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  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
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  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Memorial of Magistrates of South West Cork, 1822 re Whiteboy Disturbances

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9528/eppi_pages/210724

Ballyvourney (Baile Bhuirne), Co. Cork, Church of Ireland, Marriages, 1845-1935

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballyvourney,+Co.+Cork/@51.9454917,-9.1640894,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48451e3c05829a7d:0x2600c7a819bb3a11

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdFh3WjlWX0RmdF9TNV9rVjNDQ19YYlE#gid=0

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL), Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

28 Friday Jun 2013

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1-IMG_4510In 1837 a Parliamentary Commission took evidence on the operation of Manor Courts.  It heard evidence from John Jagoe.  He was one of the main witnesses.  He was from Bantry a Fish Merchant, had sat on a Fisheries Commission had engaged in correspondence with Dublin Castle on fisheries and non-denominatinal education.  His mother was Young of the Bantry Fishing family who propably held the property, a former mill, now the Maritime Hotel on lease from the Bantry Estate. His father originated in Kilcolman, Dunmanway. At one stage he was reputed to have been a shopkeeper on the Bandon Road/Barrack St., Cork. His only son John became a Barrister. He was admitted to Grey’s Inns London in 1835 aged 34.

His wife was O’Connor may be related to Dr. Bryan O’Connor of Bantry sent to Botany Bay in Australia with Alexander McCarthy Barrister for being United Irishman.  He had three brother officers in the British Army.

He wrote a book on Irish Fishery law, 1843:

 

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In his evidence he said that there were Manor Courts in Bantry  and Leamcon (Schull). They were generally held in public houses wiht a jury drawn from a low class.  The Seneshal was drawn from  a drunken class and paid £50-£80 per annum.  His evidence suggested that the jury demanded cash or whiskey from the successful party.  This was referred to as a ‘cob’.  The jury did not retire but openly debated the verdict and onlookers could hear and influence.  The more respectable class of person avoided the Manor Courts preferring the Session Courts which sat in Bantry once a year.

He had attended a Manor Court in Oughterard, Co. Galway which was entirely in Irish, he himself had only a little Irish.  He was the father of barrister John Jagoe mother O’Connor.

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http://books.google.ie/books?id=-0oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=john+jagoe+barrister&source=bl&ots=yKBtL6BuGN&sig=aymhZjMAowH6nfIPebPt780bTcU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9DrNUfrqNs6Q7AbsvIHYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=john%20jagoe%20barrister&f=false

John Jagoe was also a Fisheries Commissioner and took evidence sitting in Donegal.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=SHFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=john+jagoe+fisheries&source=bl&ots=PjYHAjP4Qq&sig=A_N7F7gM8EgtLEuvsZ5XrmO5LyM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f9nPUf-cCe6X7Qa5goC4Bg&redir_esc=y

He was the father of John Jagoe barrister his only son. Jago was in court appearing for an evicted O’Donovan family of long standing c 1846 who had expected their lease to be renewed by the Kenmare Estate.

He may also have been the mother of Esther Jagoe. She was the mother (Father Desmond Bantry Attorney) of Ann Marie Desmond (Mother Benigna) who set up education for women in Townsville Australia:
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/desmond-anna-maria-5962

Death of Mrs. Mary Spillane, aged 112 in 1899, and Mr. William Coveney aged 115, remembered French in Bantry Bay.

27 Thursday Jun 2013

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For Mr. Coveney 4th June 1898 Freeman’s Journal, Sydney.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115386798?searchTerm=Bantry&searchLimits=exactPhrase|||anyWords

 

 

For Mrs. Spillane, Freeman’s Journal, Sydney, Australia 25th March 1899 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/12405167?zoomLevel=1&searchTerm=Bantry&searchLimits=exactPhrase|||anyWords

Glengariff, Co. Cork Church of Ireland Marriages 1864-1955

21 Friday Jun 2013

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdE9yRHVkdUUwX1l0WWRERWRGSkdtVmc#gid=0

Davy Crockett, Rev. James Fontaine, Battle of the Alamo and the Huguenots of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork.

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castletown-Bearhaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.6515079,-9.919085,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48457e4fcf1360df:0x15e0b4d55c1c38fd

Davy Crocket’s ancestor James Crockett born c 1674 (may be later) was the child of one of the 13 Huguenots who worked with James Fontaine in a short lived fishing enterprise around the late 17th century  to the early 1700s.  He was  Louise de Sax Crocketagne (Anglicised to Crockett) mother Antoine.  The fishery was in the Castletown/Dursey area. Rev. Fontaine’s settlement was at Bank Harbour, 5 miles east of Castle Town Bere. The road down to the pier is the L8952.

Davy Crockett’s ancestor James Crockett born c 1674 (may be later) was the child of one of the 13 Huguenots who worked with James Fontaine in a short lived fishing enterprise around the late 17th century  to the early 1700s.  He was  Louise de Sax Crocketagne (Anglicised to Crockett) mother Antoine.  The fishery was in the Castletown/Dursey area.

From Bishop Dive Downes Tour 1700:

Interestingly Fontaine (James Fountain 1702) and his son James Fountaine Junior (1710) were appointed Justices of the Peace for Co. Cork suggesting that they were well connected.

