Skibbereen:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Skibbereen,+Co.+Cork/@51.5559239,-9.2621303,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a5b8ee671cad:0x28dab316351c3ffb
Ballarat:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballarat+VIC,+Australia/@-37.5592153,143.8626583,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6ad1445430931879:0x40579a430a0b720
Mary Donovan (1831-1860), one of 25 female orphans from Skibbereen Workhouse who went to Australia on the Eliza Caroline she married and went to the Ballarat Goldfields.
Courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society by Maura Cahalane, 2009 Volume 5
Mary donovan Skibbereen Workouse to Ballarat Australia
Irish Female Emigration to New South Wales 1832, ‘The Committee for Promoting the Emigration of Single Women ‘, Cork to Sydney, Free Passage and some Australian Themes.
Sir Wiliam Foster Stawell, Co. Cork, to Solicitor General Victoria and Chief Justice 30 years, Sir Francis Murphy, Cork to Military Surgeon and Speaker Victoria Parliament, Australia.
Archbishop Mannix (1864-1963) of Melbourne, Australia, from Charleville, Co. Cork, attempted visit to Ireland 1920 refusal of British Government to allow him land, and later ‘Arrest’.
West Cork History 
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I am a great great grandson of Mary O’Donovan ( she married Michael James VC Cummins in 1852).
I will be in Skibbereen on the 15th April 2015 visiting places associated with my ancestors. I have researched Mary and Michel fairly fully and have with my brother Colin written on he subject.
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