1907, Evidence of Councillor Ned Roycroft, Mount Gabriel Schull to The Royal Commission On Congestion in Ireland. American Mackerel Fishery. Mines Going Well 120 employed in Copper Mines. Major Congestion Many Half Cottiers Half Fishermen. Cessation of Coastal Shipping by Clyde Shipping Company after Withdrawal of £500 Subsidy for the Service.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFxY_yQmV2Vf2xp4Jh2TY67R4Ue-47uQyT3JtWmfGQE/edit
Ned Roycroft was married to Catherine McCarthy Sowney from Dereenalomane, Coolagh, Schull East. Catherine was the daughter of Thomas McCarthy Sowney & Ellen McCarthy Mόr. Catherine and Ned lived in Mount Gabriel.
Catherine McCarthy Sowney’s brother, Daniel T McCarthy Sowney, married Susan Baker of Rossmore, Durrus West in the Catholic oratory of Blairs Cove House on 16th February 1876. At that time it was the Parish Priest’s house.
Daniel T McCarthy Sowney & Susan Baker of Rossmore, Durrus were 2nd cousins. That relationship came through the Atteridges. Daniel’s paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Atteridge and Susan Baker’s mother was Margaret Atteridge. It would seem that Margaret Atteridge was Elizabeth Atteridge’s niece.
1907
https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/21222/pages/591551
The Roycrofts (various variations of the spelling) most likely came to the Bandon area post 1590 from the West Country of England.
Over time there are Catholic, Church of Ireland and Methodist branches.
Ned Roycroft’s granddaughter was probably the wife of Michael Pat Murphy, late Labour TD, for West Cork.
In Bantry in the mid to late 19th century the Dillon family influential in business and politics related to the Roycrofts of the North Side of the Muintervarta Peninsula. Of that branch also Charles Roycroft, businessman, landowner and Magistrate and like all highly political on the Nationalist side. It is not know if this branch is related to the Mount Gabriel Roycrofts.
The Schull Roycrofts Ian the 19th century very involved in the administration of the Schull Workhouse.
Some Roycroft (Recraft) Wills from 1676, Bandon and Marriages from 1775.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/35455
1851 Census Summary Family of Joseph and Heater Roycroft, Kilpatrick, Schull, West Cork.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27861
1937 Dunbeacon, Parish of Schull, Mary Joe Moynihan, School Folklore Project. Names: Collins, Connell, Croston, Driscoll, Finn, Levis, Lucy, Maguire, McCarthy, Moynihan, O’Brien, Nugent, Pyburn, O’Sullivan, Roycroft, Scofield, Lucky Days for Marriage Thursday and Saturday, Flax Meitheals, Harvest of the Geese, Holy Wells, Penal Laws,Old Cures, Deaths at Dereenlomane Barytes Mines, Wreck of Memphis, Foghmar na nGeídhna, hard and quick days after Harvest.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/33537
1803, Methodist Minister Rev. John Rogers, Unpublished Memoir. Preaching on Circuit in West Cork 1803. He married Mary Croston, 1810, Crookhaven Church. Among those mentioned, Skibbereen, Atkins, William and Susan Atkins, John Evans, Ardrally, William Young, Letterscanlan, Cole, Dromore, Roger Young, Thomas Kingston, Caherincrin, Bantry, (where he preached to hundreds), James Vickery, Rooska, William Vickery, Dunbittern, John Skuse, Richard Allin (Allen), Ballyriggard, Richard Roycroft, Kilpatrick, Melvin, English, Schull, Swanton, Ballydehob, Mrs Moore, Newcourt, Mr. Wright, Glandore.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32237
Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/21451
1793. Letting of 18 Gneeves at Kealties, Durrus, West Cork from Stephen Derinau to Young Roycroft, Gent, Clonee.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/21429
Bantry, West Cork, Quarter Sessions, February 1842, Chaired by Mr. Moody, Assistant Barrister, East Riding, Magistrates, Mr. Little Resident Magistrate, Dr. Gillman, Richard White (Lord Bantry family), Michael Warren, Alexander O’Driscoll (Middle Man, Caheragh, married to Miss Evans Lissangle). Juries: William Lannin (Possibly later Master Workhouse may be from Dromreague), Elias Roycroft (Rooska), William Roycroft, Robert Warren, Samuel Daly, George Vickery, Edward Barry, Michael Sullivan (Possibly Tedagh), John Warner, Cornelius O’Leary, Alexander O’Donovan Possibly Clerk Petty Sessions), Robert Vickery, Daniel Sullivan, George O’Connor (Landowner Bantry/Skibbereen), Thomas Dukelow (Durrus possibly Clashadoo), Michael Sullivan, Thomas Kingston, Michael Foley, Jeremiah Sullivan, T Williamson (Durrus), James Sullivan, Thomas Vickery.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/13039
Photograph of Directors and Managers of Schull and Skibbereen Light Railway 1910-20, including Ned Roycroft, Mount Gabriel, Chairman Cork County Council, Jasper Travers Wolfe Solicitor (former Crown Prosecutor West Cork and later TD) and his father Eddie
West Cork History 
Great photos in the Jan. 25 post!
In the 1901 Census for Lissacaha, my great-grandfather Jeremiah William Connolly, a “caretaker,” wife Nellie (transcribed as Dollie) (formerly Callaghan of Long Island, Schull), and infant son, Michael, are living in a stone building where John Roycroft is the landholder. When my father visited Goleen in the 1980s, he was told that place was then known as the Kennedy farm. I’ve yet to find it on visits myself on satellite/other images on Google.
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