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.

Townlands of Kealkil (An Chaol Choill Narrow Wood), West Cork and some others West Cork.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kealkill,+Co.+Cork/@51.7497057,-9.3813395,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450edc918d50c5:0xa00c7a99731c960

Courtesy Centenary Committee Kealkil National School 1909-2009

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

Aughadown:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-townlands-castles-churches/

Durrus:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/list-of-durrus-townlands/

Kilcoe, Ballydehob:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/townlands-of-kilcoe-ballydehob-and-mizen-west-cork/

Kilcrohane:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/kilcrohane-townlands/

Devotions to Father Bernane, Moulivard, Durrus, 28th June, Holy Well Visitation at Kil-na-Comoge, Kealkil, Lady’s Day 15th August, Pilgrimage to St. Finbarr, Gougán Barra, West Cork, 25th September.

The various practices of rounds, visitation of holy wells, pilgrimages probably predate even the coming of the Celts to Ireland. These practices were customised to particular localities and often a Christian saint replaced the olden deity.

Father Bernane:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/devotions-to-father-barnane-28th-june-moulivard-church-durrus/

Gougán Barra:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/rounds-of-gougan-barra-west-cork-burial-place-of-st-finbarr-died-623-ad-founder-cork-city-with-hermitage-and-stations-of-the-cross-in-old-irish-place-of-pilgrimage-25th-september-and-memorial/

Kealkil:

Observations of Breton traveller Jacques Louise de Bougrenet (De Latocnaye) in West Cork, Bandon, Macroom, Dunmanway ‘The Priest’s Leap’ and Bantry 1796, keening at funerals, Raths and Lises, Hedge Schools, Flax and Mr Cox’s improvements in Dunmanway, 200 French Officers captured in Bantry on parole in Dumnmanway.

He was a Royalist who fled France after the Revolution.

Robert Gibbins, survivor Gallipoli, Grandson Robert Day Cork Antiquarian, author ‘Lovely is the Lee’ 1945, on Inchigeela, Gougán Barra, Gold at Snave Bridge and Comhoola with Engravings.

 

He was the grandson of Robert Day , Cork businessman and antiquarian.

Robert Day, (1836-1914), 1889 City,  Myrtle Hill House, Cork, son of Robert, merchant, ed Hamblins and Dr Porters, Cork, m Rebecca eldest daughter of Robert Scott, JP, Sydney Ville, Managing Director Robert Scott and Co, Hardware, Day and Co Saddlers, Corks leading antiquary, 11 children.  Probate to John Day, Merchant, 1914, £46,271.  Member The Cork Cuvierian Society, writing in 1904 (11) enables the reader to visualize the scenario during the Society’s meetings in a pen picture which reads:

Its monthly meetings for a period of sixty years were held on the first Wednesday of the Autumn and Winter months in the Library of the Royal Cork Institution where the chairs on each side of the long central table were occupied by members many of whose names will be associated with the most highly cultured and learned life of Cork during the nineteenth century.

Freemason Lodge No.  1871.  After his death his enormous collection of antiquities was auctioned and acquired among other by William Randolph Hearst and the British Museum. Son John married Susannah d Edwin Pim, JP, son Richard Welstead m Kathleen d James Ledlie, JP.

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

1st Muskerry Cavalry 1796, Co. Cork from Robert Day F.S.A. Cork Antiquarian from papers lent pre 1895 by George and Morgan Gallwey, Esqs. and Silver Medal of Inchigeela Volunteers, 1784.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.

Lawn Tennis Lining Machine by Robert Day and Sons Cork in Gortnagrough Folk Museum, Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

Unfortunately some of the images reverted to original format.

Cursing stones at the Pass of Keimaneaigh, Co. Cork.

Peter Harbison in his book on Irish Pilgrimges records the tradition of the cursing stones where the stones are turned by someone wishing to curse another if his reasons for doing so were justified, the curse would have its effects, if not, the curse would rebound on the person who turned the stones,

At Keimineigh there are five basins filled each filed with a rounded stone in the centre of which is a large stone which has no basin.

‘Portable vessell of wicker, ordinarily used by the wild Irish’ by Thomas Phillips c 1685 and Gold boat from First Century BC.

From Peter Harbison’s book, Pilgrimage in Ireland