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The reference to Cotters as Danish in origin may not apply to those from the Dunmanway/Bantry/Macroom districts. DNA suggested they may be a Sept of either the O’Learys or O’Mahonys.
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1845 Skibbereen Petty Sessions., 2 Starving Little Brothers. Half Fed Half Clad. Sentenced to 10 Days Imprisonment in Cork County Gaol for Having a Few Bundles of Withered Furze and a Few Rotten Sticks At the Prosecution of the Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald Stephens Townsend Brother and Heir at Law Of The late Colonel John Townsend, Castletownshend
1814, Thomas Godson Agrees at Breenybeg, Kealkil to Sow Furze Seeds and 12 Perches of Lawful Double Ditches
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yearly rent of £14. 14. 0, payable half yearly on the 29th September and the 25th March. Godson agrees to sow furze seeds and to erect 12 perches of lawful double ditches, failure to do so will incur an additional 12 shillings on the rent. The former lease was held by John Godson (grandfather of Thomas Godson).
From Bantry House Rental Records, Boole Library, UCC.
https://libguides.ucc.ie/ld.php?content_id=31762597
Evidence of Maskelyne Alcock, Esq., Magistrate, Substantial farmer, on Cultivation of Furze for Horses in Bandon 1844.
Alcock Estate:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3001
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282512
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The Brooks/Brookes of Dromreagh (Drom Riabhach, stripe, grey ridge), Durrus, West Cork coming early 19th century as Weavers from Ryelands, Raphoe, on the Abercorn Estate in East Donegal, some go to New Zealand early 20th century, and 1926 sale of family holding Dromreagh on move to Courtmacsherry, subject to ‘a trifling annuity’ with an acre and a half of furze meadow.
Pounding the furze for the mare in foal.
Pre the mid 1960s the workhorse on Irish farms was literally the horse. The diet was supplemented by furze (whin or gorse in some areas), chopped up with a furze machine. These sturdy machines of cast iron are still around and grinded the plant and then chopped it. Mares in foal have a delicate digestive system and the furze was further pounded to make it palatable.
Farmers would often travel a mile of so to get a cart load of furze. Brakes or waste land of up to a half an acre would often be planted with a harvest within two years
Donal Hickey Irish Examiner:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-30839915.html
In his book, Farming In Ireland, John Feehan mentioned many registered accounts in legal documents from the 15th and 16th centuries listing gorse being used as animal fodder: “It was especially valued in feeding horses, though cattle throve on it also, either fed on its own or as part of a mixed diet.”
Feeding gorse continued until the 19th century, with many admitting to getting more gorse per acre than they would if they made hay. Feehan also recalls how farmers, in Cork especially, grew a few acres of what was called “furze meadow”. Given current fodder shortages, maybe there’s a lesson there.
This furze machine was sold in 1889 auction as new:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OaTv0viw8AKxaoUtJEym5y0Dp0xAqTqZj5nE7nyitDg/edit
Aiteann gaelach, Tufts of furze
Garbhóg, forked hazel stick used in divining, a furze stick was used by an English artist who bought Sea Lodge in the 1940s to divine for water. The house had no water which was obtained from the nearby priest’s well. The English lady found a small stream near the house
In 1891 Sir John Gorst, Reforming MP, 1891 visited Aughadown and the detailed account in the Southern Star carries description of furze sticks used as fuel:
Comments on use of furze sticks for heating.
Generally on Furze from Blog:
welshboy
Gorse/Furze Fuel and feed
Just been reading about the capability of gorse as a fuel or feed for cattle/horses.
Apparently it has half the protein of oats and can be harvested at a two year rotation yielding ” 2000 20lb faggots from an acre” so about 9 tons per acre per year. Cattle and horses love it once processed for them.
Furze can be used as fodder for animals. It was said that an acre of furze could provide enough winter feed for six horses. As a fuel it has a high concentration of oil in its leaves and branches, and so catches fire easily and burns well, giving off a heat almost equal to that of charcoal.
The question is how do you harvest it using modern machines ?
It grows well with us -difficulty keeping it down
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/FRA_GAE/FURZE_GORSE.html
‘In France,’ to quote Syme and Sowerby, British Botany, 1864, ‘it is used for burning, being cut down every few years, in places where it grows naturally. In Surrey and other counties, it is used largely as fuel, especially by bakers in their ovens and is cultivated for that purpose and cut down every three years. When burned, it yields a quantity of ashes rich in alkali, which are sometimes used for washing, either in the form of a solution or lye, or mixed with clay and made into balls, as a substitute for soap. The ashes form an excellent manure and it is not uncommon where the ground is covered with Furze bushes to burn them down to improve the land and to secure a crop of young shoots, which are readily eaten by cattle. In some parts of England, it is usual to put the Furze bushes into a mill to crush the thorns and then to feed horses and cows with the branches. When finely cut or crushed, sheep will readily eat it.’
welshboy
Just what somebody does
” I tie the branches of gorse in bundles and hang them up for horses. This is an excellent addition to their winter feed and our Welsh Cobs would always leave their hay until they had finished the gorse. It also takes some time for them to eat as they are careful due to the spines; this again is a real advantage in winter and provides them with something to do. They will peel and eat every strip of bark that they can reach
The bundle of peeled sticks (a faggot) which is what you are left with when the horses have finished with it is great firewood.”
The Duchas Account
The Duchas Irish National Folklore Collection of 1937 provides some fascinating anecdotal information about Billy written by local schoolchildren. This confirms that he lived in the house subsequently owned by the Donovans, but that before this he was the school master in Ardgehane school. This is confirmed by the Commission of Public Instruction in 1835 which states that the school was “kept by William Perrott under the supervision of the Protestant clergyman” and that he lived rent-free in the schoolhouse. The Duchas account indicates that he started from relatively humble beginnings: “When Billy Perrott was teaching in Ardgehane, all he has was one brake of furze … and one cow. He used [to] have a furze spade for bruising the furze for the cow.” However, it seems that once he moved to Abbeymahon and opened his bank then he quickly prospered: “’Twas in the Bank Perrott made all his money. Jer Manoney used to say that one morning after breakfast he took £9 in Interest”. At first he conducted his business from the house, but then “he built a small house (down from his own house) which used to be called the Bank. It had a chimney, and had 3 steps leading to the door, and had shelves on the inside round the walls”.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pD0f_EX_72o_tKK8J0H8UJtHa9YJoK-s7cjISYoZ-BY/edit?tab=t.0
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Memoirs of James Stanley Vickery, Post 1837, written c 1889 Australia.
There were minor forms of industry which kept the good housewife and her assistants well employed. After killing the fattened cow the rough fat was melted and used in the making of candles, usually by the slow process of dipping. A good washing potash lye was made from the ashes of furze or gorse.
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200 Years of the Erie Canal, New York, Quarter of the Workforce Irish. Rochester NY, Boomtown Attracting Many Poor West Cork Protestants. The 99 Cousins in Rochester.
Rochester, Williamson, Croston
Rochester, Williamson, Croston etc
The Gosnells of West Cork
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1832 GREAT TITHE MEETING OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF TIMOLEAGUE, KILMALODA, BARRYROE, KILBRITTAN, CLONAKILTY, DISIRT AND THE ADJACENT PARISHES IN BALLYNASCARTY
Tithes, West Cork
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-NCOWVhITnsanxfjQepzCtRswcV77QZATGCxxPTKkCk/edit?tab=t.0
Historical p. 3
Warning Notice posted in Drimoleague 1832, p. 50
Tithe Composition Act p. 52
1842 Skibbereen Sessions, p. 92
CUTTLE Francis Tythe Farmer Dunmanway, Co Cork , p. 97
Early Mass Disobedience Tithes by West Cork Parish 1824-1834
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xeEzDVPPpkzz67QxfbrBpUSlVKXJoAwZ0PRy4Y_EVL0/edit?gid=0#gid=0
The Tithes in the 1820s: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman. The men from Muintervara (Durrus/Kilcrohane) who have the distinguished honour of being the first Western district to have given the death blow to the Tithe system, proceeded under the conduct of Richard O’Donovan Esq of Tullagh and Timmy O’Donovan Esq at Monster Meeting Mount Gabriel 1832
Tithe Applotments, Kilcrohane Parish
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qM-kVPkWSKtX3XKEQAoz3rwXUAVQS4PbqDA6p2oFl1w/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen, Widely Praised for Work on Road and Bridges enabling Sea Sand to be used as Fertilizer in Interior of West Cork. 1832 calls in Gunboat to Clonakilty, 69th Regiment and Police in Attempt to Collect his tithes at Kilmeen and Ballygurteen. Magistrate: Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, 1799, died 1842. Freeman of Kinsale 1797. Subscriber, at Moviddy, James Mullalla, Review of Irish Affairs 1688-1795. Major figure in road building praised by Horatio Townsend for road work enabling sea sand to go through Kilmeen to interior. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. 1822 received £50 for distress in Kilmeen from Lord Lieutenant. 1830 subscriber Robert O’Callaghan Newenham ‘Views of the Antiquities of Ireland’. 1833 tithes. 1831, Ballineen 1835, 1835 Son of Rev. Dr. John Kenny, rector of Kilbrogan which he spent £3. 104 on, his father had married sister of Emmett Archbishop of Tuam. Family based in Bandon area. Subscriber at Kilmeen Glebe where he was rector for 43 years. Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Rector of Durrus for 6 years. Edward Herbert Kenney 1793-1799, a Justice of the Peace 28th May 1799. He was later Rector Rosscarbery and his work in organising relief work (in the famine of 1822) and paying the workers in money or meal was praised by the Parish Priest for his ‘meritorious conduct’. Family buried at Ballymartle. County Freeman Kilmeen of Cork City voting in Cork City Election 1837.
Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen, Widely Praised for Work on Road and Bridges enabling Sea Sand to be used as Fertilizer in Interior of West Cork. 1832 calls in Gunboat to Clonakilty, 69th Regiment and Police in Attempt to Collect his tithes at Kilmeen and Ballygurteen.
It is difficult to reconcile his altruism and industry wiht his tithe collecting attempts. Reading the Chief Secretary Papers the military and Dublin Castle Authorities wee thoroughly sick of him and his high handed antics.
