Item, Bantry House Collection, Boole Library, UCC.
830 30 March 1810
Deed made between Richard, Lord Viscount Bantry, Bantry, in the one part, Brigadier General Thomas Trotter, (Commanding Royal Artillery), Brigadier General Benjamin Fisher (Commanding Royal Engineers), Lieutenant Colonel Henry Roger (Storekeeper), Robert Coleman (Clerke of the Survey), and Abraham Mills (Clerke of the Cheque), all officers conducting business of the Civil and Military Department of the Ordinance in Ireland in the other part.With a compensation payment of £529. 19. 8, Viscount Bantry releases the Officers of Ordnance from a Covenant in Lease to Build Walls on Whiddy Island. This lease was made on the 20th Sept. 1804 between Lord and Lady Longueville, Lord Viscount Bantry, and Officers of Ordnance.
Agreement between Richard Earl of Bantry and Charles Thomas, Ardnamana House, Schull, Co.Cork granted
mining rights in Lisherenig, Bantry, for 12 calendar months on 25th April 1867,
giving at the end of term one 16th of the value of all minerals take from the
land. Licence extended by 6 months from 25th April.
From Catalogue of Bantry House Papers, Boole Library, UCC.
Captain Thomas was an active mining promoter at the time.
There are quite an amount of old mine working in surrounding townlands.
A mystery of Timothy O’Donovan is that he was quite affluent unlike most of the surrounding Durrus/Bantry Landlord families, Blairs/Hutchinsons/Evansons. Even the Whites of Bantry House were for most of the 1219th century fencing with bankruptcy. letters to Dr. John O’Donovan confirmed that he had weathered the famine well. The estate in Durrus was small even including the land at Balighadown Caheragh.
No trace apart from the wall and gates remain of the substantial house of O’Donovan. In its heyday there were glasshouses growing pineapples. melons as well as kennels. It is visible on the Ordnance Survey Historical map:
1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818, and other O’Donovans of Landlord Family of Fort Lodge and Kilcrohane.
A fair amount of his original correspondence with Dr. John O’Donovan is in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin.
He was involved in the Election of Rickard Deasy Q.C in 1855:
O’Donovan Genealogy Ardahill (Kilcrohane), the Ardahill, Kilcrohane family probably originate Dunmanway c 1740 not related to the O’Donovan of The Cove. and Fort Lodge
Ardahill
Dr John O’Donovan traces the descent of the O’Donovans back to Eoghan Taidhleach pre 166 A.D. in his appendix to the Annals of the Four Masters.
Keadagh More, (a gentleman of great stature, bodily strength, and military abilities) sons Daniel and Rickard Rickard’s son Daniel married Eleanor, daughter of Mac Fineen Duff (O’Sullivan) by Elizabeth only daughter of Captain Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, their son was Keadagh. Keadagh O’Donovan, of Inchaclough Bantry (later part of the White Estate) on 1843. His only surviving son was Timothy who was married to the daughter of Daniel O’Sullivan of Reendonegan near Bantry by the sister of Daniel O’Connell. Tim O’Donovan 1794-12th May 1844 at Ardahill House, near Bantry reported in the Cork Constitution 12th May 1844. Presumably his father was Ceadach or Keady born prob mid 1700s.
14 March 1824, Bantry Parish Register, Timothy O’Donovan – Mary Sullivan (of Reendonegan POK), witnesses Daniel Sullivan and Alex McCarthy. Her mother Hanora O’Connell b.1774 was the sister of Daniel O’Connell. Children: Mary 18 Jan 1825, Roscaragh, Cady O’Donovan Ellen O’Connell, died aged 19, Ursuline Convent, Cork May 1844. Alex (Master Sandy) 30 Oct 1827, Roscaragh, Rev. R Walsh, Julia O’Donovan, Catherine 20 May 1829, Ardahill, Daniel O’Donovan Matilda Sullivan, who married Richard Maybury, Attorney, Cahir Lodge, Kerry. Timothy 3 May 1830, Ardahill, Richard and Elizabeth O’Donovan Jane 19 Aug 1831, Ardahill, Daniel O’Donovan Ellen O’Sullivan, may have married a son of Redmond Barry, Fishery Commissioner c 1860, she was executrix of her father’s will. Julia 8 Jan 1833, Ardahill, John Atteridge Matilda Sullivan Ellen 10 Feb 1834, Ardahill, Phillip O’Donovan Ellen O’Sullivan, died unmarried without reaching 21. Timothy 26 April 1835, Ardahill, Rev Chris Freeman Elisha O’Sullivan Elizabeth 7 June 1836,, Ardahill, Keady O’Donovan Maria O’Donovan Richard 1 Oct 1837, Ardahill, Daniel O’Donovan Maria O’Donovan. One of the boys was called William. Martha/Matilda 17 July 1840 Ardahill, Sandy Donovan Catherine Donovan.
