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1806, Early Woman Doctor. County of Cork Infirmary Mallow Early Woman Doctor Noted, Dr.Mary Murphy, Assistant Doctor.

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1806, Early Woman Doctor.  County of Cork Infirmary Mallow Early Woman Doctor Noted Dr.Mary Murphy, Assistant Doctor.

She appears to be a Doctor rather than assistant to the Doctor.  It is possible that she was a type of matron as the date of her appointment is given. There are in the listing for Cork Apothecaries a number of women widows or daughters of Apothecaries from an early date.

 

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1700. 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.

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Drinagh:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Drinagh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6514015,-9.1493446,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4845aa1a8b511ff3:0x2600c7a819bb5a12!8m2!3d51.6513982!4d-9.1471506

From Maziere Brady who in turn quotes Bishop Dive Downes Visitation c 1700

Click to access vol2_510_565.pdf

Report on Popery, 1731 setting out Masshouses and Popish Schools in Co. Cork, Drinagh, Inchigeela 7 sheds, Killaconenagh (Castletownbere) swarms of Priests are constantly going to and from France, 600 families in Parish of whom 12 are of Reformed Church, , Kilmoe (Ballydehob), Friars frequently landing from France and dispersing throughout the country, copied from documents in Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle probably destroyed in 1922.

1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835,Bastardy, Begging, Emigration Written Submissions from Clergymen and Magistrates from Drinagh, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), Abbeystowy (Skibbereen), Aughadown, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Myross, Sherkin Island, Tullagh (Baltimore), Kilmoe, Breagh, Durrus and Kilcrohane, Schull. In Durrus Scarcely a Man or Woman who Never Married, Children left to Die by Exposure, No Power in Petty Session to Comple father to provide, Low Rate of Illegitimacy, Strolling Beggars, Protestant Widows May Get a Share of Poor Box, Seasonal Labouring, Those who Emigrated to England now going to America.

1700.  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.

Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

Irish on ordinary speech Drinagh, West Cork 1940s agus Gaelige i measc an Bhéarla

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1584. Presentment of a Jury in Corke showing how the Earl of Desmond’s rents were paid, what chroniclers, rimers or poets were abiding in the same county.

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1584.  Presentment of a Jury in Corke showing how the Earl of Desmond’s rents were paid, what chroniclers, rimers or poets were abiding in the same county.

 

Format: Manuscript
Subjects:
FitzGerald, Gerald > Desmond, 15th Earl of
1584 > 1584
Annalists
Annals
Bards
Poetry and Poets
Poets
Cork, County
Ireland > Munster > Cork

Location

London: Lambeth Palace Library, Ms. 627: (Extract)

Other

The National Library of Ireland holds a microfilm copy (n.2802, p.1704).

Names and Address Grand Juries, Co. Cork 1839 and 1840.

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durrushistory's avatarWest Cork History

Cork Grand Jury/Agents 1765.

Grand Jury (with some background) Sworn in for Cork Spring Assizes, 1863 by The High Sheriff, Thomas Somerville, Drishane Esq., Foreman The Right Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard Esq., Coolmaine Castle, Bandon, M.P., Sir George Conway, Colhurst, Ardum, Bart., Richard Oliver Aldworth, Newmarket House, Esq., Mountifort Longfield, Castlemartyr, Esq., Nicholas Dunscomb, Mountdesert, Esq., Thomas St. John Conat.,, Kilmurray House, Esq., Henry John Townsend, Castletownsend, Esq., Robert Heard, Kinsale, Esq, Thomas French Simpson, William S Meade, Ballymartle, Esq., Edward Daly., Kinsale, Esq., Thomas Parsons Belaird, Pembroke, Esq., Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus Esq., Horace Townsend, Derry, Esq., George B Treselian?, Bandon, Esq., Freeman Crofts, Cloughfadda House, Blarney, Esq., Thomas Leahy, South Terrace, Esq., William B Leslie, Lislee, Esq., Henry Hardy, Firmount?, Esq., John William Payne, Beach House, Bantry, Esq., Jonathan Bruce, Milltown Castle, Esq., Maxwell Gumbelton, Kilmaturin Esq.

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1824, Evidence of Sir Richard Griffith Esq., Road Engineer, to House of Commons Select Committee, on Harmony in West Cork between Protestant and Catholics, Distress of 1822, Only Part of Ireladn he Employed Poor Protestants on Road Building, Evidence of Alexander Nimmo, Scots Road Engineer on Building of 19 miles on the Northern Side of Bantry Bay under Joint Supervision of Captain O’Sullivan Most of His Workers are His Tenants Not Paid in Cash but in Rent Abatement. Elsewhere Nimmo’s evidence of Enormous Economic Benefits of Road Building

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1765 Resolution not to give servant tips on being entertained at their master’s house

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Those signing the resolution were either Grand Jurors or wealthy Cork Merchant like Humphrey Crowley.

 

This is from the Dr. Casey Collection, item 2389, John T. Collins newspaper extracts originally from Kearney family Garretstown House.

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1765 Resolution not to give servant tips on being entertained at their master’s house John Conway Colthurst John Hyde Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald Richard Townsend
Richard Longfield Robert Rogers William Conner Abraham Devonshire Samuel Hutchinson
Richard Fitzgerald Riggs Faulkiner John Rye Abraham Morris Roger Bernard
John Bernard Boyle Aldworth Francis Kearney Walker Izod George Pigot
Godfrey Baker Luke Grant Usher Philpot William Parks Henry Bullen
Thomas Poles Christopher Conran William Coles Stephen Denroche Hugh Lautin (Lawton?)
Humphrey Crowley John Parker on behalf of County Grand Jury William Crofts on behalf of County of City of Cork Grand Jury Walker Colthurst JOhn Colthurst
Emanuel Moore Thomas Wran (Owgan?) John Lapp Joseph Wetherall Andrew Franklin
Francis Rowlat Henry N. Nixon Walter Traverse Kevin Moore John Bullen

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