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Will be updated shortly.

 

Many of the names in the 1725 settlement rental appear in the 1702 Patrickson/Cox deed.  Patrickson acquired from the Hollow Blade Company.  They wee not active estate mangers, this may have been confiscated McCarthy Lands.  It is possible that the tenants were McCarthy tenants moving westward from the Bandon Plantation post 1650.

1725 Rent Roll of Tenants of his Honour Sir Richard Cox, Dunmanway, West Cork

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1702, Deed from Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne (Dunmanway Sister Elinor Patrickson ancestors of Durrus Blairs) to Sir Richard Cox (1650-1733), Bandon, Chief Justice of Ireland, of Lands at Dunmanway and Kilbarry, Coolsnagh, Coomshiplogh, Inchiragh, Derrynacahreagh, Cloontiuirk, Dereens, Tonetove, Derrylahan, Mills and Tolls, Park, Castle, Malthouse, bounded by Derrenasabagh, Gortnavan. Founding Deed of Dunmanway Names John Clay, John Turk, Thomas White, Mathew Rhems, William Short, John Farr, George Lantry, John Lumsie, George Stuke, Richard Nott, William Sisk, Thomas Roche, James Grace, William Smith George Moore Bounded by the Lanes of Mahonoh and Cox Magistrates.

 

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1822, Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, County Cork, seeking financial aid for a new line of road leading from Crookstown, in the parish of Moviddy, over the Barna or Pass of Cousane to Kealkil in the parish of Bantry, incorporating Ballilickey, Coosane and other parishes.  The Newly Road if Built would Make the Distance from Bantry to Cork 35 Miles.  Map by Jeremiah O’Brien shows old Road Bantry/Kealkil, Old Pathway to Bantry over Barna of Cousane, Estimate £256 a mile.

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=true&category=27&searchDescTxt=dunmanway&simpleSearchSbm=Search#searchfocus

Until the late 1920s a variety of miles was used in Ireland, this was presumable a longer mile than that adopted.

 

 

 

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Match 4 from ‘CSO/RP’

NAI REFERENCE:	CSO/RP/1822/421
TITLE:	Letter from Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, County Cork, seeking financial aid for a new line of road leading from Crookstown, in the parish of Moviddy, to Kealkil in the parish of Bantry, incorporating Ballilickey, Coosane and other parishes
SCOPE & CONTENT:	Letter from Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial of residents of County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that an engineer be directed to inspect a new line of road leading from Crookstown, in the parish of Moviddy, to Kealkil in the parish of Bantry, incorporating Ballilickey, Coosane and other parishes, and that financial assistance might be forthcoming to complete the proposed scheme: claims that such an initiative would offer employment to those without and would provide access to law and order in the region; signed by Lord Bantry and 31 supporters; also encloses detailed hand coloured map and estimate of proposed works, by Jeremiah O’Brien.
EXTENT:	3 items; 7pp
DATE(S):	12 Aug 1822-21 Aug 1822
DATE EARLY:	1822
DATE LATE:	1822
ORIGINAL REFERENCE:	CSORP1822/934
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1709. Some West Cork Bridges from the Overseers of Co. Cork Bridges.

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1709 Bridge Overseers, Co. Cork, including at Fermoy Ancestors of James Joyce. (1)

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1707 Grand Jury Records of West Cork Bridges.

The Grand Jury carried out many of the functions of the present County Council. Most of Cork’s Grand Jury’s records were lost in a fire at the Courthouse in Cork in the 1880s. This is a rare survival and shows bridge maintenance and erection at a number of West Cork locations

1709 Bridge Overseers, Co. Cork

An account of bridges, presented at several assizes, since the 3rd day of April 1708 to the 26th day of August 1712 inclusive, the sums and the overseers names:

3rd April 1708:———————+

Balyneene (Ballineen) Bridge: Mr. Andrew Syms £2 10 shillings
Ballyprevane (Connorville, Ballineen) Bridge: Mr. John Wood, £28 1 shilling 8 pence
Macrompe (Macroom): Richard Hedges Esq., £80

28th July 1708

Ballyprevane (Connorville, Ballineen) Bridge: John Wood, Richard Crook?, William Wade?, to be…, £30

28th March 1709

Inishonane (Innishannon) Bridge: John Moore, Clerk (Minister Church of Ireland), £30
Bandon Bridge: William Lapp, Thomas Hosford?, Daniel Connor, James Martine, £200
Carriggeoroghed (Carrigdrohid, Macroom) Bridge, Joseph Osborne, £5
Ballynneen (Ballineen) Bridge, Andrew Syms Clerk, £1. 1 shilling
Abbyshowry (Skibbereen), Michael Becher Esq., £100

