From the Office of the Hanaper, 1661-1684, Justices or Commissioners of the Peace for Co. Cork in Reign of King Charles 11

Extracts from Diary 1622 of Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Nonpayment by Blind John Power, of Rectorial Tithes, including Caheragh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Schull, Myross, West Cork, Gift to Lord Beaumont Departing, of Gelding, Caste of Falcons, Merlyns, 9 Barrels of Irish Fryce and Barrell of Pickled Scallops used for Food by the Irish, Sending Cutty (‘Cuidighe’ Irish for Companion) Ogle to England.

Courtesy Dr. Casey collection.

The tithe references are possibly a relict of the Norman incursions to West Cork. These areas belonged to either St Catherine’s of Waterford or the College of Youghal. They appear in the accounts books of St Finbarrs Cathedral Cork, from the 1780s, the ledgers are in pristine condition in the RCB Library in Rathgar, Dublin.

Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Sir William Hull of Leamcon, Schull and Sir Thomas Crook, founder of Baltimore who ‘Unjustly took his Falcons’, and Sir Fineen O’Driscoll gave him Falcons

Payment of War Bonuses to Teachers during Word War 1, example Durrus National School, West Cork.

Included in the accounts records of the school, are computations of the relevant bonuses payable to teachers. This was widespread at the time, owing to a shortage of men in the United Kingdom of which Ireland was then a part.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=zojoAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=payment+of+war+bonus+to+teachers+world+war+1&source=bl&ots=0s2B5U2dS2&sig=nbS4gZ7fIjXo_sJ38rPK4bZWZG0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b0teVfyWAYTD7gaUpIDoAg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=payment%20of%20war%20bonus%20to%20teachers%20world%20war%201&f=false

Report 1934, by Canon Bastible, of Religious Inspection of Durrus National School, West Cork.

Jack Dukelow (1866-1953), Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork, linking O’Sullivan Bere to Past and Present Governor of Louisiana and former US Senator for Louisiana.

Jack’s daughter Sarah was the mother of Ernest Dukelow who was adopted by the Snelling family in New Orleans in the early 1950s. He became an Attorney and married Mary Landriue, up to last year US Senator for Louisiana. Her brother is the current Governor and her father a former one of the State.

Jack’s grandmother was Margaret O’Sullivan one of the Hurrig Sept. She is descended from the 1774 marriage of Michael Sullivan and Mary Vickery of Whiddy Island. It is believed that Michael descends from O’Sullivan Bere, possibly on the Finnin Dubh side. He was a Heart Tax collector in Bantry and extensive middle man.

Interestingly one of the descendants of the Tedagh (Durrus/Bantry) branch in the 1830s was living in New Orleans and papers had to be sent to him for notarization in connection with a family settlement.

Jack Dukelow:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gnw2LsIbV0Wxk2bGjzCPq9sH9rCCQOrYTh5c0bG7vf0/edit

Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.

Senator Mary Landrieu, Louisiana (1996-2014), USA, the the Dukelows of Durrus, West Cork.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6217107,-9.521993,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Commencement of the Teaching of Irish as an Optional Extra at Carrigboy/Four Mile Water/Durrus, Boys National School, West Cork 1896.

The boys who take the subject generally do after 4th class.

Late 7th Century Irish Scribes, First in the World to use Spacing between Words.

Hermitages on the Mizen, Muinter Bháire, Beara Peninsulas and the Island and the Deserts of Sinai, the Middle Eastern influences of the Book of Kells