Kilmeen Herbert Gillman, Edward O’Brien. Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny £750 entirely to Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny. Special Vestry chaired by Robert Sealy, William Buttomere (Buttimer), John Bateman, John Collins approved no variation for 21 years rector assented. 1833 For 7 years ending 1821 barrel of wheat £1 18 shillings 8 and a half pence grown in said country
Chief Secretary Papers:
Chief Secretary Papers:
CSO/RP/1832/5791. Letters from EH Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen and magistrate, Clonakilty, [County Cork], to Edward Smith Stanley, [Chief Secretary], stating that his bailiff was assaulted while attempting to distrain livestock in lieu of tithe arrears in his parish and that a party of police was stoned while attempting to restore order; seeking the stationing of a military force in the parish and suggesting that the military commanders be appointed to the commission of the peace.
Also letter from Daniel Conner and NS Shuldham, magistrates, to Stanley, reporting on the incident. CSO/RP/1832/6119. Letter from the [Maj Gen Edward Blakeney, Commander in Chief], Major General Commanding, Royal Hospital, [Dublin], to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], forwarding a report [not extant] from Col Wilson, commanding the 65th Reserve concerning the enforcement of tithes at Kilmeen, [possibly County Cork]. CSO/RP/1832/5562.
File containing police reports of a serious attack on the police and military while attempting to assist Rev Edward H Kenny with the enforcement of his tithes at [Ballingurteen, County Cork] CSO/RP/1832/6335.
Letter from [Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron] Templemore, Military Secretary, Royal Hospital, Dublin, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], referring to military reports from Maj Gen James Douglas and Capt Patience, 65th Reserve at Clonakilty, [County Cork], concerning an unnecessary request made to Capt Patience by Rev EW Kenny, magistrate. Also copy of letter from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Kenny, Kilmeen, Clonakilty, informing him that the troops should not have been required to march 18 miles on unnecessary business.
1822, The Troubles of a Struggling Farmer, Mud Cabin, Heavy Taxes, Tithes, Cess, and Rack Rents, Wintry Wind, by Poet Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (1766-1837), Caheragh, (lived later Glanmire), Co. Cork.
Life
1766–1837),poet and scribe; born to the Ó Longáin learned family in Carrignavar, Co. Cork.
1766-1837; b. Carrignavar, Co. Cork; son of Mícheál mac Peadair; orphaned young, his parents dying in 1770 and 1774; employed as cowherd; returned to education, 1784; assisted United Irishmen, 1797-98; wrote for Whiteboys, 1785; ‘Buachaillí Loch Garman [Boys of Wexford]’, 1798; m. 1800; worked as scribe, labourer, and teacher in Co. Cork; settled in north Kerry and East Limerick, 1802-07; wrote on poverty and oppression; employed as a teacher and scribe by Rev. John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, 1814; copied manuscripts, 1817-1820; sons Peadar and Pól, and Seosamh, also became scribes; died. on his son Pól’s 11-acre holding in eleven acres in Knockboy in Carrignavar.
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Breandán Ó Conchúir, Scríobhaithe Chorcaí 1700-1850 (1982)
It is likely that poet JJ Callanan sent quite a while in Caheragh through Bantry Doctor Dr. Thomas Burke in the 1810s who had associations in the area.
The Ó Longáin Family
… http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/theriverside/2015/09/09/o-longain-family/
From the 18th century to the late 19th century the surname ‘Ó Longáin’ was synonymous with ‘scribes.’ Working as a scribe meant copying stories, poetry, histories and religious texts from manuscripts and printed works for patrons. Working as a scribe also involved translating texts from Irish to English. Frequently their patrons were from Cork merchant families, were Cork scholars themselves such as John Windele or from Cork clergy such as Bishop John Murphy. Working as a scribe had previously been a position of privilege but as the Gaelic order disintegrated following the Flight of the Earls in 1607, scribes found their living situation growing perilous and frequently lived in poverty. Micheál mac Peattair, his son Micheál Óg and his grandson Peadar were based in Carrignavar, Cork. Grandsons Pól and Seosamh were primarily based in Dublin. Seosamh transcribed manuscript facsimiles for publication on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy. The Ó Longáin preserved a tradition and ensured access to countless texts through their scribing endeavours.
https://langangeorge.wordpress.com/
Caheragh Poets:
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/19786
Courtesy Father Patrick Hickey, Famine in west Cork.
Fuacht na scailpe-se, deathach is gaoth gheimhridh,
Cruas na leapsa-sa’s easpa braith lae’s oíche,
Muarcuid teascnna, deachmaithe’s glaoch cíosa,
Tug buartha cáthach mé, easpaitheach éagaoinaointeach.
The cold of the mud cabin, smoke adn wintry wind,
The hardness of this bed and the lack of a mantle day or night,
Heavy taxes, tithes, and rack-rent demands,
Have made me troubled, in want, and lamenting.
1828. Petition of Parishioners of the Parish of Caheragh, County Cork, requesting aid be provided to build a parish church. Reverend John Webb, only visits the parish once a year ‘for the purpose of Collecting his tithes’ Numbers of their community have ‘turned to mass and several have been buried without received Protestant burial’ rites.
Burials in Caheragh Parish:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uiqhY6JSrv5FvdNN_x1Qs2EzisApZ4pcvkOwNOCyAT8/edit#gid=0
1826. Death in Faction Fight, Clonakilty and Deaths Arising From Rev Morritt’s Extraction of tithes at Castlehaven, West Cork.
1823. Inquest into Affray Occasioned by the Rev. Robert Morritt, Rector of Creagh and Castlehaven, Notorious Extraction of Tithes, Caused at Castlehaven, West Cork, at which Fatalities Occurred, Stones Placed into Mouths of Killed Policemen, Press Excluded from Publishing Preliminary Investigation on Morritt’s Motion.
1826. Death in Faction Fight, Clonakilty and Deaths Arising From Rev Morritt’s Extraction of tithes at Castlehaven, West Cork.
CSO/RP/1832/4660. Letter from A O’Driscoll, Shepperton, [County Cork], to Maj William Miller, [Inspector General], forwarding threatening and anti tithe notices [extant] posted in Drimoleague [Dromdaleague] and reporting on outrages in his area and recommending the strengthening of the military in the area
1832, Drimoleague, Anti Tithe Notice Posted ‘Dear Nebour Pay No Tythe Money Go According to Pereshners if Not Make Your Will or You be Beheaded Quartered and Gelded’
Captain Alexander O’Driscoll, 1827, Clover Hill, Superseded 1810-30, Restored 1843. Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of the same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengariff to Castletownbere. Married to the daughter of Thomas Attridge, Ballydehob. Correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Bridge at Bawnlahan 1820. 1822 subscriber as Clover Hill, Church Building Fund Durrus, he held tithes in Kilcrohane with Rector and Rev. Alleyn Evanson. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Grand Jury Presentments attending 12 from 1838-1840 at Norton Cottage. Probably engaged with his crew in marine salvage of Clio out of Crookhaven 1825. 1826 City election voted O’Callaghan conservative. Voted 1835 election as out of town Freeman address Shepperton. Public support for him on dismissal 1835 by fellow Magistrates Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Samuel Townsend Senior, Samuel Townsend Junior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend Senior. Enquiry attended in Bandon 1841 into suspension arising from conduct with Stipendiary Magistrate J. Gore Jones and Sub-Inspector Andrew Creagh attended Earl of Bandon, Lord Viscount Bernard, on. H. White Hedges, Macroom Castle, Henry Bernard, Castle Barnard, Abraham Morris Dunkettle, Captain Henry Wallis, Drishane Castle, Lieutenant Colonel St. John Clerke, Overton House, William Cooke Wallis Junior, Castlecook, Mathias Hendley, Mountrivers, Henry Leader, Mount Leader, George Browne, Coolcower, St. Ledger Aldworth, Newmarket, Charles Evanson, Carlemont, Cork, Sir Thomas Deane, Thomas Hungerford, The Island, Nicholas Dunscomb, Mount Desert, Richard Henry Hedges Becher, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, John Isaac Heard, Kinsale, John Wheeler, Junior, James Gillman, Retreat, MD, Clonakilty, Thomas Herrick, Coolkerry, Captain R.A. Rogers, Petersfield, Michael Gallway, Gurtnagreena, John Nason, G. Nagle, Ballinamona Castle, Samuel Wallis Goold Adams, Jamesbrook, Jeremiah E. McCarthy, Rathduane, William F. Austen, Greenshela, Thomas R. Sarsfield, Ducloyne, Arthur Pery Aylmer, Castlefreke, Thomas Cuthbert Kearney, Garretstown, Joseph Haynes, Maryland House, Charles Connell, Cloverhill, John Barter, Cooldaniel, Francis G. Woodley, Leeds, Lawrence Corban, Maryville, E. Millett, MD, Cove. 1841 supported Conservative Longfield Longueville, Mallow even though Catholic hosted meeting attending John Ross, Rossford, Thomas Morris, Mahonagh, Thomas Wood, Dereeny, Listed 1838, dead….. with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Suspended for a period as J.P. reinstated after altered by a sitting of over 70 Magistrates in Bandon from both political sides. 1828 Bandon Quarter Sessions. His lands managed by Bird. Member Provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845, address Norton Cottage. Believed to have been committed to a debtors prison in Cork by his wine merchant where he died. Norton Cottage was lived in once by Dr. O’Donovan, J.P., and bought 1925 by Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and TD,
22 Wednesday Oct 2025
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William Henry Welplys West Cork Wills. Pre 1922
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w0psB-oyzUpyx2SJQJ9DQI2asjVAs0HinLBnEYNgufY/edit?tab=t.0
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Re smuggling in the 17th century it is worth recalling the context.
After the end of the English Civil War when Parliament prevailed there was a strong view that the English army should be abolished as they might present a threat to the new dispensation. The compromise was a largely reduced army with a standing garrison of 15,000 to be based in new barracks in Ireland. This was to be a charge on the Irish Exchequer. The building of these barracks gave arise to the Irish Barack towns, many of which only closed in the last 30 or so years.
So whenever an old lad in the 1740s had a smathán or smoked his pipe not only was he contributing to the British occupation of Ireland but paying for their garrison.
Clearly when the ‘legal’ price of excitable items excess the market price by a wide margin the opportunities for smuggling are immense.
From Father James Coombes History 1969.
Thanks Pat,
That is interesting reading. It’s all true. Edward was the guy transported leaving his wife and six kids. So we’re others near Skibbereen. The Kilkeran ones brought boats into the local “lake” and stored stuff in the basement, allegedly with an underground tunnel. Family fortunes were hard hit. Family were installed in Bordeaux, Nantes, Oporto etc to look after that end of it. There are de Gallweys in France.
