https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Flats,+Ballyvourney,+Co.+Cork/@51.9454909,-9.1728442,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a!2sRusheenaniska,+Durrus,+Co.+Cork!3b1!8m2!3d51.6217112!4d-9.521993!3m4!1s0x48451e3c05829a7d:0x2600c7a819bb3a11!8m2!3d51.9455347!4d-9.1639709

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyvourney

 

Reclamation Work 1829 to 1834 at Ballyvourney, (Baile Bhúirne/Mhúirne), Barony of Muskerry, Co.Cork,  by Charles Colthurst, Agent to Colthurst Estate.

 

His evidence to 1841 Parliamentary Commission was that there was major scope for Land Reclamation.

 

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As Magistrate:

 

Charles Colthurst, Clanmoyle, Peake, Coachford, Pre 1830. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club. Listed 1835. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838.  Listed 1842.  Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.   County Freeman Cork City voter Cork City election 1837. House reputedly built late 18th century by Coulthurst of Ballyvourney demesne now occupied by Moremiles Ltd.  Charles operated Clonmoyle Mill c 1846-1854, later owned by John Young and Sons Ltd, who lived at Clonmoyle House at Peake.  Died Adelaide Terrace formerly Tivoli 1865 probate to Joseph Colthurst Dripsey Castle and Alfred Greer, Dripsey House, £19,000.  Agent from c 1806 for 35 years to  Sir Nicholas Colthurst extensive estates.Evidence 1841 Commission on possibility of scope for extensive reclamation in Ballyvourney, operated model farm.

 

 

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Early stage transcription:

 

Fiants of English Kings and Queen Elizabeth 1 (1)

 

 

 

1560s.  Fiants of Queen Elizabeth 1 of England with West Cork References Multiple Pardons (McCarthys. O’Driscolls/Crowleys/O’Crowleys/Dalys/O’Mahonys/O’Cullanes/Collins for ‘Rebels’.

The format of the surnames is different to that now used.

1595-6, multiple O’Mahonys included Bandon and Mizen area, McCarthys, O’Donovans, Crowleys, from page 204.  Thanks to John Hallisey for drawing attention to this.

https://archive.org/details/reportofdeputyke1720irel/page/n35

Records listed below abstracted by John T. Collins, Cork Historian in the 1930s.

Courtesy History Ireland:

Tudor Fiants

Published in Featured-Archive-Post, Features, Issue 4 (July/August 2015), Volume 23

Digitisation has transformed how we practise family history. There are over 120 million Irish historical records on-line. It is now possible to trace and document Irish families to a much earlier date. This has led to renewed interest in early modern records, 1500–1700. One series of particular interest and use to family historians are the Tudor Fiants.

A ‘fiant’ was a warrant by the deputy or council to the Irish Chancery to prepare letters-patent—published written orders to convey a right, an office, title to property or a pardon. The Fiants are statements of command. The term comes from the first word of the customary opening protocol in these documents: Fiant litterae patentes (‘Let letters patents be made’).

The Irish Fiants don’t survive as a series until Tudor times. (The medieval chancery warrants have survived in sufficient quantities that Irish fiants are one of the ‘categories of substitute material’ used by TCD’s CIRCLE project to reconstruct the rolls of the medieval Irish Chancery.) From 1875, Calendars of the Irish Fiants from 1521 to 1603 were published in the Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office. In 1994 this material was compiled into four volumes and re-published as Irish Fiants of the Tudor sovereigns (De Búrca, Dublin).
Even though the Tudor Fiants are widely available to researchers, they remain an under-used source. Yet they provide detailed evidence for family historians who want to trace Gaelic and Old English families, or to delve into the origin and history of family names and place-names in Ireland.

The Tudor Fiants contain over 120,000 named individuals in Ireland, and provide additional corroborative detail, including status or occupation and usual place of residence. The level of detail recorded in each fiant makes it possible to trace individuals and to identify place-names often to within a present-day parish or barony.
The Fiants document the population beyond the ‘body politic’ of gentry and aristocracy. Coverage is mainly, though not exclusively, of adult men. In addition to the great families that are documented in other sources, the Fiants include aldermen, merchants and artisans in the towns, and yeomen and husbandmen in the countryside. While some fiants include the names of men described as cottiers and labourers, as a rule of thumb these were usually encompassed in the catch-all phrase ‘all other persons inhabiting the country’.

