• About
  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
  • Interesting Links
  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

West Cork History

~ History of Durrus/Muintervara

West Cork History

Author Archives: durrushistory

1932, Snave Slate Quarry Bantry, 26 Hands Constantly Employed.

10 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


1932 Snave Slte Quarry

Slate Quarries, Drimoleague, Sea Lodge, Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork from Skibbereen and West Carbery Eagle or South Western Advertiser 1865/6, and Lead Mine, 1310 Belamire (Probably Gearhameen), Durrus

Slate Quarries, Drimoleague, Sea Lodge, Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork from Skibbereen and West Carbery Eagle or South Western Advertiser 1865/6, and Lead Mine, 1310 Belamire (Probably Gearhameen), Durrus

Belfast Slate Quarry, Snave Bridge, Bantry, West Cork, 1867.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/13081

1932 Ban of Married Women as Teachers, Ireland.

08 Thursday Oct 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


1932

\

Straying a little from the usual but this caught my attention

In the 19th century many married women teaching often in combination with husband in small schools Catholic and Protestant.

1932 Ban of Married Women as Teachers, Ireland

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/23091

Click to access JR_I%20am%20amazed.pdf

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/15194

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20939130/

“One man one job”: the marriage ban and the employment of women teachers in Irish primary schools

Jennifer Redmond 1, Judith Harford

Affiliations expand

  • PMID: 20939130
  •  DOI: 10.1080/00309231003594271

In 1932, the Irish government, facing an economic downturn, introduced a marriage ban which required that female primary school teachers were required to resign on marriage. This followed a series of restrictive legislative measures adopted by Irish governments throughout the 1920s which sought to limit women’s participation in public life and the public sector. Such a requirement emerged in several countries in response to high unemployment and applied principally to women’s white-collar occupations, leading some commentators to argue that it stemmed from a social consensus rather than an economic rationale. Despite opposition to the ban from the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) on the basis that it was unconstitutional, would lead to fewer marriages and that married women were in fact more suited to teaching children, it remained in place until 1958. Although the ban is much referred to as part of the gender ideology that informed legislation in the early years of independent Ireland, the particular history of married women teachers has been little researched in the academic context. Over 50 years since the rescinding of the ban, this article examines its impact through an analysis of primary sources, including government cabinet minutes and the public commentary of the INTO and positions this history within the international context.

 Collect her children’s allowance

The 1944 legislation that introduced the payment of children’s allowances (now called child benefit) specified that they be paid to the father. The father could, if he chose, mandate his wife to collect the money, but she had no right to it.

How it changed

Responding to the report of the Commission on the Status of Women, the 1974 Social Welfare Act entitled mothers to collect the allowance.

The Remarkable Daniel O’Reilly, Born Skibbereen, Shipwrecked, Mining Prospector Australia, Sheep Farmer, Hotel Owner, Magistrate Hastings New Zealand. Died Cork 1934

02 Friday Oct 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


The Remarkable Daniel O’Reilly, Born Skibbereen, Shipwrecked, Mining Prospector Australia, Sheep Farmer, Hotel Owner, Magistrate Hastings New Zealand. Died Cork 1934

==

Daniel O’Reilly, Magistrate, Hastings New Zealand, Born Skibbereen area, mining prospector Australia 1880s, substantial property owner Australian and New Zealand. Retired to Cork died 1934.

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc06Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d27-d26.html

..

..

MR. DANIEL O’REILLY, proprietor of the Hastings Hotel, is a native of Cork, Ireland, and came to New Zealand in the year 1878, by the ship “City of Auckland,” which was wrecked on the Otaki beach. Mr. O’Reilly lost all his possessions. and was conveyed with other passengers to Napier by the Government steamer “Hinemoa.” He energetically set to work to make the best of bad fortune, and obtained agricultural employment, at which he continued for six years. He removed to Hastings in 1885, started a boot and shoe shop, and carried on that business successfully for three years, when he sold it to the Egmont Boot Factory Company, of New Plymouth. Mr. O’Reilly then opened a drapery business, which he disposed of three years later to considerable advantage, and in 1892 bought an interest in the Hastings Hotel. He owns a fine little farm of about ten acres, from which the hotel table is supplied with fruit, vegetables, and poultry; and he also owns a large block of land opposite the railway, on which he has erected five large shops. In politics Mr. O’Reilly is a liberal. He has been a member of the Hibernian Society for many years, and of the Napier Park and Hastings Trotting Clubs, Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and Hastings Bowling Club. In 1887 Mr. O’Reilly married Miss Julia O’Neill, and has two children

