Some Account of the Family of O'Hurly

18. The Down Survey Index & Book of Distribution, Ballinacarriga Parishes

Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society, Vol. XII, 2nd Series (1906), pp. 29–33

The article now turns from narrative to record: a printed index of "papist proprietors" surnamed Hurley drawn from the 1650s Down Survey and its accompanying Book of Distribution, followed by two full statistical tables for Ballimonie Parish. Between the index and the tables the original prints a genealogical chart on a folded plate; the surviving scan of that plate is badly damaged (rotated, cropped, and apparently photographed more than once from odd angles), so this page transcribes only what can be confidently read from it and says plainly where it cannot.

Pages 29–33

[p. 30] built there was a residence where some remains are still at a place called Gloun, about a mile to the south of Ballinacarriga.

In 1490, Br. William O'Hurily was sub-prior of the Franciscan Convent, Youghal, and there is, bearing his name, a list of books, property of the convent, on that date.

Down Survey.

An Index of Papist Proprietors and Pages Where to Find Them.

Index of Papist Proprietors (page references to the original Down Survey volume)
ProprietorPages
William oge Hurly9, 13
Randall oge Hurly10, 12, 13
Randolp Hurley12
Donogh McDaniel Hurley, Ir. Pa.12
David Hurley, Ir. Pa.13, 14
David McWilliam Hurley, Ir. Pa.13
Morris McWilliam Hurley, Ir. Pa.13
William McRanll. Hurly, Ir. Pa.13
Kenneth Parish
No.ProprietorDenominationA.R.P.Note
99Wm. oge HurlyEast Ballivillon519000ar. & past.
99MThe sameof the same13300
99 1The sameBalechanure08900ar. & pa.
99 1AThe sameof the same02000
Kilbrittain
No mention of Hurleys.
Rathclarin
No mention of Hurleys.
Kilmolody and Timoleague
No mention of Hurleys.
Desert
No mention of Hurleys.
Fanlobbish
No.ProprietorDenominationA.R.P.Note
131Randulph oge HurleyArd-Cahane026600ar. & woody.
Parish of Ballimonie
No.ProprietorDenominationA.R.P.Note
151Randall Hurley, Ir. Pa.Yeadon Curroe60323ar. & pas.
151The sameof the same154000
152Donogh McDaniel HurleyBununumery, 6 gns.164000ar. & pas.
153Randall oge HurleyArd-Eah als. Ballincarrig206216
154The sameKilcashane als. Budderinine321036
Parish of Kilmina
No.ProprietorDenominationA.R.P.Note
164Randal oge Hurley, 6 gns., and the other 6 claimed in mortgage by Earl of CorkClone-criggin18800ar. & pas.
165David Hurley, 2 gns.Lottir196119
166Wm. oge Hurleypart of Knock-Eah24338
166BThe sameof the same03938
166IThe sameLisinroe, of the same
167The sameBallinvard, 6 gns100016
168The sameEast Lisnabrinny228300
169David McWm. Hurley, 4 gns.Conowe05820
MThe sameof the same037000
170Morris McWm. HurleyLiskubber138200
VThe sameof the same020200ar. & pas.
173William McRanell HurleyKillinyne145032
178Wm. oge Hurley, Ir. Pa.Knockduffe307200

[p. 31] Between this index and the tables that follow on pages 32–33, the original article prints a fold-out pedigree chart tracing the O'Hurleys of Ballinacarriga and neighbouring parishes down through a series of 1579 and 1601 pardons ("pard."). The surviving scan of this plate is, frankly, in poor condition: it is rotated 90 degrees from the rest of the volume, cropped at both margins so that no name is captured whole, and the same fragment appears to have been photographed three separate times at slightly different angles and crop points — suggesting the page was scanned more than once, possibly because it did not lie flat, without the duplicates being caught before the file was assembled. We can make out isolated name-fragments consistent with a chart of pardoned O'Hurleys: "...O'Hurley...arriga, pard. [1]601," "Donogh O'Hurley," "Moriertagh O'Hurley, of Templebrian, pard. 14 May, 1601," "Don[?]roe O'Hurley...alnacarriga, pard...1601," "Connoghor O'Hurley, of Templebrian, pard. 14 May, 1601," "Connogher O'Hurley, of Templebrian, pard. 14 May, 1601," "John O'Hurley, of same, pard. 14 May, 1601," "...oghe Roe O'Hurley...Eniskean, pard. 1579," and "Donal O'Hurley, of Fyall, pard. 1579," together with a line reading "=Donal O'Hurley" and a note "residing at same place, are probably" connecting two branches. Beyond these fragments we cannot reliably reconstruct the chart's structure — who descends from whom, or how many generations it spans — and we have not attempted to. If a cleaner copy of this plate, or of the original 1906 volume, ever surfaces, this section should be revisited and the chart transcribed properly; until then we would rather show the gap honestly than guess at it. The pardons themselves plainly relate to the Fiants referenced at the end of the previous page and taken up again later in this article (Section 20).

Down Survey, 1659. Parish of Ballimonie.

