https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yghq499XdPyYVEZJs_j82OkowrYRVTDATnVt470cc0o/edit

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1832 Charles Armstrong, Formerly 1832 Bantry Cholera Hospital, Medical Officer Crookhaven Dispensary, Physician Cork General Dispensary, Surgeon Constabulary and Coast Guard Goleen and Rock Island. Author of Petition Preying on Medical Grievances (Non payment or minimal payment for quasi legal services) presented to both Houses of Parliament in UK

MD Glasgow 1838, MRCS England 1833, FRCI 1844. Doctor, formerly Medical Officer Crookhaven Dispensary, Physician Cork General Dispensary, Surgeon Constabulary and Coast Guard Goleen and Rock island. 1857 Medical Referee various Assurance Companies During cholera epidemic 1832. 1857 Cork 34, King St. Author of Petition on Medical Grievances presented to both Houses of Parliament in UK

https://books.google.ie/books?id=jNgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA36&lpg=RA4-PA36&dq=Keymore,+Co+Cork&source=bl&ots=3cbirhPHx8&sig=ACfU3U3Tx-jCN_XfD9Nc0IOpkELm70-nBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiioqOu0Ln2AhVRgFwKHdvyBooQ6AF6BAgeEAM#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false

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https://books.google.ie/books?id=sjVPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA558&lpg=PA558&dq=Dr.+Charles+Armstrong+Petition+on+Medical+Grievances+presented+to+both+Houses+of+Parliament+in+UK.+Charles+Armstrong&source=bl&ots=01AKDeMkgo&sig=ACfU3U3jcKi5Kot3Z-U6PFIULfS_EZIJnQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvuNu778z2AhXynFwKHeeuDiEQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Charles%20Armstrong%20Petition%20on%20Medical%20Grievances%20presented%20to%20both%20Houses%20of%20Parliament%20in%20UK.%20Charles%20Armstrong&f=false

Early Doctors and Apothecaries (Chemists), Cork City and County

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Xdk_bdkpBSVHaTP45WxSY0r4v6-kluvlPz7ZynQxfU/edit#gid=0

The period before and after in the district was marked by a split on the Nationalist side between 2 factions one of which was the United Irish League.

J. Dukelow is probably Jack Dukelow of Brahalish:

Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953, Brahalish and Others Charlie Dennis Poet, Batt the Fiddler, Canon McManaway smuggling horseshoes stubs into the Free State and others stories:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gnw2LsIbV0Wxk2bGjzCPq9sH9rCCQOrYTh5c0bG7vf0/edit

In November 1901 a Splendid Public Demonstration was held on the Outskirts of the Quiet little Village of Durrus to Establish a Branch of the United Irish League in the Parish.

J. Dukelow is probably Jack Dukelow of Rossmore

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James Gilhooley MP (1847-1916) was a publican and draper in Bantry, and was jailed under the Coercion legislation during the Land War 1880s.  He was elected to Parliament and kept his seat in each succeeding election until his death. Evidence was given by the Clerk of the Carrigbui Petty Sessions in a case in Bantry that Gilhooley had the licence of a public house in Durrus which was held on his behalf by his sister Agnes.  On the Parnellite split he opposed Parnell and later joined the faction led by O’Brien and known as the All for Ireland Party (AFIP). There was a public meeting in Durrus which founded the United Irish League in November 1901 which he and fellow MPs Crean and Flynn addressed.   Among the attendance were J D Sullivan DC, Jeremiah Hurley DC, J Dukelow, T Dillon, S Kingston, J Moss and numerous others. The parish priest who chaired the meeting recalled the bad days of 1881-1886 for the people of Muintervara and had no doubt that by Christmas of that year the vast bulk of the parish would be members of the United Irish League.

Gilhooley addressed an enthusiastic meeting in Durrus on January 1910 presided over by Mr. John D. Sullivan.  Bonfires were lit in the street, it was market day in the village and large numbers of country people were present.  Mr Gilhooley contested the two elections in 1910 as an Independent, supporting O’Brien; his opponent was Mr. O’Leary, Ahakista Cottage, the U.I.L. (United Ireland League/Redmondite) candidate. Gilhooley had support in Durrus in this election and his opponent was strong in Kilcrohane. His election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, later Crown Prosecutor and TD, Skibbereen.  He would later be an Independent TD for West Cork.   Gilhooley up to this time had been elected unopposed for 18 years.  In the later election of 1910 there were disturbances in Bantry, when rival factions fought, some coming from Cork; over a two-day court hearing, 45 were prosecuted for riotous behaviour. In September 1910 a case of assault was brought at the Petty Sessions by Patrick Burke, Coomkeen.  He alleged that while leaving Kilcrohane with his niece driving a trap he was set upon by three locals Arundel, Donovan and Donovan shouting ‘Up the Mollies’ they were convicted and bound over to the peace.

In the election in December Gilhooley had the use of two motor cars to bring constituents to the polling station.  On examining the type of questions raised by Mr. Gilhooley at Westminster, one is struck at the similarity with those raised by a typical country T.D., at Dail Eireann. Gilhooley attended a monster meeting in Bantry in 1888, attended by 5-6,000 people, to set up a branch of the United Traders Association and Industrial League, to promote the purchase of Irish goods and the boycott of English goods.  There is a memory of fish sellers from Gearahies coming to Durrus to sell fish and roaring ‘up the Mollies’ in connection with political controversy at that time this was probably the second election of 1910, when emotions were inflamed.  In the February 1910 election there were 326 votes cast out of 407. 

There were disturbances in Durrus in January 1911 between ‘Redmondites’ and ‘All for Irelanders’ and a force of between 8 and 10 policemen were unable to quell the disturbances which lasted for over an hour, the main street was regarded as unsafe to traverse.  Tension continued into September 1911 at a court hearing in Bantry into those entitled to be on the electoral register.  Mr O’Leary in his dual capacity as a Barrister and potential political representative opposed the inclusion of various people in Durrus as they allegedly did not meet the governing criteria.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ry90Eck-4gVihDvBZgzBMgiohL0zgOYT-E7zEoWIckc/edit

An assembly in ancient Ireland for the promulgation of laws and for competition in artistic, intellectual, and physical prowess — compare AENACH or an Irish folk festival or convention patterned on the ancient feis and featuring games and competitions and usually traditional Irish music and dancing — compare EISTEDDFOD

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1518, Kinsale Archduke Ferdinand Visit to Kinsale as a result of a storm, The visit was a record by Laurent Vital. It is suggested that his account is there inspiration of 1518, Kinsale Archduke Ferdinand Visit. Clandestine Marriage. Durer’s Depiction of Irish Soldiers and Peasants.

The reference to savage is the local Irish of Gaelic origin. At that time Kinsale was a Norman settlement

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Rincurran, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Baptisms, Church of Ireland 1849, 1860 and St. Multose, Kinsale from 1683.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/21565

Plan of the Siege and Battle of Kinsale (Ceann Sáile) 1601, Petition to the Pope in 1484 requesting that no more clergy be sent from Bath to St. Multose and that only native clergy be appointed as English clergy could not administer sacraments in Irish, Prosperity in the 18th century, Shipping News in ‘A Short History of Kinsale’

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/4035

St. Multose, Kinsale, Church of Ireland, Records, 1683-

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Collections for Evicted Tenants, Castlehaven/Myross, Myross, Ardfield, Rathbarry. 1892 Collection Ballyroe. 1893, Clonakilty Evicted Tenants Fund. Like a Mini Census. Fiery address of James Gilhooley, M.P., in Goleen on Evictions. Gilhooly ‘The Irish People Have Never Acknowledged this Right of Any Nation In the World To Govern Them.

Looking at the unfolding disaster in Ukraine Gilhooly’s words are very apt.

888. Eviction in Colour At Least 35 Redcoats (British Army ) Armed in Attendance

Parliamentary Commission on Land, Bantry, 1844, Evidence on Sub-Division, Rental Levels, Soil, Fertility, Bribery, Opression and Eviction by Lord Kenmare, Sbibbereen Agricultural Society, Bailiffs, Driving, Witnesses included Rev. Somers Payne, Land Agent, County Grand Master, Orange Order, Michael Murphy, Donemark, Formerly Farmer, Miller, Corn Agent, Richard White, Landlord Inchiclogh only Landlord to Give Leases in District, Samuel Hutchins, Landlords Ardnagashel, John O’Connell, Middleman, Rev. C. Freeman, Curate, Bantry.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/17602

1840 Evictions by Lord Kenmare and his Middleman David Mellifont, at Ahil, Bantry, West Cork and other areas, Distress, Typhus, Borrowing from Butter Merchants.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/12832

Questions raised in the House of Commons London re Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Sedition, Evictions, Petty Sessions Clerk, Mail Coach, Distress, Death of Constable Brett 1920 in Troubles.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/12629

Alexis de Tocqueville 1835. On Irish Assizes, Grand Juries, Magistrates. 1834 West Cork Baronial Cess Payer Representatives.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/39475

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The real heroes of public health in Ireland in the 19th century were the dispensary doctors. Vastly overworked, poorly paid they waged a campaign against ignorance and indifference. The local papers are full of their concerns about dung heaps contaminating water, poor public health.

