Residences

Corney House, Chiswick

Database ID: 22000

Belgrove

Belgrove, Cobh, co Cork. This house overlooks East Ferry, a backwater of Cork Harbour. It was built in Georgian times and was originally the seat of the Harper family. In the nineteenth century, it was owned in by Rev George Gumbleton, who took his services in the church on the opposite side of the Ferry to the house.

The house was later acquired by George’s elder son, William, the well-known horticulturalist. When he died in 1911, he left Belgrove to his cousins, the Bagwell family, who were descended in the female line from the Harpers. They lived at nearby Eastgrove, and let Belgrove to tenants during the succeeding years. Belgrove was demolished in about 1954. Since then, a modern house has been built on the site.

Database ID: 22001

Glencairn Abbey

The following account was from "Conna in History and Tradition", published by Conna Community Council.

It is recorded that in 1695 Ballygarron Castle, Glencairn, Lismore, co Waterford passed into the hands of Richard Gumbleton of Kent. He rebuilt the castle and renamed it Castlerichard. He married Anne Warren in 1704. The castle fell into ruins and the family then resided in a manor. According to the Records of Ireland, Richard obtained lands confiscated in 1688.

His son Richard, who married Elizabeth Connor in 1743, was father of Robert Warren of Castleview and Henry of Curraglass House. His other son and successor at Castlerichard, also named Richard, married Frances Anne, daughter of Hamilton O'Hara of Donegal. In 1795 Richard asked master builder John Hogan of Tallow to build a new addition ot the mansion.

Richard GUmbleton of Castlerichard died in 1793 and had one son Richard Edward who died unmarried in 1819 in the Isle of Scio. He renamed the property Glencairn Abbey and was the last of hte GUmbletons to reside there. On his death, his eldest sister Lavinia and her husband, Henry Amyas Bushe, became the owners.

In 1832 the Cistercian monks began to build Mount Melleray Abbey, Cappoquin and in 1926 Castlerichard was purchased by the Lord Abbot Dom Maurus O'Phelan as a convenyt for Cistercian nuns. It was renamed St Mary's abbey but was badly damaged by fire 1973.

Database ID: 22002

Curraglass House

Curraglass House, co Cork was built in the Georgian era and was originally a seat of the Wallis family. Later, it was owned by H.C. Gumbleton, brother of R.W. Gumbleton, who built the nearby Glnnatore. IN the 1980s it was demolished to allow the straightening of the road from Conna to Tallow, which had previously had to turn 4 right-angled corners in order to avoid it.

Database ID: 22003

Glynnatore

Glynnatore (also known as Castleview), Conna, co Cork was built in 1791 by Robert Warren Gumbleton, facing across the River Bride to the ruins of the old Desmond castle of Mogeely. The original building was an imposing, three-storey mansion: the property included a walled fruit garden, coach house, stables and an impressive gateway with a lodge and a drive sweeping up to the house. The mansion has been demolished but hte gates remain.

On 18 December 1787, Robert Warren Gumbleton married Margaret Bowen of Oakgrove, Co. Cork. She was a descendant of Harry Bowen, a Colonel in Cromwell's army. They had three sons: Richard (who inherited the property, John Bowen and George.

Database ID: 22004

Fort William

Fort William, Lismore, co Waterford was built in 1836 for John Bowen Gumbleton

The following chronology for Fortwilliam was compiled by J Peter Swann

Year	Situation
????	Richard Gumbleton (III) of Castlerichard (formerly Ballygarron Castle) passes part of his estate, a separate townland of 110 acres, to his second son, William Conner Gumbleton (born ca. 1750), who calls the property Fortwilliam after himself. (It is not known whether there was already a house there, or if he built one.)
????	On William Conner’s death (unmarried), the property passes to his second eldest nephew, John Bowen Gumbleton, who (incidentally) marries Ann Everard in 1830.
1836	A new house is built on the property by John Bowen Gumbleton.
1858	John Bowen dies; his eldest surviving son, John Henry, is only 17, and still at school. The property is occupied by his daughter Anne and her husband Robert Beaufoy Hawley.
1861	Anne dies; John Henry graduates this year from Oxford aged 20.
1866	John Henry dies at sea; ownership passes 2/3 to his eldest sister Margaret Sarah Anne and 1/3 to his youngest surviving sister Frances who live (with their mother?) outside Torquay. ?Fortwilliam is occupied by tenants?
	Margaret dies while visiting Glanatore, and is buried in Lismore. Full ownership passes to Frances, who continues to live outside Torquay with her unmarried niece Mabel Currie as companion. ?Fortwilliam is occupied by tenants?
1910	A 21 year lease is granted to Richard Henry Keane, son of Sir Richard Keane
1912	Mabel Currie marries Edwin Foot.
	Frances dies, and ownership passes to John Currie, her late sister Meliora's youngest and only surviving son. John is serving under the Naval Attaché in St. Petersburg.
1932	John Currie sells Fortwilliam by auction, to meet business debts, to Mr Patrick Dunne, of Dungarvan.
ca 1944	Rt.Rev. Maxwell Homfray Maxwell-Gumbleton, g-g-nephew of JBG, returns the house to the family.
1946	Fortwilliam is purchased by the 2nd Duke or Duchess of Westminster as her house after their divorce.
1969	On the remarrige of the Duchess, Fortwilliam is purchased by Mr & Mrs Drummond Woolf.
????	Fortwilliam is sold to an American couple, Mr & Mrs Murray Mitchell.
????	Mr Mitchell dies, and Mrs Mitchell retains ownership.
	Mrs Mitchell dies, and Fortwilliam is again sold, this time to Mr & Mrs Ion Agnew.