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http://archiseek.com/2016/1907-church-timoleague-co-cork/

Return of The O’Donovan, Colonel South Cork Militia, from the Boer War in South Africa, His Carriage Drawn by Men Through Town of Skibbereen, West Cork,  Party at Lissard, Singing and Dancing. Porter Flowing to The Early Hours, Light From Tar Barrels.

From Willie Kingston’s memoir

Magistrate:

Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son of Henry Wintrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and  Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilbollyowne, Co. Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War, Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society.  M Mary Eleanor, odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, listed 1921.

 

Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, 1896/7 Prizewinners with Photo of Past President 1892-7, Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL, and The O’Donovan President 1899.

Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL, 1891, England,  Tally-Ho House, Castletownshend, listed 1913, President of Carbery Agricultural Show 1892-7, as was his father earlier in 1840s. listed at Shanacourt Castle, Castletownshend, 1921. Listed at Shanacourt Castle, Castletownshend, 1921.  Executor £489, of father Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L.(1825-1898)

Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son of Henry Winthrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and  Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilbollyowne, Co. Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War, Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society.  Presented organ to Creagh Church to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.  1893 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  Member Royal Society of Antiquaries 1889.  Considered the preservation of ancient documents a matter of importance. M Mary Eleanor, (Madame) odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, she chaired the Women’s Emergency Recruiting Committee WW1, Skibbereen, listed 1921.   Attending 10 Grand Jury presentments

George Rye, Macroom, Co.Cork, Early Agriculturalist, 1730 on the Burning of Lime.

Agricultural Prizes, 19th October 1863, Bantry, West Cork, William Sullivan, John Tobin, Whiddy Island, Cornelius O’Donovan, John Godfrey, Newtown, John Vickery, Ballycomane, Pat Sweeney, Bantry, Cornelius O’Donovan, Coomkeen, John Lynch, Richard Tobin, Droumlicaroo, Michael Morris, Friendly Cove, John Keohane, Dromclough.

Munster Flax Society Visit to Bantry Farms 1860: Prizes James Philips, James Vickery, Ballycomane, Charles Dukelow, Best Dairy, Coomkeen, Improvements on Bandon Estate, Durrus 1869, praise for Charles Dukelow, Coomkeen, Slate Quarry, Barytes Mines,Considerable employment. Local Agent Colonel Bernard aided by Charles Skuse, Clashadoo. Bantry Agricultural Society, Annual Exhibition November 1861, at The Square, Attending: John Warren Payne (Land Agent), John Young, William Young, Robert White, J.P. Glengariff, George Bird (Land Agent), Bantry, John E. Barrett, Carriganass Castle (Land Agent, Kenmare Estate), Dr. McCarthy, Bantry, Rev. George Shean P.P., Bantry, Rev. Mr. Delat. C. C., Bantry, Christopher Gallway, J.P. Killarney, (Agent Kenmare Estate), William Jagoe, Richard Tonson Evanson (Ardgoena, Durrus, Landlord), Thomas T Curtain, Bantry, Cornelius O’Leary, Newtown, William Jagoe, Michael Hungerford Morris (Friendly Cove, Durrus, Landlord), J. Cullinane, Bantry, George Robinson, J. P. Coronea, Skibbereen, Landlord.

Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

 

 

 

 

Prizewinners, 1896 and 1897 Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen.

 

The names were abstracted by Teddy O’Regan, in an article on the Carbery Agricultural Skibbereen and District Historical Society, 2006. A number of additional items of information is included.  Most of the livestock exhibitors were substantial farmers.  Many of the names appear in agricultural shows from the 1850s.

 

1. F. Sweetnam, Carrignear

Aileen Wilson, Corran, Leap

The O’Donovan, Lissard, Skibbereen, (Landlord)

1. Trinder, Droumkeen, Innishannon, (possibly related to Aughadown/Ballydehob family)
2. Law, Ahaliskey, Clonakilty
3. Bence Jones, Lisselane, Clonakilty (Landlord)
4. Young, Rathravane, Ballydehob

Samuel Woulfe, Ballydehob

Henry O’Donovan Becher, Castlehaven, (Landlord?)

