Death  at Burton Park, near Buttevant, in this county of Cork  Mrs. Johanna Allen, aged 114 years. She retained full possession of her mental faculties ; she had a clear recollection, and would often relate many remarkable events connected with the history of her country which happened more than 100 years ago—she was animated with most ardent and patriotic sentiments and felt the most lively interest in the career of O’Connell. Her conversation was a correct and complete history of Ireland for the last century, she could vividly relate the state of comfort and prosperity in which her countrymen lived, and the prosperous and thriving state of our woollen and other manufactures before the union, when every rood maintained its man. The remarkable events connected with the American war, the Irish Volunteers, and the disastrous scenes of ’98, were all frequently related by her to her neighbours. She was followed to the grave by several great-great- grandchildren.

The Cork Examiner, 1 January 1847

March 1840, Ploughing Prizes Presented at Hollybrook, Skibbereen,  West Carbery Agricultural Society.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 03 March 1840

Application from 1721 Charles MacCarthy, Caherkuike, (Caherkirky?) Co.Cork. for Admission to Spanish Nobility from Bilbao Archives among supporters Count Berehaven, Rev. Charles MacCarthy, Curate Enniskeane.

Courtesy of  Samuel Fannin, BA, Dip. Ed.

Click to access Fannin-Bilbao-Coru%C3%B1a3.pdf

The Ó Dalaighs (Dalys) of Muintervara, West Cork, Rymers/Poets to the McCarthys and O’Mahonys from c 1300, founders of Bardic School, by Oral Tradition where the Sons of the King of Spain Attended.

Sir George Carew President of Munster’s list of the Irish who left for Spain since December 1601

List of Irish Shipped to Spain from Castlehaven, 1601

Will, dated 12th April 1668, George Walters, Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, in poor financial circumstances about to go to Spain to recover £37,000 from the King of Spain leaving money to refurbish Church on Whiddy.

George Waters, in 1659, Agent for the Transportation of Soldiers for the service in the KIng of Spain and possessor of 70 Ploughlands in the Baronies of Bere and Bantry, West Cork.

1721 Charles MacCarthy, Caherkuike,(Caherkirky?) Co.Cork.

Sello Mayor. Ref. BSA 0396-001-003, AG 15777 Ps Florence MacCarthy and Kathleen MacCarthy. PGPs John Baptist MacCarthy and Kathleen O’Mahony. MGPs Florence MacCarthy (of Carigen) and Leonora MacCarthy (of Drungarriff). Witnesses in Bilbao Edmund Shee, John Power and Arthur Lynch, who state that nobody should attempt to collect proofs of genealogy in Ireland as it is invaded by the English. Three letters of confirmation of nobility and purity of faith of Charles MacCarthy. One signed by the Count of Berhaven, colonel of the Waterford regiment in the Spanish army, signed in 1721. A second signed by the Duke of Ormonde, saying that Charles MacCarthy abandoned Ireland to follow his legitimate king James, signed in 1721. The third , confirming the long, noble and true Catholic family of MacCarthy, is signed, ‘in our refuge for fear of the persecution’, on the 14thApril, 1719, by the following, and by three priests currently in prison. The bishop of Cork, Donato MacCarthy, John O’Daly, doctor of theology, Andrew Meade, curate of Cnocrahy, Thadeus MacNamara, curate of St.Peters in Cork, Charles MacCarthy, curate of Iniskean(Iniskyne), Demetrius O’Flyn, priest, imprisoned, and rector of Holy Cross parish, Florence MacCarthy, curate of Donaghmore, Terence Begley, priest, imprisoned, Francis O’Brien, priest, imprisoned, John Brown, curate of the White church, Thadeus O’Coghlan, curate of St.Marys. 20 1748 Richard MacDermott, Stamulin, Co.Meath.

14th October, 1828.  Wanted. A physician of eminence to apply sedatives  to the nerves of the Roman Catholic Church Wardens of Bandon who have been seriously affected from having the Statue of King William of Glorious Memory staring them full in the face, on the top of the spire of Kilbrogan Church.  A good fee will be given.  Application to the Treasurer of the Liberal Club, Bandon.  No Brunswicker need apply.

Thanks to Catherine Fitzmaurice  of Bandon Genealogy

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/cork_constitution_notices_1825_and_1828.htm

1866, Death of Appirator, Dick Neal (1799-1866) and Bellows Blower, for 54 years to Cathedral of St. Finbarrs, Cork, Remembered the Graves of the  Young Man who fell from the old Steeple Putting up the Cock, Mr. Voster the Arithmatician m 1779, West Digges The Comedian 1786, O’Brien The Irish Giant Interred in Two Graves To Escape the Doctors Who Eventually Got At  Him.

The office of Appirator was an official one mentioned in Parliamentary Reports.

Arithmetic in Whole and Broken Numbers Digested After a New Method, and Chiefly Adapted to the Trade of Ireland. to Which Are Added, Instructions for Book-Keeping. with the Dignity of Trade in Great-Britain and Ireland. Extracted from the Mercantile.

Daniel Voster

Published by RareBooksClub (2012-05-08)

ISBN 10: 123105705X / ISBN 13: 9781231057056

West Digges – Actor and Theatre Manager

Courtesy Wikipedia:

Patrick Cotter O’Brien (19 January 1760 – 8 September 1806) was the first of only thirteen people in medical history to stand at a verified height of eight feet (2.44 m) or more. O’Brien was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. His real name was Patrick Cotter and he adopted O’Brien as his stage name in the sideshow circus. He was also known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant.

It is believed he died from the effects of the disease gigantism.

No hearse could be found to accommodate his nine feet four inch casket encased in lead, and his remains were borne to the grave by relays of fourteen men. In his will, Cotter left £2,000 to his mother and a request that his body be entombed within twelve feet of solid rock (to prevent exhumation for scientific or medical research).^[1]

In 1972 his remains were examined and it was determined that, while alive, he stood approximately 8 feet 1 inch (246 cm) tall. This made him the tallest person ever at that time, a record that would be surpassed by the next ‘eight-footer’, John Rogan, who died almost a century later. Patrick Cotter’s giant boots are on display in the Kinsale Museum.

An arm of Cotter’s is currently preserved in the Medical Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

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