Famine Report of Dr. Stephens on Bantry Workhouse and Fever Hospital, 1847.
Famine Report of Dr. Stephens on Bantry Workhouse and Fever Hospital, 1847.
30 Tuesday Jun 2015
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Famine Report of Dr. Stephens on Bantry Workhouse and Fever Hospital, 1847.
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1835. 1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland. Begging, Impotence Through Old Age, Sick Poor, Able Bodies Out of work, Vagrancy, Evidence taken at Ballydehob, West Cork, from Rev. James Barry, Parish Priest, Rev. John Barry, Curate, Rev. John Triphook, Protestant Minister, John Brooks, Farmer, £1 rent, Alexander English Churchwarden, James Levis, farmer, Rent £33, Cornelius Mahony, Labourer, Patrick Mahony, Farmer, £10, James Mahony, John Murphy, Daniel Sullivan all labourers and Quarrymen, Thomas Swanton, James Swanton, Merchant, Sweetnam, Dispensary Surgeon, Richard Salter Farmer, Farmer Rent £14. Begging starts St. Patrick’s Day, Destitution of Bandon Weavers, Maimed Children, Absentee Landlords Take £6,000 a Year From Parish Subscribe £3 to Dispensary, Sick lie on Knotted Ferns.
Begging:
Questionaire:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246819
Pages 682-686.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246690
Impotence Through Old Age p 266-267:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246275
Sick Poor p 339-340:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246347
Able Bodied out of Work p 457:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246466
Vagrancy p 682-:
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1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835,Bastardy, Begging, Emigration Written Submissions from Clergymen and Magistrates from Drinagh, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), Abbeystowy (Skibbereen), Aughadown, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Myross, Sherkin Island, Tullagh (Baltimore), Kilmoe, Breagh, Durrus and Kilcrohane, Schull. In Durrus Scarcely a Man or Woman who Never Married, Children left to Die by Exposure, No Power in Petty Session to Comple father to provide, Low Rate of Illegitimacy, Strolling Beggars, Protestant Widows May Get a Share of Poor Box, Seasonal Labouring, Those who Emigrated to England now going to America.
From p. 950-1002:
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1641 Forfeiture of Daniel O’Sullivan’s lands and 1823, From Report on His Majesties Quit Rents and Crown Lands in Ireland, Sale by Cant 1822 of 835 acres (Bog and Rocky Mountain, Kilcaskin, Barony of Bere and Bantry, Co. Cork, Title 1713 From Lord Justices and Council to John Davys, Gent., Dublin and 1641 Houses and Gardens, in Cork City, granted to Noblett Dunscomb.
Forfeiture from Daniel O’Sullivan lands confiscated in 1641:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9809/page/214838
The Dunscombs were Cork Merchants and property Developers who wee involved in reclaiming the present city centre. They latterly lived at Muont Desert, LeeRoad now part of the Bon Secours Hospital Group.Dunscomb:
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1824 Richard Griffith, Road Engineer, Progress Report, Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Wheeled Carts now Appear, where heretofore Loads were carried on the Backs of Horses, New Entrance to Town Of Bandon, Road From Courtmacsherry to Timoleague, Road from Clonakilty to New Fishery Pier At Ring, New Road Skibbereen to Bantry, Macroom to Killarney, with a Note on The System of Labour Organisation Used.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/8886
1828 Public Works Allocations, New Public Roads Skibbereen to Bantry Macroom to Glenflesk
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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
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.
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=tonson&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&mode=excerpt&action2=-1
http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Gravestone.aspx?GravestoneID=132
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Evidence of Maskelyne Alcock, Esq., Magistrate, Substantial farmer, on Cultivation of Furze for Horses in Bandon 1844.
Alcock Estate:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3001
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282512
Maskelyne Alcock Esq. TCD, 1791, Rough Grove/Ballygarvy (Bandon). 1784 subscriber Sheridan Dictionary. Cork Summer Assizes 1828. 26/6/1783 Alcock Maskelyne, marriage Popham Elizabeth Last Friday at St Barry’s, Maskelyne Alcock of Rough Grove Esq to Miss Elizabeth Popham with £1,000. 1828 Quarter Session Bandon. 1828 seeking reform of House of Commons. 1831, sitting Farnivane (Samuel Hosford’s house) 1835. Subscriber to Lewis 1837. Roughgrove had devolved on the Alcocks by inheritance from the Maskelyne family. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 1840 calling for Testimonial to late William Crawford Cork benefactor. Attending Landlord Meeting Bandon Courthouse 1846. Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846. Died Famine Fever.
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Baronial Constables, Black Jack Fitzgibbon, Constables Levied, First Metropolitan Police Forces, skibbereen, Thomas John Hungerford
1844 Evidence of Thomas John Hungerford, Land Agent, Skibbereen, of Pre RIC Policing, A Large Sum Paid to Baronial Constables Levied as a Tax, and Black Jack Fitzgibbon (Lord Clare 1749-1802) Success in Ridding Dublin of Them and Creating One of the World’s First Metropolitan Police Forces.
Pre RIC Policing was carried out by Parish Constables almost exclusively Protestant. Often broken down NCOs or Half Pay officers from the British Army. They were noted for laziness and incompetence.
The cess a local tax amounting perhaps to 12% of rent was collected by Baronial Constables (not policemen) and their retinue of proctors and drivers.
In Dublin in the 1770s the much reviled Black Jack Fitzgibbon, a member of the Junta decided to eliminate them. He encountered enormous opposition, as the ratepayers did not want to pay for a proper police service and other vested interest were involved. He persevered and within a year of the establishment of a proper metropolitan police force there was a dramatic drop in crime in Dublin.
http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/JohnFitzGibbonEarlofClare.php
Incidental evidence to a Parliamentary Commission on Land taken at Skibbereen, 1844:
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RJM was born in Wexford town and was initially stationed on the Ballyshannon and Pettigo Circuit. His first ‘appointment’ happened to be in a large kitchen completely filled with people from the fireplace to the door. In all the farmhouses where the preachers lodged and preached there could be found suspended behind the entrance a cow’s horn or a tin trumpet. This was used for calling the congregation together. It was first sounded about an hour before the service and then about 30 minutes later.
To get there a number of the young people had to cross a broad and rapid stream so they arrived without shoes or stockings. They also carried poles which were needed to ford the river. After the service some remained to sing favourite hymns. The young people also wanted to hear stories of Methodists in the south of Ireland, the ’98, the massacre on the…
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28 Sunday Jun 2015
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1844, Evidence of Michael Sullivan, Labourer, Abbeystrewry, Skibbereen, 5 children he would wish to be near National School, 6d per day if farmer employs him to whom he pays £2 for an acre and £1 for house. Labours away in Limerick and Tipperary digging Potatoes. Wife makes 2 shillings 6 d to 3 shillings a week from eggs poultry not allowed near farmer’s cornfield. One chaff bed, diet of dry potatoes, no milk, one pig obliged to keep in house, would emigrate cannot afford to do so,