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  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
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  • 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
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  • 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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Calendars of Wills and Administration, 1858-1922 as a Genealogical aid and indicator of Wealth a Preliminary Snapshot in of the Bantry, Durrus, Caheragh and Skibbereen areas, West Cork:

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Calendars of Wills and Administration, 1858-1922 as a Genealogical aid and indicator of Wealth a Preliminary Snapshotin of the Bantry, Durrus, Caheragh and Skibbereen areas, West Cork:

http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/index.jsp

Even though most of the original Probate records were destroyed in the Public Records in Dublin in 1922 the summaries which are now online and are useful. Apart from looking up a relevant name it is possible to look up a name as a beneficiary which often throws up unexpected connections.

The ordinary small farmer, or tradesman do not feature not being possessed of enough property on death to merit a Probate application. In West Cork this applies to the Protestant as well as Catholic parts of the community.

As a preliminary snapshot for the area some trends emerge. This is based on some Church of Ireland and Methodist records but the same trend for Catholics (available on irishgenealogy.ie, Church Records) would probably emerge except for the large landowners,

One of the largest Probates is that of the 2nd (1868) and 3rd (1884) Earls of Bantry with fortunes in the range of present day money of €20-30 million. It is surprising that in 1890 Lord Ardilaun one of the Guinnessses related to the Whites was complaining that the Estate was running a chronic loss of around £2,000 a year. The extensive Hutchins/Newburghs family of Ardnagashel and Ballylickey come in with reasonable individual fortunes. There is some elememt of living in Dublin or London as well as the house in Cork. Many of the families have military or church connections.

Lesser land owners and land Agents such as branches of the Swanton and Sweetnam families often leave monies in the range of £1,000 to £3,000.

The Bechers/Beechers and Hulls once extensive magnates hardly feature perhaps what ver fortune they had was in England or more likely just dissipated over time. I have not yet looked at the Townsends or O’Donovans.

Typically the middling or strong tenant farmers leave in the range of £100 to £250. In the local area they are regarded as big farmers often having servants but this is a poor area not destitute like West Donegal and the fortunes are small beer compared to those arising from the good land of East Cork and other arable areas.

The town Merchants feature, William Warner, Pioneering Butter Merchant who by 1917 was in Cork left £17,000 the same range again in Cork as one of the Skuses probably originally from the area. A typical fortune by a merchant would be in the ranhe of £500 to £1,200.

A feature is the number of spinsters who feature where did the men go?

From 1910 the vast bulk of farm land in Ireland was vested in the former tenant farmers. From then on for conveyancing purposes a grant on death is often necessary and some of the ‘effects’ are quite small.

There are some entries in the following burial records from c 1860:

Bantry:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdERmc3BGbFczVFZqN0FTUkJtU1RsU2c#gid=0

Caheragh:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdHlUQkxQa2daMjA4SUo1UzJlLWpLVmc#gid=0

Durrus:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdFVjUmd4bFVZUWtaMW8xRTE3aWpfT3c#gid=0

Skibbereen:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdHUxMzgzZlRZaDFrRFhsWU1BcXljY1E#gid=0

1803, account by J.W. De la Cour, Treasurer, Cork Grand Jury for money raised for Public Works and for Militia (Bounty for Militia Soldiers and Family Subsistence Money) 1793-1803:

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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1803, account by J.W. De la Cour, Treasurer, Cork Grand Jury for money raised for Public Works and for Militia (Bounty for Militia Soldiers and Family Subsistence Money) 1793-1803:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/8322/page/196181

1829, Grant by Grand Jury, for road £2,101 and bridges £2,738 from Bantry to Castlwtownbere, Co. Cork

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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1829, Grant by Grand Jury, for road £2,101 and bridges £2,738 from Bantry to Castlwtownbere, Co. Cork

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10229/page/226454

1847 Report on memorial presented to the Lords of the Admiralty with regard to the Harbours and Lighthouses of Co. Cork mentioning the catchment of the River Bandon, Innishannon, Kinsale Fishery and Harbour, Courtmacsherry, Ilen Skibbereen, Baltimore, Schull, Carrig-na-Melia off Castle Island, the Cosheen Fishing and Mining Company rescue of East India Man ‘Charlotte’ by Cosheen fishermen.

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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1847 Report on memorial presented to the Lords of the Admiralty with regard to the Harbours and Lighthouses of Co. Cork mentioning the catchment of the River Bandon, Innishannon, Kinsale Fishery and Harbour, Courtmacsherry, Ilen Skibbereen, Baltimore, Schull, Carrig-na-Melia off Castle Island, the Cosheen Fishing and Mining Company rescue of East India Man ‘Charlotte’ by Cosheen fishermen.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/12615/page/316582

1827 Vestry Returns for Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, Church of Ireland (the State Church).

25 Friday Jul 2014

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1827 Vestry Returns for Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, Church of Ireland (the State Church).

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10167/page/224870

Local Loan advances Co. Cork, 1839, 1843

25 Friday Jul 2014

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Local Loan advances Co. Cork, 1839, 1843

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11454/page/266876

Full schedule by area, amount of loans and numbers with local person responsible usually Clergyman or Magistrate

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11834/page/278046

These are probably the Local Loans that the RIC was asked to check up on in 1850

Durrus:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/irish-reproductive-loan-records-1853-durrus-co-cork-area/

Schull:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/schull/

Grand July Presentments of County Treasurer, Co. Cork, James De La Cour, Summer 1818, including Dispensaries for Clonakilty, Crookstown, Bantry, Ballydehob, Dunmanway, Macroom.

25 Friday Jul 2014

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Grand July Presentments of County Treasurer, Co. Cork, James De La Cour, Summer 1818, including Dispensaries for Clonakilty, Crookstown, Bantry, Ballydehob, Dunmanway, Macroom.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10227/page/226423

Tolls claimed by the Earl of Bantry 28th June 1818 collected by Cornelius Mahoney together with Masseytown (Macroom), Timoleague, Clonakilty, Bandon, Enniskeane, Ballylboy (Dunmanway), Castletown Kinneagh, Kinsale, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Co. Cork.

25 Friday Jul 2014

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Tolls claimed by the Earl of Bantry 28th June 1818 collected by Cornelius Mahoney together with Masseytown (Macroom), Timoleague, Clonakilty, Bandon, Enniskeane, Ballyboy (Dunmanway), Castletown Kinneagh, Kinsale, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Co. Cork.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9679/page/212998

Jails, Co, Cork, 1818, including Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Rosscarbery, including Jurisdiction, Committals, Numbers, Debtors

25 Friday Jul 2014

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Jails, Co, Cork, 1818, including Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Rosscarbery, including Jurisdiction, Committals, Numbers, Debtors

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9208/page/206085

From University Od Southampton, Digitalisation project Irish parliamentary Records

Linen Weaving Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1889, with the assistance of Sir William Ewart, Belfast.

22 Tuesday Jul 2014

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Courtesy De La Salle, Skibbereen, publication.

Flax West Cork
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/flax-growing-in-west-cork/

Sir Richard Cox, Flax,

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/3264/

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