Castletownbere Petty Sessions, Co. Cork, October 1839, Timothy O’Donovan JP of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. Seeks to Ensure the Rule of Law is Adhered to.

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

Tomothy O’Donovan was one of the first Catholics appointed as a Magistrate in Co. Cork in the early 19th century.

Southern Report from Cork Commercial Courier dated the 17th October, 1839:

Controversy at Castletownbere Petty Sessions Court – On Monday the Court opened at ten o’clock with the following Magistrates:

J.G. Jones
Richard H. Beecher
H. Townsend
Samuel Hutchins
Timothy O’Donovan of Donovan’s Cove
J.G. Jones in the chair

Mr. O’Donovan addressed the Court and said he felt reluctant to interfere in matters of local jurisdiction out of his own district, yet as a Magistrate of longstanding in the county of Cork he felt bound to protest against certain proceedings of two or three Magistrates assembled here on Saturday last, when it establishes a precedent…

The Parish of Cill-na-Martra, Co. Cork, its Ancient Topography and Traditions compiled in San Francisco, California, 1894, partly from 18th century documents.

Kilnamartra 1

Killnamarta 2

An English Traveller in Ireland 1672-4, Observations on hospitality, bragging, housing and sleeping patterns, baptism and death customs, obsession with genealogy, propensity to litigation.

De Latocnaye 1796:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/observations-of-breton-traveller-jacques-louise-de-bougrenet-de-latocnaye-in-west-cork-bandon-macroom-dunmanway-the-priests-leap-and-bantry-1796-keening-at-funerals-raths-and-lises-flax/

william-rufus-chetwood 1748

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/a-tour-1748-through-ireland-in-several-entertaining-letters-author-william-rufus-chetwood-including-cork-and-kinsale-ale/

Kohl 1842:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/kohls-visit-to-bantry-co-cork-1842/

Halls 1840:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/impressions-of-travellers-halls-of-ballineen-west-cork-ric-station-1840-and-kohl-1844-bantry-to-kenmare-on-ric/

The author is unknown the article was produced in the Journal of the Cork Archaelological and HIstorical society in the early 1900s. from which these pieces are

.

Motif of John Molony (spelling varies), Surveyor, Co. Cork c 1750-1820.

In the 1739 deed from Burlington some Clonakilty tenants are names including one Molony, this is not a common name in Cork may be a relation of John Molony.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/estate-of-henry-jermyn-esq-aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-1275-acres-part-survey-of-killsarlaghta-aughadown-1790-by-john-molony-ploughland-occupied-by-denis-driscoll-and-syeeygosnell-275/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/survey-of-lislee-glebe-dioceses-of-ross-co-cork-old-and-new-by-john-molony-1801-showing-pound-courtmacsherry-road-earl-of-shannons-land-at-ballincurrig-and-hodges-and-foster-and-co-grafton-st/

My Irish Journal, William Penn includes his sojourns in Cork 1669-70.

Part of University College Cork CELT project.

Penn shows himself to be quite sectarian and dismissive of Catholics in the journal probably reflecting the common English contemporary prejudices f the time. he is also a tough administrator of his father’s estates.

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E660001-002.html

Dan Callaghan, Cork Multi Millionaire in the 18th century Provisioning Trade at his height worth c€150 Million (£250,000)

Original signature William Penn. The letter comes from a correspondent in Ballitore, Co. Kildare which had a Quaker settlement and it was where Edmund Burke received part of his education.

From 1832 Dublin Penny Journal in a book of the weekly issues owned by Dublin writer Sean O’Casey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Penny_Journal

Dublin Penny Journal, Journey to Durrus 1836, from Butler’s Gift (Drimoleague), West Cork, John Windle Cork Antiquarian and Father John Ryan, Drimoleague to the Rev. Alleyn Evanson.