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Charter 5th May, 1613, James 1, of The Sovereign, Free Burgesses, and Commonalty of Cloughnakilty (Clonakilty), Co. Cork, Recorder, Court of Conscience, Manor Courts, Administration, Election of Sovereign on Feast Day of St. James The Apostle.

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1822.  Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson,  to Lord Lieutenant to Provide New Road from Bantry to Head of Dunmanus Bay where People are Wanting Employment and Deficient of Food. and New Road Needed between Skibbereen and Crookhaven Where it Was not Possible to use Wheeled  Carriages.

Nathaniel Evanson, 1799, Four Mile Water, Durrus, 1831, listed at North Main St., Bandon 1824, son Nathaniel Kings Inns 1818 he is Brookfields,  Bandon.   Senior member 1810, Bandon Militia.  Member or father Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1822 petitioning Chief Secretary for road works in Durrus/Kilcrohane in view of want of work and deficiency of food.  1826 election voted for Hutchinson.  Daughter Dora then at Bandon married Abraham Jagoe, Kinrath Cottage, Dunmanway she died at Blackrock, Cork, 1863.  In 1835 his rent charge at Dromnea, Gearhameen and Rasavourney, Rossiviree in Durrus was granted to Charles and Abraham Evanson entitling…

Item, Bantry House Collection, Boole Library, UCC.

830 30 March 1810

Deed made between Richard, Lord Viscount Bantry, Bantry, in the one part, Brigadier General Thomas Trotter, (Commanding Royal Artillery), Brigadier General Benjamin Fisher (Commanding Royal Engineers), Lieutenant Colonel Henry Roger (Storekeeper), Robert Coleman (Clerke of the Survey), and Abraham Mills (Clerke of the Cheque), all officers conducting business of the Civil and Military Department of the Ordinance in Ireland in the other part.With a compensation payment of £529. 19. 8, Viscount Bantry releases the Officers of Ordnance from a Covenant in Lease to Build Walls on Whiddy Island. This lease was made on the 20th Sept. 1804 between Lord and Lady Longueville, Lord Viscount Bantry, and Officers of Ordnance.

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Lease of 1836, Reenvanagh, Whiddy Island, ‘Covenant to lay out by Lessee (Tobin) Ten Boat Loads  (each containing thirty horse loads) of Best Coral Sea Sand Annually of Premises under a penalty of £10.

Tobins:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13bW08jLMERwfI5cGHHxXfd4IIHkBbpMYfJBmXA9ROX0/edit

The land on Whiddy is very fertile.  A significant part of the Island was used in 1967 by Gulf Oil to build a major oil tank farm still operational which holds Ireland’s strategic oil reserve.

The reference to one of the lives of a son of a local Catholic Landlord Timothy O’Donovan might suggest their involvement in the coral sand business.  This operated in Bantry until the 1950s.  Until guano from Chile and late chemical fertilisers came in the late 19th century Bantry Bay coral was prized as  a fertiliser.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/09/29/the-use-of-mussel-seed-as-a-lime-substitute-in-kilcrohane-west-cork-to-the-1920s/https://durrushistory.com/2012/08/28/history-of-whiddy-island-bantry-bay-co-cork-from1261-from-paddy-okeeffe-papers/

History of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Co. Cork from 1261, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers

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

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Proposed Sale of part Bantry Estate