Some background research notes on a landlord in the Dunmanway area of Co Cork
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MAJOR GEN SHULDHAM
The Shuldhams were
originally from Norfolk. In the early 18th century Edmond Shuldham of Ardtully,
county Kerry married Mary MacCarthy, daughter and heiress of MacCarthy Spaniagh
of Dunmanway, county Cork. Their eldest son, Edmond Shuldham, held lands
in the counties of Cork, Limerick and in the city of Dublin. Many members of
the family followed military careers. Arthur Lemuel Shuldham of Dunmanway, and
of Pallas Green, county Limerick, had a son Edmond William who was Quarter
Master General at Bombay for a number of years.
At the time of Griffith's
Valuation General Shuldham owned an estate in the parishes of Oola and
Tuoghcluggin, barony of Coonagh, county Limerick. Thomas Apjohn of Pallas was
agent for the Shuldhams circa 1840.
In 1851, Maj. Gen.
Edmund Anderson Shuldham was among the principal lessors in the parishes of
Drinagh, Fanlobbus and Kilmichael, barony of East Carbery, county Cork. His
estate in county Cork in the 1870s amounted to over 13,000 acres.
Held in fee by Major General
Shuldham in 1851 when it was valued at almost £17. It is labelled Hill Farm on
the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but as Coolkellure House on the
25-inch edition of the 1890s.
Shuldham/Shouldham Magistrates:
Captain Edmund Anderson
Shuldham, Coolkelure, Dunmanway, listed 1854, A.D.C. to Lord Lieutenant,
subscriber 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork. Niece Georgina, Countess of
Bandon. Built Coolkelure Church,
Dunmanway, 1865. Dunmanway Shouldhams
descend from Shouldham/McCarthy marriage c 1720. Land record, Major Shuldham,
1870, 13,039 acres.
Leopold Shuldham 1856, Coolkelure,
Dunmanway, Resident
The Shouldham Estate in
Dunmanway West Cork comprised over 10,000 and arises from the marriage of
Shouldham from Kerry/Limerick to a McCarthy heiress in Dunmanway in the early
1700s.
From Landed Estates Database University
College Galway
Shuldham/Shouldham – In
1690 Shouldham from Dunmanway, the Solicitor General for Ireland, married one
of the Whites of Whiddy Island, later this line became the Whites of Bantry
House. In the early 18th century Edmond Shuldham of Ardtully, County Kerry
married Mary MacCarthy, daughter and heiress of MacCarthy Spaniagh of
Dunmanway, county Cork. Their eldest son, Edmond Shuldham, held lands in the
counties of Cork, Limerick and in the city of Dublin. He was a subscriber to
Smith’s History of Cork in 1749.
From the early 18th
century marriage the Dunmanway Shoudhams are a sept of the McCarthys through
the female line showing the resilience of this line over the millenia.
From Convert Rolls,
Anstace Shuldham, possibly nee McCarthy 1737 Spinster, Co. Cork. The Shouldham
Estate in Dunmanway West Cork comprised over 10,000 and arises from the
marriage of Shouldham from Kerry/Limerick to a McCarthy heiress in Dunmanway in
the early 1700s. This lady may be her or her daughter.
Cork Evening Post had an
ad on the 25th August 1766 letting 800 or 900 aces Gleanrough apply to Dr.
Creagh or James Galway at Tullyglass near Enniskeane during the minority of
Master Shouldam 7 years old.
Grave of Shuldham family,
Coolkelure,Church of Ireland, courtesy Gordon Kingston. Other family members
are buried in Dunmanway graveyard and in Dunmanway church there are stained
glass windows to the family one erected late 19th century by O’Donovan D.L. as
a memorial to his brother-in-law William Lemuel Shuldham
(The Famine - 1847)
Major General Shuldham
was involved in famine relief in Dunmanway and was Chairman of the Workhouse
Committee taking an active interest in promoting the inmates welfare. This is
dealt with in the Cork Archives Dunmanway Board of Guardian papers referred to
below.
“...the nearby town of
Dunmanway also suffered greatly. A small group of gentry women worked
tirelessly to alleviate the condition of the local poor, making appeals to both
England and America. The Dunmanway Indian Meal Ladies Committee compried the
sisters Martha and Catherine Cox, Harriet (the dau) Shuldham, Ellen Jagoe, and
Anna Marua Galbraith. Its patrons were Lady Carbety and Mrs Maj-Gen Shuldham.
The Anglo-Irish Cox family had owned land in Dunmanway since 1688. Martha and
Kath Cox were known for their benevolence towards their tenants and they had
responded to the potoato failure swiftly, immediately lowering rents...”