1844, Petty Session Courts with James Little, Resident Magistrate (RM), and Local Magistrates Listed, Bantry, Carrigboy (Durrus), Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Goleen, Remineen (Beara/Glengarriff), West Division, West Cork.

 

1844 a series of reforms had resulted in the establishment of the Petty Session Courts, presided over by a Resident Magistrate.  He did not have to be legally qualified, many were former British Army Officers. or RIC District Inspectors.   He was assisted by at least two local Magistrates or Justices of the Peace and the hearing were conducted in Courthouses., the Clerk of Petty Session played a pivotal role.

Formerly the local Magistrates held court often in their own houses, giving a perception of the partial and sectarian administration of justice.

In this listing, the only Church of Ireland clergymen shown are the Rev Alleyn Evanson of Durrus Court, Gearhameen, Durrus.  At this stage he was an ‘beneficed clergyman’ not practising but a land agent and middleman.  The Rev. Richard Wright, of Skibbereen was also a land agent.

Earlier there would have been  very significant presence of ministers representing the then Irish State Church.

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https://durrushistory.com/2016/06/18/1661-1679-appointment-of-cork-magistrates-during-reign-of-english-king-charles-11/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/02/01/custos-rotulorum-county-liutenants-and-magistrates-in-the-commission-of-the-peace-co-cork-in-ireland-from-1434-finances-from-probabtes-and-land-records/

 

 

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Dean Swift ‘A Patriot is One Who enables 2 Blades of Grass Grow where 1 Grew Before’. Sir Richard Griffith Road Engineer, Fits the Bill. 1824 Progress Report, Skibbereen/Bantry, Skibbereen/Crookhaven, Castletownbere/Glengariff, Kenmare/Bantry.

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Griffith’s ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466,

Continued here and elsewhere in Griffith’s reports is progress following the completion of the roads, new houses in Castletownbere, three story stone houses and larger fishing vessels. On the Mizen peninsula before the road no wheeled vehicles, there alos the only place in Ireland outside of Ulster he had poor Protestants labouring on the roads.

Griffiths  Cork projects known as the ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466, Bantry to Skibbereen, Crookhaven to Bantry and the road to north Cork to Banteer.   His works are characterised by a high degree of engineering excellence. It was said that in building bridges he insisted on going to bed rock for foundations, the Grand Jury contractors would be happy with building on gravel resulting in so many were washed away in floods.  His schemes highlights the deficiencies of the Grand Jury system and might be looked at like the recently completed motorway schemes in Ireland. The effects were dramatic, on the Mizen Peninsula they first wheeled carts made their appearance.  Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), the Scots Engineer who was also involved said the North Cork Road opened up the entire area to commerce with a beneficial result.

https://durrushistory.com/2016/12/23/griffiths-wellesley-roads-included-skibbereen-to-crookhaven-46-km-built-between-1826-and-1829-and-costing-13466/

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His colleague Alexander Nimmo a Scots Engineer reported on the opening of the road over the Boggeragh Mountain. The the whole area of North West Cork and East Kerry was accessible to the Cork market with general prosperity following. Nimmo was scathing on Captain O’Sullivan, a Landlord and road contractor on the road works around Glengarriff. He paid his workers who were his tenants in vouchers redeemable against rent.

When advancing mortgages bakers insisted on estate maps adn a tenant listing.

The Bantry estate apart from the prudent stewardship of Richard White mid to late 18th century hovered on the brink of insolvency for most of the 19th century.  This is despite huge infusion of O’Brien (Lord Thomond) and Guinness cash on fortuitous marriages.  The maximum rental was £10,000 which included at it height £2,500 royalties from the Allihies Copper Mines through the Hedge Eyre Connection. Towards the end of the 19th century the Estate was in effect beneficially owned by the Somers Payne family who as agents kept advancing mortgages.

 

This mortgage and its default was to precipitate a proposed receivership in the 1830s for which a tenant listing was prepared.

