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  • 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
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  • 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

December 1765, Irish House of Commons Vote £2,000 to Improve Navigation on Bandon River between Innishannon and Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Money not Spent).

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December 1765, Irish House of Commons Vote £2,000 to Improve Navigation on Bandon River between Innishannon and Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Money not Spent).

This would have been some time after Sir Richard Cox westwards built Dunmanway and established the Linen industry.

Over the years various schemes including canals were mooted over the River Bandon.

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Petition against Captain Rock (Whiteboys), Bandon Co. Cork, 1820s Subscribers

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Petition against Captain Rock (Whiteboys), Bandon Co. Cork, 1820s Subscribers

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1825, Charges Brought Against Baronial Constables P. Caulfield, John McDonald of Ballydehob (Swantonstown), West Cork over their Sectarian Taunting of Thomas Swanton For He Having Changed Religon.

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1825, Charges Brought Against Baronial Constables P. Caulfield, John McDonald of Ballydehob, West Cork over their Sectarian Taunting of Thomas Swanton For He Having Changed Religon.

At one stage Ballydehob was known as Swantonstown.

The piece is interesting as it confirms the low regard of the pre RIC policing system, the low states and calibre of he personnel.  It is interesting that the aggrieved party had enough confidence in the Petty Session to bring a charge.  Note the reported comments of the Magistrates over aggravating Religious animosity.

Shorty after the RIC came into being and apart from their role as Protector of the British Interest in Ireland they gave impartial service to the community.

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Cork City and County Grand July 1825.

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Cork City and County Grand July 1825.

Names and Address Grand Juries, Co. Cork 1839 1839 County Cork Record Jury. Summer Assizes. Sir William Abraham Chatterton, Castlemahon, Cork,Thomas Hungerford, Cahirmore, Clonakilty, Thomas Somerville, Drishane, Skibbereen, Edward Townsend, Whitehall, Skibbereen, Standish Harrison Castle Harrison, Charleville, Daniel Connor, Manch, Dunmanway, Thomas Perrott, Fermoy, James Joseph Roche, Aghada House, Midleton, Henry M. Mitchell, Mitchelsfort, Watergrasshill, Charles Connell, Cloverhill, Blackrock, Cork, Samuel P. Townsend, Garrycloyne, Watergrasshill, Edward J. Morrogh, Glanmire House, Charles Colthurst, Clonmoyle, Coachford, St. John A. Clarke, Overton, Bandon, Henry Cole Bowen, Bowen’s Court, Doneraile, Jeremiah Eugene McCarthy, Cork, Denis O’Callaghan, Cahirduggan, Midleton, John McCarthy O’Leary, Millstreet, William Cooke Collis Junior, Castlecook, KIlworth, Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Henry Leader, Mount Leader, Charleville, Pierce Power, Clonmult, Fermoy, herbert Gillman, Bennetts Grove, Clonakilty, Benjamin Sweet, Greenville, Bandon, George Bruce, Milltown Castle, Charleville, William MInhear, Raleigh, Macroom, William Harrington junior, Crosshaven, William Brown, Coolcower, Macroom, Jonas Travers, Butlers town, Gerard Barry, Ballinahina, Cork, John Molony, Ballinaboy, Ballinhassig, George Cooper Stawell, Oldcourt, Bandon, Edward Barrett, Carrigbuee, Macroom, Simon Cook, Oldtown, Henry Baldwin, Mount Pleasant, Bandon, John O’Sullivan, Coomatringane, Castletownbere, Benjamin B. Creagh, Doneraile, Edward Supple, Kinsale, John Leade, Junior, Keale, Millstreet, Richard Donovan, Lisheens, Henry Herrick Woodlands, Bandon, Philip Harding, Firville, Macroom, Thomas Lloyd Williamson, Castleview, Fermoy, William Barry, Charleville, John Nason Newtown, Fermoy, Jonas Morris Townsend, Shepperton, Skibbereen, Christopher Crofts, Ballyhoura, John Howe, Glanavirane, Kinsale, Patrick Coleman, KInsale, Edward Purcell Junior, Bawnishal?, and 1840.

Evidence of Richard White Esq., Bantry, that the Cork Grand Jury need to raise £90-100,000 to run County Cork in 1844.

