1762, Will of Samuel Doherty, Coolnaconnaght. Parish of Kilmeen, Clonakilty, Executor Samuel Doherty could not sign having been blinded by Smallpox.  Other Doherty Wills.  Shinnach (Smallpox)

Looking at the wording there may have been two Samuel Dohertys

These wills were copied by Welply.  They may be of the Bandon Doherty Legal and estate management family associated with Wheelers.  They ended up de facto owning the Bandon (Bernard) Estate by late 19th century by mortgage.  The Estate records were acquired from the family by Cork Librarian Padraig Ó Máidin (Paddy Madden) c 1970 and are now in the Cork Archives.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/album/6016019881220541265/6016020794392080178

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Other Doherty Wills

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Bandon Dohertys Lawyers:

1807,1816, 1818, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1839, 1851	Edward Doherty	Attorney and Solicitor in the Four Courts and Master extra in Chancery and Town Clerk, Commissioner of Affadavits 1835 CH. Seneschal of Castlemahon/Castlebernard	South Main St. Other names Treselian Balinadee Robert will of 1787, Thomas Biggs the younger, John Sloan may have been a writing clerk. 1851 sale of ware estate. Committee member Bandon Navigation Scheme 1842. Managing Committee Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828.	Memorial 483753, married Christchurch to Sarah 3rd daughter of John Wheeler Esq., Bandon, deceased.	May be in Kings Inns admissions 1805, 3rd son James Cork, merchant, decd. Mary Gillman, over 16 ed Cork, Attorney Exchequer 1811.	Slater Directory 1824, 1835 Pettigrew and Oulart Directory
1831	Edward James Doherty	Kings Inns	1st son Edward, Dublin, Sarah Wheeler, over 16 ed Bandon affadavit father
1876	J.Doherty	Solicitor	Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.
1818-1883, 1835	Richard Wheeler Doherty	Kings Inns, Solicitor 1842, Law Agent. for Conservatives, Bandon. Magistrate. Business agent. Land Agent Earl of Bandon and Bishop of Tuam (Bernard connection)	2nd son Edward, attorney, Bandon, Sarah Wheeler, ed Bandon affadavit father	Richard Wheeler Doherty (1818-1883), Oak Villa, Bandon, son Edward, solicitor, Sarah Wheeler, m Martha Wheeler, Innishannon d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive.	Will £8,170,. 1883
Post 1870	Richard Wheeler Doherty	Solicitor	Oak Villa, Bandon, father Richard solicitor, m Martha Wheeler, d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive. M 1881 Elizabeth Maria Ann Biggs, he died 1922 Penzance, Cornwall	1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner

Small Pox:

https://durrushistory.com/2016/01/27/1835-the-cow-pock-institution-inoculation-in-clonakilty-1822-rooska-bantry-pit-with-small-pox-victims-old-practice-of-shinnack-50-years-before-jenner/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/12/23/the-reverend-john-richardson-rector-of-belturbet-co-cavan-author-of-the-great-folly-superstition-and-idolatry-of-pilgrimages-in-ireland-especially-of-that-to-st-patricks-purgatory-together-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/11/02/1822-dr-william-folliott-clonakilty-county-cork-to-chief-secretarys-office-dublin-castle-making-case-for-increase-of-vaccination-against-small-pox-in-district-edward-hunt-kinsale-18/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/07/13/1748-thomas-trendle-trender-skibbereen-escaped-convict-en-route-to-cork-gaol-marked-with-small-pox-wig-description-of-clothing-reward-5-from-william-hull-skibbereen-ship-masters-notified/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/04/13/clais-na-bolainghe-clashnabullagee-small-pox-trenchpit-containing-remains-of-those-who-died-of-small-pox-identified-in-1842-ordnance-survey-orthography-1842-townland-of-rooska-adjoining-bantr/

https://durrushistory.com/2014/11/14/doctor-barry-1800-on-shinach-small-pox-and-practice-in-cork-of-inoculation-with-cow-pox-50-years-before-dr-jenners-vaccination-and-late-18th-century-inoculations-by-mr-goodwin-bantry-west/

