30 Saturday Mar 2019
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1849. Commencement of Cork Bandon Railway with The Bandon-Ballinhassig stretch of commenced operation with two engines, Rith Tinneadh (Speeding Fire) and Sighe Goithe (Whirlwind)
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https://friendsofinnishannon.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/dundaniel-castle/
https://durrushistory.com/2016/02/29/21022/
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28 Thursday Mar 2019
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Finances of Cork Magistrates.
A snapshot of financial information. Some probables, marriage settlements, rent rolls. It is difficult to give old probate information due to the destruction of the Public Records Office in 1922. It is probable that among the 8 million documents of the Land Commission Records in a warehouse in Portlaoise that the public are not allowed see would throw more light on this subject.
In West Cork some of the smaller landlords we virtually destitute from the 1790s and frequently raised mortgages and rent charges from wealthy local Catholic and Protestant merchants and large tenant farmers. Some of these transactions can be tracked at the Registry of Deeds Projects:
https://irishdeedsindex.net/deeds_index/name_index.php
For the general Durrus/Schull/Bantry area search by Evanson, Blair, Hutchinson. From the 1790s the Beecher Estate once around 40,000 aces in Skibbereen/Mizen was sorting out its financial difficulty by giving families such as the Swantons of Ballydehob and Jagoes of Dunmanway long leaseds for a once off fixed capital sum. By 1850s the Estate was only receiving a quarter of the market rent. Even the larger Estates such as White of Bantry were about to appoint receivers in the 1830s. The Bandon Estate was in effect owned by the 1890s by its agents the Wheeler Dohertys of Bandon solicitors and land agents through a series of mortgages.
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23 Saturday Mar 2019
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1806- , Some West Cork Members of the Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion. 1821 Some West Cork Schools Cathedical Examinations. West Cork schools Aided
West Cork Schools Cathedical Examinations
One of the prize books wa of the Cottage Dialogues of the Irish Peasantry by Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) highly praised.
https://www.libraryireland.com/CIL/Leadbeater.php
West Cork schools Aided:
21 Thursday Mar 2019
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John Randal Carey (1834-1923), 1879 Member of Syndicate Founders of Sydney Daily Telegraph, Grandson of Daniel McCarthy (Mucklagh), Former Parish Priest of Durrus, West Cork and Sarah Blair of Blair’s Cove, Great Grandfather Allegedly Claimed to be head of McCarthy Family worldwide.
The Mccarthy Estates were forfeited due to Rebellion and the Durrus element former part of the Evanson later Lard Bandon estate.
The branch Mucklgh from Irish Muc pig after their herds of pigs) are referred to in the Dublin penny JOurnal:
In 1835 the Dublin Penny Journal carried an article and illustration of Culnalong Castle and referred to the last of the Mucklaghs…’their descendants struggled on for no inconsiderable part of a century in the doubtful class entitled’ decayed gentry’ I well remember the last of them who lingered in this neighbourhood (Durrus). He was a patriarchal-looking man, with snow white hair. He inhabited a cottage near…
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20 Wednesday Mar 2019
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Updated Genealogy of Limrick Family of Kilmoe and Schull from 1725.
Thanks to Brian Limrick:
Limrick Chronology Part D – to West Cork170319
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12 Tuesday Mar 2019
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Bandon Born, Sir Richard Cox, (1650-1733), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, ‘A Description of the Kingdom of Cork’, West Cork Baronies.
From one of Robert Days very numeros articles in the JOurnal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. now one line search by Day
PDF No 6 of Robert Day’s articles,
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[of Dunmanway, Co. Cork;] b. Bandonbridge, Co. Cork, son of Captain Richard Cox and his wife Katherine, the daughter of Walter Bird of Clonakilty, the Coxes having come from Wiltshire in around 1600 and dispossessed in Rebellion of 1641; Cox was orphaned at the age of 3 and raised by a maternal grandmother in Co. Cork, he qualified in law at Grays Inn, London, 1673 and was apprenticed in the manorial courts of the Boyle family, Co. Cork; appt. Recorder of Kinsale with an estate at Clonakilty, 1687; he lost his post during the Tyrconnell administration following the accession of James II;
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he moved to Bristol and practised there as a lawyer; became acquainted with Sir Robert Southwell who introduced him to Duke of Ormond, thereafter his patron; he returned to with William III and fought at the Battle of the Boyne, 1690; thereafter he served on the Irish bench; he was knighted 5 Nov. 1692; served as Justice of the Common Pleas, 1690, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1699; appt. Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1703, and Chief Justice on the Queen’s Bench, 1711-14 [var. 1712];
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he escaped impeachment when Ormond defected to Jacobite cause, 1715; pub. pamphlet on the restriction of the woollen trade (1698); issued An Essay for the Conversion of the Irish, showing that ’tis their duty to become Protestants, in a Letter to Themselves [1698]; instrumental in passage of “An Act to prevent the further growth of Popery” (1703), within days of taking office as Lord Chancellor; he was nevertheless on friendly terms which Hugh Magauran, [q.v.], whose Pléaráca na Ruarcachwas translated by Swift; he was the object of a praise-poem by one Cormac Ó Luinín – otherwise unknown – which was preserved in a manuscript by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare [q.v.] and is held at Clonalis House; |
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Cox published a history of Ireland as Hibernia Anglicana, or, The History of Ireland [2 pts.] (1689-90), written from New English standpoint – and called ‘trite’ by the ODNB; it purports to be first chronological history of Ireland, and incidentally attacks the ridiculous stories which they have publish of the Firbolgs and Tuah-de-danans’; his historical work was pointedly ignored by William Molyneux (in Case of Ireland’s Protestants being bound … [ &c.]) as emphasising the complete dependence of the Irish state on the English government; answered by Hugh MacCurtin [Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin] in A brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland (1717), for which Cox imprisoned him;
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he was an early advocate of parliamentary union with Great Britain; lived in retirement at Dunmanway, Co. Cork, for 20 years before his death; according to himself he made ‘paradise cheese’ there and kept ‘the best Welsh ale in Europe’, as well as ‘the best claret in the world’; he died of apoplexy at home and is buried in Dunmanway; his letters are in Trinity College; there is an oil port. in Great Hall of Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. RR ODNB FDA
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HIBERNIA ANGLICANA, / or, the / HISTORY / OF / IRELAND / From the Conqueft thereof by the / ENGLISH, /To this Prefent Time. / WITH / An Introductory Difcourfe touching the Ancient / State of that Kingdom; and a New and Exact Map of the fame. / PART I. / By RICHARD COX, Efq; / Recorder of Kingfale. / Ardua res eft vesustis novitatem dare, obfoletis nitorem, obfcuris lucem, dubiis fidem. Plin. / Attamen audemdum eft, & veritas inveftiganda, quam fi non omnino Affesqueremur, tamen prpius ad eam quam nunc fumus, tandem peveniemus. Printed by H. Clark, for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul’s Churchyard, MCDLXXXIX. [Copy in Linen Hall Lib., Belfast.]
There is a praise-poem to Sir Richard Cox composed by the otherwise unknown poet Cormac Ó Luinín and transcribed in the hand of Charles O’Conor (1710-1790) in a manuscript held in the library of of Clonalis House, seat of the O’Conors, in Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. A digital copy is held on the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies website at ISO [Irish Script on Screen Project] – online ; see also copy attached.
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[Darrell Figgis?], Ireland’s Brehon Laws [CTS n.d.], 32pp. pamphlet gathered in Irish History and Archaeology [bound collection]: ‘Sir Richard Cox, the author of Hibernia Anglicana, would not admit the Irish possessed written laws at all. A Co. Leitrim man, Thaddeus Roddy, has put it on record that ‘his honoured friend Sir Richard Cox, would not believe in the existence of written laws until, in the summer of 1699, he showed him some of his thirty books of Ancient Irish Laws’. Notwithstanding the enlightenment he got from Roddy, Sir Richard Cox afterwards illegally imprisoned Hugh MacCurtin, in Newgate, for refuting his own inaccurate and misleading statements about the laws of Ireland in a pamphlet published in 1717.’ (Copy in Library of Herbert Bell, Belfast.)
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Russell K. Alspach, Irish Poetry from the English Invasion to 1798 (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP 1959), remarking that Hibernia Anglicana (1689), incidentally attacks ‘the ridiculous stories which they have publish of the Firbolgs and Tuah-de-danans’, with particular reference to Peter Walsh’s Prospect (1982); see Cox, Introduction, pp.1-2, and and Apparatus, p.4; cited in Alspach, p.74.)