Timothy O’Donovan was the executor of the will of Daniel McCarthy, Gurtnascreena, 1826 and died, aged 50 at his house in Ardahill according to the Cork Constitution of 12 May 1844, the same evening as his daughter Mary at the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork aged 19. Master Sandy and Master Dan were the last of the Ardahill O’Donovans, it is unclear if one of the above males was also known as Dan or if there was another child. They were cousins of the O’Donovans of Lisheens House, Ballincollig, and Cork.
In his will Timothy O’Donovan 8th April 1843 left his interest in lands at Ardahill and Glanally to his son Daniel and lands at Rahfegeen to his son Alexander. He made provision for his daughters; Daniel and Alexander later disposed of their interest in the lands to James O’Connell, Beach, Bantry, who may have been a son in law or through their maternal grandmother.
Fort Lodge and O’Donovan’s Cove
Dr. John O’Donovan relies on information of John Collins, Myross and says that Teige is a neat kinsman of the Chief Teigue but remarks that the near descent had not yet been proven. Multiple informants doubt John Collins genealogical prowess.
Teige O’Donovan of Gorteeniher, father of
Diarmuid O’Donovan surnamed An Eich, i.i. of the steed, father of
Jeremiah O’Donovan of Caheragh, father of
Timothy O’Donovan of Ballaghadoon married a McCarthy
Richard O’Donovan of Kilmacabea married Elizabeth O’Donovan sister of
James O’Donovan of Reenogreny and Alexander O’Donovan of Squince.
In 1754 Timothy O’Donovan was a student at the University of Toulouse where on the 15th July of that year he vanquished the most famous swordsman in France. He married Eleanor McCarthy, daughter of Florence McCarthy of Gortnascreena by Jane O’Driscoll daughter of O’Driscoll of Creagh. They had two sons, his heir Richard and Daniel a Lieutenant in the English Service who may have been the person who in March 1835.
March 1835, died lately at Bantry D.D.O’Donovan,. He was on half pay from the 27th. Regiment and was probably the last survivor of the Irish Brigade. After the French Revolution the Irish Brigade officers were permitted to join the British Army
Richard O’Donovan married Jane daughter of Alexander O’Donovan, Squince, and the representative of O’Donovan of Reenogreny. He was reputed to be of great hospitality and worth £2,000 a year. The children were Daniel O’Donovan, M.D. of Skibbereen Richard O’Donovan, of Fort Lodge (about half a mile upland from O’Donovan’s Cove).
Timothy O’Donovan (husband of Maria Rogers) born 1790, died without surviving male issue 16 March 1874, (Burke’s Peerage p.528) and was succeeded by his nephew Richard, son of Richard of Fort Lodge, J.P. by his wife Maria. He is mentioned in a lease relating to Tobin of Whiddy Island as the father of William of O’Donovan’s Cove 1852. According to newspapers at the time of his death he was 85, had become a magistrate in 1818, and was the last of the O’Donovan Bawn/Clann Cahill line. He was actively involved in politics not only locally but nationally, being active in Repeal and in the election of Rickard Deasy Q.C. in 1855.
Durrus Parish Register.
2 Aug 1819, Timothy O’Donovan – Maria Rogers, witnesses Richard and Daniel Donovan. In the POK papers there is a letter to him from Seosamh Ó Muirthile (Joe Hurley) S.J. 19th June 1958, St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, suggesting that Maria Rogers was the daughter of Joseph Rogers M.D. and Mary L’Avallyn one of the co-heiresses of Philip L’Avallyn, Esq of Waterpark in the county of Cork. POK also states that the O’Sullivan Foc or MacFaugh were also known as the Ruari or Rogers. children:
Mary 29 Feb 1821, Glanlough Daniel Donovan Mary McCarthy, died 28 Aug 1849.