 

The Whites of Bantry invented a spurious Genealogy.  The late Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Businessman (G.W.Biggs/Supervalu) did and paid for a lot of work and was satisfied that they r of strong mid 17th century farming stock in Co. Limerick.

A large number of the West Cork landlord from the 1790s were almost indigent.  The real holders of wealth were those under the radar Catholic and Protestant, merchants, victuallers, substantial farmers and Grand Jury  road contractors who time and time again advance money as rent charges.

 

A similar process was at work at the more substantial Bandon Estate with a rental of £30000.  Their agent the Wheeler Dohertys by advancing loans ended up owning the beneficial interest at the time of the Land Acts c 1900.

See:  Deeds, Rent Charges, Durrus, Bantry, from early 18th Century.

At least some of the money was spine assembling the collection at Bantry House and building the gardens.

 

The multiplier is arrived at by using a teachers pay.  Just after 1825 the National Schools came into existence,  many former hedge school masters were offered positions at a basic salary of £28 per annum. A National Teacher starting pay in Ireland is now (2019) around €34,500 rising with allowances, a factor of 1,785.

 

Master Madden referred to here was probably a grandson of the man who received the job offer.  The family still have the letter:

 

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Lord Richard Viscount Berehaven, Deputy Lieutenant 1832, 2nd Earl of Bantry. (White/Bantry), (1800-1868) Bantry, Pre 1831. 41 Belgrave Square, London. Bearhaven Lord “In a Silver Box, as a testimony of their High Esteem for this highly respected young Nobleman”. (1821) 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere. Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland.   Notified as Magistrate of Catholic Meeting on Loyalty to King 1825. 13th January 1816.  Viscount Bantry Created Earl of Berehaven and a New Viscount. Member Commission  on Magistrates 1838.  Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832.  Protestant Protest Meeting Bandon 1834. He enjoyed an income of £9,000 per annum. He also married well in 1836 in London ; his wife’s Lady Mary O’Brien’s (a descendant of Brian Boru) dowry was £30,000.  1838 Subscribers to Bantry Dispensary Address to John Syms Bird, Departing Treasurer.   At Bantry Vote Registration Session 1840 with Augustus Payne J.P. (His Land Agent), Revs Sadler and Triphook.   Probably focus of perceived ’Orange’ faction in Bantry by Liberals. 1842 Subscriber Jacksons County and City Directory. 1846 donor relief at Beara gave £20 as opposed to Samuel Hutchin’s £100. On death of his father became Earl of Bantry in 1851 following 3 years abroad. He amassed Bantry House Art Collection. Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845. Resolved, by Castletownbere Board of Guardian: ‘that the offer made on the part of Lord Berehaven of the house and offices at Cametringane as a temporary workhouse until the 1st August Castletown Board of Guardians 1850 be accepted’. Beara Estate sold to Lord Clinton c 1850 subject to scathing criticism of him and agent Patrick O’Sullivan, Millcove by Dublin Barrister Prendergast of treatment of tenants and recovery of arrears.

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Robert Hedges Eyre, Macroom Castle. Pigot 1824. Listed 1823.  Macroom Castle, supported application 1808 of James B O’Sullivan, Linen and Paper Manufacturer, Dripsey to be Appointed Justice of the Peace. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere. Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828.  1825 mortgage with Whites of Bantry of various properties £50,000,  2019 equivalent €60 million, 1826 member Grand Jury Cork County Assizes. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832.  1830 subscriber Robert O’Callaghan Newenham ‘Views of the Antiquities of Ireland’. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club. 1834 Member Committee Cork Protestants. Protestant Protest Meeting Bandon 1834.  Listed Co. Kerry. Presiding Magistrate 1845. Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Non resident Freeman voting Cork City Election 1837. Subscriber John Ryan, 1845 ’20 Years of Popish Persecution’, listed 1875-6?, ‘a good old style Irish Gentleman’.   