In the late 1500s we find a huge increase in the number of Fiants for Pardons issued. Evidence suggests that these lists of names were compiled from schedules of followers sent in to the council. When you find a name relevant to your research, always look to see who else is in the same group. Researchers can use this evidence to recreate factional groups within a lordship, as well as the lord’s own following, including his military retinue of gallowglass, kerne and horseboys. A particular feature of the Fiants for Pardons is the use of double and even treble patronyms in personal names, to identify the named individual’s grandfather or great-grandfather. With this detailed evidence, it is possible to separate out an individual from his doppelgänger, even when they have a common Christian name. Researchers can also construct distinct lineage groups within an extended family.

Kenneth Nicholls has made extensive use of the Tudor Fiants to recreate family histories of Irish lordships, including Kavanagh and MacCoghlan of Delvin. Nicholls is the only person I’m aware of who has used the Fiants to document individuals moving between different townlands within a joint-lineage landholding (The O’Duinn Manuscript, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1983).

Calendars of Fiants for the reigns of James I and Charles I were also compiled, but never published. Handwritten copies of these Calendars are available in the National Archives of Ireland. These later series of fiants use a lot of textual contractions and require some interpretation.

Fiona Fitzsimons is a director of Eneclann, a Trinity College campus company, and of findmypast Ireland.

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1656. Petition of The Following, ‘That Daniell O’Donovand als O’Donovane of Curraghnylickey, Most Knew Him before 1641 Rebellion, as a Civil Honest, and Quite Gentleman’, Samuell Browne, Edward Renys, Edward Clerke, Francis Barnett (Mark) Mathew Perrott, Amos Bennets, Robert Osborne, Dermod O’Mahowby, Samuel Skinner, William Holcombe, Thomas Attridge, Barnabe Witcherly, Der. Coughlan, Will Corlless, Thomas Recraft (Roycroft), Mathew Sweethman (Sweetnam), Geyles Smith (Mark), Timothy Coughlane, Ja? Base, Abel Marshall, John Vallyes (mark), Ralph Fuller, Teig Has (O’Hea?), Phippip Ottrrydge (Attridge), John Baily, John Abbott, Philip Madoxe, Rowland Neild, William Ottrydge (Attridge), Thomas Hungerford, Samuel Poole, James Dyer, Richard Nobbs, John Chamberlen (Mark), Bart Philpot, Richard Skines  (Skuse?) (Mark), Henry Abbott (Mark), Richard Chambers (Mark), Thomas Duggen.

Curraghnylickey, in Drinagh

 

There is a further certificate dated 1661 from Henrie Becher testifying that Daniel O’Donovan was civil to all English of the Chief Gentry. At his burial he was poor, there was a great conflux of all class of English.

 

Bennets around Clonakilty.

The Dyer family had members in the Customs service in Crookhaven.

The various Coughlans probably Protestant branch Carrigmanus, Mizen.

Hungerford probably The Island, Rosscarbery.

From papers copied in the 1950s by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry businessman and historian.

 

 

 

Courtesy Barry Bradfield:

 

Curraghalicky

 

Curraghnylickey meaning the field of the stones is about four miles north east of Drinagh. It is currently spelt Curraghalicky and is in Drinagh Parish.

Down Survey and Daniell O’Donovan / O’Donavane.

Daniel held Courelicky (639 +176 acres) and the adjoining townland of Toughbaune (602+35+23 acres) These were plantation acres and would amount to about 2400 statute acres.

In fact Daniel O’Donovan had 47 different properties.

Amongst these properties was Castledonovan.

It was the so-called “seat” of the Clann Cathail sept of the O’Donovans for a period during the 16th century. The original name of the castle, and when the O’Donovans were actually living in it, was Sowagh (or Sooagh, Suagh) before the 17th century. The name of Castle Donovan, after the Manor of the Castle of O’Donovan, is associated with a regrant from James II of England in 1615.

