Carey family of Careysville, Co. Cork
Niall C.E.J. O’Brien
Careysville lies on the south bank of the River Blackwater a few miles to the east of Fermoy in County Cork. In medieval times and up until the early eighteenth century the place was known as Ballymacpatrick. The name of Careysville came from the Carey family who had acquired the property in the 1650s. In the early eighteenth century people liked to place the word ‘ville’ behind a place-name like at nearby Bettyville and Abbeyville in north Co. Dublin in keeping with the fashion of all things French even if the British were busy fighting King Louis XIV of France.
There is no fully published history of the Carey family and they seem to have stayed out of the usual genealogical publications like Burke’s Landed Gentry. They family also left their own challenges for any researcher in that so many members of the family are called Peter or John and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one Peter Carey from another Peter Carey. It could be worst of course. The neighbouring Campion family of Leitrim near Kilworth had six generations of people all called Thomas Campion.
Careysville
Captain Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick
Peter Carey was the first of his family to come to Ballymacpatrick in the mid seventeenth century. Within a generation the family would change the name of the place from Ballymacpatrick to Careysville by which name the place is known today. The Carey family came from Devon and early spelling of the name was Cary/Carew.[1] The name is said to be derived from the manor of Cary and this is possibly true.[2]
Peter Carey was born about 1625 in Devon. At the start of the rebellion in Ireland Peter Carey went there as part of the Royalist army.[3] In 1645, at Cork, he married Sarah Graham of Dromore, Co. Cork.[4] In the Confederate War (1641-53) Peter Carey served as a major in the Royalist army in Ireland under the Marquess of Ormonde. At Cork on 23rd October 1649 Major Peter Carey submitted to the English Parliament and Cromwell. Also there on that day was Captain Samuel Pomeroy who was a later friend of Peter Carey.[5]
During the period of the Cromwellian regime Captain Peter Carey acquired part of the confiscated estate of the Condons of Kilworth as part of his war wages. In 1660 Captain Petr Carey and his son, Peter Carey junior, were living at Ballymacpatrick. In 1660 Peter Carey (written as Carew) was appointed with many others in County Cork to implement the Poll-Money Ordinance of 1660 and was also appointed to implement the Poll-Money Ordinance of 1661.[6]
Following the restoration of King Charles II it was feared that much of the property acquired by the soldiers and adventurers, as part of their payment by Parliament, would be returned to the former owners. Some property was returned to the former owners but most of the confiscated land was kept by the new settlers. On 27th July 1666 Captain Peter Carey received certifications from the Court of Claims to retain the land he was given. This property formed the core of the Careysville estate.
In Macrony parish on 27th July 1666 Peter Carey got 55 acres 2 roots 16 perches at Curraheen Atmurry (also written as Curaghnalmory), 10ac 1r 12p at the Two Balleraths (held in 1640 by Richard Crofton) and 196ac at Crognalane (held in 1640 by David Sarsfield).[7] In Clondulane parish on 27th July 1666 Peter Carey got 166ac 2r 16p at Ballymacpatrick (held in 1640 by Richard Condon), 236ac 1r 16p at Curraballymurraboe (also written as Curraghballymorogh), and 173ac at Carrigtotane (Carrigturtane). In the same parish a person called Roger Carey got land at Lishnesillagh and Carrimoe in April 1663 but this land was later taken over by the Lord Chancellor.[8]
In Killgullane parish on 24th July 1666 Peter Carey got 100acres at Ballyshanbegg while on 27th July 1666 he got 105ac 3r 16p at Ballyadick (held in 1640 by Richard Condon) in the prebendary of Kealane.[9]