Timothy 3 May 1822, Glanlough Daniel and Dorothea O’Donovan
Jane 29 Feb 1824, Glanlough, Charles McCarthy Jane Donovan
Ellen 13 Sept 1825, Glanlough, Richard O’Donovan Judith Sullivan
William 2 May 1827, Glanlough, Richard Blair Jane O’Donovan
Catherine 28 Aug 1828, Glanlough, Richard Blair Jane Baldwin
Daniel 23 Jan 1832, Donovan’s Cove, Jer O’Sullivan Mary O’Donovan.
Richard, Junior, married Anne Fitzgerald daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, Merchant, Cork by Catherine McCarthy daughter of McCarthy of Woodview and niece of Daniel O’Connell M.P., he had one son Timothy.
John Barrett, son of John Barrett, Kilmichael, Co. Cork married Mary, daughter of Richard O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove (C.H.&A.J. JCHAS Vol XI 1905, p.71), John Edward Barrett J.P., Carriganass, nephew of John above.
John Edward Barrett married daughter of William O’Sullivan Esq. Carriganass Castle, Kealkil.
Tradition has it that when O’Donovan left Glanlough he lived at Ahakista House now demolished (this was located near tin pub), near the then P.P. house (haunted). Timothy left Glanlough 1828-1832 (Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry businessman).
15 Oct 1833, Richard second son of O’Donovan of the Cove married Maria O’Sullivan.
Tadgh O Donnabhain, Kilcrohane said that Miss Katty’s brother married daughter of Maurice Og and was thrown out and went to USA.
Richard O’Donovan – Mary (Maria) O’Sullivan, ‘at Keamatringane House, Berehaven, on the 13th October 1833 by the Rev. Ml. Devine P.P. Richard O’Donovan of Fort Lodge, Co. Cork, second son of Late Richard O’Donovan of O’Donovan’s Cove, Esq. to Maria lovely daughter of the late Morty O’Sullivan of Coolach and Reane (Reen?) and sister of the present head of the Clan Sullivan. By their marriage the ancient honourable and distinguished house of O’Donovan Carbery and O’Sullivan Bere are linked together, the mailed hand is now bound to protect and succour the gentle robin’ (Cork Constitution). Morty O’Sullivan’s father was John of Coulagh (his father also John of the same address) and his mother was Maria daughter of John Segerson.
From Durrus parish Register Children:
Maria 10 May 1835 Tullig Richard O’Donovan Hanora Sullivan
Richard 4 June 1836 Fort Lodge John Sullivan Mary Baldwin
Timothy 20 June 1843 Tullig William Donovan Anne O’Donovan
Catherine (Miss Katty) 31 May 1846, Tullig, Daniel and Mary Sullivan, died 1928 buried in Durrus Chapel yard with her cousin Jane Blair.
Finn’s journal 2nd May 1782, ‘Died Thomas Donovan of North Lowerton near Skibbereen left the bulk of his large fortune to Rev Mr Walsh co-adjutor to parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes, gold watch and gold repeater to Rev. Jas. Crowley, P.P. of above parish’ (POK). Is this father Walsh the one who baptised the Ardahill O’Donovans?
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Type of deed
Date of current deed
31 Dec 1835
Vol
Page
Memorial
Partition
Date of earlier deed
183607
117
183607117
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
O’SULLIVAN
John
of
Cawnious[?] House, Co Cork[?]
trustee in 1833 marriage settlement of C&D
B
P2
BARRETT
John
of
Runceview[Riverview] House, Co Cork
trustee in 1833 marriage settlement of C&D
C
P3
O’DONOVAN
Richard
of
Fort Lodge, Co Cork
Esq
A
D
P3
O’SULLIVAN
Maria
of
Lametow[?] House, Co Cork[?]
