Thomas Collin Banfield

Thomas Collins, "notorious womanizer" as he is still remembered today by the descendants. Thomas sees the dawn of the nineteenth century birthplace, and Banfield is the first of the modern era to follow the destinies of Europe in change. After the shocks of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the day after the Congress of Vienna Collin Thomas Banfield leaves Ireland and, on request of Ludwig I of Bavaria, he moved to Monaco, with the job of English teacher and tutor the royal household. Beautiful, educated and open-minded, Collin Thomas married in 1853, the church of St. Stephen in Vienna, Josephine von Frech, by bringing the latest chapters in the saga of Banfield, the branch of the family that leads straight through the streets of Austria to Trieste.

Estate Cavendish

Shinagh House - Leased by Thomas Banfield from the Devonshire estate in 1851 when it was valued at £18. Local sources suggest that the Banfields had resided there since at least the 1690s. This building is labelled Shinagh House on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but has disappeared by the 1890s when Shinagh House is shown some distance north-east of the original site at W457555. A business centre now occupies the site.

• Landed Estates Database

1845 Griffiths Valuation of Ireland

BANFIELD Thomas Collins , Esq. Shinagh Kilbrogan Cork