Paddy O’Keeffe was a businessman based in Bantry who had an interest in the history of the locality. He was associated with other local historians John T. Collins and Bernard O’Regan. His papers are now in the Cork Archive collection and this account of Whiddy Island is taken History of whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers there
Down Survey 1665-85
Proposed Sale of part Bantry Estate
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