1924.  Sheepshead National School Photograph.

 

Courtesy Danny Tobin.

 

 

 

Kilbronogue:

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1847. Father John Kelleher, PP. Ballydebob, on evils of Land Tenure. Townland of Kilronogue, Ballydehob, West Cork, Population 1841 445, 1847 125 Dead from Hunger, 6 from Disease, 84 Missing.  1841 74 Houses, 1847 27 Unroofed, 11 Unoccupied.

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At Kilbronogue the Revd. continued his journey escorted by Captain Harston, agent of the British Association and the Catholic Parish Priest, Fr. Barry. He visited nine houses before turning away with despair. “In the ninth house that of Charles Regan, I found that of eleven only three remained. We had met the woman of the house on the road and she accompanied me to most of the houses. When we arrived at her cabin she said: ‘I have a fine young man of nineteen years of age and you could carry him in the palm of your hand.’ I entered and saw a bundle of skin and bones, partly wrapped in a blanket, sitting by the fire. The mother said: ‘Sir, we have no sickness, but hunger!’ I had seen enough.”

Revd. French set up an eating house at Kilbronogue near Schull with funds from donations received. Rosbrin was later taken into the scheme. He reports happily from Kilbronogue:  I have just returned from Kilbronogue. All is progressing there most satisfactorily. Excellent order is being kept. All your rules are being observed and had not this day been rainy, nothing could have been pleasanter than the sight of 200 or more eating food, certainly with thankfulness to men, and, I trust with thankfulness to God also. But they did not seem to mind the rain, and we got the children under cover.

Cork Examiner 05 January 1848

Very Rev. Canon John Kelleher PP VF

Colleges Attended

St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland

Details Of Ordination

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cork

8/1/1828

Appointments

Kinsale PP : 10/1853 – 19/3/1875

Dunmanway PP : 1849 – 10/1853

Goleen PP or East Schull : 1848 – 1849

Cathedral CC : 1847 – 1848

Kilmurry CC : 1841 – 1847

Kinsale CC : 1839 – 1841

Kilmurry CC – 1839

Muintir Bhaire CC

Post-Graduate Studies/Irish College. Rome

Notes

He was appointed Chancellor of the newly-established Cathedral Chapter on the 23/2/1858.

For an insight into the life and times of Canon Kelleher we would recommend; ‘Famine in West Cork – The Mizen Peninsula’ by Patrick Hickey, p. 99; 116; 133; 265; 288-9; 302; 307; 314; 325.

Date Of Death

19/3/1875

Place Of Death

The Presbytery, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Place Of Burial

St. John the Baptist Church Vaults, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Obituary

His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Delany, Bishop of Cork, presided at the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. John the Baptist Church, Kinsale, Co. Cork.

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1833.  Attended huge anti-tithe meeting Mount Gabriel led by Timothy O’Donovan, Tullagh, later prosecuted with Father Quin for not paying tithes.  Many Church of Ireland and Methodist farmers attended the Mount Gabriel meeting.  1833 told Poor Law inquiry eviction often to insert a Landlord favourite or to replace a Catholic with a Protestant.

1843 as Curate of Kilmurray prepared a statistical analysis and present it to the British Association their annual meeting in Cok

1848 thanked the Quakers for their famine relief

1848 writing to Cork Examiner as PP East Schull on evils of land tenure and effects of famine on townland of Kilbronogue 184,1 74 houses, population 445. 1847 27 house unroofed, 11 unoccupied, 125 died of starvation, 6 disease, 84 missing.

1863 Led supporters in Kinsale election of V. B. Fitzgibbon against Sir George Colthurst. Military called to Kinsale on nomination day in case of trouble.

1868 supporting Kinale fisherman against allegation in Fishery Inspector report.

1869 while PP Kinsale swore of apprehension of damage to Chapel by Antrim Militia who later rioteted.  A military enquiry was held into their actions.

1843.  Pre Famine Statistical Survey of Parish of Kilmurray, Co. Cork, Prepared and Present to British Association Meeting Cork 1843 by Father John Kelleher, Curate.

Father Kelleher highly active with Father Quin of Durrus adn Father Barry of Bantry in anti tithe activities.  Organiser of Catholic rent and Repeal meetings.  Unusual as post ordination studied in Rome.  The likes of father Kelleher were silenced from political activity from the 1870s by Cardinal Cullen.

