Gumbelton Estates including areas of Kilcrohane and Durrus West Cork, William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911) garden at Belgrove, Great Island, Cobh, Co. Cork and donation of Botanic library to Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin.

It Is likely that the Gumbletons acquired parts f the former Boyle/Devonshire estates fro low rents through the intervention of their relations the Conner/Connors/O’Connors of bandon/Manch. They were agent to the Devonshire estate until they got their P45 for favouring relations to the detriment of the estate.

Gumbleton Magistrates:

Richard Gumbletown, Junior, 1735, Marshtown, Fermoy

Henry C. Gumbleton, Pre 1831

William Edward Gumbelton, 1866, Belgrove, Queenstown, Resident, £141

Friendly Cove:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2675&estate_id=2491

Fort Lodge:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2676&estate_id=2491

Generally:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2491

William Edward Gumbleton was descended from the Cork Quaker Penroses, the shipping family on his mother’s side.

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

The gardens at Belgrove were of international repute. The library attaching were bequeathed to the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Recent Financial Times Editorial on Irish Economy and the enigma of 9th century Ireland.

A recent FT editorial captures a spot on the Irish economic cycle which has tended to oscillate from exuberance to despair. This duality is not new , in the 9th century a commentator was observing of the dual nature of Ireland simultaneously modern and archaic.

In economic terms, it is hard to credit listening to the Irish media that the country has developed at a staggering rate over the last 60 years. Credit rightfully due to the people of the Island. In the OECD area apart from Singapore and South Korea there are probably no countries which have developed more economically, and achieved a level of educational attainment and health then Ireland. This is while remaining a genuine liberal democratic country with none the autocracy of the east Asian Tigers and with the enormous economic burden of 30 years of the Troubles.

Agreement made between Francis Edwards, Jacob Sawbridge, Elias Turner, and Charles Ward on behalf of the Governor and Company for making Hollow-Sword Blades in England in the first part, and Francis Bernard, City of Dublin, in the second part. For the sum of £3,566. 5s. 0d. paid by Bernard to the Governor and Company, for a term of one year, they convey to Bernard the town and lands of Knocknacarra, Killdara, [Coghans], Coolmayne, Ballynagragh, Ballinvradigg, Coolbane, Garrylucas Upper, Ballincurrig, and Ardacrow, all in Cork county. Signed by all parties, and signed and sealed by Bernard.

One of the founding blocks of the Bandon estate.

From Boole Library UCC

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=409

The Hollow Blade Company acquired large tracts of forfeit land in Co. Cork as part payment for financing the Wars of William of Orange, hit by financial panic in the early 18th century they had to liquidate and this transaction was one where Francis Bernard the equivalent of Senior Counsel had ready cash and acquired this estate and later many more. He was very talented and came from a relatively modest background in Bandon. The Bandon Estate at its peak mainly but exclusively in Co. Cork neared 50,000 acres. It was acquired by purchase not by conquest. By the early 20th century due to the effects of the Land Acts the former tenant farmers were de facto owners subject to an annuity to the Land Commission.

Bandon Estate Durrus:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit

Bernard Magistrates:

Arthur Bernard, 1752, Bandon, probably son of Arthur who built Palace Anne in 1714 near Murragh and Ann Power (Le Poer), Mount Eglantine, Co. Waterford and brother of Judge Francis Bernard.  In deed of 1717 lets land to  Richard Croker, Nadrid. Subscriber  of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork, 1766.

Arthur Beamish Bernard Esq., Palace Anne, Bandon, Pre 1822.   Writing 1821 to i Chief Secretary seeking appointment of brother Adderley Beamish Bernard half pay Captain 37th Regiment as Chief Constable of Police, severely wounded serving under Duke of Wellington and he himself active in restoring tranquility to local area.  1828 with Sir Augustus Warren proposed Franklin Baldwin attorney Bandon as Coroner.  Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832,  Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club. Listed 1854, Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838

Francis Bernard, 1668, Bandon

Francis Bernard, Junior, 1728, Bandon

Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon (1755-1830), 1772, Castle Bernard, Bandon, only son James Bernard and Esther Smith d Percy Smith.  M Lady Catherine Henrietta Boyle d Richard, 2nd Earl of Shannon. MP Ennis 1778-83, Delegate 1783 to Irish Volunteer convention.  Requested to be president of Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828 donated £50.    Bandonbridge in Irish  Parliament to 1790.  Lady Charlotte Bernard, 2nd daughter married 3rd Viscount Doneraile.

