1905 Valuer’s Report on Estate of Lord (Charles Pelham) Clinton, Crookhaven, West Cork 1905, Crookhaven formerly flourishing, Pilot Station, Fishing even the Isle of Man Fleet now gone, all now passed, Evidence of Want Of Circulation of Money, Copper Mine and Slate Quarry now Closed, Large Areas Quite Unprofitable, on Closed Examination Fertile Patches Between Rocks, Tenants Comfortable Many Houses Slated, Early Potatoes, Favourable Climate Produces Early Grass, Provider Scare in in Winter, Milch Cows of a Poor Description.

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At the time the estate was subject to a significant mortgage to a British Insurance Company and presumably the report was commissioned to explore options. In the end the tenants acquire their holdings.

In former times Crookhaven was a major shipping center with ships stopping to take on supplies.

Francis Jobson’s Map of West Cork, 1589 including Cape Clear (Iniskyran), Baltimore, O’Driscolls, Rosbrin, Crookhaven, Bantry, Muintervara land of Rymers (O’Daly’s Bardic School), O’Sullivan Bere, Priest’s Leap.

The progress of the Attridge family from Lisheenacreaagh (Lisín-na-Creiche: little-fort-of-the-cattle-spoil), Ballydehob, West Cork to Rochester, New York, United States and Waterdown, East Flanboro. Ontario, Canada, with associated families, Gosnells, Skerkin Island, and Lees and Sheehans, photographs of Sally and William Atteridge, Rochester, born West Cork 18th century, and Protestant Hedge School Masters.

Proposed Railway from Bantry to Crookhaven to be a Port of Call, 1866 Sale with Tenant listings of of Two Ploughlands and Two Gneeves at Dunmanus, Mizen, West Cork, in occupation by Alexander O’Driscoll, Esq. prior to 1814 conveyed to William Swanton and Richard Long, by Lord Riversdale and others (subject to the right of all persons to use the water in the Well Holy? at Tobernasool), with lands Sparagrady, Gurteenalla, Derrenaclogh, formerly enjoyed by Thomas Attridge and his under tenants at Ballydehob, 1812 ,by Lease of 12th September 1768, to William Swanton, Ballydehob from Richard Tonson for three Lives renewed in 1840 for lives of William Swanton, William Swanton (last alive in 1866 aged 34) and William Justice and lands at Drimoleague, Meenies, and Conveyance of 1812 Lord Riversdale to William Swanton Lands .