Spinster
E
mentioned
O’DONOVAN
Richard
of
O’Donovan’s Cove, Cork
Esq; father of Richard & Daniel O’Donovan [C&F]; made will in 1825
F
P3
O’DONOVAN
Daniel
of
A
G
WD WM
O’DONOVAN
Richard
of
City of Cork
Gentleman
A
H
WD WM
BURKE
Timothy
of
Minteo Avenue, Co Cork
farmer
A
Abstract
Partition of lands inherited by C&F from their late father E
MS
Date registered
25 April 1836
Date abstract added
20180422
Abstract made by: RonPrice
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Type of deed
Date of current deed
11 Jun 1827
Vol
Page
Memorial
Deed
Date of earlier deed
825
534
555469
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
P1
BLAIR
Richard Lewis
of
Blair’s Cove [Durrus], Co Cork
Esq; described as Richard Blair in earlier marriage settlement
A
B
P2
TAYLOR
Alfred
of
Great Brunswick Street, City of Dublin
Gent; Attorney at Law
C
P3
DONOVAN
Richard
of
Clonakilty, Co Cork
Gent
A
D
P3
P4
JAGOE
John
of
Lahera [Lahern, Bantry], Co Cork
Esq
A
E
P3
P4
O’DONOVAN
Richard
of
Donovan’s Cove [Durrus], Co Cork
Esq
F
P2
O’DONOVAN
Catherine
of
Donovan’s Cove [Durrus], Co Cork
Spinster; one of daughters of Richard O’Donovan [G]
G
mentioned
O’DONOVAN
Richard
of
Donovan’s Cove [Durrus], Co Cork
Esq; deceased
H
P4
O’DONOVAN
Daniel
of
Donovan’s Cove [Durrus], Co Cork
Esq; Doctor of Medicine
I
P4
DONOVAN
Daniel
of
Squice, Co Cork
Esq
J
P5
MCCARTHY
Alexander
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Esq; Doctor of Medicine; Executor of Richard O’Donovan [G]
1855, Election Committee for By Election for Rickard Deasy Q.C. (Later Solicitor General and Attorney general for Ireland and Judge), Cork Nationalist and Liberal Protestants, including, Daniel Welply, Skibbereen, James Welply Macroom, Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, and pledge of Loyalty from Town of Bantry to Deasy.
Deasy was from the well to do Clonakilty brewing family. He was author of Deasy’s Act which was of considerable help to tenant famers.
In the mid 20th century one of the extended family Rickard Deasy headed the Irish Farmers Association in their confrontation with the Fianna Fail Government in the mid 1960s.
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?,
1827, Assistant Sought for Respectable Linen and Woollen Establishment Must Speak the Irish language.
At the time there were probably around 4 million people in Ireland who either spoke or understood Irish some of them affluent. It is unusual to see such an advertisement.
Amhlaoimh Ó Suilleabháin, Linen Merchant, Killarney/Callan, South Kilkenny:
1827, Lost, Beagle Bitch answers to name of ‘Lily’. Belongs to Dr. O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Reward to Person if Poor.
This may be the celebrated Dr. O’Donovan active in Famine Relief adn author of a History of Carbery. Up to the 1830s there was a large beaging establishment at O’Donovan’s Cove. There may have been a change in the law at the time ending it.
The general area of uplands was much used for hunting, to the East Lord Bandon from 1850 used Durrus Court as a shooting lodge and paid some of the tenant to act as Gamekeepers.
Across the Bay in the 1870s Michael Morris of Friendly Cove (Evanson descendant) held coursing meetings at Coolculaghta.
In the newspaper ad there is a reference to Barrett of Dunmanway. That family were intermarried to the O’Donovans of the Cove. One branch of of the Barrett family were agent of the Kenmare Estate and lived at Carriganass Castle, Kealkil and on the female line were O’Sullivan.
1827, Died at Berehaven at the age of 72, Mr. Jeremiah ‘The’ O’Sullivan, Grandson of Murtagh McOwen O’Sullivan, one of the last members of the O’Sullivan Race of the MacFineen Duff Family.
Appointment of Civil Process Officers, Co. Cork, West Riding, 1st November 1826, by J. Chatterton, Clerk of the Peace,, Bantry: Timothy Sullivan, Jeremiah Sullivan, Jeremiah Day, Robert Warner, Clonakilty: Thomas O’Hea, John Bateman, Dunmanway; Jeremiah Crowley, Timothy Daly, Enniskeane: Robert Thompson, Patrick Connor, Rosscarbery: Andrew McCarthy, James Brien, Skibbereen: George Hayes, Michael Caverly, Morty Sullivan. Macroom, Barry Sheehan, James Uncles, Patrick Reardon, Millstreet, Thomas Bride.
On the Bantry contingent members of the Sullivan family were drivers to the Kenmare Estate and were bailiffs in the late 19th century. One of the Warners was in the late 18th century a Baronial Constable and they were in the RIC early 19th century.
West Cork History 