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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
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  • 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: November 2015

Possible connection between Tim Healy, (1855-1931), MP, King’s Counsel, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-94). lawyer, Statesman, Provost Trinity College Dublin, son Viscount Donoughmore, (if you gave John Britain and Ireland as an estate he would come back and look for the Isle of Man as a Potato Garden.

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Possible connection between Tim Healy, (1855-1931), MP, King’s Counsel, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-94). lawyer, Statesman, Provost Trinity College Dublin, son Viscount Donoughmore, (if you gave John Britain and Ireland as an estate he would come back and look for the Isle of Man as a Potato Garden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hely-Hutchinson_(statesman)

In the recollections of James Stanley Vickery written in Australia in the 1890s he describes growing up in the 1820s as an orphan with his grandparents in Molloch, in Durrus/Bantry. He refers to going as a child to Healy’s school in Bantry. Apparently a good teacher but put the fear of God into the children. Tim Healy was born in Bantry his father was master of the workhouse and his father a teacher who originated in Donoughmore. That makes Vickery’s teacher a candidate as Healy’s grandfather.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/recollections-of-james-stanley-vickery-as-a-grandchild-in-molloch-1829-1911/

Like Healy John Hely grew up in Gortroe near Donoughmore in relatively humble…

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Some additional Cork Newspaper Extracts from 1754 of a Genealogical and Historical interest extracted by John T. Collins.

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Some additional Cork Newspaper Extracts from 1754 of a Genealogical and Historical interest extracted by John T. Collins.

In terms of provenance it seems that he was ve access to the colection by Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West. It may have originate with Garretstown House near Kinsale with the Kearney family the to their relationsthe Rochford an Franks the to Owen Farrelly, Solicitor, Tuckey St., Cork.

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‘An Act to prevent the further growth of popery’, Convert Rolls for 18th Century Co. Cork and other Renunciations against ‘Popery’, Co. Cork with letter January 1732 from Parish Priest Bantry listing supporters of Crypto-Catholics

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‘An Act to prevent the further growth of popery’, Convert Rolls for 18th Century Co. Cork and other Renunciations against ‘Popery’, Co. Cork with letter January 1732 from Parish Priest Bantry listing supporters of Crypto-Catholics.

The Bantry letter was located probably in the 1950s by Father TJ Walsh in the Archives of Cork Dioceses. He was later parish Priest, of Durrus. He was an esteemed historian.

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The book compiling the Convert Rolls was done by a scholar Eileen O’Byrne for the Irish Manuscripts Commission. A revised version is now available on line.

http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/servlet/Controller?action=publication_item&pid=61

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6090895410812374209

The enclosed spreadsheet (a work in progress0 sets ou a summary together with some genealogical information with Dr. Edward Mac Lysaght’s version of the irish names for families of Gaelic origin.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-TQFfRKt_p6AGtxLaHODge_ReszztDcE-NFF1626_c/edit#gid=0

Looking at the names the cluster of old Cork families emerges. The Penal Laws obeyed the Law of unintended consequences, some of its provisions…

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Rossa: The Skibbereen Years

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This gallery contains 16 photos.


Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
This is the third post in a series about Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. In the first, March…

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The Booley

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This gallery contains 16 photos.


Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
Booleying is an Irish term for transhumance – the agricultural tradition of taking cattle up to…

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

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Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/workbook-in-irish-of-william-smith-obrien-1803-1864-young-irelander-london-with-transcritions-of-poems-by-dermot-omulqueeney-and-other-munster-poets-sean-fhocals-wise-sayings-newspaper-extra/

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From foreign fishing fleets in Ireland, 1531 Dermot O’Sullivan, ‘Prince of Bere and Bantry’ hangs English Captain that seized Spanish ship, 1572 Spanish and Basque fleets at Baltimore, 1586, O’Sullivan Bere and O’Driscoll ‘extortionate dealings’ with English fishermen, 1683 Herring fishery between Baltimore and Bantry Bay.

