Solicitors and Landed Estate Papers
The legal community and several families/estates in Cork have been very supportive of CCCA in depositing dozens of older sets of estate and solicitors' papers. These papers often contain family legal and landed estate records, including various types of deeds such as leases, agreements, mortgages, charters, marriage settlements and wills, as well as court/case documents and legal minutae. Sometimes financial and business records are also found, such as rental ledgers, wages books, and business correspondence. For full listings of archives held, do a search of our online catalogue.
- Bandon Estate Office (Rental Ledgers and Other Volumes) 1719-1964 U137
- Bass and Company Solicitors 1600s - 1800s U681
- Carey's Lane/French Church Street Property Deeds 1785 - 1890 SM050
- Colthursts of Blarney, (1677) (1800-1943) U196
- Cooper Penrose, 1677-1979 U296
- Courtenay, near Midleton, 1738-1854 U130
- Curwens Solicitors 1715 - 1909 U708
- Guest Lane William Solicitors c1776 - 1954 U724
- Hayes Solicitors 1600s- early 1900s U334
- John Jermyn Solicitor Viscount Doneraile Estate Records (1739) 1813-1975 U335
- Lord Doneraile, North Cork, 1790-1920 U188
- Midleton Estate, 1710 -1927 U074 & SM620
- Newenham, South Cork, 1806-1900 U78
- O'Flynn Exham Solicitors, (1356) c.1500 – 1910 (c.1956) U229
- O'Meara Solicitors late 1700s-1920 U605a
- Preston Collection (1611) 1716 – 1956 (1962) U195
- Prof. John A. Murphy deposit 1670-1840 U336
- Vanderplas Cork Deeds 1598, 1610-1677, 1694 U675
- Viscount Lismore (Tenants Letters) 1880s U068
A number of documents from our solicitors and estate papers were digitised as part of a pilot digitisation project in 2003/4.
