1880 probate Sarah Caroline Donovan, spinster, Rafeen Duff, Co. Wexford, value £4,000 executor James Edward Meldicott. Wexford Donovans, a Protestant sept of the O’Donovans originating in Carbery described by Dr. John O’Donovan as ‘Rabid Orangemen”

Dr. John O’Donovan probably one of Ireland’s greatest scholars. Many of his paper are in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin a gift by Dr. Graves ad Kilkenny Antiquarian.. He bought them from Dr. O’Donovan widow.

Death spinster. Lady, 76

1876 Subscriber to Dr. Daniel O’Donovan’s History of Carbery, John Glasscott, Dublin Castle, (2 copies), mother, Wexford, Donovan, a Protestant sept of the O’Donovans originating in Carbery described by Dr. John O’Donovan as ‘Rabid Orangemen”

1822 Rev. William Glascott Probably Wexford married Protestant O’Donovan in female line who originated in Carbery.

1806- , Some West Cork Members of the Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11128wn_mrkORGB7EuZL2Rvh9pRlHSFTKKd_h2nEBn5w/edit#gid=0

Cox Estate, Rent Roll, Dunmanway, 1702, 1725.

Many of the names in the 1725 settlement rental appear in the 1702 Patrickson/Cox deed enclosed. Patrickson acquired from the Hollow Blade Company. They were not active estate managers, this may have been confiscated McCarthy Lands. It is possible that the tenants were McCarthy tenants moving westward from the Bandon Plantation post 1650.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13DN0HFUp0IFq3QbehNv5pKDRwJMumKQ7iyqx0tk0zas/edit#gid=0

Skibbereen Heritage Centre has a database of the Townlands and Street Names for much of West Cork. You can search this database below. The results will show the Alternative Name (AKA), Civil Parish, Poor Law Union (PLU), District Electoral Division (DED) and Notes associated with each Townland or Street.

Townlands Database

This is only scratching the surface but does provide a range to the extensive military engagement involved.

Globalization is apparent, maybe not her but I have seen records of O’Sullivan enlisting c 1770 in the service of the East India Company from some of the most remote townlands in Beara. Sometime around the late 18th century and early 19th century travellers comment that despite the extreme poverty unlike England or Scotland there is an extreme reluctance to enlist.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o4eyPoZiqVvVdDf7bvyJ8lrgLFJQjwS1jeg4QvT6l08/edit#gid=0

This is but a drop in the ocean. Some of the name are compiled from witness to old deeds and memorial

You can however see patterns. Master Madden of Ardfield, Clonakilty who after school hours ran a cramming establishment to prepare boys for the British Civil Service Exams. Pupils included Michael Collins and Sam Maguire. His ancestor was a hedge school master who was offered a position around 1830 in the new National School in the area at a salary of £28 a year. Teaching often runs in families.

Again until free education and transport in 1966 it was virtually impossible for a child to get secondary education. Som of the National Schools tried to make up to some extent by doing relatively advanced subjects to senior pupils.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eg1XT1Z9dnB0wf0B7dGZX_r85d8EwjnpBLxqCv0M9ck/edit#gid=0

Timothy O’Donovan, Justice of the Peace, Durrus, and his Extended Family Network, The O’Donovans of Squince (Myross), The Clonakilty Deasys, a Survival of Catholic Gentry in the 18th and early 19th century in West Cork.

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

O’Donovans, Ardahill  p. 5

O’Donovans Kilovinogue, p. 8

O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Fort Lodge, p. 20

Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., p. 23

O’Donovan family generally, p. 42

O’Donovan Wills, p. 47

Correspondence with Scholar Dr. John O’Donovan, p. 56

Deasys of Clonakilty, p. 79

O’Donovans,  Ballagahadow, (Caheragh), p. 84

Judge Dick Adams. P. 04

Lease Quarry, Gouladoo, p. 96.

From ‘A Kinsale Scrapbook. Phil O’Neill, Southern Star, 6th April 1935

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOxt8dq8L11PmSSGTpCHPKhnCRdwqJrvO9GprR6gMvM/edit

Fiddler: Abraham Watkins Esq, Cork Extensive Property Owner in Bandon, Will dated 12th July 1715, My Daughter Mary Watkins ‘Not to have one penny if she marries Darby Cartie the Fiddler’, Deed of 1718 between William Bailey, Ballinacolle, Myross, West Cork wherein Charles Stanton is to teach his daughter and four children dancing, jigs, hornpipes, minuets and country dances.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32590

Pipers and Fiddlers for Tenant Gala on Kerry Estates of the Earl of Bandon 1793.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/28683

Aibidial Gaoidheilge Agus Caiticiosma, First Book Published in 1571, in Irish, in Ireland Acquired by Trinity College Dublin, 1995, TCD Hurling Team Photo, 1880. One Time Member Sir Edward Carson (Lord Carson).

