Paddy O’Keeffe (1897-1980), Bantry Businessman, Spanish Consul, Historian, Attempt to get McCarthy Castle, Gearhameeen, Durrus Declared a National Monument .  Photos 1950s.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UN9T6eUb143ijWS37

Courtesy O’Keeffe family, Bantry, Colum Hourihane.

Obituary:

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Obituary:

Title of Francis Bernard the Elder and Francis Bernard Junior, Castlemahon, Bandon to Six Ploughlans at Coolenlong otherwise Four Mile Water (Durrus) and the Townlands of Kealties and Tullagh, Muintervara, West Cork

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/29388

Paddy O’Keeffe:

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

Survey St. Finbarr’s Graveyard, in Catholic Church, Bantry, West Cork, Commissioned by Paddy O’Keeffe 1955.

History of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Co. Cork from 1261, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers

Obituary by Paddy Madden of Paddy O’Keeffe (1897-1980), Businessman, Spanish Consul, Historian, Local Sources such as Bob Triggs Beara, Mr Dennis Poet of North Side, Danny O’Donovan, Ballycomane Durrus, Fellow Historians, Canon T. J. Walsh Cork, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, N.T., John T. Collins Cork.