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West Cork Flax, Linen, Textiles, p. 2

1783, Linen Spinners, Co. Down., p. 9

Linen Board, p. 12

Rev. Horatio Townsend (1810), survey, p. 13

1650s, Richard Brockelsby, clothier, Cork persecuted as Quaker d 1696, p. 15

Cork linen Probates, p. 15

Miscellaneous records from 1732, p. 16

Bantry/Beara from  1796, p. 18, 24, 29

1783, Cork Election List of Freemen voters, many from the county

1835.  1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, p. 26

1841 Effects of Cotton, Calico, British Competition. Evidence of William Crooke Esq., Macroom, to 1841 Enquiry on Land, p. 27

1853 Local Loan Reproduction Records, Schull, p. 32

Lord Bandon was an enthusiastic exponent of flax growing in the 1860s, p. 32

Census Extracts, p. 33

1829 Census Inchigeela p. 34

Bandon Clothiers Weavers collapse to trade, p. 39

1790 Coqueberts Irish Visit Bandon, p. 60

Adderly Innishannon, p. 61

Bandon Cotton Manufacturers, p. 85

Duke of Devonshire Estate Correspondence re weavers, p. 85

1830 Distress in Bandon. Number of Active Looks Dropped from 1,200 to 200. Deplorable State of the Cotton Trade. One sixth of Bandon’s Population in Destitution, p. 89

1851 Innishannon Encumbered estates Sale p. 101

Thomas, ‘The Industrialist’ Adderley Innishannon, p. 108

Bantry p. 116

Bantry, Durus 1937 School Folklore Project, p. 131, 408

Flax meitheals, p. 134

Clonakilty, p. 138, 158

Call for revival of flax industry this was probably Written by Eamonn O’Neill, Kinsale TD, 1945, p. 200

1954 flax pays, p. 240

Drimoleague, p. 240, 307

Dunmanway, Richard Cox, p. 263

Kinsale, p. 282

The Kinsale Cloak, p. 292

Skibbereen, p. 295

Using Linen Thread for Candles, Weaving, p. 305

Flax Ponds, p. 307

World War 2, p. 307, 340, 341

Early history, estates, p. 318

Innishannon from Bishop Pocock Tour, 1752., p. 325

The Linen and Flax Industry in Dunmanway, West Cork, Fines for Steeping Flax in the River Bandon and other Rivers , 1835, p. 330

American Civil War, 1864, p. 333

World War 1 Mills, p. 340

Flax Growing 1796, p. 343

Flax Growers of Ireland, 1796 – County Cork, high concentration in Clonakilty/Drinagh/Dunmanway area, spinning wheel premium list p. 344

Exports of Cloth from Cork,1683-1777, p. 398

Distribution of Flax, Ireland, 1796, p. 400

Loom.p. 403

Exports of Linen 1791, p. 406

Fishing Nets., p. 407

Samuel Vickery (1832-1912) Reminiscences to his Daughter Martha Ellen, Evansville, Indiana, USA, Childhood in Rooska, Parish of Durrus and Reendonegan, Bantry, West Cork, p. 408

Flax Acreage Co. Cork, 1939-1945, p. 411

Gírle Guairle, from Dineen Irish Dictionary, 415

Clonakilty Linen Hall 1817  p. 415

Richard  S. Harrison on Flax in West Cork, p.  416

The Sealy, Cornwall and Allin Families, Merchants and Bandon Gentry, Catherine Fitzmaurice, 2017, 422