Beecher Estate Improvement from 1841, Voluntary Surrender of 200 holdings , reallocations, new roads.

Beecher Estate:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/family-show.jsp?id=2442

Lease Covenants, Becher estate, Schull 1833, Tenant to Supply Landlord, One fat Hog, of one and a half hundred weight, O’Donovan Estate, Roskerrig, Kilcrohane, 1856, To Supply a Labourer and horse and Guide four days a year

Hollybrook House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Greenhouse and Vinery 1852 Residence of Richard Henry Hedges Becher, Esq., with Plans.

Invitation by Henry Townsend DL, 1839, on behalf of The Reformers of the West Riding of Cork to Daniel O’Connel MP to Dinner in Bandon, Co Cork, with 200 Liberals in attendance including, Francis Bernard Beamish MP (1802-1868), Rickard Deasy (1766-1852) Brewer Clonakilty, James Clugston Allman Distiller Bandon, James Redmond Barry J.P., Cmmisioner for Fisheries, Edward O’Brien, Masonic Lodge Bandon, John Hurley Brewer., Major E. Broderick, Henry Owen Beecher Townsend (1775-1847), Major Mathew Scott J.P. (1779-1844), Philip Harding, Carrigafooka, Macroom, Richard Dowden (1794-1861) Unitarian, Frances Coppinger Esq., Parkview, Bandon.

Beecher Estate Improvement from 1841, Voluntary Surrender of 200 holdings , reallocations, new roads.


http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/283660

Aughadown, Skibbereen, Here lies the body of Captain Henry Tonson who departed this life November the Twenty Fifth and in the Thirtieth Seventh year of his age 1703. From Extended Hull/Lord Riversdale Family.

Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829. ‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

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 .

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http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Gravestone.aspx?GravestoneID=132