Donemark:

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Gorteenroe:

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Ballylickey:

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Some Rent receipts, Kenmare Estate 1741-46, Bantry Beara Area, William Sullivan, Florence Sullivan, Rev. Thomas Miller, Mort Sullivan, Gilbert Mellifont Donemark, Michael Murphy Newtown and Mills, Beversham Harman Laheran, Patrick Galwey Gurteenroe, Daniel Cronin Gortdarrug Cooloum, Thomas Hutchins Ballylickey, John Riordan Ballylickey, Patrick Minihane Donemark, Richard Tobin Mills Donemark, Ards Coomleigh, Denis Leary, John Harman.

Bantry area substantial tenants 1742-1747 on Kenmare Estate

Gilbert Mellifont Donemark, rents collected by John Galwey of Cork and lodged in Hoares, John Harman, Lahern, Beversham Harman, Lahern, John Harman Derryduff, James Gallwey, Reendonegan/Donemark/Coomleigh, Henry Galwey and son Andrew, Droumsullivan/Glanneouogh, Patrick Galwey Gurteenroe, David Gallwey, Drounsullivan/Glancreagh, Denisl Leary, Gurtenroe, Richard Goodwin, Knockanacosduff, Thomas Huthins, Ballylickey,, Rev. Thomas MIller, Reendonegan, Michael Murphy Newtown arrears paid to James Gallwey, John Riordane Newtown, FRances Sullevane, Newtown, Richard Tobin Donemark Mills,

This is a selection of the rentals mentioned in the Casey Collection. In the main they are substantial tenants who would have worked some of the land themselves and in many cases sub let.

The Kenmare Estate was the Brownes/Herberts and was one of the few to remain in Catholic hands during the Penal Laws. It was probably O’Sullivan before the Confiscations.

Some records of the Kenmare Estate for Bantry District

1752, Daniel Harrington, Gortaweer, Beara, formerly under tenant of Puxley (he a poor payer of rent) now a direct tenant of Kenmare Estate has no English.

Catholic Middlemen on the Kenmare and Lansdowne Estates 1755 and 1775, Pride..Sloth..Drunkiness..Every one thinks himself too great for any industry except taking farms. When they happen to get them, they screw enormous rents from some beggarly dairyman and spend their whole time in the alehouse to the next village. If they have sons, they are to be bred to be priests, physicians or French officers; if daughters, they are bred to be no kind of industry but become encumbrances on their parents and the public an this sloth and beggary are transmitted from generation to generation. …1775.. Sauntering around the roads dong nothing, and their sons and daughters going to a dancing school at three shillings a quarter when they might be spinning or carding, digging or ploughing or sowing.

Memoir of Blind Harpist Arthur O’Neill, visit to Murtagh Mac Owen O’Sullivan at Berehaven, Co. Cork, Milesian Festival held by Lord Kenmare c 1720.

A stop is put to felling timber, June 1696, in forfeited woods near Bantry by Lord Bellemount’s steward. This was on Sir Nicholas Brown’s land commonly called Lord Kenmare, later which should have been reserved for the Navy. The coast has 24 privateers who report to the Western Irish, their friends, and land men and pillage the country, damaging Protestant families.

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