It would seem that Captain Peter Carey was married to Elizabeth Burnell. In the 1664 will of Richard Burnell it was said that Elizabeth Carey should receive a grey mare while Peter Carey should get a grey horse and his son, Michael Carey, should get a colt. Richard Burnell also said that if all of Richard’s daughters should die, then Captain Peter Carey and Lieutenant Samuel Pomeroy should receive half his estate while the other half went to Henry Tanner. Peter Carey and Samuel Pomeroy were made the two executors. Richard Burnell’s sister was Elizabeth Campion, possibly of the Campion of Leitrim near Kilworth.[10] In 1676 Sarah, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Colonel Richard Burnell, married Edward Hoare. This Edward Hoare established Hoare bank with his brother Joseph Hoare before 1680, possibly using the inheritance of Sarah Burnell. The other daughter, Mary married Captain Thomas Lane.[11]
Captain Peter Carey died in 1670 and on 16th November 1670 his son, Peter Carey, took out administration of the estate.[12]
Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick/Careysville
Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick was a cousin of Thomas Campion of Leitrim, near Kilworth, and was mentioned in the will of Thomas Campion in 1699 as the overseer of the will with Thomas Wight of Cork. Thomas Campion was a Quaker and it seems that Peter Carey was also.[13] In about 1679 Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick wrote his will in which he mentioned his wife Elizabeth, along with his sons, Peter and Thomas and two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth. Peter Carey also mentioned his deceased son, Michael Carey.[14]
In 1712 Peter Carey junior was mentioned as one of the executors of the will of Henry Pyne of Waterpark, Co. Cork, with William Maynard.[15] Peter Carey was married to Elizabeth Greene (died after March 1694) and died in 1714.[16] Records say that Peter Carey had at least two sons, Peter Carey and John Carey.[17]
Michael Carey
Michael Carey, who lived about 1657, was the second son of Captain Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick, yet other records say that Michael was the grandson of Captain Carey.[18] Michael Carey was mentioned in the 1657 will of Richard Fisher of Fermoy (proved in 1661). Initially Richard Fisher left his estate to his wife, Dame Ann Boyle but after her death the estate would pass to Michel Carey. The estate of Richard Fisher in Mayo was gifted to his nephew, Andrew Fisher, son of Sir Edward Fisher.[19]
Michael Carey was alive in 1664 as he was mentioned in the will of Richard Burnell from whom he was to receive a colt but was dead before 1679 as his father mentioned his deceased son, Michael, in his own will.[20]
It is not clear if this was the Michael Carey of Ballymackee, Co. Waterford, who only daughter and heiress, Mary, married Rodolphus Greene (High Sheriff of Co. Waterford 1717), fourth son of Captain Godfrey Greene, a 49th officer.[21]
Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick/Careysville
Sources say that that Peter Carey, son of Captain Carey, had a son called Peter Carey who in 1677 married Elizabeth Langer, daughter of John Langer of Youghal and was the father of eight children. These children were Peter (died 1773), John, Roger, Thomas, George, Catherine, Elizabeth and Ann.[22]
John Carey of Careysville
John Carey was the son of Peter Carey of Careysville and was born about 1683. In April 1699 John Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in the spring of 1703 with a B.A.[23]
Peter Carey of Careysville
Peter Carey of Careysville was the son of Peter Carey of Ballymacpatrick/Careysville. He was born about 1681 and was educated by Mr. St. Clare of Cork. In July 1698 Peter Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin. In 1711 he was called to the Irish Bar.[24]
On 21st May 1736 Peter Carey of Careysville made his will. In it he mentioned his two sisters, Catherine and Anna and his brother George. Also mentioned were his other brothers John and Thomas and another sister called Mrs. Power. Peter Carey also remembered his cousins John Dillon of Quarterstown, Co. Cork and Thomas Campion of Leitrim, near Kilworth, Co. Cork. Peter’s three brothers were the executors for the will. The witnesses of the will, which was proved on 10th October 1737, were John Kerby, James Fling and William Condon.[25]
Penelope Carey
About 1728 Penelope Carey of Careysville married Nicholas Power of Careysville, eldest son of Pierce Power of Ballyhane, Co. Waterford. Nicholas Power lived for a time at Careysville and in January 1728 converted from Roman Catholicism to the Protestant Church of Ireland. Nicholas and Penelope Power had one son, Pierce Power, of Affane and Mogeehy, who was the ancestor of the Protestant Power families of Affane House, Mount Rivers and Belleville Park, all in Co. Waterford. Rev. John Power of Tallow was another convert and a younger son of Pierce Power.[26]
