Re: Dineens in Cork..Cobh??
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Re: Dineens in Cork..Cobh??
Bernie Kahl 10/22/10
Hello,
I'm not directly related that I know of, but have come across the Dineen name many times while researcing my Horgan, Roche, Ahearn families in Cork. I really liked the name and took notice. Your message mentioned poets, so I thought you might find this article interesting. The area where this took place was right in the area my family was from. Many families felt after the "Whitboy" hangings in Co.Cork in 1822. Some changed their names or went by an alias. Others left because they felt that it wasn't safe to be a land owner with angry tenants. There was a poet mentioned in the full article. All very interesting.
Colleen
BALLYDINEEN. page 159
Mr. James Buckley writes, in 1906, of the castle:—"A large piece of this edifice, some 24 feet high and 12 feet long, in shape resembling a huge chimney stack, was standing until about four years ago. This piece was of the S.W. end, and contained an opening, probably a doorway.
The southern "leg"" of the fabric was eaten into, and the quoin-stones to the height of 10 feet or so in the wall, were all removed. It was clear that before long the law of gravitation would manifest itself, and a considerable
portion of the building be found reposing more securely on the lap of mother earth. The crash came, and now little more than 12 feet in height of the old castle stands.'' (See Field Book above referred to). Ballydineen.
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Sheet 25, six-inch Ordnance Survey, Sheet 175, one-inch O.S.
Barony of Fermoy. Parish of Doneraile.
It lies about two miles south of Doneraile village. Doneraile is the post town. Ballydineen is the Irish for "Dineen's Town.'* O'Dinneen was the chief poet to MacCarthy. (O'Donovan). Bally downine and Richardstowne Quillowan, five ploughlands, called Tallaghcorekerane, formed part of a very large re-grant of land to David
Lord Roche, Viscount Fermoy in County Cork, by King James I., on his surrendering them in order to obtain a secure title. 16 D e c , 9 James I. A.D. 1611. (P. 208-204, folio Patent Rolls of James I.)
Before the great rebellion the owner of Ballydinine was James Roch m'Henry. He forfeited it for rebellion and for being an Irish papist. It was granted circa. 1657, to Robert Ffoulke, 94a. i r . ; William Thornhill,
89a. ir. ; Stephen and Christian Roch, 166a. 2r. (Sur. and Dist. Book, P.R.O., Irld.)
Christopher Crofts, Esq., of Streamhill, Doneraile, b. 1747, m. secondly Anne, dau. of Richard Crone, Esq., of Ballydineen, County Cork, and d. 10 Nov., 1837, aged 90, leaving by her, with other children, a son and heir, George Crofts, Esq., of Streamhill, who married and had issue.
(See Velvetstown hereafter).
Richard Crone is supposed to have built Ballydineen House about 1760. No ruins of this building exist, nor can I ascertain where it stood. John Crone, Esq., of Doneraile, purchased Ballydineen from Lisle. He mentions this fact in his will, which was dated 1790.
In 1814, no large house appears on the townland. (D.N.P.)
The Field Book of 1840, gives :—Ballydineen townland. Contains two Danish forts and several houses. (Ord. Sur. Off., Dub.) On the townland are the following farmers (1907)—Mrs. Morrissey, Terence Roche, John Dunn, Michael Buckley, Patrick Mokley, Edmund Unehan, and Thomas Regan.
The tenants on the old Crone property have lately purchased under the Wyndham Act of 1903.
The last member of the Crone family to own this property was Mrs. Arousdell, who was a Miss Crone, of Byblox (see that place hereafter). Mrs. Trousdell is dead, and the property of Ballydineen has passed b v inheritance to Mrs. M. Croker, wife of Edward Croker, Esq., J.P.,
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r e . a^h House, Doneraile, and to her sister, Mrs. Jane Croker, widow Major William Croker, 27th Regt., and now of Byblox,
1 6 0 HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
Between forty and fifty years ago, a man named John Pyne (now in Australia) while ploughing a haggart at Ballydineen, now belonging to Thomas Regan, found a flat piece of gold which he sold in Cork. His father, Patrick Pyne, now lives at Dromdeer. Mr. Walter A. Jones in the journal for 1902, p. 242, states that brick-making was carried on here in the beginning of the last century.
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Re: Dineens in Cork..Cobh??
Laura Sykes 7/26/13