Extract from Chichester House Claim of Joshua Doe 1700, Partial genealogy of Jagoes Dunmanway, Birds, O’Connor, Youngs of Bantry, Coughlan and Dowes, Gosnell, Carrigmanus.

08 Sunday May 2016
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Extract from Chichester House Claim of Joshua Doe 1700, Partial genealogy of Jagoes Dunmanway, Birds, O’Connor, Youngs of Bantry, Coughlan and Dowes, Gosnell, Carrigmanus.

07 Saturday May 2016
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1830. New Two Horse Car Bantry to Cork Leaves Bantry 7 am Cork 4 pm Through Dunmanway, Enniskeane and Bandon.
It is now possible to travel from the Jack Lynch Tunnel to Ballylickey in just over and hour,

07 Saturday May 2016
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1815, Registration of Freeholds for Voting Purposes Cork including Baronies of Carbery.
Cork election 1837, Durrus Evansons elegible to vote as Non Resident Freemen of Cork.

07 Saturday May 2016
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1845, John Coughlan of Crookhaven, West Cork Owner of Whaler ‘The Wild Irish Girl’ Rescues Schooner British America (Canada) ‘Exile’. Somewhat surprising to see a whaler operating out of Crookhaven. The extended Coughlan/Coghlan family were active mariners, Royal Navy personnel.
Cork Examiner 01 February 1847

06 Friday May 2016
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1823. Inquest into Affray Occasioned by the Rev. Robert Morritt, Rector of Creagh and Castlehaven, Notorious Extraction of Tithes, Caused at Castlehaven, West Cork, at which Fatalities Occurred, Stones Placed into Mouths of Killed Policemen, Press Excluded from Publishing Preliminary Investigation on Morritt’s Motion.
Rev. Robert Morritt, Creagh Glebe, Skibbereen, Pre 1821. Letter 1821 to Chief Secretary re lawlessness in Creagh, lack of military forces and poor calibre of police. Notorious tithe extractor whose actions led to an affray at Castlehaven in which life was lost. At the subsequent hearing into affray he accepted that the Skibbereen Magistrates were hostile to him. Later Rector Castlehaven where he was almost universally hated for tithe extraction. He was reported as having neighbouring magistrates hear 600 summons against his parishioners re tithes owing. Lord Carbery in 1823 said Morritt was English in that year he had extracted £2,300 out of his tithes of £2,700. He seems to have resigned his living some time after. Later Paris 1828 Defamation action while in English Protestant Establishment In Paris against three Anglican Clergymen.
From Chief Secretary’s papers:
1823. Petition of Michael Mahony, Fornangh [Forenaght], parish of Castle Haven, barony of east division of West Carbery, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of unjust treatment at the hands of Reverend Robert Moritt, Church of Ireland clergyman of Castle Haven, following Mahony falling into arrears with his tithe payments. Mahony refers to his financial distress; the refusal of Morritt’s tithe proctor to accept part-payment from Mahony; and subsequent attempts to seize the family’s mare from Mahony’s young son. States that the boy has since been served with a summons to appear at court in Skibbereen, County Cork. Emphasises his hardship and requests that government investigate his case and Morritt’s ‘method of managing His Tithes’ [annotation indicates petition received 9 August 1823]. Subsequent pencil annotation on reverse by Henry Joy, Solicitor General, stating his opinion on the matter.











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05 Thursday May 2016
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1822. Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson, Brookfield, Co. Cork, 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.
It is not clear if Brookfield is a name for Durrus Court or in Bandon
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 them to vote. Charles possibly nephew son of his brother Charles one time Lord Mayor of Cork.
John Hyde, 1797, Creg(golympry), Kilworth, MP for Co. Cork, 1831. Petitioning as MP for Youghal, with Lord Bantry 1822 to Lord Lieutenant for new road Bantry to head of Dunmanus Bay. Carbery Freke map of Durrus area 1788 indicated Hydes as owner of Clonee townland.


05 Thursday May 2016
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October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar
From Dr. Richard Caulfield’s Annals of Kinsale:
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05 Thursday May 2016
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1824, Evidence of Alexander O’Driscoll. Magistrate, Skibbereen, of Sale of Justice by Digging of Potatoes and Cutting Turf for Magistrates, Notorious Extraction of Tithes by Reverend M. Morritt, Skibbereen, West Cork.
Alexander O’Driscoll, 1799, Clover Hill, Skibbereen, (two of same name in Skibbereen at the time not clear who is who) Middle man, 1824, Clover Hill, 1831, 1822, correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Superceded 1810-30, listed 1838, dead with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837.
Alexander O’Driscoll, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle, 1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Perriers, Gibsons, Jonas Travers. 1835…
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