Post Napoleonic War Officers on Half Pay Bantry, West Cork 1824 and Lieutenant Daniel O’Donovan, Keelevenougue, last of the Irish Brigade d 1830s.

Pigot’s Directors lists,
Liutenant Stephen Bourke, Chief Constable, North-street,Lieutenant Thomas Bourke, Surgeon half Pay, Blackrock Road. (it may have been with him that JJ Callanan the poet stayed and composed ‘Gougan Barra’
Ensign William Carey, Ensign, Chapel Hill,
Liutenant James Cooke, Blackrock Road,
Liutenant David Kirby, Strand,
Liutenant William Mccarthy, Caheir Daniel,
Liutenant Daniel O’Donovan, Keelevenouge, area on northof Muintervara peninsula opposite beara where Carew embarked re Siege of Dunboy. He when he died it was said he was the last of the Irish Brigade. He was probably a relative of Timothy O’Donovan, of O’Donovan’s Cove, on the Peninsula a small landowner and one of the first Catholic Magistrates,
Liutenant H Pottinger, Main-street,
Liutenant William Ratcliffe, North-street.

the Bantry historian Paddy O’Keeffe said ther were 12 hald pay officers in Bantry in the period.

Before the French Revolution many of ther old Gaelic families sent their sons to serve in the various Conintental Irsig Brigades. This changed with the French Revolution dn the relaxing of the Penal Laws. From around 1790 many young men from this class joined the British Army or Navy.

In a somewhat disparaging remark in the KemnareEstate apers 1760 (online Irish Manscript Commission0, it was said of the Catholic Middle men that they rack rent their tenants, have no interest in improving only i getting daughters married, son sin the Irish brigade or as priests.

In the Bantry area nd kerry manu of the old families contineued on the Bntry and Kenmare and petty estates s agents or middle men.

Military Service some West Cork personnel:

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