According to tradition the tower was severely damaged by Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers in the late 1640s, blown up with powder in retaliation for Donal III O’Donovan joining the Stuart side and for his involvement in the rebellion and massacres of 1641, and has been uninhabited since that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Donovan

 

His son Donal Óg had Raheen Castle across from Castletownsend,

He appears to have fought for the Stewart King Charles in the 1641 rebellion and this petition appears to be against the confiscation of his estates at that time.

He may have had portion of his estates returned after 1660 on the Restoration of Charles 2nd but I failed to locate him on the 1670 landowners list. A lot of the names on the petition are from Bandon but some are further west from Bandon.

Barry adds:

Mathew Perrott as I had recently being doing some research on the Perrott family and failed to locate them in the 1641 Depositions or the 1659 Census of Ireland etc. I had found details published mid 1800’s by a Perrott family from near Bandon who went to America which claimed their ancestor was a Mathew Perrott who came over with King William in the 1680’s.

I did locate a Mathew Perrott marriage in the 1680’s near Bandon to a Carey woman.

 

 

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April 1689. Selection of MPs for Borough of Baltimore.  Cornelius O’Donovan, Morrogh O’Donovan, Cornelius O’Donovan of Kilmacabea, Daniel O’Donovan of Kilgliny, Daniel Regane, Daniel O’Donovan of Gortnaskehy, Tymothy Regan, Daniel O’Donovan of Fournaught, Thady Regan of Ballinacloghy, Cornelius O’Donovan of Ballynacala, Keadagh O’Donovan als O’Donovane, all Burgesses of Baltimore have chosen Daniel O’Donovan and Jeremie Donovan Esq. as Member.

Jeremie may have been an attorney in Dublin interfacing on behalf of local families with the authorities.

In many ways this was the last horray of the old local Gaelic Order.  In the following year the Battle of The Battle of The Boyne would settle affairs for over 200 hundred years. Families of English origin were in the area since around 1600 such as the Bechers and Townsends.  Relations seem to have been reasonable between the local Gentry.

 

After the confiscations, the O’Regans miraculously managed to hold onto their lands:

 

Early Genealogy of Sir Teague O’Regan of Balltnaclohy and Gortniglogh, Killeenlea, near Leap, Carbery West Cork, Temporary holding of lands from 1615 by Sir Walter Coppinger, loss by forfeiture and subsequent restoration under Articles of Treaty of Limerick 1690, later family including fashionable Dr.O’Regan of Mallow and Legal Luminaries, friend of Daniel O’Connell. Estates finally sold by descendants Cagney family early 20th century to tenants.

 

Courtesy Wikipedia

Jeremiah O’Donovan (Irish: Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin), The O’Donovan of Clan Loughlin, Lord of Clan Loughlin,^[1] was MP for Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland, in James II‘s Patriot Parliament of 1689,^[2] alongside his kinsmen Daniel O’Donovan (MP Baltimore) of Clancahill and Daniel O’Donovan (MP Doneraile).

Obtaining letters patent from Charles II, his extensive landholdings were erected into the manor of O’Donovan’s Leap, or the Manor of the Leap, in 1684.

He was also appointed Registrar of the Admiralty in Ireland by James II.

Jeremy O’Donovan was the son of Daniel Mac Murtogh O’Donovan, Lord of Clan Loughlin. A Protestant, he married in 1686 Elizabeth Tallant, daughter of Oliver Tallant, and they had issue 1) Jeremiah, 2) John, and 3) Anne.

Jeremy Donovan served in the Patriot Parliament of 1689, his Protestant standing kept him from being outlawed as were the other O’Donovan members of the House of Commons of the Parliament. Daniel O’Donovan, Esq. (M.P. Doneraile) and Daniel O’Donovan, gent. (M.P. of Baltimore) were both outlawed as they were Catholic, while Jeremy was not.

He died in 1709, leaving his sons minors. He was succeeded by 1) Jeremiah, who inherited his estates, but sold the manor in its entirety in 1737 to Richard Tonson.

The Jeremy Donovan’s of Leap.

