The ‘Caoin’ lamentation akin to Hebrew Cina in cork and Kerry from Crofton Croker including for Sir Richard Cox in 1733 mentioning his relations O’Donovans of Bawnlahan, Townsends of White Court Skibbreen, Dunmanway and O’Donoghue, Aughadown, West Cork.

Prospects Dunmanus and Bantry Bays

Present day Bantry is not yet built the settlements are Newtown on the present Glengariff Road with what looks like a Military Barracks overlooking the present town.

In both prospects thee is an amount of shipping.

Crofton Croker at Gougan Barra (Guagán Barra: Barry’s Rock), 23rd June 1813, Lighting Fires on the Eve of St. John, Cudgels, Prayers, Rebellious Songs, from his Researches in the South of Ireland

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

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

https://durrushistory.com/2014/08/22/httpdurrushistory-wordpress-com20111008dr-john-odonovan-the-odaly-family-bards-muintervara-1852-extract/

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6098376752892232033

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/16/he-wit-epigrams-and-poetry-of-the-reverend-de-la-cour-the-mad-parson-blarney-co-cork/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/16/sketch-by-crofton-croker-of-south-gate-bridge-cork-1831/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/08/22/jj-james-jeremiah-joseph-callanan-1786-died-lisbon-1829-cork-poet-bridging-gaelic-irelad-with-irish-literature-in-english-aonghus-o-dalaigh-poems/

Bishop Boetius McEgan, Ross, Grim Tragic Death at Carrigadrohid Castle, 1649, the Barony of Carbery 766 Townlands, 400 in Carbery East, 366 in Carbery West, 30 parishes, 196,321 Plantation Acres.

The author Mr.Nyhan, a National Teacher, was a frequent contributor to the Cork Historical and Archaeological Journal on history and archaeology. this is 1930.

Obituary of Mrs.Sarah Dukelow nee Kingston, Dromreagh, Durrus, West Cork 1911.

Oituaries such as this sample are an interesting snap shot in time describing the family, neighbours. Generally only the better off or slightly better off merited an obituary.

This is from the Skibbereen Eagle.

Courtesy Gordon Kingston.

Sarah Dukelow

‘A Thick Irish Brogue’ John Gilbert Higgins (1891-1961), Rhodes Scholar, Newfoundland Lawyer, Politician, Senator, Judge Robert Swanton (1767-1840), Ballydehob/Swantstown and New York Judge, the Atlantic Provinces of Canada and The Irish Argentinans, Crofton Croker.

In Robert A Caro’s biography of Robert Moses the man who built New York infrastructure and who poured more concrete the the Pharaohs and the Romans he refers to his friend at Oxford in 1910 John Gilbert Higgins, a Rhode Scholar which Moses was not.. He sported a long knitted scarf adn aThick Irish Brogue. Higgins came from a humble enough background and late excelled at Politics and Law. His Irish background goes back at least to his grandparents. He campaigned with success to prevent Newfoundland from being incorporated into Canada in 1948.

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

On the Canadian Maritime provinces there are close Irish links from long standing emigration. In some area the links between West Waterford area strong enough to have the Waterford accent still prevailing after perhaps 200 years.

A recent TV programme on the Irish in Argentina traced the emergence of an elite group of Ranchers. They descend from emigration for Longford and west meath in the 1880s of prosperous Irish farmers. Again when speaking in English a clear Midland accent is apparent.

Robert Swanton presided over the Admiralty Court in New York in the 1820, in later years an old New York Lawyer recalled the Judges of his youth including Swanton whose impossible Cork brogue and that of his tiptaff casey made it difficult to understand what was going on.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/05/27/judge-robert-swanton-1767-1840-ballydehob-west-cork-presiding-at-new-york-marine-court-with-tipstaff-casey-1827/

Crofton Croker writing in the 1840 of his schooling in Cork in the 1810 praised the schools which were mixed in terms of religion but broke for instruction. At the time he was writing he complained that prosperous Cork families were sending their children presumably mainly boys to be educated in England. he said they came back with a cut glass English accent.