THE HASTINGS HOTEL (Daniel O’Reilly, proprietor), corner of Heretaunga and Railway Streets, Hastings. Telephone, 190. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. This hotel is a large two-storeyed building, situated in the centre of the town, and near the railway station, post office, and other public buildings. It contains on the upper floor about thirty bedrooms, a ladies’ drawing-room, and a number of private sitting-room, all furnished in first-class style. On the ground floor is the dining-room (capable of accommodating ninety guests), commercial and billiard rooms, and six sitting-rooms. The house is much resorted to by country settlers, tourists and the general travelling public. The whole domestic arrangements are under the immediate supervision of Mrs. O’Reilly.

Hastings Hotel.

Hastings Hotel.

Mr. D. O'Reilly.

Mr. D. O’Reilly.

1495 Diarmuid Ó Donnagáin Canon, Corab and Ernach at Church in Ross. Ernach dispensed some Brehon Legal matters Papal application for recognition of reight to land at Kilnamangh, Beara, in 1512 Ballydonegan recognised as O’Donegan territory. Papal Records

01 Thursday Oct 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


1495 Diarmuid Ó Donnagáin Canon, Corab and Ernach at Church in Ross. Ernach dispensed some Brehon Legal matters Papal application for recognition of reight to land at Kilnamangh, Beara, in 1512 Ballydonegan recognised as O’Donegan territory. Papal Records

1934 Doctors Pay West Cork, other West Cork Doctors

30 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


By way of background it might be remembered tht the Economic War with Britain was raging at the time and the was widespread distress.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/37255

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/37093

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/37047

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/34988

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/28636

1934 Deasys Stout, Clonakilty, Out of 818 Entries at the Brewers Exhibition London in Deasys secured 2 Prizes.

28 Monday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


1934 Deasys Stout, Clonakilty, Out of 818 Entries at the Brewers Exhibition London in Deasys secured 2 Prizes.

Allman Dowden, Special Stout Brewed from Home-Made, Malt and Hops, Bandon, Famous Stout, Throughout West Cork

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/37855

1835 Called to Bar and Sworn before Lord Chancellor Richard Deasy, Clonakilty (Brewing Family) Later Attorney General for Ireland, Luke Shea, Gort Gurrane, Kinsale Gentlemen Whose Names to Whom Asterisk is Attached are Roman Catholics.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/22016

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/17174

Lease of 1795 from Bantry Estate to Maurice Spillane of 87 acres at £15 per annum with a covenant ‘To buy all his malt and beer at brewery to be approved by lessor under penalty of 10s per barrel of malt and 5s per barrel of beer’

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/10626

Eugene O’Keeffe 1827-1913 (Baptised Bandon 1827 Owen Keeffe), Canadian Banker, Brewer and Beamish and Crawford Brewery Cork.

Kinsale Brewery

1932

1937 Old Fair at Leap Being Re Established

25 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/33720

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/33720

The Spread of Trade, Fairs in West Cork, Aughadown, 1661, Ballydehob, 1620, Ballygobane alias Oldtown, Bantry, 1679, Bantry 1700,  Bawnlahan and Rahine and Drimoleague 1615 (O’Donovan of Castledonovan),  Clonakilty 1620, Drimoleague, 1768, Enniskeane 1620, Kilbrrah, Ballyhallow, (Dunmanway), 1615, New Stapletown (Skibbereen), 1675, Bridgetown (Alias Cornea) Skibbereen, 1676,

Ancient Bawnlahan, Leap, Fair Day, Ascension Thursday.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/32070

Beyond Leap, Beyond the Law…

..