John Carey of Careysville
John Carey of Careysville was the brother of Peter Carey (1736) of Careysville. In 1737 John Carey married Ann, daughter of John Causidice Maunsell, merchant of Cork and High Sheriff in 1719, by his wife Elizabeth Campion and had children. In 1767 Anne’s sister Elizabeth married John Carey of Carey’s Lodge.[27] In 1753 John Carey died and his will was proved by his widow on 2nd August 1753. He was succeeded by his eldest son Peter.[28]
Langer Carey
Langer Carey was the third son of John Carey of Careysville. He was educated by Rev. Sullivan and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in May 1760. Langer Carey was a scholar there in 1763 and in the spring of 1765 graduated with a B.A. In 1664 he joined the Middle Temple. In 1770 Langer Carey was called to the Irish Bar.[29] He died unmarried on 16th June 1773 at his apartments in Trinity College.[30]
John Carey of Carey’s Lodge
In 1767 John Carey of Carey’s Lodge near Fermoy, married Elizabeth Maunsell, fourth daughter of John Causidice Maunsell of Cork and younger sister of Anne Maunsell who married John Carey of Careysville. John and Elizabeth left issue. Carey’s Lodge is located in the townland of Billeragh West which came to Peter Carey in the 1650s. In 1798 Carey’s Lodge was the scene of the notorious murder of Jasper Uniacke (the resident land agent), his wife and Colonel Richard Mansergh who were hacked to death by a gang of United Irishmen.[31]
In 1760 John Carey was a witness to the will of Thomas Campion of Cork city along with Peter Carey.[32]
John Carey
John Carey was the son of John Carey of Carey’s Lodge. He was educated in Fermoy and entered King’s Inns in Easter 1845 on the affidavit of his father as he was under 18 years old.[33]
Roger Carey of Carey’s Lodge
On 21st September 1825, the wife of Roger Carey of Carey’s Lodge, died.[34]
Peter Carey, armiger
In May 1747 Peter Carey married Penelope Minchin (as her second husband), eldest daughter of John Minchin of Anngh, Co. Tipperary and later Castle Inch, by his second wife, Penelope, daughter of Joseph Cuffe of Castle Inch, Co. Kilkenny. John Minchin’s first wife Frances, was the widow of Major Valentine Power of Clashmore, Co. Waterford.[35]
On 22nd September 1748 Humphrey Minchin of Inchmore, Co. Kilkenny mentioned his sister Penelope in his will and his brother-in-law, Peter Carey who was named as executor. Humphrey also mentioned William Minchin, son of Penelope by her first husband, Thomas Minchin along with other nephews. At the bottom of the will Peter Carey affixed his seal and the will was proved on 7th November 1748.[36]
Peter Carey was described as an armiger in 1779 and came from Cork. In 1779 his son, Peter Carey, entered Trinity College, Dublin.[37]
Peter Carey, son of the armiger
Peter Carey was born in about 1763 as the son of Peter Carey, armiger of Cork. He was educated by Mr. Carey and in January 1779 Peter Carey junior entered Trinity College, Dublin.[38] In March 1783 Peter Carey, eldest son of Peter Carey, was made a freeman of Cork city with five other people.[39] On 13th September 1792 at Bloomfield, David Foley married the daughter of Peter Carey of Cork city.[40]
Peter Carey of Careysville
Peter Carey was born in 1738 and died in 1817.[41] On 23rd August 1759, at St. Paul’s church in Cork city, Peter Carey married Ann, daughter of Hugh Lawton merchant of Castle Jane, Co. Cork. Ann came with a dowry of £3,000, a not inconsiderable sum.[42]
Peter Carey
Jane Carey, the eldest daughter of Peter Carey of Careysville, married William Collis (died April 1839) of Richmond, Co. Waterford and Mountford Lodge, near Fermoy, Co. Cork. William Collis was the second son of Rev. William Collis of Co. Kerry and a descendent of the Cooke family of Castle Cooke near Kilworth, Co. Cork. William Collis and Jane Carey had five sons and one daughter. The second son, Peter Collis married in 1843 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Carey of South Cregg, near Fermoy.[43]
On 26th July 1792 Ann, the second daughter of Peter Carey married Rev. Alexander Grant, vicar of Clondulane.[44] Careysville was located in the parish of Clondulane.