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Wills, 1615, William Hill, Bristol/Cork other Hills Bandon, 1616 Richard Dowe, Carrigrohane, 1619, Philip Perry, Bandon, 1624, Barbara Neale, Kinsale, 1635, William Wiseman, Bandon, Edward Turner, Ballygoban (Bantry), 1642, John Draper, Ballymodan, Bandon, 1642, Edward Watkins, Bandon, 1651, Thomas Adderly,  Innishannon, 1652, Hugh Pecival, Kinsale, 1673, Ralph Fenwick lands at Carbery, 1676 William Roycroft, Bandon, 1708, Tomas Becher, Sherkin, 1709 John Coughlan Bandon,  1712, Theophilus Lankford, Kinsale, 1715, Rev. Thomas Holmes, Dromfinchin, Bantry, 1718 Anthony Butler (Witness George Wood, Caheragh), probably Drimoleague area, 1719 Cornelius Conner, Bandon,  1722 Roger Houghton, Kinsale, 1724 David Meade, Kinsale, 1726, 1728 Christopher Dowden, Bandon, William Hull, Lemcon, Schull, 1737 Daniel Conner, Bandon, 1738 Henry Jones, Drounbeg, East Carbery, 1739, Jonathan Tanner, Bandon, 1743, 1743, Henry Baldwin, Mossgrove, John Fair, Kinsale, 1765, Edward Herrick, Shippool, 1775 James Chaney, Barryroe.  1778 Lord Baron James Tracton, Kinsale.  1779, Joseph Dowden, Bandon, 1782, Mrs. Jane Busteed, Bandon, 1786, Samuel Jervois, Cork. 1789, David Mellefont, Grafton St., Dublin (Mellefonts appear in Convert Rolls, Donemark, Bantry and Dunmanway), 1799 Morgan Deasy, Doctor of Physic, Clonakilty, 1801 Richard Roycroft, Clonee, Durrus.

 

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Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

 

https://durrushistory.com/2014/05/22/some-cork-wills-1528-1859-destroyed-in-1922-copied-by-william-henry-welply-of-balineen-west-cork/

 

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http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/Registry%20Of%20Deeds%20Abstracts%20Of%20Wills%20Vol%201%201708-45/pageflip.html.

 

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Dowe, may be same family as in Bantry and Carigmanus, Goleen.

 

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From Welply Collection Roycroft (Bandon Roycrofts probably ancestors of Schull/Durrus/Bantry Roycrofts):

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Some Durrus/Bantry Deeds:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AAa_hTrtStGp4LT3SrBIiUmgpvOqlvRo6Vg1V5Tw4Ts/edit.

 

 

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Mellefonts appear in Convert Rolls, Donemark, Bantry and Dunmanway.

 

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1846.  Subscribers to Projected Railway (Probably to Skibbereen), Francis Roycroft, Accountant, €2,500, John Shannon, Accountant, £2,500, Thomas Attridge, £3,250, Dealer all Ballydehob, Daniel Donovan, M.D., Skibbereen, £2,500.

The mechanics to build  railway was by depositing a draft Act of Parliament adn then having it passed.  The background papers woud have financial projections, maps and listing of subscribers who if the project was approved would be called on to invest.  If approved the Company would have powers of Compulsory Purchase.

The list give an indication of the scale of wealth in West Cork contrary to common belief.

The large west Co.Cork town of Skibbereen was first served by rail when the Illen Valley Railway constructed a line from Drimoleague to here in July 1877. The Cork Bandon & South Coast Railway took over the IVR and extended the line south from Skibbereen to reach Baltimore in May 1893, and after which the route was effectively worked as branch from the main line at Drimoleague. In September 1886, the Schull & Skibbereen Tramway built a 3ft gauge line west from here to connect with Schull. The S&ST was the first to close in January 1947, with the Baltimore branch closing along with the rest of the west Cork lines in March 1961.

