESERTMORE and AGLIS - £45.10.8
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Name Ahearn, Denis Burdon, James Burdon, John Callaghan, Corns. Callaghan, Timothy Callaghan, Wm. Callanan, Lawrence Canniff, John Coghlan, Daniel Coleman, Ds. Dl. Collins, Patrick Collins, Richd. Connell, Thomas Conner, Jerry Coveny, Corns. Coveny, Denis Crowley, John Crowly, Charls. Deasy, James Deasy, Michl. Delay, James Delay, John Desmond, Denis Downey, Morty Duggan, John Fitzgerald, Wm. Foley, Michael Foley, Wm. Geary, John Gleeson, Daniel Hall, Wm. Hallaran, Tim. Hartnett, Benj. Hartnett, James Haynes, Thos. |
Amount 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.10.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.4.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 |
Name Healy, John Healy, John jun. Keane, Michael Keily, John Keleher, Corns. Keleher, John Kenealy, Denis Kennelly, Tim. Lane, Denis Lane, John Lane, Maurice, Ovens Leary, Corns. Leary, John Leary, Patrick Leary, Patrick Leary, Patrick Looney, Timothy Lucey, Michael M’Carthy, Callaghan M’Swiney, Jerh. Mahony, Corns. Mahony, Corns. Mahony, Denis Mahony, John Mahony, Thomas Mahony, Thomas Mahony, Tim. Mahony, Widow Manning, John Manning, Mathw. Molony, Danl. Molony, James Mullan, Jerry Mullan, Michael Murphy, Barth. Murphy, Corns. |
Amount 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.7.6 0.7.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.4.0 0.7.6 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.3.0 0.10.0 0.4.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.6.0 0.10.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.7.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.7.6 0.5.0 |
Name Murphy, Dan Murphy, Danl. Murphy, Denis, Knocknagool Murphy, Edmond Murphy, James Murphy, Jerh. Murphy, John Murphy, John Murphy, Michael Murphy, Pat, Garryhesty Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim. Murphy, Timothy O Brien, Patrick Riordan, Daniel Riordan, John Riordan, Michael Roche, John Ryan, Danl. Ryan, Edmond Shea, John Shea, John Sheehan, Jerh. Sheehan, Maurice Sullivan, Corns. Sullivan, Tim. Swiney, Denis Twohig, Tim. Twomey, Denis Wall, Rev. John, Walsh, David Walsh, John Walsh, Rev. Maurice, PP Walsh, Richard, jun. Walsh, Richard, sen. |
Amount 1.0.0 0.3.0 1.0.0 0.2.6 0.3.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 1.0.0 0.4.0 0.3.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.7.6 0.10.0 0.10.0 2.0.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 |
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(CE 2/3/1846) – O CONNELL TRIBUTE FOR 1845 – FROM THE UNITED PARISHES OF OVENS, DESERTMORE AND AGLIS - £54.9.0
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Name Ahern, John Begley, Owen Burden, James Callaghan, Corns. Callaghan, Denis Callaghan, Timothy Callaghan, W., Mr. Callanan, Lawrence Canniff, John Carroll, Patrick Coghlan, Daniel Coleman, Denis Collins, Denis Collins, Patrick Collins, Richard Collins, Timothy Connell, Thomas Crean, Jeremiah Crean, Timothy Crowley, Jeremiah Crowley, John Crowly, Charles Deasy, James Deasy, Michael Delay, James Desmond, Daniel Desmond, William Donovan, Richard, Esq. Downey, Morty Doyle, Cornelius Duggan, John Fahy, John Foley, Daniel Foley, Michael Foley, Wm. Geary, John Gleeson, Daniel Hallaran, Patrick Hallaran, Timothy Hallaran, Timothy Haynes, Thomas Healy, Thomas Hurley, Batt |
Amount 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.6.0 0.2.6 1.10.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.10.0 0.5.0 0.4.0 0.5.0 0.3.6 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 |
Name Kean, Michael Keeffe, Thomas Keily, Martin Keleher, Cornelius Keleher, James Keleher, Timothy Kenealy, Timothy Kiely, John Lane, Denis Lane, John Laney, Timothy Leary, Charles Leary, Cornelius Leary, Cornelius Leary, John Leary, Mrs. Leary, Mrs. Leary, Mrs. Leary, Patrick Loan, William M’Carthy, Callaghan M’Swiney, Jerh. Magner, John Magner, John, jun. Magner, John, sen. Mahony, Cornelius Mahony, Cornelius Mahony, Corneluys Mahony, Denis Mahony, James Mahony, John Mahony, Mrs. Mahony, Mrs. Mahony, Patrick Mahony, Timothy Malony, James Manning, John Manning, Matthew Molony, Daniel Mullane, Timothy Murphy, Corns. Murphy, Dan C. Murphy, Daniel |
Amount 0.7.6 0.10.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.10.0 0.7.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.10.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.4.0 0.2.6 0.7.0 0.10.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.3.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.3.0 0.10.0 0.7.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 1.0.0 0.2.6 |
Name Murphy, Daniel Murphy, Denis, Knocknagoul Murphy, Edward Murphy, Edward Murphy, James Murphy, Jeremiah, Garryhesty Murphy, John Murphy, John Murphy, Michl. Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Timothy Murphy, Timothy Ring, John Riordan, Cons. Riordan, Daniel Riordan, Daniel Riordan, Michael Riordan, Timothy Riordan, William Roche, John Ryan, Daniel Ryan, Mrs. Scannell, Timothy Shea, John Sheehan, James Sheehan, Jeremiah Sheehan, Mrs. Sheehan, Timothy Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan, John Sullivan, Timothy Sweeny, Michael Swiney, Owen Twohig, Timothy Twomey, Denis Twomey, Lawrence Wall, John, Rev., RCC Walsh, David Walsh, John Walsh, M., Rev., PP Walsh, Richd., jun. Walsh, Richd., sen. |
Amount 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 1.0.0 0.6.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.10.0 1.0.0 0.6.0 0.4.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.3.0 0.5.0 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.4.4 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.10.0 0.3.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 0.5.0 3.0.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 |
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