1727, Deed whereby Owen Lander of Kilpatrick, Schull to tend the house of William Hull, of Leamcon, Schull with Musick and to instruct William Hull to play on the Fiddle to the best of his endeavours.

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			Type of deed	Date of current deed	20 May 1727	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Lease	Date of earlier deed	19 Oct 1727	60	99	40069
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A	P1	P1	HULL	William	of	Limcon, COR	Esq
B	P2	P2	LANDER	Owen	of	Killpatrick, COR	Farmer	A
C		WD	DONOVAN	Elizabeth	of	Downmanuss, COR	Spinster
D		WD	HULL	Richard	of	Limcon, COR	Son of A
E		WD WM	DONOVAN	Daniel	of	Downmanuss, COR	Gent
F		WD	DONOVAN	Mary	of	Downmanuss, COR	Spinster
G		WM	WINSPEARE	Robert	of	Fourmilewater, COR	Gent
H		REG	MURRAY	George	of	Bantry, COR	Commissioner
I		W REG	WHITE	Richard	of	Co Cork	JP
J		W REG	DAVIES	Richard	of	Co Cork	JP
Abstract	Comment for person [A] :lease amended to reduce the rent for “good services” Person [B] :lands at Kilpatrick for 31 years Person [C] :  Person [D] :  Person [E] :  Person [F] :  Person [G] :  Person [H] :  Person [I] :  Person [J] :
MS			Date registered	8 Mar 1728		Date abstract added	20201114

Abstract made by: Roz McC

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-ZCNM?i=351&cat=185720

Abraham Watkins Esq, Cork Extensive Property Owner in Bandon, Will dated 12th July 1715, My Daughter Mary Watkins ‘Not to have one penny if she marries Darby Cartie the Fiddler’, Deed of 1718 between William Bailey, Ballinacolle, Myross, West Cork wherein Charles Stanton is to teach his daughter and four children dancing, jigs, hornpipes, minuets and country dances

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32590

Chief O’Neill, Christy Moore and music in West Cork and a mystery Beamish contribution to the Chief’s Collection.”The Píobaire Bán”, written by Tim O’Riordan- about the piper Peter Hagerty (Hegarty) of Caheragh parish.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/1430

Pipers and Fiddlers for Tenant Gala on Kerry Estates of the Earl of Bandon 1793.

A few people r looking for old posts so here are some from 2011 clustered around themes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PO7DhgPfx6bzXlH6PQkaGseWuLYhsCDvbp-1t1epIoA/edit#

Administration, Census, Griffiths, Taxes, p.37

Griffith Valuation Durrus  District

Banking

Business ,p. 53

William Warner, Butter Merchant, Bantry, 1880s

Vickeries Hotel, Bantry, p.102

Church Records, p.56

Devotions to Father Barnane, 28th June Moulivard Church, Durrus

St. James, Durrus, Select Vestry, 1827.

Harry Clarke windows, p.61

Estates,  p.65

O’Donovan estates, Muintervara

McCarthy, 98

Famine, p. 81

Letter of Rev Crosthwaite, Rector, Durrus re Relief Works to The Times November 1846

Folklore, 88

1938, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo,

Irish

Irish Words in use 1930s Cork English and list of Irish phrases 19th century possibly Skibbereen/Bantry

Thomas Swanton, Ballydehob, Co Cork, Irish scholar, Antiquarian and Landlord 1810-1866 and nephew of Judge Robert Swanton of New York, Maritime Court and United Irishman.

Journeys

Dublin Penny Journal, Journey to Durrus 1836, from Butler’s Gift (Drimoleague), West Cork, John Windle Cork Antiquarian and Father John Ryan, Drimoleague to the Rev. Alleyn Evanson.

Law, p.96

Manor Courts Ballydehob 1621, Bantry 1679, Co. Cork, and comments by John Jagoe, Bantry re the same to Commission 1836.

V. V. Gira 1894-1980, President of India, Law Student UCD, Dublin 1913-16

McCarthy Genealogy, p.98

Thomas Vickery, Bantry, 1808-1883, Hotel and Transport Pioneer in Irish Tourist Industry, Winter Sale of Horses and some Vickery Genealogy. p.98

Memoir, p.106

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Durrus, Bantry (1829-1911)

Maps, Townlands, p.131

Chart of the South West Coast of Ireland, 1558, British Library.