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1822. Lord Bantry not renewing lease of any of his Tenantry involved in Smuggling.https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=25396&action=edit
Canon Johnny McManaway MA, Rector, 1930s Durrus, smuggling horseshoe stubs into the Free State
Arthur Hutchins, Landlord and Magistrate, Ardnagashel, Bantry married 1802, Matilda O’Donnell, (Smugglers), Erris, Co.Mayo, descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, West Cork Crowleys, Descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages
1740. a Memorial of Several Gentlemen Residing at or near Berehaven in West Cork, setting forth the necessity of having a Barrack built for one company and half of foot to prevent running of Goods and the Shipping Off of Men to Foreign Service
Richard Griffith letter to Dublin Castle on progress of road from Skull to Crookhaven, Co. Cork where ‘upwards of 3,000 are employed’, 1822.
refers to the inaccessibility of the region around Crookhaven harbour and the persistence of smuggling which is difficult to check due to ‘the numerous creeks and inlets on the coast’; includes letter from Griffith, Skull, to Gregory, acknowledging invitation of the Lord Lieutenant to meet for interview in Dublin but to request the date is deferred to enable his attendance at the assizes of counties Kerry and Cork.
izes of counties Kerry and Cork.
In the North it became the practice to put studs into horse shoes.
Studs are small metal projections that screw into the horse’s shoes. They’re used to give him better grip on various types of footing, from firm and slippery to soft and boggy. They’re great if the horse loses his focus in less-than-ideal footing or to give him extra traction when doing road work.
For some reason studs were illegal in the Free State.
The Canon wished to bring some down from one of his northern trips. He took the saddle off his bike and filled the hollow of the frame with studs and replaced the saddle. The bike passed over the border no problem and the Canon and his bike with studs arrived safely in Durrus.
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When my mother was about to be confined she went to Bandon to be under the care of an old friend and relative who lived an a small house in Castle St. close to the river. Here on the morning of the lst May 1829 at 6 O’C am I was ushered into this world to undergo a training for eternity. The term of that training time has been a little more than the psalmist’s reckoning and on the whole I ought not to complain. My most painful time was during my childhood, the very times which should be the easiest if not the happiest portion of the training time. My grandfather was very old with an old mans ideas when I came under his care. I was naturaly dull and nervous and if I could lot learn as others I must be made to if possible no matter at what cost of pain or misery to the poor dullard. When about five years of age the old people came to live in the town of Bantry. Then I was sent to the usual infant school where I presume I learnt something as when about eight a more advanced school was chosen. Unfortunately there was no great choice, the national school then newly established or a private one conducted by a man named Healy. The Irish protestants from the very first were prejudiced against the national system of schools describing them “poor schools”. The result being they were almost from the commencement under the wing of the R.C. priests. Healy the teacher of the small private school was a self taught man attaining as many self-taught men do a fair knowledge of mathematics but seemingly holding in contempt all other branches of learning. He was a little man essentially a tyrant cruel to a degree whose great delight was to make the unfortunate little come trembling and sobbing into his presence. In certain aspects of his character he exceeded any thing depicted by the pen of Dickens. The treatment I received thus early in my life at this man’s hands must have had an ill effect on me throughout life. He was a Roman Catholic but my grandfather insisted that I should learn so many verses of the bible every day. In the repeating of these and other lessons the rod was continually shaking over us and that rod was usually a well seasoned holly one with the sharp points adhering. I had to endure it all silently having no one to complain to. As an instance of his treatment I may relate the following. The school room was a rough one with an open roof, over one of the rafters one day he threw a small rope tied under my arms and then hoisted me up swinging me too and fro at the same time letting me feel the holly rod greatly to the amusement of the other boys. His wife happened to see him at this, to his pleasant, occupation when she rushed in and released me at the same time giving him some of her mind. He was eventually had up before the Magistrates and fined for cruelly treating some other scholars whose friends became aware of the fact. On our parents death there was some understanding that Robt Edwards of Bandon and our father’s brother James should be our guardians. The one who really took an active interest, at least in life history was Mrs Edwards as good a hearted woman as could be met with but most unwise in all her dealings with young people especially boys. She seemingly could not resist any appeal from her own sons, their father taking little interest in them, so that the sons without exception were a burden instead of a help to their parents. A young couple with whom she was acquainted decided to establish a private school in Bandon and it was thought well that I should be put under their care. When I was ten years of age I together with my cousin George son of adult Bess- came to reside as borders with Mr and Mrs Thomas Robinson.
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
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=40862&action=edit
1887. Sketch of The Brilliant Irish Member of Parliament. Tim Healy of Bantry. By John A. Hennessy a Waterford Man in New York.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTE1YKCh3wdnXHBjQZ-jXWUi-_LZuDWU5MyuTmywg04/edit
1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
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Emigration from Gearhies, Muintervara, to Joliet, Illinois, America. Visit of Bantry Born MP, Tim Healy 1881, Hotbed of Fenians, Hibernian Activity, Pro Boer Meeting Attended by Many Irish.
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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.
Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Bantry, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore and 1850 census of St. Anne’s Parish, Shandon, Cork.
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1933 Durrus Suppliers
M = Current (2008) Suppliers
| 1933 Name | Townland (spelt as per register) | Number | 1973 Name (M supplying milk) |
| Attridge, John M | Gearamene | 10 | John Kingston, Kealties, M |
| Attridge, William Alfred | Rossmore | 39 | |
| Attridge, Robert | Gearameen | 168 | |
| Barry, Patrick J | Durrus | 54 | |
| Burke, William | Lackavcagh | 72 | Transferred to Richard Burke, Rathara, Schull, 11/10/1934 |
| Barnett Denis | Brahalish | 82 | |
| Beamish, R.A. | Ardogeena | 89 | |
| Burke, Denis | Drishane | 94 | |
| Baker, John | Rooska | 105 | |
| Brooks, Edward | Dromreagh | 113 | |
| Burke, John | Coomkeen | 149 | |
| Burke, Daniel | Coomkeen | 151 | |
| Brooke, Herbert | Dromreagh | 157 | |
| Burke, William | Clashadoo | 137 | Son in law of Jehr Cronin |
| Burke, Michael | Brahalish | 160 | |
| Brooks, Walter | Brahalish | 167 | |
| Barry?, John | Mureigh | 169 | |
| Coughlan, Bridget | Coolculaghta | 5 | |
| Cotter, Rev. Fr Michael | Durrus P.P. 1933 | 13 | Marked zero share later |
| Cronin ?, John | Rusnacahara | 14 | |
| Crowley, Robert | Ballycomane | 19 | |
| Crowley, Patrick | Clashadoo (Ahagouna) | 34 | |
| Clarke, Goodhand | Glanlough | 35 | Later Rockmount, Drimoleague |
| Crowley, Con | Droumreagh | 49 | |
| Cahalane?, Mrs | Ballycomane | 51 | Later Durrus village |
| Coughlan, Burd | Mount Gabriel | 57 | Later cancelled never subscribed |
| Cleary, Cornelius | Dunbeacon | 66 | |
| Connolly, Michael | Colomane | 74 | |
| Creedon, Daniel | Gurtnalasa, Bantry | 110 | Cancelled after 1936 |
| Connolly, Thomas | Glenlough | 114 | Transferred to A.W. Derman, Drimoleague 14/12/1938 |
| Cronin, John | Parkan | 126 | |
| Coughlan, Daniel | Coolculaghta | 135 | |
| Cronin, Jehr | Clashadoo | 137 | Father in law of Wm. Burke |
| Cleary, James | Ballycomane | 132 | Later transferred to Rhea, Kilcrohane (son) |
| Coughlan, John | Dromreagh | 140 | |
| Crowley, Mrs Irene | Durrus Court | 159 | Admitted 1958- wife of John staff member |
| Dukelow, Robert | Dromantanaheen | 18 | Bantry Road |
| Dillon, Timothy | Clashadoo | 26 | |
| Dukelow, Charles | Clashadoo | 29 | |
| Dukelow, Thomas | Droumatanaheen | 32 | Transferred to Micjhael Hegarty, Clashadoo 11/10/1933 |
| Dukelow, Peter | Droumreagh | 36 | |
| Dukelow, John | Crottees | 42 | |
| Dukelow, John | Rossmore | 44 | |
| Dukelow, Richard M | Brahalish | 46 | |
| Deane, Barnabas | Ballycomane | 50 | |
| Dukelow, Thomas | Clashadoo | 81 | |
| Donovan, Thomas | Glenlough W | 87 | |
| Dukelow, Robert | Coomkeen | 90 | |
| Dukelow, Bert | Blair’s Cove | 93 | |
| Dungan, Herbert | Ballydehob | 108 | Later Ballymodan Bandon |
| Driscoll, James | Dunbeacon | 54 | Transferred form Patrick J. Barry |
| Dukelow, Richard | Crottees | 118 | Transferred to daughter Mable? Salter, Castlehaven, 1975 |
| Donovan, Daniel | Ballycomane | 120 | |
| Dukelow, John | Coolculaghta | 128 | |
| Draper, John | Scart | 33 | |
| Dukelow, John | Droumateenaheen | 81 | |
| Deane, Thomas | Ballycomane | 14 | |
| Dinan? A W | Post Office, Drimoleague | 114 | Of Drimoleague PO should read Donnan |
| Donovan, Timothy | Kealties | 131 | Originally Timothy Sullivan, Clonee |
| Dukelow, Ernest H | Droumatinaheen | 165 | |
| O’Donovan, Jeremiah | Kealties | 172 | Transferred from Kilrohane 16/6/1977 |
| Evans, Mrs Kathleen | Moreagh | 45 | Transferred from pat Hurley, Ballycomane |
| Flynn, John | Parkana | 64 | Transferred to Colomane 28/5/1957 |
| Fitzgerald, James | Letterlicky | 103 | Transferred from John Hegarty 1956 |
| Gay, Richard | Dromreagh | 55 | |
| Hayes, Daniel | Dunbeacon | 1 | |
| Hegarty, George M | Rossmore | 43 | |
| Hurley, Patrick | Ballycomane | 45 | |
| Harnedy, Tim | Droumreagh | 52 | |
| Hayes, Daniel | Dunbeacon | 62 | |
| Hayes, Thomas | Dunbeacon | 62 | |
| Harrington, John | Brahalish | 86 | |
| Hegarty, Michael | Clashadoo | 32 | |
| Hurst, Edwin | Beach, Bantry | 111 | Transferred to Bantry 1937 |
