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  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
  • Interesting Links
  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Monthly Archives: February 2017

Venerated Skull, Polished by the Kissing of Penitents of Father Bernane.  Miracle Worker, Moulivard, Durrus, West Cork 

10 Friday Feb 2017

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Moulivard Burial:

 

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Rounds, Holy Wells, at Rooska, Moulivard and Father Bernane from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

 

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Father Bernard’s Skull, polished by penitents kissing it in adoration,  pieces removed over last 40 years:

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Coffin Resting Place at Moulivard:

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Weaving Vittory Linen Cloth in Dunmanway, West Cork, 1813 for Brazilian Slaves, William Norwood Mast… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-1mV

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09 Thursday Feb 2017

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1827, Lost, Beagle Bitch answers to name of ‘Lily’. Belongs to Dr. O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durr… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-3qt

1807, Crookhaven, West Cork, Traveller’s Tale

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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1807, Crookhaven, west Cork,  Traveller’s Tale

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Rev. Fitzgerald Tisdall, Rector of Kilmoe (Goleen), West Cork, Founder and Commandant of Crookhaven Yeomanry Corps, Murdered at Priest’s Leap, 1809.

Eliza (Dizzie) Townsend (Mrs. Lionel Fleming), in Ballydevlin, Goleen, West Cork 1819, no roads, rooms lit by smokey candles made of mutton fat, a diet of cabbage, sea weed, mutton, salt ling, salted pork, pigs head and crubeens, playing Handel and Mozart with the Rev O’Grady.

Methodist Minister, Rev. Adam Averill, 1799, on possible Scottish Origin, of West Cork, Swanton family and reputed Scottish Plantation, Castlehaven/Skibbereen c 1690s, Andersons, Hamiltons.

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https://books.google.ie/books?id=EH5PAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA552&lpg=RA1-PA552&dq=crookhaven+1678&source=bl&ots=2AqLOv2jdF&sig=TN_qHDcD034J5rLHlufaxEskne8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmoM3fs-jRAhVL1hoKHXfWBQw4ChDoAQgNMAI#v=onepage&q=crookhaven%201678&f=false
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Marriage Elizabeth Tonson to Colonel Daniel O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, (Myross), West Cork, MP for Baltimore, Chieftain Ancient Sept of The O’Donovans.

07 Tuesday Feb 2017

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Marriage Elizabeth Tonson to Colonel Daniel O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, (Myross), West Cork, MP for Baltimore, Chieftain Ancient Sept of The O’Donovans.

 

 

 

 

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Theophilus Amyas, Born 1641, Crookhaven, West Cork, Cambridge University, England 1658 died 1673

06 Monday Feb 2017

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Theophilus Ayas, Born 1641, Crookhaven, West Cork, Cambridge University, England 1658 died 1673

 

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1831. Former Bantry Postmaster Robert Clarke, Sureties Young Lavers (Levis), William Trenwith.

06 Monday Feb 2017

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1831.  Former Bantry Postmaster Robert Clarke, Sureties Young Lavers (Levis), William Trenwith.

The Levis family are Huguenot in origin.The Trenwith are in Gurteen 1650 according to Down Survey later throughout Beara.  Early 19th century family of 23 daughters among families married into Wards of Durrus.

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1778. Page 109 dinner with Celebrated Father O’Leary (1729-1802), born Acres, Dunmanway, West Cork, His Father a Scholar.   Salmon, Lamb, Braised Hare, Poteen, Gooseberry Wine. The Mad Parson, Poet Rev. De La Cour.

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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1778. Page 109 dinner with Celebrated Father O’Leary, born Acres, Dunmanway, West Cork, His Father a Scholar.   Salmon, Lamb, Braised Hare, Poteen, Gooseberry Wine. The Mad Parson, Poet Rev. De La Cour.

Dunmanway, Acres Townland (276 acres) Na hAcrai, Acres. Townland  in which the fields  were divided into acres. Here was born Fr Arthur O’Leary Capuchin, in 1729. He died in London in 1802

 

 

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Father Arthur O’Leary, born Acres. Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), West Cork, 1729-1802, Hedge School to Capuchin College, St. Malo, ‘A poor Friar buried between salt houses and stables poring over his books’ at his foundation Blackamoor Lane, Sullivan’s Quay, Cork, ministering to Irish speaking prisoners St. Malo, Chaplin to Spanish Embassy London, British Government Pension, elected as member of Monks of Screw, friend Baron Yelverton ‘a fine smooth brogue, his learning extensive and his wit brilliant’. His father by his own admission was a scholar. Arthur O’Leary, born Acres. Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), West Cork, 1729-1802, Hedge School to Capuchin College, St. Malo, ‘A poor Friar buried between salt houses and stables poring over his books’ at his foundation Blackamoor Lane, Sullivan’s Quay, Cork, ministering to Irish speaking prisoners St. Malo, Chaplin to Spanish Embassy London, British Government Pension, elected as member of Monks of Screw friend Baron Yelverton ‘a fine smooth brogue, his learning extensive and his wit brilliant,.

1768.  Cork Subscribers to ‘The State of Irish Protestants under Late King James’

03 Friday Feb 2017

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https://books.google.es/books?id=CWk1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR26&lpg=PR26&dq=Nathaniel+spencer+bantry&source=bl&ots=6Ie3B577De&sig=AhMDfqO8BCOslFKgDvRr3o3NAP0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid6KbpgvTRAhUBMBQKHfVTCYgQ6AEIGDAE#v=onepage&q=Nathaniel%20spencer%20bantry&f=false

1832.  Persons in Cork Licensed to Bear Arms 

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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