Richard Carey, merchant
Richard Carey, merchant, was the father of John Carey who in 1778 entered Trinity College, Dublin.[45]
John Carey
John Carey was born about 1757 as the son of Richard Carey, merchant. John Carey was educated by Mr. West and In June 1778 entered Trinity College, Dublin.[46]
John Carey of Straw Hall
On 19th August 1793 James Connell of Castlelyons married Mary, the second daughter of John Carey of Straw Hall.[47] In 1767-1771 David Crotty held Straw Hall from where he sold mature oak trees and young trees for planting.[48]
Charlotte, the youngest daughter of John Carey of Straw Hall, near Fermoy, married John Mansergh as his second wife. John Mansergh was the eldest son of Nicholas Mansergh of Grenane, Co. Tipperary by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Carden of Templemore. Charlotte and John had one son, Robert Mansergh, who died without issue in May 1871[49]
Langer Carey
Langer Carey was a son of Peter Carey, gent of Cork and was born in 1799. He was educated by Mr. Hincks and in January 1818 Langer Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin. In 1821 he graduated with a B.A. and in the summer of 1824 he got a M.A. and a M.B.[50] After graduation Langer Carey became a physician and surgeon, operating at Newport in Co. Tipperary. In 1828 he married Margaret Hunter of Dublin.[51] Langer Carey died on 16th August 1866 at Newport, Tipperary.[52] His will (valued under £4,000) was proved on 7th September 1866 by his wife Margaret Carey of Churchfield, Newport.[53]
On 7th July 1864 his daughter, Margaret Anna (born 1835) married Francis George Fosbery of Blennerville, Co. Kerry. Francis Fosbery died 1897 and Margaret Anna died 30th December 1917 leaving issue, a daughter and a son. In 1897 the son, George Francis Fosbery married Vivian de Burgh Lewis and was the father of four sons who in turn left living descendants.[54]
Langer Carey of Garrynoe
In December 1846 Langer Carey got £45 for drainage works on 9 acres at Ballyrice so as to provide work relief for the starving people in the Great Famine.[55] In about 1850 Langer Carey (or Langworth Carey as he is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation) owned Garrynoe townland (169 acres) in Clondulane parish. Langer Carey died on 31st March 1876 at Garrynoe leaving a will valued under £600 and which was proved 27th June 1876 by his wife Mary Anne Carey and Richard Carey, farmer of Garrynoe.[56]
Rev. Richard Carey
Rev. Richard Carey was the son of John Carey of Careysville. He was born about 1740 and was a prebendary of Donoughmore and Kiltegan in the diocese of Lismore. In 1787 Rev. Richard Carey was involved in the Clonmel Free School.[57] His appointment was made by the Earl of Mountcashell (a neighbour of the Careys at Careysville and the mayor of Clonmel). In 1809 a report said that the school was in a poor state of repair and that there were no boarders and that the attending students went to another school in the town to received their actual education.[58] In 1820 Rev. Richard Carey was still master of the Lismore Diocesan School. Rev. Richard Carey also acted as an assistant curate for Rev. Daniel Sullivan at Rathronan parish.[59]
In April 1791 Rev. Richard Carey was made a freeman of Cork city with about fifteen other people.[60] In June 1810 Rev. Richard Carey was elected bailiff of Clonmel town by the Corporation along with John Howell under the new mayor, John Croker.[61] He died in 1821 and was buried in Kiltegan graveyard. Rev. Richard Carey married Jane, daughter of Robert Bell, surgeon of Cork city and had at least three sons two of whom entered the church, Rev. Langer Carey and Rev. Robert Carey.[62] Rev. Richard Carey had at least two daughters, Ann married (1769) Humphrey Croly and Elizabeth married (1763) John Peddar.[63]
Rev. Richard Carey had at least one daughter, Martha (died 1876), who in 1836 married Francis Boxwel of Butlerstown, Co. Wexford, son of John Boxwell of same place. Francis and Martha Boxwell had three sons and three daughters.[64]
