The Registers of the Cork City Meeting of the Quakers (Births Marriages and Deaths) 1653-1859 and other records from Dr. Albert Casey’s Collection.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/5978186515820804801

Ballyvourney (Baile Bhúirne Town of the Beloved) Church of Ireland Marriages 1845-1935 Clondrohid (Cluain Droichead Meadow by the Bridge) 1848-1913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyvourney, from Dr. Casey’s collection.

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

From Dr. Casey’s collection Kilcrea Abbey

Lo Arthur Leary Generous Brave Handsome Slain in his Bloom lies in this humble Grave Died the 4th May 1771 aged 26 years Having Served the Empress Maria Teresa as Captain of the Hungarian Hussars he returned home to be treacherously shot by order of the British Government his sole crime being that he resisted to part with a favourite horse for the sum of …(£5)…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghaire

From Dr. Albert Casey’s collection

Herbal Cures cobwebs to stop bleeding 1930s Folklore Collection on Traditional Cures, Sweathouses, Ancient Irish Herbal Tracts, Traditional Medical Families, herbal Science Degree CIT.

This excellent article by Rosario Kingston (she developed the degree in CIT and practices in Skibbereen)

Herbal Curesis in the Skibbereen and District Historical JOurnal 2009, Vol 5

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5824153,-9.6813266,16z?hl=en

O’Daly Bardic School 13th to 17th century, Dromnea, Kilcrohane West Cork, pupils including two sons of the King of Spain, descendants founding Daly’s Distillery, Cork.  Former Irish President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh may also be of the family.

Some archaeological work has been done on the site.  Further work is due to commence in late 2016.

O’Daly Bardic School, Kilrohane

By Eugene Daly, courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society 2009 Vol. 5

Gaeilge i Measc an Bhéarla Irish in English Skibbereen area.

Courtesy Skibbereen Historical Journal, Donnachadh Ó Seaghdha Gaeilge i Neasc and Bhéarla

Words from Joe O’Driscoll and Sarah Dukelow;

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit

Skibbereen:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Skibbereen,+Co.+Cork/@51.5559239,-9.2621303,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a5b8ee671cad:0x28dab316351c3ffb

Ballarat:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballarat+VIC,+Australia/@-37.5592153,143.8626583,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6ad1445430931879:0x40579a430a0b720

Mary Donovan (1831-1860), one of 25 female orphans from Skibbereen Workhouse who went to Australia on the Eliza Caroline she married and went to the Ballarat Goldfields.

Courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society by Maura Cahalane, 2009 Volume 5

Mary donovan Skibbereen Workouse to Ballarat Australia

Irish Female Emigration to New South Wales 1832, ‘The Committee for Promoting the Emigration of Single Women ‘, Cork to Sydney, Free Passage and some Australian Themes.

Sir Wiliam Foster Stawell, Co. Cork, to Solicitor General Victoria and Chief Justice 30 years, Sir Francis Murphy, Cork to Military Surgeon and Speaker Victoria Parliament, Australia.

Archbishop Mannix (1864-1963) of Melbourne, Australia, from Charleville, Co. Cork, attempted visit to Ireland 1920 refusal of British Government to allow him land, and later ‘Arrest’.

Townland/Place names from Irish in West Cork. An Bile Dathi ash one of the six wondrous trees of Ireland, St Flann Fionn Cuillin 8th century saint feast day January 14th.

Courtesy Eugene Daly, JOurnal of Skbbereen District and Historical Society.Placenames from irish

Hedge Schols Teachers Myross early 19th century

There is an excellent article in the 2007 Journal of the Skibbereen and District Historical Society by Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin on the Role of Hedge School Masters in the Cultural Life of Caslehaven/Myross parish, early 19th century

He is credited in the folklore od West Cork with the power of banishing rats from Myross Graveyard.