The Jeremy Donovan’s had 3 townlands near Leap in 1670. Details of size, owner in 1641 and numbers on the land from the 1659 census follow.

 

 

1827, Select Vestry Returns, Church of Ireland, Including Some Named Vestrymen and Churchwardens, Abbeystrewy (Skibbereen), Ballyvourney, Castlehaven, Creagh, Drinagh, Durrus, Fanlobus (Dunmanway), Innishannon, Kilbrogan, Macroom, Morogh, Tullagh (Baltimore)

 

In some Parishes Innishannon and Kinsale, there are probably more the first Vestry meeting took place to consider church business all being Church of Ireland members. The Vestry reconvened some time later that day and dealt with non religious local business, paupers, burying indigent dead etc.  This Vestry also numbered local substantial Catholic farmers and business people. Probably a relic of the Medieval pre Reformation Irish Church influenced by Norman practices.

 

 

By scrolling through Eppi Project (Digitalization of Irish Parliamentary Records 1800-1922 it may be possible to locate other parishes.

 

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9813/page/214917

 

1827 Vestry Returns for Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, Church of Ireland (the State Church).

St. James, Durrus, Select Vestry, 1827.

 

1827, Sums Allotted by Church of Ireland (Then State Church) Dioceses of Cork, Ross and Cloyne often for Foundlings and Burial of Paupers.

 

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=vestry&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&action2=-1

 

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New Book on West Cork Railway System Including Colour Photographs of Some of the Last Journeys Pre 1962.

 

The book os for sale in Skibbereen in Cathal O’Donovan’s bookshop

 

 

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West Cork Railway Map 1940, Comic Postcard Schull/Skibbereen Tramway, Timoleague Line with Ardageen, last Train out of Macroom 1953, 1956 Diesel Railcar

 

 

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Major John Reid’s Grant, Patent enrolled 14th January 1666. Basis for Evanson later Lord Bandon Estate.

1704 Bishop Downes tour mentions Landowners, Lord Anglesea, Bernards, Colonel Freke, Earl of Cork, Evansons, Hutchins, Earl of Cork has tithes of 12 ploughlands in this parish the otherhalf belong to the Vicar. The Vicar has all the other tithes amounting in all to £28 a year. The whoe Parish has 28 ploughlands.

Major John Reid, lands Derrycloughshagh (South part), Dromunder of Drominihy, Munane, Toughbane, Cappagh, Colshateriffe alias Clasnatariffe, Moulerane, Castleventry (part), Coarquolaghy or Coorecolaghy (Coolculaghta, Durrus?), Coolenslonge (part) bounded on the west with Tully and Kealty (Tullagh/Kealties Durrus), on the south by the sea on the east by Clony (Clonee/Durrus), on the north and north west with unprofitable mountains all in Carbery. Total acerage 9 statute) was 6,069 which included an odd particle of a few hundred acres rent £56 17s 11d

1661.  John Reed/Reed, Member Parliament, Bandonbridge, Coolnelonge (Durrus Court).

Paddy O’Keeffe,  Bantry Businessman and historian has this reference. It is not in the official history of the Irish Parliament.  However Colonel Reid, a Cromwellian was awarded the forfeit Estates of the O’Sullivans and McCarthys.  The Durrus estates came into the possession of the Evansons c 1690 and to the Bandon Bernards c 1710 who then leased back to Evanson.

 

Coolnalong is in the townland of Gearhameen the location of the substantial McCarthy (Mucklagh) Castle later know as Durrus Court

1844.  Evidence of Alexander O’Donovan, Petty Session Clerk, Bantry into Percolation of Local Cess Collectors.  It probably related to the O’Sullivans and their network who were the Baronial Constables (Cess Collectors) of Bantry and Bere at the time.

This evidence was given in Bantry to The Inquiry re Land Occupation on the 9th September 1844. He said that every Collectors of County Cess were dismissed around 1840.  Hutchins (local Magistrate) swore that the Grand Jury appointed the dismissed man’s son to the job.  He also said that every collector in his time for about the previous 20 years had been dismissed for percolation.  The actual deputy collector was dismissed and fled to America.  Hutchins and the authorities selected a police man to go to Clonakilty on his return he said he was dead which Hutchins doubted.

