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Report of James O’Sullivan, Berehaven on French Invasion, Bantry Bay, 2nd January 1797.

Imagined Landing of the French in Bantry Bay 1796 from the London Printing and Publishing Company

Cartoon from Bond Street, London January 1797 on Destruction of French Armada at Bantry Bay.

Notes on the Movement of the French Fleet in Bantry Bay and Panic in Bantry on Friday the 23rd December 1796, the women seek asylum in Bandon or Cork or to the Kerry Hills from a contemporaneous note by Edward Morgan.

 

1796.  The Harmful Effects of Peace, Expedition to Bantry Bay No Troops In Action.  Various Accounts of French Invasion.

 

1822 Petition of Joshua H Cox, Manor House, Dunmanway for continuance of Mother’s Pension of £200 Mentions Favourable Treatment of French Officers in 1796, French Officers on Parole entertained at Balls, Petition of Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, to be Re-Instated as Magistrate, Mentions his Role in preventing Spread of the ‘Insurrectionary Spirit’ in the South of Ireland in the Winter of 1821, Other Baldwin Magistrates, Co. Cork.

 

1796 French Invasion Bantry Bay Anchor

 

Observations of Breton traveller Jacques Louise de Bougrenet (De Latocnaye) in West Cork, Bandon, Macroom, Dunmanway ‘The Priest’s Leap’ and Bantry 1796, keening at funerals, Raths and Lises, Hedge Schools, Flax and Mr Cox’s improvements in Dunmanway, 200 French Officers captured in Bantry on parole in Dumnmanway.

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