04 Thursday Aug 2016
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1863. We Hope We May Never See Carbery Without A Pack of Hounds. Dinner to Henry J. Hungerford Esq., Cahermore, Rosscarbery, West Cork.
Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle; or, South Western Advertiser 14 March 1863
03 Wednesday Aug 2016
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Charter 5th May, 1613, James 1, of The Sovereign, Free Burgesses, and Commonalty of Cloughnakilty (Clonakilty), Co. Cork, Recorder, Court of Conscience, Manor Courts, Administration, Election of Sovereign on Feast Day of St. James The Apostle.
03 Wednesday Aug 2016
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1822. Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson, to Lord Lieutenant to Provide New Road from Bantry to Head of Dunmanus Bay where People are Wanting Employment and Deficient of Food. and New Road Needed between Skibbereen and Crookhaven Where it Was not Possible to use Wheeled Carriages.
Nathaniel Evanson, 1799, Four Mile Water, Durrus, 1831, listed at North Main St., Bandon 1824, son Nathaniel Kings Inns 1818 he is Brookfields, Bandon. Senior member 1810, Bandon Militia. Member or father Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1822 petitioning Chief Secretary for road works in Durrus/Kilcrohane in view of want of work and deficiency of food. 1826 election voted for Hutchinson. Daughter Dora then at Bandon married Abraham Jagoe, Kinrath Cottage, Dunmanway she died at Blackrock, Cork, 1863. In 1835 his rent charge at Dromnea, Gearhameen and Rasavourney, Rossiviree in Durrus was granted to Charles and Abraham Evanson entitling…
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02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Item, Bantry House Collection, Boole Library, UCC.
830 30 March 1810
Deed made between Richard, Lord Viscount Bantry, Bantry, in the one part, Brigadier General Thomas Trotter, (Commanding Royal Artillery), Brigadier General Benjamin Fisher (Commanding Royal Engineers), Lieutenant Colonel Henry Roger (Storekeeper), Robert Coleman (Clerke of the Survey), and Abraham Mills (Clerke of the Cheque), all officers conducting business of the Civil and Military Department of the Ordinance in Ireland in the other part.With a compensation payment of £529. 19. 8, Viscount Bantry releases the Officers of Ordnance from a Covenant in Lease to Build Walls on Whiddy Island. This lease was made on the 20th Sept. 1804 between Lord and Lady Longueville, Lord Viscount Bantry, and Officers of Ordnance.
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02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Lease of 1836, Reenvanagh, Whiddy Island, ‘Covenant to lay out by Lessee (Tobin) Ten Boat Loads (each containing thirty horse loads) of Best Coral Sea Sand Annually of Premises under a penalty of £10.
Tobins:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13bW08jLMERwfI5cGHHxXfd4IIHkBbpMYfJBmXA9ROX0/edit
The land on Whiddy is very fertile. A significant part of the Island was used in 1967 by Gulf Oil to build a major oil tank farm still operational which holds Ireland’s strategic oil reserve.
The reference to one of the lives of a son of a local Catholic Landlord Timothy O’Donovan might suggest their involvement in the coral sand business. This operated in Bantry until the 1950s. Until guano from Chile and late chemical fertilisers came in the late 19th century Bantry Bay coral was prized as a fertiliser.
History of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Co. Cork from 1261, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers
02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Paddy O’Keeffe was a businessman based in Bantry who had an interest in the history of the locality. He was associated with other local historians John T. Collins and Bernard O’Regan. His papers are now in the Cork Archive collection and this account of Whiddy Island is taken History of whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers there
Down Survey 1665-85
Proposed Sale of part Bantry Estate
02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Traditional cures for Horse Ailments, Dandelion Roots and Rotten Seaweed from Durrus District, West Cork.
Courtesy David Shannon.
Up to the 1960 the horse did most of the farm work and was also the method of transport. His health was vital to the family welfare. Before Vets and medicines the old people had various remedies. For skin complaints a deep roots of dandelions were dug up and boiled, the liquid strained and after cooling added to the horse feed. For some skin complaints such as ulceration rotten seaweed was applied presumably the iodine element would be of use.
02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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1912 Henry Ford, Chasing his Cork Roots, Clonakilty and Fair Lane, Cork and sending his Father’s Uilleann Pipes to Cork for Repair.
Uilleann Pipes:
Henry Ford, Madame, Ballinascarthy, West Cork and the Uilleann Pipes
Henry Ford established the Ford Ford Motor Company plant outside the USA in Cork in 1917 and it operated until the 1980s giving valuable well paid work. When part of the operation relocated to Dagenham in London in 1926 the Cork workforce migrated there and became known as ‘Dagenham Yanks’.
The Fords may be related to the Buttimers/Buttimores of Ballinascarty.
02 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Frys (Frieze) Trousers from Copithorns Woolen Mills, Bantry, West Cork. Mrs Clara Ford, wife of Henry in 1912 stayed in Vickerys Hotel bought cloth for suit at Copithorns, visited her aunt Annie near Clonakilty
Up to about 70 years age as pronounced Frys (freize) trousers were in common use by farmers when working or shearing sheep. Made from a rough stiff woolen cloth they tended after time to rot from the bottom up in an era before wellington boots. The normal itching from wool was mitigated as many wore ‘long johns’. Copithornes also made blankets and finer products and at one time were major employers in the town.
In 1901 the owner Tomas Copithorne was a Protestant of no particular denomination spoke Irish and English.
Mrs Clara Forde (Nee Bryant) wife of Henry visited 1912 and bought cloth. It is assumed that is it her aunt rather than Henrys. He was in Ireland but it is not clear if he was with her on this trip.
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