Banking Collapse in Cork in the 1820s Roches and Leslies Bank and House of Commons, London, Select Committee Query re Collapse, only functioning Bank left Pikes.  First run 1820 Deputation including Messrs Crawford and Gerard Callaghan deputed to see Lord Lieutenant in Dublin to solicit loan o £100,000. 2nd failure of Leslies 1825.

Banking Collapse in Cork in the 1820s Roches and Leslies Bank and House of Commons, London, Select Committee Query re Collapse, only functioning Bank left Pikes. Newenhams had been engaged but withdrew.

A long boom, unprecedented started in Britain and Ireland in 1785 and ended suddenly on the day the Battle of Waterloo ended in 1815.

War prosperity had disguised the weaknesses of the Irish economy and suddenly producers were exposed to competition from the most advanced economy in the world and agricultural products faced competition from North America.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/13/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-hoares-bank-hoares-lane-167/

This caused widespread distress. See:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/letter-from-lord-carbery-1826-re-destitution-and-emigration-in-west-cork-and-eddy-letters/
It also…

Cork Southern Reporter 1st June 1820 on Calamity in Cork, Failure of Roches Bank and Stoppage of Leslies Bank.

It was not an exaggerated headline.  The economy was delicate after the end of the Napoleonic Wars but the failure was an unmitigated disaster triggering a wave of bankruptcies, mass unemployment emigration from which it could be argued that Cork did not recover until the late 20th century.  In 1800 it had the same population Bristol by 1900 Bristol had a population five times that of Cork.

The only Bank to survive was that of Pikes (Quakers) a successor of Hoares.  The Pike family later lived at Bessboro in Blackrock which was bought by the Nuns in the 1920s, where they ran the notorious Mother and Baby Home.  It had the distinction of being the only one whose Reverend Mother was fired By Dr. Deeney of the Department of Local Government…

History Townlands and Place Names of Cape Clear (Oileán Cleire), 1918

Oileán ‘sea Cléire, Memories of Tráigh Chiaráin, A Cape Clear Sailorman, Lamentation for my Mother, The Fastnet, The Dance, Dánta de Pat the Poet Cotter (John K. Cotter) as ‘An Logainmníocht in Óileán Cléire

Marriages 1856-1893, Cape Clear Island (Cléire), Church of Ireland.

Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/01/27/an-logainmniocht-in-oilean-cleire/

Caricatures of the Irish in London Press early 19th century:  Irish Bog Trotters 1812, Posting in Ireland 1805, A New Irish Jaunting Car 1819, Paddy Whack’s First Ride In a Sedan 1800, The Scare crows Arrival or Honest Pat Giving Them an Irish welcome 1803.

Courtesy Nicholas K Robinson, Four Courts Press.

It is interesting in the Coaching Cartoon a man is shown presumably an old soldier with a stump of a leg maybe a legacy of all the earlier wars.

Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BXwDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA2

The Society had its roots in the Religious Controversies within the Church of Ireland in the 1820s and 30s and a reaction against Catholic Emancipation.

Among the figure involved in those times was the Rev. Caesar Otway, a somewhat exotic character combing the role of vigorous Orangeman as well as Antiquarian, Celtic Scholar and editor of the Dublin Penny Journal. He was a patron of William Carleton.  He travelled in the 1830s from Schull to Durrus and remarked at the industry of local farmer carrying creels of seaweed up the hill in Dunbeacon before the present Mine Road was built.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/caesar-otway-journey-mount-gabriel-1822/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/caesar-otway-skull-to-bantry-1822/

The Societies activities in Cork involved the Rev. Nagle and probably the Rev. Crosthwaite…

“Donn Fírinne was in the clouds last evening – today would be bad…” Donn Fírinne was a Munster fairy-king always connected with weather omens: …the people said that Donn collected the clouds on his hill (Cnoc Fírinne, Co Limerick) and held them there for a short while to warn of approaching rain, and from the reliability of this sign came his name, Donn of Truth… (from The Festival of Lughnasa, Máire MacNeill, University College Dublin 2008)

Only a month ago I wrote a post about a very low tide: I hadn’t realised that we were heading for an exceptional event, the lowest tide of the century! So I felt that our readers deserved to have this circumstance recorded as well, even though it involved braving what was probably the least hospitable weather that the spring has come up with so far! I should have taken notice of the omens from Donn…

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?vpsrc=6&ll=51.900409,-8.468056&t=m&source=embed&ctz=0&ie=UTF8&msa=0&spn=0.01324,0.025749&z=15&hl=en&mid=zpToGqj0GcYM.kXaXtDtRSH9E

Done by Aughadown ICA for 25th anniversary.

Aughadown townlands etc

Map from West Cork Genealogy: