1333.  Grant by Edward III of England to Philip Ronayne Phillipum Ó Ronane de Hibernia Nacione, Cork, at he and all his issue, begotten and to be begotten be of free State and condition and from all manner of Irish Servitude free and exempt, and that they may use English laws.

1333 Grant by Edward III to Philip Ronayne Phillipum Ó Ronane de hibernia nacione EDWARD BY GRACE OF GOD king of England and France and Lord of Ireland to all his Bailiffs and faithful to whom these present letters shall come, GREETING. Be it known to you that we are willing to impart our gracious favor unto Phillip Ó Ronane of the country of Ireland, have out of our Special grace and by the assent of our beloved cousin THOMAS, EARL OF DESMOND, the Deputy of our dear brother GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE, granted to the same Phillip that he and all his issue, begotten and to be begotten be of free State and condition and from all manner of Irish Servitude free and exempt, and that they may use English laws in and by all things and enjoy them in the same manner that the English men within said land hold and enjoy and use the same and that they answer and be answered in any of our Courts whatsoever, of our heirs and Successors, and that they be qualified to acquire and to hold and to enjoy all manner of lands tenements rent services offices and other possessions whatsoever for themselves their heirs and assigns for ever. AND to succeed in the same and to inherit the same, and also to be promoted to any ecclesiastical benefice whatsoever as well Dignities and other benefits [benefices?] and to have receive, possess, and Enjoy them in like manner as the English men within the said land have enjoyed and use the same without any let or impediment in the part of Us, our heirs, Successors, officers, or Servants whatsoever No Irish Laws or any statutes, ordinances, promises, or privileges past before this time, withstanding. So that the same Phillip and his issue aforesaid be our faithful subjects towards our heirs, and us and hold and conduct themselves our faithful people from time to time to time. IN WITNESS THEREOF WE HAVE CAUSED THESE OUR LETTERS PATENT TO BE MADE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE AFORESAID DEPUTY AT BREE ON TWELFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER AND IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF OUR REIGN. Prendergast. By a petition endorsed by the same deputy and sealed with his private seal and for six shillings and eight pence paid into our hamper and in consequences of the said authority of Parliament being granted. [Translation of Latin test.]

Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1919 and subsequent revisions and this edition—including the index—produced by Thomas Ronayne, Detroit, Michigan, for purposes of genealogical research, August, 1998.

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‘At Zalapa (Xalapa), Mexico, 12th March [Fri.], George O’Gorman, (Ronayne Relations) Esq. Chief Commissioner of the Tialpuxahua Company, to Elizabeth Barry, daughter of the late Richard Barry, Esq., of Cork.’

From Dublin Journal, 1st November 1748, Rent Roll of Tenants 1748, Drimoleague, West Cork. Estate of Robert Sandford, Agent James Harris, Boulteen, Bandon.

1835 Poor Law Report.  Liberality of Lord Bandon and the Duke of Devonshire in Provision for Elderly.

On some of the better run estates thee wee provision for charity.

In the Bandon estate records in the Cork Archives there are account books c 1800 showing provision for pensions for workers on the estate, as well as teachers in schools supported by the estate.

 

 

 

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1835.  Poor Law Enquiry, Seasonal Migration of Labourers, Father Keleher (Kelleher), Durrus on Problems Caused by Beggars to Poor People.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246009

Father Kelleher

National Archives

1847. Father John Kelleher, PP. Ballydehob, on evils of Land Tenure. Townland of Kilronogue, Ballydehob, West Cork, Population 1841 445, 1847 125 Dead from Hunger, 6 from Disease, 84 Missing. 1841 74 Houses, 1847 27 Unroofed, 11 Unoccupied.

A glimpse of the 18th and early 19th century Linen/Flax Industry in Durrus and Schull, West Cork, from the Lost Census of 1766, 1821, 1841, 1851, with names Cole, Croston, Webb, Whitley, Johnson. 1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher (Early Statistician) and Reverend Edward John Alcock both Durrus to Poor Laws (Ireland) relating to Spinning in Area.

1843. Pre Famine Statistical Survey of Parish of Kilmurray, Co. Cork, Prepared and Present to British Association Meeting Cork 1843 by Father John Kelleher, Curate.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246465

P 441 Father Barry, P.P. Schull:

Edward Jones Alcock 1805-1842, son and curate of Rev. Mason Alcock.  May have lived at Sea Lodge, built old rectory (Glebe House) in 1831. 1822 Lord Lieutenant sends £30 for local distress.  1822 involved in famine relief with Father Quinn.  1822.   Local Fishery Committees, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Glandore, Baltimore, Crookhaven For Bantry Timothy O’Donovan JP, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Michael O’Sullivan, Rev. Edward Jones Alcock, Rector Durrus, John Jagoe later Fishery Commissioner, Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry, Rev. M McChean, Bantry, John Sandys Bird.

