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Some Fatalities World War 1, Toormore, Durrus

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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Some Fatalities World War 1, Toormore, Durrus

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11urZxIDy4fdnr2ih_r8mtr4i1zI5dqmLgz6ipOIRhCM/edit#gid=0

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Remember the Children who were Baptised in This Ancient Font on Cape Clear Island before 1925 and at Teampol na mBocht (The Altar) since 1935

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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Remember the Children who were Baptised in This Ancient Font on Cape Clear Island before 1925 and at Teampol na mBocht (The Altar) since 1935

Courtesy Eamonn Langford, a tireless scholar:

The Baptism Font in Altar, Church of Ireland, Aughadown, Skibbereen, Co. Cork was removed from St. Kieran’s Chapel of Ease, Glen Middle, Cape Clear Island in 1933 when the chapel was taken down and its fine cut stone transferred by boat to Schull and used in the building of the Munster and Leinster Bank in there. The bank building was up to recenly known as Allied Irish Bank. The Church of Ireland chapel at Cape Clear was built by the Island and Coast Society c. 1849 and consecrated c. 1853.

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Memorial at Teampol na mBocht (The Altar), Church of Ireland, Tormore, West Cork by Ellen Allen, Boston, USA to her Father Michael Allen, Toormore, Who Fought in Indian Mutiny

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Toormore,+Co.+Cork/@51.520091,-9.648364,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459b409b8f291b:0x0a00c7a99731d030

Memorial at Teampol na mBocht (The Altar), Church of Ireland, Tormore, West Cork by
Ellen Allen, Boston, USA to her Father Michael Allen, Toormore, Who Fought in Indian Mutiny

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11urZxIDy4fdnr2ih_r8mtr4i1zI5dqmLgz6ipOIRhCM/edit#gid=0

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Hybrid Military/Religious Monument to Michael McLean, Lowertown, Schull. West Cork, (I ndíl-chuimhne ar Mhiceál MacLeáin, Oifigeach in arm na poblachta, a maráiodh le Gaill ar an 8ú Nolliag 1920 ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Toormore,+Co.+Cork/@51.520091,-9.648364,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459b409b8f291b:0x0a00c7a99731d030

Hybrid Military/Religious Monument to Michael McLean, Lowertown, Schull. West Cork, (I ndíl-chuimhne ar Mhiceál MacLeáin, Oifigeach in arm na poblachta, a maráiodh le Gaill ar an 8ú Nolliag 1920 ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam

Michael McLean, Officer in the Army of the Republic, Killed by Foreigners, on the 8th December 1920. May his soul be at the right hand of God.

This is most unusual monument combing a military monument with a Marian Statue

 

 

1841 Election West Carbery:

 

John McClean Towrmore (Toormore, Schull) Skibbereen 1837 £20 1 1 One of the McLeans from Lowertown, Schull killed in an engagement wit Crown forces War of Independence 1920

 

 

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/bmhsearch/search.jsp?pager.offset=1200&querystr=michael%20spain%20four%20courts

https://www.academia.edu/14217779/Final_20_July_2015_Cork_deaths_War_of_Independence_and_Civil_War_1916-1923

Durrus Agricultural Show, 1938, Bantry, Co. Cork 1946 and 1948 with Names Exhibitors and Prizes:

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Durrus Agricultural Show, 1938, Bantry, Co. Cork 1946 and 1948 with Names Exhibitors and Prizes:

Very often the same families even in the 19th century continue to exhibit.

Scroll to locate relevant pages

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OaTv0viw8AKxaoUtJEym5y0Dp0xAqTqZj5nE7nyitDg/edit

Munster Dairy Institute and Agricultural Institute, Itinerant Instructor Scheme, Butter Exhibition and Prizes August, 1900, Durrus, West Cork. Those present at Prize giving included Dr. Levis, Rocky Mountain O’Bien, Miss Tobin, etc

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Munster Dairy Institute and Agricultural Institute, Itinerant Instructor Scheme, Butter Exhibition and Prizes August, 1900, Durrus, West Cork. Those present at Prize giving included Dr. Levis (his brother was rector both athletes), Rocky Mountain O’Brien, Miss Tobin (probably daughter of Richard Tobin art school graduate, grand daughter King Tobin, Kilcrohane), etc

The Munster Institute (at Model Farm Road Cork) was part of a scheme to raise standards in Irish Agriculture. At the same time Horace Plunkett was promoting the co-op movement as in the Danish and Swedish model.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OaTv0viw8AKxaoUtJEym5y0Dp0xAqTqZj5nE7nyitDg/edit

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1822, Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in District Edward Hunt, Kinsale, 1822, observes that many Magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’

02 Monday Nov 2015

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1822, Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in District Edward Hunt, Kinsale, 1822, observes that many Magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’

From Chief Secretary Papers 1818-1822, http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/index.html

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

Match 2 from ‘CSO/RP’
NAI REFERENCE:
CSO/RP/1822/2120
TITLE:
Dr William Folliot: seeking extension of treatment for small pox
SCOPE & CONTENT:
Letter from Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in district: claims to have approached chief magistrate ‘Townsend’, but finds he is without adequate authority to sanction an increase in inoculation.
EXTENT:
1 item; 3pp
DATE(S):
5 Oct 1822
DATE EARLY:
1822
DATE LATE:
1822
ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
CSORP1822/2714

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Match 1 from ‘CSO/RP’
NAI REFERENCE:
CSO/RP/1822/2296
TITLE:
Observation on character of Irish police constables and magistrates
SCOPE & CONTENT:
Letter from Edward Hunt, Kinsale, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing satisfaction with introduction of Irish Constabulary Act before Parliament and advances criticism of character of existing police constables and local magistrates: observes that many magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’; mentions in postscript interest in obtaining a situation as magistrate or police constable.
EXTENT:
2 items; 5pp
DATE(S):
29 May 1822
DATE EARLY:
1822
DATE LATE:
1822
ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
CSORP1822/2927

Schedule of Some of The Documents Destroyed in The Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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Schedule of Some of The Documents Destroyed in The Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/15921/page/420704

Gallery

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A joint post by Finola and Robert Hallowe’en (All Hallows – Samhain) was the perfect day…

1831 Parliamentary Return of Cork Magistrates appointed since 1810 and Those entitled to Preside at Road Presentments.

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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1831 Parliamentary Return of Cork Magistrates appointed since 1810 and Those entitled to Preside at Road Presentments.

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