Ballycurrany (North West of Midleton), East Cork, Burial Ground.

Article by Richard Henchion, now in his 80s a small part of an immense output.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1978.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballyedmond,+Co.+Cork/@51.9441011,-8.2028924,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484362f8b09f0633:0x1800c7a937dfaf60

Townlands, Place Names, Shore Names, Field Names, Cill Cháscann (Kilcaskan), Beara, West Cork.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1979.

Borlin/Comhoola:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5175&action=edit&message=1

Kealkil:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6051&action=edit&message=1

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Adrigole,+Co.+Cork/@51.6962713,-9.6302891,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845774f0ecc5cf1:0x2600c7a819bb5072

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6109126168752550833

Anti-Tithe Meeting Speech in Irish at Carrigaline, Co. Cork, 1832 as reported in the Mercantile Chronicle.

Fr. Coombes has been dead for some years, he was a well know West Cork Historian.

Up to the mid 1920s the old inhabitants of Ballinure on the Mahon Peninsula, now part of the Mahon Estate still had a smattering of Irish.

Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

The author is the late Walter McGrath, a Cork journalist, historian and railway fan.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1969.

Many of thr Fenian Prosoners had distinguished careers on their eventual release. About 20 have Cork connection including the Protestant Poet Ned Kelly from Kinsale, Bandon man John Lynch a private in the 5th Dragoon Guards.

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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Reproduction of the Gaelic Script and Letters employed by Seán Ó Dreada on Graves of Jeremiah O’Leary died 1828 buried Carrigrohanebeg, Co. Cork and his kinsman Jeremiah O’Leary died 1797 buried Macroom, members of Sliocht Lughadh na Salm Sept.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Carrigrohanebeg,+Co.+Cork/@51.9007876,-8.5813517,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48449226ac4ca727:0x2600c7a819c737e2

These transcriptions are by Richard Henchion, Cork Historian happliy very much around.

Courtesy JCHAS 1968.

Genealogical Chart of Galwey Family of Kinsale, Co. Cork post 1557

Galways/Galweys of Munster, Genealogy, Penal Laws Religon Change.

Sale by Cant (Highest Bidder) in Chichester House, Dublin 1703 of Galwey lands in East and West Carbery Forfeited, Kilfaghna, Drombeggy, Cullinagh, Dirryleigh, Shrilane, Gortard, Balliisland and ten small islands, Knockeeridane, Castlehaven, Gortard, Creaghm, Coney Island, Baltimore, Raghmore, Cloghanmore, Cloghanbeg, Lissangel, Caheragh, Gortnamuckla Lisalchorig with some tenants listed, Coppingers, Hollow Blade Company, South Sea Bubble.

Galwey Public Remounciation against Evils of Popery, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1730s. the Penal Laws and Caputo-Genocide in East Pakistan 1970s, and the Moranos, Crypto-Jews in Spain.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kinsale,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060497,-8.5225014,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x484461fb98d2012b:0xa00c7a99731ef70

Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.

Baltimore:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Baltimore,+Co.+Cork/@51.4804517,-9.3600582,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a32d9e6ca7db:0xa00c7a99731fe20

Castlehaven:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castlehaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.5108647,-9.1919605,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845af85f3f3c235:0x1800c7a937dfd780

From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Mrs Alice Butler, widow of John Butler, Surgeon, living next door to Mt. Uppington, Clockmaker, Fishamble Lane, Cork, cures ulcers, mortifications, scurvy, ague, megrims rheumatic pain’.

From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.

From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’

From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.

Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

Thanks Richard Arnopp.

http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/65636-1755-1761-tsunamis-ireland.html

1st November 1755, Lisbon Earthquake, Losses by Cork Merchants of Beef, Pork, Beef in the amount of £4,300 (c€2 million) and the formation of the Barley Cove Sand Dunes, West Cork.

Rebuilt Lisbon: