Rushes:

Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/10434

George Boyle White (1802-1876), born Bantry, West Cork, East India Company Navy man, Surveyor, Australia 1830s Journals of Expedition.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/4946

John Westropp Carey, born Kinsale 1778 died Glenlough outside Bantry 1862. Married Margaret McCarthy, Daughter of Daniel McCarthy former Parish Priest of Durrus and Sarah Blair of Blairs Cove, Durrus. MIlitary service of him and his 6 Brothers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy marriage to Sarah Blair,  Blair genealogy, Petition 1820 Dublin Castle, 19th May 2022

Rev Dan McCarthy (Apostatised and married his ward Ms.Sarah Blair) P.P. 1790. He was one of the McCarthy Muclaghs and was known as ’An tAthair Tadgh Na Muclagh’.  His father used to dispute the claim of the McCarthys of Carrignavar the right to the Chieftainship of the McCarthys.  He was influenced by the radical teachings of Voltaire and Rosseau as a student in France.’ He was a classical scholar and acted as interpreter in Bantry between General Dalrymple and the French Officer Prosseau in 1796.  His daughter married John Westropp Carey who lived in Glenlough Cottage on the Northside. 

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So far as Daniel McCarthy is concerned, he is my 4 x Gt Grandfather . My line from Daniel goes to Robert McCarthy, his son, 1803—1843. Robert was a Printer, and in the 1841 census he was 38 years old and living in Teiers (Friar’s Walk) Walk, St Nicholas Parish, City of Cork. All the children, of school age, were at St Nicholas School.   A sister of Robert, was Margaret McCarthy, 1802-1839, who in 1822 married John Westropp Carey, 1778-1862. A brother of Robert McCarthy was the Rt Reverend Welbore McCarthy, D.D.,  He was, I think twice, the Bishop of Calcutta’s Commissary, i.e. ‘temporary deputy’ and latterly Archdeacon and Archbishop of Grantham. Robert McCarthy had married in 1810, Mary Jane Agar, daughter of the Reverend Charles Welbore Agar, Rector of Inniscarra. Robert and Mary had a number of children. My 2 x Gt Grandfather being the Reverend John Agar McCarthy, 1832-1890, who was a Church Missionary Society missionary in India, and married his wife, Mary Jane Carey, 1831-1915, daughter of Michael Carey of Cork, in Calcutta in 1859. Michael Carey was one of seven Carey brothers, who all served in the Army and Navy at the time of the Peninsular War.  Michael Carey was a Lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment. He was wounded at Talavera, served through the whole Peninsular Campaign under the Duke of Wellington, and received a Medal with eight clasps for his services.  A brother of Michael Carey, Randall Carey was the youngest Midshipman on board the ship that Napoleon was taken prisoner in. As such, he had to receive Napoleon’s sword.  Reverend John Agar McCarthy and his wife, Mary Jane (nee Carey) had seven children, the eldest of which, is my Gt Grandmother, Lizzie Martin McCarthy, who was born in Pershar, on the Indian Afghanistan border in 1860. In the 1871 Census, Reverend John Agar McCarthy was Vicar Designate of St Saviours, Battersea, London. He continued as a Vicar in England until his death in 1890 at Swaffham, Norfolk. His daughter, Lizzie Martin McCarthy married Robert Kohloff Clark, son of the Reverend William Clark, CMS Missionary in India and Ceylon. 

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Somewhere in the Paddy O’Keeffe papers (Cork archives) there is a reference to him either having a pack of hounds of borrowing those of the O’Donovans I thnk around Newtown, Bantry.,

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Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1950 Funeral and Background.

Father William Holland, SMA, 1911-1952 was a relative.

His extended family included the O’Heas and Maddesn of Ardfield. Included was the famous Master Madden, after he finished this National School at Ardfield he ran a cramming school to prepare I think boys only for English Civil Service e Exams. Included among his pupils were future revolutionaries Sam Maguire and his brother and Michael Collins.

