James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, West Cork, Member ‘Bantry Band’, children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School.  In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.

His grandfather was probably from Sligo.

Dr John Wood Levis (trained Edinburgh) 1901, died 1913 after 26 years service in Durrus. In 1894 he was submitting reports to the Bantry Union warning of the danger of fever in Durrus the village pump had been sent to Perrots in Cork, for repair and five months later was not returned.  The village was taking its water from the river which was polluted with the sewage of the village and dead dogs and cats.  He applied for a salary increase in 1904, he had been receiving £100 with £10 as of Health, at the time the nurse’s salary was £30.  In 1910 together with T Shannon, Brahalish he was an assenter to James Gilhooley MP.

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

http://www.freemountvillage.com/memory_mr_james_gilhooly_mp

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/15622/james_gilhooly/cork_westhttp://bmdnotices.com/in-memoriam/viewremembrance.aspx?remembranceid=344

Leaflet on Palm Nut Cake for Cattle, Poultry and Pig Feed, from the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, April 1920.

Grottos:

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/grottos-in-co-cork.html

Cork Signs:

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/individual-buildings-or-houses.html

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/1719-skiddys-almhouses.html

Aghonagh Cemetery

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/a-lot-of-history-in-one-place

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Girl’s Register Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School, West Cork, 1866-1930, Boys 1883-, Pupils name, Townland, Parents Occupation, Former School if Relevant given, some Financial Records, one parent James Gilhooley, Irish Parliamentary Party MP for West Cork and Member of Bantry Band’.

A number of people in Ireland and worldwide are developing a project to bring together the various records to include those born in the district.   This will include verifiable dates of birth education, parents, townland, education, occupation marriage and if relevant emigration, Places of emigration may include Ottowa Valley, Canada, Boston, Rochester New York, Casper Wyoming, New York and San Francisco, South Wales, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.   If you have any interest or information to include please forward to pat25a@gmail.com

Girls 1870-1930:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6146640094366678001

Boys 1883-:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6146780186977414449

Catholic Records for Muintervara Parish from c 1818 included some ‘Protestant’ names as parents, sponsors, witnesses:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=&namel=&location=muintervara&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search&sort=&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&ddBfrom=&ddMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmBfrom=&mmMfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyBfrom=&yyMfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&ddMto=&ddDto=&mmBto=&mmMto=&mmDto=&yyBto=&yyMto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&event=

Tithe Aplottments by Townland courtesy Susan Baretta, Salt Lake City:

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/durrus/tithe.html

Griffith Valuation 1850:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doPlaceSearch&Submit.x=42&Submit.y=10&freetext=Place+Name&countyname=CORK&baronyname=&unionname=&parishname=DURRUS+PART+OF

Some Church of Ireland/Methodist Records:

Births:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit

Marriages:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit

Deaths:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MBTBrhs4DGE3MLaTgdKh3bGN61n_xDnYTOL-zztRKcM/edit#gid=0

Bandon Estate Records for some townlands from 1854:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0

Census 1901 and 1911, search by DED Durrus East and Durrus West:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year=1901&surname=&exact=&firstname=&county19011911=Cork&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&townland=&ded=durrus+east&age=&sex=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=&birthplace=&nativeCountry=&language=&deafdumb=&houseNumber=&familiesNumber=&malesNumber=&femalesNumber=&maleServNumber=&femaleServNumber=&estChurchNumber=&romanCatNumber=&presbNumberDiv=&protNumber=&parish=&barony=&yearsMarried=&causeOfDeath=&yearOfDeath=&familyId=&ageInMonths=&search=Search&sort=&pageSize=100

Civil Records from c 1865 in most cases births, marriages, deaths:

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The munificence of Kathleen Dukelow in Donating Philips’ Green to the people of Durrus, West Cork.

Kathleen Dukelow now in her 90s donated a site from her property and funds to build a community centre which will open officially soon.

Her school contemporaries recall her as the most intelligent pupil in the school with a great interest in botany, and she knows all the old bog plants.  In the 1940 she emigrated to London to work as a telephonist.

Her mother was Charlotte (Lotty) Phillips.  The Phillips family in Durrus originated with a family member who came around 1850 possibly at the time Lord Bandon recovered the Estate from the Evansons.  The Phillips were involved in managing the estate and ran the Bandon Arms Hotel in the village and a coaching establishment.  Their horses wee overwintered on Carbery Island.

Also in the photos is an old water pump before piped water came to the village

Use by Ruaidhrí  (Rory) Ó Caisaide (Cassidy) of Arabic Numerals in The Annals Of Ulster, 1489-1504, through Families Familiarity with Arabic Medical Treatises, Ó Casiade was a member of a Fermanagh Medical Family, hereditary physicians to the Maguire family.

Ó Casiade was a member of a Fermanagh Medical Family hereditary physicians to the Maguire family.

From Daniel Mccarthy’s TCD MS 1882 (The Annals aoaf Ulster).

Courtesy Four Courts Press: