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  • 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
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  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
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  • 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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Records Lislee (Courtmacsherry), Church of Ireland, Co. Cork some from 1775

15 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Some of the records were copied by the Vicar for transmission to the Rolls Court at the end of his incumbency. At that time the Church of Ireland was the State Church and ran a parallel legal system dealing with probate matters.

Among the names in the community are those long associated with the area O’Hea, McCarthy, Collins, Coghlan, Hurley, O’Sullivan. The Travers family are associated with the sea as Master Mariners, Ships Husbands. There a number of marriages from Tide Waiters early Customs and Exise and Water Guards early Coastguard some English. During the Napoleonic Wars the signal tower at Seven Heads was occupied and some of the personnel married locally.

The Lislie Landlord family is represented, and their marriages including on to a Charles Andrews a Barrister of Comber, Co. Down in 1839.

A number of pages are missing as they did not copy well.

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Alfred Loughwed  Gillespie, Co Roscommon, founded 1909, Dunmanway, First Electricity Power Station, Co. Cork and the Bandon Mills and Electric Lighting Company, Coolfadda Mills.

14 Monday Dec 2015

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Alfred Loughwed  Gillespie, Co Roscommon, founded 1909, Dunmanway, First Electricity Power Station, Co. Cork and the Bandon Mills and electric Lighting Company, Coolfadda Mills.

The Bandon operation was controlled by the Brennan family. Joe Brennan first Governor of the Irish Central bank was of this family. The operation was taken over by the ESB when thy commenced nationwide electrification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brennan_(civil_servant)

Since the 1950s Dunmanway has been the West Cork, Headquarters of the ESB.

There were local power stations in Bantry and Bandon prior to rural electrification.

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Bandon History available from Amazon

14 Monday Dec 2015


Catherine FitzMaurice runs an excellent site:

 

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/

 

 

 

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List of Irish Shipped to Spain from Castlehaven, 1601

14 Monday Dec 2015

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EMIGRANTS to SPAIN. MS 601, p. 235 1602

These documents are held at Lambeth Palace Library

Former reference: MS 601, p. 235

4 Pages.

Supplementary information: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. IV, document 205.

Related information: Pacata Hibernia, p. 424.

Contents:
“Anno 1601. A List of the Names of so many of the Irish as have shipped themselves for Spain forth of Munster, since December 1601, besides divers depending upon these, and many others whose names I know not.”
From Castlehaven in December 1601 with the Adelantado, O’Donnel, Redmond Bourke, Hugh Mostian, and their train, the number whereof I know not.
O’Sulyvan Beare’s son, and with him one Traunt of the Dingle from Beare-haven, in February 1601[-2].
Donnel, son to Sir Fynnen O’Driscoyle, from Castlehaven with the Veedor Pedro Lopes de Soto.

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List of Undertakers for Munster 1591

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The UNDERTAKERS in MUNSTER. MS 617, p. 164 1591

These documents are held at Lambeth Palace Library

Former reference: MS 617, p. 164

4 Pages.

Supplementary information: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 128.

Contents:
“Munster.–An Abstract or brief particular of all the Names of the Undertakers, the several counties, the quantity of their lands, and their yearly rents.”
Waterford.–Sir Chr. Hatton, late Lord Chancellor of England, hath in demesne and rentable lands (at the rate of 428½ acres, English measure, to a plowland) 10,910 acres; yearly rent from Mich. 1591 for three years, 30l. 3s. 9d. ster., and from Mich. 1594 in perpetuity, 60l. 7s. 9d. ster. Sir Walter Rawleighe, rentable lands, number unknown; yearly rent from Mich. 1591 for three years, 50 marks ster., and afterwards 100 marks. [Sir…

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Richard W. F. Longfield, b. 1861, Millbrook, Bandon, Co Cork, Railway Engineer, Argentina and Uruguay.

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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Richard W F Longfield, b 1861, Millbrook, Bandon, Co Cork, Railway Engineer, Argentina and Uruguay.

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Coomkeen, Summer and Winter

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
The Coomkeen Loop Walk on the Sheep’s Head is one of the most richly satisfying walks…

Atlantic Winter

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Dingle Beach

When St Brendan of Clonfert set out to discover America in 512 he and his fellow monks had to face the enormity of the Atlantic Ocean in tiny boats built out of wood and oxhides, sealed with animal fat. Up here in Nead an Iolair our view out to the islands of Roaringwater Bay and beyond is dominated by that same ocean and – sometimes – we feel just as small. This year the winter gales have started early, and spates of fierce westerlies have been throwing the Atlantic straight at our windows. The tiles rattle alarmingly while we are tucked up in bed at night. At these times I think of the Saint and what he had to face. But, like Brendan, we always survive the storms, and often wake up in the morning to a calm, clear day – except that you can hear the constant ‘roaring’ of the open…

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Promontory Forts of Bear and Bantry (Muintervara), Westopp 1821

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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Map Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway c1900

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