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1848 Landlord Listing Dunmanway Union , Pauper Listing on Some Townlands. West Cork. Land Improvement and Drainage Act 1847.

27 Friday Oct 2023

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1848  Landlord Listing West Cork

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1848  Landlord Listing West Cork

This is a partial analysis on the Landlords in Dunmanway Union.  It is hoped to complete the exercise in the next week or so.   Strictly spelling the Dunmanway Union contained areas such as Kilmichael being part of the Barony of  West Muskerry which might be more appropriately be in Mid Cork rather than West Cork.

Places in Dunmanway Poor Law Union:

https://www.johngrenham.com/places/plu_results.php?pluid=69&order=county&PLU=Dunmanway

Proposed Land Improvement and Drainage Act 1847, Hansard

The first purpose for which he proposed to ask the Committee to consent to an advance of money, would be under the Land Improvement Act, which he believed would provide the most wholesome mode of employing it. In that case the natural relations between master

This is a partial analysis on the Landlords in Dunmanway Union.  It is hoped to complete the exercise in the next week or so.   Strictly spelling the Dunmanway Union contained areas such as Kilmichael being part of the Barony of  West Muskerry which might be more appropriately be in Mid Cork rather than West Cork.

Places in Dunmanway Poor Law Union:

https://www.johngrenham.com/places/plu_results.php?pluid=69&order=county&PLU=Dunmanway

Proposed Land Improvement and Drainage Act 1847, Hansard

The first purpose for which he proposed to ask the Committee to consent to an advance of money, would be under the Land Improvement Act, which he believed would provide the most wholesome mode of employing it. In that case the natural relations between master

1851 Bandon Union Flax Association

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1851 Bandon Union Flax Association

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West Cork was probably the largest flax growing area from around the 1730s in Ireland outside the northern  counties until about the 1820s.  The emergence of cheap cotton destroyed the market. There were intermittent resurgences during the American Civil War when cotton was unavailable, World War 1 and 2.

A large factory was built in the Kinsale Road area of Cork in the early 1950s as a joint venture between Belfast and Cork businessmen.  However it was probably not operational as due to the emergence of artificial fibres the market for Irish linen collapsed.

Overview:

West Cork Flax, Linen, Textiles

In this document:

West Cork Flax, Linen, Textiles 24th October 2023

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. 105

Clonakilty, p. 96

1847 Clearance on the Estate at Highfield, Creagh, Skibbereen of Robert Delacour Beamish Esq., (1791-1877) of Cork. Families named. He Left an Estate of £18,000 in 1877.

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1847 Clearance on the Estate at Highfield, Creagh, of Robert Delacour Beamish Esq., (1791-1877) of Cork. Families named. He Left an Estate of £18,000 in 1877.

Among the families named are the Crostons who probably migrated from Croston, Lancashire to the North of Ireland c 1690s and then c 1730 to West Cork. The families were in Schull, Durrus. Involved in Weaving

1831, died 1877 Robert Delacour (De la Cour) Beamish, Cambridge. Lincolns Inns 1811, Barrister, High Sheriff. Son William Beaumont. Served 18th Regiment. Married, Douglas, 1831 Robert. Delacour Beamish, Esq. Barrister, to Maria Anne, eldest daughter of the late Lieut Colonel McDonald, Adjutant-General of his Majesty’s Forces in India.’ CC (14/05/1831).

Among other places Beamish had lands in Kilcrohane

He was Delacour on his mothers side., The family of Huguenot origin prominent in Cork affairs and treasurers of Cork Grand Jury and bankers in Mallow in partnership with Galweys.

1844. Lately Near Bandon Died Aged 90 Years James Maguire, A Celebrated Blind Piper.

23 Monday Oct 2023

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Many pipers became blind as children as a result of smallpox

Old Kinsale, 1819 the Peasants of Tracton Play Hurling, Sunday Evening at the Ale Houses, Pipers and Fiddlers Add to The Gaiety

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

1793. Pipers and Fiddlers for Tenant Gala on Kerry Estates of the Earl of Bandon 1793.
Chesterton ‘The Gaels are the men that God made mad for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad’, Rev Bunworth, Rector of Buttevant, died 1770, Harpist, Píopaí Uileann (Uileann Pipes), 1810 Landlord Garret Nagle, Ballinamona, Fermoy, (Ned the Piper) and the Piper’s Field in Durrus.

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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.

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May 1698. Teige Dash in the Parish of Ballinaboy. Had A Harper Playing in His House on the Sabbath Day Contrary to the Act

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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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Who was Hart Smith, aged 21 in 1717. Trinity College entrant, son of John Faber Ferrarius (Blacksmith), Dunmanway

20 Friday Oct 2023

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Who was Faber Smith, aged 21 in 1717. Trinity College entrant, son of John Faber Ferrarius (Blacksmith), Dunmanway

SMITHHart171721JohnFaber FerrariusDunmanway, Cork

Maybe sponsored by the Cox family.

