1897, Distress Durrus and Kilcrohane Partial Harvest and Potato Failure Seeking Spraying Machines.

Those named:

John Pratt, M.A. T.C.D., 1875-1902, secured a Commissioners of Public Works loan for land improvement in Clashadoo. Grandfather and father clergymen, native of Midleton, family in Burke’s Peerage. Donated flagon, cup, patten to Parish 1851. Married Eva Murphy, Donemark, executor of the estate of William Samuel Tisdall, Donemark House 1878, £3,000 may be brother in law.  1866. JOHN PRATT~ M.A., V. Durrus and Kilcrohane, vice Freke. The church population is about 430. There are two churches-the parish church, picturesquely situated at the head of Dummanus Bay, and a small church at the north side of the parish, at Rooska, on the south side of Bantry Bay. This latter-was built in 1866. Durrus parish church was enlarged by the addition of a side aisle in 1867, at a cost of £600, and a chancel built as a gift by the Countess of Bandon. Divine Service is held in the parish church twice on Sundays and chief festivals; and on alternate Sundays at Rooska in s UIllIille.r. There is a capital sum 0’£ £1,000, the interest of which goes towards the assessment, which is £134, stipend of Rector, £250 • The present Incumbent receives a “good service” pension. He contributes £40 a year to the curate’s salary. There are three parochial schools, viz., Glebe School, N. B.; Rooska, N.B.; and Mollough, eh. Ed. Socy. Among the parochial organizations are-Branches of Young Women’s Christian Association, and Temperance Society, and a Weekly Men’s Bible Class; and there are services and meetings for C. M. S., S. P. G., Jews’ Society, Prot. Orph. Socy., Ch. Ed. Socy., Hospitals, Dio. Board of Ed’l Island and Coast Socy., etc. There is an excellent Glebe House, prettily situated close to the church. in 47 acres of glebe land. Rent and taxes amounting to about £74 a year. John Pratt, b. at Churchtown, Midleton, 22nd Oct., 1812, son of the Revd. Robt. Pratt, A.B., P. Desertmore (Brady), and grandson of the Revd. James Pratt, A.M., P. Kilnaglory, and R. V. Athnowen (Brady), and great-grandson of Robt. Pratt, Portreve of Castlemartyr. (For this family, vide ” Burke’s Landed Gentry.”) CORK·1 DURRUS AND KILCROHANE-FANLOBBUS. 49 T.CD., B.A., 1835 j M.A. 18e6. Ordained Deacon, 1840, at Killaloe, and Priest 1841, at Limerick. Curate of Kinneigh, 1840-46 j of Kilbrogan, Bandon, 1846-56 j R. Killowen, 1856-58 j R. Kilnagross, Ross. 1858-66 j Precentor of Cork, 1855, and Rural Dean of Gleansanley: He married, in 1841, Charlotte Louisa dau. of Michael Murphy, of Newtown, Bantry, brother of Rev. John Murphy, A.B., Treasurer of Cork, and R. Mogeesha, Cloyne (q. v.); and secondly, Eva, dau. of Francis Cole of Blair’s Cove, Coolculaghta, Co. Cork. Her brother, the Revd. John Francis Cole, is the present Rector of Portarlington.  Presumably Glebe Lands:  Rev John Pratt mortgage 2nd July 1885 from the Commissioners of Public Works for £60 towards land improvement at Clashadoo witnessed by E.B. Warburton Resident Magistrate, Bantry. (Registry of Deeds 1885/29/19). 1871 attending at Durrus banquet for western tenants of Bandon estate on coming of age of Lord Bernard.  Member Royal Society of Antiquaries 1889.  Attending funeral of Jane Dillon nee Roycroft (1843-1892) in Bantry.

Rev John McSwiney Curate. 1897-1899

Jeremiah O’Mahony, (1847-1915), Kilcrohane, General Merchant, 1901 four servants, he and son have Irish. Married Honora Moss, Durrus, her father merchant and farmer. Bantry, RIC barracks destroyed by the IRA  Guys 1891 merchant, farmer, postmaster.  Magistrate 1895. 1911 O’Mahony, has Irish widower one servant, four in 1910. .  One of extended family magistrate  O’Mahony, Kilcrohane, Bantry, RIC barracks destroyed by IRA  Afterwards the Black and Tans came to Kilcrohane seeking information, Frank O’Mahony (late retired solicitor Bantry) was told by his father how he was put up against a wall by an armed Tan but when he told them he was a Magistrate they desisted. (April 2009).  Jeremiah Mahony, junior, co-opted 1903 Rural District Councillor.  Edward Bayly Warburton (1823-1888), R.M., born Dublin, RIC Officer 1844-1859. listed 1886, Bantry, refusal to approve gun licences to named individuals (one James O’Mahony probably of Kilcrohane a future J.P.) in Bantry are raised in House of Commons by James Gilhooley MP.  Probate 1915 to son Frank O’Mahony, merchant and Mary O’Mahony, spinster, £15,234.