Francis Viscount Bernard, (1785-1856), 2nd Earl of Bandon,  Pre 1838, Castle Bernard, son Francis 1st Earl of Bandon (1755-1830) and Lady Catherine Henrietta Boyle d Richard, 2nd Earl of Shannon.  Deputy Lieutenant 1832. 1834 Member Committee Cork Protestants.  Protestant Protest Meeting Bandon 1834.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838.  Supporting Alexander O’Driscoll, JP suspended, Bandon 1841. Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  Dining Cork Agricultural Dinner 1848  with ‘Big’ Patrick O’Sullivan Esq., Millcove, Beara, Agent to Lord Bantry and Seneschal voted in Conservative interest.  Anti-Repeal Meeting, Dunmanway 1845. Married 1809 Mary Susan Albina  Brodrick d Archbishop of Cashel Rev. Charles.  listed 1854. MP Youghal 1806-7, 1818-20, Co. Cork 1807-18, Bandon 1820-6, Estate 40,000 acres, Joseph Devonshire Jackson seconded James Bernard 2nd Earl of Bandon 1841, as life member RDS. Attending Landlord Meeting Bandon Courthouse 1846. Lord of Manor Macroom, Kilcrea and Blarney appointed Seneschal 1837 Robert Borlease Warren a tenant and relation retained the right to appoint in Macroom even after selling estate there and being often resident in London.

Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon (1817-1877), Castlebernard, son Francis 2nd Earl of Bandon (1755-1830) and Mary Susan Albina Brodrick. Chairing Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.  Member Irish Society Antiquaries 1861.  Promoter flax growing West Cork 1850s.  Promoting mineral development in West Cork including barytes mines on his Dereenlomane property, Ballydehob.  Probate 1877, executor James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl £18,000

Colonel Henry Boyle Bernard, Castle Bernard, South Cork Militia, Coolmain, Kilbrittain in summer, 1876-6.  Supporting Alexander O’Driscoll, JP suspended, Bandon 1841.  Elected Conservative MP for Bandon in 1862 defeated Thomas Sullivan Kingston, Esq., Solicitor, defeated 1868, election by William Shaw, Bernard received no Catholic votes. Subscriber 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.  Cork Spring Assizes Juror 1863.  Committee member Bandon Navigation Scheme 1842.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  Anti-Repeal Meeting, Dunmanway 1845.

James Bernard, 1762, Castle Bernard, witness to deed 1767.

John Bernard, 1767, Bernard’s Hall.

Morrough Bernard, possibly other way around.  Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic education 1859.

Percy Broderick Bernard, 1866, Kilbrogan, Bandon, Non-Resident, £6

Roger Bernard, 1731, Pallace Ann, son of Arthur.

Roger Bernard -1774), 1768, Pallis Ann, son of Roger, Cambridge University 1761, died single will 1774

Thomas Bernard, 1782, Palace Anne, Enniskeane, sitting 1835, Bandon

Honourable Captain William Smith/Smyth Bernard, Pre 1831, The Farm, Bandon, listed 1824. Chairing Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828. Subscriber Lewis  Directory 1837. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832 presiding Magistrate 1845.  Attending Landlord Meeting Bandon Courthouse 1846, listed 1854.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838

December 1790, Death of Owen MacCarthy, Esq., age 84, near Blarney, ‘commonly called Master-na-Mona, or Lord or Master of the Preceptory of Moran, in this county. He was the last of that ancient and respectable family, except an only son, the Governor of Miranda, and Colonel of Regiment of Horse in the Portuguese service, where by his valour, he was promoted in a sovereign clime to honours, which he was rendered incapable of enjoying in his native country from the severity of penal laws. The deceased had fifteen brothers, thirteen of whom, on said account, emigrated for bread after losing their estates in this Kingdom, and were promoted to high ranks in the different armies of France, Spain, Portugal and Germany.’

From Hibernian Chronicle 6th December 1790, courtesy Jean Prendergast

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/mccarthy-genealogy-from-irish-pedigrees-or-the-origin-and-stem-of-the-irish-nation-by-john-ohart/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/genealogy-of-mccarthy-family-of-gleannacroim-dunmanway-co-cork-from-c1150-ad-by-daniel-maccarthy-glas/

Building of Old Pier, and Stables Cupola and Winged feet Bantry House, 1840-2.

Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Historian has a note dated 1961 that he had been conversing with Mary Barrett then RIP.   She said that the Bantry House additions were built by Murphy and immediately after he built the old pier. Paddy dated the Bantry House works to 1840-1 and the pier to 1842.

The Murphy builder may have been the father of William Martin Murphy

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/william-martin-murphy-bantry-and-the-noel-brown-connection/

May 3, 1769 – A complaint was made in one of the Cork Newspapers, of fifty French vessels fishing for mackerel on the coast near Bantry Bay, West Cork, without interruption from the revenue-cruziers.

Traditional farm spade by Scotts of Cork and spadework in olden farms.

Cork antiquarian and businessman Robert Day married one of the Scotts and took over the business.

Scotts of Patrick’s Quay/McCurtain St. Cork supplied a range of garden and farm implements and tools. When the firm burnt down in the 1960s McCurtain St never recovered. It is unclear if the firm had their own spade mill or sub contracted their supply. There was a mill in Monard a few miles outside the city under a Viaduct on the Dublin railway.

The artist and architect Patrick Scott who died recently in his 90s was of this family.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/discovery-of-primitive-bog-oak-spade-beneath-12-foot-peat-in-farm-of-mr-w-kingston-near-ballydehob-west-cork-1890s-7th-century-king-of-connaught-assailed-by-men-cutting-turf-who-killed-him/

The article from the History of Irish Farming deals with traditional spadework.