He sat on a committee in Bantry in 1824 to petition against the withdrawal of the bounty on linen production as had been agreed in the Act of Union. Magistrate.  Involved in proselytising. Father Quinn’s application 16th November 1830 ED1/13/74/2, signed by for Roman Catholics Richard O’Donovan, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Tobin, Edmond Tobin, Daniel Daly, Richard O’Donovan, John Murphy, John Carthy, Thomas Cormack?, Elias Roycroft, Andrew Caverly, Richard Caverly, Protestants E. Evanson, Richard L. Blair, Thomas Ferguson, Thomas Duklow, Charles Ducklow, John Ducklow. Rev Alcock of the Church of Ireland was asked to consent but declined but his parishioners signed. His proctors, 1833, attempted to seize Father Quin’s bed while mass was being said in is house to secure tithe payment only the intervention of Protestant neighbours stopped it.   Durrus Parish Tithes payable to him of which the sum of £320 Sterling is due and payable by the year to the said Reverend Edward Jones Alcock, the composition from the tithes claimable by him as figure of such part of said Parish as is commonly known by the name of Durrus or Parish of KIlcrohane is payable to the Reverend Alcock Vicar of the said Parish the sum of £170.  Most of the tithes were the property of Nathaniel Evanson and Alexander O’Driscoll having leases of tithes.   So it may be he who sent the proctors otherwise all outstanding tithes collected in one day.  Cess payer representative Barony West Carbery 1834.  

The labourers not long since employed at the building of a Glebe House for the Protestant Clergyman (Rev. Alcock)  were allowed no more more for the work of a day in summer then 6d in the claim then made of them by the clergyman for the tithe, and that without diet, such is the poverty, and so little employment is there for labourers in these parishes that on the occasions referred to some 40 or 50 might be seen coming a considerable distance in search of employment on such terms and moreover understand they were obliged to to be at work before six perhaps at five each morning continue at it until eight, or even later, in the evening, with no diet but those cold and comfortless potatoes boiled in a distant cabin, and eaten by the ditch side or under the scaffolding of the new building.

1839 Gaming Certificate.  Father in law Henry Jones 1799-1805, late Rector of Lislee his daughter Frances Jane July 1833 married Rev. Edward James Alcock, 1831 at Kilmacabea.

The Wave of Tonn Cliodhna, Glandore, West Cork Associated with the O’Donovans and in Dinnseanachas (accumulated Lore)

Cleena is mentioned by the Irish antiquarian John O’Donovan.^[10] Writing in 1849 to a friend, O’Donovan says:

When my grandfather died in Leinster in 1798, Cleena came all the way from Ton Cleena to lament him; but she has not been heard ever since lamenting any of our race, though I believe she still weeps in the mountains of Drumaleaque in her own country, where so many of the race of Eoghan Mor are dying of starvation.

Courtesy 1911 Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

1806.  South Cork or 32nd Regiment, North Cork or 34th Regiment, Royal Cork City or 27th Militias with Date of Appointment of Officers.

Included are Lieutenants William Blair (1800) Hamilton Blair probably a Revenue Officer (1803) of Durrus Blair’s Cove family.  Edward Evanson (1804) also probably of one of the Durrus Evanson families.

Bantry Protestant Militia and Volunteers 1779

 

 

 

 

Irish Speaking Judges, James Philpott Curran, Robert Day, Barry Yelverton (Baron Avonmore), Dominic Trant, Kings Advocate in Admiralty Court.

The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850

Courtesy:

 Seán Patrick Donlan

https://books.google.ie/books?id=rpYGtgnKFFQC&pg=PA329&lpg=PA329&dq=notary+cork+1700&source=bl&ots=1GqEtPv2bZ&sig=SBqmcQlwsVZcdIL-re_3DNt5SoQ&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwhbvs_ZfLAhUDNxQKHW2OAxk4FBDoAQg7MAU#v=onepage&q=notary%20cork%201700&f=false

 

Portrait of John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Born Co. Cork, Irish Speaker, Author of Patriotic Verse, Master of The Rolls father of Sarah Curran His Youngest daughter Engaged to Robert Emmet.

 

Dominic Trant:

Briseann an Duchais Trí Súil an Chait, The Maverick DNA of Black Jack Fitzgibbon, (Lord Clare 1749-1801), First Irish Born Attorney-General of the 18th Century, Pioneer of World-wide Metropolitan Policing, his sister Lady Arabella Jeffares, Blarney, Supporter of Tenant farmer and Rightboys, sister Eleanor married to Cork Barrister, Dominic Trant, the insult of Trinity Fellow Patrick Duignan to Father Arthur O’Leary, ‘The Friar with the Barbarous Surname’ and an account of the Cork Rightboys in 1785 by Cork Apothecary John Barrett Bennett.

 

Some Cork Lawyers:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMDGaZCW9Z6Cq_C_gwm_FB2orzTe2WxR0WcLXjZZO40/edit#gid=0

 

1736-1805

Barry Yelverton BA TCD, First Baron Avonmore

Admitted Middle Temple 1759, Irish Bar 1764, MP Carrigfergus, Attorney General, Chief Baron Irish Court of Exchequer 1783

Kanturk, Eldest son of Francis late Taught by Rev Charles Egan Charlevile School, he himself taught in Dublin acting as Usher to Dr. Andrew Buck who ran the Hibernian Acaademy. Learned irish.