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From foreign fishing fleets in Ireland, 1531 Dermot O’Sullivan, ‘Prince of Bere and Bantry’ hangs English Captain that seized Spanish ship, 1572 Spanish and Basque fleets at Baltimore, 1586, O’Sullivan Bere and O’Driscoll ‘extortionate dealings’ with English fishermen, 1683 Herring fishery between Baltimore and Bantry Bay.

From Dr. Arthur Went, history in 1940s JCHAS.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/may-3-1769-a-complaint-was-made-in-one-of-the-cork-newspapers-of-fifty-french-vessels-fishing-for-mackerel-on-the-coast-near-bantry-bay-west-cork-without-interruption-from-the-revenue-cruziers/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/query-from-the-privy-council-of-england-1586-concerning-escheatment-of-desmond-lands-and-whether-the-costoms-of-fishing-at-berehaven-bantry-and-baltimore-west-cork-belong-to-her-majesty/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-the-fishing-industry-sitting-in-bantry-april-1836/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/petition-c-1648-of-john-winspeare-a-shipwright-living-near-bantry-bay-makes-his-living-upon-the-fishing-trade/

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Results 1841 Election, from Booth No 6 including Bantry and Booth No 3 including Carbery, Co. Cork with some voters, names, candidate voted for, abode, property qualifications.

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Results 1841 Election, from Booth No 6 including Bantry and Booth No 3 including Carbery, Co. Cork with some voters, names, candidate voted for, abode, property qualifications.

It is not clear if this represents the entire electorate or just disputed votes. The panel also shows who got the votes. Unlike modern times with the demarcation between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael the fault line is religious. It also shows Catholics and their property qualification the vote had been given to them for some time. It was not until Daniel O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation in 1828 that they could sit in Parliament.

Booths 3 Carbery

http://books.google.ie/books?id=O2oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205&dq=Bantry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gUKCVN7GKIuu7gbTtYGYAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Carbery&f=false

Booth 6
http://books.google.ie/books?id=O2oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205&dq=Bantry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gUKCVN7GKIuu7gbTtYGYAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bantry&f=false

Durrus:
Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Four-Mile-Water, registered 1834 £50 pound holder
Hungerford Baldwin Evanson, Registered 1835, for Droumrreagh, Clashduff,
Richard Tonson Evanston, Ardogeena a £50 freeholder
registered 1836
Thomas Dukelow, Clashadoo, registered 1829, 10 shilling leaseholder name and address corrupt version (probably married…

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Genealogy of Townsend family Co. Cork from 17th century, with intermarried families of Baldwin, Barry, Beamish, Carleton,Daunt, De Burgh, Fleming, French, Galway, Herbert, Hungerford, Maunsell, Meade, Morris, Newman, Robinson, Roche, Somerville, Synge, Trench, Warren.

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Genealogy of Townsend family Co. Cork from 17th century, with intermarried families of Baldwin, Barry, Beamish, Carleton,Daunt, De Burgh, Fleming, French, Galway, Herbert, Hungerford, Maunsell, Meade, Morris, Newman, Robinson, Roche, Somerville, Synge, Trench, Warren.

This has been complied and updated by Colonel John Townsend, in Australia and Doctor Richard Townsend.

Apart from the individual biographies from the 17th century it provided a valuable insight into Cork life from that period with references to original documentation

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/intermarriage.php

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/some-cork-and-kerry-families-such-as-galwey-roches-atkins-oconnells-mccarthys-st-ledgers-orpen-skiddy-in-john-burkes-1833-commoners-of-great-britain-and-ireland/

Cork estates:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2288

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Geneaolgy of Arnopp family in Dunmanway, Crookhaven and Kinsale, Co. Cork from 1666, related to Hulls of Leamcon, Evansons of Durrus, Coughlans of Crookhaven

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Geneaolgy of Arnopp family in Dunmanway, Crookhaven and Knsale, Co. Cork from 1666, related to Hulls of Leamcon, Evansons of Durrus, Coughlans of Crookhaven

I am indebted to Richard Arnopp for making his work available, this is a continuing project. In relation to some of the Evanson references some of them he says may be incorrect.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGCeuRqOK5XU-fZEYpYei1xrKYVS_w-Ib2DJ-saS9lg/edit

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