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W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976; 1984), Sir Richard Cox, ‘very few of the Irish aim at any more than a little Latin, which every cowboy pretends to’ (Researches in the South of Ireland, c. 1689, cited in DH Madden, trans. Stanihurst Description of Ireland, 1906; cf. Brookiana, i. 33. [Stanford, 27]
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Joseph Th. Leerssen, Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1986), Sir Richard Cox, Some thoughts on the bill for prohibiting the exportation of woollen manufactures (Dublin 1698); Some thoughts on the bill depending (Dublin 1698) [do.]; Hibernia Anglicana, 2 vols. (London 1698-90). Leerssen distinguishes the younger and the elder Cox [see index]. The elder Sir Richard Cox fled Ireland in the Civil War; later, as Lord Chancellor, he was one of the prime movers behind the penal laws; An essay for the conversion of the Irish, showing that ‘tis their duty to become Protestants (1698); also Hibernia Anglicana, or, the history of Ireland from the conquest thereof by the English to this present time (1698-90), is wholly anti-Catholic and castigates Keating, Walsh, O’Flaherty, O’Sull[i]van Beare. Unlike him, Borlase is even unaware of the existence of those writers. Cox is praised in Walter Harris, Works of Sir James Ware, vol. 3., 207-252. ALSO, This was the first Gaelic history to be published in Ireland, and for it Sir Richard Cox, as Chief Justice, had MacCurtain clapped in jail, where he produced an Irish grammar, dedicated to John Devenish, major-general of the Austrian army in the Netherlands. [Joseph Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael (1986). p. 367]. SEE also Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (1821), Vol. II, p.32, Sir Richard Cox, Bart.
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11 Monday Mar 2019
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1805-1818, Fragments of Dunderow Church Records, Rector 1815-1839, Rev. Morgan O’Donovan, Chieftain of The O’Donovan of Clancahill.
He assumed the title on the death of Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, Leap. This did find universal approval wit the extended family as evidenced by the papers of Dr. John O’Donovan (Rev.Grave Papers), Royal Irish Academy.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/34710
Tgs is an atile by Robert day, Cork businessman and antiquarian.
Robert Day, (1836-1914), 1889 City, Myrtle Hill House, Cork, son of Robert, merchant, ed Hamblins and Dr Porters, Cork, m Rebecca eldest daughter of Robert Scott, J.P., Sydney Ville, Managing Director Robert Scott and Co, Hardware, Day and Co Saddlers, Corks leading antiquary, 11 children. Probate to John Day, Merchant, 1914, £46,271. Member The Cork Cuvierian Society, writing in 1904 (11) enables the reader to visualize the scenario during the Society’s meetings in a pen picture which reads:
| Its monthly meetings for a period of sixty years were held on the first Wednesday of the Autumn and Winter months in the Library of the Royal Cork Institution where the chairs on each side of the long central table were occupied by members many of whose names will be associated with the most highly cultured and learned life of Cork during the nineteenth century. |
Freemason Lodge No. 1871. After his death his enormous collection of antiquities was auctioned and acquired among other by William Randolph Hearst and the British Museum. Son John married Susannah d Edwin Pim, J.P., son Richard Welstead m Kathleen d James Ledlie, J.P..
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| Dunderrow | Will Burgess | Will Burgess | George Stowers, Nicholas Reynolds | RCB Library, 1781, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1 | ||||
| Dunderow 1807-1810 | John Calanan, Thomas Whitley, applottment 1807 | Francis Hayes, Rigsdale, Timothy Cantry, East Ballythomas, Pierce Applebe, Wiliam Lannon, Churcwardens? Thomas Haynes, Dan Calnan, Horsehill, Church wardens | 1810 Thomas Barter, Ballinphellig, Samuel Sweenry, Chuch Wardens, Dan Callanan, John Scott, William Jennings, | Other names: Nicholas Roberts. Gurtnaclough, James Heard, Daniel Murphy, Rigsdale, Daniel McCarthy, Skahana, William Desmond | Sampson Sweeney, of Lefay, William Phipps, George Kelly, John Knowles, Benjamin Roberts of Liffroy, John Hayes of Mellifontstown, William Wiseman Senior, Wilton House, William Orr of Innishannon | From papers of The O’Donovan lent to Robert Day article JCHAS 1903 originals destroyed 1922 | ||
| 1827 | John Buckley, William Beazley | Vestry returns for 1827, by order House of Commons, London February, 1828. | http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10167/page/224749 | |||||
| Visitation Dunderow 1851 | Francis Johns | Francis Johns teacher. 10 Children?. Incumbent and Church Education Society, 132 children | John Walton, Ben Barter | Representative Church Body Library, Dublin Records of the Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. D. 12 |
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| Visitation 1861 | Adam Hegarty | none | Richard Gash, Thomas Barter | Representative Church Body Library, Dublin Records of the Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. D. 12 |
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| Visitation 1870 | Adam Hegarty | None | John Hornibrook Junior, William Bradfield | 23 acres | Representative Church Body Library, Dublin Records of the Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. D. 12 |
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