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Monthly Archives: July 2018

1806, Skibbereen. manufacture of Striped Linens and Handkerchiefs, Land Produce Corn and Flax, Salt Works.

10 Tuesday Jul 2018

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1806, Skibbereen. manufacture of Striped Linens and Handkerchiefs, Land Produce Corn and Flax, Salt Works.

 

https://books.google.ie/books?id=ggA-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=hungerford+rosscarbery&source=bl&ots=JsbpALs0n_&sig=9Gf1YEauzH6pxG76L85X9RH0sUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj225mKsZTcAhUKZFAKHeufDaM4ChDoAQhhMA8#v=onepage&q=hungerford%20rosscarbery&f=false

 

 

West Cork Linen, Flax, Textiles

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0vIz1nxG34pJua7qC7jtTCKWLjwVY81jSl0usPdojk/edit

 

 

 

 

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William Penn, (1644-1718), Early  Quaker, West Cork Estates.

07 Saturday Jul 2018

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William Penn, (1644-1718), Early  Quaker, West Cork Estates.

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Courtesy Brian Limrick

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Click to access PennDocumentsChronological_edited.pdf

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#Penn_in_Ireland_(1669%E2%80%931670)

Penn in Ireland (1669–1670)[edit]

In 1669[48] Penn travelled to Ireland to deal with many of his father’s estates. While there, he attended many meetings and stayed with leading Quaker families. He became a great friend of William Morris; a leading Quaker figure in Cork, and often stayed with Morris at Castle Salem near Rosscarbery.

IBAUNE AND BARRYROE (WEST CORK) Aghamilly 192 3 8 Abel Guilliams Carhow [North Carhow?] 309 3 8 Ballidtane alias Philip Maddox? Ballydowane 134 3 8 Curroe [South Carhow?] 183 2 16 John Southwell?100 Creaghmore 138 1 24 Derryduff and Kilronane 386 Adam Clarke at £24 per year Knocknephonery 94 Creaghbeg 129 David German Killeleine 100 William Freke at £22 per year Carrigroe 219 Earl of Barrymore at £20 per year Garranegoline 31 2 16 Kilkerranmore alias Edward Clarke at £40 per GortneshaMroge 89 2 32 year Gortnekerry 41 2 16 Bally McRedmond 133 3 Randall Warner? Ardquoky 65 John Wood? Courleigh 75 Walter Harris Keile and Derryvoreene 114 16 Edmund Nuce? Maugh 44 Edmund Nuce Sleiveene 93 32 William Freke? 100 See doc. 35, n. 244. 52 Sleveene 3 8 William Freke? Geiragh, Inchicarr, Cnockelloage and 180 Edmund Nuce? Dyrrinreene Creaboy 32 Farrane McShonig 40 Edmund Nuce? Total acreage: Imokilly 4496 acres, 18 perches plantation acres (Irish acres) 7272 acres, 1 perch English statutory measure (English acres) Ibaune and Barryroe 3000 acres, 24 perches plantation acres (Irish acres) 4859 acres, 3 rods, 3 perches English statutory measure (English acres)

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Rallahalfe (Former name of Lowertown, Schull) Granted to Richard Hull probably former Walter Coppinger Lands, under Acts of Settlement.

06 Friday Jul 2018

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Rallahalfe (Former name of Lowertown, Schull) Granted to Richard Hull probably former Walter Coppinger Lands, under Acts of Settlement.

 

From deceased Bantry Historian Paddy O’Keeffe.

 

Hybrid Military/Religious Monument to Michael McLean, Lowertown, Schull. West Cork, (I ndíl-chuimhne ar Mhiceál MacLeáin, Oifigeach in arm na poblachta, a maráiodh le Gaill ar an 8ú Nolliag 1920 ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam

 

1924 School photo of Lowertown (Lubhghtúam?) National School, Schull, West Cork taken in 1924.

 

Arderavinna Thatched Catholic Church built by Father Florence Crowley, Collapsed 1825 During worship Replaced by Ballinasten Church Built by Father Michael Prior in use to 1966 when present Church at Lowertown, Schull, West Cork built

 

1819. Society for the Promotion of Education of the Poor 1819, Schools, West Cork. Early West Cork Teachers.

 

Schull, Co. Cork Parish Reproductive Loan Records of Borrowers and the impact of the famine 1853.

 

 

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1907 Officers Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway, Bantry Extension Railway, Clonakilty Extension Railway, Ilen Valley Railway Company, Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Extension Railway, Schull and Skibbereen Tramway and Light Railway

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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1907 Officers Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway, Bantry Extension Railway, Clonakilty Extension Railway, Ilen Valley Railway Company, Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Extension Railway, Schull and Skibbereen Tramway and Light Railway

Good snap shot of local business people at the time.  JP are Magistrates.

Cork Magistrates:

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

Included is William Martin Murphy perhaps one of Ireland greatest 19th century international businessman.

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