The Commission was investigating the state of the fishing industry on the south west coast.  One of the Commissioners was Redmond Barry, an inspector of fisheries.  He was a small landlord, a Catholic from Glandore who worked tirelessly to improve agricultural and general condition in the area.

Among those who gave evidence was John Young then 87 whose family had been extensively involved in the industry.  There were a number of seine owners and owners of a hooker. The Youngs had been involved in fishing in Bantry for generations and Richard Young gave evidence that his great grandfather had lost £2,000 when a Finance House in Bilbao had collapsed. This may have been the Consulado de Bilbao in 1651

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Timothy O’Donovan, a small landlord and Magistrate of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, gave a written submission on the futility of certain controls as not being effective and only resulting in litigation.

O’Donovans:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/11292/eppi_pages/151986

Timothy O’Donovan (1790-1874), 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, in ruins 1875, Durrus, listed 1838, son of Richard Esq. and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. 1820.  Memorial to Lord Lieutenant by William Swanton, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork. High Constable (Rate and Tax Collector), Barony of West Carbery For Relief on Losses Caused to Him in Banking Collapse when He had transmitted Due Amount to County Treasurer, Leslies, Stephen and Roches Bank, Supported by Lord Bantry and Magistrates Timothy O’Donovan (Durrus), William Hull (Schull), Richard Townsend (Skibbereen), Rev. Edward Jones Alcock (Durrus), Nathaniel Evanson (Durrus), Robert Kenny (Bantry).  In 1823 he applied for relief of poor of Ballydehob, which he had founded. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Correspondent with Antiquarian Dr. John O’Donovan re O’Donovans of Carbery. Brother of Dr O’Donovan and Richard O’Donovan J.P. and uncle of Richard O’Donovan J.P.. His son’s wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of his wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water Park in the County of Cork.  Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch. The grandson the present (1860) Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere.  Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837.  In 1838 in the Liberal interest where at Bantry voter registration 15 were registered as opposed to 6 ‘Orangemen’ the tenants of Timothy O’Donovan J.P. were chiefly among those who registered.  Among these were probably McCarthys of Tulig later prominent in Nationalist politics of whom John McCarthy (1859-1931) became a leading politician in Nebraska and wrote a poem in praise of Timothy O’Donovan.  Attended Great Meeting in Bantry 1840 re Poor Laws.  Chaired 1846 distress meeting Bantry on proposition of Father Michael Barry PP Bantry. Landlord and political organiser. Member Election Committee, Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty (later Attorney General) 1855  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen. Juror Cork Spring Assizes 1863. Land record, 1870, Kate O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, 1,940 acres and Reps Timothy O’Donovan 1,940 acres. 1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818 Probate to daughter Mrs Anne Barry, widow, effects £2,000, attended 8, Grand Jury Presentments

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The Hollow Blade Company of London and Land in Reendonegan, Bantry, Co. Cork 1710

The Hollow Blade Company of London and Land in Reendonegan, Bantry, Co. Cork 1710, the Hutchinson Magistrates.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Reenydonagan,+Co.+Cork/@51.7093811,-9.4486432,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450b99e737ec9d:0xc95402708f3b2e25

The Hollow Blade Company (they had funded Parliament’s 1680s campaign against the English King and these lands were part of their reward)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Sword_Blade_Company

Pre Hollow Blade tenure

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9809/eppi_pages/214817
http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9809/eppi_pages/214820

was originally set up to manufacture swords in the 1690s but shortly afterwards was used as a shell to engage in banking.  It would have been the Anglo-Irish Bank of the early 18th century and failed in a spectacular fashion with its involvement with the South Sea Bubble .

It acquired various Irish properties in 1703

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1129  including property at Reendonegan, Bantry.  This townland has land which is very fertile and much sought after abutting theBay, atthe time access to seaweed and sea sand would be a contributor to value.

This was leased to Henry Hutchinson of Bantry and is recorded in the Registry of Deeds  1714 Vol 13 page 185 Memorial Number 5543 to Hutchinson a “Protestant’ for £266.

The Hutchinson clan was prominent in the Bantry area in the 18th century and one of their houses was at Blackrock now the location of Bantry House.  There was keen competition in the period between them and the White later the Earl of Bantry family.

The Macroom Hutchisons are probably related to the Bantry family.

Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus, Reendonegan 1843, Durrus, Bantry d 1851, Hutchinson estate in Durrus/Bantry sold by landed Estates Court, no known relations.  1788 map of Carbery Estate indicated owner of lands Hugh Hutchinson who may be father.  1840 Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee,  Magistrate at 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law.  Board of Guardians Bantry 1844.   Presentment sessions Ballydehob 1845. A 1847, landlord and magistrate, no less a personage than Minor Hutcheson, was indicted for assault and battery committed against McCarthy, a tenant, Letterlickey,  who paid the sum of fifty pounds rent. Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846. Avenue planted with contemplated house overlooking Bantry Bay never built.  May be distantly related to Ballydehob Swanton family.  May be an 18th century old house in nearby Aughogheen remains of old flowers and field name.  1851 rental £9,000, encumbrances £21,000, arrears £6,300.  Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs.  Estate sold for 28 and a half times rent.  1854 partly planted with trees. 1870 Lord Clinton, 1890 Lord C P P Clinton. 1843 listed as resident Reendonegah House with demesne 23 acres for letting contact Jeremiah O’Connell Esq., Bantry.

Emanuel Hutchinson, 1747, Codrum, Macroom

Hugh Hutchinson, 1710

Hugh Hutchinson, 1774, Holly Hill, Possibly Bantry. Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellon’, Cork, 1766Massey Hutchinson Esq., 1770, Cordrum, Macroom

Robert Hutchinson, 1779, Codrum, Macroom

Samuel Hutchinson, 1740, Bantry

These are from maps in the National Archives in Dublin filed under Manuscripts

https://picasaweb.google.com/100968344231272482288/ODonovanEstatesBawnlahan1727

Down Survey 1665-68

Drinagh

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Drinagh

Castlehaven

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Castlehaven

Myross/Bawnlahan

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Miros