1899, Bantry, Funeral of Miss O’Connor, Wreaths From William Martin Murphy and Family, Buyer of Cleary and Co, Dublin, Attendance, Magistrates, John Daly, Barry O’Leary, John Cullinane, James Gilhooley Member of Westminster Parliament, James Manders (Butter Merchant), Doctor Thomas Popham, William Warner (Merchant), Thomas R. Hurst (Publican).

Miss O’Connor is probably of the Murphy O’Connor, family who had the ‘Dale Yard’ opposite the Maritime Hotel.  William Martin Murphy was a sleeping partner in the Company.  The attendance of M O’Keeffe, Schull and John Lyons are probably ancestors of Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Businessman and Historic who ran Lyons and Co. Murphy O’Connor and numerous other busisnesses i the 20th century.  Murphy and O’Conner.

One of the descendants of William Martin Murphy was a member of the Chance family who was working in Murphy and O’Connor in Bantry in the 20th century.  The Chance family paid for the medical education for Dr. Noel Browne.

William Martin Murphy, Bantry and the Noel Brown connection.

had the old mill building the present hotel.  This was a Young (Fish Merchant) and later Jagoe property.  John Jagoe, Merchant, Fisheries commissioner,  (mother Young of the Point) married Margaret o’Connor and in the Landed Estates Sale of the 1850s a small Jagoe/O’Connor estate came up for sale.

The Copithorns had a mill at the site of the present library.  Manders adn Warner had one of the most modern butter factories in Ireladn.  Thomas Hurst descends from a Coastguard and he married into the Durrus Shannon, Clashadoo,  family.  He had a pub now the present Bank of Ireland and extensive property.  That pub featured prominently i the evidence of Cadogan convicted of the 1900 murder of Land Agent Bird in his office over Warners’s Stores. His son a Naval Surgeon was lost in WW2 in HMS Hood.

F.W. Biggs (Probably GW) was a merchant from Bandon who set up in Bantry and his business was later taken over by Paddy ‘Keeffe.  HIs mills were burned down by the Black and Tans.

George William (GW) Biggs, 1912, Ardnageena, Bantry, Methodist native Bandon Merchant business taken over by Paddy O’Keeffe, listed  1922, Black and Tans burned his stores for employing ‘Sinn Féiners’ 1920, £25,000 of damage, same time burned Bantry Estate Office.

 

Magistrates:

 

Henry Cullinane, 1893, Main St., Skibbereen, listed 1913, listed 1916.  Attending listed as ‘John’ funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.

 

James Daly, 1893, Maughbeg, Bandon, Attending funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.

 

James Gilhooley (1847-, Pre 1910, Main St., Bantry, son Peter born Bantry, MP for West Cork since 1885, imprisoned five times, member Bantry RDC, County Council 1910, m Mary d Jeremiah Collins, Kilbarry, Dunmanway, 5 children. Attending funeral Bantry 1899 of Miss O’Connor of merchant family, listed 1921.

 

 

November 1869, Bantry , Pre 1798 Grain Store, Former Military Barracks during Attempted French Invasion 1796, Workhouse now Maritime Hotel, New Pier Built by William Murphy (Father William Martin Murphy), The Bird Family, Late Michael Murphy Flax Mills Donemark.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Donemark,+Co.+Cork/@51.6968024,-9.4492162,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450bbaf6a63bed:0x5730c094c9aaf311?hl=en

Mellifonts of Donemark, Bantry, West Cork.

Petition of Maurice de Carrreu (Carrew) to King of England c1300 including Donemark, Bantry.

Letter from Florence McCarthy 1609 re building of Castles at Donemark, Bantry, Co.Cork 1215

 

Raparees, Tories, Whiteboys, Anti-Tithers of Muskerry, The Mellifonts, First Boycott, Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, his cottage at Ballinascarty and Michael O’Riordan’s (Communist Party of Ireland) tribute to the Keohane Sisters Clonakilty, Co Cork.

Some Rent receipts, Kenmare Estate 1741-46, Bantry Beara Area, William Sullivan, Florence Sullivan, Rev. Thomas Miller, Mort Sullivan, Gilbert Mellifont Donemark, Michael Murphy Newtown and Mills, Beversham Harman Laheran, Patrick Galwey Gurteenroe, Daniel Cronin Gortdarrug Cooloum, Thomas Hutchins Ballylickey, John Riordan Ballylickey, Patrick Minihane Donemark, Richard Tobin Mills Donemark, Ards Coomleigh, Denis Leary, John Harman.

 

1840 Evictions by Lord Kenmare and his Middleman David Mellifont, at Ahil, Bantry, West Cork and other areas, Distress, Typhus, Borrowing from Butter Merchants.

Magistrates:

David Mellifont, 1794, Donemark, Bantry, Superseded 1810-30, Middle man on Lord Kenmare estate.

Richard Mellefont, 1766, Downemart (Donemark), Bantry

 

Pre 1750

David Mellifont

Doonemarch (Donemark)

Appointed JP 1794

The same names also appear in Dunmanway area. Lease 1788 from Lord Kenmare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nazi Map of Cork Including ‘Fordwerke” Ford’s Car Factory

 

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~279303~90052364

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will in  Department of Agriculture warehouse, Portlaoise as sucessors to the Land Commission.