23rd March 1709

Irishtown? Bridge of Bandon, Richard Goodman Clerke, Jas. Martine, £30
Ballyhallwick (Dunmanway) Bridge, William Wade Esq., £40

28th July 1710

Ballyhallwick (Dunmanway) Bridge, Richard Cox Esq., Undertaker, further £40 to be added, £260
Inchygeelength (Inchigeela) Bridge, Edward Webber, Edward Brown and William Maylors? £80

27th March 1711

Cussoos(n?)a Bridge (Kinsale area), John Walton, Richard Busteed, overseers, afterwards Michael Daunt, £10
Murragh Bridge, Arthur Bernard, Esq., £30
Ballyfereene Bridge, Thomas Crook, Richard Hedges Esq,. John Herrick, Thomas Crook, £30
Bandon Bridge: John Nash, William Lapp, Daniel Connor, £100
New Mill Bridge, John Clerk ? and Thomas Sealy, £4
Ballynneen (Ballineen) Bridge, Andrew Syms Clerk, £1. 5 shilling

31st October 1711

Done. Awndalow Bridge, Dan Sullivan, Charles Webb, Walter Webb, £15
Claghnaloohy Bridge, George Bullen and Ja Karny (Kearney?), £10
Lawny Bridge, Richard Hedges and Arthur Bernard Esqs. £100
Ballyntose Bridge, Michael Becher, William Wade, Esqs., £20
Kilfaghtny Bridge, John Hungerford Clerk and Samuel Jervois Junior, £4

18th March 1711 (Sequence as in ledger)

Kilmeedy Bridge, Richard Hedges Esq., and Richard Thornhill, £45
Ballynclare Bridge, Michael Becher Esq., £20
Murragh Bridge, Arthur Bernard, Esq., £30
Done. Awndalow/Awndaloo Bridge, money advanced Christopher Webb, £38 3 shillings 4 pence
Done. Awndalow/Awndaloo Bridge, Christopher Webb, for complete finishing and same? £5
Ballyglasheen Bridge, Richard Hedges Esq. advanced to prevent being undermined £2 10 shillings

25th August 1712

Added to another time, Kilmeely Bridge, Captain Hedges and Mr. Thornhill, expended over legal proceedings, £9 6 shillings.
Kilmeely Bridge, Captain Hedges and Mr. Thornhill, Overseers, for complete furnishing the saem, £30
Murragh Bridge, over Bandon River, Arthur Bernard, Esq., £100
Ballybane Bridge (Ballydehob), Hugh Hutchinson Esq., Robert Atking, £20
Added to another time. Ballynneen (Ballineen) Bridge, William Wade Esq., £30
Ballyfereene Bridge, Thomas Crook, among disputes over legal problems? £13 13 shilling
Ballyfereene Bridge, Thomas Crook (Same overseer), for the complete finishing, £40
Added to another …Ballynneen (Ballineen) Bridge, William Wade Esq., £30
Rowry (Rosscarbery) and Drumaleague (Drimoleague) Bridges, Henry Jones?, Samuel Jervois, £12

Grand Jury Room 15th July 1713.

The undernames overseers are to quote before the Grand Jury for the bridges when they were appointed overseers of respectively?

28th March 1709.
Piercy Smith, overseer of Ballynoskarty Bridge, £80

23rd March 1799.

Ballyhallwick Bridge, William Wade Esq., £40

28th July 1710
Ballyhallwick (Dunmanway) Bridge, Richard Cox Esq., Undertaker, £260
Bride Bridge, George Bernard?, Thomas Moore, William Philpot, £260
Inchygeelength (Inchegeela) Bridge, George Bernard?, Edward Browns? And Mahony £8

27th March 1711
Murragh Bridge, Arthur Bernard Esq., £30
Ballyfeeerson Bridge, Richard Hedges Esq., Jur? Herrick, and Thomas Crook, £30

3rd October 1711

Ballynovaa Bridge, Ralph Frekes Esq., £6?
Lawny Bridge, Richard Hedges, Arthur Bernard Esqs., £100
Ballintoro Bridge, Michael Becher, and William Wade, Esqs, £20
Kilfaghtny Bridge, Jus. Hungerford and .. Samuel? Jervois Junior, £4

