Cosheen:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Coosheen,+Co.+Cork/@51.5220311,-9.5252496,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845991047fe6dcf:0x2600c7a819c71102

Gortavallig:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gortavallig,+Co.+Cork/@51.5754363,-9.7833675,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845824a7084101d:0x484ae3e00e949aa4

Visit to Cusheen Fishery, Captain Thomas, and Gortavallig Copper Mines, Road laid out by Captin Bennett with 41 men, Kilcrohane, West Cork, 1847.

The article may have been written by Ludlow Beamish.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.6042896,-9.6252547,17z

Subscribers to the New Church at O’Donovan’s Cove (Rosnacaheragh Ahakista), West Cork, 1826, including Major contribution from Messrs, Beamish and Crawford, Brewers, Cork, Stained Glass provided later By Arundel Family and Rosnacaheraagh National School 1885. In the photographs, the back windows are in the style of if not the early 19th century windows. Members of the Arundel family associated with the church are buried in the grounds.

Beamish and Crawford were until 1833 the largest brewery in Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamish_and_Crawford

The O’Donovans referred to were the local landlords and unusually Catholics, they held the land from around 1750, Fort Lodge is still extant on a hill in poor condition and currently for sale. Wises are probably the Cork Distilling family of the North Mall. The Galweys may have bantry connections. The Tobins were a prominent Kilcrohane family.

The Evansons were landlords and the Rev. Alleyn Evanson, living at Durrus Court, Gearhameen, an Unbeneficed clergyman (non practising), his Estate ran from around the present Bog road to Bantry to O’Donovan’s Cove. He also had smaller Estates in Kilcrohane from Delacour who in turn had them from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Durrus lands had been Evansons from 1690 to 1720, they got into financial difficulty and sold them to Francis Bernard of Bandon. He in turn leased them back and the lease fell in around 1850 when the Bandon Estate built the present village of Durrus. The other Evansons were on the other side of the bay at Friendly Cove and Ardoeena.

Father Quin a dynamic priest from Co. Tipperary at the time was embarking on a major church building programme, He was a major political figure and died in 1859 in the Mercy Hospital Cork. The church is still in use.

Relief by Direction of His Excellency The Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, 1822, from The Commission Appointed To Receive Applications of Relief for The Poor in the Distressed Districts of Ireland, including to Lord Viscount Bantry and The Reverend Alcock, Durrus, Clonakilty, Glandore, Skibbereen areas.

The amount included in the frame are not visible but are not considerable.

Apart from The Great Famine in 1847, periodic famines were a feature of Ireland’s distressed districts from the mid 18th century. even when there was no famine a large part of the population lived on the edge of starvation and distress.

One of the consequences of the 1822 famine was legislation to enable major infrastructure works many carried out by Richard Griffith:

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/context/1822.html

http://www.skibbereen.ie/the-great-famine/

http://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/pray-pity-your-poor-people-the-mahon-papers-and-the-famine-of-1822-in-the-west/

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The local Landlords were  the local O’Donovan family.

1867.  Relief Fund for McCarthy Family, Tullig, Durrus 2 children died in fire, 9th December 1867, house and effects destroyed, Charles McCarthy left to support wife, 4 children mother and father. Facts certified by George Bird, Bantry,  agent to Lord Bantry, Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove.

