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  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
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  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
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  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Townlands, Place and Field Names in English and Irish Kilcaskin (Cill Cháscann) Parish, Barony of Bere, West Cork.

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Aughadown,+Co.+Cork/@51.7174076,-9.5984873,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a3eec9a8475d:0x1800c7a937df2b00

Townlands, Place and Field Names in English and Irish Kilcaskin (Cill Cháscann) Parish, Barony of Bere, West Cork.

Courtesy Míchéal MacCárthaigh, 1989, JCHAS.

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/kilcaskan-1123.html

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Cork&parish=Clonmeen&townland=Kilcaskan&search=Search

http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/clergy/stories/kilcaskan.htm

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.

Schools 1835, Castlehaven, Creagh, Kilcaskin, Kilcoe, Cape Clear Island, Kilgariff, West Cork, Commissioners of Public Instruction.

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Gallery

Scratched Stone – Scratched Heads

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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This gallery contains 10 photos.


Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
Aultagh Ogham Stone One thing always leads to another – that’s something you can be sure…

Gallery

All the Trimmings

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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This gallery contains 16 photos.


Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
In my two previous posts on our wonderful West Cork colourful houses, A Lick of Paint…

5th to 7th Century Bronze Pin, Found Goulacullin, Dunmanway, West Cork.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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Probably general area:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Glouneycarney,+Co.+Cork/@51.7613495,-9.23754,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450439b0fb923b:0x0c461b89fa094d69

5th to 7th Century Bronze Pin, Found Goulacullin, Dunmanway, West Cork.

Courtesy JCHAS.

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Origin and History of Co. Cork’s, 5,478 Townlands.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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Origin and History of Co. Cork’s, 5,478 Townlands.  In fact there are far more as many are in local use and are not officially recognised.

Courtesy Mr. Flanagan, JCHAS, 1979.

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Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.

Before Haughey as Minister for Finance in the 1960s introduced the scheme the spouses and children of deceased civil servants had to rely o the charity of others.

Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

https://durrushistory.com/2012/11/20/from-the-prohibition-of-irish-wool-exports-to-charlie-haughey-1980/

Townland Names of Irish Origin, Co. Cork, with ‘Baile’

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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Townland Names of Irish Origin, Co. Cork, with ‘Baile’

Courtesy JCHAS, 1979.

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Townland Names of Irish Origin, Co. Cork, Excluding Baile but Including Lis, Rath, Caher, Doon.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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Townland Names of Irish Origin, Co. Cork, Excluding Baile but Including Lis, Rath, Caher, Doon.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1979.

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Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castlehaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.5108647,-9.1919606,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845af85f3f3c235:0x1800c7a937dfd780

Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.

From Galweys of Munster by Sir Henry Blackhall (a descendant) courtesy JCHAS, 1967.

Some branches of the Galweys conformed to the Church of Ireland and intermarried with the Townsends and other families.

Genealogy of David Gallwey, Bantry, West Cork, son of Henry and Mary McCarthy conformed to the Church of Ireland 1770, Adjutant Bantry Volunteers, Left for Lisbon, son Consul for Portugal in Cork ancestor of Galweys in Portugal, Brazil, Tenerife, USA, Peru.

Bantry, West Cork, Galweys, Gurteenroe, 1756, ‘Very Opulent Honest People Reduced in Recent Years of Frequent Seizures’ falling on hard times

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1766, Lord Lieutenant Gives Assent to the Building of a Turnpike Road from Kanturk to Cork. May have been an early butter road.

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kanturk,+Co.+Cork/@52.1363923,-8.8989871,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844c59339d43db1:0x0a00c7a997319d50

1766, Lord Lieutenant Gives Assent to the Building of a Turnpike Road from  Kanturk to Cork.  May have been an early butter road.

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