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https://books.google.ie/books?id=WnNbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=John+King+Forrest+surgeon+cork&source=bl&ots=PB5Ls-N_pO&sig=ySQ0wTkx1dHZsrA3OOikzT3NxyI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOw-umx57bAhUPKlAKHXYrDMwQ6AEIPTAE#v=snippet&q=skibbereen&f=false

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1822, 1840, 1859

Dr. Daniel Donovan Senior MD

Doctor, Dispensary Officer 1840. Magistrate, Donovan Daniel, sen, North street

Skibbereen 1847 distress meeting. Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic education 1859. Born at Ross of ‘island’ branch who formerly owned Ross town. Son Henry Solicitor died 1873. 1810, 1831, 1840, 1846 Dr. Thomas Burke 1824, Surgeon, HP, Blackrock-road (NGC). Possible The Square, 1810 Thomas Burke Half Pay Surgeon married Margaret McCarthy, (1784-1831), posssibly through her he acquired lands at Caheragh, she was likely of the Muclaghs (Clann Tighe Roe Scartaigh) and the lands from McCarthy Gurtnascreena. “May be from Caheragh the person that poet JJ Callanan stayed with for around 2 years when he wrote Gougan Barra and Lamesnt to Morty Oge. memorial to Father Walsh PP leaving Bantry. Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry, gave a speech promoting reeclamation of waste, mine development, employment rather than charity. 1846 distress meeting Bantry. Railway subscriber, 1846, £2,500.

1822 subscribed Durrus Church Building Funds as Dr. O’Donovan, Glenlough. Famine Diary of Doctor O’Donovan, Dispensary Doctor, Skibbereen, West Cork, Bodies Buried Coffinless in the Dead of Night in Dunmanus Weighed Down By Stones, to Prevent Starving Dogs From Getting At The Bodies, The Funeral Cry No Longer heard.

Daniel O’Donovan MD has land in Knockeens, Glanroon in Griffiths. He was married to a sister of Rickard Deasy of the Clonakilty brewing family, MP and Attorney General for Ireland and later Judge.

1840 testimonial to Captain Lyttelton Lyster Esq. Union Hall, Rosscarbery, Subscriber Lewis Topographical Praised on leaving Union Hall 1840 for managing dispensary Loan Funds established by the Countess of Kingston, and given plate by Richard Townsend JP, Point House, Major Allen, Stoneville, Richard Townsend Junior, Clontaff, JP, Philip Somerville, Union Hall, Rev. Edward P. Thompson, Henry Townsend JP, Castletownsend, Thomas Somerville JP, Drishane, Rev James E. Somerville, DD, Union Hall, Richard Adams, Glandore Lodge, John Fitzhenry Townsend, J.R. Barry, JP, Glandore House, Lionel J Fleming, New Court, Father James Mulcahy, Myross, William Baldwin, Baltnathona

Probably the same a Magistrate:

Dr. Daniel O’Donovan 1818, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen, listed 1838, son Richard Esq. O’Donovan Cove, and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince.  Fond of dogs. Brother of Timothy and Richard O’Donovan J.P. and uncle of Richard O’Donovan J.P.. Daniel O’Donovan MD has land in Knockeens, Glanroon in Griffiths.  Rented Ahakista Cottage from Charles Evanson. On the 14th August 1846, at Lee View, Cork, the residence of the Lady’s father William Harrington, Druggist, Daniel O’Donovan, M.D., J.P. Ahakista, Agnes, eldest daughter of William.  Subscriber at Woodview, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. 1850 his boat involved in rescue of Mountaineer at Dunmanus Bay at O’Donovan’s Point.  Buried in Harrington tomb...

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Shannons, Durrus probably same line:

1804, rent charge granted by Richard Blair, Esq., Blair’s Cove of £17 for 5 years over Cannanaacaha part of Coolculaghta to John Shannon, Gent., Brahalish, Richard Shannon, Gent., Brahalish, tenanted by John Stanley and his undertenants, witness Robert Shannon, Capanaloha, farmer.

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Battle of Deshure, Kilmurray, Whiteboys and Macroom Rifle bridge.  Abortive Raid on Benjamin Swete, Landlord and Tithe Collector, later 5 Hung at Gallows at Deshure.  Swete Magistrates.