1844, 1853 Alexander Donovan/O’Donovan Petty Session Clerk Fees and emoluments received 1854, £39 15s Fees at Carrigboy (Durrus) no nae £11 5s. http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/13709/page/352276 Devon Commission took evidence from Kenmare estate agent Charles Gallwey re middlemen Alexander O’Donovan’s father probably the one mentioned as formerly holding extensive lands complains at state of property at end of lease.

Cork Grand Jury including reference to heart h tax, cess:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGCxYYvCGNEbpzypv-6tdTnz78HsuF_YJELLh9ezWvM/edit

The cess to pay for roads, bridges, and other public works was set in the Baronial ‘Presentment sessions’, where petitioners applied for funding for such works, were originally held as part of the county assizes, though the costs were paid from the barony cess if the work was of local benefit only. The county grand jury was supposed to have included jurors from each barony, though this did not always happen. From 1819, significantly modified in 1836, baronial presentment sessions were held for these purposes, with a local jury picked by the county grand jury from among the Barony’s highest rate-payers, according to a complicated formula. The baronial presentment sessions were a convoluted process, lacking public confidence and marred by allegations of corruption and favouritism. Special emergency sessions were held during the Famine of the 1840s for the make-work schemes.

Notification, July 1828, by William Swanton, Baronial High Constable, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork to Parties Aggrieved by Posting of Cess Levies at Church Doors West Carbery, West Division to Appear in Carrigboy (Durrus) Courthouse.

1729.  Daniel O’Donovan, ‘The O’Donovan’, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, Renounced Popery, under Penal Laws, 8 Years after his First Marriage to Miss Kearney of Garretstown House, he later married Jane Becher aged 16, from Rolls Office Records Destroyed 1922 and other O’Donovan Renunciations.

 

In relation to the Kearneys they had the nomination of a minister to a local parish.  When around 1820 one of their descendants Rochford converted to Catholicism it caused chaos in the Church of Ireland. It may have been necessary to pass an Act of Parliament to resolve the issue.

 

 

 

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Cornelius Donovan	1769	Kilnagross (Clonakilty)		Public recantation with Tim Collins and Tim Sullivan	Dr. Casey, Vol t John T Collins newspaper references	Public Recantation not clear if it is the same as above alos on same day Denis, Hallsey
Denis Donovan	1778	Parish Drodaleague (Drimoleague)
Mary Donovan see Mary Ronayne	1733	Wife to Morgan Donovan, Pouthole, C. Cork		The succesors of Montpelier possibly Ronayne’s Court laid claim to the Chieftanship of the O’Donovans, Rev. Morgan O’Donovan made available his collection of deeds going back to the 16th century to Dr. John O’Donovan researchig the O’Driscolls.	On April 29th, 1733, Mary Ronayne “recanted” in the parish church of Marmullane, Thomas Somerville, curate, being witness.2 The “Convert Rolls,” Egerton MSS., No. 77, British Museum, give: “Mary Ronayne, Diocese of Corke, spinster, ‘conformed’ on 29th April, 1733.”	This branch of the O’Donovans later claimed the Chieftamcy
Mary Donovan see Mary Ronayne
Bartholomew Donovane, Gent	1709	Son of Daniel Donovane, Co. Corke

Daniel O’Donovan, Gent.

1729, recorded Rolls Office 1724.

Banlaghan/Banelehane, (Myross, Skibbereen) Co. Cork

Son of Richard and daugther of the Knight of Kerry. ‘The O’Donovan’ the head of the Clan who in his 60s married firstly Miss Anne Kearney, Garretstown, for the second time Jane Beecher aged 15/6 and had a second large family. He renamed the Estate Castle Jane.

Renounciation after first marriage andThe Kearneys of Garretstown House alos renounced relations the Franks, Rochfords. 49 years before his death.

His grandson Liutenant General Richard O’Donovan, married Miss Powell from Wales, they had no children the estate passed to her nephew. Th tittle of Chieftaan ‘The O’Donovav’ passed to th Monypelier (Douglas) Cork branch.