The Co. Antrim Rolls give an idea of the scale of the catastrophe inflicted on the Irish People in 1922.

Click to access hearth_rolls_of_county_antrim.pdf

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https://durrushistory.com/2017/03/22/loss-of-window-tax-returns-and-irish-tax-revenue-1818-8-applications-to-reopen-closed-hearts-on-advice-of-physicians-for-those-with-fever/

https://durrushistory.com/2011/10/11/pettys-census-1659-for-hearth-tax-durrus/

https://durrushistory.com/2017/07/11/1812-cork-rates-of-tax-on-hearts-and-windows-greyhounds-at-1-per-annum-miscellaneous-dogs-hounds-pointers-setting-dog-spaniel-lurcher-terrier-at-10-shillings-male-servants-lo/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/09/04/extract-from-lost-1851-census-williamson-family-droumatinaheen-durrus-west-cork/

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1803, Methodist Minister Rev John Rogers, Unpublished Memoir.   Preaching on Circuit in West Cork 1803.    He married Mary Croston, 1810, Crookhaven Church.  Among those mentioned, Skibbereen, Atkins, William and Susan Atkins, John Evans, Ardrally, William Young, Letterscanlan, Cole, Dromore, Roger Young, Thomas Kingston, Caherincrin, Bantry, (where he preached to hundreds), James Vickery, Rooska, William Vickery, Dunbittern, John Skuse, Richard Allin (Allen), Ballyriggard, Richard Roycroft, Kilpatrick, Melvin, English, Schull, Swanton, Ballydehob, Mrs Moore, Newcourt, Mr. Wright, Glandore,

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https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/5774

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 Justice for Sale, Skibbereen Area, West Cork  Evidence of Father Collins, parish Priest,’ I have known Magistrates who had no other visible means of support but the trade they carried on as Magistrates, Receiving Presents to a large amount, having their work done, presents of potatoes, corn and cattle and presents of money too’. Alexander O’Driscoll, ‘Several in That part of the County Called Trading Magistrates,  Who are Understood to Sell Justice to the Party Who Pays them Best’ Perjury at Elections Mr. McCarthy, Magistrate from the Westminster Review.

There were calls around this time for a minimum property qualification for Magistrates to avoid the type of temptation alleged.   From the early 1820s Petty Session Courts began spontaneously to appear in Cork. They were given a statutory basis later in the decade and supplemented by paid Stipendiary Magistrates who sat with local Magistrates

Cork Magistrates:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

https://books.google.ie/books?id=snkIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=petty+session+skibbereen&source=bl&ots=VpMC3KMivx&sig=0Cd3mp3B7m2S-b462cvalhzNkqI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc-JmkoZrVAhXHLsAKHfMPCWw4ChDoAQgdMAE#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false..

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https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.4684006,-9.7282294,17z

1714, Disturbances caused by a ‘Clan of loose unaccountable Irish Papists’ who ‘appear with Swords, Cutlashes and Fire Arms, to the Great Terror of the Neighbouring Subjects.’ in Crookhaven, West Cork.

From the catalogue of Marsh’s Library Dublin location of manuscript.

https://durrushistory.com/2017/02/08/1807-crookhaven-west-cork-travellers-tale/

https://durrushistory.com/2017/01/22/rev-paul-limrick-legal-action-c-1725-re-glebe-of-crookhaven-in-the-court-case-concerning-the-glebe-in-crookhaven-paul-wrote-crookhaven-is-eight-miles-of-barbarous-road-from-skull-and-in-wi/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/08/22/extract-from-letter-very-bad-mutton-and-beef-you-cant-conceive-of-the-wretchedness-of-it-of-godwin-swift-customs-man-16th-may-1757-from-crookhaven-west-cork-ireland-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/08/22/rev-fitzgerald-tisdall-rector-of-kilmoe-goleen-west-cork-founder-and-commandant-of-crookhaven-yeomanry-corps-murdered-at-priests-leap-1809/

https://durrushistory.com/2017/01/08/1824-richard-griffith-road-engineer-progress-report-skibbereen-to-crookhaven-wheeled-carts-now-appear-where-heretofore-loads-were-carried-on-the-backs-of-horses-new-entrance-to-town-of-bandon-r/

Papers concerning disturbances in Crookhaven, Co. Cork

1843, Frequency of Petty Session Courts at Carrigboy (Durrus) , Held Every Three Weeks, West Cork, Missed due to Wet Days, Magistrates in Cork, too near Christmas only 5 Sitting Days Missed in 1842.

The local Magistrates were members of the Evanson family, the O’Donovans of O’Donovan’s Cove, The Fort, three brothers and from surrounding areas.  It is unclear if the Resident Magistrates were sitting at this time.

The petty Session Court was held on the first floor of the Courthouse from after 1850 when the village was rebuilt by the Bandon estate.  Some years later due to the hue crown attending court the floor collapsey.  Although there weee injuries no fatalities.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=fVkSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA25&lpg=RA2-PA25&dq=cork+petty+session+clerks&source=bl&ots=eUN1IjKDx5&sig=d4Ktg_s9R360HiVv8mMyaiFraqY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmqJjj6ovVAhXEIMAKHSmvAG84ChDoAQgmMAA#v=onepage&q=cork%20petty%20session%20clerks&f=false

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Nineteenth-century copy of Aodh MacAingil’s ‘Scáthán Shacramainte na hAithridhe’ or ‘The Mirror of the Sacrament of Penance’ printed at the Irish press in the college of St. Anthony’s, Louvain, in 1618. Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil OFM (Anglicized: Hugh MacCaghwell, 1571-22 Sept. 1626) was an Irish Franciscan theologian and Archbishop of Armagh. He was known by Irish speakers at Louvain by the honorary name Aodh MacAingil

Courtesy Capuchin Archives:

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1796.  The Harmful Effects of Peace, Expedition to Bantry Bay No Troops In Action.  Various Accounts of French Invasion.

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https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/zoom-item?i=16229&WINID=1499984065686

https://durrushistory.com/2016/09/14/1796-french-invasion-bantry-bay-anchor/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/10/16/false-alarm-of-french-invasion-at-bantry-bay-1779/

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https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/05/cartoon-from-bond-street-london-january-1797-on-destruction-of-french-armada-at-bantry-bay/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/30/notes-on-the-movement-of-the-french-fleet-in-bantry-bay-and-panic-in-bantry-on-friday-the-23rd-december-1796-the-women-seek-asylum-in-bandon-or-cork-or-to-the-kerry-hills-from-a-contemporaneous-note/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/30/imagined-landing-of-the-french-in-bantry-bay-1796-from-the-london-printing-and-publishing-company/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/02/12/1822-petition-of-joshua-h-cox-manor-house-dunmanway-for-continuance-of-mothers-pension-of-200-mentions-favourable-treatment-of-french-officers-in-1796-petition-of-herbert-hillman-woodbrook-dun/

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“Effects of peace”; ten figures in two rows soliloquiz on the blessings of peace. The last, a foppish young officer, alludes to the expeditions of Bantry Bay and Fishguard, in neither of which were troops in action. The intention appears to be to show the harmful effects of peace.

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