From the Mizen and Muintervara Peninsulas, West Cork Protestants run the Republican Party in Rochester, New York in the 1850s on, ‘The 99 Cousins’
14 Saturday Mar 2015
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16th October 1861, Donemark, Bantry, 16 acres to let prime land suitable for potatoes or corn, Four Boats of Sea Sand Will be Given.
Tisdall was probably both an auctioneer an land owner in the area.
Letter from Florence McCarthy 1609 re building of Castles at Donemark, Bantry, Co.Cork 1215
Murphy’s Flax Mills Donemark 1860s


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Long/McCarthy/Gillman Estate, Caheragh, West Cork, Title from 1793, Sale 1861 19 Tenants named with rents acreage.
Prior to the Famine Cahreagh had one of the highest population densities non urban in Ireland and in the 18ht century was a reservoir of Gaelic Poetry.
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6125101634051409617
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Bantry, West Cork, Galweys, Gurteenroe, 1756, ‘Very Opulent Honest People Reduced in Recent Years of Frequent Seizures’ falling on hard times
So of the irish Manuscript Commission publications are available online. This included the Kenmare Estate Records which covers some areas around Bantry and Beara.
There is a reference to the Galweys and their near relations the Melifonts.
http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20Kenmare%20Manuscripts/pageflip.html
13 Friday Mar 2015
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Sale 1850, of Rabbit Island, Squince, Parish of Myross, Barony of West Carbery, well adapted for feeding sheep or young cattle, an exclusive right of sea-weed in abundance all around the island.
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Some internments in old Church of Ireland Graveyard, Bantry, West Cork.
Courtesy Bantry Library.
Church and yard from c1720 prior burial possibly church in Kealkil.
Some Bantry Deaths:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MxUD12bxA6pf1eAGbdVQARaDR0cuGZnZ7Z0uwNS6fD8/edit#gid=0
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Moulivard (Ward, the Bard’s Hillock) Church, Durrus, West Cork.
Courtesy Bantry Library.
Monastery pre 1650 at Moulivard Church (Durrus East), Co. Cork
https://durrushistory.com/2014/07/12/the-work-of-west-cork-masons-moulivard-church-14th-early-15th-century-durrus-east-with-the-miracles-of-father-bernard/

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Views of Bantry mid 19th Century, Vickery’s Hotel 1910.
Courtesy Bantry Library, open the summer near Fire Station.
Former Vickery’s Hotel, January 2016.