Rent Roll of Tenants 1748, Drimoleague, West Cork. Estate of Robert Sandford, Agent James Harris, Boulteen, Bandon.
Morgan Donovan is one of the O’Donovans, Mountpelier (Douglas, Cork) acquired through Ronayne marriage who converted to the Church of Ireland some of whose descendants became ‘The O’Donovan’ though disputed among other branches. Possibly the magistrate:
Morgan Donovan, 1733, possibly Ronayne’s Grove, Great Island, Cobh, widow Mary died 1770.
The Tonsons are descendants of Sir Richard Hull of Leamcon Manor, Schull. later they lived outside Fermoy.
Tim Donovan may be relative of Timothy O’Donovan JP of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus who is buried in the old Caheragh churchyard.
The Kingstons became one of the most numerous families in the area with Church of Ireland, Methodist and Catholic branches.
Genealogy of Ronayne Family, Co. Cork Extended Family Network include Protestant O’Donovans Originally Union Hall, Mounpelier/Douglas, Cork on Ronayne Marriage Later Chieftans of the O’Donovans, Evans of Caheragh, Evansons of Durrus.
This was compiled wehn the author had access to the Public Records Offcie Records destroyed by irish patriots in 1922. The meticilous records throw light not jut on the Ronaynes but multiple other failies. land tenure adn social mores.
Many of the land owning branches of the Ronaynes conformed to the Church of Ireland due to the Penal Laws. They formed part of a network of old Irish families while Protestant tended still to marry within the old extended network. Some of the families look like late arrivals such as the Dunmanway Shouldhams but they are Mccarthy on the founding female line. The same pattern is exhibited elsewhere as the headline surname will often not show the complex origin of the family. It is common on detailed histories of the families to see old archives, deeds etc being retained by the protestant Branches such as the Kearneys of Garretstown, The O’Donovan Skibbereen, the Sarsfields of Doughcloyne among others.
Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1919 and subsequent revisions and this edition—including the index—produced by Thomas Ronayne, Detroit, Michigan, for purposes of genealogical research, August, 1998.
O’Donovans at The University of Toulouse, France: Richard Ó Donovan, LL.D., MP for Baltimore, Died 1694. In 1754 Timothy O’Donovan was a student at the University of Toulouse where on the 15th July of that year he vanquished the most famous swordsman in France. He married Eleanor McCarthy, daughter of Florence McCarthy of Gortnascreena by Jane O’Driscoll daughter of O’Driscoll of Creagh. Grandfather of Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.
Catherine Ronayne ; married Richard Donovan, Doctor of Laws (University of Toulouse); M.P. for Baltimore; ob. 1694.
Cusack also gives the pedigree of The Ó Donovan, showing the marriage of Catherine Ronayne of Ronayne’s Court— aunt of Mary Ronayne, wife of Morgan Ó Donovan, ancestor of the Ó Donovans of Montpellier—and Richard Ó Donovan, LL.D., MP for Baltimore.
In 1754 Timothy O’Donovan was a student at the University of Toulouse where on the 15th July of that year he vanquished the most famous swordsman in France. He married Eleanor McCarthy, daughter of Florence McCarthy of Gortnascreena by Jane O’Driscoll daughter of O’Driscoll of Creagh. They had two sons, his heir Richard and Daniel a Lieutenant in the English Service who may have been the person who in March 1835.
March 1835, died lately at Bantry D.D.O’Donovan,. He was on half pay from the 27th Regiment and was probably the last survivor of the Irish Brigade. After the French Revolution the Irish Brigade officers were permitted to join the British Army
1333. Grant by Edward III of England to Philip Ronayne Phillipum Ó Ronane de Hibernia Nacione, Cork, at he and all his issue, begotten and to be begotten be of free State and condition and from all manner of Irish Servitude free and exempt, and that they may use English laws.
