A stop is put to felling timber, June 1696, in forfeited woods near Bantry by Lord Bellemount’s steward. This was on Sir Nicholas Brown’s land commonly called Lord Kenmare, later which should have been reserved for the Navy. The coast has 24 privateers who report to the Western Irish, their friends, and land men and pillage the country, damaging Protestant families.

Prior to the forfeitures much of the lower land in the Bantry area was forested. It was later denuded for smelting and ship construction. Those involved included the Whites later Earls of Bantry, Dowes and Davies from Macroom, Fenwick from Dunmanway and possibly ther Blairs from there later Durrus.

Commissioner Benjamin Tymewell, Kinsale. 3 French men of war looked into Galway Bay on…
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Sir George Carew writes to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, 13th May 1602 from Camp at Bantry Abbey prior to Siege of Dunboy They lie in such incredible strengths of huge mountains and ugly glynns of bog and wood, as I think no place of the world yields the like, and the ways of such advantage unto them as an 100 men may forbid an army of 5,000 to march from Bantry to Donboye, which is but 24 miles; and if there were no enemy to resist us, nor any baggage in our army, the ways in themselves are so difficult as in less time than eight days I cannot come thither, for three miles a day is the most we can march; and for horse or garrons to carry victuals and munitions no possibility of passage. Wherefore I have resolved by boats and shipping to cross the Bay of Bantry, and…

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Arthur Hutchins, Pre 1831, Bantry?, listed 1838

Arthur Hutchins, 1855, Ballylickey, Bantry, Resident, £60

Richard Hutchins, 1686, Bantry

Thomas Hutchins, 1776, Ballylickey, Bantry

Samuel Newburgh Hutchins, 1875, Fortlands, Charleville, Resident, £408

Samuel Hutchins, listed 1838, Probably Ardnagashel, Bantry, extensive property throughout Co. Cork

Thomas Hutchins, Bantry, West Cork, being paid for Impressing Seamen for British Royal Navy 1746.

The practise of seizing mariners for Navy Service was common in costal area at the time. This is record of a payment to Hutchins for performing this service. His father was reputed to be a significant smuggler. This is from the Kenmare Estate Records (Irish manuscript Commission online)

Hutchins Estates, Landed Estates Database:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2382

Te Hutchins family had significant Maritime interests in Bantry Bay at his period. Various branches of the family lived at Arnnagashel, and Ballylickey formerly in the Castletown Bere area.

Captain Robert Man, the Lauceston, Bantry. Has…

Letting of Clonee, Durrus, West Cork, 1679 to George Simms in trust for Widow Burridge od Ross?.

In the Paddy O’Keeffe papers relating to a Genealogical query there is a reference to this letting. The land at Aghagoheen, Skart nearby were let to Mr. Reed Esq at £27 p.a.

It comes from Richard Caulfield’s book p. 174 of the Rent Roll of the Lands of the Bishop of Cork, and this is the 1st April 1679.

The Western Estate of the Bishop of Cork included lands at Schull. Kilcrohane, Bantry, Letterlickey which may have belonged to the Abbey Of St. Catherine in Waterford prior to its suppression. That in turn may have originated with the Norman’s incursions into West Cork.

The Symms family reputedly had a brewery in Bantry in the 18th century. A number of the family are buried in the old churchyard.

Genealogy of O’Driscoll family from Ederscél, 942 AD, with sketch of vanished Castlehaven Castle by Edith Somerville.

From Father Woulfe’s History o West Cork, 1948.

The O’Driscolls are probably among the most ancient of West Cork families. They are probably pre-Celtic tracing their origins from among the first people to come to Ireland possibly fro Iberia.

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At the fireplace in the Anchor Hotel Bantry, the Future Governor General Tim Healy (1855-1931) with friends asked as a parting gift that ‘something be done about the path from Adrigole to Lauragh’ now the Healy pass and Bill O’Donnell’s Memoir ‘The Shortest Way Home’

The Anchor Hotel used to belong to Bill O’Donnell, who a few months ago at the age of 86 brought out a memoir of his journey around the world in the early 1950s. Inspire.ieproduction. He had earlier written a novel ‘The Small Kingdom’ and has a third book in his head.

His brother Brian owns the famous Pub in Cork the ‘Hi B’

Possible connection between Tim Healy, (1855-1931), MP, King’s Counsel, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-94). lawyer, Statesman, Provost Trinity College Dublin, son Viscount Donoughmore, (if you gave John Britain and Ireland as an estate he would come back and look for the…