1748, Thomas Trendle (Trender?), Skibbereen escaped Convict en route to Cork Gaol, Marked with Small Pox, Wig, Description of Clothing, Reward £5 from William Hull, Skibbereen, Ship Masters Notified.
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1759, Sale by Public Cant by the Chief Remembrances of lands at Maulvirane, Parish of Killfaughnabeg (Clonakilty Area), Barony of East Carbery, in the Matter of Rev. Horatio Townsend v William Morris The Elder and William Morris the Younger.
It was common for sons of Landed Gentry to become Ministers of the Church of Ireland. Sometimes this involved active Ministry other times a sinecure and in many cases they were not active but land Agnts. The cost of Land Agency was estimated to be 30% including legal fees of the gross rents. Sometimes these clergymen managed other estates. Examples were the Somers Payne of Upton and Bantry (Lord Bantry Estates), the Evansons of Durrus and many more.
http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/kilfaughnabeg/
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Casper, Wyoming:
Photo American Football School Team 1938, Casper Wyoming, USA, Parents Skibbereen, Ballydehob, Schull, Durrus, Ahakista, Kilcrohane.
Those Sheepshead Football Heroes of 1938. In the 1930s the majority of the schoolchildren had parents who were Irish most from West Cork. Some of the children whose parents had ranches or worked on ranches boarded during the week.
Linemen are standing:
Left to Right:
#1 Gerald (Gerry) Sullivan son of Dan of the Durrus Smokes & Nony Donovan of Durrus
#2 Harry Arundel Ward son of William Ward of Skibbereen & Margaret Arundel of Ahakista
(Next to Last) Joe Murphy (6th grade & not on team)
Son of Patrick Murphy (Michael & Connie Murphy relative) of Kilcrohane & Hester Sullivan of Schull/Skibbereen
Backfield is sitting
Left to Right:
#1 Mike Mahoney son of Michael Mahoney of Kilcrohane
#4 Bill Goggin son of Mike Goggin of Causeway and Rose Laverty of the North
#7 Denis Minihan (not on team)
son of William Minihan of Balleydehob and Sarah Theresa O’Halloran of the West
There were no girls from Sheepshead in that class, but there were plenty in others.
From Kilcrohane, West Cork to Casper,Wyoming Restoring Dodge 1953 Truck
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1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.
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Griffith’s Roads: Report of Patrick Leahy, Civil Engineer, 1834 to Co. Cork Grand July of Progress of Road from Dunmanus Bay to Skibbereen, Nearly Completed, Extension to Ballydehob Approved, and Report of Edmund Leahy, County Surveyor to Grand July 1840 on Ballylickey to Crookstown, 27 miles Active, Bantry to Glengariff 10 miles Near Completion, Crookhaven to Barleycove, Ballydehob to Bantry To Be Finished Current Season.
Report of Richard Griffith Engineer on new road Skibbereen to Bantry 1823
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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.
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Daniel Galwey, Kilkeran, Clonakilty, Under Agent for Lloyds Marine Insurance, Assaulted by Mob, Cape Clear, February 1834, Attempting to Recover Proceeds of Ship wreck. Earlier Wreck of Europe off Rosscarbery.
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March 1824, Houghing of Livestock, Ballydehob, West Cork, 1824 Spillover of Whiteboyism.
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1845 appeal to Enlarge the Churches of Schull, West Cork, to Accommodate ‘Upwards of Two Thousand Protestants of The Humblest Class’, with a Listing of Subscribers.
Of those listed most of the lay people are Land Owners, the Notters in Crookhaven, the Swantons in Ballydehob although many of the family were Methodist. There were at the time two Alexander O’Driscolls both Middle men in the general area one Catholic one Protestant. The Earl of Bandon listed had some small estates in the area including Dereenlomane where the barytes mines were. Dr. Sweetnam listed is probably of the land owning family and agents in the Caheragh area. Connell is not to be confused with O’Connell (relations of the Liberator were land owners in the general area) it is probably a variation of the Huguenot ‘Quesnel’.
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1881 Land War, West Cork, Disturbances arising from Possible Arrest of Father Murphy, Horse Soldiers in Ballydehob, Marines from Bantry Deported to Ballydehob, Gunboat off Schull, Rifle Brigade in Skibbereen, Railway Line from Skibbereen to Bandon Torn Up.