1891 Death James (‘The Governor’) Hutchinson Swanton (1815-1891), Rineen Skibbereen, Carrisbrook House, Dublin (Mentioned in James Joyce Ulysses), Memoir of William Feckman and West Cork Methodist References.

James (‘The Governor’) Hutchinson Swanton (1815-1891), Rineen Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Praised for his personal generosity and practical work in Ballydehob during Famine.  James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus.  Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and  Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague.  She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate.  He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790.  The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century.  Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family.  Slowly lands including Blackrock House now Bantry House acquired by Richard White (Ancestor of Lord Bantry).  Estate sold Landed Estates Court 1850s. 1856 Ballydehob Presentment sessions as Cess Payer.  Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. Prominent Methodist. In July 1869, it was agreed that Fifteenth Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland purchased Skibbereen premises from James Hutchinson Swanton for £250. From 1875 Carrisbrook House,Pembroke Ballsbridge.  Major businessman, shipowner, miller of Lorriga, Faran, Rineen with McNamara, landowner, Benduff Slate Quarry, Director Provincial Bank, sitting Skibbereen 1861, subscriber (Pembroke Road, Dublin), Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876. Donor to the church bell fund, 1869, St. Nicholas, Cork.  (Cork Daily Southern Reporter 26th March 1869).    Major land purchaser post Famine.  1881 Executive Committee associated with campaign against intemperance. 1870, 6,049 acres, 122, Pembroke Rd. Dublin and The Grove, Bray, Co. Wicklow..  Died Cheltenham.  Probate to James Swanton, Eastview, Glandore, £3,807

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Beginning of Methodism in West Cork, 1779 John Bredin, Swantons of Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, 1783, John Hamilton 1898 Henry Deery. Membership 1799 was 160 and in 1810 was 320.

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What a Methodist preacher apparently wore in the 1830’s

A journey in troubled times Rev. William Buchanan Methodist Minister’s journey from Belfast to Bantry July 1922

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Gideon Ouseley – A maverick Irish Methodist preacher.

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Right Honourable Honourable James 2nd Earl of Bandon, Custos Rotorum,  (1785-1856), Castlebernard, FRANCIS (1st EARL of BANDON) and HARRIET (Boyle) had James (heir and 2nd Earl born 14th June 1785 in Bandon and died 31st October 1856 at Castle Bernard) m 13th March, 1809 in Cashel  Mary Susan Brodrick eldest daughter of Charles, Archbishop of Cashel and sister of Charles, 6th Viscount Midleton.  Mary was born 9th October 1787 and died 23rd April 1870, buried in Bandon.  Due to rising war related prices land rents estimated 1811 at £30,000. Succeeded to title and estate  after his father’s death in 1830. Following a large Protestant meeting 1834 at Castlebenard nominated to prepare a petition to the British King and Parliament with the Rev. Somers Payne, Councillor Mannix, Lords Berehaven and Bandon. Subscriber Lewis Richard Dowden papers: 1837. 1842 Subscriber Jacksons Co. and City Directory. 1844 Printed handbill/notice , ‘Cork Art Union for the promotion of the fine arts in the South of Ireland’, annual subscription appeal. President is Lord Viscount Bernard MP (Lord Bandon). Printed by W Scraggs, 102 Patricks Street. (1p)  Subscriber John Ryan, 1845 ’20 Years of Popish Persecution’.  Made huge efforts during the Famine to secure relief. Co. Grand Master Orange Order. Fellow Royal Society 1845. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 subscriber, 2 copies,  1861 to Smith’s History of Cork. Bandon 1869.

Genealogy of Bernard family courtesy Catherine Fitzmaurie:

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/Bernards_of_Castle_Bernard.htm

John Nash, Esq., Brinny,  1829 member Bandon Brunswick Club.  Brinny House was being leased by J.H. Wheatley to Rev. George Nash at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £30. In October 1854, it, together with the rest of Nash’s property at Brinny, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The house is described in the sale notice as “in good repair”. Lewis refers to it as the seat of J. Nash in 1837. In the late 1770s and 1780s it was the residence of Nash esq. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey referred to “a semi-derelict old mansion near Brinny Bridge, the reputed residence of Seán Dearg Nash, tyrannical provost of Bandon, 1690-1724″The Nash family seem to have become established in the Bandon area in the seventeenth century. Local sources suggest they may have been from Somerset. His eldest son John married 1844 Mary, daughter of Rev.  Somes Payne.

