https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Rooska,+Co.+Cork/@51.6568603,-9.5290551,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845756ddcedcaf9:0x1800c7a937df8d80

Clais na Bolainghe (Clashnabullagee), Small Pox Trench/Pit, containing remains of those who died of Small Pox,  identified in 1842 Ordnance Survey Orthography, 1842, Townland of Rooska adjoining Bantry Bay.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Creagh,+Co.+Cork/@51.5235733,-9.3344112,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a4809c0dcdb5:0x2600c7a819bb5732

Grave of Canon Goodman, Creagh Church of Ireland, Deconsecrated 1990,  Heading Towards Dereliction, Graveyard by the Banks of the River Ilen, West Cork.

1893 sketch of some Cork Clerical writers including Father Engish author of life of Father Art O’Leary, Maziere Brady, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen.

Funeral of Canon Goodman, as reported by Skibbereen Eagle, Skibbereen, West Cork, 25th January 1896, listing attendance.

Creagh Church:

http://www.abbeystrewryunion.com/#/creagh-church/4557285292

Creagh ‘1810’ Graveyard:

http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Search.aspx

Church, Canon Goodman’s Grave, Graves:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6136926191251938385

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Inishbeg,+Co.+Cork/@51.5224693,-9.356878,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a382af40ec5d:0x8fae7a2ab3362e83

Inis Beg, Growing Lemons by the Banks of the River Illen, Skibereen, West Cork, Roger Fenwicks, Blairs, Whites,  from 1710, the McCarthy Murroughs from 1860s, the Present Gardens

The Fenwicks were associated with the Whites later of Whiddy (originally from Co. Limerick despite their spurious genealogy), Blairs later Bantry/Durrus and Davies of Macroom ,in buying land cheap following the South Sea Bubble from the Hollow Blade Company in the 1710s.  Some of them were Law Students in the London Inns.  The Little Island referred to is Inis Beg in the Illen River, Skibbereen joined to the mainland by a bridge.

In the 1870s it was acquired by the Cork, Murrough family who took the extra name of McCarthy. One was a JP c 1875 a subscriber to Donovan’s history of Carbery.

The McCarthy Murrough Estate was acquired by the Land Commission c 1904 and only c 80 acres around the house remained:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3841&estate_id=3136

Present Estate including lemons:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6136924541068448417

The present owners of the Inis Beg Estate, the Keane family, have done a magnificent job in restoring it.  In the glasshouse grow lemons, figs, and grapes.

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=4997

1713 Witness of Deed Blair, Dunmanway

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=4996

1818, Marries Coxes daughter:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=64623

Roger Fenwick, Little Island (Inis Beg) 1719, Trustee Marriage Settlement Blair/White, Dunanway later Bantry/Durrus

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=79090

1763, Dublin:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=151666

Roger Fenwick deceased 1802:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=360955

Baint Agus Sábháil na Móna, Saving The Turf, in Old Gaelic Script.

A plea for the restoration of the Seamhú/Buailteacht and the old Gaelic Script

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6191223,-9.5427023,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

1939, Pattern at the Priest’s Gate, Gearhameen, Durrus, West Cork, Scoriochting, and the Priest’s attempt to Stop it as he did not like the Different Religions Mixing.

The photograph is of local girls on a Sunday afternoon before the Pattern a dance held on a raised podium.  Among the musicians was a fiddler Con Desmond.

Further up the road at Sea Lodge was the house of Tom Dukelow, an open house where the old neighbours gathered in the winter’s evenings for music, song and story telling.

A new priest to the parish was anxious to put a stop to it as he did not like the Catholics mixing wiht their Protestant neighbours.   They carried on regardless.

In the photograph are the McCarthy girls from across Dunmanus Bay at Coolculaghta.   They and other would row across the Bay.   Across the Bay was another base for music making ‘The Station Heights’ old coastguard cottages and the families there were great for music and dancing.

Father Roche had another joust with a parishioner who was living with a woman not married.  He called to the man’s house and read the riot act, the parishioner responded that Father Roche was also living wiht a woman (his housekeeper) unmarried who was younger then his woman, and that was the end of it.

Sample Orthography 1841, Durrus District, West Cork, and the Much Maligned Ordnance Survey.
Contrary to popular belief the 1840s Ordnance Survey went to great lengths to peoperly record placenames and features as set out.