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/23345

1631. Cork City Council object to the playing of Hurling on the streets and direct the Lord President to abolish it.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/8844

Cowhair Hurling Balls

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/8751

Record of the North Cork Regiment of Militia with Sketches extracted from History of the times in which its services were required, from 1763 to 1880. Taunts at Hurling Final.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/1935

Thanks to Jerome Lordan

https://www.facebook.com/jerome.lordan.1

Extract from Bolster’s ‘A History of the Diocese of Cork’.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ig9ycalPqPxBhv5hnTb9OIPhKem2SEaj15EKhOFjHvY/edit

Drinagh, West Cork, ‘There is a Popish Priest called Daniel Sullivan, Lives in Another Parish. He Celebrates Mass Generally in a Ditch, Sheltered With a Few Bushes and Sods and Sometimes in a Cabin’.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/29951

‘…mean thatched cabins…….’ The Masshouses in South East Cork in 1731.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/16744

Format of Converts Affidavits in relation to Conversion (From The Errors of Papacy) Deponent Swears ‘That He did not Convert for Any Temporal Advantage But Solely From Conscientious Conviction an To Ensure His Souls Salvation’, part of Penal Law Regime.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/15437

From Google Books:

https://books.google.ie/books?id=a6JDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA292&dq=denis+o%27leary+mp+kinsale&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjH5_XVvLTtAhXAURUIHTBzBpo4ChDoATAAegQIAxAC#v=snippet&q=vickery&f=false

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zOOUpDn8NYszDnTBh5lY9PqxrbPgF00tQn7_bKQ78Bk/edit

Probably originally the property of the College of Youghal may be associated wiht a small Norman settlement.

Party One:

William Hull, Leamcon, Schull

Party two:

Daniel Donovan, Gent., Dunmanway

Mary O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane, widow  of Timothy O’Donovan

Three plowlands and a half Gerr…,  Faliane, Duncisss…,   Folicilly and Reenacapple (possibly  Doonour Foilakily Reenacappul), and its ancient mears dn bounds in parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of West Carbery, Cork for the term of 21 years to commence from the 1stday of May then next or whenever or whenever lease already given of this land might expireat or under the annual rent of £30 and two pairs of capons or 5 shillings in lieu 

Deed:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vtudjbF9vgXx9GvKf-op8xWiCdsduQxekQ2AMvTw75k/edit

Kilcrohane townlands

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aRTjCJ_Uko2lbEZ2JkFB9H2POqKqaN8k2bb1aLdlbmA/edit#gid=0

1727, Deed whereby Owen Lander of Kilpatrick, Schull to tend the house of William Hull, of Leamcon, Schull with Musick and to instruct William Hull to play on the Fiddle to the best of his endeavours.

…

			Type of deed	Date of current deed	20 May 1727	Vol	Page	Memorial
			Lease	Date of earlier deed	19 Oct 1727	60	99	40069
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place	Occ or title	A
A	P1	P1	HULL	William	of	Limcon, COR	Esq
B	P2	P2	LANDER	Owen	of	Killpatrick, COR	Farmer	A
C		WD	DONOVAN	Elizabeth	of	Downmanuss, COR	Spinster
D		WD	HULL	Richard	of	Limcon, COR	Son of A
E		WD WM	DONOVAN	Daniel	of	Downmanuss, COR	Gent
F		WD	DONOVAN	Mary	of	Downmanuss, COR	Spinster
G		WM	WINSPEARE	Robert	of	Fourmilewater, COR	Gent
H		REG	MURRAY	George	of	Bantry, COR	Commissioner
I		W REG	WHITE	Richard	of	Co Cork	JP
J		W REG	DAVIES	Richard	of	Co Cork	JP
Abstract	Comment for person [A] :lease amended to reduce the rent for “good services” Person [B] :lands at Kilpatrick for 31 years Person [C] :  Person [D] :  Person [E] :  Person [F] :  Person [G] :  Person [H] :  Person [I] :  Person [J] :
MS			Date registered	8 Mar 1728		Date abstract added	20201114

Abstract made by: Roz McC

..

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-ZCNM?i=351&cat=185720

Abraham Watkins Esq, Cork Extensive Property Owner in Bandon, Will dated 12th July 1715, My Daughter Mary Watkins ‘Not to have one penny if she marries Darby Cartie the Fiddler’, Deed of 1718 between William Bailey, Ballinacolle, Myross, West Cork wherein Charles Stanton is to teach his daughter and four children dancing, jigs, hornpipes, minuets and country dances

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32590

Chief O’Neill, Christy Moore and music in West Cork and a mystery Beamish contribution to the Chief’s Collection.”The Píobaire Bán”, written by Tim O’Riordan- about the piper Peter Hagerty (Hegarty) of Caheragh parish.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/1430

Pipers and Fiddlers for Tenant Gala on Kerry Estates of the Earl of Bandon 1793.