‘In our open diligence there were two young men both very uproariously drunk. They talk to and made jokes at almost every passerby. All, men and women, answered with laughter and other pleasantries. I thought I was in France.’

Taken from an excellent article by Michael MacCarthy Morrogh, ‘Accents- We had two voices one English one Irish’ New Skibbereen Historical Journal.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-on-alexis-de-tocqueville-and-ireland-in-1835-1.2478679

1887. Monsignor Pesco, Papal Envoy Visit to Bantry to See Baroness of Bantry, (Rosamond Catharine Petre), only Visitor to Him in the Evening John Edward Barrett, J.P., Carriganass Castle, Kealkil.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15tzvYMYqCXphGVREusLi2Col6CP9m_T_nrEPWaluqvQ/edit

https://williamgray101.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/lord-petre-1817-1884

White family:

https://www.ornaverum.org/family/bantry/white.html

Rosamond Catharine Petre MBE
(25 Aug 1857 –
5 Feb 1942)
(m 18 Feb 1886)

daughter of Hon. Edmund George Petre\

Lord Petre 1817 – 1884

Lord Petre 1817 – 1884

John Edward Barrett, (1825-1895), 1856, Carriganass Castle, Bantry, Resident, £279, sitting Bantry 1862, wife daughter William O’Sullivans Esq., of Carriganass (Kealkil) who previously occupied Castle. She inherited a major portion of her father’s estate.  Purchased from David Mellifont c 1824. Carrigbui signed the Testimonial to Resident Magistrate, John Gore Jones, Bantry, 1844.  Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic  education 1859. 1862 promoting pier at Bantry John Warren  Payne J.P., George Sheehan P.P., William Young, William Tisdall, Richard Evanson, John E. Barrett J.P.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.  Address to Earl of Bantry 1868.   Present at the opening of Skibbereen Railway, July, 1877. 1882, Tim Healy, M.P., objecting to his appointment as Valuer.  Had been guarded by police for two year never went out unarmed. 1882 Committee Bantry Bay Regatta. 1884 managing the shooting and fishing of the Bantry Estates of the Earl of Kenmare. 1884, signed a  protest against the dismissal of Lord Rossmore,  Head of Orange Order, Monaghan.  In 1886, Father Shinkwin, Parish Priest of Bantry, alleged  that at a meeting of the Cork Defence Union (of Landlords) he vilified clergy in the district. 1887. Monsignor Pesco, Papal Envoy Visit to Bantry to See Baroness of Bantry, (Rosamond Catharine Petre), only Visitor to Him in the Evening John Edward Barrett, J.P., Carriganass Castle, Kealkil Assisted in getting piers built in Muintervara 1888.  James Gilhooly MP alleged he was sitting in Skibbereen Quarter Sessions 1887 outside his district. In 1889 he gave evidence to a Special Commission of boycotting of tenants who took evicted farms of Mr. White a the Earl of Kenmare and suggested as assassination of a witness and Mr. Cornelius Manning. Around 1890 he was praised by Father Kearney, Parish Priest of Durrus, no friend of Landlords. In 1893 Father Kearney gave evidence at the presentments supporting roadworks from Gearahies to Clashadoo to lead to Scart Railway Station.  He said that he knew the area well 30 years before when it consisted of mud cabins on the property managed by Mr Barrett had now been replaced with good quality houses.  Attending the funeral of Mrs Thomas Dillon, Bantry 1892. Listed land owner c 1895.  Probate to  sister Hanoria Harding, Alexandria Place, Cork, £5,073.

1847 Billeting British Army Soldiers in Bantry

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sylh8eENqH-7zEergw-cdNg-uhVFSgQ0c6Ip1gjKMvE/edit

British Army Local Militia and Regiments and Navy West Cork

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQrKsTDoupxktWQ41Wx5P4GFliNUT4Z2uyTdwyi0xjU/edit#gid=0

Dunmanway Union Listing of Local Landlords who did and did not apply for Relief under the Land Improvement Act and Pauper numbers by non improving Landlords by Townland.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T9sa2MF4D3gN1Mek9UBFMBoEZJ_-9FDDpPIHlWkYsOE/edit

Exportation of Paupers, 1850, Three Wretched Boys sent From Dunmanway Workhouse, Co. Cork, to Sleep Rough in London.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/18145

Names of Paupers, Skibbereen 1862, addresses or townlands.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/11350

1827, Sums Allotted by Church of Ireland (Then State Church) Dioceses of Cork, Ross and Cloyne often for Foundlings and Burial of Paupers.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/12920

Men of the Baronies of the Carberies and Adjoining Baronies to Meet the Liberator, the Beloved Son of Erin on the 19th June 1843 to Repeal the Odious Act of Union

Irish College Rome

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16GBUufh1oo_EFab-mfmQ55YjGvi7wYwGf5RWybSzKb8/edit

Bantry Area family of Derrynane, Co. Kerry, O’Connell’s, signature of ‘The Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell, his sister Hanoria married Daniel O’Sullivan, Reendonegan, Bantry, their son Daniel, Magistrate, Dominica West Indies, his sister married Naval Officer in Tsar’s Navy. areas mentioned Coolagh, Borlin some names include Donovan, Lucy, Galway, O’Hea-Cussen, Cronin, compiled by Basil Morgan O’Connell, of Lakeview Branch, 1946 he Head of CID, Malaysia.

Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, granddaughter, of Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, married 1867, The Liberator’s (Daniel O’Connell) grandson (Son of Charles Resident Magistrate, Bantry).