1333 Grant by Edward III to Philip Ronayne Phillipum Ó Ronane de hibernia nacione EDWARD BY GRACE OF GOD king of England and France and Lord of Ireland to all his Bailiffs and faithful to whom these present letters shall come, GREETING. Be it known to you that we are willing to impart our gracious favor unto Phillip Ó Ronane of the country of Ireland, have out of our Special grace and by the assent of our beloved cousin THOMAS, EARL OF DESMOND, the Deputy of our dear brother GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE, granted to the same Phillip that he and all his issue, begotten and to be begotten be of free State and condition and from all manner of Irish Servitude free and exempt, and that they may use English laws in and by all things and enjoy them in the same manner that the English men within said land hold and enjoy and use the same and that they answer and be answered in any of our Courts whatsoever, of our heirs and Successors, and that they be qualified to acquire and to hold and to enjoy all manner of lands tenements rent services offices and other possessions whatsoever for themselves their heirs and assigns for ever. AND to succeed in the same and to inherit the same, and also to be promoted to any ecclesiastical benefice whatsoever as well Dignities and other benefits [benefices?] and to have receive, possess, and Enjoy them in like manner as the English men within the said land have enjoyed and use the same without any let or impediment in the part of Us, our heirs, Successors, officers, or Servants whatsoever No Irish Laws or any statutes, ordinances, promises, or privileges past before this time, withstanding. So that the same Phillip and his issue aforesaid be our faithful subjects towards our heirs, and us and hold and conduct themselves our faithful people from time to time to time. IN WITNESS THEREOF WE HAVE CAUSED THESE OUR LETTERS PATENT TO BE MADE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE AFORESAID DEPUTY AT BREE ON TWELFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER AND IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF OUR REIGN. Prendergast. By a petition endorsed by the same deputy and sealed with his private seal and for six shillings and eight pence paid into our hamper and in consequences of the said authority of Parliament being granted. [Translation of Latin test.]
Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1919 and subsequent revisions and this edition—including the index—produced by Thomas Ronayne, Detroit, Michigan, for purposes of genealogical research, August, 1998.
1835 Poor Law Report. Liberality of Lord Bandon and the Duke of Devonshire in Provision for Elderly.
On some of the better run estates thee wee provision for charity.
In the Bandon estate records in the Cork Archives there are account books c 1800 showing provision for pensions for workers on the estate, as well as teachers in schools supported by the estate.
Edward Jones Alcock 1805-1842, son and curate of Rev. Mason Alcock. May have lived at Sea Lodge, built old rectory (Glebe House) in 1831. 1822 Lord Lieutenant sends £30 for local distress. 1822 involved in famine relief with Father Quinn. 1822. Local Fishery Committees, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Glandore, Baltimore, Crookhaven For Bantry Timothy O’Donovan JP, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Michael O’Sullivan, Rev. Edward Jones Alcock, Rector Durrus, John Jagoe later Fishery Commissioner, Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry, Rev. M McChean, Bantry, John Sandys Bird.
He sat on a committee in Bantry in 1824 to petition against the withdrawal of the bounty on linen production as had been agreed in the Act of Union. Magistrate. Involved in proselytising. Father Quinn’s application 16th November 1830 ED1/13/74/2, signed by for Roman Catholics Richard O’Donovan, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Tobin, Edmond Tobin, Daniel Daly, Richard O’Donovan, John Murphy, John Carthy, Thomas Cormack?, Elias Roycroft, Andrew Caverly, Richard Caverly, Protestants E. Evanson, Richard L. Blair, Thomas Ferguson, Thomas Duklow, Charles Ducklow, John Ducklow. Rev Alcock of the Church of Ireland was asked to consent but declined but his parishioners signed. His proctors, 1833, attempted to seize Father Quin’s bed while mass was being said in is house to secure tithe payment only the intervention of Protestant neighbours stopped it. Durrus Parish Tithes payable to him of which the sum of £320 Sterling is due and payable by the year to the said Reverend Edward Jones Alcock, the composition from the tithes claimable by him as figure of such part of said Parish as is commonly known by the name of Durrus or Parish of KIlcrohane is payable to the Reverend Alcock Vicar of the said Parish the sum of £170. Most of the tithes were the property of Nathaniel Evanson and Alexander O’Driscoll having leases of tithes. So it may be he who sent the proctors otherwise all outstanding tithes collected in one day. Cess payer representative Barony West Carbery 1834.
