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My strongest memory of our visit to Labacallee wedge tomb, Co Cork, earlier this summer was…
15 Sunday May 2016
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This gallery contains 12 photos.
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My strongest memory of our visit to Labacallee wedge tomb, Co Cork, earlier this summer was…
14 Saturday May 2016
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Master of The Rolls, Dublin Portrait of John Philpot Curran.
Came from a relatively humble background, the local rector took him under his wings and he got to Trinity College, Dublin. Like many aspirant Barristers he subbed as a teacher did a bit of journalism before hitting lucky through patronage.

Patriotic verse by John Philpot Curran, (1750-1817), Lawyer, Wit, MP. Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor, father of Sarah Curran, Newmarket, Co Cork, ‘Let us be Merry before we go’, ‘The Monks of the Screw’, ‘Cushla Ma Chree’
A Rhyming Invitation sent by John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) to Grandfather of Robert Carey, Skibbereen.
Leading 1937 case on Irish libel law, Sinclair v Gogarty, Samuel Beckett’s affidavit, Arthur Cox, Aidan Higgins memories of Gogarty, Con Curran, Justice Kenneth Reddin bringing Olhausen’s Black pudding to Joyce in Paris, Patrick Kavanagh trial, Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy, Tim Healy Governor General, Denis Johnson, Lady Gleneavy.
The Gravestone Inscriptions of Ballycurrany (North West of Midleton), East Cork, Burial Ground and Historical Notes by Richard Henchion..

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Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), ‘The Liberator’, Bookplate.

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A touch of Spike Milligan’s ‘Puckoon”. life as a young RIC recruit (one of 80,000), collecting the Tillage Census in 1910 rounding up the chickens and avoid half acres, keeping an eye on ‘Returned Yanks’, searching for Poteen on Innismurray island, over policing in Cooloney, Co. Sligo from the Memoir of Jeremiah Mee.
Interestingly he describes the career prospects as superior to that of a National Teacher or Bank Clerk. It was attractive to those liking the outdoor life. The pay in 1910 started at £39 per annum to £70.4s 0. for twenty years service. Clothing and footwear were provided and married men (allowed to marry after 7 years service) got a lodging allowance.
He describes the overpoliceing in Cooloney Co. Sligo 1913, District Inspector with Clerk, Head Constable, two Sergeants, ten Constables. He says the work could be done by two. The regulations were stultifying but in country areas…
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The End of Gaeltacht an Aird, Clonakilty, West Cork, School Folklore Collection, Water from a Foot Bath, The Magic of May Day, Voyage to Ring, The Curse of Castlefreke Wood, Lament for Father Power many transcribed from one of the last Native Speakers, Denis Feen.
From Ardfield/Rathbarry Journal, No. 4 2002-3, Seán Ó Coileáin and Donnacha Ó Donnabháin (the original pupil was transcribed by him as a young scholar) c 1938.
The UCD Folklore Digital Collection has some recordings.
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1851. Letter from Dr. John O’Donovan, Antiquarian, to Robert McAdam Esq., Soho Foundry in Belfast, Responsible for Question on Irish in 1851 Census of Ireland.
From Graves Collection, Royal Irish Academy.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/14088
Historical Letters:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit
FROM DR. JOHN O’DONOVAN, ANTIQUARIAN
Letter to Robert McAdam Esq., Soho Foundry in Belfast from Newcomen Place, Dublin 8 (March, 17th, 1851)
‘Dear Sir,
I have received your note of the 14th and cannot but admire your enthusiasm about the census. I do not think that a clergy of any of our religions could be of any use to us. The Catholic Church clergy are moving heaven and earth to extinguish the Irish language and therefore it would be useless to trust them. The Protestants could not get any true returns and I therefore think we ought to test content with the police returns. Of course most of the Irish speakers will be found in the poor houses! However I shall be in Belfast very soon again to deliver some lectures on the Celtic dialects. I do not believe that you or any other friends there will be able to procure me any pupils, and I am therefore afraid to go live amongst you. When I do see you next I shall tell you various plans of mine for advancing Celtic literature.
Yours very sincerely,
John O’Donovan
13 Friday May 2016
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1860. The Pope’s Irish Brigade and Named Subscribers to Papal Tribute from Bantry, Durrus, Kilcrohane, Caheragh, Drimoleague.