Richard (White) -1851), 1st Earl of Bantry, Bantry House (bought 1730 from Hutchinsons as Blackrock House) Pre 1831, 1822, Created Baron White for his part in alerting British of French landing at Bantry Bay 1797, 1801 advance to Viscount Berehaven 1816 created 1st Earl of Bantry.  1799 married Margaret Hare, daughter of William Hare, Earls of Listowel (they had been Cork provision merchants). Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. C 1810 Lord Shannon complaining of bill for £2,000 presented to British Government for entertaining French officers captured at attempted invasion.  1822 seeking support from Lord Lieutenant for Bridewell and market House in Bantry. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic Meeting on Loyalty to King 1825. 1834, New Annual Grand Jury Contract:  Patrick O’Sullivan, Earl of Bantry, Simon White, John O’Connell to keep in repair for three years, road from Bantry to Castletown between post office at Castletown and Droumgoulane bridge, £90 annually. Correspondence with Chief Secretary promoting road Bantry to Skibbereen, sitting Bantry, 1835, listed 1838, Quarter Sessions, Bantry 1842.  Receiver appointed to Estate rents 1837 on a charge of £46,150. Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845. The Irish House of Lords Journal recorded the introduction of White as Lord Bantry in Cork ‘Richard White, Esq. being by letters patent dated 24th day of March 1799 created Baron Bantry of Bantry on the County of Cork, was this day, the 22nd Jan 1799, in his robes, introduced between Lord Tyrawley, and the Lord Mock also in their robes; the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod and Ulster King of Arms, in his coat of arms, carrying the said letters patent preceding: his lordship presented the same to the Lord Chancellor.

Richard White. Listed 1835 at Coalflugh. Nephew of Lord Bantry. 1838 Subscriber to Bantry Dispensary Address to John Syms Bird, Departing Treasurer.  Attended address Inchiclough, Great Meeting in Bantry 1840 re Poor Laws.  Died of Famine Fever.

Thanks to Ron Price and Nick Reddin in Australia:

https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=543689

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More Mellifont, (Kinsale, Donemark, Bantry, Dunmanway) from Arthur V. Mellefont, Australia

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David Mellifont, 1794.  Donemark house of Carrignarontha, Bantry.  May have freedom of Cork 1761 as Esq. Appears in frequent deeds as witness 1761-1775 including soe in Bandon area. 1779 Lieutenant Bantry Volunteers, Superseded 1810-30, Middleman on Lord Kenmare estate. Game Cert 1802.  1804, Loss of Nabby, En Route from Liverpool to Bandon on South Shore of Bantry Bay. Contents Pillaged by Two Hundred Men and Women. Crew Sheltered by Richard Donovan, Esq.,  David Mellifont, Esq., Magistrate, Donemark, Bantry, with Captain Scott adn Lieutenant Griffin and 40 Soldiers went to Bantry to Search for Stolen Property, assisted by Jonas Baldwin, Esq  1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere. 1822 his house and those of Pattison, Doyle, McCormack, Kingston attacked by over 400 Whiteboys searching for arms. William O’Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass Castle, native Ahill purchased Carriganass from David Mellifont, Donemark in 1817 for £250 and £50 rent.  O’Sullivan prominent in anti tithe, repeal. Married 1804, Sophia Grey, Wexford, address given Mardyke, Co. Cork probably Skibbereen. Sophia Mellifont Nee Gray wife of David Mellifont had a brother called Nicholas Gray he was secretary to the Wexford Insurgents 1798.  Gray went to America and was involved in the 1812 War, he was Inspector General of the American Army. The Grays were from Whitfort House Wexford and Jamestown Co Wexford. Mellifont died Donemark 1835, significant debts, estate in Chancery and litigation.