At the back of the book is a series of notations by John T.Collins from Kilmeen, Clonakilty. He was part of a loose group including Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, Clonakilty. He assisted Basil O’Connell in compiling ‘The O’Connell Tracts’. In the 1950s he was given access to a 18th century collection of Cork Newspaper compiled by the Kearneys of Garrettstown House. By the 1950s Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West had the collection. John T. Collins published widely in the Cork Historical adn Archaeological JOurnal available online great research highly accurate.

History of West Cork:

Pretty much a a stunning achievement before the Internet and Google and the he spent long periods serving in Northern Nigeria.

Funeral and background:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMIfS_tZBVzk6nxPSY8FobTKXQIT0pG4UgoqVjtlzdLiwteVHZKMEcdEG3NamhszA?key=azNfNy1XamRBdUdBTWthM2p6aHB6VkZ2LWl0MXRB

Funeral and background:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBDukIFQhkhJiRA5xOIfNPtIDgWzoz_-FHNDjPgPSoc/edit

1765, Accounts of Franciscan Community, Broad Lane, Cork, Diet, Rents, Taxes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tI6ilBqI0iH4Ofg6DInNrxUqFWQdLorHZ8qhV6IwoVo/edit

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Meat

23 lb beef

Shoulder of mutton 13 lb.

Shoulder of mutton 11 lb.

Mutton a leg weight

Beef 20 lb.

Leg of mutton 10.5 lb.

Leg of mutton

Beef

Pork one side for the house

Hind muton 6 lb

Shoulder of mutton 10 lb.

Quarter of Mutton

Fish

Ling 8.5 lb.

Cod for Friday

Ling 19 lb.

Cod 2 fresh

Salmon

Dried Ling 10 lb

Ling 7.75 lb

Entire Smoked Salmon

Salmon another cut

Ale 2 quarts

Mackerel

Vegetables

Potatoes 25 weights

Turnips

Greens

Leeks and celery

Spinach

Butter

Butter cask half hundred weight

Other butter

Butter 13lb

Butter for basting mutton

Butter

Butter quarter

Sundry Consumables

Salt half pack

Salt

Sand for altar

Coarse sand for altar and stairs

Sand for stairs

Sand for Parlour

Sand free for washerwoman stone

Straw

Candles 2 lb

Mustard 5 pints

Vinegar 1 pint

Incense

ZFlesh eating oil

Alcohol

Ale 2 days

Punch 1 snag

Dram

Ale one quart

Brandy one pint

Porter

Claret

Punch

Punch snag

Claret

Ale 2 quarts

Beer 1

Ale 6 quarts

Wine 1 gallon

Brandy half pint

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 5 quarts

Brandy noggin after dinner

Ale one quart

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 6 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 4 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for strangers

Rum quart, sugar and oranges

Brandy half pint

Wine gallon for the altar

Metheglin 1  pint

Punch

Beer and ale for the family, 5 quarts\

Porter

Ale 2 days for Biddy

Coal

Coal and porterage in total 4 loads

Water

Water for the chaapel

Water for washing the parlour

Water for the kitchen

The waterman

For water

Taxes, Rents

Parish rates

Minister’s Money

Parish rates

Sheriff Butler, half years rent

Rent to William Worrell

Hearth money

Parish Rates

Ministers Money

Church rates and clark’s gallery

Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Crowley (Diarmiuid Ó Crualaoich), (1875-1847), Kilbrittain Born Supreme Court Judge of Dáil Courts. Stormy Petrel

A full account of his life is give here:

DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY:

https://www.dib.ie/biography/crowley-o-cruadhlaoich-diarmuid-a2253

 “The Count Plunkett habeas corpus application and the end of the Dáil Supreme Court” in-person lecture given by Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan on 28 April at 6:30pm, as part of the Four Courts 100 lecture series.

https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/7eea56a7-90ff-4782-9e22-56d7b2e87fd6/CourtsDecadeofCentenariesCommemorationsPosters.pdf/pdf#view=fitH

