1766, Marriage License Bond, Simon White Esq. of Bantry and Frances Eyre of Macroom.

As the bride came from Macroom in the Diocese of Cloyne the licence bond emanated from the Bishop’s Registry in Cloyne.

In 18th century, Ireland because of the Penal Laws, only marriages performed by the State Church, the Church of Ireland were legal. Those of Catholics, Methodists and Presbyterians while accepted as the century moved on had no legal validity. As late as the 1820s a Father Kelleher then in Kinsale was prosecuted for performing a ‘mixed marriage’. In fairness to the local mostly Protestant Magistrates they petitioned to have the charge dropped.

From this White/Eyre marriage came in the 1820s the mining royalties of Allihies Copper Mines amounting to about £2,500 year about a quarter of the entire rent roll of the Bantry Estate.

The extended White family had mixed fortunes with marriages. A marriage to a Miss Dillon was set aside because it was performed by a ‘Popish Priest’. In the 19th century the ette was nailed out by the dowry of 30,000 of Miss O’Briens of Dromoland Castle a descendant of Brian Boru on the marriage to the Earl of Berehaven. Later in the 19th the marriage to Miss Guinness proved remunerative but Lord Ardilaun of the Gunnnes family was unimpressed by the Whites financial management.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/09/29/marriage-license-bonds-of-1679-and-1698-from-dioceses-of-cork-ross-and-cloyne-mid-18th-century-marriage-litigation-arising-from-marriage-of-two-protestants-white-of-bantry-an-miss-dillon-bantry/

The extended White Family had mixed fortunes with marriages.

https://durrushistory.com/2019/05/17/1804-justice-of-the-peace-magistrate-guide-papist-warrants-including-committal-of-a-popish-priest-for-marrying-contrary-to-law/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L2fYFCXTZUfNtL_ZkaXrzpyNOh9Vx85twFehA2fbWA0/edit

Crowley Wills, 1743, proved 1751, Daniel Crowley, Timoleague and HMS Elizabeth, brother Denis, 1749 Demetrius (James) Crowley, Cadiz, Spain advised to go to Cork for health, son Peter, Schedule of Assets, 1786, Thomas Crowley, Priest of Coolnagurrane, Parish of Abbeystrewry has interest in lease of Coolnagarrane leaves to nieces Joanna and Mary Crowley or in default their brother Timothy Crowley, Shopkeeper, Skibbereen, to be interred in Caheragh. 1795 proved 1796, Timothy O’Crowley, Skibbereen, children, Thomas, Daniel, Timothy, Cornelius, Catherine, Mary, to be buried in the family tomb in Caheragh.

1795 proved 1796, Timothy O’Crowley, Skibbereen, children, Thomas, 

Daniel, 

Timothy, 

Cornelius, may be a hatter in numerous deeds.

Catherine, 

Mary, to be buried in the family tomb in Caheragh.

These are in a bundle in the National Archive and were transcribed at the old Public Records Office pre 1922. Possibly for legal title purposes.  Three of those seem to be people of substance. The likelihood is all were related.

The Caheragh Crowleys may be related to the Crowleys of Ballyourane, Caheragh who in the tithe applotments c 1830 were one of the largest tenant farmers in West Cork.  They may be of the same line as apothecaries Jerry and James Crowley (‘Dr’ Jerry one of the founders of Phoenix Society), North St., Skibbereen of whom James married Rachel Evans of Lissangle around 1805.

IN the old Caheragh graveyard there are many  of the old Catholic gentry families O’Donovan of Ballaghadown, Caheragh and O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, O’Regan’s, Barrett’s Colomane.

Transcripts of Wills, to be updated

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cc77WnR1D5HHMDDL3m8V_QWRLLDa2QCGHTjXnQ7UZ9I/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GlirN3tSRijg8tkisLQPKvuYH9teupxRuVuRRgbWlzY/edit

Some of the pleadings of the Chancery Courts in Dublin survived the destruction of the Public Records in 1922. They are In English, many if not all were abstracted by

KENNETH NICHOLLS

Areas of Interest

• Irish history, especially social, legal and institutional, – late medieval and Early Modern (including religious history).
• Scottish History (pre-modern).
• General European legal and institutional history.
• Pre-modern Asian history.
• Ecological history.
• Cryptozoology

They are in the National Archives.

There are only a limited number relating to West Cork as the British King’s writ did not generally run until after the Plantation of Bandon in the 1590s.

