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  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
  • Interesting Links
  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • 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
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • 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: October 2015

Desertmore (Ovens area) Parish, Co. Cork, 1699, Some Papists married to Protestants breed their Children Papists Recent DNA Evidence Confirms Complex Genetics of Cork City and West Cork.

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Desertmore (Ovens area) Parish, Co. Cork, 1699, Some Papists married to Protestants breed their Children Papists Recent DNA Evidence Confirms Complex Genetics of Cork City and West Cork.

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/desertmore-1061.html

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Mazier Brady:

Rev. Horatio Townsend 1750-1837, (Pupil of Collins) Author 1813 ‘Statistical Survey Co. Cork’, Genealogy.

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Rev. Horatio Townsend, (Pupil of Collins) Author 1813 ‘Statistical Survey Co. Cork’, Genealogy.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/digital-book-collection/digital-books-by-county/cork-county-1/townsend-statistical-surv/

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=5D00

There is a reference in the family history to him and family members being taught by Collins. Probably not John Collins, ‘The Silver Tongue of Carbery’ even though he was a contemporary and in the area.

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Unpublished Verse in Memory of Sarah Curran (Mrs. Sturgeon) by Rev. John Chetwode (c 1740-1814)

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Unpublished Verse in Memory of Sarah Curran (Mrs. Sturgeon) by Rev. John Chetwode (c 1740-1814)

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

Her Father:

A Rhyming Invitation sent by John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) to Grandfather of Robert Carey, Skibbereen.

By a Quinquagenarian, the Pre 1797 Four Courts at Christchurch, Dublin, Hell and ‘Our Four Courts, thank the Genius of our Isle, is still full of business; and as long as Erin remains the land of Ire, so long surely will Lawyers fatten, and Attorneys Batten on the Quarrelsome and Litigious Propensities of Our People, Big Bully Egan, Little Philpot Curran, Black Jack Fitzgibbon, Henry Grattan, Ned Lysaght, Lord Yelverton..

John Philpot Curran and the Miller’s dog

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Meziere Brady’s History of Caheragh Parish, West Cork, from 1319 With Norman Connections.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325609,-9.3152706,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0x0a00c7a99731ea90

Meziere Brady’s History of Caheragh Parish, West Cork, from 1319 With Norman Connections.

There is a reference to John de Cogan and later the Colege of Youghal.
It is probably that the Norman had a settlement in the area coming up the Illen and Durrus Rivers. A legacy is a cluster of Norman names Burke, Barrett, Goggin, in the area.

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Bishop Dives Downes Tour of West Cork 1700, Religious Breakdown Clergy Don’t Bother Exacting Tithes on Turf.

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Bishop Dives Downes Tour of West Cork 1700, Religious Breakdown Clergy Don’t Bother Exacting Tithes on Turf.

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Genealogy of Rev. John Murphy (1795-, Church of Ireland, Newtown, Bantry, West Cork.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Newtown+East,+Glas+Na+Fuinseoige,+Co.+Cork/@51.687591,-9.4463673,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450bb2571b272d:0x24dd5a59a42450c4

Genealogy of Rev. John Murphy (1795-, Church of Ireland, Newtown, Bantry, West Cork.

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

Middle men Bantry area 1740s of Kenmare (Brown) Estate: Michael Murphy Newtown, Casey Miller, Newtown, Thomas Hutchins, Ballylickey, Various Galweys, Gilbert and Richard Mellefont Donemark, Beversham Harman Laheran, Henry Puxley Gortaneer, John Young Direenkallig Robert Young Droominateenly, Isaac and Joshua Doe, Forester

 

 

Grand Jury 1843 Murphy Family:

 

 