1858, Arrests of Men in Bantry and Skibbereen Allegedly Involved in Phoenix Society (Precourser to Fenians), 3 Coaches take the Skibbereen prisoners to Cork Jail. Immense Crowds Assemble and Loudly Cheered The Prisoner.

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The newspapers of March 1859 have very detailed accounts of the evidence presented:

George  Fitzmaurice (1807-1871), Castleforward, Co. Donegal, Resident Magistrate, In 1859 he was part of a bench sitting in Derry where 18 Apprentice Boys were charged with hoisting flags and  firing cannon.  The bench refused to convict. He is sent by Dublin  Castle to Skibbeeen to ‘root out’ the Phoenix Society and those associated with it. He worked with an informer Dan O’Sullivan Goula process server in Skibbereen from Kenmare.  The eventual trail of those he and  O’Sullivan assembled information on was revealed in a very detailed trial and conviction.   It is very rare to have an Irish Magistrate behave in this fashion more in the mode of  French Investigating Magistrate. Probate 1871 to his widow Isabella, £800.

A good snapshot of the house contents and  farm equipment of a prosperous gentleman farmer.

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John Hassett, Forest, Macroom.  Extensive land owner, 140 acres of prime land 2 miles from Crookstown Railway Station.  Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic education 1859. 1861 Corinthians Steeple Race off new Kinsale Road near Cork Stewart with C. W. Wise, Woodlands, Phillip Sarsfield, Dougcloyne, W. T .Schreiber, Annagh House, A. Hutchins, Cork, Captain R. T. Rye, Ryecourt .Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.   Ahakista Cottage, 1868 seeking Cork meeting re equality arising from disestablishment of C of I. Probate 1875, £4,000.  Left a sum to various priests to set up a fund for the masses for the repose of his soul.

Brother Henry Hassett, attorney, Cork

Henry Hassett Esq., (1822-1870), Woodlands, Bandon. Chairing  Bandon 1869, Member Election Committee, Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty (later Attorney General) 1855.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868. Executors Margaret and John Hassett.  1867 address to Father Shinkwin on his departure also signed by Francis Hurley, Clancool House, Dr. Charles McCarthy.  Brother in law and executor John Hurley, brewer, Bandon.  Probate 1870 to his brother John, Forest, Macroom  £2,100

Brother in Law

John Hurley, Esq., Brewer, Malster and Hop Merchant, Chapel Lane, Bandon. 1832 election voted for Biggs. with Eugene O’Neill invited Daniel O’Connell to a dinner of the Reformers of West Riding. 1841 meeting to improve navigation on Bandon River. Promoter of Cork to Bandon Railway. 1842 O’Connell Tribute, Bandon. Involved in Bandon Agricultural Society advocate land improvement and use of native resources, 1845 publicly at the Show.  Will 1855 proven 1849 leaves his mill, brewery, farm to brothers in law, John Hassett, Forest, Macoom, Henry Hassett, attorney, Cork in trust for wife Johanna nee Hassett.   Probably the father of Charles Francis Hurley, brewer dyed 1874.

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May 1861

1841. The Right Honourable Earl of Bandon, Patron and Honorary Director of the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company for The Conveyance of Goods and passengers Throughout Ireland Upon Common Roads.

THe Earl of Bando and Sir Wiliam Chatterton would shortly after be promoters of the sucessful railway from Cork to Bandon.

Right Honourable Honourable James 2nd Earl of Bandon, Custos Rotorum,  (1785-1856), Castlebernard, FRANCIS (1st EARL of BANDON) and HARRIET (Boyle) had James (heir and 2nd Earl born 14th June 1785 in Bandon and died 31st October 1856 at Castle Bernard) m 13th March, 1809 in Cashel  Mary Susan Brodrick eldest daughter of Charles, Archbishop of Cashel and sister of Charles, 6th Viscount Midleton.  Mary was born 9th October 1787 and died 23rd April 1870, buried in Bandon.  Due to rising war related prices land rents estimated 1811 at £30,000. Succeeded to title and estate  after his father’s death in 1830. Following a large Protestant meeting 1834 at Castlebenard nominated to prepare a petition to the British King and Parliament with the Rev. Somers Payne, Councillor Mannix, Lords Berehaven and Bandon. Subscriber Lewis Richard Dowden papers: 1837. 1842 Subscriber Jacksons Co. and City Directory. 1844 Printed handbill/notice , ‘Cork Art Union for the promotion of the fine arts in the South of Ireland’, annual subscription appeal. President is Lord Viscount Bernard MP (Lord Bandon). Printed by W Scraggs, 102 Patricks Street. (1p)  Subscriber John Ryan, 1845 ’20 Years of Popish Persecution’.  Made huge efforts during the Famine to secure relief. Co. Grand Master Orange Order. Fellow Royal Society 1845. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 subscriber, 2 copies,  1861 to Smith’s History of Cork. Bandon 1869.

