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  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
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  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Tithe Meeting Speech in Irish at Carrigaline, Co. Cork, 1832 as reported in the Mercantile Chronicle.

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Anti-Tithe Meeting Speech in Irish at Carrigaline, Co. Cork, 1832 as reported in the Mercantile Chronicle.

Fr. Coombes has been dead for some years, he was a well know West Cork Historian.

Up to the mid 1920s the old inhabitants of Ballinure on the Mahon Peninsula, now part of the Mahon Estate still had a smattering of Irish.

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Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

The author is the late Walter McGrath, a Cork journalist, historian and railway fan.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1969.

Many of thr Fenian Prosoners had distinguished careers on their eventual release. About 20 have Cork connection including the Protestant Poet Ned Kelly from Kinsale, Bandon man John Lynch a private in the 5th Dragoon Guards.

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6109104833973794977

Reproduction of the Gaelic Script and Letters employed by Seán Ó Dreada on Graves of Jeremiah O’Leary died 1828 buried Carrigrohanebeg, Co. Cork and his kinsman Jeremiah O’Leary died 1797 buried Macroom, members of Sliocht Lughadh na Salm Sept.

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Reproduction of the Gaelic Script and Letters employed by Seán Ó Dreada on Graves of Jeremiah O’Leary died 1828 buried Carrigrohanebeg, Co. Cork and his kinsman Jeremiah O’Leary died 1797 buried Macroom, members of Sliocht Lughadh na Salm Sept.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Carrigrohanebeg,+Co.+Cork/@51.9007876,-8.5813517,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48449226ac4ca727:0x2600c7a819c737e2

These transcriptions are by Richard Henchion, Cork Historian happliy very much around.

Courtesy JCHAS 1968.

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Genealogical Chart of Galwey Family of Kinsale, Co. Cork post 1557

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Genealogical Chart of Galwey Family of Kinsale, Co. Cork post 1557

Galways/Galweys of Munster, Genealogy, Penal Laws Religon Change.

Sale by Cant (Highest Bidder) in Chichester House, Dublin 1703 of Galwey lands in East and West Carbery Forfeited, Kilfaghna, Drombeggy, Cullinagh, Dirryleigh, Shrilane, Gortard, Balliisland and ten small islands, Knockeeridane, Castlehaven, Gortard, Creaghm, Coney Island, Baltimore, Raghmore, Cloghanmore, Cloghanbeg, Lissangel, Caheragh, Gortnamuckla Lisalchorig with some tenants listed, Coppingers, Hollow Blade Company, South Sea Bubble.

Galwey Public Remounciation against Evils of Popery, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1730s. the Penal Laws and Caputo-Genocide in East Pakistan 1970s, and the Moranos, Crypto-Jews in Spain.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kinsale,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060497,-8.5225014,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x484461fb98d2012b:0xa00c7a99731ef70

Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.

Baltimore:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Baltimore,+Co.+Cork/@51.4804517,-9.3600582,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a32d9e6ca7db:0xa00c7a99731fe20

Castlehaven:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castlehaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.5108647,-9.1919605,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845af85f3f3c235:0x1800c7a937dfd780

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From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Mrs Alice Butler, widow of John Butler, Surgeon, living next door to Mt. Uppington, Clockmaker, Fishamble Lane, Cork, cures ulcers, mortifications, scurvy, ague, megrims rheumatic pain.

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From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Mrs Alice Butler, widow of John Butler, Surgeon, living next door to Mt. Uppington, Clockmaker, Fishamble Lane, Cork, cures ulcers, mortifications, scurvy, ague, megrims rheumatic pain’.

From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.

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From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’

27 Tuesday Jan 2015

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From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’

From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.

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Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

Thanks Richard Arnopp.

http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/65636-1755-1761-tsunamis-ireland.html

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1st November 1755, Lisbon Earthquake, Losses by Cork Merchants of Beef, Pork, Beef in the amount of £4,300 (c€2 million) and the formation of the Barley Cove Sand Dunes, West Cork.

Rebuilt Lisbon:

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Proposed road over Cousane Gap, to Bantry, West Cork, 1822.

26 Monday Jan 2015

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Proposed road over Cousane Gap, to Bantry, West Cork, 1822.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Cousane,+Co.+Cork/@51.7414574,-9.291703,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x484505c41348ee43:0x2600c7a819bb5942

 

 

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George Waters, in 1659, Agent for the Transportation of Soldiers for the service in the KIng of Spain and possessor of 70 Ploughlands in the Baronies of Bere and Bantry, West Cork.

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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George Waters, in 1659, Agent for the Transportation of Soldiers for the service in the KIng of Spain and possessor of 70 Ploughlands in the Baronies of Bere and Bantry, West Cork.

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