1936 and 1937 Durrus Agricultural Shows, 700 Entries

24 Thursday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment


1936.  Durrus Agricultural Show

.

.

One of the features is that people in other parts of Co. Cork exhibed many with links to the area such as the Vickeries of Little Island who have Durrus/Bantry connections.

Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.

Held in the vicinity of school.

1937 Durrus Agricultural Show, 700 Entries

One of the features is that people in other parts of Co. Cork exhibed many with links to the area such as the Vickeries of Little Island who have Durrus/Bantry connections.

Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.

Held in the vicinity of school.

Scan 1692

Centre Canon McManaway a driving force in getting the creamery established, the new road over the hill from Coomkeen to Bantry, the first Church of Ireland School at Ahagouna in the Free State

Tom Deane, tall at back, former Dublin Metropolitan Police, Crottees he was so tall the Police had to have a special bicycle made for him.  Community activist, member Church of Ireland Diocesan Synod.

Jim Pyburn, Dunbeacon, middle row, third from left.

Richard Sweetnam, Dunbeacon.

Eddie Hurst (front row, left), model farmer, Beach House Bantry now the property of the Wagner family married to Shannon, Clashadoo also model farmers, father of Hazel Vickery, Bantry.

Jack Minihane (far, right)

Courtesy St. James’ Durrus. A Parish History.

Meeting Durrus Agricultural Show Committee, 1938

https://durrushistory.com/2015/03/01/john-rye-macroom-co-cork-early-agriculturalist-1730-on-the-burnng-of-lime/https://durrushistory.com/2014/11/24/minutes-of-balineen-co-cork-agricultural-society-1845-7-ordered-that-pamphlet-on-turnips-be-translated-into-irish-for-some-of-the-protestant-famers-turnips-flax-growing-plight-of-labourers-att/

Bantry, West Cork, Agricultural Show (Taisdáeantas Cuireadgineachta Bheantraí), 1947 names and addresses of competitors, Curriculum of Vocational Educational Committee Day and Evening, Kingdom Show Band in the Stella Ballroom

..

..

..

Cork Examiner

1937 Durrus Show

.

…

Historical Maritime Input to West Cork Economy

22 Tuesday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment


All comments welcome. Part of the reason a small area pre the Irish Famine 1845-7 had one of the world’s highest rural population densities was the availability of marine resources, sea sand, seaweed. As early as 1820 there were favourable comment by (Kerry born), Dublin Attorney Orpen at how developed West Cork was with shipping to Spain, Portugal, France, roads, harbours. He was related to local families such as the Durrus Hutchinsons, landlords, Swanton of Ballydehob and indirectly to the O’Sullivans of Ballaghadown, Caheragh. William Orpen is of this family.

Click here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBm66v2Qo6oOyp6SXIySijiNXnlUgSogDUHaMTp5oH8/edit

Pilchards, p. 2

Baltimore, p.5

Port of Baltimore 1691-1693, Customs and Excise, Statistics, p.6

Bantry and Durrus, p.10

Ballydehob/Carrigmanus/Castlehaven/Crookhaven/Skibbereen, p. 59

Lobster Boats of Hehir Islands and Roaring Water Bay by Cormac Levis, p.