| Hurley, Mrs Dora | Ballycomane | 115 | |
| Hurley, Joseph | Ballycomane | 123 | |
| Holland, Timothy | Dunbeacon | 136 | Transferred to Timothy Donovan, Kealties (nephew) |
| Hosford, William John | Brahalish | 6 | |
| Harrington, Daniel | Kealties | 150 | Later Blackrock Road, Bantry. |
| Hegarty, James | Letterlickey | 103 | See 103 above |
| Hurley, Daniel | Ballycomane | 152Back Row, left to right. Teacher/Trainee? Teacher Mrs Annie Sweetnam, Dunbeacon, not qualified not sure if it was because she had no Irish. Good teacher for writing, hymns, sent her two daughters to Ballydehob. School closed mid 1940s. Some pupils went to St. James Durrus Some to Dunbeacon Catholic. Lack of Irish meant that pupils used to go to St. James probably to Líam Blennerhassett from Kerry he had excellent Irish. No. 2 Richard (Sonny) Pyburn, b 1919, all Pyburns Dunbeacon, farmer. May have spent some months in St. James, Durrus. Front: No. 2 Victor Sweetnam, Lahern, brother to Nan Sweetnam, farmer, never married. No 3. Nan Levis, Cashelane, lived with her single brother neither married, farmers. No. 4. Georgina Pyburn, Dunbeacon, married George Bower (He is buried St. James, Durrus), Co. Louth, he was a horticulturalist with Guinness at Birr. 2 boys, Raymond, Bert, 1 girl. No. 5. Susan Pyburn, married Charlie Gilliard, mechanic, London, 1 boy 1 girl. No. 7 Vera Pyburn, m Ernie Splaine, Riverstick, KInsale,, Son Robert (Show jumping champion) Freida, Jean 3 small boys don’t know names possibly one a Phillips from Dunbeacon or William Levis no family married into farm. | Transferred to Patrick Moynihan, 152 and 155 |
| Hill, Michael A | Blair’s Cove | 162 | Admitted 11/10/1962 |
| Hickey, Francis | Durrus Village | 170 | Admitted 19/2/1973 |
| Johnson, Frank M | Fahane, Gortalasa, Bantry | 101 | Transferred to Thomas Johnson, Clashadoo 12/8/1958 |
| Keohane, Daniel | Clonee | 17 | Transferred to Daniel Sullivan 18/10/1955 |
| Kelly, Timothy | Ballycomane | 127 | |
| Kingston, Samuel J | Kealties | 166 | Admitted 19/11/1968 |
| Lynch, Con | Clashadoo | 28 | Transferred to John O’Sullivan, (son-in-law) 23/2/1971 |
| Levis, George M | Shountellig | 61 | Now Gurteenakille |
| Levis, Samuel | Kealties | 161 | Transferred from Kilcrohane 19/5/1960 |
| Minihane, John | Parkana | 22 | Transferred from Mrs Mary Neill 1943 |
| Moynihan, Patrick | Coomkeen | 155 | Transferred to John Draper, Scart, 11/3/1936 |
| Mahony, Daniel | Ahagowna | 33 | |
| Mahony, John | Coolculaghta | 20 | |
| Murnane, Patrick Joseph | Coolculaghta | 23 | Later Ballydehob |
| Murphy, Gerry | Airhill, Schull (Drouogh) | 53 | |
| Murnane, Daniel M | Letterlickey East | 63 | Transferred to Colomane 1941 |
| Moynihan, John | Shauntullig | 67 | Marked zero shares after 1933 |
| Murnane, Patrick P | Letteralickey | 76 | Transferred to Colomane 1940 |
| Murnane, Michael | Letterlickey | 98 | Transferred to Colomane 1940 |
| Mehigan, Mark | Drishane | 116 | Transferred to Lowertown |
| Mahony, John | Brahalish | 121 | transferred to Julia Teresa Connolly (niece-in-law) 1965 |
| Mahony Daniel | Letterlickey | 78 | Transferred to Colomane 1941 |
| Moynihan, Patrick | Ballycomane | 152 | See 155 above |
| McManaway, Rev T.J. | Durrus | 11 | Transferred to Dunmanway (17) |
| McCarthy, Florence | Letterlickey Middle | 15 | |
| McCarthy, Charles | Coolculaghta | 21 | |
| McCarthy, Denis | Droumreagh | 40 | |
| McCarthy, Jeremiah | Droumreagh | 41 | |
| McCarthy, John | Scart Bawn | 75 | Transferred to Colomane |
| McCarthy, Mrs | Parkana | 79 | |
| McCarthy, Denis | Ardhra | 88 | Transferred to Colomane |
| McCarthy, John | Blair’s Cove | 99 | Later Ardogeena |
| McSweeney, Ellen | Murreagh | 104 | Transferred to son Mortimer, Friendly Cove 1971 |
| McCarthy, Timothy | Ardra | 124 | Transferred to Colomane |
| McCarthy, Jerome M | Brahalish | 133 | |
| McCarthy, Michael | Coolculaghta | 154 | |
| McCarthy, Charles | Glanlough | 156 | |
| McCarthy, Timothy | Ballycomane | 163 | Admitted 1963 |