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1822, James Delacour, County Treasurer, Spring Assizes, Grand Jury Presentments, £26,491 including Roads, Jail, Bridewell, County Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, Maintenance of Reformed Priests, Malicious Burnings, Destroying Vermin

A large part of Cork Grand Jury records were lost in the Courthouse fire in 1892. Many surviving records were destroyed by Cork County Council when they moved to the County hall in the late 1960s

Cork Grand Jury:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGCxYYvCGNEbpzypv-6tdTnz78HsuF_YJELLh9ezWvM/edit

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35505

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35536

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35510

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35927

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/34078

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/34182

1804, Clonakilty. Lower Class of Protestant Speak English and Irish.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=xOvoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=lower+class+of+protestants+speak+irish+and+english&source=bl&ots=GF1XqLJMNG&sig=ACfU3U2v7tQ1VEw-THJnr1KxqA2P_2zWDw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiToMTvrMLkAhXYWRUIHZNKB5g4ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=lower%20class%20of%20protestants%20speak%20irish%20and%20english&f=false

From Cotter family website:

1830, Cotters, Inchileegahg, ‘Diarmaid told me that, years ago, he had asked Da who was the last of our ancestors to have been an Irish speaker, Diarmaid is not totally certain of who Da said, but thinks that he said that Sylvester was the last and that his family were very ashamed of this old-fashioned practice.’

Dr. Edward Wetenhall Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, BA, Cambridge,, FRS,  (1636-1713), 1679.  Member Dublin Philosophical Society. Wrote of his cruel suffering at the hands of Irish Papists 1688-1690.  One of seven Church of Ireland Bishops to stay in Ireland 1688-1690. Pamphlet controversy with William Penn.  In 1710 he drew up a memorial to James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, the Lord Lieutenant, urging the need of providing ‘books of religion’ in the Irish language, in accordance with the ideas of John Richardson, D.D. (1664–1747), a clergyman in his diocese

The are some records for Cork Customs and Excise at ports gung back to the 13th century. These records show a reliance on the old dependables tobacco and alcohol.

Some Cork Customs Records:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K9FbQLKPjRm9HLMNy99__AAMLmis519psiSvcP71Rts/edit#gid=0

Patent Appointing Cork Customs Officers.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/30396

Extract from letter ‘Very Bad Mutton and Beef, you Can’t Conceive of the Wretchedness of it’, of Godwin Swift (Customs Man), 16th May 1757 from Crookhaven, West Cork, Ireland.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/27458

Transcribed in 1878 by Richard Caulfield:

https://durrushistory.com/2018/10/23/dr-richard-caulfield-collection-including-genealogies-kinsale-deeds-from-1493-boole-library-university-college-cork/

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35121

https://cora.ucc.ie/bitstream/handle/10468/126/JPM_DrPV1987.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The Collector of Baltimore seems to be Dominic Nagle maybe of the North East Cork family, Nano Nagle, Edmund Burke connected.

Dean Swift ‘A Patriot is One Who enables 2 Blades of Grass Grow where 1 Grew Before’. Sir Richard Griffith Road Engineer, Fits the Bill. 1824 Progress Report, Skibbereen/Bantry, Skibbereen/Crookhaven, Castletownbere/Glengariff, Kenmare/Bantry.

https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/durrushistory.com/35809

Griffith’s ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466,

Continued here and elsewhere in Griffith’s reports is progress following the completion of the roads, new houses in Castletownbere, three story stone houses and larger fishing vessels. On the Mizen peninsula before the road no wheeled vehicles, there alos the only place in Ireland outside of Ulster he had poor Protestants labouring on the roads.

Griffiths  Cork projects known as the ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466, Bantry to Skibbereen, Crookhaven to Bantry and the road to north Cork to Banteer.   His works are characterised by a high degree of engineering excellence. It was said that in building bridges he insisted on going to bed rock for foundations, the Grand Jury contractors would be happy with building on gravel resulting in so many were washed away in floods.  His schemes highlights the deficiencies of the Grand Jury system and might be looked at like the recently completed motorway schemes in Ireland. The effects were dramatic, on the Mizen Peninsula they first wheeled carts made their appearance.  Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), the Scots Engineer who was also involved said the North Cork Road opened up the entire area to commerce with a beneficial result.

https://durrushistory.com/2016/12/23/griffiths-wellesley-roads-included-skibbereen-to-crookhaven-46-km-built-between-1826-and-1829-and-costing-13466/

https://durrushistory.com/2016/12/12/1824-evidence-of-sir-richard-griffith-esq-road-engineer-to-house-of-commons-select-committee-on-harmony-in-west-cork-between-protestant-and-catholics-distress-of-1822-only-part-of-ireladn-he-e/

His colleague Alexander Nimmo a Scots Engineer reported on the opening of the road over the Boggeragh Mountain. The the whole area of North West Cork and East Kerry was accessible to the Cork market with general prosperity following. Nimmo was scathing on Captain O’Sullivan, a Landlord and road contractor on the road works around Glengarriff. He paid his workers who were his tenants in vouchers redeemable against rent.