THORNCLIFFE
Monkstown,
Co.Cork
Monkstown, Co.Cork
Monkstown, Co.Cork
Above: View from Thorncliffe over Monkstown Bay.
Some links to Thorncliffe in no particular order:
The O'Shea brothers - sculptors:
The floral and gargoyle sculpted pieces inside and outside of Thorncliffe have been attributed to brothers James and John O'Shea (and their nephew Edward Whelan) all of Ballyhooley near Fermoy. They received some acclaim for works in Ireland and the UK including those in Trinity College Dublin and the Kildare Street Club, in Dublin. They also gained some notoriety for extra-curricular "works" carried out at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
It is possible that the O’Sheas came to work for Sir Thomas Deane around the late 1840s. The training of artisans was something of a hobbyhorse with Deane, as he admitted in his lecture on sculpture to the RIAI in January 1851, and the O’Sheas may well have been protégés of his at the Cork School of Design.
John Walker Perrott, (1814 - 1886) - built Thorncliffe.
John Walker Perrott was born in 1814, in birth place, to Samuel Perrott and Anne Perrott (nee Walker).
Samuel was born in 1768, in Wotton Under Edge Gloucestershire.
Anne was born circa 1785, in Richmond, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland.
John had 7 siblings: Thomas Perrott, Samuel Perrott and 5 other siblings.
John married Isabella Susan Poole on month day 1859, at age 45 in Monkstown church.
Isabella was born in 1820, in Mayfield, Bandon Ireland, a daughter of wealthy land-owner (Mayfield, Bandon burned down in 1921 troubles).
They had 2 children: Marion Perrott and one other child, (daughter?)
John passed away on month day 1886, at age 72 in death place. (From www.MyHeritage.com)
Samuel Perrot:
Samuel Perrot held an estate in the parishes of Castlelyons and Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, county Cork, at the time of Griffith's Valuation, including the town of Castlelyons. Lewis writes in 1837 that Perrott had recently purchased the manor and was resident at Uplands in the parish. In the 1870s John Walker Perrott of Monkstown, Cork, owned 2,262 acres in county Cork.
Samuel Perrott married Anne Walker of Richmond, Fermoy, and they had a number of children including John Walker Perrott (1814-1886) who married Isabella Poole. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~parrott/carmarthenshire.shtml#i97
Samuel Perrott was residing at Cleve Hill in 1837 and in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £68 and held from Alexander McCarthy. Cleve Hill a modern family mansion on 13 acres was advertised for sale in October 1873, the estate of Joseph Gadsden Nash and Arthur Power Harty, bankrupts.
Some Web Links:
https://www.corkcity.ie/en/media-folder/heritage/a-guide-to-historic-ironwork-in-cork-city.pdf
https://www.houseofnames.com/perrott-family-crest
https://historicgraves.com/st-mary-s-church-ireland/co-pwsm-0099/grave
https://web.archive.org/web/20161029012508/http://passagewestmonkstown.ie/history.html
https://deochandoras.com/1912-blencowe-rooper/
https://landedestates.ie/property/3479
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Hugh_Blencowe_Rooper
https://landedestates.ie/estate/3095
https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/O'Regan, Hall.pdf (advert for Protestant Maid for Thorncliffe, 1869 I think. The contact for the advert was M.C., Thorncliffe).
