1711, Turkish Ambassador Comes Ashore at Bantry.


29 Friday Apr 2016
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1711, Turkish Ambassador Comes Ashore at Bantry.


29 Friday Apr 2016
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1828. Doneraile, Co. Cork, Brunswick Club.
Bandon:






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1825, Rio de la Plata (Argentina) Agricultural Association, 1 Million Acres Available, Ship Stopping in Cork 40 men wanted Preference to Good Ploughmen.
Father Tim Mahony visiting Cork 1900 was commenting on relations who went to Argentina.



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1825. At a Meeting of Numerous and Highly Respectable Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the barony of Bantry an Address of Fealty to the King and Constitution of These Realms.
The background is presumably an intimation possibly by a magistrate of the contrary.
Interestingly the local Protestants magistrates were notified but did not attend.
Reading between the lines the battle lines were drawn between the Liberal/Catholic adn Conservative/Protestant interest as set out in voters for 1835 and 1841 elections for the area:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l-ttMKKPJT6RP-EwvivLvpw3aeOsNjpv9q8-_kDLFJ4/edit#gid=0
Richard Viscount Berehaven (White/Bantry), Bantry, Pre 1838. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic Meeting on Loyalty to King 1825. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832. Protestant Protest Meeting Bandon 1834
Arthur Hutchins, Ballylickey or Ardnagashel. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825.
Richard (White) -1851), 1st Earl of Bantry, Bantry House (bought 1730 from Hutchinsons as Blackrock House) Pre 1831, 1822, Created Baron White for his part in alerting British of French landing at Bantry Bay 1797, 1801 advance to Viscount Berehaven 1816 created 1st Earl of Bantry. 1799 married Margaret Hare, daughter of William Hare, Earls of Listowel (they had been Cork provision merchants). Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic Meeting on Loyalty to King 1825. Correspondence with Chief Secretary promoting road Bantry to Skibbereen, sitting Bantry, 1835, listed 1838, Quarter Sessions, Bantry 1842.
Simon White, 1789, Glengariff Castle, Bantry, 1831. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825. Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837.





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Cappabue (Kealkil), Bantry, West Cork, National School, Pupils 1861-1994
http://www.cappabue.ie/pages/about-us.php
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Memoir of Blind Harpist Arthur O’Neill, visit to Murtagh Mac Owen O’Sullivan at Berehaven, Co. Cork, Milesian Festival held by Lord Kenmare c 1720.
I travelled the principal part of the County of Cork without anything occurring worth relating. I spent one Christmas with a gentleman that lived in Berehaven named Murtagh MacOwen O’Sullivan, who lived in a princely style. My boy came to me one morning when in bed, who desired me to bless myself. I asked him why so. ‘Och, Sir ! there is a pipe of wine and two hogsheads of some other liquor standing up in the hall with the heads out of them and a wooden cup swimming in each of them for anyone that pleases to drink their skinful.’ I mention this merely to record the hospitality of the gentlemen of the province of Munster. Nor was this the only instance of it, as…
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28 Thursday Apr 2016
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28 Thursday Apr 2016
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Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork. (Shandon inserted as it happened to be in same Journal)
Courtesy 1944 JCHAS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Healy_(politician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hely-Hutchinson_(statesman)
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6107471241433672929
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1829. Death of The O’Donovan, General O’Donovan in his 61st Year, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork. and Passing of Chieftainship of Clann Cathal to Montpelier (Douglas, Cork) Branch.
He married a Miss Powell from Wales and on his death the estates passed out of the family ending up ultimately with her nephew.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, (1801-1902), 1874, Bawnlahan (O’Donovan Estate), Leap, Resident, £67, 2nd. son Major Edward Powell and Eleanor d James B. Buchanan, m Mary Ann d Lieutenant-General Hutchesson, oldest son Rev. Francis Perry Hutchesson b 1843, Newcastle. Estate to Powells from Lieutenant-General O’Donovan (The O’Donovan) on death of his widow to her brother Major Powell. Probate last address 2, Alfred Place, Dover, in Ireland £1,886. Land record, 1870, 2,475 acres.
Doctor John O’Donovan queries into family:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit
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Letting of 18 Gneeves at Kealties, Durrus, West Cork from Stephen Derinau to Young Roycroft, Gent, Clonee.
Enclosed is a will of Roycroft presumably the same family copied pre 1922 destruction.
Deriniau is probably a representative of the Congreve or Tonson family as the land eastward was part of the Bandon Estate at the time rented to the Evanson. to the west the O’Donovan Estate.

Clonee:
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