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  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
  • Interesting Links
  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

West Cork History

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Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1950 Funeral and Background.

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Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1950 Funeral and Background.

Father William Holland, SMA, 1911-1952 was a relative.

His extended family included the O’Heas and Maddesn of Ardfield. Included was the famous Master Madden, after he finished this National School at Ardfield he ran a cramming school to prepare I think boys only for English Civil Service e Exams. Included among his pupils were future revolutionaries Sam Maguire and his brother and Michael Collins.

At the back of the book is a series of notations by John T.Collins from Kilmeen, Clonakilty. He was part of a loose group including Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, Clonakilty. He assisted Basil O’Connell in compiling ‘The O’Connell Tracts’. In the 1950s he was given access to a 18th century collection of Cork Newspaper compiled by the Kearneys of Garrettstown House. By the 1950s Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West had the collection. John T. Collins published widely in the Cork Historical adn Archaeological JOurnal available online great research highly accurate.

History of West Cork:

Pretty much a a stunning achievement before the Internet and Google and the he spent long periods serving in Northern Nigeria.

Funeral and background:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMIfS_tZBVzk6nxPSY8FobTKXQIT0pG4UgoqVjtlzdLiwteVHZKMEcdEG3NamhszA?key=azNfNy1XamRBdUdBTWthM2p6aHB6VkZ2LWl0MXRB

Funeral and background:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBDukIFQhkhJiRA5xOIfNPtIDgWzoz_-FHNDjPgPSoc/edit

1765, Accounts of Franciscan Community, Broad Lane, Cork, Diet, Rents, Taxes.

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1765, Accounts of Franciscan Community, Broad Lane, Cork, Diet, Rents, Taxes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tI6ilBqI0iH4Ofg6DInNrxUqFWQdLorHZ8qhV6IwoVo/edit


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Meat

23 lb beef

Shoulder of mutton 13 lb.

Shoulder of mutton 11 lb.

Mutton a leg weight

Beef 20 lb.

Leg of mutton 10.5 lb.

Leg of mutton

Beef

Pork one side for the house

Hind muton 6 lb

Shoulder of mutton 10 lb.

Quarter of Mutton

Fish

Ling 8.5 lb.

Cod for Friday

Ling 19 lb.

Cod 2 fresh

Salmon

Dried Ling 10 lb

Ling 7.75 lb

Entire Smoked Salmon

Salmon another cut

Ale 2 quarts

Mackerel

Vegetables

Potatoes 25 weights

Turnips

Greens

Leeks and celery

Spinach

Butter

Butter cask half hundred weight

Other butter

Butter 13lb

Butter for basting mutton

Butter

Butter quarter

Sundry Consumables

Salt half pack

Salt

Sand for altar

Coarse sand for altar and stairs

Sand for stairs

Sand for Parlour

Sand free for washerwoman stone

Straw

Candles 2 lb

Mustard 5 pints

Vinegar 1 pint

Incense

ZFlesh eating oil

Alcohol

Ale 2 days

Punch 1 snag

Dram

Ale one quart

Brandy one pint

Porter

Claret

Punch

Punch snag

Claret

Ale 2 quarts

Beer 1

Ale 6 quarts

Wine 1 gallon

Brandy half pint

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 5 quarts

Brandy noggin after dinner

Ale one quart

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 6 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 4 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for strangers

Rum quart, sugar and oranges

Brandy half pint

Wine gallon for the altar

Metheglin 1  pint

Punch

Beer and ale for the family, 5 quarts\

Porter

Ale 2 days for Biddy

Coal

Coal and porterage in total 4 loads

Water

Water for the chaapel

Water for washing the parlour

Water for the kitchen

The waterman

For water

Taxes, Rents

Parish rates

Minister’s Money

Parish rates

Sheriff Butler, half years rent

Rent to William Worrell

Hearth money

Parish Rates

Ministers Money

Church rates and clark’s gallery

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