Sir James Anderson of the family that built the town of Fermoy an early PPS and rebuilt the Cork to Dublin in the 1790s after he secured the mail contact

May be the same or related Sir John Caleb Anderson, 1821, Fermoy, 1842 Buttevant Castle,  son of John b Scotland who built Fermoy Barracks  Voted in 1812 Cork election for Colthurst.  1821 writing to Chief Secretary re disaffection.  Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club.  Subscriber 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.  His father John founded Fermoy, Niall Brunicardi Fermoy Historian account of St. Patrick’s Church, Fermoy, 1886 dedicated to John for his benevolence in giving site for church (and for Protestant Church) rent free and £500 towards building of church and for his general benevolence.

1829, 1847 Christopher Coppinger Assistant Barrister, Co. Kildare. Supernumary Crown Prosecutor Co. Cork. 5. Lower Gardiner St. Standing counsel for 1841 1841. The Right Honourable Earl of Bandon, Patron and Honourary Direcor of the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company for The Conveyance of Goods and passengers Throughout Ireland

Map West Cork

Thanks to Marthanne Williamson Canada, (she descends from Bakers, Rossmore, Durrus)

The credit goes to the Ulster Scots Irish Genelogy Group, USA.

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In the West Cork Map the settled area is south of the Bandod River as far as Dunmanway. The road network is fairly well devopoed comente on by Generl vallency who adi in 1760 it was fdreadfi=ul bu by 170 a good nIn the West Cork Map the settled area is south of the Bandon River as far as Dunmanway.  The road network is fairly well developed comente on by General Vallency who said in 1760 it was dreadful but by 1790 a good network. Work on the main routes was largely completed by Richard Griffith by early 1830, Schull/Cookhaven, Ballydehob/Bantry, patches of Bantry/Castletownbere (even in the 1970 West Cork T.D. Paddy Sheehan referred to it as ‘The Burma Trail’, back road to Bantry from Cookstown over Cousane Gap to Bantry Bay..

1877. 650 Men Working Night and Day to Open Skibbereen Railway

1877 the Cork Examiner report July 1877 of the opening of the Skibbereen railway reported that it was financed by a Cork Grand Jury Baronial advance of £53,000 at 5%, a Treasury loan of £40,000 and that a significant proportion of that  was expended on the Parliamentary process to enable an authorising Act in London.  The solicitors involved in London,  Norton Rose still extant.

In the prospectus for the projected Bandon to Bantry Railway in 1845 the promoters said the cost of moving freight from Skibbeeen or Bantry to Cork was £1 per ton. Wiht the opening of the railway they anticipted the cost would drop to just over 6 shilings per ton.

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Doctors

Daniel Donovan

David Hadden

John Levis, Glenview

S. W.  Levis, Coroner

Dr .McCormack, Goleen

Dr. Popham, Bntry

Samuel Robinson

Dr. Swanton, Bantry

Dr. Sweetnam, Schull

Magistrates Present

Sir J. Arnott

William T. Barry, Resident Magistrate

Lord Bantry

T. E. Barrett, Carriganass Castle

Sir H. W. Becher, Baronet

R. H. Beecher,

Lord Carbery

William Crawford, Cork

M. Cullinane, Bantry

Timothy McCarthy Downing, M.P

J.  H. De Burgh, Union Hall

B. Fleming, New Court

R. Hungerford

Jagoe, Ballydehob

John Limrick, Union Hall

W. H. Massy, Macroom

Adam Meade, Dunmanway

Adam Newman

Richard Newman

M. L. Perrier, Cork

F. D. McCarthy, Glencurragh

McCarthy Morrough

J. W.  McMullan, Cork 

Michael McNamara, Cork

William McNamara, Cork

Captain Morgan

Isaac Notter

Richard Notter

The O’Donovan, Chaired

J. W. Payne, Bantry

W. L. Perrier, Cork

Joseph Pike, Cork

Colonel Powell

Colonel Shouldham, Dunmanway

Colonel Somerville, Drishane

Captain Somerville , The Prairie

Geoge Robinson

James Hutchinson Swanton, Dublin

G. Warburton, Resident Magistrate

Military or Ex Military  Present

Captain Morgan

Colonel Powell, Bawnlahan, Leap

Major Robinson

Colonel Shouldham, Dunmanway

Colonel Somerville, Drishne

Captain Somerville, The Prairie, Goleen

Captain Wright, Bandon

Solicitors Present 

T. Downes

J. E. Marshall