Census 1659 Parish of Durrus, West Cork.

From the Irish Manuscript Commission.  Google Irish Manuscript Commission.  On their home page there is an area for out of print publications now digitalised.  You should see the 1659 census and click the index at the back gives places or maybe just explore Co. Cork.

John Winspeare referred to was on English background in the fishery business.  The Trenwiths later extensive on Beara.  Lieutenant Colonel John Read acquired the forfeit McCarthy Muclagh (Scart later Coolnalong Gearhameen Castle) lands later in possession of Evansons.

 
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1840.  Registration of Voters at Bantry, West Cork.

Scannell

Galwey

Forsythe:

Of those referred to John h. white was of the Lord Bantry family and may have converted to Catholicism.  The O’Connells may be of the Daniel O’Connell family.  The priests were highly active politically.

Augustus Payne agent to Lord Bantry probably son of Rev. Somers Payne, Orange Order head in Cork, organiser adn fixer in the Conservative interest.

Curious case of Robert Swindells, Methodist Preacher on Hely-Hutchinson, Cork Election List 1783.  Previously 1749 found by the Cork Grand Jury to be ‘a person of ill-fame, a vagabond, and a common disturber of his Majesty’s peace’ along with Charles Wesley and others

Cork Archive  website:

http://www.corkarchives.ie/collections/onlinedigitalarchive/hely-hutchinsoncorkelectorsms1783/

Inventory of Records of Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross Destroyed, Stored in the Dublin Public Records Office in  1922, including Wills Book from 1454 and Cloyne Marriage License Bonds from 1630, Registrations of Priests and Sarsfield papers.

This was compiled by Herbert Woods in 1919, he was the Assistant Deputy Keeper of the Pubic Records Office.

One well known Irish historian starts every morning by cursing those who caused the 1922 loss.

Cork Consistory Court:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWBV3gRAeVpYqD5Nlq9j4by9xQGww9Y141pT1mZshpA/edit

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/linen+hall+library/147a59a0905dccea?projector=1

-No 2 Herbert-Woods-Guide-to-Public-Records

1654.  Sir William Petty’s Analysis of Agricultural Prosperity Parish of Durrus, West Cork.

Trinity College Dublin has digitalised the Down Survey Maps. If they are compared with the listing of landowners and lot numbers you can see the make up of the land.   It is divided into pasture, arable, woodlands, mountain and bog   Compared to the early 19th century Ordnance Survey Maps it is remarkable accurate even to the present day.  The maps were prepare for the forfeitures and subsequent plantations arising from the failed 1641 uprising against the English.

It is somewhat surprising how much of active arable land was available.  The main structure in the area was Coolnalong Castle still a very impressive structure.  Remarkable it was built around 1620 without defensive structures in the obvious belief that some type of peace would prevail.  This was the Castle of the McCarthy Mucklaghs adn the local area must have been pretty productive to afford such a structure.

Maps and Owner Listings:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/152lXzCwoM-yxx5oLFK1fXQi49t5u-DppX0D-XXTQBl4/edit#

Legal Tenure:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ASX2u0qoIxsBW1YhlYSawdLX2Y_XpL_vXcpblsgApXY/edit#gid=0

Sir William Petty, 1623-1687, True Genius, founder of Modern Economics and Government Accounts and Prohobition of Non-Protestants working in his Berehaven Mines

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

‘Three Hours Work a Day is Quite Enough’, James Maynard Keynes and Kerry Economics

The Potato.  From Peru to the Great Irish Famine.

From the world’s oldest botanic gardens at the University of Padua, Italy.

Bantry Bay and Fort, 1685 with Possible Early Depiction of Potato Garden.

The Grufán and the Spade, Abandoned Famine Lazy Potato Beds, Kicrohane, West Cork.

Pre 1965 farming practices West Cork, Red Elephant and Epicure potatoes, working with the grufán, threshing with the steam engine, winnowng of wheat and oats, working in the bog.

Green Tops, White Rocks, Sherry Blues, Cruffles, Flounders, Seed Potatoes, For Sale, Skibbereen, 1863.

October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

The Grufán and the Spade, Abandoned Famine Lazy Potato Beds, Kicrohane, West Cork.

Use Fashion Clues to Interpret Old Family Photographs

Courtesy  Jayne Shrimpton, who analyses unlabelled old photos to help us add more context to our own family photos.

http://www.readdaily.org/interpret-old-family-photos-fashion-clues/