1602 Map Cork, 1797 Map of Precinct  of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral. Cork one of House named Dromaleague.

 

This was before the building of the present magnificent cathedral was built

Ending 1,200 Years of Burials, Order in Council of Irish Privy Council 1870, Closing The Graveyard of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork Excepting Those Listed Families On Schedule.

 

The Worlds Only Female Freemason: In Pious Memory of THE HONOURABLE ELIZABETH ALDWORTH wife of Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork, Esq. Daughter of Arthur First Viscount Doneraile, Her Remains Lie Close To This Spot (St. Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork), Born 1685 Died 1775. Initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge No. 44 at Doneraile Court, In This County A.D. 1712.

 

Bishops of Cork 630 AD to 1807 AD from Records of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork.

 

St. Finbarr’s Cathedral Cork, 1790 List of Properties, Tenants, Cork City and County, List of Cork Bishops 600 ad-1790 a.d. List of Clergy’s Livings

 

Original Tithe Ledgers 1770-1780 of South Liberties of Cork belonging to St. Finbarrs Cathedral, listing land holders and valuations held in RCB Library, Dublin. Includes listing of small holders names local to areas Catholic and Protestant, very legible.

 

1866, Death of Appirator, Dick Neal (1799-1866) and Bellows Blower, for 54 years to Cathedral of St. Finbarrs, Cork, Remembered the Graves of the Young Man who fell from the old Steeple Putting up the Cock, Mr. Voster the Arithmatician, West Digges The Comedian, O’Brien The Irish Giant Interred in Two Graves To Escape the Doctors Who Eventually Got At Him.

 

W Cowley and James White sitting with Jury in Cork February 1541 Deputies of the King’s Commission for Co. Cork forfeiting Monasteries, Abbey of the Cave of St. Finbarr or Gill Abbey (including lands at Kilcrohane and Bantry, West Cork), Benedctine Priory of Rosscarbery with Church and Buttery, Carmelite House, Kinsale.

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