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  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
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  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Summer Markets

15 Monday Aug 2016

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Our West Cork markets – Skibbereen, Bantry and Schull – are thriving. Each has a distinct…

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Clan territories of Beara

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Pre World War 1 British Atlantic Fleet in Bantry 

07 Sunday Aug 2016


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Jim Herlihy’s new Book Revised on RIC

07 Sunday Aug 2016

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Jim Herlihy’s new Book Revised on RIC

 

Lecture on RIC by Jim Herlihy with some Police Records from West Cork area.

The revised and updated edition of Jim Herlihy’s book is back in print. It was first published in 1997. He has   added 86 pages and it now contains nineteen sets of appendices.

All 752 members of the RIC who volunteered for service in WW1, including the  156 casualties are listed and the locations of their graves. All RIC men killed in the line of duty during the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence are also remembered in this book. The book is available worldwide direct from the publishers

by clicking on the following link:-

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/the-royal-irish-constabulary/

AHAKISTA DREAMING

07 Sunday Aug 2016

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The opportunity to hear feminist legend Gloria Steinem was the magnet that drew me to West Cork.  As soon as news broke about her coming to Bantry as part of the West Cork Literary Festival I was online booking my ticket.  It was going to be a long drive for a quick overnight stay in a local B&B, but how often does one get the chance to listen to GLORIA STEINEM?

Then I thought about West Cork and maybe taking my mother with me to make a weekend of it.  I began to research hiring a holiday house.  But in high season most only offer Saturday to Saturday rentals.  The universe seemed to want me to come and spend a week and sure who was I to argue.  Mother was delighted.

In the end it was me, said mother, my youngest daughter, who is 15 and our daft deaf dog…

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1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

07 Sunday Aug 2016

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1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

Sale 1850, of Rabbit Island, Squince, Parish of Myross, Barony of West Carbery, well adapted for feeding sheep or young cattle, an exclusive right of sea-weed in abundance all around the island.

Group photo at the corn 1930s Skerkin Island, West Cork, Old Fashioned photo 1947, harvesting seaweed with the ‘Scanhadór’

Sale of Calf Island and Doneen, Travenes, Aughadown, good for Seaweed, Kelp burning, half Ploughland, Six Gneeves, acquired by Samuel Townsend from Ecclesiastical Commissioners 1837, father of Samuel Nugent Townsend, The Commissioners title arising from ‘All Gorts and Glebe lands acquired since 1688, and lands at Caheragh, Nine Gneeves, Title commencing with Lease of 9,999 years from 1749 from Tonson to Thomas Marmion then occupied by Thomas Wood Esq. by Lease from Robert Sandford, Gentleman, prior to 1850 occupied by…

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1708 Deed and Feoffment, Donogh Daly, Farnanmanagh, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Witness Owen Daly.

06 Saturday Aug 2016

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1708 Deed and Feoffment, Donogh Daly, Farnanmanagh, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Witness Owen Daly.

It is possible that the Bechers had Daly join in the deed to perfect their title.

Feoffment

Total relinquishment and transfer of all rights of ownership in land from one individual to another.

A feoffment in old England was a transfer of property that gave the new owner the right to sell the land as well as the right topass it on to his heirs.

An essential element of feoffment was livery of seisin, a ceremony for transferring the possession of real property from oneperson to another.

Feoffment is also known as enfeoffment.

It is probably that shortly before the Daly lands in Kilcrohane were forfeit.

 

Type of deed Date of current deed 18 Sep 1708 Vol Page Memorial
Feofment Date of earlier deed 2 155 348
No Role(s) in earlier deed(s) Role in current deed(s) Family name Forename Place Occ or title A
1 WD WM BECHER Lionel of
2 P2D BECHER Thomas of Sherkin, By of West Carberry, COR Esq
3 P1D DALY Donogh of Farinmanagh, By of West Carberry, COR Gent A
4 WD DALY Owen of
5 WD FORBIS Henry of
6 WM GARY John of
7 WD NOTTER Henry of
8 WM POLDEN Thomas of
9 REG SULLIVAN Jo’n of Cork City
Abstract Comment for person [1] :
Person [3] :town & lands of Farrimanagh, Kilerohane, COR
MS Date registered 3 Mar 1708 Date abstract added 20120119

Abstract made by: MOS

September, 1806, Died at Skibbereen aged 114 Years, John Blakeney, he Retained His Full Strength and Faculties To The Date of His Death

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September, 1806, Died at Skibbereen aged 114 Years, John Blakeney

The name appears in some of the birth records:

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1867, Efforts By Very Reverend Sheehan, John Warren Payne, William Young, To Secure New Pier for Bantry, Commissioners of Public Works to Pay £3,000 Local Contribution £1,600, Built by William Martin Murphy’s Father.

06 Saturday Aug 2016

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Bantry Port is now administered by the Port of Cork and is undergoing a major expansion.

1867, Efforts  By Very Reverend Sheehan, John Warren Payne, William Young, To Secure New Pier for Bantry, Commissioners of Public Works to Pay £3,000 Local contribution £1,600.

The Youngs were a Fish Merchant family in Bantry since around 1600.

John Warren Payne, Bantry, Agent Lord Bantry.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.

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Graveyard of St. Finbarrs Church, Bantry:

1866. Kennels Sought in Skibbereen for West Carbery Harriers.

05 Friday Aug 2016

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1866.   Kennels Sought in Skibbereen for West Carbery Harriers.

 

Marmion is probably merchant, landowner, owner of coaches.  The Family came from around Dundalk to manage Becher Estate c 1740, an old Norman family who conformed to the Church of Ireland.

 

 

Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle; or, South Western Advertiser 08 December 1866

 

In the 19th century there is a lot of concentration on religious and political differences. We forget the common culture and dogs in their manifestation was one of them.

 

1827, Lost, Beagle Bitch answers to name of ‘Lily’. Belongs to Dr. O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Reward to Person if Poor.

 

Timothy O’Donovan JP to Dr. John O’Donovan on The Real Irish Greyhound not the wolf dog called the …..‘Guire Mac Fhira’ the Irish Grey Hound is called ‘Conn’ and was spelled Gre-hound, this breed is quite smooth silk like satin it is a mistake to confuse the rough or wiry dog being of Scotch descent and never could compete with the real Irish in Fleetship or Beauty, Richard Hungerford Evanson, Coursing at Dromreagh in the 1864.

 

29th October 1864, Coursing Meeting of Friendly Cove Coursing Club, Carrigboy, (Durrus) met at Dromreagh by invitation of Richard Evanson Esq., Owner. The ground was long known for hares being strictly preserved. At 5 o’clock in the evening the members adjourned with some other gentlemen to dinner at Philips Hotel given by Mr. Evanson served in Mr. Philip’s usual style

 

Dr Daniel Lynch M.D., Ballyvourney, Macroom, later Magistrate, Co. Cork & The Land Wars | An Dochtúir Ó Loingsigh, 1887 First Public Sign in Irish in Ballyvourney/Coolea

 

 

Coursing Meeting and other Matters Ballyvourney, Co. Cork April 1847.

 

 

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