Durrus Regatta September 1885, and Athletics ‘Under the patronage of The People’

Of those mentioned as sponsors Richard Tobin probably son of ‘King’ Tobin, Kilcrohane prominent local businessman, hotelier, farmer. Glhooley is MP for Bantry his sister had a pub in village lately Paddy Barrys and another relation a teacher in the girls school.

Funeral Attendances of Mrs. Dillon, Bantry, and Mrs. Hadden, Skibbereen, West Cork.

The Dillons in Bantry were ‘well got’ with Mr. Dillon a Poor Law Guardian and possibly Master of the Workhouse. They may be connected to the Dillons of Clashadoo, Durrus who are buried in an enormous tomb in Moulivard Graveyard, the last of the family, Shaun was buried in the 1980s. he inherited a pub and substantial properties in Bantry from his aunts and was active in the late 1940s in Clann na Poblachta.

There was another prominent Dillon family in Bantry mid 18th century Protestants, whose daughter was married by a ‘Popish Priest’ to one of the Bantry Whites. He sought to marry another and this resulted in her lodging a caveat in the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court in Cork.

Mrs Hadden may have been an Evans from Lissangle, Caheragh, daughter of William Esquire. She married an apothecary, whose Methodist family originated in Wexford. In the 19th century the Haddens were prominent in Skibbereen in the Methodist Church and as Doctors. Her sister or aunt may have married in 1810 James Crowley apothecary whose brother Jeremiah (Jerry) was also an apothecary and known as Dr. Jerry a founder of the Phoenix Society a precursor of the Fenians. He swore O’Donovan Rossa into the Phoenix Club. The Crowley brothers probably originated in Ballyourane, Caheragh next to Lissangle. There are numerous Hadden relations in California and Australia.

Extended Crowley/Evans/Hadden Family Skibbereen:

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Mrs Hadden, Skibbereen, (1816-1898).

Among the attendance are representatives of the Ardralla Evans family presumably cousins. Musgraves of Cork are represented the same family who own the Supervalu business. On the female line they are descended from the Bantry Warners all Methodists.

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Proposed Sale of Lands at Dromreagh, Mureagh, Ardogeena, Durrus, with a Portion of Tithes of Durrus and Kilcrohane, Title From 1765, West Cork by Owner and Petitioner Richard Tonson Evanson at Landed Estates Court 1854

It is not clear if the sale went ahead.

His house is still occupied.

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February 1862, owing to widespread distress among his Tenantry Richard Tonson Evanson Esq of Ardgoina, Durrus distributing Indian Meal and Flour at First Cost and James Hutchinson Swanton doing likewise to Relief Committee in Skibbereen for Coal.  Swanton’s grandmother was Margaret O’Sullivan likely sister of Eugene O’Sullivan, middleman from Ballaghadown, Caheragh vestryman of Drimoleague Church of Ireland c1795

The Duke of Devonshire commenced an action in 1854 in the Encumbered Estates Court to confirm that lands to be disposed of by Nathaniel Evanson did not include minerals. The land was originally sold by the Duke’s predecessor on title, Edward Boyle and his wife Mary by way of lease for 500 years from the 21st May 1626. The property including 3 ploughlands at Drumreagh, Dromelower and Ardgenane in Durrus including Murreagh was acquired by the Earl of Burlington and Cork and Sir William Heathcote who disposed of it to Richard Tonson in 1738 included as part of the Manorial rights to the Lord of the Manor of Ballydehob including the Durrus lands. In 1765 the Durrus lands were demised to Richard Tonson Evanson and renewed by Lord Baron Riversdale to Nathaniel Evanson in 1811, The Duke succeeded in his claim. The papers are in the National Library, Lismore papers 1854 List Ms43, 964. Leasehold Deed 4th September 1765, three Ploughlands at Murreagh, Ardogna, Dromreagh between Richard Tonson, Dunkettle, Cork and Richard Evanson, life interest to his wife Elizabeth (nee Shaw father woollen draper Cork?) son Nathaniel late Murreagh, all Evansons Four Mile Water, not clear if there are two Nathaniels one a party the other a witness. The property devolves from William Hull/Boyle though the Tonson illegitimate line probably originally either a mortgage or forfeit O’Mahony holding. The main house 2015 is still occupied. Mrs Beamish a successor lived there during the Famine and was noted for her benevolence and relief work. Registry of Deeds 246 102 157389 The Duke of Devonshire commenced an action in 1854 in the Encumbered Estates Court to confirm that lands to be disposed of by Nathaniel Evanson did not include minerals. The land was originally sold by the Duke’s predecessor on title, Edward Boyle and his wife Mary by way of lease for 500 years from the 21st May 1626. The property including 3 ploughlands at Drumreagh, Dromelower and Ardgenane in Durrus including Murreagh was acquired by the Earl of Burlington and Cork and Sir William Heathcote who disposed of it to Richard Tonson in 1738 included as part of the Manorial rights to the Lord of the Manor of Ballydehob including the Durrus lands. In 1765 the Durrus lands were demised to Richard Tonson Evanson and renewed by Lord Baron Riversdale to Nathaniel Evanson in 1811, The Duke succeeded in his claim. The papers are in the National Library, Lismore papers 1854 List Ms43, 964. Leasehold Deed 4th September 1765, three Ploughlands at Murreagh, Ardogna, Dromreagh between Richard Tonson, Dunkettle, Cork and Richard Evanson, life interest to his wife Elizabeth (nee Shaw father woollen draper Cork?) son Nathaniel late Murreagh, all Evansons Four Mile Water, not clear if there are two Nathaniels one a party the other a witness. The property devolves from William Hull/Boyle though the Tonson illegitimate line probably originally either a mortgage or forfeit O’Mahony holding. The main house 2015 is still occupied. Mrs Beamish a successor lived there during the Famine and was noted for her benevolence and relief work.