County of Cork Record Jury, Summer Assizes 1843, All Jurors Esq. Sir William Abraham Chatterton, Bart, Castlemahon, Blackrock, Cork Samuel Allen, Midleton Henry Allen, Cloyne House John Thomas Atkins, Ledington, Youghal John Harold Barry, Ballyvorane, Mallow
Henry Standish Barry, Reencoulig, Midleton? William G. Browne, Coolcower, Macroom Gerard Barry, Ballinahina, Fermoy Michael Alleyn Becher, Ballydivane, Clonakilty Henry Barry, Barry’s Lodge, Midleton
Henry Baldwin, Mount Pleasant, Bandon James Bouge, Laragh, Bandon Thomas Crofts, Velvetstown, Buttevant Hatton Couran, Grange Alfred Callaghan, New Castle, Limerick? Patrick Coleman, Kinsale
Richard Donovan, Lisheens, Ballincollig Thomas Garde Durdin, Shanagarry Ralph Evans, Carker, Doneraile Sampson Twogood French, Cusquinny, Cobh Henry Baldwin Foot, Carrigacunna, Mallow James Foott, Springfort, Mallow
Richard Fitzgerald, Muckridge House William Hume Franks, Carrig, Mallow William Fagan, Feltrim Walter Giles, Frogmore, Youghal Michael Gallwey, Gurtnascreena, Skibbereen Thomas Gollock, Leemoun, Cork
Thomas Murdoch Green, Ahadoe Richard Gumbleton, Castleview William Hennessy, Fortwilliam, Doneraile Standish Harrison, Castle Harrison, Buttevant Edward Heard, Ballintubber, Kinsale Thomas Knowles, Oatlands, KInsale
Thomas Limrick, Union Hall, Thomas Hingston Limrick who was the rate collector for the Skibbereen Union a few years later. One of Col. Limrick’s four sons.

Started badly in life by being committed for burglary and robbery aged 14 in 1831 (as noted in Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924).

William Henry Lysaght, Clogheen William Leader, Nashville, Kanturk Henry B. Mitchell, Mitchelsfort, Watergrasshill Edward Morrogh, Glanmire Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry

Meziere Brady:

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1755, £201, Cost of Improvements to House Barns at Glebe, Balinadee, Co, Cork, including Provision for Balk Timber, Horse Hair, Lime, Quarrymen, Horse Rental, 177 Improvements Mason 1shilling 7 pence a day, Labourer 7 pence a day..

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballinadee,+Co.+Cork/@51.7118529,-8.6356056,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f552187cdeb9:0xa00c7a99731da80

1755, £201, Cost of Improvements to House Barns at Glebe, Balinadee, Co, Cork, including Provision for Balk Timber, Horse Hair, Lime, Quarrymen, Horse Rental, 177 Improvements Mason 1shilling 7 pence a day, Labourer 7 pence a day..

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1777:

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From Meziere Brady:

The Wit, Epigrams and Poetry of the Reverend De La Cour (1709-1785) ‘The Mad Parson’, Blarney, Co. Cork

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MeziereScreen Shot 2015-10-18 at 13.09.22 Brady:

The Wit, Epigrams and Poetry of the Reverend De La Cour ‘The Mad Parson’, Blarney, Co. Cork.

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/d/Delacour_J/life.htm

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2893

From Crofton Croker:

At Killowen, near Blarney, the Rev. James De la Cour was born, whose ‘ Prospect of Poetry,’ unfortunately for him, was much admired. It is reported that some complimentary lines addressed

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to him on this publication, by Thomson, the author of the Seasons, commencing with Hail, gently warbling De la Cour,’’
James Thomson, The Seasons London: Henry Woodfall for A. Millar (1744)

affected his reason, so as to render him guilty of many irregularities, for which he was deprived of his gown.
The Prospect of Poetry (evidently an imitation of Pope) was first published in 1?33, and has since been reprinted in Cork more than once, with some of De la Cour’s other poems, the beauties and faults of which closely resemble those…

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Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam to Cork 1735 by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield, Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn.

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Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn.

The Rev John Madras referred to was a curate in Durrus c 1800 when he married Miss Evanson.

From Meziere Brady:

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Graveyard inscription courtesy Richard henchion.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6217107,-9.521993,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Youngest Son of Madras family mentioned as life also Evansons, Whites of Bantry:

http://members.pcug.org.au/~nickred/deeds/memorial_extract.cgi?my_memorial=436594&my_indexer=Roz%20McC1-IMG_7737

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1657, Inventory of Lands of The See of Cork (Dioceses of Church of Ireland) in Barony of Carbery East and West (Including Dunmanway, Kilcrohane, Schull, Ballydehob) With Conflicting Claims to Land.

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1657, Inventory of Lands of The See of Cork (Dioceses of Church of Ireland) in Barony of Carbery East and West (Including Dunmanway, Kilcrohane, Schull, Ballydehob) With Conflicting Claims to Land.

From Meziere Brady:

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/bradysclericalandparochialrecords/.

There are ledgers in the National Archives and in the RCB Library, Rathgar, Dublin containing details of rent payments to 1810 for these lands.

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