Clonakilty, p. 118

Courtmacsherry, p. 79

Kinsale, p. 80

Grand Jury Presentments Sea sand roads, p. 127

Ropemakers, Nets

Sea Sand, Sand Quays, p.125

Sand Boats, Coal Trade to Ballydehob, Sea Sand on River Ilen Skibbereen,  p. 134

The Puxleys Copper Mines, Allihies, Shipping 1812-1884, p. 132

Steamship Service, Cork to Dingle via  Castletownbere 1850-1940, p. 177

Piracy/Smuggling, p. 178

Ropemakers, Nets, p. 197

Shipping, Lloyds Agents, p. 179, 198

Skibbereen to Crookhaven Road 1822, p. 183

Boatbuilding Kinsale, Skibbereen area late 19th/20th century. P.192

Harbours, Lighthouses, p. 196, 278

Proposed railway to Glandore Harbour, p.207

Wrecks, p. 198, 221

Fishing By Laws, Bantry 1870,  Bandon 1871, Glandore 1871, Ardigeen (Clonakilty) 1877, River Ilen (Skibbereen) 1878, from Crown Solicitors Papers, p. 224

Pilchard Palaces, p. 243

Dr. Arthur Went on Pilchard Industry, p. 244

Maps and some Du Noyer sketches, p. 221

1812-1825, Admiralty Court, West Cork, Wrecks, p. 221

Royal Navy Press Gangs Operating off Cork Coast, 1755-1812, p. 215

British Navy Base, Bere Island, p. 217

Piracy, p. 247

1822 Local Fishery Committees, Irish Fisheries Board, p. 266

Clio Salvage Litigation, 1825, p. 269

1837, statistics, boats, fishermen, coastguard, p. 275

1920s Jack Attridge, Durrus, self built boat, p.277

Kinsale  Hookers from 1671, p.311

English  navy records 17th century timber extraction from Bantry and supplies to Kinsale, p.300

1755 Lisbon Tsunami, Kinsale and  Crookhaven, p.286

Coastal Shipping, p. 297

Pilchard Fishery Bantry, p. 298

Index to Journal of Cork Historical And Archaeological Society reference to pilchards, p.302

1893, Baseline Report of Redmond Roche Inspector, Congested District Board, Castletownbere, Sheepshead, Schull, Baltimore, p. 316

s

1758, Lease Renewal of Ballylickey, Bantry to Thomas Hutchins. Carries on a Great Trade in Cod, Herring, Ling, Oysters, Father A Major Smuggler and Hutchins Magistrates.

18 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by durrushistory in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments


durrushistory's avatarWest Cork History

…

1758, Lease Renewal of Ballylickey,  Bantry  to Thomas Hutchins. Carries in a Great Trade in Cod, Herring, Ling, Oysters, Father A Major Smuggler and Hutchins Magistrates.

Thomas Hutchins, Bantry, West Cork, being paid for Impressing Beara Seamen for British Royal Navy 1746.

Hutchins Magistrates:

Arthur Hutchins, Ballylickey or Ardnagashel. Visited by reformer  Sir Francis Burdett  1817.  Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction.  Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825. Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.

Arthur Hutchins, 1855, Ballylickey, Bantry, Resident, £60. Attending 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law. Assisting 1848 Henry J…

View original post 677 more words

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Blog Stats

  • 866,480 hits

16th Regiment of Foot assisted female emigration australia ballyclough bantry bay caithness legion cavan regiment of militia cheshire fencibles coppinger's court inbhear na mbearc Irish words in use 1930s lord lansdowne's regiment mallow melbourne ned kelly new brunswick O'Dalys Bardic Family. o'regan Personal Memoirs rosscarbery schull sir redmond barry sir walter coppinger st. johns sydney Townlands treaty of limerick Uncategorized university of Melbourne victoria

16th Regiment of Foot assisted female emigration australia ballyclough bantry bay caithness legion cavan regiment of militia cheshire fencibles coppinger's court inbhear na mbearc Irish words in use 1930s lord lansdowne's regiment mallow melbourne ned kelly new brunswick O'Dalys Bardic Family. o'regan Personal Memoirs rosscarbery schull sir redmond barry sir walter coppinger st. johns sydney Townlands treaty of limerick Uncategorized university of Melbourne victoria
Follow West Cork History on WordPress.com
Follow West Cork History on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 508 other subscribers

Feedjit

  • durrushistory's avatar durrushistory

Archives

  • April 2026
  • March 2026
  • February 2026
  • January 2026
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • West Cork History
    • Join 508 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • West Cork History
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...