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Some Genealogy of West Cork Hungerford Family.

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Some Genealogy of West Cork Hungerford Family.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2598

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Genealogy of Jervois Family, Brade, Skibbereen, West Cork and Deed 1709 Joseph Jervois, Brade, Jervois Magistrates Marriage Portion of £500 over Lands at Brade, Skibbereen, of Mary Anne Jervois Daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Allen, Grandmother Ellen Jervois, to William Scott Esq., Drinagh, Trustees John and Matthew O’Hea, Cork.

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Genealogy of Jervois Family, Brade, Skibbereen, West Cork and Deed 1709 Joseph Jervois, Brade, Jervois, Magistrates Marriage Portion of £500 over Lands at Brade, Skibbereen, of Mary Anne Jervois Daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Allen, Grandmother Ellen Jervois, to William Scott Esq., Drinagh, Trustees John and Matthew O’Hea, Cork.

In the DNA markers of descendants of the Crowley family originating in Ballyourne, Caheragh, the Jervois name appears together with Bernard, Cox, Evans and Hull.

The Allen are wealthy Cork Merchants some of the family are Quakers.

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John Jervois Murphy (1820-1883), from Newtown Bantry West Cork, to Mayor Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3122

Some O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, West Cork, deeds, conveyances, settlements, leases mortgages including to Samuel Jervois, Brade, from 1619

Magistrates:

Sampson Jervais/Jervois, 1784, Bandon, managed Bernard Bandon Estate.

Joseph Jervis (1653-, 1696. Brade, Skibbereen,  n 1696, Son of Captain Samuel Jervois and Lattis Wescombe of Barnstable. He married 1699 Martha Freke of Garretstown (late Lord Carbery family) Joseph was appointed a Justice of the Peace for County Cork and in 1698, together with his brother Samuel, he leased the lands of Towmacdermod and Malagow from Daniel O’Donovan of Banelaghan. This document is also in the Registry of Deeds, Dublin, and bears both his signature and his seal of six ostrich feathers. Prominent in affairs of Clonakilty.  The lands concerned are both in the neighbouring parish of Drinagh and total about 524 acres. Planted woodland which Smith in 1750 commented favourably on.

Rev. Joseph Jervois A.M -pre 1870). Clancool, Bandon. Pre 1831, Provost of Bandon, Rector of Ardagh, Youghal. 1821 letter to Chief Secretary indicating Bandon is tranquil later letter discontent spreading enclosing warrant to search for firearms and meeting of Magistrates re increase in outrages signed also by 1st Earl of Bandon.  Letter 1821 re Orange riot in which two died and ‘ill feeling’.    Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828.  1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Reps 1870 return, 202 acres.

Samuel Jervois, 1654.  

Samuel Jervois, 1729, Brade, Skibbereen, witness to Bandon deed 1742, 1743.

Samuel Jervois , 1769, Brade, Skibbereen, in 1777 chasing bandetti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Richard and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan.  Member as Bandon Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.

May be father of Samuel who married Lucinda Allen.

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More of the Genealogy of McCarthy Muclagh,  Clann Tadhg Ruaidh na Scairte, Family of Scart, Durrus, Bantry, West Cork, Later Cul-na-Long

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More of the Genealogy of McCarthy Muclagh,  Clann Tadhg Ruaidh na Scairte, Family of Scart, Durrus, Bantry, West Cork, Later Cul-na-Long

Genealogy of McCarthy (Muclagh/Clann Tadhg Ruaidh-na-Scairte) family of Scart (Durrus/Bantry), West Cork, later Cul-na-long, from 1185 AD including descendants of Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy from Samuel Trant McCarthy, High Sheriff Co.Kerry, Srugrena Abbey 1912 intermarried with O’Learys Incigeela, McCarthys Kilcoe, O’Donovans, O’Mahonys Dunbeacon, McCarthys Dunmanway, Blairs Bantry/Coolculaghta/Blair’s Cove among others, 18th century family members in France.

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Genealogy of Jermyns of Aughadown, West Cork

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Skibbereen, West Cork, Descendants of Marmion of Dundalk, Co Louth Norman family intermarried names include Attridge, Beamish, Dowe, Jermyn, Long, Holmes, O’Driscoll, O’Sullivan, Wiseman, family involved in Land Management, Auctioneering, Transport Operators, Progressive Millers, Churchmen, descendants England, Tasmania, USA.