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/18965

Genealogy of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1729-1799), by Basil Morgan O’Connell K.M., Descendant of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’, Former head of CID in Burma, living in Dublin when ‘Not Fighting Communists’, author of The O’Connell Tracts.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/8733

Bantry Area family of Derrynane, Co. Kerry, O’Connell’s, signature of ‘The Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell, his sister Hanoria married Daniel O’Sullivan, Reendonegan, Bantry, their son Daniel, Magistrate, Dominica West Indies, his sister married Naval Officer in Tsar’s Navy. areas mentioned Coolagh, Borlin some names include Donovan, Lucy, Galway, O’Hea-Cussen, Cronin, compiled by Basil Morgan O’Connell, of Lakeview Branch, 1946 he Head of CID, Malaysia.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIHWTDEyCcAQflBU3mQVSzRTm61xuYY3E7kPQZ-QrnA/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17mNOsOVegkNNM6uo-9M1It8AU_-RM4kIHQQGfwNCPsc/edit

Rural electrification did not come to the more isolated areas of West Cork until about 1961, supplemented by a further drive about 1972.

This advertisement highlighted the importance of bottled gas for cooking and lighting by a silk mantle. In Cork City bottled gas was used right up to the mid 1970s for Superser heaters. Probably a time bomb.

I can just about recall as a child the yellow gas bottles on horses and carts going back to the shop.

The Kosan-gas bottles were a distinctive yellow. Calor Gas was also used but probably not to the same extent.

Rita Shannon, who died in the last few years, who is referred to never got recognition as an entrepreneur. She had her own travelling shop, a Volkswagon van. In a way a legacy of her Shannon ancestry. Her branch was Catholic. The main family probably came down from the northern counties c 1740 in connection with flax/linen/weaving. By 1790 in the general Durrus/Bantry area the Shannons were heavy hitters lending money to the local landlords. Contractors to the Grand Jury working with the Flynn family in house building in Bantry.

Rita married Gerald McCarthy, his father Dr. McCarthy was praised for helping the RIC men in the IRA raid on the Durrus RIC barracks. What was not known at the time war that he had prepared the explosives possibly a result of his experiences as a doctor on the front in WW1.

Rita’s branch of the Shannon were active in the War of Independence in Brahalish in Durrus in conducting Dáil Courts. They also descend from the influential ‘King’ Tobin’ family of Kilcrohane.

Some Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Some Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

These Record deaths in Durrus, Kilcrohane, Bantry from the early 20th century to 1958.  I have put in  back up info and in a number of cases newspaper obits.  The last is Master Hurley, Kilcrohane, died aged 79 in 1958.  James O’Mahony, KIlcrohane mentioned to me that he had done a lot to encourage the planting of pines on the peninsula.  An English Lady had a house in Ahakista maybe the one Graham Norton has now and propagated 3 varieties of pine trees.  Oral tradition may be wrong here. The lady who in the 1930s propagated the pines was probably Kitty Hayes who ran the Ahakista Hotel from about 1931 to the early 1950s when she set up what Sid now known as the time hut. Earlier to about 1903 Caroline Isabella Rice who. was born in Kerry ran the hotel. She would leave them outside her gate.  The combined efforts are still evident all over the peninsula.  If anyone else has memorial cards I will happily include.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JbsgobnzKD1yCdfo82RxViai98VJL8OVJQqgdwVdz88/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14s1dNaXcvquDdBLJCKyDtgne-DT2rhaW3_AdzOBF2zU/edit

Robert Swanton, (1764-1840) Ballydehob, West Cork, member United Irishmen Directory arrest, imprisonment escape to New York where he was active in US Politics and became Judge of Maritime Court.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/17391

1830s Shenanigans in the Marine Court of New York, Judge Robert Swanton (United Irishman) Ballydehob and his Tipstaff Casey.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/35920

Robert Swanton, Ballydehob, (1764-1840), West Cork, United Irishman, Emigre to New York, Businessmen, Lawyer, US Political Activist, Judge, Home to Die With His Own People, Grave Early Example of Inscription in Irish Old Gaelic Script and Graveyard Inscription in old Irish, Gaelic Script, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia for native of Co. Clare, Ireland, Aindriás Landrach (Andrew Landers), Fíor Gael, 1828-1912, with Photograph of Grave

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/15486

Nephew:\

7 July 1844 Circular letter from Thomas Swanton, ‘Ballidahob’ (Ballydehob), Near Skibbereen regarding formation of society, the Cork and Kerry Irish Poetry and Music.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/28831

This is an update much of the additional information is from deeds, church records, newspaper reports. Disregard pagination.

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

8th August 1829 Census Inchigeela p. 9

Pigot’s Directory 1824, Bantry,

Bandon Weavers p. 31

Clonakilty, Kinsale, Skibbereen, p.26

Lewis 1837, Bantry, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, p. 28

Slater’s Directory 1836, Bantry, p. 31

Census Extracts, p.38

Bandon Clothiers, p.40

Thomas Adderly, Innishannon, p.42

Textile Businesses, p. Bandon Business p, 44

Bantry, p.61

Clonakilty, p. 78

Drimoleague, p.64

Dunmanway, p.70

Skibbereen p. 75

Probates p. 45

Flax Growers 1796 p. 

Fishing Nets. p. 

Exports of Cloth from Cork, p.124

Flax Acreage Co.Cork, 1939-1945

Richard S. Harrison on Flax in West Cork, p. 220

Bibliography, p. 133