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Fastnet Trails: Rossbrin Loop, Part 2

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From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 29th September 1832. More Arrests. The Reverend Mesrs Quin and Kelleher the Roman Catholic Clergy of Meentervaria (Durrus Parish) West Cork, were arrested on Saturday on the 15th for having attended at a Tithe Meeting. Bail was immediately procured in the person of Richard O’Donovan Esq., and Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill (Kilcrohane).

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From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 29th September 1832.
More Arrests. The Reverend Messrs Quin and Kelleher the Roman Catholic Clergy of Meentervaria (Durrus Parish) West Cork, were arrested on Saturday on the 15th for having attended at a Tithe Meeting. Bail was immediately procured in the person of Richard O’Donovan Esq., and Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill (Kilcrohane).
They appeared in the Criminal court in Cork 1832 under the newspaper heading ‘Wallstown Tithe’ defended by Fergus O’Connor, BL.

Of the persons named Father Quin was one of six Tipperary Priest seconded to Cork Dioceses, a modernised he built churches, schools and commence registration of births and marriages.

Richard O’Donovan had an estate at Fort Lodge the house owned by Mr. Ryan now in disrepair is currently for sale. Either his father or grandfather bought the estate and the one of his brother’s Timothy from the Lord Riversdale family. His grandfather Richard O’Donovan was at the University of Toulouse in France in 1740. Probably not by coincidence at that time the elder branch of the O’Donovans, General O’Donovan of Bawnlahan (Myross) was related to the Riversdales/Tomsons/Hulls through the General’s mother Jane Beecher.
Another brother Doctor Daniel O’Donovan had an estate at Caheragh and lived at Norton Cottage, Skibbereen.
Timothy O’Donovan of Ardahill, Kilcrohane not to be confused with Timothy of O’Donovan’s Cove, comes from a branch originally from Dunmanway, apart from a gate there is no remain of that estate.

The Anti Tithe campaign in Muintervara was successful as sometime after at a monster meeting on Mount Gabriel the O’Donovans were praised for their success.
The O’Donovans were also involved in the 1840s in the campaign to have their relation Rickard Deasy, Queens Counsel, elected as MP. By getting their tenants who were entitled to vote to Cork they ensured the election of Deasy in a tight contest. He was later Attorney General for Ireland and a Judge. His sister was married to Doctor Daniel O’Donovan. Deasy is of the same family as Rickard Deasy who was involved in the farmer protests of the 1960s agains the then Minister Charlie Haughey.

The tithes of the Dioceses of Cork and Waterford were acquired by Richard Boyle, The Great Earl of Cork c 1620s. It was regarded as underhand for little or not consideration despite calls for a public enquiry nothing was done. the Tithes for the Durrus and some adjoining area were acquired by the Durrus Evansons c 1750 from the Riversdales/Tonson/Hulls who probably acquired them through marriage or purchase from Hull.
The Tithes were a considerable tax amounting to perhaps a tenth of the produce of arable land. It was divided up between the tithe holder and the local Church of Ireland (State Church) Minister. In practise they were often farmed out to tithe proctors whose methods were brutal and effective.

The Tithes in 1833: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman.

1834, Listing of Those Affected by Changes in Tithe Legislation including Nathaniel Evansons,for Durrus. Klcrohane, Bantry and Rev. Coughlan for Glengariff.

On the 19th June 1843, the Liberator of Your Country, the Beloved Son of Erin will be Among You and We Appeal to the men of The Baronies of Carbery to Meet to Denounce ‘The Odious Act of Union 1800’, with Listing of Priests, Lawyers, and Liberal Protestants including, Samuel Beamish and Thomas Fuller, Dunmanway, Samuel Jervois, Brade, Samuel Jervois, Cooran, Michael Warren and Maxwell Irwin, Clonakilty, Arthur Atteridge, River View, William Williamson, Schull.

Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829. ‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

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Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829.
‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

The present Viscount Lismore is also possessed of a Milesian Estate in the Coutu at Clonmene and Bantrye near Mallow which has been since time Immemorial by the Ancient Race of O’Callaghan unaffected by the many revolutions in Ireland this ancient estate was bequeather to the late Lord Lismore by his cousin O’Callaghan of Clonmene.

From From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 15th December 1829.

The Lord Riversdale/Tonsons referred to are descendant of Hull from Lemcon, Schull to inherit an uncle’s property a Hull changed his name to Tonson.

It is probably not a co incidence that Timothy O’Donovan, a Catholic sometime after 1760 acquired the estate at O’Donovan’s Cove from the extended Riversdale family.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Letter Henry Lawrence Tivy, Newspaper Owner, Magistrate, to Lady Ardilaun, of the Guinness, (MacAonghusa), 11th August 1914 re Effect of World War 1 in Cork, Compulsory Billeting of Troops in Blackrock, Castletownbere Naval Station, Bank Run, Blockade of Bandon Railway

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Letter Henry L Tivy to Lady Ardilaun 11th August 1914 re Effect of World War 1 in Cork, Compulsory Billeting of Troops in Blackrock, Castletownbere Naval Station, Bank Run, Blockade of Bandon Railway.

Lady Adrilaun is probably one of the Banty Whites married to a Guinness.

The Tivys owned the Cork Constitution and founded the Rugby Club of the same name. The family may still own the newspaper distribution business ‘ Newsspread’

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Extracts from Book of Marine Charts of Richard Holmes Laurie c 1820, showing Cape Clear Lighthouse, Two Lighthouses on Skellig, Castletownbere Barracks,

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Extracts from Book of Marine Charts of Richard Holmes Laurie c 1820, showing Cape Clear Lighthouse, Two Lighthouses on Skellig, Castletownbere Barracks,

From Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Historian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Laurie_(engraver)

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‘Google Man’, mapping the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’, Co. Donegal, and Sheeps head Way, West Cork.

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‘Google Man’, mapping the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’, Co. Donegal, Sheeps head Way, West Cork.

Sheep’s Head…

http://livingthesheepsheadway.com/google-trekker-captures-the-sheeps-head-way/

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Lawyers, Court Officials and Para Legals Co Cork and Cork City from 1300

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Lawyers, Court Officials and Para Legals Co Cork and Cork City from 1300.

This is compiled from diverse sources including the admission books of the four London Inns of Court, Kings Inns Admission papers dn details from the Registry of Deeds Project. It is not comprehensive. The figure of the pre mid 19th century Attorney in his various manifestations is elusive. Sometimes they are to be found in the Kings Inns papers but many details are lost probably in the destruction of Irish Records in the Public Records Office in 1922.

A number of themes are apparent, some families such as the Galweys, Gould, Coppingers survive almost 800 years in the profession undergoing changes in language and religion.

Pre 1650 the names as of Danish, Norman and Gaelic origin from the Planter (Predominantly English wiht some Scots and Huguenot). As the Inns records give the mother’s name and also…

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Foreign Born Population of USA in 1870, Ireland 33.3%. The next is Germany at 30%

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Foreign Born Population of USA in 1870, Ireland 33.3%. The next is Germany at 30%.

It has been stated that in the 1870 census that the US population was around 38 million of whom almost 2 million were Irish born.

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European Population Intensity 2001 to 2011

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European Population Intensity 2001 to 2011.

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/06/incredibly-detailed-map-europes-population-shifts/396497/

De Courcy Vintage Farm Machinery Rally, Ballinadee, Co. Cork, Combine Harvesters, Reapers and Binders.

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De Courcy Vintage Farm Machinery Rally, Ballinadee, Co. Cork, Combine Harvesters, Reapers and Binders.

Farm machinery at Gortnagrough Folk Museum including by Pierce and W. Doyle of Wexford, Clearys of Carrick-on-Shannon, Block Making Machine by J Conway and Sons Inchicore, Dublin, Comhlucht Siúicre Éireann Teó.


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