Estate of Henry Jermyn Esq, Aughadown, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1,275 acres, part survey of Killsarlaghta, Aughadown, 1790 by John Molony, Ploughland occupied by Denis Driscoll and Syeey/Gosnell?? 275 acres, showing also Bishop of Cork and Ross holdings at Aughadown, Dromnacaharagh, Upper and Lower Lisheen, Killhilleen, Bawngoree, Whitehall Roaring Water Road, Deed 1788, and Exchequer Bill 1771 from Stephen Warner Lands of 1740, 1710 Deed Warner/Jermyn, Richard Baldwin v Jermyns, Warners, John O’Hea, Deed 1788, and Exchequer Bill 1771 from Stephen Warner Lands at Tullnaeasky, of 1740, Denis Fenn, Various Jermyns, Warners, 1788 Party of Deeds for Minor Children of The O’Donovan, Only child, Catherine, heiress, married Henry Becher Esq., 1805. Party to 1807 pre Marriage Agreement, Elizabeth McCarthy only daughter of Owen, Caheragh to John Woulfe, Coolcrahan

Genealogy of Jermyns of Aughadown, West Cork

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1877

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Subscriber 1791 Killarney, A Poem, Pat O’Kelly, Henry Jermyn.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=uf9DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=rev.+lamphier+cork&source=bl&ots=KebliK-Slm&sig=ACfU3U1koYksxCy9QNnYNvRWzHltjqLtbg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD4PeXtLjpAhWbRxUIHXw9Cf0Q6AEwAHoECAcQAQ

Patent of Charles 2, 1668 of England to Lands in West Cork to Henry and John Beecher and John Bayley

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Patent of Charles 2 of England to Lands in West Cork to Henry  and John Beecher and John Bayley:

It is likely that these were O’Driscoll and MacCarthy Lands forfeited post 1641 Rebellion.

It is interesting in the Landed Estates Sale of part of the Beecher Estate the title is supplement by a Lease from Coppinger of c 1698.  Possibly connected with Sir Walter Coppinger a major land Owner who also lost his lands at the same period.

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

Lease of Three Ploughlands at Ballydevlin (Goleen), West Carbery, William Richard Hull, (Descendant of Sir William Hull), Gunpoint to Cornelius Driscoll (likely ancestors of Driscoll/O’Driscoll Middlemen). Alexander O’Driscoll named in numerous Swanton, Attridge, Clerke deeds as witness and his children as lives in Sub Leases from Becher and Other Head Landlords in District.

Will of Thomas Becher, Property Magnate, Sherkin Island, West Cork, Esq., 21 August 1705. Proved 11th March 1708. 11 March 1708. Brothers in Law Henry Turner Richard Turner and John Roberts Trustees and Executors. Wife Elizabeth Becher. Sons Edward and Michael Becher both married. His Henry John and Lionell Becher daughter Susan Becher. Kinsman Francis Becher Tallough (Tallow) Co Waterford Clerk. Legacy to Parish of Ballymodan (Bandon) Ardtentane, Cahiroleckeny, Ratooragh, Gortloen, Banratonacane, Kiltomane, Mauladinny and Coomfarna in parish of Schull. Ballyrisode, Dunkilly, Callirisoughtra, Baltenoughtra, Kilbean, Lynane, Cahir, Quorisk, Co Cork. Baneaknockakane and Quolaigh, Parish of Schull, Co. Cork. Old Court, Kilfenan, Glaunaroura. Leasehold lands of Aghadowne, Kilkilleene, Callitrumore, Callitrumbegg, Drumnacahara, Lysheenoughra, Kilmoonagh, Cluddagh, Smorane, Quoecurine, Rinedolane, Gortnaclough, Skibbereene alias New-Stapletown, Coronra, All in Co Cork Witness: Dive Downes (Son-in-Law) Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross. Robert Conrad, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Esq. Benjamin Weekes, Cork, Notary Public, James Russell servant to Bishop of Cork.

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

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2436

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A Giant Step Forward for Irish Genealogy

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