George Bird Bantry £1, Thomas Dillon £1, Dennis McCarthy, £1 The Reverend Pratt, Durrus Glebe, 10 s, John Moss, Carrigboy, 10s, Dennis Sullivan, Carrigboy, 10 s, Thomas Kingston, Dromleavy, 10s, Jeremiah Kingston, Dromleavy, 10s, Jeremiah Lynch, Shandrum £1, Jeremiah Murphy, Dunbeacon, £3, Rev. M O’Flynn, 5s, Reverend Michael O’ Sullivan, Curate, 10s, Philip Shanahan, Dunbeacon 5s, John Cullinane Bantry, £1, The Earl of Bantry, 10s, Thomas Vickery, ( Hotel Owner and Operator of Horse Drawn Buggies) Bantry, 1s, Mrs. Jagoe, Bantry, 4s, John Ahern, 1s, John McCarthy, Bantry 1s, Cornelius McCarthy Bantry, 2s, Jeremiah Bryan (O’Brien) Kealties, 10s, Thomas Sullivan, Tullig, 10s, Michael Collins, Kealties 6s, Charles McCarthy Kealties 4s, John Leary, Bantry 2s 6d, Timothy McCarthy, Bantry, 5s, William Murphy 5s, Michael Cullinane 2s 6d, Mrs Lannin, (probably from family that originated in Dromreagh, Durrus) 1s, Mrs Copithorne (Woolen Mills) 1s, Mr. Pope, Queenstown 5s, John Hurley, (Possibly from family later Members Rural District Council) Ballycomane 3s, Patrick Regan 2s 6d, Henry Donovan M.D. £1, William S Tisdall 5s, (Donemark Mills) McCarthy Downing, (MP and Skibbereen Solicitor) 5s, Eagle Office 5s, Richard O’Donovan (Landlord) Justice of the Peace 10s, Stephen Browne 7s 6d, Richard Tobin Senior, Letter, KIlcrohane, 10s, Patrick Coughlan Killeens, 5s, John Mahony 5s, Richard Tobin Junior, (Probably Durrus) 5s, Timothy Donovan, Laherudota 5s, Michael Goodwin, Kilcrohane 5s, Timothy Lehane 5s,

25th January 1868, Skibbereen Eagle.

Disbursements from New York Herald Irish Relief Committee, June 1880, £27,000, on hand, £1,00 weekly given to Local Relief Committees, £800 to Local Schools, £400 towards fishing gear, clothing, emigration, Bantry £25, Durrus £25, Schull £25, Inchigeela £15, Glengariff £15, Aughadown £10, Kilcoe £120, Caheragh £15, Drinagh £15.

Freeman’s Journal 3rd June 1880.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=ybCo7LsRMIgC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=new+york+herald+relief+committee+ireland&source=bl&ots=vjEOjtyT-x&sig=RogFniPpK-SI08LnLE3cCAM0cDY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=izSVVd3AMejU7AaEsbjAAw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=new%20york%20herald%20relief%20committee%20ireland&f=false

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/45074.transcript

Digital Repository of Ireland

http://repository.dri.ie/

1868. Election Committee of McCarthy Downing, Solicitor and Landlord, Skibbereen, West Cork .

Sale August 1867, by Mr. Hall, Engineer, Liverpool, Liquidator, of Rossmore Slate Company Limited, Durrus, West Cork.

Lease of 60 years from Bandon estate from 1863 with approx 1,300 acres at Ardnamanagh, Schull.

The remnants of the quarry are still visible.

Rossmore Slate Quarry, Abuting Dunmanus Bay, Durrus, West Cork, operating from around 1866, with Mining Captain, George Rawlings.

19th Century Mines and Quarries, Rossmore and Friendly Cove Slate Quarries, Durrus, Copper Clonee, Scart, Bantry Barytes, Rooska and Killoveenogue Silver and Lead Mine, West Cork

Appointment of Rate Collectors 1852 by Bantry Union, Co. Cork, Florence O’Leary, Poundage 6d in the £, Thomas Dillon, Durrus and Kilcrohane 4d.

The Dillons lived at Clashadoo, Durrus and were intermarried with Roycrofts of Boultenagh, Rooska and Bantry and Cantys. The family has a large tomb in Moulivard Graveyard (Durrus East). Thomas Dillon also appears as a member of the Bantry Board of Guardians, looking after the workhouse among other things

Thomas is probably an ancestor to Miss Dillon who had a pub in Bantry near the old railway station and extensive property. She left this to her late nephew Shawn Dillon of Clashadoo who in the late 1940s was heavily involved in Clann na Poblachta.

The Dillons may be of the same family as that of the lady who married one of the Bantry Whites in the 1770s. The marriage was set aside as having been performed by a ‘Popish priest’.