Successful action in compelling the Fiat of the Attorney General in action to injunct the closure of West Cork Railway System March 1961 untimately unsuccessful as it was permitted under Transport Act of 1956.

Courtesy Donal O’Sullivan’s history of Caheraagh Parish:

West Cork Railways closure Legal Action

The last trains left Bantry, Skibereen, Drimleague on Good Friday 1961. Some of the rails ended up in Nigeria.

Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), Carbery Poet, ‘The Silver tongue of Munster’, born into an Ireland of Broken Abbeys, Roofless Churches, Battered castles, Burnt Houses, Deserted Villages united in common Poverty.

Courtesy of Skibbereen District Historical Society, by eminent scholar Eugene Daly.

Seán Ó Coileáin (1754-1817)

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/sean-o-coileain-john-collins-1754-1816-poet-of-carbery-co-cork/

From Bantry Historian Paddy o’Keeffe.

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Possible origin of Bowl Playing in West Cork from North of England Weavers via Armagh, Bowling in Caheragh and Mick Barry training UCC Bowling Team 1970s

Thanks to Skibbereen District Historical Society James Caverly:

https://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=5939

Caheragh:

Caheragh Bowling

Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England.

Mick Barry lofted a 28oz bowl over the Viaduct outside Cork, there may have been others after but he is the first documented. In the 1970s he was the Head Gardner in University College Cork and trained the College Bowling Team at lunchtime in what was then a car park the end of Horgan’s Buildings. At the time UCC Bowling Club (An Ból Cumann) may have been unique in having women members.

Wrecks West Cork 18th Century, Southwell, Beecher and Townsend families, 1702 seizure of French Vessel 5 passengers suspected of being Catholic Priests, Vice Admiralty Court sitting in Skibbereen 1709.

Courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society bt Dr. Toby Bernard (an expert on Co. Cork 17th and 18th century):

Wrecks West Cork 18th century

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/staff/profile/barnard.html
https://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=5939

The Registers of the Cork City Meeting of the Quakers (Births Marriages and Deaths) 1653-1859 and other records from Dr. Albert Casey’s Collection.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/5978186515820804801

Ballyvourney (Baile Bhúirne Town of the Beloved) Church of Ireland Marriages 1845-1935 Clondrohid (Cluain Droichead Meadow by the Bridge) 1848-1913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyvourney, from Dr. Casey’s collection.

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

From Dr. Casey’s collection Kilcrea Abbey

Lo Arthur Leary Generous Brave Handsome Slain in his Bloom lies in this humble Grave Died the 4th May 1771 aged 26 years Having Served the Empress Maria Teresa as Captain of the Hungarian Hussars he returned home to be treacherously shot by order of the British Government his sole crime being that he resisted to part with a favourite horse for the sum of …(£5)…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghaire

From Dr. Albert Casey’s collection

Herbal Cures cobwebs to stop bleeding 1930s Folklore Collection on Traditional Cures, Sweathouses, Ancient Irish Herbal Tracts, Traditional Medical Families, herbal Science Degree CIT.

This excellent article by Rosario Kingston (she developed the degree in CIT and practices in Skibbereen)

Herbal Curesis in the Skibbereen and District Historical JOurnal 2009, Vol 5

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5824153,-9.6813266,16z?hl=en

O’Daly Bardic School 13th to 17th century, Dromnea, Kilcrohane West Cork, pupils including two sons of the King of Spain, descendants founding Daly’s Distillery, Cork.  Former Irish President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh may also be of the family.

Some archaeological work has been done on the site.  Further work is due to commence in late 2016.

O’Daly Bardic School, Kilrohane

By Eugene Daly, courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society 2009 Vol. 5