For his earlier life as a British Civil Servant you would wonder if he attended the famous cramming

Master Madden

Oillscoilan t-Sleigh, The Academy of Master Madden late 19th century, Ardfield, Clonakilty to Prepare Boys for the British Civil Service Exams. Pupils included Michael Collins and Sam Maguire.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/18842

The Crowley seems to have a history of awkward Customers

Father Jeremiah Crowley was jailed following criminal libel trial instigated by the Local Church of Ireland Minister on Mizen. He was give a heroes welcome leaving and returning to Cork. Later unhappy differences between him and Cork bishop entailed him leaving for America same scenarios left the Catholic Church became a Bible hall preacher denouncing the errors of Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_J._Crowley

The Crowley of West Cork are really McDermotts of Roscommon whop arrived as mercenaries in West Cork some time after 1200. Their nick name Crua (Tough) Laoich (Warrior) eventually became the surname. As McDemotts they are probably part of there Northern Uí Neill descending from Niall of the Nine Hostages;

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/niall-of-the-nine-hostages-descendants

In this category also are probing many of the Norther Loyalists with a Scots Presbeterian background, descending from the Irish who migrated to Western Scotland pre 1000 returning in the Plantation in the 17th century similarly the Scots Irish in America.

1911 Clonakilty Show, Novelty of Alfa Laval Milk Separator, Local Agent, Atkins, Clonakilty, Prizewinning foal  from horse bred by Boss Croker, Greyhounds,Terriers, Milk Churning Competition, Milch Goats Class among others.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UnFjKSVLeyAiw6B2nm93dPuKGlcdSEr4-f2RqG6dxOA/edit

Boss Croker:

https://www.dib.ie/biography/croker-richard-welsted-boss-a2196

Alfa Laval:

Clonakilty being a major centre of the dairy industry.

History of Alfa Laval

https://www.alfalaval.com/about-us/our-company/history-of-alfa-laval/

1910. A Beautiful Old Gaelic Custom.

The candle is still lit all over Ireland at Christmas. In former time it was common for local shops to give a candle as a token for the family custom over the year.

Comment:

My family continues this tradition. It is always the youngest in the house who lights the candle.

1909 Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dri7_U_cn3JCzy3PhSeG5YjiZCJum7iF1euGguAE50k/edit

1843-1954 West Cork Agricultural Societies and Shows

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoNjmDNQKT_pk3nvlCsT72YWYoDENcs–uaJxh2ber8/edit

O’Donovan Ancestry of West Cork Landlords Becher/Wrixons.

The RCB Library houses the Welply Genealogical Collection which if I aha it right is 40 boxes

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/20387

With the bulk of Irish probate records lodged in the Public Record Office at the Four Courts in Dublin having been destroyed in 1922 any copies of abstracts created before that date are invaluable to genealogists. Noted Cork genealogist W H Welply was, along with other members of the Society of Genealogists like Captain G S Carey, the Rev. Wallace Clare and J R Hutchinson, part of that movement started in the 1930s and 40s to recreate and provide substitutes for Irish records destroyed in 1922. 

The abstracts of Irish wills and genealogical information from the Plea Rolls were presented to the Society’s document collection (then known as D.Ms) by William Henry Welply in 1921 and 1922. Subsequently these pencil notes were typed up for the Society by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, accessioned into the Society’s book collection and placed on the Irish shelves (IR/G 96-113 & 116-7) in 1933. While largely containing abstracts of wills from various testamentary Courts in Ireland and England, the abstracts to have references from court cases in the Chancery and other Equity Courts in both countries.

An index to these and other surrogate abstracts of Irish wills in the Genealogical Office was compiled and published in 1949 by Miss P Beryl Eustace in the journal Analecta Hibernica (including the reports of the Irish Manuscript Commission) vol. 17 p 147 and this work is frequently cited and reported on line.