 

 

 

11th December 1891.

 

 

 

 

January 23rd 1864.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1835 Resolution by Independent 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.

Thomas Dennehy Esq., Superceded 1810-30, Belleview, sitting Fermoy 1835, Proposer of Thanks by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections.  Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837, listed 1838, 1842, 1843.  Father of John, Brooklodge, career in India and Richard of Prospect House.

Father James Barry, Parish priest Bantry ordained 1823. Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Thanked Assessors as Independent Liberal Elector for Impartiality in 1835 elections.

James was obviously a man of learning and compassion, and one who was called upon locally to be a spokesperson and advocate for his flock. Even before the Famine he gave evidence to boards of inquiry about the conditions in West Cork, pointing out the miserable diet, lack of proper clothing and housing, poor prospects for employment, the uncertainty of a lease being continued, the lack of compensation to tenants when lands were taken to build new roads, the desire of many to emigrate and the good account they gave of their experiences in their new homes.  He would have read their letters to them, since many of his parishioners were illiterate – his remarks focused on the many advantages of the New World, including a pointed reference to the absence of tyranny. In what seems like a very modern concern with income inequality, he commented on how the rich got richer as their tenants’ lives became ever more difficult.   During the Famine, he and his brother, Father John, also of Schull parish, worked to help establish soup kitchens but insisted that more than soup be served, since the soup was not nutritious enough. Called eating houses, these places fed many people who would otherwise have died, and replaced the hated and ineffective Board of Works schemes that put weak and starving people to hard labour so they could buy their own corn, thus supposedly salvaging their dignity and rescuing them from the evils of pauperism.

 

 

Charles Evanson, Pre 1830, Charlemont, Douglas, son of Nathaniel Evanson, Durrus and admitted his brother Nathaniel JP, as Freeman of Cork on St. Valentine’s Day, 1794.  Alderman, Sheriff and Mayor of Cork 1804.  His son Rev. William Alleyn married the sister of the Provost of TCD, Lyndon MacDonnell.  Listed in tree register as having planted 1,100 trees in Durrus/Kilcrohane.  Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections.   Funded personally relief work Douglas in 1820 petitioned Chief Secretary for more resources.  Donor to building of Rosnacaheragh Catholic Church, Durrus, sitting Passage West, 1835, listed 1842,1843, Son? Charles sitting Douglas 1850, voted 1850 for Denis Galwey as High Constable for Ibane and Ballyroe (Clonakilty).

Thomas Parsons Boland Esq., Pre 1831, Pembrook, Passage, sitting Passage West, 1835. Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections Ex-Officio Poor Law Commissioners 1839.  Listed 1843.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838

 

1809, 1824, 1827

James O’Brien

Attorney, 1824, 11, Patrick-street

South Mall, 1827 writing clerks Denis Sylvester Deasy, Owen Lyons deed Bird Bantry, Memorial 567358. Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections

West’s Directory 1809

Pigot’s Directory 1824

 

1844 Died

George Foot Esq.

Barrister-at-Law

1st son Richard and Mary Baldwin, Milford Mallow, later Clerk of the Peace City of Cork. Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections

Kerry Evening Post, Dr. Casey 2236

 

 

 

1824

Richard/Richard Donovan (1799-1883)

Attorney 23, Cooke-street, Cork, Clerk of Crown, Co. Cork.

Pigot’s Directory 1824. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty, 1847. May have signed Kings Inns affidavit of Andrew McCarthy, Skibbereen, 1836 son of James, Skibbereen. decd. Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections

Grandson of Alexander O’Donovan, Squince, Chieftan, ClanLoughlin, junior branch O’Donovans. Son of Dr. Donovan, Clonakilty, first Catholic in this position since 17th century

Richard Donovan (1799-1883), Lisheens, Ballincollig, listed 1838, Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor) for Co. Cork from 1838, son of Dr. Donovan, Clonakilty. Probate to Denis McCarthy Gallivey (Galwey), Greenfield, Clonakilty, £10,164.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1786, 1835

Daniel Connelan

Attorney

Freeman 1786. Thanked by Independent Liberal Electors for Impartiality in 1835 elections asuming it is the same.

 

 

 

Independent Electors 1835

 

 

1869, Lord Bandon Has Transformed Carrigbui (Durrus) From a Neglected Filthy Dingy Spot of Forges and Cesspools to Its Pleasant Pleasing and promising Aspect.

The article places the recovery of the Estate from the Evansons to 1854.

Some Bandon Estate Rental Records:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0

 

 

 

 

 

 

1866, Bantry Workhouse,  Strong and Healthy Looking Girl From Sheep’s Head, Whose Mother and father were Inmates Refused Entry and Engaged as a Farmer’s Servant at 10 Shillings a Quarter.

 

1839, Assistant Commissioner Voles Explains Poor Law To Bantry Guardians, West Cork

 

 

 

 

 

 

1834.  5,000 at Protestant Meeting, Bandon, Co. Cork.