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

18 Wednesday Oct 2023

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hn Jagoe, family background   p. 1

Son John Jagoe BL (barrister), p.6

Wife Ann Dowe, marriage settlement, p. 11

Fishery business, p. 14

Manor Courts, p. 22

Losses Through Failure of Spanish Bank 1641, p. 29

Extended Jagoe Family   p. 30

Sale Jagoe/O’Connor Estate Landed Estates Court, p.31

Dr. Bryan O’Connor, United Irishman, transported to Australia, p. 35

Rev. John Jagoe, Schull son of Abraham   p.32

Figures in early 19th century Bantry and West Carbery Politics  p. 36

1844, Dowe/Coughlan litigation   p. 56

Marriage, 1795 Possibly Skibbereen John Jagoe Margaret O’Connor (she a Catholic) He Bantry she Skibbereen. His father John Jagoe Dunmanway mother Ellen Young Young’s Point Bantry fishing family, Son John Councillor m Ann Dowe 1826 possible daughter Esther m Desmond Attorney “John Jagoe son John 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.   Re. John Jagoe in London, he was certainly there in 1851, the whole family was on the UK 1851 census, He was there from about 1848 until his death in 1857. He was buried in Battersea, St Marys.

1818  Witness here John Jagoe reputedly had a shop in Barrack St at this period.  From Bantry, Liberal Protestant, a mixed marriage his brother in law Dr. Bryan O’Connor exiled to Australia for United Irishmen ‘offences’; allowed later to return later to a GP in Clonakilty, three of his brothers officers in the British Army. John Jagoes mother of the Bantry Young fish merchant family related by marriage to the Gosnells.

John Jagoe (probably the Liberal Protestant) 1826 Rent charge assigned 1833 to John O’Connell esq., over Glounathana also named Morgan O’Connell, Merchant, Liverpool, James O’Connell, Merchant, Cork Attorney Timothy Collins.  Pigot 1824 places him at Lahern.  1857 Landed Estate Sale with Tenant Listing of Jagoe/O’Connor Estate, Bantry (Knockavolig, Clogeragh, Dereengrenough, East and West Caheragolane, Ardrara) Mother Youngs of Fish Merchants, Youngs Point,  Bantry, Dr. O’Connor United Irishman Transported to Australia, John Jagoe Fishery Commissioner Political Liberal, John Jagoe Barrister, Mother Beninga Pioneer Women’s Education Townsville Australia, Dowes and Coughlans of Carrigmanus.

John Jagoe Lahern, Bantry, Pigot’s Directory 1824:

1862 Testimonial to Dr. Mathew Lefebure, M.D. on Leaving Berehaven after 21 years of Service to the Poor, His wife Angelina Coppinger O’Donovan. The Lefebure family.

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1862 Testimonial to Dr. Mathew Lefebure, M.D. on Leaving Berehaven after 21 years of Service to the Poor, His wife Angelina Coppinger O’Donovan. The Lefebure family.

Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Crowley (Diarmiuid Ó Crualaoich), (1875-1847), Kilbrittain Born Supreme Court Judge of Dáil Courts. Stormy Petrel

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Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Crowley (Diarmuid Ó Crualaoich), (1875-1947), Kilbrittain Born Supreme Court Judge of Dáil Courts. Stormy Petrel

Barristers Appearing in the Dáil Courts at Risk of Being Disbarred. Senior Bencher Tim Healy KC Dead Against it

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From Dr. Niamh Howlin’s new book

From Dr. Niamh Howlin’s new book on Irish barristers.     Most of the 12 plus barrister later had stellar careers in the new state

1886 Address from Some of Bantry Inhabitant to the Earl of Bantry, on His return from Abroad.  1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s , MP,  Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board

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1887. Sketch of The Brilliant Irish Member of Parliament.  Tim Healy of Bantry.  By John A. Hennessy a Waterford Man in New York.

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Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.

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1931 Funeral of Tim Healy, Bantry Born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of Irish Free State. Genealogy (by John T. Collins 1944) of O’Healys/Healys/Hely from 5th Century, Patron Saint of Family St. Lachtin died 622 AD.

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1784 Colonel Francis Bernard probably later Lord Bandon gift To Father Shinnick, Bandon of Land at East Gully, Bandon for A Catholic Church.

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1784 Colonel Bernard gift To Father Shinnick, Bandon

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1784 Colonel Francis Bernard probably later Lord Bandon gift To Father Shinnick, Bandon of Land at East Gully, Bandon for A Catholic Church.

Bandon was a place of great prosperity from the mid 18th to the early 19th century.  Migrants from all over West Cork of all religions flocked to the town and surroundings.  It is likely in DNA research that quite a number of Bandon names originate further west as do a lot of the Plantation names going all the easy to the most remote parts of West Cork.

The Church in East Gully as built was one of the largest in Co. Cork at the time testifying to the prosperity of the Catholic community.

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