Hermitages on the Mizen, Muinter Bháire, Beara Peninsulas and the Island and the Deserts of Sinai, the Middle Eastern influences of the Book of Kells.

A little while ago I met  an Iraqi, in Ireland for over 40 years.  . I don’t know whether was Christian or Muslim  but he had a great knowledge of early Irish History. He said that the refuges of the early monks in the isolated peninsulas and island have a common tradition with the hermitages of the Middle Eastern Deserts such as Sinai. Some of the old church sites and graveyards are the locations of these hermitages and indeed they may pre date the coming of Christianity to Ireland.

He then drew attention to the calligraphy of the Book of Kells and other such books and said that the decoration was Middle Eastern in origin. He felt that there were connections between Ireland and the Middle lands at that period.

Re Peadar Ó hAnnracháin. Peadar was a wonderful Conradh na Gaeilge organiser throughout a number of counties including Cork and he wrote several books as Gaeilge. He also wrote on the Southern Star as ‘Cois Life’ in the 1940s and 1950s. In that period he worked in the Pigs and Bacon Commission in Dublin.  The column often wandered over long lost history, family relationships and there was a touch of the ‘Seanachaí’ about them.  The daughter of the Gaelic Scholar, landowner and businessman in Ballydehob Thomas Swanton, Crianlarich, gave him her father’s papers.

One of 13 children, 10 of whom survived and the majority emigrated.

In Colasite Chairbhe (owned by Judge Devoy, New York, later Tony O’Reilly, former CEO, Heinz Corporation).

Conventions on the naming of Foundling Children, 18th and 19th Century, from Dr. Jim Ryan

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Oileán ‘sea Cléire, Memories of Tráigh Chiaráin, A Cape Clear Sailorman, Lamentation for my Mother, The Fastnet, The Dance, Dánta de Pat the Poet Cotter (John K. Cotter) as ‘An Logainmníocht in Óileán Cléire.

Dr. Eamonn Lankford has written a number of books about Cape Clear. In this he takes each townland, numbers the fields, gives their names, histories and that of the people. He cites any known source a true work of art and scholarship which will endure and perfect template for other areas.

From Dr. Lankford: Re my : An Logainmníocht in Oileán Cléire- its on sale in An Siopa Leabhar, Conradh na Gaeilge, 6 Harcourt Street or online from myself via PayPal: See http://www.capeclearmuseum.ie or people can email me.

George Strickland Kingston (1807-1880), Bandon, Co. Cork, Attempted Canal Builder Bandon and Speaker of South Australian House of Assembly and his son Charles Cameron KIngston (1850-1908)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strickland_Kingston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cameron_Kingston

Charles in 1897
1897

Visit of South Australian Premier

C C Kingston – visiting G K Sherlock, his cousin. Addressed a town meeting – comments on Irish capacity for government

Bandon

Others present: R W Sherlock, Thomas Scanlon, T K Sullivan, J Walsh, J Buckley, H Desmond, J O’Driscoll, P Butler, M Walsh, J Crowley, J McDonnell, R Griffith, R E Sergeant, G A Armstrong.

From An Lár TV Irish Community, Culture and Heritage Group, Moya Brennan sings:

The oldest Irish carol on record, dated back to the 12th century’ http://t.co/5xNHtrneBS

From Beare family web site:

http://www.bearefamilytree.com/bandonbeares.html

Bandon, Co. Cork:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0xa00c7a99731fbb0

New Brunswick:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/New+Bandon,+NB,+Canada/@47.7199523,-61.6996517,7z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4c98ea731cb1f5f3:0xfd65df456c161a4

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/newspapers_NZ.htm

In relation to Lisheenacreagh, the enclosed shows the farm and building probably of the period. The Daly family were Church of Ireland not Methodist, but you get some idea of the surrounding countryside.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/early-19th-century-farmhouse-and-outbuildings-with-12-pane-detail-in-window-at-lisheenacreagh-upper-lisin-na-creichelittle-fort-of-the-cattle-spoil-ballydehob-west-cork/