The Gentleman’s and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794

 

Creation of Baron of Kinsale, Co. Cork Originally by Tenure by Writ of Summons and By Patent in 1397, 20th Richard 2nd.  Baron Carbery Created 1715.

 

 

 

 

Baron Carbery Created 1715:

 

 

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1834 Listing of Cess Payers of Baronies of Bere and  Bantry and  Carbery, West Cork

Thanks to Wikipedia.

The cess to pay for roads, bridges, and other public works was set per barony. “Presentment sessions“, where petitioners applied for funding for such works, were originally held as part of the county assizes, though the costs were paid from the barony cess if the work was of local benefit only. The county grand jury was supposed to have included jurors from each barony, though this did not always happen.^[28] From 1819,^[29] significantly modified in 1836,^[30] baronial presentment sessions were held for these purposes, with a local jury picked by the county grand jury from among the barony’s highest rate-payers, according to a complicated formula.^[31] The baronial presentment sessions were a convoluted process, lacking public confidence and marred by allegations of corruption and favouritism.

There was a growing recognition in London of the inadequacies of these ascendancy-dominated structures by the early nineteenth century. Thirty-six out of ninety-nine chartered boroughs were eliminated as corrupt and inefficient by the Act of Union in 1801. Subsequent to a series of damaging select committee reports on the grand jury system in the 1820s, legislation regulating annual salaries for county officers, instituting uniform methods of assessing county cess and providing for limited representation of cess payers when grand juries were deliberating road expenditures, brought some minor improvement in the 1830s.

The composition of the cess payers listed here reflects a shift in power from the Landed Gentry to the Catholic, Church of Ireland and Methodist business people and strong tenant farmers.  This process accelerated throughout the century.

Courtesy Gordo Kingston:

https://kyngeston.wordpress.com/author/gjrkingston/page/5/

 

1832 Cholera in Bantry, 1838 Address to John S. Bird, on Retiring as Treasurer of Bantry Dispensary.

1810, 1831, 1840

Dr. Thomas Burke

1824, Surgeon, HP, Blackrock-road (NGC). Possible The Square, 1810 Thomas Burke Half Pay Surgeon married Margaret McCarthy, (1784-1831), possibly through her he acquired lands at Caheragh, she was likely of the Muclaghs (Clann Tighe Roe Scartaigh) and the lands from McCarthy Gurtnascreena.

May be from Caheragh the person that poet JJ Callanan stayed with for around 2 years when he wrote Gougan Barra and Lamesnt to Morty Oge. memorial to Father Walsh PP leaving Bantry. Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry, gave a speech promoting reeclamation of waste, mine development, employment rather than charity. 1846 distress meeting Bantry.

1832 contacted fever attending Cholera Hospital Bantry voteof thanks by John Y. Kingston.Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 28 April 1831

Death from Cholera Skibbereen 1830s:

James Swanton Vickery (C1837-1908) from West Cork, to Stockbroking in Australia.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 26 May 1838

The Birds were prominent in Bantry for centuries as fish merchants, adn land holders.

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Post Napoleonic  War Half Pay Officers in Bantry, West Cork.

 

Paddy O’Keeffe. Bantry Historian reckoned that in the greater Bantry area there wee around 24 such officers of whom quite a number were Catholic.

 

The Napoleonic Wars imposed a state of total war not seen again until World War 1.  For Ireland a time of great prosperity which collapsed after the battle of Waterloo 1815.

 

The officers were paid around £40 per annum, not enough to live their lifestyle.  The Chief Secretaries papers have a lot of correspondence from such officers seeking employment s Chief Constables of Police pre RIC.

 

They were favoured for official position in preference to affluent Catholics as in Father’s Collins evidence in 1825:

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Burke, Stephen, Lieut., Chief Constable, North-st. (NGC).  Probably originally from Galway. Burke, Thos., Surgeon, HP, Blackrock-road (NGC).  May be from Caheragh, port JJ Callanan stayed with him for two years leading anti tithe and repeal activist. Carew, Wm. M., Ensign, HP, Chapel-hill (NGC) Cooke, James, Lieut., HP, Blackrock-road (NGC) Ellis, Dixie, Captain, HP, Whiddy Island (NGC) Kirby, David, Lieut., HO, Strand (NGC).  Originally North Cork Militia family later prominent as doctors in Bantry. McCarthy, Wm., Lieut., HP, Caheir Daniel (NGC).   O”Donovan, Daniel, Lieut., HO, Kealevenogue (NGC). When he died in 1830s describes as last of the Irish Brigade who after the fall of the Bastille joined the British Army retaining their rank.  Probably related to O’Donovan family of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. Pottinger, H., Lieut., HP, Main-st. (NGC) Ratcliffe, Wm., Lieut., HP, North-st. (NGC)

 

1810, 1831, 1840

Dr. Thomas Burke

1824, Surgeon, HP, Blackrock-road (NGC). Possible The Square, 1810 Thomas Burke Haalf Pay Surgeon married Margaret McCarthy, (1784-1831), posssibly through her he acquired lands at Caheragh, she was likely of the Muclaghs (Clann Tighe Roe Scartaigh) and the lands from McCarthy Gurtnascreena.

May be from Caheragh the person tht poet JJ Callanan stayed with for around 2 years when he wrote Gougan Barra and Lamesnt to Morty Oge. memorial to Father Walsh PP leaving Bantry. Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry, gave a speech promoting reeclamation of waste, mine development, employment rather than charity. 1846 distress meeting Bantry.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 28 April 1831

 

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1660.  Lands of The Earl of Anglesea Leased to Colonel Reid in Barony of Bantry and Bere, Co. Cork.

These would largely have been O’Sullivan lands.   They in turn probably did the same after 1230 when they moved in from Co. Limerick.

By 1910 the lands were largely the property of the former tenants subject to a Land Commission Annuity.

Some of the lands devolved to the Hollow Blade Company which financed the late 17th century wars in England between parliament adn King James.  They wee rewarded by land grants in Ireland.

An example of a deed involving them:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=203158

Richard White of Whiddy Island ( originally Dunmanway and probably earlier Co. Limerick) acquired much of these lands by purchase.  In Beara many of the old O’Sullivan septs remained in de facto control as agents of the Bantry Estate.