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  • 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.
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  • 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: March 2015

O’Donovan Estate, Kicrohane/Durrus, West Cork, 1752 to Sale 1868, Legal Tenure, Legal Succession in Title, Tenants 1860s, Names, Acreage, Tenure, Rent.

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6092662,-9.6094974,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

O’Donovan Estate, Kicrohane/Durrus, West Cork, 1752 to Sale 1868, Legal Tenure, Legal Succession in Title, Tenants 1860s, Names, Acreage, Tenure, Rent.

This was one of the first estates in Ireland to be bought by a Catholic in the 18th century, post confiscations.    The O’Donovans may have made their money on the pilchard industry.

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

Correspondence between Doctor John O’Donovan, L.L.D. and Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate from 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, West Cork, mentioning his grandfather educated at Toulouse, France, in 1754, lands held in trust mid 17th century by Protestant ‘Nominees’ who behaved with honour, recent history concerning Jerry ‘en Dana’ McCarthy and the McCarthys of Glanda, Dunmanway, denies claim of Rev. Morgan O’Donovan, of Douglas, Cork, to be head of the Clan.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry, sitting in Bantry April 1836. Evidence of Richard Young gave evidence that his great grandfather had lost £2,000 when a Finance House in Bilbao had collapsed. This may have been the Consulado de Bilbao in 1651

O’Donovan estates, Muintervara

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6131948239663968753

Proposed sale of Bantry Estate 1852, West Cork, at Landed Estates Court with Map of Estates, showing Silver Mines at Gurtycloona and Kelvenogue

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Kiloveenogue:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Killoveenoge,+Co.+Cork/@51.6469607,-9.560173,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845759c1670b627:0x1f320a7d40510a02

Gortacloona:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gortacloona,+Co.+Cork/@51.6524358,-9.4773595,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a97c91a9a1d:0x0c5e17d6e23f08e6

Proposed sale of Bantry Estate 1852, West Cork,  at Landed Estates Court with Map of Estates, showing Silver Mines at Gurtycloona and Kelvenogue.  It is not certain if the sale proceeded. The silver mines may be lead. The Valuation Office records state that the Kileenovogue mines were working in the 1860s.

The Gortacloona mine may be the same as the one at Aughigheen in the Ordnance Survey Historical map c 1840 of disused lead mine.  For soe years in the 1980s the disused school in this townland had an experimental theatre.

There is a 12th century reference to a Silver Mine or Lead Mine in Durrus probably at Gearhameen in one of the English archives.

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Sale of Kealkil Estate, Bantry, West Cork, at Landed Estates Court, 1852, including Lackareaagh, Geareagh, Groumanassig, Map (showing ruined Tuck Mill), Tenants, O’Sullivan Carriganass, Marriage Settlement referred to.

02 Monday Mar 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kealkill,+Co.+Cork/@51.7497057,-9.3813395,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450edc918d50c5:0xa00c7a99731c960

Sale of Kealkil Estate, Bantry, West Cork,  at Landed Estates Court, 1852, including Lackareaagh, Geareagh, Groumanassig, Map (showing ruined Tuck Mill), Tenants, O’Sullivan Carriganass,  Marriage Settlement referred to.

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Extracts from Diaries of Sir John Moore, Commander British Forces during 1798 Rebellion West Cork, on Animosity between Catholic Tenants and Protestant Landlords and Catholic recruits and Yeomen Officers and their treatment, House Burning Caheagh ,Order to Troops to Inflict Terror, Army Movements to Schull, Ballydevlin, Attempts to Pacify without undue Violence.

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Extracts from Diaries of Sir John Moore, Commander British Forces during 1798 Rebellion West Cork, on Animosity between Catholic Tenants and Protestant Landlords  and Catholic recruits and Yeomen Officers and their treatment, House Burning Caheagh ,Order to Troops to Inflict Terror, Army Movements to Schull, Ballydevlin, Attempts to Pacify without undue Violence.

Post 1798 Arms Seizures Caheragh, West Cork.

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Bandon, Co. Cork, Yeomanry 1799, Commander Captain G. Kingston, Subalterns, Baldwin Sealy, Isaac Dowden, Thomas Dowden, William Sullivan with Medal Bandon Boyne Yeomanry 1690.

02 Monday Mar 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0xa00c7a99731fbb0

Bandon Yeomanry 1799,  Commander Captain G. Kingston, Subalterns Baldwin Sealy, Isaac Dowden, Thomas Dowden, William Sullivan with Medal Bandon Boyne Yeomanry 1690.

