By way of background it might be remembered tht the Economic War with Britain was raging at the time and the was widespread distress.

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1934 Deasys Stout, Clonakilty, Out of 818 Entries at the Brewers Exhibition London in Deasys secured 2 Prizes.

Allman Dowden, Special Stout Brewed from Home-Made, Malt and Hops, Bandon, Famous Stout, Throughout West Cork

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1835 Called to Bar and Sworn before Lord Chancellor Richard Deasy, Clonakilty (Brewing Family) Later Attorney General for Ireland, Luke Shea, Gort Gurrane, Kinsale Gentlemen Whose Names to Whom Asterisk is Attached are Roman Catholics.

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Lease of 1795 from Bantry Estate to Maurice Spillane of 87 acres at £15 per annum with a covenant ‘To buy all his malt and beer at brewery to be approved by lessor under penalty of 10s per barrel of malt and 5s per barrel of beer’

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Eugene O’Keeffe 1827-1913 (Baptised Bandon 1827 Owen Keeffe), Canadian Banker, Brewer and Beamish and Crawford Brewery Cork.

Kinsale Brewery

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The Spread of Trade, Fairs in West Cork, Aughadown, 1661, Ballydehob, 1620, Ballygobane alias Oldtown, Bantry, 1679, Bantry 1700,  Bawnlahan and Rahine and Drimoleague 1615 (O’Donovan of Castledonovan),  Clonakilty 1620, Drimoleague, 1768, Enniskeane 1620, Kilbrrah, Ballyhallow, (Dunmanway), 1615, New Stapletown (Skibbereen), 1675, Bridgetown (Alias Cornea) Skibbereen, 1676,

Ancient Bawnlahan, Leap, Fair Day, Ascension Thursday.

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Beyond Leap, Beyond the Law…

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1936.  Durrus Agricultural Show

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One of the features is that people in other parts of Co. Cork exhibed many with links to the area such as the Vickeries of Little Island who have Durrus/Bantry connections.

Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.

Held in the vicinity of school.

1937 Durrus Agricultural Show, 700 Entries

One of the features is that people in other parts of Co. Cork exhibed many with links to the area such as the Vickeries of Little Island who have Durrus/Bantry connections.

Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.

Held in the vicinity of school.

Centre Canon McManaway a driving force in getting the creamery established, the new road over the hill from Coomkeen to Bantry, the first Church of Ireland School at Ahagouna in the Free State

Tom Deane, tall at back, former Dublin Metropolitan Police, Crottees he was so tall the Police had to have a special bicycle made for him.  Community activist, member Church of Ireland Diocesan Synod.

Jim Pyburn, Dunbeacon, middle row, third from left.

Richard Sweetnam, Dunbeacon.

Eddie Hurst (front row, left), model farmer, Beach House Bantry now the property of the Wagner family married to Shannon, Clashadoo also model farmers, father of Hazel Vickery, Bantry.

Jack Minihane (far, right)

Courtesy St. James’ Durrus. A Parish History.

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Cork Examiner

1937 Durrus Show

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All comments welcome. Part of the reason a small area pre the Irish Famine 1845-7 had one of the world’s highest rural population densities was the availability of marine resources, sea sand, seaweed. As early as 1820 there were favourable comment by (Kerry born), Dublin Attorney Orpen at how developed West Cork was with shipping to Spain, Portugal, France, roads, harbours. He was related to local families such as the Durrus Hutchinsons, landlords, Swanton of Ballydehob and indirectly to the O’Sullivans of Ballaghadown, Caheragh. William Orpen is of this family.

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Pilchards, p. 2

Baltimore, p.5

Port of Baltimore 1691-1693, Customs and Excise, Statistics, p.6

Bantry and Durrus, p.10

Ballydehob/Carrigmanus/Castlehaven/Crookhaven/Skibbereen, p. 59

Lobster Boats of Hehir Islands and Roaring Water Bay by Cormac Levis, p.

Clonakilty, p. 118

Courtmacsherry, p. 79

Kinsale, p. 80

Grand Jury Presentments Sea sand roads, p. 127

Ropemakers, Nets

Sea Sand, Sand Quays, p.125

Sand Boats, Coal Trade to Ballydehob, Sea Sand on River Ilen Skibbereen,  p. 134

The Puxleys Copper Mines, Allihies, Shipping 1812-1884, p. 132

Steamship Service, Cork to Dingle via  Castletownbere 1850-1940, p. 177

Piracy/Smuggling, p. 178

Ropemakers, Nets, p. 197

Shipping, Lloyds Agents, p. 179, 198

Skibbereen to Crookhaven Road 1822, p. 183

Boatbuilding Kinsale, Skibbereen area late 19th/20th century. P.192

Harbours, Lighthouses, p. 196, 278

Proposed railway to Glandore Harbour, p.207

Wrecks, p. 198, 221

Fishing By Laws, Bantry 1870,  Bandon 1871, Glandore 1871, Ardigeen (Clonakilty) 1877, River Ilen (Skibbereen) 1878, from Crown Solicitors Papers, p. 224

