Post Napoleonic War Officers on Half Pay Bantry, West Cork 1824 and Lieutenant Daniel O’Donovan, Keelevenougue, last of the Irish Brigade d 1830s.
Pigot’s Directors lists,
Liutenant Stephen Bourke, Chief Constable, North-street,Lieutenant Thomas Bourke, Surgeon half Pay, Blackrock Road. (it may have been with him that JJ Callanan the poet stayed and composed ‘Gougan Barra’
Ensign William Carey, Ensign, Chapel Hill,
Liutenant James Cooke, Blackrock Road,
Liutenant David Kirby, Strand,
Liutenant William Mccarthy, Caheir Daniel,
Liutenant Daniel O’Donovan, Keelevenouge, area on northof Muintervara peninsula opposite beara where Carew embarked re Siege of Dunboy. He when he died it was said he was the last of the Irish Brigade. He was probably a relative of Timothy O’Donovan, of O’Donovan’s Cove, on the Peninsula a small landowner and one of the first Catholic Magistrates,
Liutenant H Pottinger, Main-street,
Liutenant William Ratcliffe, North-street.
the Bantry historian Paddy O’Keeffe said ther were 12 hald…
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