 

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Richard Mellefont, 1766, Downemart (Donemark), Bantry.  Probably son of Gilbert. Kenmare Estate renewed lease of Donemark for three lives, his own, Christopher Earbery, Shandaragh and Mathias Hendley son of Roger of Downing, Co. Cork.  Lord Kenmare comments ‘The tenant is a very genteel and worthy man’.  Mellifont family of Norman origin, Kinsale converted.  1758 Lease of 31 years from Kenmare Estate to Richard Mellifont as trustee for Patrick Galwey in occupation his ‘near relation’.  1763 to let a large mountain farm at Shanacrane near Dunmanway apply Richard Mellifont near Bantry.

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1834 Grand Jury Presentments Barony of West Carbery, West Division, Magistrates, Cess Payers, Contractors, Road Works.

West Division, West Carbery, Contractors, 1832, 1833, 1834.

 

 

There are frequent reference to new lines of road. At that stage Richard Griffith and Alexander Nimmo had completed their grand roads from Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Skibbereen to Bantry via Letterlickey Durrus, Ballylickey to Castletownbere, Glengarriff to Kenmare partial, Crookstown to Bantry over Cousane Gap.  These road unlike the Grand Jury roads were built to  a very high engineering standard with robust bridges, all the more remarkable given the primitive state of equipment.

 

In the road contractor shere apart from the landlords they were a prosperous network up to now hidden from view.

In other presentments from 1800 onwards for the area between Kinsale to Skibbereen there is huge work on the roads network to link the interior of West Cork to beaches and  sand quays.  On the Red Strand outside Clonakilty there could be up to 1,000 horse and carts a day drawing sea sand for fertilizer.

Many of the secondary bridges were built between 1790 and 1820.

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/12/03/1811-grand-jury-map-goleen-schull-ballydehob-durrus-kilcrohane-west-cork/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/10/25/1839-applications-for-presentments-to-be-laid-before-the-grand-jury-of-the-county-of-the-city-of-cork-spring-assizes-1839-contains-applications-for-payment-to-b-neenan-3-for-half-years-salary-as/

 

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https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/22/cork-grand-juryagents-1765/

 

 

1804, Loss of Nabby, En Route from Liverpool to Bandon on South Shore of Bantry Bay. Contents Pillaged by Two Hundred Men and Women. Crew Sheltered by Richard Donovan, Esq.,  David Mellifont, Esq., Magistrate, Donemark, Bantry, with Captain Scott adn Lieutenant Griffin and 40 Soldiers went to Bantry to Search for Stolen Property, assisted by Jonas Baldwin, Esq.

 

Thanks to David Coffey, Melifont descendant.

 

Local O’Donovan family, Landlords and Magistrates:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit#

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Magistrate: David Mellifont, 1794. Donemark house of Carrignarontha, Bantry. May have freedom of Cork 1761 as Esq. Appears in frequent deeds as witness 1761-1775 including soe in Bandon area. 1779 Lieutenant Bantry Volunteers, Superseded 1810-30, Middleman on Lord Kenmare estate. Game Cert 1802. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere. 1822 his house and those of Pattison, Doyle, McCormack, Kingston attacked by over 400 Whiteboys searching for arms. William O’Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass Castle, native Ahill purchased Carriganass from David Mellifont, Donemark in 1817 for £250 and £50 rent. O’Sullivan prominent in anti tithe, repeal. Married 1804, Sophia Grey, Wexford, address given Mardyke, Co. Cork probably Skibbereen. Sophia Mellifont Nee Gray wife of David Mellifont had a brother called Nicholas Gray,he was secretary to the Wexford Insurgents 1798. Gray went to America and was involved in the 1812 War,he was Inspector General of the American Army. The Grays were from Whitfort House Wexford and Jamestown Co Wexford. Mellifont died Donemark 1835, significant debts, estate in Chancery and litigation.