Pilchard Palaces, p. 243

Dr. Arthur Went on Pilchard Industry, p. 244

Maps and some Du Noyer sketches, p. 221

1812-1825, Admiralty Court, West Cork, Wrecks, p. 221

Royal Navy Press Gangs Operating off Cork Coast, 1755-1812, p. 215

British Navy Base, Bere Island, p. 217

Piracy, p. 247

1822 Local Fishery Committees, Irish Fisheries Board, p. 266

Clio Salvage Litigation, 1825, p. 269

1837, statistics, boats, fishermen, coastguard, p. 275

1920s Jack Attridge, Durrus, self built boat, p.277

Kinsale  Hookers from 1671, p.311

English  navy records 17th century timber extraction from Bantry and supplies to Kinsale, p.300

1755 Lisbon Tsunami, Kinsale and  Crookhaven, p.286

Coastal Shipping, p. 297

Pilchard Fishery Bantry, p. 298

Index to Journal of Cork Historical And Archaeological Society reference to pilchards, p.302

1893, Baseline Report of Redmond Roche Inspector, Congested District Board, Castletownbere, Sheepshead, Schull, Baltimore, p. 316

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From Hazel Vickery who donated Vickery papers UCC, Boole Library:

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In 1912, Willie’s cousins, Herbert & Tommie Vickery, sons of George J. Vickery, of Vickery’s Hardware Shop,opened a motor repair garage behind the hotel. As they were Ford dealers, they needed a showroom on the street. This was in the new hotel building between the front door and the archway, with petrol pumps on the footpath. The hotel was used by the Cork Ford Company for regional meetings and Henry Ford, his wife Clara and daughter stayed in the hotel on the night of the 10th August 1912.

Corktown, Detroit, Michigan being Revitalised by Henry Ford The Third.

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Henry Ford, Madame, Ballinascarthy, West Cork and the Uilleann Pipes

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Famous Visitors to the Hotel:

Noel O’Sullivan a porter in 1940 wrote that he remembered opening the door for the then, Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera; General Tom Barry; Dan Breen, Eoin O’Neill, Dr Noel Browne, the singer Delia Murphy and actresses
Kathleen Ryan and Hermione Badderly. In 1961, during the making of the film “I Thank a Fool” on the Mizen Head Peter Finch stayed with his wife Yolande. Susan Hayward and Diane Cliento who were starring in the same film were regular clients for meals at that time. Trevor Howard, Cyril Cusack and Geraldine Plunkett (Glenroe) visited when making a film in Baltimore. Trevor was so pleased with one of the photos of him taken by Ian that he ordered 100 copies to use as a publicity photograph. Maureen O’Hara and her husband Charles Blair stayed when looking for property in the area which they eventually found in Glengarriff. She became a regular client as was Christy Moore when he had a house in Durrus – much to excitement of the staff. Before the private sitting-room/guest lounge became
the dining room I have fond memories of great sing-songs with various friends and guests playing the baby grand piano which had come from Elsie and Ian’s home in Reenmeen, Glengarriff after it was sold. Pianists included Donal Crosbie of the Cork Examiner family, Joe Lynch (Dinny in Glenroe), Maureen Potter and Jimmy O’Dea who stayed when they were staging their revues in the Parochial Hall. Later the old bar became the venue for the Young Musicians’ Platform during the West Cork Chamber Music Festival until they outgrew the room.

1914-1919, Gardens at Garretstown House, Kinsale, Grapes, Peaches, Lemons, Oranges

Courtesy Kinsale Historical Society (2016, Vol 24, P. 19)

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Lost demesne and historic gardens of Ballintubber near Ballinhassig, Co. Cork built by Lt-Colonel William Meade c 1650 and home of Samuel Thomas Heard creator of Rossdohan Gardens.

Gumbelton Estates including areas of Kilcrohane and Durrus West Cork, William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911) garden at Belgrove, Great Island, Cobh, Co. Cork and donation of Botanic library to Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin.

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Samuel Thomas Heard (1835-1921), of Ballintubber, (late 17th century formal gardens), Kinsale, Co. Cork, East Indian Army Surgeon Major, inspired by Madras Horticultural Gardens he created Rossdohan gardens in Kenmare, Co. Kerry in 1873 utilising Furze as sea shelter emulating Lord Carbery at Castle Freke and son’s plant collecting in Abyssinia.

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Inventory of plants grown by Gaelic Irish 1620 prepared by Philip O’Sullivan Bere, and early 19th century cultivation of grapes and pineapples by Timothy O’Donovan Magistrate of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, West Cork.

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Present by Daniel Sullivan, Berehaven, West Cork, to Richard Boyle, The Great Earl of Cork, c 1636 of Harvey Apples, Bon Chretien and Bergamotte pears, Arbutus for his new garden at Stalbridge Park, Dorset and Ireland’s first horticultural export The Strawberry Tree’ (Arbutus unedo) from 1580s.

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