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1700, Kinneigh Church of Ireland, Co. Cork, Church Regarded as Very Sacred by the Irish A Sacred Stone in Church Yard which The Irish Swore Upon, Tradition of Holy Well Noted For Medicinal Virtues Closed Up.

From Maziere Brady

Murragh (Murbhach, Smooth Flat Place by River), (near Bandon, Co. Cork) Church of Ireland Records Marriages including 1739, Births 1750 Burials 1789 and some Kinneigh records

Rev. Fitzgerald Tisdall, Rector of Kilmoe (Goleen), West Cork, Founder and Commandant of Crookhaven Yeomanry Corps, Murdered at Priest’s Leap, 1809.

From Meziere Brady

In the 19th century Tisdalls married into the Murphy family of Bantry who in Newtown were millers, middling landowners, and were auctioneers. family members appear as jurors, and local administrative bodies.  The impressive ruins of the mills are about a mile outside Bantry on the Glengariff road.

Léim an tSagairt (Priest’s Leap) 1612 or possibly Earlier from Francis 1589 map

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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

From Maziere Brady.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

There are references to the Coughlans, this branch were Protestant from around 1600 associated with Hulls and Boyle. Jeremy/Jeremiah married Susan Evanson of Gearhameen (Durrus Court), Durrus was Attorney, Seneschal, agent with Andrew Crotty for Boyle/Devonshire Estates in East Cork/Waterford. The Carrigmanus Coughlans are probably ancestors of one branch of the Durrus Dukelows, from Clashadoo. They are also probably ancestors of the Carrigaline Coughlans who may have been given a small estate by the Earl of Cork.

The Limricks mentioned in litigation with the Coughlans are prevalent in Co. Cork with Catholic as well as Protestant branches.

Case of disputed Glebe Lands at Crookhaven, West Cork c 1723, by Rector, Dr. Limerick, referes to Genealogy of Thadues Coughlan, his son Rev Dermitius Coughlan who fled 1641 from Cromwell his great grandson Jeremy (Jeremiah) Attorney and Irish Agent to Burlington Estate, on the road from Schull to Crookhaven ‘nor a bed a man can lie on nor a morsel to be eaten’, Henry Becher’s Fishing palace 1641, Captain William Hull with the wooden leg, Darby Mahony agent to Sir Richard Hull, Donagh McWilliam Coughlan proctor to Rev Thadeus Coughlan, Benjamin Sullivan Attorney Cork and East India Company Connections.

Sale in 1729 of lands by Lord Burlington, Jeremh/Jeremiah Coughlan (From Carrigmanus Agent) to Richard Tonson for £3,882, including, One Ploughland Town and Lands of Shannyvoghwora Ballydehob, 422 English acres, 3 Ploughlands Carrigerinat Coghanicue Coghlianullean East Carbery 1, 697 English acres, Coolmountain 1,139 English acres, 4 Gneeves Shanaciane, the Unpropriate Tithes of 14 Ploughlands of Durrus , Kilcrohane and Kikmocomoge (Bantry), Callesita alias Callesta 374 English acres, Carrigneal 1 and a half Ploughland 894 English acres and 1830s Tithe Aplottments of Tithes for Evansons of Durrus

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1700, Dives Downes on Bantry, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Each Parish has its Pattern, The Irish Observe St. Macomoge’s Day as Festival, Land Held By Earl of Anglesea, Sir Ellis Layton, Kilcrohane Sir William Hull, Jointure Mrs Peyton Interest of St. Catherine’s Abbey Waterford.

The Waterford connection my be a historical harp back to the limited incursions of the Normans. These land areas as well as Letterlickey in Durrus and Caheragh appear in the ledgers of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork.