Kilcoe, Skibbereen, West Cork, Old Church with Sketches by Claude Chavesse, 1926.
At the time he was presumably lecturing at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England, he belonged to the extended family of Edith Somerville Large of Castletownsend.
Courtesy JCHAS 1926.
Townlands of Kilcoe, Ballydehob and Mizen West Cork.
Stained glass including Tower of Glass (An Túr Gloinne) 1908 designed by A. E. Childs managed by Sarah Purser and Harry Clarke Studios commissioned by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, Pastor of Kilcoe and Lisheen Parish, West Cork, born Shannonvale, Clonakilty 1841, ordained Louvain Belgium 1870 died 1926.
Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.






I love this description – it’s almost a mirror image of my recent post “Three Pilgrims” – only about 90 years later! The only change from his time to ours is the restoration of the Castle.
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