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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.

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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.

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Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

Townlands of Kilcrohane, West Cork.

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Kilcrohane Townlands

Townlands of West Cork, with acerages, extracted from 1845 map prepared for proposed Dungarvan, Lismore, Fermoy, Mallow, Killarney Railway.

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, Lisheenaacreagh (Lisín Iochreacht, Lower Little Fort)

History Townlands and Place Names of Cape Clear (Oileán Cleire), 1918

Aughadown, Skibbereen, West Cork, Townlands, Castles, Churches

Durrus:

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

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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Summer White House of President William Howard Taft, Beverly, Massachusetts (owned by Robert Dawson Evans, son of Captain John Evans of Brahalish, Durrus, West Cork).

Courtesy Peter Murphy

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Durrus  Townlands, Brahalish to left:

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Frank Croston 1852-1921, Probably born Reenaccapall. Parish of Kilcrohane, West Cork, Major Real Estate Developer of High Quality Commercial and Residential Property, Rochester, New York, Republican Party Activist. Varian Brush Making Family Possible Origin, Rooska, Bantry.

Frank Croston 1852-1921, Probably born Reenaccapall. Parish of Kilcrohane, West Cork, Major Real Estate Developer of High Quality Commercial and Residential Property, Rochester, New York, Republican Party Activist. Varian Brush Making Family Possible Origin, Rooska, Bantry.

Sean Hurley, Durrus, West Cork, China and Dublin, First Irishman to have a Chinese Passport and early founder of Aer Lingus

Victorian Social Mobility. James Skuse, from Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork to Schoolmaster, Businessmen, Resident Blackrock Castle, Ship Owner Cork, Died 1913 Estate £18,137, Blackrock, Cork.

Jack Dukelow (1866-1953), Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork, linking O’Sullivan Bere to Past and Present Governor of Louisiana and former US Senator for Louisiana.

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Robert D. Evans, owner and former occupant of the estate at Beverly on which president Taft and family are passing the summer, died at 10:30 last evening at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, as a result of complications involving an internal trouble, supplemented by two broken ribs, due to a fall from his horse last Thursday. Mrs. Evans and her sister Miss A. W. Hunt were present when he breathed his last.
Mr. Evans did not realize the seriousness of his condition till three days after his fall from his horse. On Sunday, the doctors decided that an operation for colotomy was necessary, and he was taken to the hospital, where the operation was performed immediately upon his arrival. The operation took 45 minutes. The patient recovered satisfactorily from the anesthetic, but the doctors thought both Monday and Tuesday that the chances were against his recovery.
President Taft was unaware that Mr. Evans, his landlord, was ill until he arrived at Beverly, Sunday, and he was greatly surprised, and upon hearing that the patient was in the hospital, he at once sent his aide, Capt. Butt, to convey his sympathy to Mrs. Evans, and to tell her he hoped for a speedy recovery for her husband.
Robert D. Evans, millionaire, captain of industry, art connoisseur and owner of Stetson Cottage at Beverly, which President Taft is now occupying, was born about 60 years ago in St. John N. B. When very young, however he came with his family to Boston, where he has lived ever since.
Entering business at the bottom rung of the ladder, a clerk of the Eagle Rubber Company, he learned the business when it was in its infancy, and in a few years started out for himself in the firm of Clapp, Evans & Co.
His first ventures meeting with great success he took a leading part in the organization of the American Rubber Company and became its largest stockholder. When that Corporation in turn was absorbed by the United States Rubber Company he was made the latter company’s president, and to him is due much of its great and constant success.
Meanwhile, as if the confines of one great industry were too limited for his powers, he became interested in mining, and in 1899, having amassed a large fortune, he reorganized the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, and became its president. And only a few months ago he made a spectacular retirement from his position in the company, after a long fight with its controlling management, selling 100,000 shares of its stock for the lump sum of.
Shortly after entering into these mining ventures he turned his attention also to gold dredging, the great possibilities of which he saw and became one of the principles in the [Y]uba Dredging Company, the largest concern of its kind in the world.
Two years ago he was unanimously elected trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a fitting tribute to his own great interest in art of every kind. In his beautiful home at the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Gloucester St. is one of the finest private art collections in Boston.
The house is filled with works of masters of various schools with particular prominence given to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Romney, Nattier, Sir Thomas Lawrence and other painters of beautiful women. A gem of his collection is the splendid painting made about 1637 by Van Dyke of Beatrice de Cusance, Princess de Cante-Croix, Duchess of Lorraine, a portrait made familiar by many reproductions.
The drawing room of the house contains many masterpieces of the more modern schools, notably the famous “Carthage” of Turner, in which it is said the artist wish to be buried considering it his masterpiece. Another Turner, two Corots, three Mauves, and others of the Barbizon school by Daubigny and Millet, hanging alongside works of Alma Tadema, Constable, Diaz, Cazin, Innes and many other illustrious artists.
The halls, hung with rare tapestries, contains still other pictures, among them a fine Perugino, secured recently from Italy, and a painting by Puvis de Chavannes made before he began mural decoration.
In addition to his Boston home Mr. Evans owns large estates in Beverly, and it was as his tenant that President Taft came to occupy the Stetson Cottage for the summer.
THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE, July 7, 1909

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It is sometime said that in the 19th century people in areas such as West Cork continued to speak Irish but through the medium of the English Language.  Sentence structure, idiom, syntax, accent and words sound alien to speakers of English from England or the USA. To a limited extent this is still true.

Many of the words listed are peppered through ordinary conversation and people are unaware of their origin.

Irish in Durrus 1930s from Joe O’Driscoll N.T. (National Teacher), and others, 27th August 2018

Words in Irish from Dunmanway, West Cork from Flor Crowley N.T. (National Teacher), Behigullane, Dunmanway. .

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit?userstoinvite=marwillar@gmail.com&ts=5af8afc4&actionButton=1

via The Antikythera Mechanism

1953. Obituary, Rev. Patrick Ernest Donovan, Irish Speaking, Methodist Minister, Aged 93, Foronaugh… – https://wp.me/p1UlSr-8oK

1624, Richard Boyle and the O’Mahonys and O’Crowleys in Carbery, Surrender and Regrant of Lease.

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