Daniel O’Connell in Folklore

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/invitation-by-henry-townsend-dl-1839-on-behalf-of-the-reformers-of-the-west-riding-of-cork-to-daniel-oconnel-mp-to-dinner-in-bandon-co-cork-with-200-liberals-in-attendance-including-francis-ber/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/election-of-daniel-oconnell-8th-july-1828-from-diary-of-amhlaoimh-o-suilleabhain-humphrey-osullivan/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/daniel-oconnell-addresses-monster-meeting-of-500000-on-repeal-in-skibbereen-june-1843/

‘The Hour of Death’, recorded 1933 from Muircheartach Ó Sé, Adrigole, Beara Peninsula.

An t-Amhráinín Síodmamín, The Bandon Buck goes to Kinsale, probably pre 1800 translated from Irish by James N Healy.

Around the area there are remnants of flax holes used to ret the flax. There are two on Jimmy Swanton’s lands alongside the Durrus River and there was another in Francie Hickey’s old holding at Rusheeniska, as well as a number of flax ponds in Brahalish. There is a well in Dunbeacon known as tobar a’lin (the well of the flax). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars it is estimated that there were between 20,000 and 60,000 employed in various flax enterprises, and when contraction came from mechanised flax spinning in 1826 it had serious consequences for the area. The advent of cotton also reduced demand for linen. Emigration of reasonably prosperous Protestant small holders commenced, later followed by Catholics. In evidence to the Devon Commission taken in Bantry in 1844, it is clear that there was significant emigration and the poorer classes were impeded due to the lack of money for the fare. When protective duties ended in 1820 this spelled the end of flax growing.
In the census of 1821, Richard Cole, aged 49, of Coolcoulaghta is returned as a farmer and weaver, and in the census of 1841 Gregory Cole, aged 46, of Brahalish is a linen weaver. Elements of a textile industry lingered on, as the Marriage Register of St. James’s Church Durrus lists James and John Croston, Brahalish and John Croston Moulanish as weavers in 1846, Mary Dulelow, Crottees cordweaver, Gregory Cole, Coolculaghta, weaver 1849 and John and Daniel Leary, ropemakers, Kilveenogue 1850. In the folklore around Kilcrohane there are references to the collection of urine which was used in freize making. The 1901 Census records two Johnson families in the village described as wool and lined weavers.

‘The Coming of Oscar’, collected 1944 from Amhloih Ó Loinsigh (Humphrey Lynch), farmer, Cúil Aodha, Ballyvourney, Co Cork

The use of seaweed in farming, Edible seaweeds, rights to harvest seaweed attaching to land in townlands of Brahalish and Rossmoe, Durrus, West Cork, Rev. Caesar Otway 1822 on seaweed use Mount Gabriel/Dunbeacon.

Some farms in these townlands had the right to harvest seaweed from designated spots on the shore some markedn by rocks and given names. The same may also be the case for other townlands near the shore. This is in addition to turbidly rights (the entitlement to harvest turf) and commonage where it applied.

Courtesy Four Courts Press

Caesar Otway 1822 commenting on seaweed use near MountGabriel/Dunbeacon.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/caesar-otway-skull-to-bantry-1822/

Carraigín, edible seaweed, moss
Duileasc, edible sea weed
Meadhbhán, dilisk,edible seaweed

Glengariff, Sir Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902)

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

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Fineen (Finín) O’Driscoll, The Rover, Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830-1883)

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

Cleena, landing of the Queen of the Fairies in South Munster at Glandore Harbour, West Cork, Tonn-Cleane by Ellen Young (1867-1956) Chair of Irish Myth and Lore at the University of California Berkeley, Godmother to the Dunites.

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

The Buachallán Bawn, Spinning Duet, probably pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool

pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool