The lands involved here are former O’Sullivan territory forfeit to the English Crown for ‘Rebellion’.

Given the Davenport family involvement in the Bantry Bay fisheries the interest here probably fisheries.

Killovinogue abuting Bantry Bay, in Durrus West District. Kiloveenoge (Irish: Cill Ui Mhionoig, meaning ‘Minogue’s church’, or Cill Oighe Mhineog meaning ‘church of the virgin Mineog’). Child burial ground, on the east side is a former Protestant Church built 1860, the west side is the site of an old church and burial grounds. Some distance from where Mike Hegarty’s shop was located is a grave of sailors who were shipwrecked, marked with thorn bushes, possibly from c 1850. Lot 496 Philip O’Sullivan 1.5 ploughlands, 335 acres arable and pasture. Richard Earslman, 6 irish. 1650 patent to Christopher Davenport, mentioning Sheery? Donovan “1670 William Ball 296 acres, north side of Killovinogue. 1805, 1809 Stephen Hutchinson selling various lots of Hutchinson estate address Killovinogue. 1807 Extract from deed: Stephen Hutchinson, Clonee, heir and eldest son of Hugh, Clonee, died 1804, landlords of Clonee to Eugene O’Sullivan, farmer, Beach, Bantry for a rent of £77 lands part of Kilvenogue lately tenanted by Denis Hurley, Timothy, Hurley and partners, bounded on west by Gortlassa and the old road leading to the sea on the south by Clashadoo, on the east by George Bakers (Rooska) holding and to the north by Frakeal? and in the possession of Eugene O’Sullivan for the lives of Daniel son of Eugene aged about 21, George Vickery son of James Vickery about 10, Richard Roycroft Junior, son of Richard Roycroft, Senior, of Rooska, aged about 20, witness Rev. Daniel McCarthy, Bantry (former Parish Priest of Durrus likely clerk to Lord Bantry), John? O’Sullivan, Gent, formerly of Ballinale now (1807) of Carrigbui (Durrus) ” 1808 Extract from deed: Stephen Hutchinson, Kilvonogue, heir and eldest son of Hugh, Clonee, died 1804, landlords of Clonee to Michael Donovan, shopkeeper, Bantry, of lands at Kilvenogue lately in occupation of Michael Sullivan and Owen Sullivan and their undertenants, rent charge for sum of £78. 1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted. 1809. Stephen Hutchinson ofˇKillveenoge, seised of Aughagoheen, Parish of Durrus in consideration of £700 from William Syms of Enaghoghter, (Crookhaven) grants a 10 year rent charge of £50 a year, witness Michael Sullivan, Gent., Killoveenoge 1860s Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick may be Patrick Perse Fitzpatrick, Bongor, Sussex. Margaret Sullivan large house and farm Reps Arthur Hutchinson Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs. Lead mine working. Margaret Fitzpatrick, 1898 Du Cane Goodman. 1906 Vested in Tenants

1639 Edward Davenant Whiddy Island Will dated Whiddy 29th December 1636. He was brother of Bishop of John Davenant of Salisbury, active in Bantry Fishery since 1608 when he leased Whiddy Island from Sir Owen O’Sullivan’s widow. To son Edward D.D. New Sarum, Wilts His father-in-law was Simms, London. One daughter married John Palmer of Whiddy, another son John of Whiddy married Ann Boyle both drowned crossing to Whiddy 1641. William may have been another son. Paddy O’Keeffe papers, Cork Archives He was born London 1586 son of John, Cambridge 1584. Brothers Cambridge graduation: John 1587, William 1590, George 1602.

1649 Patent to Christopher Davenport of Lands at Kilveenogue, Parish of Durrus, Bantry, Resident Sheehy? Donovan.

Davenports active in fishing Bantry since early 17th century.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UEKniEy_sDA9W4ZKBUkMaQwstperaa0bbqmF7f1QhBM/edit

1766, Marriage License Bond, Simon White Esq. of Bantry and Frances Eyre of Macroom.

As the bride came from Macroom in the Diocese of Cloyne the licence bond emanated from the Bishop’s Registry in Cloyne.

In 18th century, Ireland because of the Penal Laws, only marriages performed by the State Church, the Church of Ireland were legal. Those of Catholics, Methodists and Presbyterians while accepted as the century moved on had no legal validity. As late as the 1820s a Father Kelleher then in Kinsale was prosecuted for performing a ‘mixed marriage’. In fairness to the local mostly Protestant Magistrates they petitioned to have the charge dropped.

From this White/Eyre marriage came in the 1820s the mining royalties of Allihies Copper Mines amounting to about £2,500 year about a quarter of the entire rent roll of the Bantry Estate.

The extended White family had mixed fortunes with marriages. A marriage to a Miss Dillon was set aside because it was performed by a ‘Popish Priest’. In the 19th century the ette was nailed out by the dowry of 30,000 of Miss O’Briens of Dromoland Castle a descendant of Brian Boru on the marriage to the Earl of Berehaven. Later in the 19th the marriage to Miss Guinness proved remunerative but Lord Ardilaun of the Gunnnes family was unimpressed by the Whites financial management.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/09/29/marriage-license-bonds-of-1679-and-1698-from-dioceses-of-cork-ross-and-cloyne-mid-18th-century-marriage-litigation-arising-from-marriage-of-two-protestants-white-of-bantry-an-miss-dillon-bantry/

The extended White Family had mixed fortunes with marriages.

https://durrushistory.com/2019/05/17/1804-justice-of-the-peace-magistrate-guide-papist-warrants-including-committal-of-a-popish-priest-for-marrying-contrary-to-law/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L2fYFCXTZUfNtL_ZkaXrzpyNOh9Vx85twFehA2fbWA0/edit

Crowley Wills, 1743, proved 1751, Daniel Crowley, Timoleague and HMS Elizabeth, brother Denis, 1749 Demetrius (James) Crowley, Cadiz, Spain advised to go to Cork for health, son Peter, Schedule of Assets, 1786, Thomas Crowley, Priest of Coolnagurrane, Parish of Abbeystrewry has interest in lease of Coolnagarrane leaves to nieces Joanna and Mary Crowley or in default their brother Timothy Crowley, Shopkeeper, Skibbereen, to be interred in Caheragh. 1795 proved 1796, Timothy O’Crowley, Skibbereen, children, Thomas, Daniel, Timothy, Cornelius, Catherine, Mary, to be buried in the family tomb in Caheragh.

1795 proved 1796, Timothy O’Crowley, Skibbereen, children, Thomas, 

Daniel, 

Timothy, 

Cornelius, may be a hatter in numerous deeds.

Catherine, 

Mary, to be buried in the family tomb in Caheragh.

These are in a bundle in the National Archive and were transcribed at the old Public Records Office pre 1922. Possibly for legal title purposes.  Three of those seem to be people of substance. The likelihood is all were related.

The Caheragh Crowleys may be related to the Crowleys of Ballyourane, Caheragh who in the tithe applotments c 1830 were one of the largest tenant farmers in West Cork.  They may be of the same line as apothecaries Jerry and James Crowley (‘Dr’ Jerry one of the founders of Phoenix Society), North St., Skibbereen of whom James married Rachel Evans of Lissangle around 1805.

IN the old Caheragh graveyard there are many  of the old Catholic gentry families O’Donovan of Ballaghadown, Caheragh and O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, O’Regan’s, Barrett’s Colomane.

Transcripts of Wills, to be updated

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cc77WnR1D5HHMDDL3m8V_QWRLLDa2QCGHTjXnQ7UZ9I/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GlirN3tSRijg8tkisLQPKvuYH9teupxRuVuRRgbWlzY/edit

Some of the pleadings of the Chancery Courts in Dublin survived the destruction of the Public Records in 1922. They are In English, many if not all were abstracted by

KENNETH NICHOLLS

Areas of Interest

• Irish history, especially social, legal and institutional, – late medieval and Early Modern (including religious history).
• Scottish History (pre-modern).
• General European legal and institutional history.
• Pre-modern Asian history.
• Ecological history.
• Cryptozoology

They are in the National Archives.

There are only a limited number relating to West Cork as the British King’s writ did not generally run until after the Plantation of Bandon in the 1590s.

..

.

.

.

1822, James Delacour, County Treasurer, Spring Assizes, Grand Jury Presentments, £26,491 including Roads, Jail, Bridewell, County Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, Maintenance of Reformed Priests, Malicious Burnings, Destroying Vermin

A large part of Cork Grand Jury records were lost in the Courthouse fire in 1892. Many surviving records were destroyed by Cork County Council when they moved to the County hall in the late 1960s

Cork Grand Jury:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGCxYYvCGNEbpzypv-6tdTnz78HsuF_YJELLh9ezWvM/edit

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35505

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35536

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35510

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35927

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/34078

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/34182

1804, Clonakilty. Lower Class of Protestant Speak English and Irish.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=xOvoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=lower+class+of+protestants+speak+irish+and+english&source=bl&ots=GF1XqLJMNG&sig=ACfU3U2v7tQ1VEw-THJnr1KxqA2P_2zWDw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiToMTvrMLkAhXYWRUIHZNKB5g4ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=lower%20class%20of%20protestants%20speak%20irish%20and%20english&f=false

From Cotter family website:

1830, Cotters, Inchileegahg, ‘Diarmaid told me that, years ago, he had asked Da who was the last of our ancestors to have been an Irish speaker, Diarmaid is not totally certain of who Da said, but thinks that he said that Sylvester was the last and that his family were very ashamed of this old-fashioned practice.’

Dr. Edward Wetenhall Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, BA, Cambridge,, FRS,  (1636-1713), 1679.  Member Dublin Philosophical Society. Wrote of his cruel suffering at the hands of Irish Papists 1688-1690.  One of seven Church of Ireland Bishops to stay in Ireland 1688-1690. Pamphlet controversy with William Penn.  In 1710 he drew up a memorial to James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, the Lord Lieutenant, urging the need of providing ‘books of religion’ in the Irish language, in accordance with the ideas of John Richardson, D.D. (1664–1747), a clergyman in his diocese