National Archives

 

Colleges Attended

St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Co Kildare, Ireland

Details Of Ordination

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cork

8/1/1828

Appointments

Kinsale PP : 10/1853 – 19/3/1875

Dunmanway PP : 1849 – 10/1853

Goleen PP : 1848 – 1849

Cathedral CC : 1847 – 1848

Kilmurry CC : 1841 – 1847

Kinsale CC : 1839 – 1841

Kilmurry CC – 1839

Muintir Bhaire CC

Post-Graduate Studies/Irish College. Rome

Notes

He was appointed Chancellor of the newly-established Cathedral Chapter on the 23/2/1858.

For an insight into the life and times of Canon Kelleher we would recommend; ‘Famine in West Cork – The Mizen Peninsula’ by Patrick Hickey, p. 99; 116; 133; 265; 288-9; 302; 307; 314; 325.

Date Of Death

19/3/1875

Place Of Death

The Presbytery, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Place Of Burial

St. John the Baptist Church Vaults, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Obituary

His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Delany, Bishop of Cork, presided at the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. John the Baptist Church, Kinsale, Co. Cork.

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1. Attended huge anti-tithe meeting Mount Gabriel led by Timothy O’Donovan, Tullagh, later prosecuted with Father Quin for not paying tithes.  Many Church of Ireland and Methodist farmers attended the Mount Gabriel meeting.  1833 told Poor Law inquiry eviction often to insert a Landlord favourite or to replace a Catholic with a Protestant.

1843 as Curate of Kilmurray prepared a statistical analysis and present it to the British Association their annual meeting in Cok

1848 thanked the Quakers for their famine relief

1863 Led supporters in Kinsale election of V. B. Fitzgibbon against Sir George Colthurst. Military called to Kinsale on nomination day in case of trouble.

1868 supporting Kinale fisherman against allegation in Fishery Inspector report.

1869 while PP Kinsale swore of apprehension of damage to Chapel by Antrim Militia who later rioteted.  A military enquiry was held into their actions.

Royal Irish Academy, Windele Collection:

Cork Examiner 21 August 1843

1859.  Military Enquiry into  Activities of Co. Antrim Militia into Alleged Orange Riots Pre 12th July at Kinsale Co. Cork. 1,077 Panes of Glass Broken, Houses of 20 Protestants and  700 Catholics  Attacked,  100 Militia Men Brandishing Bayonets, Father Carton Attacked, Counterattack, Ballad of Kinsale or the Defeat of the Antrim Orangemen.

Peadar Ó h-Anracháin was able to recall this in a 1947 Southern Star Article.

There is a welter of contradictory evidence but no denial that significant property damage done.  The newspaper reports go into great length.

Some British Army Regiments in West Cork

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Cork Examiner 27th and 29th July 1859

 

 

 

Financial Data on Cork Magistrates, Probates, rentals etc Many from Landed Gentry

In many case the Estates and values are a lot smaller then what would be expected.  Clearly wealth resided with the Cork Merchants and Professionals. The Big Daddy Is Arnott who arrives with nothing from Scotland and ended up leaving over £600,00 probably in the hundreds of millions now and very charitable.

 

Some Cork Magistrates

 

Amended11thMay2016MagistratesintheCommissionofThePeaceinIrelandfrom1434Co.CorkandCorkNativesMagistratesAbroad.

 

 

 

Finance/Probate

 

To get some idea of comparative values, an RIC man in 1900 earnings allowing for uniform, accommodation and pension say €75 per annum, Garda say €30,000 net in 2016 a factor of 400 perhaps on the high side or Resident Magistrate €500 per annum District Justice €90,000 net of income tax, factor of 180.

 

Boyle Aldworth, Newmarket, married 1736 Jane Oliver, Clonodfoy, Limerick, marriage portion £4,000.

John R.  Beecher, Hollybrook, Skibbereen,1805 he assigned property to trustees to provide £225 pa for wife should she survive him.

Annual Estate Rent rolls estimate 1811, Bandon £30,000, Devonshire (Cork), John Smith-Barry, Lord Shannon, Lord Kingsborough, Longfield all £20,000

Mitchelstown Castle 1820s cost of building £100-200, 000, never lived in, burned 1919-1922 now Co-Op.

Richard Townsend rent roll 1820s estimate £8,000.

George Earl of Kingston, Mitchelstown estate estimated in 1823 at £42,000 per annum

Richard/Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty, 1825, annual income £2,000

Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Durrus, 1853, probate, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing).

Richard Hedges H. Beecher Esq., 1838, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, estate was sold in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851, 17,000 acres, 42 townlands, 8 parishes, debts in 52 charges amounting to £52,275. The sale realised £52,275, rent of £4,500 per annum Sir William Henry Lyons, 1858, Glanmire Road Cork, Merchant, probate £20,000.

