Miss O’Donovan, daughter of Doctor Daniel O’Donovan Esq., of Ahakista, west Cork and of O’Donovan Cove family probable Ancestor of Sir Stanley Harrington, of Harrington Goodglass Wall, Paint Manufacturers, Blackpool, Cork.

Doctor O’Donovan may have been the father of Doctor Daniel O’Donovan the author of the History=y of Carbery, he died young. He was part of the O’Donovan Cove family. They were one of the first Catholic families to purchase an estate in 1750 after the confiscations. Timothy O’Donovan of the family was one of the first Catholic Magistrates in Co. Cork.

The Harrington factory was acquired some years ago by the then ICI.

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

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