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Searching-for-his-birth-mother-Frank-Snelling-discovers-an-Irish-brother-he-never-knew-he-had.html

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

In 1845, in Louisiana, USA, the Priests were exhorting the Immigrant Irish to forsake the grog halls of New Orleans and go up the Mississippi. like the Germans to claim the free land

Declarations of intent to be US Citizens filed at Courthouse Natrona, Casper, Wyoming, USA, 1894-1916 from Muintervara/Kilcrohane, West Cork.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000550

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration/a-tale-of-two-brothers-separated-for-44-years-1.2044118

Destroyed in Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922.

Will of Edward Turner of Balligobane (Bantry) Co. Cork, Merchant, signed 4th November 1633, Proven 26th November 1633, wife Joan, Son Edward, Eldest Daughter Ann Daughter Margaret daughter Three Daughters my last wife Sarah, Mary, Hester, Four Children, wife by former husband Samuel. Mary, Newton, only Sarah is of age, brothers Isaac and Henry Turner, sister Sarah Huggett in England, Executrix wife, Overseers: Anthony Stowell of Oneskayne (Enniskeane?), Edward Eyres of Durrus, Witnesses Edward Eyre, William Snelling, Thomas Whiddington, Charles Dennis.

Probably involved in fishing industry as were Snelling and Whiddington.  The Denis name lives on, Charlie Dennis was a noted local poet in the early-mid 20th century in the Rooska area.

Will of Thomas Holmes, Drumfinchin, Barony of Bere and Bantry, Clerke (Minister of Church of Ireland), Signed 10th July 1713, Proven 21st July 1718, To be Buried Bantry Church, Son Luke and Robert, Executrix wife Mary, Witness James Attridge, William O’Calianane, Pheebe Cullinchy, John Webber?

The Stowell may be Stawell later prominent in Kinsale and influential in British Admiralty.

Copied by Welply:

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.

Grant of English King Charles 111

and privileges usual in such grants and with a grant of a market every Wednesday and Saturday at Ballygobane, alias Oldtown, in the said manor of Bantry and of 3 fairs yearly at the same place on 29 May, 10

Drunfinchin:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Dromnafinshin,+Co.+Cork/@51.6968672,-9.4269135,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450bc7c4fd6975:0x00e54e14683b6603

Some ‘Scholars’, Durrus District, West Cork, 1720-1890.

Those records (a work in progress) draws on existing reliable records.  Until the 1950s pupils at school were normally referred to as scholars.  Not everyone on the lists are scholars in the strict sense as some of their descendants in the 1901 census are illiterate.

Schools in Bantry/Skibbereen/Schull area West Cork 19th century School Boycott, Dromore (Bantry) 1880s. Remarkable as a consequence of the Catholic Church dispute with the British Government that for 30 years (c 1845-75) children were taught by untrained teachers. c 1830 Appointment of Master Madden, Ardfield at a Salary of £28 per annum.

Church Education Society Schools, Mizen/Iveragh Peninsula 183-1846, West Cork

Schools:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YDLRw4-b35oB91lsWfMmE3JF5ozgrk4CNx-7UEC6-Bk/edit#gid=0

Teachers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eg1XT1Z9dnB0wf0B7dGZX_r85d8EwjnpBLxqCv0M9ck/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.com/2014/06/20/teachers-baronies-bantry-and-bere-west-carbery-west-muskery-co-cork-1828-9
Boys:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ZMnI4ICFF_4bdlDfufcYKaPZ_kMEuuxr87kl9MBRaQ/edit#gid=0

Girls:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/138TzqY7V9CE50bs1yEPKKBEz02XNJu2lPcNRVqbJFak/edit#gid=0

Bantry:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bantry,+Co.+Cork/@51.6808918,-9.4486028,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a56fb9974b9:0x0a00c7a99731a220

Bandon:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0x0a00c7a99731fbb0

1796, Bandon Catholic Chapel being built by Father Shinwick, List of Subscribers includes at least 49 Protestants.  Bantry Catholics in 1796 acknowledge the Liberal Donation for the proposed Chapel of Lord Viscount Kenmare and thank Richard Simon and Hamilton White for their Generous Benefaction.

Parish History

http://www.corkandross.org/parishHistory.jsp?parishID=11