View of Bantry Bay 1685, British Library.

A view of the Bay of Bantry c. 1700, British Library. 

Townland boundaries Durrus Civil Parish, photograph Danno Mahony in Irish Army 1933,

photo Richard Townsend Ireland’s oldest magistrate

Kilcrohane Townlands

West Cork Civil Parishes, 08, Saturday, Oct 2011

Neville Bath Map Co. Cork 1790s, p.143

Military Campaigns, p3

 The word meitheal describes the old Irish tradition where people in rural communities gathered together on a neighbour’s farm to help save the hay or some other crop. Each person would help their neighbour who would in turn reciprocate. They acted as a team and everybody benefited in some way. This built up strong friendships and respect among those involved in the meitheal.

During US Civil War there was a huge boom in flax production in Ireland as cotton supplies wee cut off.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPwl_rY3_96gLFQckL5R6ENIzdYSB-015bd3PdYnv0D6bvocnacCyCTYVFcgULzdQ?key=WVZGQ18tTTZLcld2SEJ6UTcweXF5U3NHeTQwMHRB

Clothiers, Flax, Linen, Textiles, Weaving, West Cork

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0vIz1nxG34pJua7qC7jtTCKWLjwVY81jSl0usPdojk/edit

1919 Public Meeting to have Telephone Trunk System Extended to Skibbereen.

When the Tribunal into to the Betelgeuse Disaster was held at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry the reporters ahd to race to Drimoleague to queue at the payphone. This was as far as the automatic phone system went in 1990. The Bantry phone exchange was manual and a postal strike was on which lasted about 5 months so there was no phone coverage for the manual areas as well as no post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_disaster

The start of the Communication Revolution, Picture of ‘The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet’ at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, 28th July 1866, held at Cable and Wireless Archive.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/5280

Opening of new automatic telephone exchange near Macroom, County Cork. Report shows the new automatic exchange, old switchboards, operators working a manual telephone exchange system. Interview Margaret Creedon manual exchange telephone operator. Interview Johnny Creedon, Postmaster, Macroom Manual Telephone Exchange. Johnny Creedon stamping letters by hand. The reporter is Tom MacSweeney.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21209353-automatic-telephone-exchange/

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0529/966846-macroom-telephone-exchange-trouble/

1863.  Julius Reuter and William Siemens  and  the South-Western of Ireland Telegraph Company, Linking Cork to Crookhaven by Telegraph  and  British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, Cork to Cape Clear 

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/34140

1863, The Fibre Optic Broadband of the 1860s, Opening of Telegraph Office Skibbereen, Wires Extended to Baltimore and Submerged Cable to Sherkin. The American Intelligence will be Received Six Hours Sooner, Cork Market News to Be Received in Morning.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27403

An Old Man Recounts: The First Time I visited Dunmanway c 1790, The Roads were Bad, My Sister and I were in Two Panniers at Each Side of A Horse My Mother on A Saddle in Between, Then Cars with Block Wheels Sawn of of a Thick Tree Bound Round With Iron, The They Got What They Called Scotch Cars With Spokes and Felloes at Opening of The Office of The Electric and International Telegraph Company, Dunmanway, Co. Cork, 1865. Messages from Cork, London and Crookhaven.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27064

This is from a history of Church of Ireland School at Curran.

Inclued is a note book of recipes gathered by Mary Isabella Kingston who was a teacher at Corran National School, Myross. Her father George taught at the school for 44 years. Her grandmother was Susan Hurley of Dunmanway daughter of Cornelius, Carrigscully. She attended a cooking course at the Convent of Mercy in Rosscarbery in 1914.

The school history was compiled by John Fitzgerald. Published by LuLu.com

TB raged through Ireland until the early 1950s. In the 1940s deaths hovered between 2,000 and 4,000 per year.