Denis O’Driscoll, Castlehaven

Crowley, Western road, Clonakilty

Carey, Skibbereen

H. Jeffrey, Lettercollum, Timoleague

Josiah Jeffrey, Derry, Rosscarbery

J. G. Shannon, Gurteenakilla, Ballydehob

Shannon, Derrygreen, Skibbereen

1. O’Brien, Bawngar, Church Cross
2. O’Donovan, Lassanroe, Skibbereen

Patrick Hurley, Moneyvolihane, Castlehaven

Patrick Walsh, Carrigfada, Skibbereen

Daniel Minihane, Creagh, Skibbereen

Jeremiah Geaney, Drishanebeg, Castlehaven

Vickery, Ballycomane, Durrus, George Vickery of same family also appears

Hosford, Castlelands, Enniskeane?

Miss S. Perrier, Ballinure House, Blackrock, Cork, may have Woulfe, Ballydehob relations

O’Sullivan, Cloghane, Skibbereen

James Barry, Lick, Skibbereen

P. Hawkes, Barryshall, Timoleague

S. Woulfe, Skibbereen

1. McCarthy Morragh, Innnishbeg, Skibbereen (Landlord), Kay Summersby mistress of President Eisenhower,  in WW2 was a McCarthy of this family.

Eugene Sweeney, Lickowen, Castlehaven

Miss E. Reeves, Glandore

1. O’Brien, Skibbereen
2. O’Regan, Forenaught, Union Hall

Mrs. T. Downes Skibbereen, (Solicitor family?)

John O’Mahony, Town View, Skibbereen

Mrs. O’Neill, Tooreeasillane

1. Jagoe, Leap
2. O’Connell, Castletownshend

Morgan Lambert, Bawnagallopy, Skibbereen

Rev. M. Cunningham, Leap

Rev. J. O’Hea, Ardfield, Clonakilty

James Barrett, Ri, Clonakilty

Jerome C. O’Sullivan, Clonakilty

John J. Levis, Highfield, Oldcourt, Skibbereen

Thomas Shannon, White Hall, Skibbereen

John Kingston, Scahana, Union Hall

Michael Crowley, Droumadaca, Drimoleague

Jonas Woulfe, Bantry

Timothy Sweeney, Clonakilty

1. A. Beamish, Skibbereen

Daniel Leonard, Big Marsh, Aughadown

1. Roycroft, Skibbereen
2. Hosford, Gortnaclogha, Skibbereen

John J. O’Connell, Skibbereen

David Law, Ahiiskey, Clonakilty

Denis McCarthy, The Castle, Glandore

William Jennings, Skibbereen

James Tinder, Church Cross, Aughdown

John Sweeney, Coolnaclehy, Caheragh

George Vickery, Ballycomane, Durrus, Vickery family in Ballycomane since 1780s, originate Rooska.

James Hurley, Ardagh, Rosscarbery

John Minehane, Lisheen, Church Cross

Bartholomew Hourihane, Cooldurrighy

Cornelius O’Donovan, Junior, Cooldurrighy

Jeremiah O’Mahony, Coomnageehy

William O’Donovan, Aughadown

Patrick Hickey, Coronea, Skibbereen

Patrick O’Brien, Lick, Skibbereen

Denis O’Brien, Skibbereen

Cornelius O’Sullivan, Moneyvolihane

John Fitzgerald, Derryconnell, Schull

1. Shields, Templebryan, Clonakilty

 

 

Attendance by Willie Kingston, Solicitor at Dáil Courts in West Cork, 1920 Arbitration Hearing Skibbereen, Cow Sold With Another’s Cows Tail, Sittings at Fahoura School, Bantry Donemark Mill, Caheragh Ballyourane Barn, Derryclough Field.

During the War of Independence the King’s Writ ceased to run in many parts of Ireland. Sinn Féin ran the Dáil courts which on Independence in 1922 were abandoned.  The Courts were illegal under the then British Law and any Lawyer was subject to imprisonment and disciplinary action by the Incorporated Law Society or the bar Council.  Nevertheless the courts were widely used with full legal representation.

Willie Kingston was a partner with is first cousin Jasper Wolfe in Wolfe and Co. Skibbereen.  A Kafka situation developed insofar as from 1916 Jasper was the Crown Prosecutor fro West Cork and his cousin was illegally representing clients in the same practice.

Willie was in is own words the only Protestant in Skibbereen to sign a petition against  Conscription in 1917.

Memoir of Willie Kingston (1885-1975), Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Solicitor and Historian, World War 1 in Skibbereen attendance at Dáil Courts.

Story of West Cork, Willie Kingston

 

 

 

 

Custos Rotulorum, County Lieutenants and Magistrates in the Commission of The Peace , Co. Cork, in Ireland from 1434, Finances from Probates and Land Records

 

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