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Rev. Halahan  (1823-1920), Rector Beara, Daughter Jane Elizabeth married Henry Edmund Lavallin Puxley

 

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Henry Lavallin Puxley & Catherine Ellen Waller (Puxley’s Castle, Dunboy)

Children: Maria Frances was the second wife of Robert O’Brien Studdert J.P., Cullane, Co. Clare; John Lavallin (Sept. 1859) died on Sept. 13th 1896 aged 37; Edward Lavallin (June 1861) won a rowing medal (Oxford .V. Cambridge) in 1884. He died on Dec 3rd 1890 aged 29; Rosa (Katherine Rosa) (July 1864) married her cousin Simon White of Glengarriff Castle; *Henry Edmund Lavallin (born Feb. 1866; died on Aug. 13th 1900 aged 34) married Eliza (Jane Elza) Halahan, daughter of Rev.(later Dean) John Halahan (Rector of Berehaven) and Harriette Sargent, The Glebe, Killaughaneenig; Herbert Hardress (May 1868) Lizette (or Elizabeth Jane) (born Oct. 1869; died 1936) looked after the White children in Glengarriff Castle.

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1843.  Mail and Day Coach Timetable and Fares from Cork to Bandon, Clonakilty, Bantry, Enniskeane, Macroom, Skibbereen.  Sample Coach Leaves Bantry 8.15 am, Cork 3.15 pm Fare 14 shillings Inside, 10 shillings Outside.

In 1800 the area 30 miles around Cork had a well developed infrastructure, piped water in the City, comparatively good roads and bridges, harbours.  In the West and North it would approximate to what is now known as 3rd world.  This was improves so by 1843 a reasonably good system of roads operated  combination of the Grand Jury and Central Government intervention such as the arterial road schemes of Sir Richard Griffith and Alexander Nimmo had a dramatic effect.

Arterial coach services wee provided by Bianconi local services connected town with Cork.

The timetable below is just prior to the railway age.

 

By 1900 Cork had one of the most advanced rail systems in Northern Europe a mix of broad and narrow gauge.  All that remains is the main line from  Cork to Dublin, Cobh, Tralee via Mallow.

 

Coach Service

When the telegraph opened in Dunmanway around 1860 a newspaper report have an account of a speech of an old man. He recalled towards the end of the 18th century his mother rode to Dunmanway through bridle paths with two small children on panniers on the horse.  Then rough carts with timber wheels came in followed in the  early 19th century by the ‘Scotch’ cart with car wheels and an iron band.  Wheeled carts were unknown in the Goleen area until the opening in the late 1820s of Richard Griffith’s road from Skibbereen to Crookhaven.

The road from Cork to Bantry in its present form was built between 1810-11.  The Cork based John Anderson, a Scotsman, had the contract for the mails and persuaded the Cork Grand Jury to provide funding for the Cork Bantry road.  The Irish Mail service dates from 1790.

In 1843 the coach left Bantry at 8.15 am and arrived in Cork at 3.15 there were inside and outside fares.   Before the extension of the railway from Drimoleague to Bantry, a coach service was provided from Bandon to Bantry, and the travel time by train and coach from Cork to Bantry was approximately 6½ hours.  In the early 19th century, the Drummond commission reported that Bantry was linked by a daily Dunmanway Coach which carried an average of 3 passengers.   The Cork and Bandon Company agreed with the Post Office to provide a conveyance for the mails from Cork to Bantry in May 1857, the Bantry mail service being given to Mr. Thomas Marmion of Skibbereen.  A complaint was made in July 1864 of the late arrival of the Bantry Mail Car.  Apparently the driver had fallen asleep on the car between Drimoleague and Bantry, having been plied with drink by a passenger.   The Mail Inspector sought the removal of the driver, and an instruction was issued that he was not to be employed on mail cars.

The Prince of Wales (later Edward 7 1901-1910) arrived in Bantry by coach from Bandon to meet the Royal Yacht in Bantry and from there to Glengarriff and Killarney.   This route had been pioneered by Thomas Vickery of Bantry.