Copies of Welply’s work can be found in various record offices including PRONI and his genealogical notes and papers were finally bequeathed to the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin after his death in 1960. The will abstracts from these papers are indexed in Volume 6 of the journal the Irish genealogist and abstracts of Irish Chancery Bills and other genealogical notes or “gleanings” at the RCBL are indexed in volume 7 of the Irish Genealogist. 

Welply’s abstracts stand with other similar collections at the Society notably Lorna Rossbottom’s Collection of 4000 abstracted Irish wills also digitised and made available for members on SoG Data Online 

Although of Dublin, Welply is known as a Cork genealogist. Many of his abstracts relate to the Province of Munster and by far the greater part are from Cork, however there are references to wills from most dioceses in Ireland and many for Dublin.

According to the FamilySeach wiki the abstracts from Welply’s collection relating only to families living in the Cork area were printed and published in the Albert E. Casey Collection (usually entitled “O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland”). Volume fourteen of this fifteen volume set contains the will abstracts for counties Cork and Kerry and covers the entire time period the Prerogative Court of Armagh was in existence (1536 -1857). The wills are indexed by every name mentioned in the abstract at the end of volume fourteen. However, the index is defective and some entries are missing. Casey’s collection was microfilmed by the Family History Library and volume 14 is on Family History Library microfilm 823809 item 2. Again, this material was printed only for the Cork area families, the remaining extracts were not published in this work. 

In Volume 19 held at the RCB Library is a small note book in handwriting. The Genealogy of the Beechers/Becher is recited. Also in great detail is the genealogy of John Philpot Curran:

] (https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/JohnPhilpotCurran.php)

Of interest

John Becher born 6th April 1700

He married 19th August 1737 Mary daughter of Rev. Philip Townsend (this family have Galwey ancestry, on marriage she appears in the Convert Rolls)

Their son John married Mary O’Donovan daughter of the Rev. Morgan O’Donovan.

Their daughter Mary married William Wrixon of Ballygiblin, Mallow he took on the Beecher name and inherited the West Cork Estates being made a Baronet 30th September 1819 he died 1819.

1819. At Bawnlahan, (Bán Leathan/Broad Lea), Skibbereen, West Cork, House of ‘The O’Donovan’, Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan (1768-1829), Potatoes, Using Grufán 4th February, Planting Earlies ‘American’ 19th February, Main Crop after St. Patrick’s Day, Kidney Potatoes, Brown Fancy, Beldrums, White Eyed Potatoes, 1823′ Apple Potatoes’. Using Sea Sand as Fertilizer.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/34710

General O’Donovan’s mother was Jane Beecher only about 16 when she married widower The O’Donovan he well into his 60s

The Morgan O’Donovan branch on the death of General O’Donovan in 1829 without issue the title ‘The O’Donovan’ as Chieftains of the family passed to the Morgan O’Donovan ancestor of the present The O’Donovan.

In the papers of Dr. John O’Donovan the great scholar the legitimacy of this is questioned. The papers asr in the Graves Collection, Royal Irish Academy.

874. 878  24 Sept. 1814Renewal of a Lease made between Richard, Lord Viscount Bantry, Bantry, and Thomas Godson (Writing Clerk), City of Cork, subject to a surrender of a former lease, for the lands of Breenybeg containing 4 gneeves, in the Barony of Bantry. It is for three lives renewable, from the [24th] September last, at a878 contd..

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yearly rent of £14. 14. 0, payable half yearly on the 29th September and the 25th March. Godson agrees to sow furze seeds and to erect 12 perches of lawful double ditches, failure to do so will incur an additional 12 shillings on the rent. The former lease was held by John Godson (grandfather of Thomas Godson).

From Bantry House Rental Records, Boole Library, UCC.

https://libguides.ucc.ie/ld.php?content_id=31762597

Nearby on the Bantry part of the Kenmare East from the early 18th century larger tenants were obliged to plant trees, lime and develop land:

https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/product/the-kenmare-manuscripts/

https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/product/the-kenmare-manuscripts/

https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/product/the-kenmare-manuscripts/