1636 Inquisition on death of Donald McCarthy Reagh, Families mentioned Dalys, Crowleys, O’Driscolls, McCarthys, O’Mahonys, Areas include, Aughadown, Caheragh, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Kilgariff, Kilcoe, Muintervara/Kilcrohane, Myross, Schull

From Samuel Trant McCarthy, Sheriff of Co. Kerry, History of McCarthys 1913.

Earliest Irish script in Latin Antiphony of Bangor, 680 AD, Irish Scribes First to use initials for articulating texts, Late Printing in Irish with Kearney’s Catechism 1571, examples of Gaelic Script, Elizabethan 1571 AD, Vatican, 1675 AD, Jacques Guerin 1732 AD, Petrie 1841 SD.

Cork Constitution 13th  October 1833, By their marriage the ancient honourable and distinguished house of O’Donovan Carbery and O’Sullivan Bere are linked together, the Mailed Hand is now bound to protect and succour the Gentle Robin’

Walls and gate remnant of Estate of Timothy O’Donovan Esquire, O’Donovan’s Cove (Kealties/Tullig) Durrus, West Cork.

Richard O’Donovan – Mary (Maria) O’Sullivan, ‘at Keamatringane House, Berehaven, on the 13th October 1833 by the Rev. Ml. Devine P.P. Richard O’Donovan of Fort Lodge, Co. Cork, second son of Late Richard O’Donovan of O’Donovan’s Cove, Esq. to Maria lovely daughter of the late Morty O’Sullivan of Coolach and Reane (Reen?) and sister of the present head of the Clan Sullivan. By their marriage the ancient honourable and distinguished house of O’Donovan Carbery and O’Sullivan Bere are linked together, the mailed hand is now bound to protect and succour the gentle robin’ (Cork Constitution). Morty O’Sullivan’s father was John of Coulagh (his father also John of the same address) and his mother was Maria daughter of John Segerson.   From Durrus parish Register Children:
Maria 10 May 1835 Tullig Richard O’Donovan Hanora Sullivan
Richard 4 June 1836 Fort Lodge John Sullivan Mary Baldwin
Timothy 20 June 1843 Tullig William Donovan Anne O’Donovan
Catherine (Miss Katty) 31 May 1846, Tullig, Daniel and Mary Sullivan, died 1928 buried in Durrus Chapel yard with her cousin Jane Blair.
Finn’s journal 2nd May 1782, ‘Died Thomas Donovan of North Lowerton near Skibereen left the bulk of his large fortune to Rev Mr Walsh co-adjutor to parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes, gold watch and gold repeater to Rev. Jas. Crowley, P.P. of above parish’ (POK). Is this father Walsh the one who baptised the Ardahill O’Donovans?

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Castlehaven Harbour, West Cork, c1900, with Ketch and Fishing Barrels.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1905

French fleet fishing Castlehaven Harbour, West Cork, 1875.

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John Wesley preaching in room over Old Market House, Innishannon, Co. Cork

From Rev. John Harding Cole article on Innishannon, JCHAS 1907

Bantry 1860s, Early Irish photographer Rev Freke of Durrus at Queen of Denmark’s visit to Bandon, Bantry Regatta August, 1864, Bantry Cricket Team (Toope, Jagoe, Meara, Warner, MacNamara, Thompson, Harris, Croly, T. Lannin, McCarthy, Byes) against Crew of H.M.S. ‘Lark’ (Irwin, Robothan, Mehegan, Dayrell, Hodge, Bride, Tickner, Cole, Brine, Martin, Byes) April 1868,  Bantry and Skibbereen Agricultural Society, A Visit to Bantry September 1868, Sketches of Rooska, the Exquisite new Church (of Ireland) erected by Mr William Murphy, a mile Eastward the residence of the late Richard Levis, Esq.December 1869.

Sir Joceyln Coghill, Early Photographer c 1860.

1860 Cork Militia Marching in Castletownsend, West Cork.

Cricket was quite common in Ireland before the onset of the GAA in the late 1880s.  A cricket team was established in Bantry under the patronage of the Earl of Bantry in April 1868 and played at the Inches, Beach.

HMS Lark (1855) was a Dapper-class screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1878.

The Murphy who erected Rooska Church was the father of William Martin Murphy, originally from Beara.  He was an active builder and built the pier in Bantry around this time.

James Freke Vicar 1852-1865, Magistrate 1862, attended the wedding of Lord Bandon’s daughter in Bandon 1863. John Harding Cole Curate, 1860. He was an early photographer and was involved in taking photographs at the Bazaar in Lord Bandon’s Castle Bandon in 1865.  He attended the funeral of Lord Bantry in July 1868.  Addressed a meeting in Durrus Court House in 1873 on the need to promote railways and gave the example of Belgium as having an efficient state owned railway system.

Rooska

Some of the services and sermons at these places of worship were in Irish c. 1850, when the Rev. Crosthwaite preached; attended by thirty converts and several poor Protestants who would have to travel six to ten miles if they attended the Parish Church.  Rooska Church was built in 1866 to a design of William Atkins. The builder was William Murphy of Beara possibly the father of William Martin Murphy.The church was reopened in 1894 and in an article reproduced in Francis Humphries’s book; there is a reference to the congregation comprising 65 of the farming class. The large proportion of men especially young men here as in other West Cork parishes was in contrast to the situation elsewhere.  The church underwent redecoration in 1962.  This Church was closed in January 1988.