Courtesy Midleton College

The “House of Sorrows” (or Broin Bearg / Broin Dearg) is a legendary ancient Irish hospital said to have been founded around 300 BC by the mythological Irish Sovereignty Goddess and Queen Macha at Navan Fort (Emain Macha) in County Armagh. [1, 2, 3]

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Rooted in early Irish lore and texts like the Seanchus Mór, tradition cites it as the earliest recorded hospital or house of healing in Ireland. [1]
Purpose: Built to care for the wounded warriors of the Red Branch Knights. [1, 2]
Legacy: The site allegedly served as a royal Ulster residence and sanctuary until its destruction in AD 332. Modern institutions, such as Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, have historically linked their spiritual lineage back to Princess Macha’s foundational myth. [1, 2]

Barry, John Milner (1768–1822), physician, was born in Kilgobbin Castle, Ballinadee, Co. Cork, eldest among two sons and nine daughters of James Barry (d. 1804) and Elizabeth Barry (née Milner), co-heiress of William Milner of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. Educated at a school near Bandon, Co. Cork, he graduated MD (1792) at Edinburgh University and subsequently returned to Cork, where he established a medical practice.

1859-1913, died 1915        Dr. Jerry Cotter MD MCH, QUI, FRCSI        8 Sydney Place, Governor UCC, Board North Infirmary        Dr Jerry of Sidney pl, Cork city is one of mine, a New Zealand relation, b 1859, Derryginah Bantry, died 1915 in Clonakilty (his McCarthy wife was from there). Him & a brother in London were the first doctors of the family & inspired others including here in NZ to follow suit, although one of his sons chose law instead. At the 1901 funeral Mrs Cotter is his mother Mary Gallagher 1826 of Summerhill, whose sister Mary 1840 married Patrick Burke.   I don’t know about the Scullys, but Jeremiah of Breenymore’s brother was William 1858, rate collector. He married Julia Creedon, g’daughter of James Cotter of Derryginah (uncle of Dr Jerry 1859). When Julia died, he married Mary Cassey.  From Bantry mother Scully          I see he was b. 18 Jan 1859, mother was Mary Scully. There was a tribe of the Scully family descended from Catherine Anne Gallwey who m. James Scully JP  but no issue m. to any Cotter that I can find despite several by the name of Mary.  1891 subscriber North Infirmary.  1901 funeral of Mrs. Cotter, Bantry sons Dr. P. J. Cotter, London, Dr. J. Cotter, Cork, nephew Dr. Patrick Burke, London                                            1886 Committee member of proposed Graduate Reform Association of Queens College   Son 1909, 1911        Francis McCarthy Cotter B.A.        Barrister        “8, Sydney Place, Cork.   1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society  1912 attending funeral of Rev. Charles Walsh, Rector, Farranferris.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Paddy O’Keeffe papers.  1913 car owner.  Probate 1915 to widow, Mary, Clonakilty, £10,253        

(SR 13/2/1817) – BREWERY – TO BE LET, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN – THAT Remarkably well Circumstanced BREWERY; Situate at BANTRY, together with the UTENSILS, MALT-HOUSES and CONCERNS thereto Belonging – which have the Advantage of an Uninterrupted supply of Fresh Water, and being in a thickly Inhabited Corn Country, contiguous to the Sea, are worthy of Prompt Attention. – Proposals to be made to Simon White, Esq., Glengarriff, Bantry, or Richard Foott, Attorney, Cork, at whose Office a Plan of the whole may be seen. – Mr. James Cotter of Bantry, will shew the Concerns.