State Funeral of Lord Lieutenant, Earl of Besborogh, 1847 Under Direction of Sir William Betham, (Ulster King of Arms) Knights of St. Patrick, Hierarchy of Irish Nobility, Judiciary and Senior Administration According to Rank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Betham_(1779%E2%80%931853)

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Coursing Meeting Ballyvourney, Co. Cork April 1847.

Tithe Defaulters List, Baile Mhuirne (Ballyvourney), Cúil Aodha (Coolea), Co. Cork, 1831 and 1827 Tithe Applotments.

The Reverend John Richardson, Rector of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, author of ‘The Great Folly, Superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, Especially of that to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, together With an Account of the Loss that the public Sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially Represented his account at Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, 1727 of 13th century wooden statue of St. Gobnait (Patroness of Bee Keepers) as an antidote to small pox being kept by the O’Herlihys.

‘The Coming of Oscar’, collected 1944 from Amhloih Ó Loinsigh (Humphrey Lynch), farmer, Cúil Aodha, Ballyvourney, Co Cork

29th October 1864, Coursing Meeting of Friendly Cove Coursing Club, Carrigboy, (Durrus) met at Dromreagh by invitation of Richard Evanson Esq., Owner. The ground was long known for hares being strictly preserved. At 5 o’clock in the evening the members adjourned with some other gentlemen to dinner at Philips Hotel given by Mr. Evanson served in Mr. Philip’s usual style

George Victor Du Noyer, MRIA, (1817-1869), some West Cork Drawings, Monoith, Ballingeary, St. Gobnait’s Stone and Cloghaun and Old Church, Ballyvourney, Old Head of Kinsale with old and new Lighthouse, Ballinacarriga Caastle Dunmanway.

Ballyvourney (Baile Bhúirne Town of the Beloved) Church of Ireland Marriages 1845-1935 Clondrohid (Cluain Droichead Meadow by the Bridge) 1848-1913 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyvourney, from Dr. Casey’s collection.

Timothy O’Donovan JP to Dr. John O’Donovan on The Real Irish Greyhound not the wolf dog called the …..‘Guire Mac Fhira’ the Irish Grey Hound is called ‘Conn’ and was spelled Gre-hound, this breed is quite smooth silk like satin it is a mistake to confuse the rough or wiry dog being of Scotch descent and never could compete with the real Irish in Fleetship or Beauty, Richard Hungerford Evanson, Coursing at Dromreagh in the 1864.

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From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 29th September 1832.
More Arrests. The Reverend Messrs Quin and Kelleher the Roman Catholic Clergy of Meentervaria (Durrus Parish) West Cork, were arrested on Saturday on the 15th for having attended at a Tithe Meeting. Bail was immediately procured in the person of Richard O’Donovan Esq., and Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill (Kilcrohane).
They appeared in the Criminal court in Cork 1832 under the newspaper heading ‘Wallstown Tithe’ defended by Fergus O’Connor, BL.

Of the persons named Father Quin was one of six Tipperary Priest seconded to Cork Dioceses, a modernised he built churches, schools and commence registration of births and marriages.

Richard O’Donovan had an estate at Fort Lodge the house owned by Mr. Ryan now in disrepair is currently for sale. Either his father or grandfather bought the estate and the one of his brother’s Timothy from the Lord Riversdale family. His grandfather Richard O’Donovan was at the University of Toulouse in France in 1740. Probably not by coincidence at that time the elder branch of the O’Donovans, General O’Donovan of Bawnlahan (Myross) was related to the Riversdales/Tomsons/Hulls through the General’s mother Jane Beecher.
Another brother Doctor Daniel O’Donovan had an estate at Caheragh and lived at Norton Cottage, Skibbereen.
Timothy O’Donovan of Ardahill, Kilcrohane not to be confused with Timothy of O’Donovan’s Cove, comes from a branch originally from Dunmanway, apart from a gate there is no remain of that estate.

The Anti Tithe campaign in Muintervara was successful as sometime after at a monster meeting on Mount Gabriel the O’Donovans were praised for their success.
The O’Donovans were also involved in the 1840s in the campaign to have their relation Rickard Deasy, Queens Counsel, elected as MP. By getting their tenants who were entitled to vote to Cork they ensured the election of Deasy in a tight contest. He was later Attorney General for Ireland and a Judge. His sister was married to Doctor Daniel O’Donovan. Deasy is of the same family as Rickard Deasy who was involved in the farmer protests of the 1960s agains the then Minister Charlie Haughey.

The tithes of the Dioceses of Cork and Waterford were acquired by Richard Boyle, The Great Earl of Cork c 1620s. It was regarded as underhand for little or not consideration despite calls for a public enquiry nothing was done. the Tithes for the Durrus and some adjoining area were acquired by the Durrus Evansons c 1750 from the Riversdales/Tonson/Hulls who probably acquired them through marriage or purchase from Hull.
The Tithes were a considerable tax amounting to perhaps a tenth of the produce of arable land. It was divided up between the tithe holder and the local Church of Ireland (State Church) Minister. In practise they were often farmed out to tithe proctors whose methods were brutal and effective.

The Tithes in 1833: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman.

1834, Listing of Those Affected by Changes in Tithe Legislation including Nathaniel Evansons,for Durrus. Klcrohane, Bantry and Rev. Coughlan for Glengariff.

On the 19th June 1843, the Liberator of Your Country, the Beloved Son of Erin will be Among You and We Appeal to the men of The Baronies of Carbery to Meet to Denounce ‘The Odious Act of Union 1800’, with Listing of Priests, Lawyers, and Liberal Protestants including, Samuel Beamish and Thomas Fuller, Dunmanway, Samuel Jervois, Brade, Samuel Jervois, Cooran, Michael Warren and Maxwell Irwin, Clonakilty, Arthur Atteridge, River View, William Williamson, Schull.

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Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829.
‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

The present Viscount Lismore is also possessed of a Milesian Estate in the Coutu at Clonmene and Bantrye near Mallow which has been since time Immemorial by the Ancient Race of O’Callaghan unaffected by the many revolutions in Ireland this ancient estate was bequeather to the late Lord Lismore by his cousin O’Callaghan of Clonmene.

From From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 15th December 1829.

The Lord Riversdale/Tonsons referred to are descendant of Hull from Lemcon, Schull to inherit an uncle’s property a Hull changed his name to Tonson.

It is probably not a co incidence that Timothy O’Donovan, a Catholic sometime after 1760 acquired the estate at O’Donovan’s Cove from the extended Riversdale family.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Letter Henry L Tivy to Lady Ardilaun 11th August 1914 re Effect of World War 1 in Cork, Compulsory Billeting of Troops in Blackrock, Castletownbere Naval Station, Bank Run, Blockade of Bandon Railway.

Lady Adrilaun is probably one of the Banty Whites married to a Guinness.

The Tivys owned the Cork Constitution and founded the Rugby Club of the same name. The family may still own the newspaper distribution business ‘ Newsspread’

Extracts from Book of Marine Charts of Richard Holmes Laurie c 1820, showing Cape Clear Lighthouse, Two Lighthouses on Skellig, Castletownbere Barracks,

From Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Historian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Laurie_(engraver)

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‘Google Man’, mapping the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’, Co. Donegal, Sheeps head Way, West Cork.

Sheep’s Head…

http://livingthesheepsheadway.com/google-trekker-captures-the-sheeps-head-way/