Yearly Archives: 2015

Cork Blackrock and Passage Railway Route network, Railways, Steamers Cork Harbour, All year, Seasonal. Omnibuses, Great Southern and Railway Network Cork Area post 1909.

13 Friday Feb 2015

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Cork Blackrock and Passage Railway Route network, Railways, Steamers Cork Harbour, All year, Seasonal. Omnibuses, Great Southern and Railway Network Cork Area post 1909.

From Colm Creedon’s Book.  Interesting how the Harbour area is treated as a unit.

Colm Creedon Chronicler of West Cork’s Railways (1849-1961) and Cork and Passage Railway (1850-1932).

https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/16/colm-creedon-chronicler-of-west-corks-railways/1-IMG_7014

C. M. (McCarthy) Tenison formerly Collins JP, BL, MRIA, Barrister, Bank Manager, Hobart, Tasmania, Author of ‘History, Law and practice of Baking’ and article 1893 on Early Cork Banks, Hoare’s Bank, Hoare’s Lane (1675-1729), Pikes Hoare’s Lane (1729-1825), Falkiner and Co., near the Custom House (1760, Leslie and Co. Failed 1820, Hewitts and Co., South Mall (1776-1789), Newenhams, Patrick St., (1800-1821), (1824-1825), South Mall, Rogers Travers and Shears (c1750-c1798), Nile St., Cotter and Kellett (1775 Bankrupt 1807), Galweys Bank Mallow (not in article), The Pike Family the Debt Cork owes them as Bankers, Merchants,  Shipbuilders, Reclaimers of Marshes and Mrs Pike a Quaker standing by her son in Celebrated Defamation action (Pike V Beamish ), 1894, for Alleged Cheating at Cards.

13 Friday Feb 2015

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C. M. (McCarthy) Tenison, BL, MRIA, Barrister, Bank Manager, Hobart, Tasmania, Author of ‘History, Law and practice of Baking’ and article 1893 on Early Cork Banks, Hoare’s Bank, Hoare’s Lane (1675-1729), Pikes Hoare’s Lane (1729-1825), Falkiner and Co., near the Custom House (1760, Leslie and Co. Failed 1820, Hewitts and Co., South Mall (1776-1789), Newenhams, Patrick St., (1800-1821), (1824-1825), South Mall, Rogers Travers and Shears (c1750-c1798), Nile St., Cotter and Kellett (1775 Bankrupt 1807), Galweys Bank Mallow (not in article), The Pike Family the Debt Cork owes them as Bankers, Merchants,  Shipbuilders, Reclaimers of Marshes and Mrs Pike a Quaker standing by her son in Celebrated Defamation action (Pike V Beamish ), 1894, for Alleged Cheating at Cards.  More to follow.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1893.

http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_076525

Brother: http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=AB5F5F5792033C7D1885EBA625D4F715?articleId=a1852
https://durrushistory.com/2013/12/30/banking-collapse-in-cork-in-the-1820s-roches-and-leslies-bank/

Pike Court Case 1894.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=18940517&id=qrVEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GrYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1742,4097461

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Schedule of Gaelic Manuscripts with Translations in English held at the Manuscript Section of National Library, Dublin from 1014 AD.

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Schedule of Gaelic Manuscripts with Translations in English held at the Manuscript Section of National Library, Dublin from 1014 AD.

http://www.nli.ie/en/collections-manuscripts-introduction.aspx

The staff in the National Library are very helpful and go far beyond the call of duty

Gaelic_Manuscripts_List-9 in NLI Dec 2013

An account of the Kilgariff, Clonakilty, West Cork, Eedy family to Clifton and Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada some of the names mentioned Knowles, Bateman, Beamish, French, Morris, Stanley, Woulfe, Crowley, O’Donovan, Cahalane, Donoghue, A Glass of Whiskey Ballygurteen Fair prior to Emigrating.

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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Eedy family history:

http://studylib.net/doc/6811055/excerpt-from-2001-eedy-history

 

Kilgariff:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kilgariffe+National+School/@51.639271,-8.912278,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844568a26ded1f9:0x2ea09e1425d7d989

Bathurst, New Brunswick:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bathurst,+NB,+Canada/@47.6259606,-65.6281926,7z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4c98941b3ad5d61d:0x505c13c653ce030

Clifden, NB:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Clifton+Royal,+NB+E5S,+Canada/@45.4500195,-66.002354,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4ca6546c968a66f9:0x5b3b1fe0c06d636b

An account of the Kilgariff, Clonakilty, West Cork, Eedy family to Clifton and Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada some of the names mentioned Knowles, Bateman, Beamish, French, Morris, Stanley, Woulfe, Crowley, O’Donovan, Cahalane, Donoghue, A Glass of Whiskey Ballygurteen Fair prior to Emigrating.

The reference to the Fair is on some of the Eedy papers perhaps not in this extract.

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

20160713_130431Excerpt from 2001 Eedy history

1450 AD Report of the Commissioner of Public Records in Bermingham Tower (Dublin Castle) ‘The Holegans were and are Loyal Subjects of the County and City of Cork since the Conquest of Hibernia and Ecclesiastical Seal of Father Maurice O’Helaghan of Ross, Co. Cork 1551.

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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1450 AD Report of the Commissioner of Public Records in Bermingham Tower (Dublin Castle) ‘The Holegans were and are Loyal Subjects of the County and City of Cork since the Conquest of Hibernia and Ecclesiastical Seal of Father Maurice O’Helaghan of Ross, Co. Cork 1551.

The records were most likely destroyed in 1922.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1892.

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1810, Rev. Horatio Townsend, Statistical Survey of Co. Cork, prospect of Inbhear na mBearc, Bay of the Ships, Bantry and Glengariff

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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1810, Rev. Horatio Townsend, Statistical Survey of Co. Cork, prospect of Inbhear na mBearc, Bay of the Ships, Bantry and Glengariff

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

Genealogy of Co. Cork Townsend family compiled by Colonel John Townsend, Australia.

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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Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 12th April 1947, Investigation at Castletownbere 1859 of William Power, Shopkeeper, John Kelly Smith, patrick Murphy and Michael McCarthy Shopkeepers fears of the spreading of the Phoenix Society Skibbereen (Fenians), 25 men summonsed in Bantry for lighting tar barrels to show respect for Phoenix man let out of Jail Mr. Denis Sullivan, Orange Riot caused in Kinsale 12th July 1859 by Antrim Militia stationed there. West Cork had serious

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 12th April 1947, Investigation at Castletownbere 1859 of William Power, Shopkeeper, John Kelly Smith, patrick Murphy and Michael McCarthy Shopkeepers fears of the spreading of the Phoenix Society Skibbereen (Fenians), 25 men summonsed in Bantry for lighting tar barrels to show respect for Phoenix man let out of Jail Mr. Denis Sullivan, Orange Riot caused in Kinsale 12th July 1859 by Antrim Militia stationed there.

West cork had serious problems with Orange Parades in Dunmanway and Bandon with people killed in the early 19th century:

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=Search&category=27&searchDescTxt=dunmanway&offset=0&browseresults=true

Bandon 1822 Orange Riot caused two deaths

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=Search&category=27&searchDescTxt=bandon&offset=20&browseresults=true

Fenian Activity in Durrus:

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

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