While researching for this post I picked up the excellent book by Niall Mac Coitir, Ireland’s Birds – Myths, Legends and Folklore and got diverted by a section on Eagles: why wouldn’t I, as we live up here in Nead an Iolair, Eagle’s Nest? I was delighted to discover from this book that Adam and Eve are reincarnated as Eagles and live on the island of Inishbofin, at the mouth of Killary Harbour in Galway. This adds to the list of important people of the world who have ended up in Ireland, including St Valentine in Dublin and Santa Claus (St Nicholas) who rests in Jerpoint Abbey. I’m hoping to discover many more…

My real subject today is the Curlew: we have seen a few of them lately below us in Rossbrin Cove. They are winter visitors from Scandinavia. There is a small breeding population in Ireland, mainly centred in Galway…

Various corps of volunteers were raised in Cork City and County to opose the United Irishmen.  These are listed in the Rev. Gibson’s History of Cork Vol 2, 1861

BANTRY VOLUNTEERS. Enrolled 1779. Force: 1 company. Uniform: scarlet, faced white. Officers in 1782 – Colonel, Hamilton White; Captain, Richard Blair; Lieutenant, David Melefont; Ensigns, Henry Galway and John Young; Adjutant, Henry Galway; Secretary, Francis Hoskin.

http://kinneighunion.ie/

Cole:

Click to access cole_cropped.pdf

Down Survey 1665-68

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Kenneth

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15_pSp32FOWCDm4sjU1OyhGgQhKuT-tU9FPLFmxjnj9o/edit

Tithe Aplottments 1827 by Susan Beretta.

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/kinneigh/tithe.html

 

Copy from copy register of Baptisms etc commencing 1795.

Copied from copy temporarily deposited by Rector, September 1961.  MS was apparently copied from register formerly in Public record Office and lost in fire, 1922.  The handwriting is the same throughout, probably that of Rev. John Haines, Rector at the time of the period entries.

 

Margaret Deputy Keeper 24 September 1961.

Loose sheets in the custody of the rector of Kinneigh, temporarily deposited, July 1961

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=100968344231272482288&target=ALBUM&id=5872719895072044657 

https://picasaweb.google.com/100968344231272482288/KinnieghEnniskeaneChurchOfIrelandRecordsPart1

P11

Copy of Baptisms from old Register

Baptisms in Parish of Kinneigh

P.1 (left hand margin of page perished, and part of 1st date lost)

..7 Teape Elizabeth privately baptised

.795 Duke Edward privately baptised

May 3rd Good William son of richard

July 12 Paul Joseph

November 15 Hayes Jane daughter of Baxter

Evidence of Father Barry, Parish priest, East Schull, West Cork, 1844, Ballydehob Copper Mines, Most Miners from District, Some from England, Wages for labourers comfortable 1 shilling per day, piece work for the women sorting, as opposed to 8d per day on a farm if available and on Emigration (Pre-Famine) if Provision was made would be availed of from Friends letters Abroad there is no Tyranny, No Oppression from Landlords, No Taxes, One of Two Ships recently Freighted for emigration from Ballydehob, Interesting the Emigration question was asked relative to the Colonies. Within three years an enormous exodus would begin not to the Colonies but to the USA, Land of The Free.

Interesting the emigration question was asked relative to the colonies. Within three years an enormous exodus would begin not to the colonies but to the USA, Land of The Free.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282501

Bandon:

ttps://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0xa00c7a99731fbb0

Belding, Michigan:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Belding,+MI+48809,+USA/@43.0962564,-85.2310374,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88188af5197b2fe7:0x18a25b330930fd5a

This site has the Memoir of Sam Bird, Bandon from the 1870s his father’s fondness for a glass of grog at night, The old Irish Church, The King’s James Bible Translated from Irish, Shooting Snipe, Anti Home Rule Politics, the family decimated by TB, Methodist Preachers, writing with the Non de Plume Brian Boru

Click to access Sam_Bird_Memoirs.pdf

Doctor Albert Casey, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, complier of O’Kief Coshe Mange, Four Million Irish Records.

O’Kief, Coshe Mange

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6217107,-9.521993,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Effects of the Famine many of the same Surnames as in North America:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjD7EiRBDPjnsK4c4B9xIu9HV2WPBOuY0jj5_Td7ogc/edit

The late 18th century and early 19th century was a boom period for Irish agriculture caused by the Napoleonic wars. After the end of the wars a deep depression descended made worse in areas such as West Cork by the collapse of the home weaving sector.  Emigration commenced in late 1820s of Protestant families and gathered pace in the later decades.  These families were small to middling tenant farmers with a sprinkling of labourers and carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, etc.  The area looked at is the triangle bounded by Skibbereen, Bantry, and Crookhaven.  Among the families (Catholic) from this area and period were those of the singer Bing Crosby.

At the time Rochester, New York was enjoying a boom due to the opening of the Erie Canal linking the Atlantic to the Great Lakes.  In politics…

JJ James (Jeremiah) Joseph Callanan, 1786 died Lisbon 1829, Cork Poet bridging Gaelic Ireland with Irish Literature in English, Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poems.