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https://durrushistory.com/2016/04/13/1829-thomas-j-hungerfords-cork-and-skibbereen-union-coach/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/06/16/late-19th-century-coach-service-dunmanway-to-glengariff-run-by-andrew-brophy-later-taken-over-by-vickery-of-bantry/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/03/12/michael-gallwey-b-1790-kilkeran-co-cork-brewer-and-provider-of-royal-mail-coach-service-from-cork-to-skibbereen-and-waterford-and-his-brother-charles-b-1811-major-with-sir-de-lacy-evans-legion-a-2/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/03/26/1841-cork-county-election-shenanigans-patrick-osullivan-millcove-senescahal-leading-conservative-party-from-castletown-berehaven-on-schooner-sophia-to-bantry-via-adrigole-leaving-bantry-4a/

 

 

 

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Dummanack House. Gorteenroe House. July 1854; The old salt house Gurteen Roe near Bantry and Gurtnaroe House | George Victor Du Noyer

 

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Donemark is part of the drumlin belt around Bantry good land.

1760s, Lease renewal to Richard Mellefont, Esq., by Kenmare Estate of Donemark, Bantry, West Cork for Three Lives Mellefonts Father had Vastly Improved and Enclosed Fields of a Proper Size with Well Planted Ditches and  Had Fish Palaces Redundant Due to Flight of Pilchards.

Donemark is by legend the place where people first came to Ireland.

This lease and similar ones on the Bantry estate mark a period of the development of the modern landscape and field lay out with planted ditches.

 

 

 

Magistrates:

 

David Mellifont, 1794.  Donemark house of Carrignarontha, Bantry.  May have freedom of Cork 1761 as Esq. Appears in frequent deeds as witness 1761-1775 including soe in Bandon area. 1779 Lieutenant Bantry Volunteers, Superseded 1810-30, Middleman on Lord Kenmare estate. Game Cert 1802.  1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere.  1822 his house and those of Pattison, Doyle, McCormack, Kingston attacked by over 400 Whiteboys searching for arms. William O’Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass Castle, native Ahill purchased Carriganass from David Mellifont, Donemark in 1817 for £250 and £50 rent.  O’Sullivan prominent in anti tithe, repeal. Married 1804, Sophia Grey, Wexford, address given Mardyke, Co. Cork probably Skibbereen. Sophia Mellifont Nee Gray wife of David Mellifont had a brother called Nicholas Gray,he was secretary to the Wexford Insurgents 1798. Gray went to America and was involved in the 1812 War,he was Inspector General of the American Army. The Grays were from Whitfort House Wexford and Jamestown Co Wexford. Mellifont died Donemark 1835, significant debts, estate in Chancery and litigation.

Richard Mellefont, 1766, Downemart (Donemark), Bantry.  Probably son of Gilbert.  Kenmare Estate renewed lease of Donemark for three lives, his own, Christopher Earbery, Shandaragh and Mathias Hendley son of Roger of Downing, Co. Cork.  Lord Kenmare comments ‘The tenant is a very genteel and worthy man’.  Mellifont family of Norman origin, Kinsale converted.  1758 Lease of 31 years from Kenmare Estate to Richard Mellifont as trustee for Patrick Galwey in occupation his ‘near relation’

https://durrushistory.com/2017/01/09/1741-major-tenants-on-kenmare-estate-bantry-district-tim-casey-miller-newtown-18-david-gallwey-glaunreagh-dromsullivan-47-james-gallwey-donemark-38-patrick-gallway-gurteenroe-22-richard-go/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2016/11/23/proceedings-at-the-high-court-of-justice-at-dublin-and-cork-1652-1654-for-trying-irish-catholics-arising-from-rising-of-1641-mentioned-belgooly-bandon-garretstown-included-triall-jo/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2015/05/24/some-rent-receipts-kenmare-estate-1741-46-bantry-beara-area-william-sullivan-florence-sullivan-rev-thomas-miller-mort-sullivan-gilbert-mellifont-donemark-michael-murphy-newtown-and-mills-bev/