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Caheragh Church of Ireland, West Cork, Church Wardens 1830-, families 1835, scholars 1841 Birth, Marriages, Deaths

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Petty’s Down Survey 1655-58

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325479,-9.3065158,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0xa00c7a99731ea90

http://phaedrus.cs.tcd.ie/petty/petty/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Caharagh

For Church history

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdHBMNVRWRGtNTkUyeTByQ2U5NXZJNXc#gid=0

Some marriages from 1823

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEhfUGZZMHUwemJRdUZfV2dpNVNacGc#gid=0

Some births from 1798

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdGhsYnR4a3RPWkQxMmQ3V1U5SkZVY2c#gid=0

A history of Caheragh Parish was done some time ago by a native of the parish Donal J. O’Sullivan and has recently been re-issued.

To search old Caheragh Graveyard click

http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Search.aspx

Townland Map:

Tithe Aplottments Caheragh 1827, by Susan Beretta

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/caheragh/tithe.html

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Maziere Brady on the Parish

Caheragh from Maziere Brady

1317

December 28. Geoffrey Fitz John de Cogan is presented by the King (by mandate to the Bishop of Cork), to the church of the Blessed Mary de Catheragh, in the King’s gift, by reason of his wardship of the lands and heir of John de Cogan (Tuckey’s Cork Remembrancer p.18)

1591

R. de Caheaughe spectat as College, Youghell.  (MS. T.C.D. E.3.14)

1615

Tadeus McDonnell O’Sullivan is vicar.  “Cathragh: Rectoria spectat as Coll. de Youghall.  Vicarius Tadeus McDonnell O’Sullivan…

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1821. Partial Listing of Tenants in Kilmoe (Goleen), West Cork.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Goleen+Holiday+Cottages,+Co.+Cork/@51.4934878,-9.714218,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x484584e3360d1037:0x8b765ef17f6c57f1!8m2!3d51.4961335!4d-9.7119141?hl=en

1821. Partial Listing of Tenants in Kilmoe (Goleen), West Cork.

Thank to the original poster of this information.

Surnames: Johnson, Ferguson, Allen, King, Daly, Donovan, Williamson, Kelly, Supple, Coughlan, Mahony, Kingston, Past, Neagle, Coghlan, Cunningham, Driscoll, Sullivan, White, McCarthy, Neville, Boyde, Nicholson, King, Burns, Fleming.

PARISH OF KILMOE: This parish is at the extremity of the peninsula between Dunmanus Bay and Roaring Water Bay in SW Cork. In 1821, it would have been a very remote part of Ireland. Yet, a little, 30-page, loosely-stitched tithe book/ledger has managed to survive and bears the date 1821 on its cover. This book is not to be confused with the official tithe applotment book for Kilmoe Parish which was drawn up in the year 1828, some seven years later.

This 1821 notebook’s appearance is somewhat reminiscent of the tenure, house and field books of Griffith’s Valuation. There are a total number of…

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Early 19th century farmhouse and outbuildings with 12 pane detail in window at Lisheenacreagh Upper, (Lisín na Creiche:Little fort of the cattle spoil), Ballydehob, West Cork.

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Early 19th century farmhouse and outbuildings with 12 pane detail in window at Lisheenacreagh Upper, (Lisín na Creiche: Little fort of the cattle spoil), Ballydehob, West Cork.

The photos are of the old Daly holding, south facing on high ground touching mountain land. In the mid 20th century the family bred prize giving cattle. The Dalys have probably been at that location since at least the early 19th century and perhaps earlier as evidenced by the Baptism Records of Schull East Church of Ireland:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O7S7YgZS2OGbpCtmam1e5Ks_LVNC7U-Bz4vEiZDNQKI/edit#gid=0

The buildings are recessed into the hill and the outbuildings and hay shed are built on rock. The windows, 12 pane, on the upper part of the old house were common up to 60 years ago and probably date from the early 19th century. Another example would be a house owned by the Roycroft family on high ground in Toormore. There are square holes…

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Here Be Pirates!

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Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
Crough Bay in the townland of Leamcon – one of the sheltered and hidden moorings which…

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Capturing the View: Belvederes in West Cork

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Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
The 18th century was a time of profound change in garden design in Britain, and by…

1833. Anti Tithe Agitation, Pound at Ballydehob stormed cattle liberated Magistrate Captain Baldwin Horse tied with White Cloth on his head and neck and marched through Skibbereen to His House where Horse’s Head Banged at Door, further Outrages at Caheragh, Bandon.

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1833.  Anti Tithe Agitation, Pound at Ballydehob stormed cattle liberated Magistrate Captain Baldwin Horse tied with White Cloth on his head and neck and marched through Skibbereen to His House where  Horse’s Head Banged at Door, further Outrages at Caheragh, Bandon.

Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail 19 January 1833

 

 

 

Captain Thomas Baldwin Esq (1795-1871), 1819, Mardyke/North St., Skibbereen, son of Arthur.  Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. 1833 his horse seized in anti tithe agitation Ballydehob and marched with a white cloth around his head to is house.wherre they knocked his door with the horse’s head.  Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.  Sitting Skibbereen, 1835. 1828 application to Dublin Castle re gas supply for Skibbereen.  1841 election voted Longfield/Leader, £50 freeholder Shountullig.

 

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The Archaeology of a river

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1825, Salvage Award by Baron Pennyfeather at Cork Assizes from Rescue at Crookhaven, West Cork, of Clio of St. John’s New Brunswick en Route to Cork abandoned in a Storm Boarded with 34 Salvage claims Awards to Daniel Coughlan, Esq. £220, Joseph Baker Esq. £80, F.(Thomas) Raycraft (Roycroft) Esq.£50, Francis Gillies Esq. £60, A.O’Driscoll Esq.£60, John Notter Esq.£60, Florence McCarthy Esq. £100, Richard Medway £100.

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1825, Salvage Award by Baron Pennyfeather at Cork Assizes from Rescue at Crookhaven, West Cork, of Clio of St. John’s New Brunswick en Route to Cork abandoned in a Storm Boarded with 34 Salvage claims Awards to Daniel Coughlan, Esq. £220, Joseph Baker Esq. £80, F. (Thomas) Raycraft (Roycroft) Esq.£50, Francis Gillies Esq. £60, A.O’Driscoll Esq. £60, John Notter Esq. £60, Florence McCarthy Esq. £100, Richard Medway £100.

1794. Loss of ‘The Fanny’ of Crookhaven on Voyage from Dublin to Limerick at Crookhaven with the loss of All including Owner Captain Robert Notter and Two Seamen, Cargo of Iron, Bedsteads and Bedding for Soldiers and Notter (of German Protestant Extraction) Magistrates

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1794.  Loss of ‘The Fanny’ of Crookhaven on Voyage from Dublin to Limerick at Crookhaven with the loss of All including Owner Captain Robert Notter and Two Seamen, Cargo of Iron, Bedsteads and Bedding for Soldiers and Notter (of German Protestant Extraction) Magistrates

 

 

 

 

Saunders’s News-Letter 13 March 1794

 

Notter Magistrates:

 

Richard Notter Esq., listed 1838, Herculaneum, Cork, Architect, sitting Passage West, 1835. 1825 subscriber Schull Catholic Church.  Subscriber £500, at Carrigdave, Liberties of Cork, Passage Railway 1837. Ex-Officio Poor Law Commissioners 1839. May have been building contractor for Cork Gaol.

Richard Notter, Rock Island, Crookhaven.  Member Provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  Distributing New England Famine Relief 1847.

Richard Henry Notter, 1857, Lissacaha House, Lowertown, Schull, Resident, £16, sitting Bantry Quarter Sessions, 1862 (listed as R.J.), Ballydehob road presentments 1863.  subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.  Notters German Protestants in Cork c 1640.

The Notters, German Protestants settling in Crookhaven, West Cork, 1640s Estate on Mizen and Cork City Lands 1860s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Died, 24th November 1820, Baltimore, Carolina, USA, Dr. Mathew O’Driscoll. of Creagh and Baltimore USA, 64, son of the late ‘The’ O’Driscoll, Creagh brother of Michael O’Driscoll Esq., and Died on the 7th May 1823, at Baltimore House, West Cork, of a Decline induced by too Severe Studies of Medicine which he had completed with great Distinction at Edinburgh Denis O’Driscoll Esq. aged 21, only son of ‘The’ O’Driscoll., Esq., of Baltimore and death of youngest daughter of ‘The O’Driscoll’ July 1826 from The Southern Reporter.

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Died, 24th November 1820, Baltimore, Carolina, USA, Dr. Mathew O’Driscoll. of Creagh and Baltimore USA, 64, son of the late ‘The’ O’Driscoll, Creagh brother of Michael O’Driscoll Esq., and Died on the 7th May 1823, at Baltimore House, West Cork, of a Decline induced by too Severe Studies of Medicine which he had completed with great Distinction at Edinburgh Denis O’Driscoll Esq. aged 21, only son of ‘The’ O’Driscoll., Esq., of Baltimore and death of youngest daughter of ‘The O’Driscoll’ July 1826 from The Southern Reporter.

The O’Driscolls are one of the most ancient families in West Cork probably pre Celtic in origin.

Skibbereen Medical:

Skibbereen
1830Francis Potter BeamishDoctor1830 Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, anti Catholic petition 1828. Likely Military Surgeon later
David John Berkeley MDSkibbereenVoted 1837 as freeman in County of the City of Cork
Died 1846/7Dr. Brady MDDoctor. CaheraghFamine fever.

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