The Dowdens may have been Presbyterian.  The Sullivans were an old Bandon Family prominent merchants, Lawyers, Churchmen (Church of Ireland), Masters of Bandon Grammar School.

For some Bandon Lawyers including Sullivans:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMDGaZCW9Z6Cq_C_gwm_FB2orzTe2WxR0WcLXjZZO40/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/12/yeomanry-corps-co-cork-1823-18

Yeomanry Corps. Co. Cork, 1823-1834, from the Cellars of the Public Records London, England.

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Bantry Wollen Mills c 1900

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Site of the modern library.  Probably started by the Kingston family.

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Ailments in Ireland 1693, Few Sickly Persons, Plague is Wonderfully Rare, Irish Agues, Of the ‘Looseness’,

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Early Irish Medicine from Dian Céch, the Irish God of Healing, Queen Macha Mong Ruadha legendary Hospital at Emain Macha pre 377 BC, Women Physicians under Brehon Laws, Arabic medical texts translated to Irish, Hereditary Medical families, the O’Cassidy Medical Manuscripts largest collection of Medical Manuscript Literature World Wide pre 1800 and the career of Doctor Richard Gumbelton Daunt (1843-1893), of Kilcascan Castle, Co, Cork family, Pioneer in Public Health Medicine, in Brazil 19th century, Genealogist.

1414. Treatise on Medicine translated by John O’Cullinane, Physician to Donal McCarthy Reagh and his tutor Pierce Ó h-Uallacháin, begun at Kilbrittain Castle.

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Allman’s Distillery Bandon, Co. Cork, from 1825-1929, Genealogy and Overton Cotton enterprise..

02 Monday Mar 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7495676,-8.7130098,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0xa00c7a99731fbb0

Allman’s Distillery Bandon, Co. Cork,  from 1825-1929, Genealogy and Cotton enterprise..

The Allman family were an enterprising one having among other businesses cotton mill in the late 18th century.

In it heyday was one of the principal distilleries in Ireland employing hundreds and taking a large amount of grain grown locally, it had its own railway sidings connected to the Cork and Bandon railway. Inter family litigation in the early 20th century did not help its survival. Bandon Mart on the Bandon Cork road is built on the site.

http://www.irelandwhiskeytrail.com/?pg=allmans_bandon_distillery_cork.php

Including reference to genealogy of Allman Family:

Click to access 111_BandonDistillery.pdf

Overton Cotton Mil:

http://www.abandonedireland.com/OvertonMill.html

Some family 1911:

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon_people_photos.htm

Estate:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2560

Richard Allman MP:

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

Courtesy Mixed Messages:

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From Skibbereen to the Moon Part 2: Ellen and Aubrey Clerke

01 Sunday Mar 2015

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Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
In my post From Skibbereen to the Moon I wrote about the Clerke family of Skibbereen,…

1600, The O’Mahonys, 63 Ploughlands of Ivagh (Mizen Peninsula), West Cork and the Custom of Tanistry whereby O’Mahony is made Lord of the Country by McCarthy Reagh by delivering to him a White Rod and he in turn pays to the McCarthys 10 Shillings for every Ploughland and the Genealogy of this O’Mahony Sept.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Schull,+Co.+Cork/@51.5268665,-9.5479801,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x484599685602889f:0x0a00c7a99731c5b0

1600, The O’Mahonys, 63 Ploughlands of Ivagh (Mizen Peninsula), West Cork and the Custom of Tanistry whereby O’Mahony is made Lord of the Country by McCarthy Reagh by delivering to him a White Rod and he in turn pays to the McCarthys 10 shillings for every ploughland and the Genealogy of this O’Mahony Sept.

Much of this land fell into the hands of The Earl of Cork/Boyle, Sir William Hull, The Beecher Family and the Kenmare Estate/Brownes of Kenmare.

Thomas Larcom, the first director of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, made a study of the ancient land divisions of Ireland and summarised the traditional hierarchy of land divisions thus:[9][12]   10 acres – 1 Gneeve; 2 Gneeves – 1 Sessiagh; 3 Sessiaghs – 1 Tate or Ballyboe; 2 Ballyboes – 1 Ploughland, Seisreagh or Carrow; 4 Ploughlands – 1 Ballybetagh, or Townland; 30 Ballybetaghs – Triocha Céad or Barony.

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