It has a long history in Ireland from Dineens Dictinary

Poverty and disease are inextricably linked. With little of a social welfare safety net, many people with active TB understandably hid symptoms and knowingly remained at large and at work in order to sustain their incomes for as long as they could. The behavioural shifts necessary to tackle community transmission could not occur with piecemeal and largely unenforced legislative efforts or in the absence of a range of financial supports.

The ground work for it eradication was laid by the States Chief Medical Officer Dr. James Deeny. He had been involved in ground breaking statical analysis in Lurgan documenting illness among poor weaver in Lurgan in the 1930s. He ws probably the only civil servant to fire a Reverent Mother. He was shocked at the appalling infant mortality statistics for the mother and baby home at Betsboro, Blackrock, Cork, and held the Reverend Mother responsible. He came under enormous pressure from Cork politicians of all parties to reverse his decision but refused to do do.

Unfortunately for him he was purged by Dr. Noel Browne when he came in as Minister for Health and went to Indonesia to work for the World Health Organisation

In the postwar era Deeny’s Mother and Child Scheme, attacked by the Catholic bishops of Ireland as socialist tampering with the family, caused the break-up of the first inter-party government of John A. Costello, in 1951.

Aged 50 Deeny began a new career with the World Health Organisation, carrying out tuberculosis surveys in Sri Lanka and Somalia, and producing a National Health plan for Indonesia. He became Chief of Senior Staff Training at WHO headquarters in Geneva, continuing to work after his retirement, writing the Fourth Report on the World Health Situation and acting as WHO’s first ombudsman.

https://www.academia.edu/2926201/Wretched_beyond_description_the_excavation_of_a_cottier_s_cabin_in_Cookstown_Co_Meath

Pre famine West Cork had one of the worlds largest rurl population density. Thee wee an enormou number of cottis. The Devon commission describes they horrendous condition in detail

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Evidence to DEvon Commission Co.Clar

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/devon_commission_clare.htm

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/37525

1849, Report of Henry J. Fawcett, Practical Instructor on Husbandry of Visit to Bantry, Kealkil, Dunmanway, Durrus, Kilcrohane, Agriculture Very Backward, Custom after taking a Corn Crop to Leave Land Fallow for 4 to 5 Years, Starving Horses, Pannier Tracks, need for Proper Roads, Ploughs A few Sticks Put Together With Pins Only Goes Down A Few Inches, Suggests Grain Crops, Drainage, Manuring, Proper Seed. Back Roads. No Shortage of Local Manures Huge Potential.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/24506

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/11291

Carbery Hunt

Conner/Connor/O’Connor of Manch

Harry Dan O’Connor First Circuit Court Judge Cork City and County From Manch, Ballineen. Of old Connor/O’Connor line His son H. L. O’Connor, District Justice, North Cork South Kerry 1940s. A cousin, a Connor relative, was a judge in Iowa here in USA. He went to Ballineen and met H.L. Connor, the justice, but was unsure if we were related to him or not. He thought Justice H.L. Connor was a bit eccentric thanks again. Member Carbery Hunt 1947. Dublin Letter Southern Star, 15th November 1947.

Master of Hunt

1898, 1917, 1931, 1940, 1947 Patrick J. O’Driscoll Solicitor 1898, apprenticed to Patrick Joseph McCarthy From farming family Knockanreigh, 1901 has Irish. South Main St. District Council 1914 assentors to Peter Murphy, Cavendish Quay. Attending funeral 1933, Joseph Cullinane, Solicitor, Clonakilty. 1933 Dr. J.J.Hennessy, P.J.O’Driscoll, Solicitor, J. Neville, Solicitor settling difference between shareholders of Bandon Co-Op. 1932 involved in company trying to attract sugar beet factory to Bandon. Funeral 1941, Mrs. Rachel Wolfe nee Wood, Snugboro, Skibbereen, aged 95, mother of Jasper Wolfe, Solicitor buried Aughadown,. Southern Star 25th January 1941 1947 Master Carbery Hunt. “1937 Judge Calnan Later High Commissioner, India Funeral 1930 Mrs. Margaret nee Crowley, widow of Joseph Calnan, mineral water manufacturer and stout bottler, Kilmoyle,Bandon Her brother late Joseph Crowey, Chief Commissioner, Somerset House, London

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/37598

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/36225

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27130

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/14109

From the late Frank O’Mahony, solicitor, book on Kilcrohane. The print is not easy to use but it seems be 1841 and 1851.