Rev. Langer Carey
Rev. Langer Carey was born near Clonmel as the eldest son of Rev. Richard Carey. In March 1806 Langer Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin, and in the spring of 1810 graduated with a B.A.[65] In 1820 Rev. Langer Carey acted as assistant curate for Rev. Garret Wall in the parish of Dromkeen in the Diocese of Emly.[66] Rev. Langer Carey got married and had at least one son, Richard Garret Carey. Rev. Langer Carey died in 1830 and was buried in Marlfield church near Clonmel.[67]
Richard Garret Carey
Richard Garret Carey was the son of Rev. Langer Carey. Richard Carey was born about 1814 and in October 1830 entered Trinity College, Dublin, where in the spring of 1835 he graduated with a B.A.[68] In about 1850 Richard Garret Carey lived at Glen Abbey on the south side of the River Suir, near Clonmel. The property of 83 acres was known locally as ‘Carey’s Castle’.[69]
Rev. Robert Carey
Rev. Robert Carey was born about 1794 as a younger son of Rev. Richard Carey. In January 1811 Robert Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin, where in the spring of 1815 he graduated with a B.A.[70] In 1818 he was made a priest at Cork.[71] In 1820 Rev. Robert Carey acted as assistant curate for Rev. Thomas Crawford in the parish of Derrygarth.[72] In about 1850 Rev. Robert Carey was rector of Kiltegan parish near Clonmel and held a number of properties in Clonmel and also at Donoughmore.[73]
John Peter Carey
John Peter Carey was the fourth son of Rev. Richard Carey and Anne Bell. He was born on 17th March 1809.[74] He was educated by Mr. Bell and entered Trinity College Dublin in July 1824 where in spring 1829 he graduated with a B.A.[75] In 1831 he entered the Middle Temple.[76]
Peter Carey of Careysville
Peter Carey was the eldest son of Peter and Anne Carey of Careysville. In 1793 he married Elizabeth Keily (died 1801) by whom he had children and married secondly to Sarah Moore who died in 1839 without issue. Peter Carey was living at Careysville in 1814 and died in 1823.[77]
Careysville by the River Blackwater – home to good fishing
Peter Carey
Peter Carey was born about 1793 as the son of Peter Carey of Careysville. He was educated by Mr. Carey and in January 1814 Peter Carey junior entered Trinity College, Dublin.[78] In 1831 he married Anne Clarke.[79] Peter Carey was originally living in Clondulane House in 1844 and 1856 but later moved into Fermoy. He died on 25th August 1863 and his will (valued under £800) was proved on 8th October 1863 by his son, Peter Wellington Carey of Fermoy.[80]
Rev. Richard Carey
Richard Carey was another son of Peter and Anne Carey of Careysville. He took holy orders and was made a deacon in 1818 and a priest at Cloyne in 1819.[81] He later served as was a vicar in Skibbereen. About 1835 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Labarte and was the father of Richard Carey.[82] Many years before, on 1st June 1789 John Labarte of Cork city had married Miss Crowley of Cork city at Careysville, the home of Peter Carey, esq.[83]
Richard Carey
Richard Carey son of Rev. Richard Carey was born in 1838 and was educated at Fermoy College. He became manager of the Munster and Leinster Bank at Skibbereen. In 1866 Ricard Carey married Kathleen Hill, daughter of William Hill. Richard Carey was the father of six sons Langer, William, Henry, Sidney, Arthur, and Edward.[84] Richard Carey was also the father of two daughters, Kathleen and Ethel (or Elizabeth and Sarah as another source has it).[85]
William Carey of Ballymacmoy
On 11th September 1819 William Carey of Ballymacmoy got a gaming licence for the year 1819 along with other local landowners from north-east Cork. On 17th September 1827, Margaret Theresa, eldest daughter of William Carey of Ballymacmoy died.[86] It is not clear this William Carey was one of the sons of Richard Carey of Skibbereen or a different person unconnected to the family.
