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Monthly Archives: May 2016

October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kinsale,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060626,-8.5312562,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484461fb98d2012b:0x0a00c7a99731ef70

October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

From Dr. Richard Caulfield’s Annals of Kinsale:

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1779. Cataract of the Bantry River in Ireland, Probably with Murphy’s Mills, Donemark in Background from San Francisco Gallery.

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1824, Evidence of Alexander O’Driscoll. Magistrate, Skibbereen, of Sale of Justice by Digging of Potatoes and Cutting Turf for Magistrates, Notorious Extraction of Tithes by Reverend M. Morritt, Skibbereen, West Cork.

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1824, Evidence of Alexander O’Driscoll. Magistrate, Skibbereen,  of Sale of Justice by Digging  of Potatoes and Cutting Turf for Magistrates, Notorious Extraction of Tithes by Reverend M. Morritt, Skibbereen, West Cork.

Alexander O’Driscoll, 1799, Clover Hill, Skibbereen, (two of same name in Skibbereen at the time not clear who is who) Middle man, 1824, Clover Hill, 1831, 1822, correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820.  Superceded 1810-30, listed 1838, dead with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.

Alexander O’Driscoll, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle,  1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Perriers, Gibsons, Jonas Travers. 1835…

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Alice Beamish b 1797, Acres, Drimoleague, Co. Cork, only person found in 1930s by ‘Believe it Or Not’ to have lived three centuries

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The Beamish Book has an entry for Alice Beamish born 17th December, Acres, Drimoleague, married William G. Cotter b 13th November 1793, Derishel, Caheragh, died 11th March 1900, Clarkson, Monroe Co., County, New York.

http://beamishbook3.tripod.com/newbeamishbook/searchfl.htm

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1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bantry,+Co.+Cork/@51.6199685,-9.5557195,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a56fb9974b9:0x0a00c7a99731a220

1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

From Maziere Brady.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

There are references to the Coughlans, this branch wee protestant from around 1600 associated with Hulls and Boyle. Jeremy/Jeremiah married Susan Evanson of Durrus was attorney, seneschal, agent with Andrew Crotty for Boyle/Devonshire Estates in East Cork/Waterford. The Carrigmanus Coughlans are probably ancestors of one branch…

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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bantry,+Co.+Cork/@51.6199685,-9.5557195,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a56fb9974b9:0x0a00c7a99731a220

1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

From Maziere Brady.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

There are references to the Coughlans, this branch wee protestant from around 1600 associated with Hulls and Boyle. Jeremy/Jeremiah married Susan Evanson of Durrus was attorney, seneschal, agent with Andrew Crotty for Boyle/Devonshire Estates in East Cork/Waterford. The Carrigmanus Coughlans are probably ancestors of one branch…

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1845, Projected Bandon to Bantry Railway with Provisional Committee, Magistrates, Landowners, Businessmen., Traffic Projections, Anticipated Packet Station, Railway eventually built by William Martin Murphy in the 1880s.

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1845, Projected Bandon to Bantry Railway with Provisional Committee, Magistrates, Landowners, Businessmen., Traffic Projections, Anticipated Packet Station, Railway eventually built by William Martin Murphy in the 1880s.

There was an old man in Scart near Bantry who as a small child remembered the railway being built and lived to see the line lifted after 1961.

From:

Herapath’s Railway Journal

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Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise Irish Guild of the Church

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1847. Bowling Score at Castlemary, Cloyne, Co. Cork.

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1847.  Bowling Score at Castlemary, Cloyne, Co. Cork.

 

 

1948 Classic Report of Famous Bowling Score at Castletownsend Road, Skibbereen, West Cork.

 

Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England.

 

 

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Bowling 1847 Cloyne Longfield/Morris

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