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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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:

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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.

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.

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,

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 21 September 1830

1815,  Registration of Freeholds for Voting Purposes Cork including Baronies of Carbery.

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1835 Resolution by Indeprendent Electors (Liberal) of Cork Rickard Deasy and D. Geran Thanking James O’Brien , Thomas Parsons Boland, Charles Evanson, Daniel Connell, George Wade Foot, Richard Donovan, for Their Impartiality in Conducting Recent Election.

1841. County Cork Election, Daniel O’Connell and Roche elected, Leader and Longfield Defeated, contested Votes in Baronies of West Carbery and Bere, Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers On Ireland.

Cork election 1837, Durrus Evansons elegible to vote as Non Resident Freemen of Cork.

1837 Cork Election. Report on Fictions Votes Electorate 8,600, Appendix Lists many for Cork City, Liberties of Cork and Country Freemen Entitled to Vote, by Address, Occupation, Valuable in view of Total Lack of 1830s Census.

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.

1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

Geneaolgy of Arnopp family in Dunmanway, Crookhaven and Kinsale, Co. Cork from 1666, related to Hulls of Leamcon, Evansons of Durrus, Coughlans of Crookhaven

Case in Cork Assizes 1844 arising from Lands at Carrigmanus of Charles Coughlan Great Grand Father of Ann Jagoe and Alice Dowe, His Son Richard Married Miss Driscoll 1768 and made a Settlement. Litigation over Validity and Provenance of Wills. Names mentioned O’Sullivan, Notter, Simms, Young

Will Captain Jeremiah Coughlan, Royal Navy, 1796-1815, of Carrigmanus, Schull, West Cork Family and William Marcus Coughlan 1884, Proved Canterbury.

Case of disputed Glebe Lands at Crookhaven, West Cork c 1723, by Rector, Dr. Limerick, referes to Genealogy of Thadues Coughlan, his son Rev Dermitius Coughlan who fled 1641 from Cromwell his great grandson Jeremy (Jeremiah) Attorney and Irish Agent to Burlington Estate, on the road from Schull to Crookhaven ‘nor a bed a man can lie on nor a morsel to be eaten’, Henry Becher’s Fishing palace 1641, Captain William Hull with the wooden leg, Darby Mahony agent to Sir Richard Hull, Donagh McWilliam Coughlan proctor to Rev Thadeus Coughlan, Benjamin Sullivan Attorney Cork and East India Company Connections.

Cork Examiner 01 February 1847