Careysville
Edward Keily Carey of Careysville
Edward Keily Carey was the son of Peter Carey of Careysville and was born about 1801, the year of his mother’s death. In January 1818 Edward Carey entered Trinity College, Dublin where in Easter 1821 he graduated with a B.A.[87]
On 1st September 1821 Edward Keily Carey married Elizabeth Margaret (died 13th September 1881), eldest daughter of William Cooke-Collis of Castle Cooke, by his wife Elizabeth de Courcy, daughter of Maurice Uniacke Atkin of Leadington, Co. Cork. Elizabeth’s sister, Jane married her cousin Rev. Jasper Grant, rector of Castlehyde and member of the Grant family of Kilmurry.[88] Rev. Jasper Grant was the son of Rev. Alexander Grant, vicar of Clondulane, third son of Thomas Grant of Kilmurry by his wife Elizabeth Campion. In 1792 Rev. Alexander Grant had married Ann, second daughter of Peter Carey of Careysville.[89] William Cooke-Collis was the eldest son of Rev. Zachery Cooke-Collis and nephew of that William Collis who married Jane, daughter of Peter Carey of Careysville.[90]
In 1823 Edward Keily Carey inherited Careysville according to his father’s will.[91] It seems that in the 1820’s or early 1830’s Edward Keily Carey remodelled Careysville house as Samuel Lewis in 1837 described it as a ‘handsome modern mansion’ lately built by Edward.[92]
In about 1850 the estate of Edward Keily Carey was recorded in Griffith’s Valuation. In Clondulane parish (barony of Condons and Clangibbon) he had Ballinveelig (147ac 0r 22p), Bawnnaclogh (81ac 2r 16p), Careysville (291ac 0r 19p), Carrigatoortane (170ac held jointly with Stephen Moore and George Lukey), Clondulane South (1ac 0r 3p), Curragh Lower (120ac 3r 11p), and Curragh Upper (312ac 3r 18p). In Macroney parish Edward Carey held Billeragh West (810ac 1r 10p) while Billeragh East (held in 1666 by Peter Carey) was owned by the Earl of Kingston, Crinnaghtane (236ac 3r 33p), and Curraghanolomer (367ac 3r 35p). Thus in about 1850 the total estate amounted to about 2,430 acres.
In June 1859 Edward Keily Carey sold 388 acres in the Estates court. By the 1870s the estate of Edward Keily Carey amounted to 1,670 acres.[93]
The big event in the middle years of Edward’s life was the Great Famine which killed many people and bankrupted many an estate. On 15th October 1845 Edward Keily Carey attended the Fermoy Poor Law Union meeting to discuss the growing problem with potato blight. Captain Carey said that the potato crop in the parish of Macroney was seriously affected and beyond remedy.[94] On 22nd October 1845 the Guardians of the Poor Law meet for their weekly meeting at which it was reported that a few people had already died in the workhouse and the Union was under financial pressure to cope.[95]
As the situation developed it was difficult to maintain the social and property barriers of previous times. On 7th November 1845 Edward Keily Carey summoned Mick Leahy, kiln labourer at Clondulane Mills, for the audacity to enter his field and quench his thirst in a spring. At the Fermoy petty sessions, Leahy was fined one shilling and one shilling 2 pence in costs.[96]
On 13th April 1846 Edward Keily Carey attended the Fermoy Presentment session where a number of local road works were approved. At the Poor Law meeting of 13th May 1846, attended by Edward Carey, the members discussed building a new fever hospital to cope with the increasing famine which was further discussed on 17th June 1846.[97] In late June 1846 Edward Carey gave £5 to the Glanworth relief fund.[98]
The labouring class were particularly affected by the famine as they relied on the produce of their small gardens attached to their poor cottages. On 20th August 1846 Edward Carey was the chairman of the Fermoy petty sessions before which a good number of labourers were charged with not providing work service in lieu of rent payments under the Parliament Act of 43 George 3, C86. The labourers wanted cash for their work so they could buy food as their potato crops had failed. Chairman Carey agreed with four of the seven magistrates to dismiss the cases and not send the labourers to prison due to the exceptional nature of the times.[99]
To help provide work for the starving people a number of work schemes were organised. In December 1846 Edward Carey got £221 for drainage works on 45 acres at Curragh and Careysville.[100] On 18th August 1847 Edward Carey attended the Fermoy Poor Law meeting where a big discussion occurred over the striking of a rate upon property owners to fund the Union’s famine relief works. A minority, led by the Earl of Mountcashell, were for asking the government to fund the Union rather than local taxation. Edward Carey supported the majority who were for setting a rate and asking the government for reimbursement afterwards. The Union was under pressure to do so or the government would take over the Union and charge the local landlords an additional £800 to £1,000 to administrate the Union.[101] In the event the Union struck as a rate and continued in business under stressful times. In 1850 Edward Keily Carey was an ex-officio member of the Fermoy Poor Law Union with other local landlords.[102] By then the worst of the Great Famine had passed and life was beginning to return to normal but the undercurrent of society had changed utterly and the days of the landlord were on the countdown to termination.