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Rev. Fontaine’s memoir, last chapter re West Cork

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_the_Huguenots_or_Memoirs_of_a_French_Refugee_Family/15

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/c/Mary-Wacaster-Tx/FILE/0003page.html

Ancestor of Davy Crockett, Battle of the Alamo, http://www.writework.com/essay/biography-davy-crockett-and-battle-alamo

A Huguenot settlement was established here about the year 1700. The organiser of the project was Jacques de la Fontaine, the son of a French Protestant minister. This adventurer came to England and carried on some small business for a time. He then became a Protestant clergyman, and in the year 1694 came to Cork, where he ministered to a small Huguenot congregation. He heard of the fisheries at Berehaven, which he thought offered a wider field for the exercise of his energies. He repaired hither, rented some land and houses, brought over his colonists, and formed a fishing company. He was soon appointed Justice of the Peace, and in this capacity became most obnoxious to the natives.

He made himself a busy tool of the Government, and interfered in matters which scarcely concerned him. Smuggling was carried on largely at the time, and he thought he would put a stop to it. The task was beyond his powers and brought him to grief. He was fully aware of the enmity of the natives and of those engaged in the smuggling trade, and he made preparations to protect himself in case he should be attacked. Having some knowledge of erecting forts, he raised earthworks around his residence, which got the name of the ” Sodfort.” His foresight was soon justified, for in June, 1704, a French privateer entered Bantry Bay and proceeded to storm the Sod Fort. Fontaine stood well to his guns, and after an engagement that lasted from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, the privateer withdrew with the loss of three killed and seven wounded. The Government granted him a pension of five shillings a day for his skill and bravery in the action, and he was supplied with five guns which he was authorised to mount on the battery.

Frederick Peel Eldon Potter, editor of the Skibbereen Eagle, and ‘Keeping an Eye on the Russian Tsar’, Ernest Blythe, Editor Southern Star, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 1918

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Grave of Potter, Editor and owner of Skibbereen Eagle author of “keeping an Eye on the Tsar of Russia’

http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Gravestone.aspx?GravestoneID=653

http://www.southernstar.ie/Community/My-Own-Town/Ernests-Blythes-term-as-editor-of-The-Southern-Star-20022013.htm

Ward and Lock’s Guide to Cork and neighborhood including Killarney and Bantry c 1892

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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From University of Villa Nova, Joe McGarrity collection (from Carrickmore, Co.Tyrone associated with IRB in USA and later promoter of the Irish Sweeps associate of Dr. Patrick McCartan 1878-1963 who ran for Presidency of Ireland 1945.

 

http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:128579

Letter from Florence McCarthy 1609 re building of Castles at Donemark, Bantry, Co.Cork 1215

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Donemark,+Co.+Cork/@51.6967895,-9.44044,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450bbaf6a63bed:0x5730c094c9aaf311

From University College Cork’s electronic texts

 

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E600001-030/text001.html

 

Donemark is a short distance from Bantry.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/03/14/16th-october1861-donemark-bantry-16-acres-to-let-prime-land-suitable-for-potatoes-or-corn-four-boats-of-sea-sand-will-be-given/

https://durrushistory.com/2011/12/07/petition-of-maurice-de-carrreu-carrew-to-king-of-england-c1300-including-donemark-bantry/

Thomas Young Cotter 1805-1882, Bantry born First Colonial Surgeon 1835, South Australia. Related to Bantry Young Family, Fish Merchants.

17 Monday Jun 2013

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Looking up the Church of Ireland records for Bantry I came across Thomas Young Cotter, born in Bantry in 1805.  His father Richard may have been born on Cloyne, Co. Cork and he married Ellen Young in London.  It is possible that she was of the Bantry Young family who were prominent merchants and engaged in the fishing business.  The Youngs are probably in Bantry since at least 1600. Richard was a purser with the Royal Navy in the West Indies and was late joined there by Thomas.

The Bantry Youngs connect DNA wise with the Gosnells, Evans of Ardrala, Youngs of Aughadown and probably Crowleys and O’Sullivan Pritties of Ballyourane, Caheragh.

Foe early Cork Medicals see entries for Bantry under Youngs (Dr. Cotter’s mother people):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Xdk_bdkpBSVHaTP45WxSY0r4v6-kluvlPz7ZynQxfU/edit#gid=0

Thomas’s medical history is documented in a biography

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cotter-thomas-young-1923

He had a literary turn editing the South Australian Magazine and The South Australian Almanac.  His father had earlier published ‘Sketches of Bermuda’

From Bryan Richards

According to the Muster List of HMS Cerberus, Richard Cotter was born Abt. 1776 Cloyne County Cork. I now discovered Richard and Ellen Young married twice, once in Bantry and again at what is now known as the Queen’s Chapel Savoy London. Another son Pownal Pellew Cotter was Master of HMS Terror on the 1841 expedition and Cape Cotter in Antarctica was named after him. My wife is descended from his another son James MacNamara Cotter. Ellen is most likely the daughter of Thomas Young a Fish Curer of Main Street Bantry. Ellen died in Bantry 1870, one of her daughters was named Jane Lucy Cotter and when widowed she rented from a John Lucy. Latest theory is her mother was Jane Young nee Lucy.

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