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’

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/16526

1832. Cholera Outbreak. Response Parish Boards of Health, West Cork.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/37103

1832 Cholera in Bantry, 1838 Address of Subscribers to John Symms Bird, on Retiring as Treasurer of Bantry Dispensary.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/24183

1871 Western Tenantry Entertained by Lord Bandon on coming of age of Lord Bernard, at Durrus Court (Gearhameen). Dinner provided by James Philips of Durrus and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Cork. 1871, Meeting Courthouse, Durrus, Patrick’s Day re Alarming Spread of Smallpox

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/36865

Doctor Barry, 1800, on ‘Shinach’ (Small Pox) and practice in Cork of inoculation with Cow Pox 50 years before Dr Jenner’s vaccination and late 18th century inoculations by Mr. Goodwin, Bantry, West Cork.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/6988

Pococke visit to Bantry 1758, smallpox, leprosy A Bandon doctor, John Milner Barry had noted in 1800 that exposure to cowpox gave immunity to smallpox; this was known in West Cork as ‘shinach’ from ‘sine’ the Irish word for teat.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/126

1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835, Begging, Impotence Through Old Age, Sick Poor, Able Bodies Out of work, Vagrancy, Evidence taken at Ballydehob, West Cork, from Rev. James Barry, Parish priest, Rev. John Barry, Curate, Rev. John Triphook, Protestant Minister, John Brooks, Farmer, £1 rent, Alexander English Churchwarden, James Levis, farmer, Rent £33, Cornelius Mahony, Labourer, Patrick Mahony, Farmer, £10, James Mahony, John Murphy, Daniel Sullivan all labourers and Quarrymen, Thomas Swanton, James Swanton, Merchant, Sweetnam, Dispensary Surgeon, Richard Salter Farmer, Farmer Rent £14. Begging starts St. Patrick’s Day, Destitution of Bandon Weavers, Maimed Children, Absentee Landlords Take £6,000 a Year From Parish Subscribe £3 to Dispensary, Sick lie on Knotted Ferns.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/33423

Famine Diary of Doctor O’Donovan, Dispensary Doctor, Skibbereen, West Cork, Bodies Buried Coffinless in the Dead of Night in Dunmanus Weighed Down By Stones, to Prevent Starving Dogs From Getting At The Bodies, The Funeral Cry No Longer heard.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27133

1935. You Would Never Take Him For An Archaeologist. Gerard Costigan, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.I. Bantry Born, Lecturer Cairo.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vOP6XpcRtATDw60bfSf8wvceE3xcPEW3Vvg7FwTp65s/edit

Honey

Still Going strong:

It was said that there were three things that Aristotle did not understand:

Teach agus imeacht na taoide,

Obair na mbeach 

Agus intinn na mbann

As Bearla

The coming and going of the tides

The work of the bees

And the mind of a woman

Bees and Honey.

In Stanley Vickery’s memoir of growing up with his grandparents in the 1830s in Mullogh he refers to metheglin and to the country as being ideal for honey production.  A number of people in the area kept bees, Johnny Shannon, Ahagouna, farmer and sextant to St. James from the 1920s to the 1950s.  Nelius Scully in Lower Gearhameen in the 1930s.  He and his brother occupied one of the houses on land owned by Dick Tobin of Kilcrohane.  

The Bohane family once farmed  extensively at the Cummer Farm on the border of Clashadoo and Brahalish.  They, like many before, were defeated at trying to work this difficult land.  They relocated to a small farm in Upper Brahanlish and had extensive hives.

The hives used were made of straw, an example is at Letetia and the late Tommy Camier’s museum at Gortnagrough, Ballydehob made by in 1875 by George Copithorn of Kilbarry, Dunmanway.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1inOdrVh8hkcvKka0cm25j2pxVDeC5tGneXgl5PcNzQs/edit

1843-1954 West Cork Agricultural Societies and Shows.

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

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