1847, Irish Speaking Among Protestants in the Bandon Valley.
It might be noted that later in the century most people in West Cork still continued to speak Irish but through the medium of the English language.
Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.
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West Cork History 
Pingback: Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (1766-1837), Irish Scribe, Scholar, Teacher, Patrons Henry J. Heard, Vicar General of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Ross. Heard commissioned copies of Fenian prose tales. Other patron Cork banker, James Roche. In 1824 the fami