18th March 1711

Awahaloo Bridge, William Haa? Esq., £250
Kilmeeedy Bridge, Richard Hedges Esq., and Mr. Richard Thornhill, £45
Ballinclaw Bridge, Michael Becher Esq., £20

26th August 1712

Killeneedy Bridge, Captain Hedges and Richard Thornhill, £9 6 shillings
Killeneedy Bridge, Captain Hedges and Richard Thornhill, for complete finishing by law £20
Murragh Bridge, Arthur Bernard, £100
Ballybane Bridge, Hugh Hutchinson and Robert Atkins, £20

Irish Town Bridge Bandon:

First built by the O’Mahonys in the 14th century. Built in 1864 to replace a bridge built by a Mr John Lodden in 1636. Immediately west of this bridge was the East Gate of Bandonbridge. Adjoining this site was the site house in which George Bennett, Historian of Bandonbridge and Bandon Oregon was born.

1650. Richard Cox, who built Dunmanway town and brought in a linen industry, was born in Bandon. The town is indebted for its origin to Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the reign of Wm. III., who obtained from that monarch the grant of a market and fairs, and erected a stately mansion for his own residence. Sir Richard also built the long bridge over the river Bandon, consisting of six arches, exclusively of four under the causeway, and introduced the linen manufacture, for which, under his auspices, this place became one of the principal marts, and the town, in which a colony from England had settled, one of the most flourishing in the south of Ireland

Innishannon Bridge:

Formerly a ford nearby. The first known mention of Innishannon Bridge comes from a record of a resolution by Kinsale Corporation, in 1665, “to oppose the payment of money towards Innishannon Bridge”. This bridge was completely destroyed in the tsunami of 1755, following an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal. This earthquake, known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, is thought to have had a magnitude of 8.5-9, and shockwaves were felt across Europe. It created tidal waves which hit coastlines as far away as North Africa, and the boats in Kinsale harbour are said to have spun around on their moorings. The wave travelled up the estuary of the Bandon River from Kinsale as far as Innishannon, devastating the bridge here.

General Charles Vallancey Survey Report Developments from 1760 to 1778

He was sent to Ireland to assist in a military survey, remained and became an authority on Irish antiquities. He fathered 44 children by three wives. He learnt Irish and became fluent in it. Some of his theories are now regarded with a degree of scepticism. He wrote a report on the West Cork area which should also hold true for Durrus at the period: ‘There was only one road between Cork and Bantry; you may now proceed by eight carriage roads beside several horse tracks branching off from these great roads, from Bantry the country is mountainous and from the high road has the appearance of being barren and very thinly populated; yet the valleys abound with, corn and potatoes and the mountains are covered with black cattle. In 1760, twenty years ago it was so thinly inhabited, an army of 10,000 men could not possibly have found subsistence between Bantry and Bandon. The face of the country now wears a different aspect: the sides of the hill are under the plough, the verges of the bogs are reclaimed and the southern coast from Skibbereen to Bandon, is one continued garden of grain and potatoes except the barren pinnacles of some hills and the boggy hollows between which are preserved for fuel’ This would suggest that the major population expansion may have dated from c 1775. Wakefield in 1809 estimated the number of houses on the Muintervara peninsula occupied by Catholics and Protestants at 600. In the 1831 Census the population of Durrus East is 1,620. In 1838 the population was 8,340 of whom around 800 were Protestant.

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St. Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, Records from 1690

 

https://www.ireland.anglican.org/find-a-church/parish/16570/ross-st-fachtna-rosscarbery_St. Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, Records from 1690, Revised 28th January 2018

 

 

 

1817, January, Mr. Murphy’s new School attached to New Inn Skibbereen for Young Gentlemen.  Teachers, Baronies of Carbery East and West, Bantry and Berehaven from 1828 and some from Report on Popery 1731

 

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Cork Mercantile Courier, January 1817.

 

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Teachers, Baronies of Carbery East and West, Bantry and Berehaven from 1828 and some from Report on Popery 1731.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eg1XT1Z9dnB0wf0B7dGZX_r85d8EwjnpBLxqCv0M9ck/edit#gid=0

 

1819. Society for the Promotion of Education of the Poor 1819, Schools, West Cork. Early West Cork Teachers.

 

A List of Sunday Schools, Co. Cork To Which Gratuitous Grants of Money and Books Have been Made from November 1809 to 1st January 1829.  Further Detailed Listings of Schools with Enrolments.

