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  • 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.

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West Cork Memoirs

31 Monday Jul 2023

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Memoirs of James Stanley Vickery, Post 1837, written c 1889 Australia

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PwugXHb1Be5sqPuvHX2eqWWHrAeKouaQqI8Pp19V3pM/edit

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The first article is of great interest in so many ways as my mothers people were EDWARDS and Stanleys from Carhue Bandon and this article sheds a lot more light on them. Fascinating.. thank you 

William Warner Vickery and Elizabeth Wolfe from Bantry to Evansville, Indiana, USA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I7pMdxDUE-3u7_edesi2qWOZuEHiYRsGNStN7dvi7zA/edit

The Cole Family iof West Carbery

https://drive.google.com/drive/recent

Memoir of Sam Bird, Bandon b 1870 written Michigan 18941

https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=bird

General O’Donovan

30 Sunday Jul 2023

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Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829. ‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

A Pretty Wedding in Skibbereen, 1910.  Presents and Donors Listed.

17 Monday Jul 2023

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A Pretty Wedding in Skibbereen, 1910.  Presents and Donors Listed.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AisxnMN-r7AaoPxkOiOh1KA8wwn46g6zDBY09KVxECc/edit

1907 Evidence Of Ned Roycroft, Mount Gabriel, County Councillor, Magistrate, Merchant at Schull to Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland.  Widespread Congestion and Poverty, Fisheries, Half Cottiers Half Fishermen, Minerals and Mines, The Rev Hinks, Landlord cut Down 100 acres of Forestry before he Sold to the Land Commission, Proposes Central Bacon Curing Station for West Cork.

08 Saturday Jul 2023

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxdfIHQxU61_5DFfheTlKmKT27WdjlzA_z2rWaLKzcU/edit?pli=1

Magistrate, p.1

One of the members of the Commission, John Annan Bryce, Belfast born, donated Garnish Island, (Ilnacuillin)  to Ireland, p. 2

Evidence before Commission, p. 4-34

1937 Funeral of Ned Roycroft, p. 31

1841, West Cork population density, p. 34

His wife was McCarthy, a very influential local family.

Edward (Ned) Roycroft (1850-1937), 1894, Mount Gabriel, Schull, farmer, listed 1913. 1892 Poor Law Guardian.  Attending the funeral, Bantry Jane Dillon nee Roycroft (1843-1892). 1899 Chairman Schull Board of Guardian and District Council. Farmer 1901 has one servant. One of the first to be elected to Cork County Council. Signed Requisition   1905. Cork Junction Railway Bill.  Requisition to the Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon K.P., to Call a meeting for the purpose of Approving the Cork Junctions Railway Bill. 1911 executive committee Carbery Show.    1913 attending funeral of  Mrs. Mary O’Sullivan nee O’Driscoll, Kilthomane, Crottees, Durrus. 1914 County Council election assentors Dr. John Shipsey and Rev. G.B. Fairbrother. Vice President Carbery Show 1915.  Married Kate McCarthy associated with the Irish Parliamentary Party, probably ancestor of spouse of Michael Pat Murphy, TD, and spouse of John O’Donoghue, TD and former Cathaoirleach Dáil, Co. Council 1910, listed 1921.  West Cork Roycrofts according to family lore descend from two Cromwellian brothers who came to Bandon.  His son William who succeeded him on the Co. Council.  Quite a number of the extended Roycroft family were employed at the workhouse or Union.  Chairman Schull Board of Guardians, Skibbereen to Schull Railway, Committee member Cork Mental Hospital. Supported Treaty, nominated and supported Jasper Wolfe as a TD.  Partner with his son in a drapery shop in Schull.  Huge funeral.

1907 Evidence Of Ned Roycroft, Mount Gabriel, County Councillor, Magistrate, Merchant at Schull to Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland.  Widespread Congestion and Poverty, Fisheries, Half Cottiers Half Fishermen, Minerals and Mines, The Rev Hinks, Landlord cut Down 100 acres of Forestry before he Sold to the Land Commission, Proposes Central Bacon Curing Station for West Cork.One of the members of the Commission, John Annan Bryce, Belfast born, donated Garnish Island, (Ilnacuillin)  to Ireland.