[p. 32]
PlotProprietors' NamesDenominations of LandsAcres by AdmeasurementLands Profitable
151Randall Hurley, Ir. Pa.Yeadan Curroe, 3 plds.603 2 32Ar. & pas. 603 2 32
151AThe sameOf the same154 0 00Bogg 154 0 00
152Donogh McDanll. HurleyBun-un-umery, 6 gns.164 0 00Ar. & pas. 164 0 00
153Randll. oge HurleyArd-Eah als. Ballincarrigg206 2 16Ar. & pas. 206 2 16
154The sameKilcashane alias Budderinine321 0 36Ar. & pas. 321 0 36
155Charles MacCarty ReaghEast Killmurrogh066 2 00Ar. & pas. 066 2 00
155ADermd. McOwen, I.P.West Killmurrogh042 2 16Ar. & pas. 042 2 16
156Owen McDonogh CartyPheall299 3 24Ar. me. pa. 299 3 24
157Charles MacCarty ReaghKnockane-Ideene273 1 24Ar. me. pa. 273 1 24
+Gleabe landof Ballimony0·7 0 16Ar. me. pa. 027 0 16
158Teige Mc ffyuin Carty, 3 gnes.
Danl. McCormack Carty, 3 gneives
West Curroe Crowly, 6 gneives085 0 00Ar. & Pa. 085 0 00
AEarle of Corke, Prest.ar. 546 0 00 South Kilmurrogh
B CEa. CorkeAcres 455 0 00
DEa. CorkeAcres 173 2 00

The parish of Ballimonie is bounded on the North with the river Bandon, which separates this parish from the parishes of Fonloibbish and Kenneth, on the east with the parish of Desert, on the south west with part of Kilmina, and on the west with part of the parish of Drough. The quality of the soyle thereof is arable meadow and pasture, likewise one bog on the north-west thereof by the aforesaid river of Bandon, which thereabouts divides itself into several small streams, running amongst several rocks, which afterwards again unites, and receiving the Blackwater, swells to be much greater. In this parish stand two castles, viz.:—Ardeah als. Ballincarrige, Kilcashane and Pheall, likewise the church of Ballymony. It contains within it several denominations, viz.:—Yeadon Curroe, Bununumery, Ard-Eah als. Budderinine, Kilcashane als. Budderinine, East Killmurrogh, West Killmurrogh, Pheall, Knockane-Ideene, of Ballimony, West Curroe Crowly, and South Killmurrogh.

Down Survey and Book of Distribution.

Ballimonie Parish.

[p. 33]
PlotProprietors in 1640DenominationsAcres UnprofitableAcres ProfitableAcres Disposed ofTo Whom Disposed
151Randal Hurley, I.P.Yeaden Curow, 3603 2 32449 2 00John Sicklemore
151AThe sameOf the same64 0 00156 0 00William Blackbourne
152Donogh McDanll. HurleyBununumery, 6 gns.164 0 00164 0 00Benjamin Crofte
153Randall oge HurleyArd-Eah als. Ballincarrigg206 2 16205 2 16Richard Dashwood
154(same)Kilcashane als. Budderinine321 0 36093 0 37L. Kingston
155Charles MacCarty ReaghEast Killmurrogh066 2 00066 2 00John Abbott
155ADermd. McOwen, I.P.West Killmurrogh042 2 16
156Owen McDonogh CartyPheal299 3 24299 3 24Bryan Wade
157Charles McCarty ReaghKnockane-Ideere273 3 24049 3 24Captain Sam. Foley
223 0 00Frans. Bernard
+Gleabe land of Ballymony027 0 16027 0 16+ C land
158Teige Mc ffyuin Carty, 3 gnes.
Danl. McCormack Carty, 3 gneives
West Curroe Crowly, 6 gnes.085 0 00085 0 00Capt. Sam. Foley
AEa. CorkeSouth Killmurrogh546 0 00546 0 00Earle Corke, Prot.
B CEa. Corke455 0 00455 0 00
DEa. Corke173 2 00173 2 00

The dense tabular material on pages 30 and 32–33 uses printer's shorthand throughout — "Ir. Pa." for Irish Papist, "gns."/"gneives" for gneeves (a Munster land-division unit, roughly a twelfth of a ploughland), "A. R. P." for acres, roods and perches — which we have reproduced as printed rather than expanded inline. A number of plot-number suffixes (superscript letters and numerals such as 99M, 166B, 151A) are faint in the scan; we are reasonably confident of the readings given here, but a handful of individual acreage figures in the smallest print may be off by a digit. The bracketed groupings in the 1659 and Book of Distribution tables (plots 153/154 sharing one proprietor entry, plot 158's two named lessees, and the three Earl of Cork sub-plots A/B/C/D) follow the printed layout as closely as an HTML table reasonably allows; the original uses hand-drawn braces that do not translate directly into table cells.

Historical Note — Reading the Down Survey Tables

These two tables are a textbook illustration of how the Down Survey (the 1650s land survey ordered by the Cromwellian administration, discussed further in Part One, Section 9) and its associated Book of Distribution worked together. The first table records the pre-war ("1640") Catholic proprietors of each landholding in Ballimonie Parish — a Hurley-dominated list here — while the second shows what became of the same plots afterward: how many acres were "disposed of," and to which incoming English proprietor (John Sicklemore, William Blackbourne, Richard Dashwood, and others). Read side by side, the two tables document the transfer of the bulk of Hurley-held land in this parish to new settler owners within a single generation, exactly the mechanism that produced the "Lands Forfeited" tables referenced elsewhere in this series for the Limerick and Galway branches of the family (Sections 15–16).

Glossary

Gneeve (gns., gneives)
A traditional Munster unit of land division, typically reckoned as one-twelfth of a ploughland; its actual acreage varied considerably by locality and soil quality, which is why the Down Survey pairs it here with a precise acres/roods/perches measurement.
Ir. Pa. (Irish Papist)
The Down Survey's standard designation for a Catholic Irish proprietor, as distinct from Protestant or "Old English" landholders, and directly relevant to why these lands were subject to confiscation and redistribution.
Book of Distribution
The register, compiled alongside the Down Survey maps, recording how confiscated lands were actually allotted to Cromwellian soldiers, adventurers, and other claimants — the "to whom disposed" half of the confiscation process that the survey itself only measured.
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