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1759. Will of Edward Evanson, Antigua, West Indies to my Kinsman, Nathaniel Evanson, Senior, Four Mile Water (Gearhameen, Durrus), Bantry, £200 a year and if he comes to the West Indies after my Death My Wine and Old Rum and £30 Sterling to The Society for the Promoting the English Protestant Schools in Ireland, Dublin.
In other wills recited Evanson Christian names such as Charles occur. Names common in the greater Bantry area in the mid 18th century occur Symms, Warner.
Marriage:
| 1696 | Thomas Evanson Elizabeth Looby | Probably pre Durrus | MLB |
| 1724, Antigua,West Indies | Nathaniel Evanson the 2nd, Mary (Martha) Alleyn | Edward Alleyn of Ballyduvane | Issue Charles, Alleyn, Nathaniel, Richard, Martha, Susanna, | Charles m in Antigua a widow Knight two children Nathaniel and Martha. Aleyn second son of Martha Alleyn married alos in Antigua Susanna Seely (Ceely)near cousin to Sir W Young Governor of Antigua | Governor related to Montague and Nibbs family (Miss ceely’s niece married a Mr Gordon). Nathaniel died unmarried. Richard married Miss Harris whose mother was Miss Beamish | Married in Antigua, Carribean? | In 1810s and onwards Nathaniel Evanson is mentioned as are other Evansons as slave owners in Barbados, they are viewable on ancestry |
Some families in the Cork area in bold:
Pedigrees and genealogical information for many prominent Antigua families were published in:
- Oliver, Vere Langford. The History of the Island of Antigua: One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time. 3 vols. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1894-1899. FHL Collection; digital versions at Internet Archive:
- Volume One includes genealogies of †Abbot, Abbott, Alexander, Alexander (see Dasent), †Allen, †Anderson, †Archibald, Ash, †Athill, Athy, Auchinleck, Ayres, †Baijer, †Bannister, Barnes, †Barter, Barton, †Bendall, †Bethell, †Blackman, Bladen, †Blake, †Blizard, Bodkin, Bolan, †Bonnin, Boone, †Boraston, †Bott, Bradshaw, †Brown, †Buckley, †Burke, †Burt, Burton, †Butler, †Byam, †Cade, Carden, Carlile, †Carpenter, †Carter, †Cary, †Chester, Christian, †Clarke, †Clogstown, †Cochran, †Codrington, †Collins, †Colquhoun, Cosby (see Eliot), †Coull, Crabb, †Crawford, Crump, Cusack, †Daniel, †Dasent, Davis, Delap, Denbow, †Dewar, De Witt, Doig, Donovan, †Douglas, †Dow, Drax (see Codrington), †Duer, †Dunbar, †Duncombe, Dunn, †Dunning, †Edwards, †Ellyatt, Eliot, †Elmes, †Entwisle, Erwin (see Dasent), Evanson, †Farley, Fergusson, Ferris, †Field, †Fleming, †Foote, †Franklin, †Fraser, †Freeman, †French, and †Frye families.
- Volume Two includes genealogies of †Anderdon (see Manning), Blackwell (see Jarvis), Gale, †Gallwey, †Gamble, †Garrett, Gaynor, Gilbert, †Gilchrist, Gillyat, Glanvile, †Gloster, Glover, Goble, †Gordon, †Grant, Gravenor, Gray, Grear, Greenway, †Gunthorpe, Haddon, †Halliday, Halloran, †Hamilton, †Hanson, †Harman, †Hart, Harvey, †Hawes, †Herbert, †Hill, Hillhouse, †Hodge, Hodges, †Horne, †Horsford, Hughes, †Humphreys, Hurst, Huyghue, †Hyndman, †Iles, †Jarvis, †Jeaffreson, †Johnson, Jones, Keeling, Kelsick, †Ker, †Kerby, Keynell, †King, †Kirwan, †Knight, Knightley, †Laferty, †Laforey, Langelier, †Langford, Laroche, Lavicount, †Lavington, Ledeatt, Ledwell, †Lee, †Leonard, Le Roux, †Lessly, Libaert, †Lightfoot, Lindsey, Lingham, Lisle, †Livingston, Looby, †Lovell, †Lucas, †Lucie, †Lynch, †Lyons, †McCarthy, †Mackinen, †McNish, †Manning, Manwaring, Marchant, †Martin, †Mathew, Mathews, Maxwell, †Mayer, Middleton, Millar, Monke, Monteigue, Montero, Morgan, †Morris, †Morson, Muir, †Murray, Musgrave, †Nanton, Newfiele, †Nibbs, Nicholas, †Nihell, †Nisbitt, †Nugent, Oesterman, †Oliver, Osborn, and †Ottley families.
- Volume Three includes genealogies of Pare, †Parke, Parker, Parry, Patterson, †Payne, Paynter, Pearne, †Perry, †Pigott, †Pollington, †Powell, †Poyntz, Prynn, Pyle, Redhead, †Redwood, †Richardson, †Roach, †Rodney, Ronan, Rose, Rossington, Royall, †Russell, Salmond, Sampson, †Saunders, Sawcolt, Scholes, †Scotland, Sedgwick, †Shand, †Shephard, Sheriff, Shervington, Shirley, Skerrett, †Smith, Sones, †Stapleton, †Swete,†Symes, †Tankard, Tempest, Tharter, †Thibou, †Thomas, †Tobin, Tomlinson, †Trant, †Traveis, Tremills, †Tudway, †Tullideph, Turner, Turney, Tyley, Vaughan, Vernon, Walrond, †Warner, Watkins, Watson, Weatherill, †Webb, Weir, Weston, Wethered, †White, Whitehead, Wickham, †Williams, Willock, †Willoughby, Winthrop, †Wise, †Woodley, †Wyke, †Yeamans, Yorke, and Young families.
†Additional information on these families appears in the Appendix to Volume Three, which begins on page 41

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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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Discovery of Lost Vellum Manuscript, documenting the Genealogy of the Very Ancient and Illustrious House of the O’Reillys, formerly Princes and Dynasts of Breifne O’Reilly, now called the County of Cavan in the Kingdom of Ireland, over 1,000 years in Munich 2008, Irish presence in Cuba, 18th century and Irish named street escape Castro embargo on Spanish Street Names Havana.
John Kileen, Librarian of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast gave a lecture in the RDS documenting the history of the O’Reilly Genealogy located in Munich in 2008. The enquires determined that the Genealogy was commissioned by Count O’Reilly an Irish born senior Military figure in the late 18th century. Thecost was over £1,000 equaring to over €100, 000 in present day values.
It was done by Chevalier Thomas O’Gorman an Irish born Genealogist (1722-1809) based in France. The Linen Hall library are bring out a limited edition of the Genealogy…
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