Alexander Donovan, Clonakilty, 1822 Admission Gray’s Inns, 1836 Reporter Court of Common Pleas, London, Judge Dominica, his brother Rickard Donovan, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork from 1838 (Equivalent to State Solicitor), Extended family Network by Marriage including Daniel O’Connell and the Puxley Mining Family of Beara.

The O’Connell/Puxley connection is through their uncle Timothy O’Donovan of Durrus. His wife’s mother was Lavellin (an Old Cork family some of whom conformed to the Church of Ireland) one of whom married a Puxley and in 1840 was the grandmother of the then mining magnate.

Gray’s Inns, son James a Doctor late Clonakilty he was probably born O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, brother of Timothy O’Donovan, JP and also a JP.

The O’Donovans along with other old Catholic Gentry in West Cork in the early and mid 19th century were associated with Daniel o’Connell, Anti Tithe activity and Repeal.

They were connected politically with Rickard Deasy who was elected and MP in the 1840s late to be Solicitor General and Attorney General for Ireland and A judge. He was of the Clonakilty brewing family connected by marriage to the Protestant Clerke family of Skibbereen tow of the daughter s family as writers and astronomists.

In correspondence between Dr. John O’Donovan and members of the West Cork O’Donovans there is reference to Alexander achieving judicial office in Dominica and dying young.

P.426
http://www.archive.org/stream/registeradmissi00inngoog#page/n436/mode/2up

https://books.google.ie/books?id=cTVKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP10&lpg=PP10&dq=alexander+donovan+barrister&source=bl&ots=-CprqX7SUC&sig=C4-EyJhfOK07aYpP3p5Uxe6xVaA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBWoVChMI–7an6SKxwIVJ0fbCh3q8QK7#v=onepage&q=alexander%20donovan%20barrister&f=false
https://books.google.ie/books?id=qrhHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA703&lpg=PA703&dq=alexander+donovan+barrister&source=bl&ots=qWAVRXmcUc&sig=OXPStVF53uvvWkGDWtAzSuXuS5A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwATgKahUKEwiQrcvSuYrHAhUJWdsKHTRaCVM#v=onepage&q=alexander%20donovan%20barrister&f=false

1805, Admission to Gray’s inns, of Cornelius O’Leary, aged 36, Raleigh, Macroom, Co. Cork probably son of Art O’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre) Judicially Murdered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%C3%93_Laoghaire

P. 408

http://www.archive.org/stream/registeradmissi00inngoog#page/n418/mode/2up

Gray’s Inn (Law Student Training Centre), London, Admission Entry for Daniel O’Connell, 16th April 1795.
Looking at the years around this time there are quite a number of Irish students, to qualify at the Irish Bar it was necessary to attend a number of dinners at one of the four London Inns notwithstanding studies at the King’s Inns.

http://www.archive.org/stream/registeradmissi00inngoog#page/n410/mode/2up

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.5736223,-9.1694783,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Various Applications by George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston, Myross (Skibbereen/Rosscarbery), West Cork to Dublin Castle, for Assistance on Public Work Projects mentions Wretchedness, Recent Fever epidemic.
Redmond Barry from nearby Glandore was sometime later appointed Inspector of Fisheries and did much work to develop fisheries in the area.

http://cgoakley.org/efa/1771GK.html

These are precis of papers in the National Archives

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=Search&category=27&searchDescTxt=myross&offset=10&browseresults=true

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