O’Daly Bardic School 13th to 17th century, Dromnea, Kilcrohane West Cork, pupils including two sons of the King of Spain, descendants founding Daly’s Distillery, Cork.

 

1830. FEINAGLIAN BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, FOR CLASSICAL & GENERAL EDUCATION, Clonakilty, opposite the Emmet Hotel in Shannon Square (now Emmet Square), principal Edward B. Trenor, ex-Sizar and Exhibition Scholar, TCD, Principal. Boarders £30 per year, Day Pupils £6. Within a few minutes walk from the School, the pupils have the advantage of sea-bathing, MR. TRENOR always accompanying them.

 

 

Co. Cork Tree Register 1790-1866.

 

Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

 

The listing throws up names of those many of who are unknown but obvious substantial people at the one.

Just one example:

Jeremiah O’Connell Esq., Bantry

1840 Secretary Bantry O’Connell Annuity. 1841 vote based on £50 freehold at Upper Lissane.   1842 Secretary of delegation to Lord Mayor of Dublin, Daniel O’Connell with John O’Hea, JP, Clonakilty to address Tory opposition.  1843 letting of Deendonegah House then occupied by Arthur Hutchinson JP contact Jeremiah O’Connell Esq. 1843 dinner for Alderman Lyons, Cork with other leading Liberal figures.  Married 1845 Mary Frances daughter of Daniel Murphy, Bellville, Cork by her uncle Dr. Murphy. 1845 Provisional Committee Bantry to Bandon Railway.  Signed Testimonial to Resident Magistrate, John Gore Jones, Bantry, 1844.  Banquet for Liberator in Cork 1845 Address from West Carbery and Bantry by Father Thomas Barry, with Father Freeman, Jeremiah O’Connell, John O’Connell, Bantry, McCarthy Downing, Solicitor, Skibbereen, Daniel Welply Skibbereen.   Distributing  in Bantry New England Famine Relief 1847. 1850 Ivy Cottage, Bantry. Not sure if same, Jeremiah O’Connell, Esq., J.P., of Beach House, Bantry, co. Cork.  Died 1878, at St. Mary’s, Frankfort-avenue, Rathgar, County Dublin.   1845 entered planting of 2,250 trees on Tree Register.

 

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Register of Trees, Co. Cork, 1800

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1788, Bantry, Some Pilchards Taken.  Hopes of Return of Shoals Dashed. 1791 Map Co. Cork River Systems.

 

 

https://books.google.ie/books?id=EnBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA43&lpg=RA1-PA43&dq=map+baronies+west+cork&source=bl&ots=QeOEw2nd9S&sig=_8mz9xzBOuzb6hCUgh4MNWWiAP4&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoh8jqs97YAhWHh7QKHRXXBsw4KBDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false

 

Flight of Pilchards:

 

1760s, Lease renewal to Richard Mellefont, Esq., by Kenmare Estate of Donemark, Bantry, West Cork for Three Lives Mellefonts Father had Vastly Improved and Enclosed Fields of a Proper Size with Well Planted Ditches and Had Fish Palaces Redundant Due to Flight of Pilchards.

 

Early Map of Baltimore, West Cork (Between 1605-1640), showing English Settlement, Dunasead Castle, Sherkin Island, Loo Rocks, Storehouse for Preserved Fish, 12 Fishing Boats, Seine Pilchards, 5 Possible Royal Navy Boats.

 

The entry of South West Cork into international trade with Europe from the late 16th century. Seizures 1620 of ‘Plymouth’ sailing from Kinsale to Cadiz and Malaga by Turks and Moores and of ‘Weymouth’ sailing from Bantry with pilchards to Alicante in Spain and the crew being sold into slavery by the Turks and Moors.

 

Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws included are The Worthy Mr. Henry Gallwey £1-10-0 his generous and worthy son £1-3s, Nicholas Mead 5/5d, Andrew Morrogh, William Gallwey, John Casey, Patrick Skiddie, Cornelius Sexton, James Gould, Daniel Leahy, Robert Gallwey, and Richard Casey each contributed 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny, Conformity and the Fishing Trade, Father Walsh Parish Priest of Durrus, Blackrock and Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, Dromnea, Kilcrohane, poet.

 

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

 

Francis Jobson’s Map of West Cork, 1589 including Cape Clear (Iniskyran), Baltimore, O’Driscolls, Rosbrin, Crookhaven, Bantry, Muintervara land of Rymers (O’Daly’s Bardic School), O’Sullivan Bere, Priest’s Leap.

 

 

 

 

 

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