1762, Dispatch of General Sebright’s and General Alercron’s, General Montagues, Light Infantry, Royal Scottish from Cork to Bantry to be Followed by a Company of Every Regiment in the Kingdom of Ireland.

British Army in West Cork:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQrKsTDoupxktWQ41Wx5P4GFliNUT4Z2uyTdwyi0xjU/edit#gid=0

From London Chronicle:

 

1840 Legal Action on 1740 Deed Whereby Thornhill acted as Trustee for Galweys on Hedges Eyre Macroom, Co. Cork, Estate to Circumvent Penal Laws and Ejectment Action by Hedges Eyre estate in 1840.

In Co. Cork generally the Galwey family wee remarkable survivors.  Some branches conformed to the Church of Ireland but still continued to marry within the old Irish families who also conformed.

Post 1606 Grant by James 1 of England  of McCarthy Lands in Barony of Carbery Forfeit by Rebellion to David Lord Barry, Viscount Buttevant.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=XD5JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=seneschal+baltimore+cork&source=bl&ots=sFU7p_heAj&sig=PH0SG1QDjc1wLgysLIdyhpGOK8s&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV-fGJ84vLAhVCUhoKHfNXCxk4ChDoAQgdMAE#v=onepage&q=carbery&f=false

Patent 8 of James 1, 1603, Permitting Alienation  by Thomas Crook of Baltimore to Sir Fineen O’Driscoll and Walter Coppinger  and Donatus otherwise Donogh O’Driscoll of Lands at Coliemore,  otherwise O’Driscoll Country, Markets, West Cork.

All these Patents were destroyed in 1922.

 

 

ps://books.google.ie/books?id=XD5JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=seneschal+baltimore+cork&source=bl&ots=sFU7p_heAj&sig=PH0SG1QDjc1wLgysLIdyhpGOK8s&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV-fGJ84vLAhVCUhoKHfNXCxk4ChDoAQgdMAE#v=onepage&q=seneschal%20baltimore%20cork&f=false

 

 

 

 

 

Norman Conquest, Manor of Timoleague or Taghalog, Co. Cork: Charter granted in Reign of King Edward the Second 1324, Seneschal in 1837 Robert Smith, New Town, Rosscarbery.

For return pages 59-60.

 

The return for Cloyne also mentions a patent dating  from the 14th century.

 

1837, Manor Courts, Seneschals, and Some 17th Century Manor Patents

Returns of Cork Manor Courts by Seneschals of Altam (Beara), Abbey Mahon (Timoleague), Ballymodan (Bandon), Bantry, Bridgetown (Skibbereen), Castlemahon/Castlebernard (Bandon), Castlemartyr, Charleville, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Inchiquin (Midleton), Lemcon (Schull), Mallow, Newmarket, Newcastle and Garricloyne (Cork may be Bishop of Cork’s Manor Court),

The Manor Court were generally within the purview of the Landlord who appointed the Seneschal. A 1837 Parliamentary enquiry hear evidence which was of a very poorly functioning system.

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Barrister Examiner of title, Land Commission father of Elizabeth Bowen. Lived in Dublin. Kings Counsel 1930s “Prohurst.—I am informed by Mr. Henry C. Bowen, B.L., of Bowen’s Court, that the lands of Prohurst (or Proish) were originally granted under the Act of Settlement to a gentleman named Weekes, who was an officer in Lord Broghill’s Regiment of Cromwell’s Army. The interest of Weekes was afterwards acquired by Mr. Bowen’s ancestor, John Nicholls, who was a captain in the same regiment, and passed under will of Nicholls to his grandson, John Bowen. This was sold in 1794 to George Evans Bruce of Charleville. Henry Bowen, who died in 1721, is described in some of the family deeds as of “” Prohurst.”” ” Quoted by Rev. Dr. Canon Webster, Dean of Ross, in history of parish of Kilfaughnabeg (Leap/Myross) on origin of Court of Leet, Manor Courts

 

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1837, Manor Courts, Seneschals, and Some 17th Century Manor Patents

\https://books.google.ie/books?id=-0oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=john+jagoe+barrister&source=bl&ots=yKBtL6BuGN&sig=aymhZjMAowH6nfIPebPt780bTcU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9DrNUfrqNs6Q7AbsvIHYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=john%20jagoe%20barrister&f=false

 

 

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=manor+court&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&action2=-1

 

Charter of James 1 dated 13th March 1613 of Bandon Bridge, Co. Cork, Description of Town Administration, Endowed Schools, Court of Record, Manor Courts, Deeds of Town Located in Box of Failed Leslies Bank Cork.

 

Borough of Baltimore, West Cork Charter Dated 25th March 1613, 2 MPs, Manor Court and Seneschal, Quayage Payable by Berthing Boats, Duty of Water Bailiff to Keep a Perch on Rock Hidden in the Harbour

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL, author of Law of Irish Fisheries) Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine O’Donovan (1788-1858), Educational Pioneer Clonakilty School of Industry, Granddaughter Alexander O’Donovan  Died  1785, of Squince, in the Parish of Myross,  the Head of Clann Lochlain, second in seniority to Clann Cathail.

Maternal Grandfather:

Timothy Deasy The Elder (c1739-), 1793, Barr’s Hall, Timoleague, 1793, Son Timothy and Ann Donovan m Honoria O’Donovan d Cornelius 1759.   First Catholics to be JP since the Treaty of Limerick.  Family fortune reputed to be based on smuggling. Daughter Ann married Dr. James Donovan son of Alexander of Squince head of the Clann Lochlann branch second in seniority to the lann Cathal sept.  Founded brewery in 1807 at Shannon Square, Clonakilty.  Superseded 1810-30

Brother Rickard Donovan:

Hi will and circle:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YoRhhNwP_e4VgoHrFwW-c_AsjyoCvOqB5ddSikdsVA/edit

Richard/Rickard Donovan (1799-1883), Lisheens, Ballincollig, listed 1838, Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor)  for Co. Cork from 1838, son of Dr. Donovan and Ann Deasy daughter of Timothy Deasy first Catholic J.P. since the Treaty of Limerick.   Brother Alexander Judge in Jamaica in 1842. Grand son of Alexander O’Donovan of Squince, in the Parish of Myross was the Head of Clann Lochlain, second in seniority to Clann Cathail.  Clonakilty.  1870, listed Mount Desert, 15 acres. Probate to Denis McCarthy Gallivey (should be Galwey), Greenfield, Clonakilty, £10,164.

Extended O’Donovan/Deasy family:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Other Woman Educational Pioneer from Bantry Sister Benignus in Australia:

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL), Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

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Looking at her will she struggled financially with the shool and was most anxious to discharge all liabilities.