The labourers not long since employed at the building of a Glebe House for the Protestant Clergyman (Rev. Alcock) were allowed no more more for the work of a day in summer then 6d in the claim then made of them by the clergyman for the tithe, and that without diet, such is the poverty, and so little employment is there for labourers in these parishes that on the occasions referred to some 40 or 50 might be seen coming a considerable distance in search of employment on such terms and moreover understand they were obliged to to be at work before six perhaps at five each morning continue at it until eight, or even later, in the evening, with no diet but those cold and comfortless potatoes boiled in a distant cabin, and eaten by the ditch side or under the scaffolding of the new building.
1839 Gaming Certificate. Father in law Henry Jones 1799-1805, late Rector of Lislee his daughter Frances Jane July 1833 married Rev. Edward James Alcock, 1831 at Kilmacabea.
The Wave of Tonn Cliodhna, Glandore, West Cork Associated with the O’Donovans and in Dinnseanachas (accumulated Lore)
Cleena is mentioned by the Irish antiquarian John O’Donovan.[10] Writing in 1849 to a friend, O’Donovan says:
When my grandfather died in Leinster in 1798, Cleena came all the way from Ton Cleena to lament him; but she has not been heard ever since lamenting any of our race, though I believe she still weeps in the mountains of Drumaleaque in her own country, where so many of the race of Eoghan Mor are dying of starvation.
Courtesy 1911 Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society
1806. South Cork or 32nd Regiment, North Cork or 34th Regiment, Royal Cork City or 27th Militias with Date of Appointment of Officers.
Included are Lieutenants William Blair (1800) Hamilton Blair probably a Revenue Officer (1803) of Durrus Blair’s Cove family. Edward Evanson (1804) also probably of one of the Durrus Evanson families.
Admitted Middle Temple 1759, Irish Bar 1764, MP Carrigfergus, Attorney General, Chief Baron Irish Court of Exchequer 1783
Kanturk, Eldest son of Francis late Taught by Rev Charles Egan Charlevile School, he himself taught in Dublin acting as Usher to Dr. Andrew Buck who ran the Hibernian Acaademy. Learned irish.
Admission Middle Temple Register 1661-1781, Vol 1, Linen Hall Library Belfast. Supported repeal of Penal Laws, m Mary Nugent, Clonlost, Co. Westmeath
Friends with Capuchin Father Art O’Leary (born Dunmanway wit, public figure) 1786
1750-1817
John Philpot Curran TCD
Barrister, MP, Patriot, Poet, Orator, Master of the Irish Rolls, Privy Councellor
Son of James and Sarah nee Philpot. Ed Nicholas Boyce Midleton Ferr School under Carey m Sarah Creagh. Fluent Irish speaker from childhood. Appeared in the 1798 trials for Napper Tandy, William Drennan, Wolfe Tone opposed the Act of Union.
Curran, John Philpot b. July 24, 1750 d. October 14, 1817
Irish politician and judge. Born in Newmarket, Cork, where his father, a descendant of one of Cromwell’s soldiers, was seneschal to the manor-court, Curran was educated at Midleton, through the kind help of a friend, the Rev. Nathaniel Boyse, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1773, having taken his MA degree, he entered the Middle Temple. In 1774 he married a lady who brought him a small dowry; but the marriage proved unhappy, and Mrs. Curran finally left her husband. In 1775 Curran was…[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Memorial erected by sons in Newmarket Graveyard. Features in James Joyce Ulysses ‘Who would have you now like John Philpot Curran? Psha (7.739-40)
West Cork History 