CO-KSNG-0276

Record Date: 
8 October 2013
Graveyard: 
Newberry (Kilshannig)
Exact wording of epitaph: 

The Burial Place

Richd Newman ESQ

who died Feb 1775 agd.

69 years

This Tomb was erected by Mrs

Catherine Newman to his 

memory June 1775

1789 March 1st Adam Newman ESQ

of Newberry. Octbr 7th  Mrs Catherine

Newman late of Newberry,

1793 June 4th Miss Grace Newman

Daughter of the late Adam Newman ESQ

Mary his wife 1797 Septr 4th Mrs

Newman Relict of the late A. Newman

1800 Decbr 22nd The Revrd Henry Newman

of Newberry. Rector Vicar of Kilshannig

1816 Novr 20th  Lieut Colonel Charles Farraine

Newman 1819 Octbr 16th John Newman ESQ

Dromore House aged 83 yrs 1829 Nov 1st

Mrs Elizabeth Savage Newman 1830 Feb

1st Captain Richard Newman aged 51 yrs

Memorial Type: 
Ledger Slab
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Number of people commemorated: 
10
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1775
Age: 
69
Address: 
Newberry Mallow
Name: 
Mrs Catherine
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1789
Address: 
Newberry
Name: 
Adam
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1789
Address: 
Newberry
Name: 
Miss Grace
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1793
Name: 
Mary
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1797
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Henry
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1800
Address: 
Newberry
Title: 
Lieutenant Colonel
Name: 
Charles Farraine
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
20
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1816
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1819
Age: 
83
Address: 
Dromore House, Dromahane
Name: 
Mrs Elizabeth
Surname: 
Savage Newman
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1829
Title: 
Captain
Name: 
Richard
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1830
Age: 
51
Notes: 

 A Cromwellian officer named Richard Kyrle was granted about 1,500 acres, including Dromineen Castle ,confiscated from the O Callaghan Clan  following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He became governor of the State of Carolina in 1683 and in 1686 the Newman family took over his estate. They lived in the castle for a few years while building a new dwelling  on the site of the present day Kilshannig House. Their estate was elevated to Manorial status by King James 2nd  and they created a new townland named Newbury in honour of some family members killed at the first battle of Newbury in 1643 during the the English civil war. This dwelling and estate became known as The Manor of Newbury and they rebuilt the dwelling  in 1734 to be more in keeping with its manorial status. The Newmans purchased a further 5,000 acres of land from Gortroe village to Drommahane  from the British Government, mainly O Callaghan property, for the princely sum of £60. They brought in farmers from their homeland in England to work their new property and this accounts for many of the non Irish names buried in this graveyard. Another branch of the family built a new mansion in nearby Dromore townland in c.1784.  The title,Newberry Manor, was transferred to this mansion in  1796 which is now part of the HSE's Nazareth House nursing home . It was partly burned down by the IRA in 1921 but the Newmans restored it.

When their estate was elevated to manorial status they were allowed to build a jail, appoint a bailif/judge and hold a regular court sitting to try minor offences. They also constructed a stocks and whipping post beside the left pier of the entrance gates to Kilshannig graveyard in c. 1730 and this was the last such punishment  post to survive in North Cork. In 1816 Colonel Newman was murdered  during a robery in Newberry House after collecting the estates rents.  The family moved out of the original house in Newbury  about 1850 and it became the glebe house for rector Henry Swanzy of Kilshannig protestant parish. A new glebe house was constructed in the late 1800's, the Foott family took possession of Newbury House and renamed it Kilshannig house in c 1900 AD. They   continue to live there. Newbury has been spelled, Newberry, for generations.