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Early Doctors and Apothecaries (Chemists), Cork City and County

06 Thursday Jul 2023

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1885 Report of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries. Comhola or Snave, Ballylickey and Durrus Rivers Poisoned with Splurge. Mackerel Fishery. Applications for Harbour Works. Fishery By Laws on Salmon Rivers, Ardigeen, Bandon, Illen, Bantry Tidal Waters, Snave, Mealagh, Ouvane and Carrigboy Rivers. Holders of Oyster Bed Licences.

05 Wednesday Jul 2023

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VxxdI9MRFuKLVUqMcF4nk1MpB6SwOcOl5EOBADBjrnI/edit

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https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/17754/pages/673519

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1885 Report of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries.  Comhola or Snave, Ballylickey and Durrus Rivers Poisoned with Splurge.  Mackerel Fishery.  Applications for Harbour Works.  Fishery By Laws on Salmon Rivers, Ardigeen, Bandon, Illen, Bantry Tidal Waters, Snave, Mealagh, Ouvane and Carrigboy Rivers.  Holders of Oyster Bed Licences.

1843 Skibbereen Petty Session Court Prosecution for  Cutting And Taking Away Seaweed from Skeam Rocks and Hare Island.  Defence by John Jagoe, B.L., Bantry.

04 Tuesday Jul 2023

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1835 John Jagoe Admitted Grey’s Inns, Called Dublin 1838. 36, only son of John Esq., father Fish Merchant, mother O’Connor probably local landowning family in Bantry and Skibbereen areas, paternal grand mother from Young fish merchant family, Fishery Inspector writer to Chief Secretary promoting non denominational education. May be uncle to Sister Begnita pioneer women’s education Townsville, Australia and Ellie Desmond who married 1862 in Brisbane Charles J Morris, Surgeon. “Possibly John Jagoe 3 1833 described as fisherman, merchant and land owner occupied Clounkeen House, Rosscarbery on behalf of his friend utopian William Thompson and distrained a beast from each of the tenant farmers. Mother O’Connor. Practising West Cork defending evicted tenants. Married 1826 Anne Dowe. Author of text on Irish Fisheries Law. Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry. 1840 speaking at Repeal meeting Skibbereen father also Liberal. Acting Secretary Bantry and Carbery Liberals. Signed Testimonial to Resident Magistrate, John Gore Jones, Bantry, 1844. Jagoe/O’Connoe Estate (Knockavolig, Clogeragh, Dereengrenough, East and West Caheragolane, Ardrara)sold Landed Courts Estate 1857 owners include his childenas he was dead.” 995 1 Oct. 1842 Lease made between Richard, 1st Earl of Bantry, Glengarriff and Lord Viscount Berehaven, Bantry House, and John [Jagoe], (Barrister-at-Law), City of Dublin. It is for a house and building ground on the Mill Quay in Bantry town (see attached map), for a term of 200 years from the 25th March, at a yearly rent of £4. 4. 0, payable half yearly on the 25th March and the 29th September. Includes a coloured map drawn on the left margin, no scale given.It shows the leased premises, the adjoining holdings and its position relative to the river, the mill and Main Street; and a draft copy of this lease. Possibly site of Maritime Hotel “John Jagoe and his wife on the UK census, living in London he also died in London, John Jagoe died on Oct. 20th 1851 in Westminster Hospital, London. He is down as 54 years old. Witness Samuel Jagoe, living in 12, Danvers St, Chelsea. Probably John’s son, Samuel, born c 1832, emigrated to Australia in 1852.

John Jagoe, (c 1770-c1834), Extended Family Network, Youngs, O’Connor, O’Driscoll, Coughlan, Dowe, McCarthy

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUdGCfdeEbJn6ShqXrwqtxFd3GNOhAaSJneNt9NtSKY/edit

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 Landed Court Sale of Samuel Townsend lands at Caheragh and Islands of East Calf, Doneen, Travans where tenants Make Large Quantities of Kelp from Seaweed.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/31566

1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

Carrigín Coolnahorna, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork, a hint of Pre-famine Agriculture and other Incorporeal Hereditaments.

1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark

1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

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