William Fagan, 1859 £16,000, MP, Feltrim, Cork.

Major John (East India Company) Townsend Somerville, Point House, Castletownshend, 1861  £3,000

Philip Somerville, 1861, Prairie, Schull, £4,000

Paul Limrick, Solicitor, 1864, Union Hall, £180.

Becher Lionel Fleming (1821-1869), Landlord, Probate £1,400, 1869 to Becher L. Fleming, Oldcourt and Rev.Horace Fleming, Kilnagross, Clonakilty.

Colonel Morgan William O’Donovan or ‘The O’Donovan’, 1870, Montpelier, Douglas and Lissard, Skibbereen, Landlord, £35,000.

Richard  Quin/Quinn, 1870, Fir Grove, Innishannon, Landlord, £10,000.

Sir Thomas Deane Knight 1871,  Architect, 26 Longfield Terrace, Dublin, £14,000

Ludlow Bamish, Brewer, Cork, 1872, £5,000

Richard Wallis Goold Adams 1873 James Brook, Cloyne.  Landlord and Land Agent, £4,000.

Timothy O’Donovan, Landlord, Durrus, 1874, £2,000.

Daniel Donegan, 1874, Carrigmore, Cork, 1874, £20,000, by order of Court Donegan v Donegan.

Francis 3rd Earl of Bandon, Landlord, 1877, £18,000.

George Achilles Daunt, 1878, Landlord, Compass Hill. Kinsale, £7,000.

James Redmond Barry, Glandore, Landlord,  Fishery Commissioner, 1879, £1,500.

Sir Thomas Tobin 1881, Gunpowder Manufacturer, Ballincollig,  Probate in Ireland £5,303

Lord Bandon, 1881, 40,941 acres.

Nicholas Dunscombe, 1882, £6,358.

 

Richard Donovan, Clerk of Crown, Lisheens, Ballincollig, 1883, £10,164.

Richard Wheeler Doherty, 1883, Oak Villa, Bandon, Merchant, Land Agent, £8,170.

Thomas  Fuge, Rock Lodge, Youghal, 1883, £2,386.

William Wise, 1884, Dundanion, Blackrock, Cork, £51,000.

Edward Day Stokes, Corbally House, Riverstown, 1885, £1,259.

Captain Thomas Stuart, Retired Captain Royal Navy, Combermere, Glounthaune, 1885, £1,281

James Fownes Norton Wise, 1886, Rostellan Castle, Midleton, Ramsgate, £19,849.

Captain John McDonell Webb, Rosanna, The Hill, Douglas, Cork, 1886, £6,205.

Edward Bayly Warburton 1888, Resident Magistrate, Bantry, £1,385.

Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, requested by Lord Ardilaun rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.

John Limrick, 1890, Union Hall, £3,647.

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1891, Miller Landowner, Rineen, Skibbereen, £3,807.

Captain Thomas Somerville, 1891, The Prairie, Schull, Beach, Bantry,  £568, widow Millicent Hart M.E., Ardrala, Newcourt, Skibbereen 1898, £970.

Charles Peter Teulon, 59 North Main St., Bandon, 1892, £14,421.

Dr. Bartholomew W. Verling, 1893, Springfield Lodge (Oxclose), Newmarket, Retired Naval Surgeon, Landlord, Probate £1,792.

Francis Hodder Power, Roskeen, Kanturk, 1893,  £1,230.

John Henry Sugrue, 1893, Sidney-Place, Cork, Merchant (Glen Distillery), £77,372.

Thomas Hoskins Tarrant 1894, Charlesfort, Cobh, £1,252.

Sale Devonshire Estates to Sir John Arnott, 1896, £270,000.

William Starkie, 1897, Resident Magistrate, Queenstown, Cregane Manor, Rosscarbery, 6, Edward St, Regent’s Park, London, £3,710.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L., 1898, Union Hall, Drishane, £489.

Herbert Webb Gillman, 1898, Landlord,  Clonstead House, Coachford, £2,294

Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.

Richard Charles Pratt, 1890, Compass HIll, Kinsale, £2,704

 

Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.

Richard Charles Pratt, 1890, Compass HIll, Kinsale, £2,704

John Richard Wheeler, 1901, 85 North Main St., Bandon, Captain 2nd Regiment of Foot,  left £1,017.