Admission Middle Temple Register 1661-1781, Vol 1, Linen Hall Library Belfast. Supported repeal of Penal Laws, m Mary Nugent, Clonlost, Co. Westmeath

Friends with Capuchin Father Art O’Leary (born Dunmanway wit, public figure) 1786

 

1750-1817

John Philpot Curran TCD

Barrister, MP, Patriot, Poet, Orator, Master of the Irish Rolls, Privy Councellor

Son of James and Sarah nee Philpot. Ed Nicholas Boyce Midleton Ferr School under Carey m Sarah Creagh. Fluent Irish speaker from childhood. Appeared in the 1798 trials for Napper Tandy, William Drennan, Wolfe Tone opposed the Act of Union.

Curran, John Philpot b. July 24, 1750 d. October 14, 1817 Irish politician and judge. Born in Newmarket, Cork, where his father, a descendant of one of Cromwell’s soldiers, was seneschal to the manor-court, Curran was educated at Midleton, through the kind help of a friend, the Rev. Nathaniel Boyse, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1773, having taken his MA degree, he entered the Middle Temple. In 1774 he married a lady who brought him a small dowry; but the marriage proved unhappy, and Mrs. Curran finally left her husband. In 1775 Curran was…[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger) Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Memorial erected by sons in Newmarket Graveyard. Features in James Joyce Ulysses ‘Who would have you now like John Philpot Curran? Psha (7.739-40)

 

 

 

 

 

Ref. U140/K/3/109 Date: 1840-46 Level : file Title: Scrapbook Page Extent: 4 items Scope and Content: 27 Jul 1844 Circular letter from Thomas Swanton, ‘Ballidahob’ (Ballydehob), Near Skibbereen regarding formation of society, the Cork and Kerry Irish Poetry and Music Society. (2pp)

 

Courtesy Cork Archives, Dowden papers:

 

Click to access U140web.pdf

 

Letter 6th March 1837, to ‘The Nation’, by Thomas Swanton, Crannliath, Ballydehob, re Distress East Schull and Irish Independence and correspondence with son of Seán Ó Coileáin, Poet

 

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/10/peadar-o-h-anrachains-letter-from-dublin-cois-life-1947-southern-star-the-persevering-linguist-thomas-swanton-crianlarich-ballydehob-among-his-corespondents-james-h-dodd-d-d-trinity

 

Thomas Swanton, Ballydehob, Co Cork, Irish scholar, Antiquarian and Landlord 1810-1866 and nephew of Judge Robert Swanton of New York, Maritime Court and United Irishman.

 

 

 

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 year’s salary as interpreter of the Irish language.

2. Spring 1839 Printed schedule of applications for presentments to be laid before the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Cork, Spring Assizes, 1839. Contains applications for repairing roads in North and South Liberties, new roads and works including new line of road from Cork to Blarney, new road in the city near Paul Street; establishment items such as B.Neenan £3 for half year’s salary as interpreter of the Irish language, £800 to Governors of the House of Industry, dispensaries, malicious damages. (14pp

Courtesy Cork Archives. Richard Dowden papers:

Click to access U140web.pdf

 

Magistrate:

From 1837

John Borlease Warren

Seneschal of Macroom, Kilcrea, Blarney

Appointed by his relation Lord Bandon. Macroom held in Courthouse, Kilcrea in two farmhouses.

John Borlease Warren (1799-, Magistrate also for Kerry, Warren Grove, Crookstown and Sillerdane Cottage, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, brother of Sir Augustus Warren, m 1823 Mary d Rev R. Warren, Involved in attempts to amicably resolve tithes 1838. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Related and tenant of Lord Bandon. Lord Bandon as Lord of Manor of Macroom, Kilcrea and Blarney appointed him Seneschal to Manor Courts replace Mr. Brown who heard cases to his death at 87 in 1836. Permitted witnesses to give evidence in Irish.

 

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1815

John Eugene McCarthy

Middle Temple since 1815 practised as Conveyancer in England, Seneschal of Manor of Rathbarry and Gorthnahoena since 1826 and for some time Timoleague. Kings Inns 1837.

Rathbarry, Rosscarbery. 1st son of Eugene McCarthy, Gent, Blennerville, Co. Kerryand Ellen O’Sullivan in 1837 for Kings Inns , Newtown, Co. Cork. Rathbarry. Conducted when requied Manor Court as Senescal in Irish. Purchased a house and garden for bailiff to avoid being dependant on him. Earlier Seneschal used a pub. Advised Mr. Spring Rice (Lord…Mount..) on proposed changes to legislation

1837 Parlimentary report.

 

 

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1852.  Clonakilty Board of Guardians Records:   Letter received from 2nd Regiment stating that a recruiting party is to attend in Bandon ‘and that if any paupers in the workhouse are willing to enlist that they may get directions to proceed to Bandon’.

 

Courtesy Cork Archives:

http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/BG59web.pdf