| McCarthy, Patrick | Tullig, Durrus | 173 | Transferred from Kilcrohane 1977 |
| Neill, Mary | Ballycomane | 22 | Transferred to John Minihane, Parkana, 1943 |
| Neill, James | Ballycomane | 47 | |
| Nugent, Jeremiah | Derryfunchion, Dunbeacon | 100 | |
| Neill, John | Friendly Cove | 139 | Transferred to Annie Regan, Friendly Cove, 1946 |
| Newman, Jeremiah | Scart | 65 | Transferred from Denis Sweeney 1936 |
| O’Driscoll, Jehr | Shantullig | 100 | Transferred to Jehr Nugent, Dunbeacon, 16/8/1935 |
| O’Driscoll, James | Dunbeacon | 117 | |
| O’Brien, Daniel | Durrus | 146 | Transferred from Bantry |
| O’Regan, Mrs Annie | Blair’s Cove | 139 | Transferred from John Neill, Friendly Cove, 1946 |
| O’Sullivan, Timothy | Ballybrack | 77 | Transferred from John Miller, Coolculaghta, 1950 |
| O’Sullivan, Stephen T. | Gloun, Schull | 89 | Transferred from RA Beamish, Ardogeena, 1952 |
| O’Sullivan, Denis J | Durrus | 87 | |
| O’Sullivan, Daniel | Clonee | 17 | Transferred from Daniel Keohane 18/10/1955 |
| Pyburn, John M | Dunbeacon | 48 | |
| Pyburn James | Dunbeacon/Coomkeen | 109 | |
| Pyburn, William | Dunbeacon | 119 | Transferred to Lowertown |
| Roycroft, James | Mount Gabriel | 59 | Marked zero shares after 1934 |
| Sullivan, William M | Ballycomane | 148 | Transferred to Mary and Donal Hayes 1994 |
| Shannon, David | Ardogeena | 153 | Later Dromreagh |
| Sullivan, Denis | Durrus | 24 | 1948 |
| Shannon, Miss Usher M | Brahalish | 84 | Transferred from David Shannon 1951 |
| Slater, Owen | Ardoguna | 158 | Admitted 1955 |
| O’Sullivan, John | Clashadoo | 28 | Transferred from Con Lynch (father-in-law) |
| O’Sullivan, Cornelius | Ballycomane | 171 | Admitted 1974 |
| Shanahan, John | Dunbeacon | 2 | Marked zero shares 1933 |
| Shannon, Robert M | Brahalish | 3 | |
| Sullivan, William | Morreagh | 4 | |
| Sullivan, John | Ardogoena | 6 | Transferred to William Hosford Brahalish 1943 |
| Shannon, William M | Brahalish | 7 | |
| Shannon, James | Rossmore | 8 | |
| Shannon, Robert | Brahalish | 9 | |
| Sullivan, Patrick | Coomkeen | 12 | |
| Swanton, James | Ahagoheen | 16 | |
| Shannon, John | Glanlough | 24 | |
| Shannon, Robert | Dunbeacon | 25 | |
| Sweetnam, William | Dunbeacon | 31 | |
| Shannon, William | Rossmore | 27 | |
| Sullivan, Denis | Geerahameen | 38 | Marked zero shares 1947 |
| Shannon, john | Cashelane | 56 | Transferred to Lowertown 1956 |
| Spillane, Tom | Moulward | 58 | |
| Sweetnam, John | Lahern | 60 | |
| Sweeney, Denis | Moulivard | 65 | Transferred to Bantry 1943 |
| Sweetnam, William | Mount Gabriel | 68 | |
| Sweetnam. Sam | Raheen | 69 | |
| Sweetnam, John | Dunbeacon | 73 | |
| Shannon, Thomas | Clashadoo | 83 | |
| Shannon, David | Brahalish | 84 | |
| Shannon, Thomas | Brahalish | 85 | |
| Swanton, Sam | Clonee | 91 | |
| Swanton, George | Aughagoheen | 92 | |
| Spillane, Timothy | Ballycomane | 95 | |
| Shannon, Mrs Maria | Maulnamill | 97 | |
| Shannon, John J | Brahalish | 102 | Marked ‘in England’ 1968 |
| Swanton, James | Mullagh | 106 | Transferred to Bantry 1939 |
| Sullivan, James | Upper Tedagh | 107 | Transferred to Bantry 1940 |
| Sullivan, Daniel | Droumacousane | 112 | Transferred to Bantry 1943 |
| Sweeney, Mrs Kate | Moulavard | 130 | |
| Swanton, Benjamin | Clonee | 134 | |
| Sullivan, Jer | Clonee | 131 | Transferred to Timothy Donovan Kealties 1955 |
| Sullivan, Eugene | Crottees | 141 | |
| Shannon, Tomas | (Clashadoo), Brahalish | 144 | |
| Shannon, William | Clashadoo | 145 | Lissamarig, Skibbereen, transferred to Skibbereen 14/5/76 |
| Tringle, Matthew | Coomkeen | 138 | |
| Tobin, James M | Coolculaghta | 164 | Transferred from Kilcrohane 1968 |
| O’Donovan, Jeremiah M | Kealties | 172 | 1977 |
| Shannon, David C | Brahalish | 177 | Admitted 1992 |
| O’Sullivan, Michael J M | Rusnacaharagh | 178 | Admitted 1992 |
| Collins, John Joe M | Coolculaghta | 181 | Admitted 1993 |
| O’Sullivan, Connie M | Ballycomane | 186 | Admitted 18/12/2005 |
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