Solicitors and Landed Estate Papers

The legal community in Cork has been very supportive of CCCA in depositing dozens of older sets of solicitors' papers. Solicitors and landed estate papers often include 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.

Examples of Solicitors and Landed Estate archives in CCCA

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.

Colthurst Blarney Estate Tenants Rental Account 1895