In the townlands listed as being owned in Griffiths Valuation by the Rev. William Evanson, these were acquired in 1780 by his grandfather Nathaniel Evanson of Durrus comprising three ploughlands. This is turn was the property of the Dioceses Cork. It is listed in the account ledgers of St. Finbarrs Cathedrals of Cork now in RCB Library or National Archive Dublin. There are a number of other small areas listed, an island in Bantry Bay, Donemark, Letterlickey, Durrus, Rosscarbery, Schull. These are likely relicts of the limited Norman incursion. Generally they only got s far as Rosscarbery.

3 plowlands of Kilcrohane, Aghallamore, Dunneen [Dooneen], Killeen & Knuckroe, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery. acquired by Nathaniel Evanson 1780 from Robert DelaCour now assigned to son Rev. Alleyn Evanson  and  they mortgage 1821 it to Abraham Splaine, Bandon. Note the term plougland.

Griffiths Valuation:

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/z/zoomifyDynamicViewer.php?file=045051&path=./pix/045/&rs=23&showpage=1&mysession=2732457072476&width=&height=

It is interesting that the Rev. William townland Richard Tobin frequently. He is perhaps the 2nd King Tobin. Probably the only Norman name in Kilcrohane is Tobin. From him descend journalist Frank McDonnell and his brother, High Court Judge, Denis McDonnell. The Tobin line is probably the most influential local post 1800 west of Ahakista.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aRTjCJ_Uko2lbEZ2JkFB9H2POqKqaN8k2bb1aLdlbmA/edit#gid=0

The Lands of Donogh O’Daly (Gearhies, Killovenoge), post Cromwell went to John Eyres, Sir Richard Hull got Maulanesky (Ahakista), In Durrus Parish Owen O’Daly’s part of Killtowne went to Sir Theophillius Jones. An undertaker from Waterford, Congrave got much of the O’Daly lands which were in turn later leased to the O’Donovan family of O’Donovans Cove.

This shows I think the O’Donovan of Ardahill, I assume when the lease expired it reverted to the Hull interest.
Did anyone come across him before:
Cornelius Mahony, Dingle, Co. Cork, Master of Science,

1728, Lease of three ploughlands and a half (F…, Donor, Foilakilly, Rinnacappal), for 25 years from 1727. at Kilcrohane from William Hull, Leamcon, Schull to Daniel Donovan, Dunmanway, Gent, witnesses Denis Donovan, Raghlahane, farmer, Thomas Donovan, Dunmanway, Gent., Mary Donovan, spinster, Dunmanway. J. St.Ledger, Cork.  Associated deed 1727 property at Kilmore (KIlmoe?) Barony of West Carbery from William Hull, Leamcon, Schull to Daniel Donovan, Dunmanway, Gent, witnesses Denis Donovan, Raghlahane, farmer, Cornelius Mahony, Dingle, Co. Cork, Master of Science, Thomas Donovan, Dunmanway, Gent., Mary Donovan, spinster, Dunmanway, Owen Lander, Kilpatrick, J. St. Ledger, Cork.  

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	24 May 1727	Vol	Page	Memorial
			L	Date of earlier deed		57	147	37734
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A		P1	HULL	William	of	Limcorish[Leamcon?], COR	Esq
B		P2	DONOVAN	Daniel	of	Dunmanway, COR	Gent	A
C		WD WM	DONOVAN	Dennis	of	Raghlahave, COR	Farmer
D		WD WM	DONOVAN	Thomas	of	Dunmanway, COR	Gent
E		WD	DONOVAN	Mary	of	Dunmanway, COR	Spinster
F		WM	ST LEGER	J	of	Co Cork
Abstract	Comment for person [A] :plowlands in parish of Killcrohane, Barony of West Carbery, COR Person [C] :  Person [D] :  Person [E] :  Person [F] :
MS			Date registered	21 May 1728		Date abstract added	20131102