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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.

1807, Crookhaven, West Cork, Traveller’s Tale

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 winter, though I take horse before day, I can scarce reach Crookhaven by 12 o’clock. I am obliged immediately, without refreshing myself, to take horse and ride in the night to get home, for there is not in the whole parish a bed a man can lie on, or a morsel to be eaten…” People mentioned: Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan, ordained in Cork 1618, fled to England in Rising 1641 and died there, Thadeus Coghlan son to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan husband to Sarah, Richard Coghlan, Mrs. Sarah Coghlan, 80, married to Thadeus son to Rev. Demetrius, Mary Coghlan granddaughter by her mother to Mary Coghlan alias Spain whose grandfather was the proprietor of 8 Gneeves at Crookhaven, Donagh McWilliam Coghlan, Proctor to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan. Jeremy/Jeremiah Coghlan, great grandson to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan, probably Attorney, Seneschal of Dungarvan Manager with Andrew Crotty of Devonshire Estate Waterford, married Miss Evanson Durrus. Brigid Limrick daughter of Rev. Paul married Benjamin Sullivan, self styled Ó Sullivan Mór, Attorney Cork and Clerk of Crown Cork and Waterford mother of Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Judge of Supreme Court, Madras, India, Colonel Henry Becher grandfather of Henry Becher built a fish palace c 1650 east of Crookhaven Church in opposition to Richard Hull. Darby Mahony 62, son of Teige Mahony, agent, driver to Sir Richard Hull, Gibson moved to a farm on favourable terms by Hull suggestion he was illegitimate son (that it was a pig of his own sow), John Cullane, Mason c 1650.

Extract from letter ‘Very Bad Mutton and Beef, you Can’t Conceive of the Wretchedness of it’, of Godwin Swift (Customs Man), 16th May 1757 from Crookhaven, West Cork, Ireland.

 

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

 

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, Road From Courtmacsherry to Timoleague, Road from Clonakilty to New Fishery Pier At Ring, New Road Skibbereen to Bantry, Macroom to Killarney, with a Note on The System of Labour Organisation Used.

 

Papers concerning disturbances in Crookhaven, Co. Cork

MS Date: 1714
Description: 4p.
Contents: Copy letter from Captain Lewis Lermond in Bantry to Lieutenant Colonel Manning, his superior officer, in Dublin giving an account of 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, Co. Cork. He encloses with the letter supporting letters and statements by Finin Merigoe, Dermod Merigoe, Kedagh Donovan and Cornelius McMurtigh.
Item Note: Previously p. 47. See also Z3.1.1(11).