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:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEY1U09tUm4zUWNvcFBmTllEdVZMaEE#gid=0

Registration for Apothecaries commenced around 1790 and continued until c 1972 when the new regime took effect.

In Slater’s Directory for 1824Mary Maybury, Main Street, is listed as a dealer in drugs. She may have been in business before registration took effect but she is the first woman I have come across in this capacity.

Susanna Williams, Main Street, 1825, Kanturk is listed as an Apothecary.

If Maybury is her maiden name she may be from Kerry where the Mayburys were prominent in Kenmare/Killarney and related to the Protestant Mahonys of Dromore castle..

Click to access 0027.pdf

Apothecaries Co. Cork (a work in progress)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdDA2VHduY1pNUHllbFFHbzJKRUhzU3c#gid=0

Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor, 1827, Some West Cork Schools

http://books.google.ie/books?id=t3QWAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA85&lpg=RA2-PA85&dq=john+kirby+bantry&source=bl&ots=SoV4PMlkBE&sig=uFamEQyYVcvsxr9HUiVj4gIYxPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=STn9U_RB6MXsBuLxgKgH&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=john%20kirby%20bantry&f=false

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15-0T1szKkpbk6NAGNEkr7xaRlJ0_hiwSYRhLVQxnfs8/edit#gid=0

Schools in West Cork 19th century

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/schools-in-bantryskibbereenschull-area-west-cork-19th-century/

Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor, 1827, Some West Cork Schools

http://books.google.ie/books?id=t3QWAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA85&lpg=RA2-PA85&dq=john+kirby+bantry&source=bl&ots=SoV4PMlkBE&sig=uFamEQyYVcvsxr9HUiVj4gIYxPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=STn9U_RB6MXsBuLxgKgH&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=john%20kirby%20bantry&f=false

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15-0T1szKkpbk6NAGNEkr7xaRlJ0_hiwSYRhLVQxnfs8/edit#gid=0

Weaving Vittory Linen Cloth in Dunmanway, West Cork, 1813 for Brazilian Slaves, William Norwood , Master of Charter School, family originally from Ballinascarthy when the moved they may have brought two Deasy brothers as ploughmen from whom Dunmanway Deasys are descended.

The 1813 Parliamentary Report in to the Charter Schools includes Dunmnway and gives a good account of William Norwood, the Master for 23 years, and his wife. The boys are put out as apprentices to weavers. An interesting account of the trade which for Vittory cloth supplied in Dunmanway was not thriving and was bought by Cork Merchants for Brazilian Slave trade.

Norwoods Magistrates:

William Norwood, Junior, 1862, Ballyhalwick, Dunmanway, Resident, £207, listed 1886-6.  Norwoods migrated to Dunmanway from Ballinascarthy, listed 1913.

William S. Norwood BL, 1909, Ballyhalwick, Dunmanway and 21 Lower Baggot St., Dublin, Resident, £207, listed 1886-6.  Norwoods migrated to Dunmanway from Ballinascarthy, listed 1913.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The Norwoods were a prominent Dunmanway family, it is believed they originated in Ballinascarthy and when they came to Dunmanay they brought with two Deasy men as ploughmen. The Dunmanway Deasys descent from this line.

Norwood Estates West Cork:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2586

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century, were envisaged by their supporters as the positive side to government policy towards the Catholics of Ireland. The various penal laws sought to restrict power to those with an interest in maintaining the Protestant (Anglican) state, while the charter schools were to open the scriptures to the children of the poor, educating them in the Protestant habits of loyalty to the Hanoverian crown, of industry and of good husbandry.

Weaving Vittory Linen Cloth in Dunmanway, West Cork, 1813 for Brazilian Slaves, William Norwood Master of Charter School, family originally from Ballinascarthy when the moved they brought tow Deasy brothers as ploughmen from whom Dunmanway Deasys are descended.

The 1813 parliamentary Report in to the Charter Schools includes Dunmanway and gives a good account of William Norwood the Master for 123 years and his wife. The boys are put ot as apprentices to weavers. An interesting account of the trade which for Vittory cloth supplied in Dunmanway was not thriving and was bought by Cork Merchants for Brazilian Slave trade.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The Norwoods were a prominent Dunmanway family, it is believed they originated in Ballinascarthy and when they came to Dumnawnay they brought with two Deasy men as ploughmen. The Dunmanway Deasys descent from this line.

Norwood Estates West Cork:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2586

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century, were envisaged by their supporters as the positive side to government policy towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The various penal laws sought to restrict power to those with an interest in maintaining the Protestant (Anglican) state, while the charter schools were to open the scriptures to the children of the poor, educating them in the Protestant habits of loyalty to the Hanoverian crown, of industry and of good husbandry.

High child mortality at Innishannon Charter School, Co. Cork early 19th century and unrelated parliamentary Report on school 1813.

Some time ago looking at burial records from Innishanon Church of Ireland I was struck at what appears an abnormal rate of child mortality at the Charter School. This is in the early decades of the 19th century. At the time it was common for children to die young and this is reflected in the local burial registers of other churches This in particular stands out and reminds one of the Besssboro mothers and babies home (formerly the house of the Pike family) in Blackrock in Cork.

Google books had the 1813 Parliamentary Report into the irish Charter Schools which includes Innishannon.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century, were envisaged by their supporters as the positive side to government policy towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The various penal laws sought to restrict power to those with an interest in maintaining the Protestant (Anglican) state, while the charter schools were to open the scriptures to the children of the poor, educating them in the Protestant habits of loyalty to the Hanoverian crown, of industry and of good husbandry.
In 1733-4 the Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Working Schools in Ireland was granted its charter. In the course of a century, over a million pounds in government funding was provided for the establishment and running of these schools. But the results fell far short of expectations.
Chapters on the origins of the schools, on their administration, their everyday routine and their curriculum, will reveal many reasons for their failure. Yet the charter schools were never intended to be the places of horror, the prototypes of Dotheboys Hall, that they so frequently became. How did it happen that, established with such high hopes for advancing the cause of the Reformation in Ireland, they ended by seriously discrediting it?
This study draws largely on manuscript sources, official and otherwise, in repositories in the England and Ireland. The picture that emerges is of an organisation insufficiently aware of the existence within its own system of those very phenomena central to its purpose: the frailty of human nature and the prevalence of Original Sin!

Book by Milne on schools

Abstract of will of Thomas Becher, Skerkin Island, West Cork dated 21st August 1705 listing some townlands in Schull, Caheragh, Skibbereen.

From Irish Manuscript Commission Online, originals lost in 1922.

Landed Estate Database:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2436

Threshing at Hollybrook, Skibbereen, West Cork with Marshall’s Gainsboro Steam Machine 1930s

Courtesy De La Salle Publication

The world of the Irish RM, Elizabeth Somerville ( 1858, Corfu – 1949) with the West Carbery Hounds early 1900s.

Note in the photographs the almost completed absence of trees unlike today.

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

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/s/Somerville_E/life.
htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerville_and_Ross