SOMERVILLE, Edith OEnone and SOMERVILLE, Boyle Townshend. Records of the Somerville Family of Castlehaven & Drishane. From 1174 to 1940. Illustrated. 

Cork: Printed and published by Guy & Co., 1940. Quarto. pp. [viii], 134. Quarter linen on grey-green papered boards, title and coat of arms illustrated on upper cover. In very good condition.

Burke’s Irish Family Records indicates that the first of this family to settle in Cork was Rev. William Somerville, who allegedly fled persecution in Scotland in the 1690s. Col. Thomas Somerville of Drishane, Skibbereen, owned over 450 acres in county Cork in the 1870s while other members of the family owned similar amounts. Thomas Somerville was among the principal lessors in the parish of Castlehaven at the time of Griffith’s Valuation while Elizabeth Somerville held townlands in the parish of Skull at the same time.

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