George Henry Swanton, 1902, Fortview, Ballydehob, Small Landlord, £325.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, 1902, Bawnlahan, Leap, in Ireland £1,886.

Michael French, 1904, 1876, Westwood, Rosscarbery, £1,054.

Richard Lane Allman, 1904, Distiller, Bandon, £22,034.

Robert Dunscombe 1906, Mount Desert Cork, £841.

Simon Dring (1854-1909), Tower Hill, Glanmire, and Glengara, Killeagh. Son Robert Harding Dring, m. 1893 Maria Louise Finch da Captain John, Nenagh, succeeded by son Simon.  Family traces descent in Ireland from 7th century.  Member Irish Landowners Association 1910.  Died Cromwell Road London probate to widow £12,858

Simon Dring (1854-1909), Tower Hill, Glanmire, 1910,  £12,858

Henry Lavellin Puxley, 1909, Landlord, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire,   Probate in London Irish estate £2,251 .

 

Major-General William de Wilton Roche Thackwell C.E., 1910, Aghada Hall, Rostellan, Gloucester, in Ireland, £2,157

The Right Honourable Hedges Eyre Chatterton, 1910, Glandore House, Leap £39,980

James Clugston Allman, Distiller, Bandon, 1911, £11,789.

Robert Day, 1914, 1889,  Myrtle Hill House, Cork,  Merchant, £46,271.

 

 

 

1846.  Arrival of Cork Examiner Awaited This Evening.  Celebration of the Liberation of William Smith O’Brien, MP, Young Irelander, All the Purchasable Tar Barrels were Brought Up, Amateur Band  Prepared ‘Honoured Son of O’Brien, ‘Scourge of the Dane’, Three Cheers for O’Connell, O’Brien and  Repeal.

 

O’Brien was a Protestant Landlord resident in London a direct descendant of Brian Ború who defeated the Danes at the Battle of Clontarf 1014.

 

 

Cork Examiner 03 June 1846

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O%27Brien

 

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

 

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

 

 

 

 

1846. Further from Villicus of Ballydehob, Pigs Wandering and their Owners fined.  Cause of Mischief Abuse of Grand Jury presentments by Land Owner in building Mount Gabriel Road to Favour his Land in time of Great Distress. High Praise for the action of James Hutchinson Swanton in practical Relief and in the Middle of Starvation Cattle Being Distrained for Rent.

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus.  Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague. She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate.  He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790. The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century. Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family. Slowly lands including Blackrock House now Bantry House acquired by Richard White (Ancestor of Lord Bantry).  Estate sold Landed Estates Court 1850s.

James (‘The Governor’) Hutchinson Swanton (c1815-1891), Rineen Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Praised for his personal generosity and practical work in Ballydehob during Famine.  Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. Prominent Methodist. In July 1869, it was agreed that Fifteenth Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland purchase Skibbereen premises from James Hutchinson Swanton for £250.From 1875 Carrisbrook House, Pembroke Ballsbridge.  Major businessman, shipowner, miller of Lorriga, Faran, Rineen with McNamara, landowner, Bendufff Slate Quarry, Director Provincial Bank, sitting Skibbereen 1861, subscriber (Pembroke Road, Dublin), Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.   Major land purchaser post Famine.  1870, 6,049 acres, 122, Pembroke Rd. Dublin.  Died Cheltenham.  Probate to James Swanton, Eastview, Glandore, £3,807

From the Recollections 1938 of Ben Good, Millowner, Rineen, West Cork of James Hutchinson Swanton (‘The Governor’). Businessman, Millowner, Shipowner, 1815-1891

 

 

Obituaty Swanton:

1891. Obituary James Hutchinson Swanton and Other Swantons.

Cork Examiner 22 July 1846

Cork Examiner 23 September 1846

 

 

 

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1833, ‘Villicus’ Writing, Ballydehob, West Cork Where ‘The Old Women Who Remain Up Every Night Up Lest they May Awake in The Morning With Their Throats Cut’, The Geese are Often Confined As Pledges for Rent, Collection of the Hated County Cess, Higgling over the New Line of Road between Bantry and Crookhaven, the Road from the Rebellious Village  to Four Mile Water (Durrus) in an Impassable State, Tithe Proctor to Absentee Rector, Parson Traill.

The rebellious village may be either Schull of Ballydehob.  The tithe extraction in the locality was very severe.  Shortly after the campaign inn Muintervara (Durrus Parish) had succeeded adn tithes ceased. This was due to the combined efforts of Timothy O’Donovan JP and his entourage including Father Quin PP of Durrus.

 

 

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 29 January 1833