Today (2017) the Careysville estate is well known as an important fishery location on the River Blackwater with visitors coming there from near and far, the famous and the not so famous. Back in the 1840s, during the height of the Great Famine, Careysville was still an important fishery location. On 2nd July 1846 Edward Keily Carey attended a meeting in Fermoy to ask parliament to extend the angling fishery season by one month and to ask for restrictions on net fishing as the salmon were not getting upriver in the same numbers as previously.[103]
In 1867 Edward Keily Carey was asked to judge on the attack by a mob on the daughter of the Bridewell jail in Fermoy. A local man, John McCarthy, had been arrested for involvement in the Fenian movement and was detained in the Bridewell, now known as Kneller Villas. When the warden came to take McCarthy out for exercise, he was locked in the cell and McCarthy attempted to make good his escape. But the warden’s daughter raised the alarm and McCarthy in panic dropped the jail keys and returned to his cell. For her troubles a mob attacked the girl the following Sunday. Ten days later Magistrate Carey and other local landlords had the mob up before the Fermoy petty sessions but decided to leave them off with a caution.[104]
On 4th February 1874 Margaret Anna, the second daughter and co-heir of Edward Keily Carey, married her near neighbour, Thomas St. John Grant (born September 1852) of Kilmurry, eldest son of Thomas St. John Grant by his wife Eliza, youngest daughter of Rev. Thomas Hoare by his wife Mary, daughter of Henry Lloyd of Lloydsboro, Co. Tipperary. Thomas and Jane Grant had two sons.[105]
Edward Keily Carey died on 18th December 1876 and his wife Margaret died in 1881. Later a memorial tablet was erected to their memory in Christ Church, Fermoy, by their daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery.[106] The will of Edward Keily Carey (valued under £3,000) was proved on 6th March 1877 by Rev. Maurice Cooke Collis and Rev. Jasper Alexander Grant.[107]
George Montgomery of Killee and Careysville
In 1866 George Montgomery of Killee House, near Mitchelstown, married Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter and co-heir of Edward Keily Carey of Careysville. George Montgomery (born 12th July 1843 – died 4th September 1910) was the eldest son of Rev. William Quin Montgomery of Killee and Alice, daughter of Rev. P. Sleeman of Devon, and grandson of George Montgomery of Killee and Mary Quin of Loloher, Cahir, Co. Tipperary. George’s grandfather, Hugh Montgomery, fought under William III in Ireland and Hugh was the grandson of Rev. James Montgomery from Scotland who first settled in Co. Down in the early seventeenth century.[108]
Killee was first granted in 1699 to Colonel Francis De la Rue and his wife Elizabeth Howard and inherited by their son, Wriothesley De la Rue. In the early eighteenth century Wriothesley devised all his Irish estate to his half-brother, George Montgomery (son of Hugh Montgomery and Elizabeth Howard by her second marriage). This George died in 1778 and his third son, George Montgomery inherited Killee and married Mary Quin, as above.[109]
George and Elizabeth Montgomery had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, William Montgomery inherited Killee while the second son, Edward Hugh Montgomery inherited Careysville.[110]
Edward Hugh Montgomery of Careysville
Edward Hugh Montgomery was born on 10th November 1871 and attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he qualified as a medical doctor. On 12th July 1894 he married Lilla, daughter of W. Perrott and in March 1896 they had a son, Edward Henry Montgomery.[111]
After the Second World War Careysville was sold to the Duke of Devonshire whose descendants still own the property ending nearly three hundred years of Carey association.
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