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Durrus, West Cork, Townlands

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qr2IvZp2f3ort8IL-50C6pqG7KVPtayXIRgGjVSg3fA/edit

Some West Cork, Placenames and Townlands c 1913, James E. Burke, BL, Justice of the Peace, Member County Council, one time Editor Southern Star

Townlands of Kealkil (An Chaol Choill Narrow Wood), West Cork and some others West Cork.

Townlands, Place Names, Shore Names, Field Names, Cill Cháscann (Kilcaskan), Beara, West Cork.

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Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.  From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.  Other families associated with same Brooks, Lannins and Millers of Dromreagh and Coolculaghta.

The Crostons may have come originally as weavers from Croston in Lancashire.  There were branches in Bandon, Schull and Durrus, Cathoic as well as Protestant branches like most West Cork Protestant families.  There was significant emigration of these families to Canada, Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts and Rochester, New York.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

March 1862, Meeting Flax Society, Colonel Bernard (Bandon), Colonel Beamish, Captain Sealy RN, JF Maguire, Mayor of Cork, Messrs W Thurley, D Cunningham, W Sheehy (Skibbereen), Edward Smyth (Knox Mills), W Dowman, Offer by Peter Riordan, Keilgane, Castleisland to buy Scutching Machine, Discussion of Rowen of Belfast new Scutching machine hint of past failures. proposed meeting with Sir Robert Peel ‘The Organ of the Irish Government’.

The Buachallán Bawn, Spinning Duet, probably pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1907), Parents died of Cholera in Skibbeeen. House c 1740-70 and Probably Prior House in ruins Pre-1740, Teacher Healy, Bantry, probably Grandfather of Tim Healy, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Grandfather’s 2 Day Wake with Professional Keener.

‘Black Denis’ Cronin, Coomkeen, Matthew O’Mahony, William Miller, Timothy (Casey) McCarthy, Coolculaghta, Basket Makers, 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.  From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

Denis Cronin’s holding was in the viscinity of Jeffa Bate’s Cheese Factory:
http://www.durruscheese.com/

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Coolculaghta pre-famine very densely ppulated:

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Marriage Customs from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.  There is an ancient Wedding Stone in Kilcrohane used by couples to bethrow each other by jointly inserting their hands therein.

From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

The American Clock as a wedding present and late 19th century and clock by R.H.Evans, Ballydehob, West Cork

These Customs will Live In Ireland as long as Grass Grows and Water Runs and Oppression and Slavery have Failed to Destroy Them, Visiting the Spring on May Day Morning, St. John’s Eve, Skellig, Samhain from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy School, Durrus. West Cork.

Breda McCarthy, Coolculaghta.

Dinnsheanchas (Irish-Place Folklore), and the Goddesses of Ancient Ireland, fertility, sexuality, war, personifications of Ireland, and the obliteration of old customs and beliefs

Taking a ‘Greas’ at the Butter being Churned before the Days of the Creamery, from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

Ancient butter making, Líam English 18th century poet, Miosgan of buter, Bog Butter, 18th century Christian and Pagan incantation on butter making

Opening of Drinagh Co-Op Creamery, 1933, Durrus by Father Crowley, Drinagh assisted by Canon McManaway

Rooska:

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Moulivard:

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Rounds, Holy Wells, at Rooska, Moulivard and Father Bernane from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

Devotions to Father Bernane, Moulivard, Durrus, 28th June, Holy Well Visitation at Kil-na-Comoge, Kealkil, Lady’s Day 15th August, Pilgrimage to St. Finbarr, Gougán Barra, West Cork, 25th September.

Two Maritime Tragedies in Bantry and Dunmanus Bay from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

The Bantry Bay disaster is probably late 1890s when almost 20 fisherman drowned fishing for mackerel from the north side of the Muinter Bhaire peninsula.

Danno Mahony and his father ‘Big Dan’, Weight Throwing in Folklore.

From Carrigboy School, Durrus, 1937.  Breda McCarthy, Coolculaghta.

Danno’s relations include the Coomkeen Burke family on two fronts and the Ballydehob Woulfe family.  The late Mr. Pollard, NT, Ballydehob, wrote a biography.

The Parliament of Ireland, 1704, with the Duke of Ormond on the Throne, and Alan Broderick (Midleton, Co. Cork) to his left.

From ‘The Lords of the Asendancy’, The Irish House of Lords adn Its Members, Francis G James, 1995, Irish Acdemic Press.

Based on a French Print, ‘Parlement d’Irelande’.

The only picture of the Irish House of Lords in Session 1704, Chichester House, Dublin.

Chichester House, same Location:

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.

The Legal Quarter:

An interesting account of ‘Hell’ from the Dublin Penny Journal.