Ref. U140/K/3/109 Date: 1840-46 Level : file Title: Scrapbook Page Extent: 4 items Scope and Content: 27 Jul 1844 Circular letter from Thomas Swanton, ‘Ballidahob’ (Ballydehob), Near Skibbereen regarding formation of society, the Cork and Kerry Irish Poetry and Music Society. (2pp)

Courtesy Cork Archives, Dowden papers:

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Letter 6th March 1837, to ‘The Nation’, by Thomas Swanton, Crannliath, Ballydehob, re Distress East Schull and Irish Independence and correspondence with son of Seán Ó Coileáin, Poet

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Thomas Swanton, Ballydehob, Co Cork, Irish scholar, Antiquarian and Landlord 1810-1866 and nephew of Judge Robert Swanton of New York, Maritime Court and United Irishman.

1839 Applications for presentments to be laid before the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Cork, Spring Assizes, 1839. Contains applications for Payment to B.Neenan £3 for half year’s salary as interpreter of the Irish language.

2. Spring 1839 Printed schedule of applications for presentments to be laid before the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Cork, Spring Assizes, 1839. Contains applications for repairing roads in North and South Liberties, new roads and works including new line of road from Cork to Blarney, new road in the city near Paul Street; establishment items such as B.Neenan £3 for half year’s salary as interpreter of the Irish language, £800 to Governors of the House of Industry, dispensaries, malicious damages. (14pp

Courtesy Cork Archives. Richard Dowden papers:

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1852.  Clonakilty Board of Guardians Records:   Letter received from 2nd Regiment stating that a recruiting party is to attend in Bandon ‘and that if any paupers in the workhouse are willing to enlist that they may get directions to proceed to Bandon’.

Courtesy Cork Archives:

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10 Mar 1853 Resolved, Castletownbere Board of Guardians: ‘that the following class of persons be considered as unfit subjects for medical relief: 1 All parties deriving pay from the crown; 2 Farmers having four cows or more; 3 Farmers having less than four cows but known to have other means, such as money or employment; 4 Tradesmen while having employment; 5 Servants in gentlemen’s employ; 6 Shopkeepers, publicans, and butchers’.

Courtesy Cork Archives:

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19 Sep 1918 Letter from Colonel Kirkwood, Commanding Berehaven Garrison, making formal application for the handover of workhouse buildings, Context Naval Base World War 1 Bere Island.

Likely in connection with World War 1 then a naval Base on Bere island.

Courtesy Cork Archives:

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5 Sep 1918 Resolution expressing willingness to handing over workhouse buildings to the military authorities, subject to reimbursement. It was also resolved to seek to acquire the use of Cametringane House as a temporary infirmary and fever hospital. A committee to deal with the military and make hospital arrangements was also created. [Soldiers occupied the body of the workhouse, but inmates were transferred to the hospital building, not to Cametringane. See 6 Feb 1919, where the LGB express their understanding that Cametringane was taken by the board ‘as a temporary measure to cope with the influenza epidemic’. It is pointed out in response that the board never took possession of the house, and it is ordered that the keys be handed over to the garrison commander, Bere Island].

15 May 1919 Resolution asking the LGB to consider the board’s claim for payment from the military up to 31 March last, noting ‘as there seems to be no likelihood of the military surrendering the workhouse premises, we cannot go on indefinitely paying money on their behalf’. 12 Jun 1919 Letter from the medical officer, Castletown Dispensary District, requesting two days leave to go to Bandon ‘to examine the members of the R.I.C. alleged to have been injured near Eyries’.

10 Jul 1919 LGB circular stating that 17 July ‘has been fixed as the date for the public celebration of peace, which marks the termination of the war, and stating they will raise no objection to the day being observed as a holiday’. ‘No order made’ by the board in response

7 Aug 1919 Notice of payments received from the Admiralty and from the Royal Air Force for maintenance of patients in the hospital. Resolution asking whether the military ‘can now surrender the portion of the workhouse used formerly as a hospital, as our present hospital accommodation is very limited and primitive. Now that the war is over we see no reason for the military requiring the entire house’. Extracts from LGB medical inspector’s report regarding

1679.  The Manors of Bantry and the Manor of Altham are granted by Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1660-85, Chancery Roll of 6 February 1679 to the Earl of Anglesea.

Formerly O’Sullivan forfeit lands.

Courtesy Cork Archives:

Reference is made to the 1679 report of the Lieutenant General of Ireland, the Earl of Ormond, proposing the creation of two manors in favour of Anglesea. The manors are granted by king’s chancery roll of 6 February 1679, creating the Manor of Bantry and the manor of Altham. The present deed confirms that and grants demenses in each manor to Anglesea. Also granted is the power ‘to hold a Court Leet and View of Frank Pledge.., (a) Court Baron.., (a) Court of Record’, and to appoint bailiffs, with power of imprisonment [Manorial Court privileges]. Hunting rights, power to erect a tannery for hides, and market days and fairs (to be held at Ballygobane ‘als Oldtown’) are also granted. Letters patent confirming the foregoing lodged 15 March 1679. The document is dated 10 April 1679. True copy lodged with Clerk of the Peace of the County of Cork, 25 July 1787. The deed sheds light on the extension of English administration in the Beara and Bantry areas in the later 17th century, and on the power of the Earl of Anglesea in that area. The detail on the extensive privileges and freedoms granted to Anglesea, including court and other jurisdiction, is of particular interest.

1899.  Rabies in Bandon.  6 Dec 1899 Resolved, that a Bandon man bitten by a dog found to have rabies ‘be sent to the Pasteur Hospital in Paris for treatment’

6 Dec 1899 Resolved, that a Bandon man bitten by a dog found to have rabies ‘be sent to the Pasteur Hospital in Paris for treatment’. [See, eg, 14 Mar] Read, resolution from a public meeting of inhabitants of Ballydehob regarding County Council accommodation ‘for the treatment of the imbecile poor’.

Courtesy Cork Archives, Bandon Workhouse papers;

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Emanuel Hutchins,  Barrister 1792, Landlord Ardnagashel,  Bantry later  Magistrate Friend of Wolfe Tone.

Barrister 1792.

Emanuel Hutchins, Cregane Castle, Co. Limerick (of Bantry family) Plea for Clemency for Bantry United Irishmen Men, letter 11th August 1799, to The Lord Lieutenant for Bantrymen, Doctor Bryan O’Connor and Attorney, Florence McCarthy. This was against Transportation to Botany Bay.

From Cork Archive Directory:

http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110003977

Laminated A3 page containing an extract of text from diary of Wolf Tone, 24 Dec 1796, on board a French Warship in Bantry Bay, mentioning his ‘friend Hutchins’ [Emanuel Hutchins of Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, Bantry]. A note regarding the involvement of both men in a Dublin political club in 1790 follows below the extract, and a profile portrait of Tone is also included. On reverse are copied title pages of ‘Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone’ (Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1826) and ‘Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone’ (London: Henry Colburn, 1827), cited as ‘source’. Three notes regarding the provenance of the item occur: note: ‘Extracted copy from the Two Volumes in possession of Arethusa Hutchins Greacen… Portrait & Vol II page 144 and p 545’; note: ‘Arethusa’s copy is believed to be the one acquired by Emanuel Hutchins who died in 1839’; sticker: ‘Photocopy with Richard N Hutchins.. Solicitor (Retired).. Bantry’.