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

 

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John Swete Esq., 1791, Brookfield, Bandon.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys.  1821 request to Chief Secretary with Rev. Arminger Sealy, James R Barry, Thomas Walker that military be sent to Timoleague re Captain Rock disturbances. Listed  1831, Timoleague 1821, listed 1838, son of Benjamin of Pleasantfields who married his cousin Joyce Swete she had also been married to Jonas Travers.  Gave evidence, re Kilbrogan Parish 1835 to enquiry to Poor Law Commission.  Lived at with wife Martha d 1839, Ballinacurra near Kinsale for a period later with family in Floraville (Mill House) listed 1838 Agent for Earl of Bandon active member Bandon Corporation. Letter from John Swete, Provost of Bandon, to Leveson Gower, concerning a procession of Orangemen there on 1 July 1829 [see also CSO/RP/OR/1829/691]. . Stovin states that a detachment of cavalry has been ordered to march from Ballincollig to Bandon, and to remain there until 14 July 1829. Regarded as kind hearted Agent. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Died 1839 buried Swete family vault Timoleague. Founder member Brunswick Club 1828, supporter Catholic Emancipation.

John Swete, Pre 1824, Bridge St., Bandon.   Subscriber of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork, 1766, 2 copies.

Samuel Sweet, 1716.  1721 Execution granted Edmund Griffin, by Richard Davies and Samuel Sweete against Popish inhabitants, Thomas Kerby, Ballynatagart and John Walsh  of Ballymuck for £41.

Samuel Swete, 1794, Kilglass, Macroom.  Member Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys, 1824, Macroom.

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Map of Bantry District Reputedly 1588, Analysis 1958, by Bantry Historian Paddy O’Keeffe.

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gkz1qwm1fWJlMEbF3

 

Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

Townlands of Kilcrohane, West Cork.

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2VCAeakOmzFjwJSx1

https://durrushistory.com/2016/06/04/kilcrohane-townlands-3/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/07/04/townlands-of-west-cork-with-acerages-extracted-from-1845-map-prepared-for-proposed-dungarvan-lismore-fermoy-mallow-killarney-railway-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2017/05/03/listing-of-townlands-in-barony-of-carbery-west-cork-carew-papers-1599-coppinger-grant-1615-mccarthy-reagh-inquisition-1636-coppinger-will-1665-archaic-spellings-i-e-lissynyeghtraagh-lisheenaac/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/04/11/history-townlands-and-place-names-of-cape-clear-oilean-cleire-1918-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/04/10/aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-townlands-castles-churches-2/

Durrus:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qr2IvZp2f3ort8IL-50C6pqG7KVPtayXIRgGjVSg3fA/edit

https://durrushistory.com/2017/02/25/some-genealogical-data-from-townlands-of-ahagouna-clashadoo-coomkeen-from-1783-durrus-district-west-cork/

 

 

Deeds, Rent Charges, Durrus, Bantry, from early 18th Century.

This is only scratching the surface but gives an indication of the information contained in property deeds. Often leases for example are for three lives so the tenant, his youngest son and another young child often related.  Also locations townland given.

A feature which will surprise many is the emergence in the late 18th and early 19th century of local substantial Protestant and Catholic tenant farmer and merchants who lend to local landlord families who are often virtually penniless.  This is probably connected with the boom of the Napoleonic Wars.  Some of these families are alos contactors on the roads and bridges to the Grand Jury.

Many of the property transactions of the White/Bantry estate are in the Boole Library of UCC or in the National Archives in Dublin.

The Kenmare Estate extends as far as Newtown in Bantry and many transactions are contained in its records which are available online free at the Irish Manuscripts Commission website under digital editions.

Many of the smaller local estates were sold in the 1850s under the Landed Estates Courts. They were later acquired by the Irish Land Commission. This was one of the world’s largest mass legal property transfers. They have 8 million records of these and other estates in a warehouse in Portlaoise.  At present there is no public access to these records. Among these records are a lot of pre 1707 land records (when the Registry of Deeds was established).

The Bandon Estate recovered the Durrus lands from the Evansons c1850 and detailed records of the estate are at the Cork Archives but not catalogued in detail.

A lot of the deeds referred to here have been transcribed by volunteers at the Registry of Deeds Project.  One of the main workers in this area is Ron Price of Belfast.  He is a descendant of the marriage of Michael Sullivan/O’Sullivan (Hurrig) and Mary Vickery of Whiddy Island in 1777.  This is the Tedagh branch of the O’Sullivans

(McLysaght Analecta Hibernia, No. 14, 1944, Transcriptions, Conor Papers, Manch, Kinsale Corporation from 1594.)

 

Deeds, Rent Charges, Durrus, Bantry, from early 18th Century.

 

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