Drinagh:

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From Maziere Brady who in turn quotes Bishop Dive Downes Visitation c 1700

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Report on Popery, 1731 setting out Masshouses and Popish Schools in Co. Cork, Drinagh, Inchigeela 7 sheds, Killaconenagh (Castletownbere) swarms of Priests are constantly going to and from France, 600 families in Parish of whom 12 are of Reformed Church, , Kilmoe (Ballydehob), Friars frequently landing from France and dispersing throughout the country, copied from documents in Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle probably destroyed in 1922.

1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835,Bastardy, Begging, Emigration Written Submissions from Clergymen and Magistrates from Drinagh, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), Abbeystowy (Skibbereen), Aughadown, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Myross, Sherkin Island, Tullagh (Baltimore), Kilmoe, Breagh, Durrus and Kilcrohane, Schull. In Durrus Scarcely a Man or Woman who Never Married, Children left to Die by Exposure, No Power in Petty Session to Comple father to provide, Low Rate of Illegitimacy, Strolling Beggars, Protestant Widows May Get a Share of Poor Box, Seasonal Labouring, Those who Emigrated to England now going to America.

1700.  Drinagh, West Cork, ‘There is a Popish Priest called Daniel Sullivan, Lives in Another Parish, He Celebrates Mass Generally in a Ditch, Sheltered With a Few Bushes and Sods and Sometimes in a Cabin.

Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

Irish on ordinary speech Drinagh, West Cork 1940s agus Gaelige i measc an Bhéarla