1834 Grand Jury Presentments Barony of West Carbery, West Division, Magistrates, Cess Payers, Contractors, Road Works.

West Division, West Carbery, Contractors, 1832, 1833, 1834.

 

 

There are frequent reference to new lines of road. At that stage Richard Griffith and Alexander Nimmo had completed their grand roads from Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Skibbereen to Bantry via Letterlickey Durrus, Ballylickey to Castletownbere, Glengarriff to Kenmare partial, Crookstown to Bantry over Cousane Gap.  These road unlike the Grand Jury roads were built to  a very high engineering standard with robust bridges, all the more remarkable given the primitive state of equipment.

 

In the road contractor shere apart from the landlords they were a prosperous network up to now hidden from view.

In other presentments from 1800 onwards for the area between Kinsale to Skibbereen there is huge work on the roads network to link the interior of West Cork to beaches and  sand quays.  On the Red Strand outside Clonakilty there could be up to 1,000 horse and carts a day drawing sea sand for fertilizer.

Many of the secondary bridges were built between 1790 and 1820.

 

1811 Grand Jury Map, Goleen, Schull, Ballydehob, Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork.

1839 Applications for presentments to be laid before the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Cork, Spring Assizes, 1839. Contains applications for Payment to B.Neenan £3 for half year’s salary as interpreter of the Irish language. Seneschals with Irish Language Competence.

 

1846. Further from Villicus of Ballydehob, Pigs Wandering and their Owners fined. Cause of Mischief Abuse of Grand Jury presentments by Land Owner in building Mount Gabriel Road to Favour his Land in time of Great Distress. High Praise for the action of James Hutchinson Swanton (O’Sullivan descendant) in practical Relief and in the Middle of Starvation Cattle Being Distrained for Rent.

 

Under the Radar: Roads are discovered to yield a more profitable crop than farming, 1809 Cork Grand Jury Presentments: John Arundel, William and John Swanton, Ballydehob, Alexander O’Driscoll, Skibbereen, John and William Warner, Bantry, Samuel Townsend, Henry Ryan, Skibbereen, Later, Birds and Tobins of Kilcrohane, Moss and Nicholas Families, Durrus, Shanahans of Dunbeacon, Vickeries of Ballycomane, Fitzgeralds of Baltimore.

 

1832. Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery (1765-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery. Pamphlet urging Reform of Cork Grand Jury Places mentioned Parishes of Kilmeen, Kilmacabea, Parish of Rosscarbery, Bohanagh, Ardagh, Mealmoreen, Carrigluskey. Ploughlands, Gneeves Cuasses

 

1850 Roadworks Report to Grand Jury, of Mr. W. A. Treacy, County Surveyor, West Riding on Road Progress, Dunmanus Bay, Snave/Borlin, KerryBounds, Schull/Bantry, Bantry/Dunmanway, Leap/Glandore.

 

Cork Grand Jury/Agents 1765.