1822. Lord Bantry not renewing lease of any of his Tenantry involved in Smuggling.

Dublin Weekly Register 03 August 1822

Bantry Customs:

1868.  Address by over 400 at the Courthouse, Bantry,  to the New Right Honourable the Earl of Bantry.

Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle; or, South Western Advertiser 19 September 1868

John Edward Barrett, 1856, Carriganass Castle, Bantry, Resident, £279, sitting Bantry 1862, wife daughter William  O’Sullivans Esq., of Beara who previously occupied Castle.  Purchased from David Mellifont c 1824.   Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic  education 1859.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.  Addess to Earl of Bantry 1868. Assisted in getting piers built Muintervara 1888.  James Gilhooly MP alleged he was sitting in Skibbereen Quarter Sessions 1887 outside his district.  Listed land owner c 1895.

John Warren Payne, Bantry, Agent Lord Bantry.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.  Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.

1836.  The Rev. Mr. Barry, P.P. of East Schull, has Commenced the Erection of a Chapel for a Poor Population, Thanks, the Benevolent Persons (Named) who have so Liberally Contributed.

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 10 November 1836

1953. Photo with Names of Kilcrohane party to Killarney.

The provenance of the photograph is that in the 1960s Tadhg Ó Donnabháin was assisting a descendant of the Blair family of Blair’s Cove dn Cleary  of Dunbeacon in Australia.  One of his relations came across the photograph recently in Australia.

Front Row (Sitting): Mrs Mary Daly (Steven), Mrs Martina Daly McCarthy (Droumnea). 2nd Row (Kneeling & Sitting): Eileen Donovan (Lake), Maisie Donovan (Murt), Cattie Coghlan (Glenruin), Lizzie Murphy, Bridie

Sheehan(Rafrigeen), Mike Sheehans wife, Catharina Donovan (Lake). 3rd Row (Standing) : Kathleen McCarthy Burke (Whiddy), Fr. Jeremiah O’Donovan (Lake), Dan (Sam) McCarthy, Anthony (Bob) McCarthy, Fr John

O’Mahony (Lower Letter), Fr. O’Flynn (Curate Kilcrohane), Jack Sheehan & Mike Sheehan (Rafrigeen), Nora (Jack) McCarthy, Eileen O’Mahony (Young Con), Liz McCarthy (Caher), Katie (Jack) McCarthy.

Back Row Left: Bus Driver, Margaret Hickey Tobin (Caher), Peg (Foley) Daly. Sr Mary O’Mahony (Lower Letter), Mollie (Murt) O’Donovan, Eileen Hickey Lehane, Dan Burke (Ahakista), Tadgh Ó Donnabháin, Michael Murphy,

Agnes (Regan) Spillane, Sheila O’Donovan (Garry), Betty Lehane (Fawnmore)

Year 1953. Picture taken behind the Primary School Kilcrohane. Bus Group on Day Outing to Killarney.

Thanks to John Tobin who researched it with Noel McCarthy and inserted the names of all the persons in the photo.  If the photos and names are difficult to read try PDF:

Picture of Kilcrohane Party to Killarney circa 1953 with Names. Version C

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1840-1920.  Dreenlomane, (Doirín na Lomán: Little Oakwood) Barytes Mines , Ballydehob, and Barytes Mines in Bantry District, West Cork.

See Also:

The Metal Mines of West Cork by Diana Hodnett published by the Trevithick Society in Cornwall, which has a chapter devoted to the Dereenalomane Copper and Barytes Mine (1843-1920).

Scart and Barytes Mines Derreenlomane, (Doirín na Lomán- Little Oakwood), Ballydehob, West Cork, Barytes Mines

Kilcrohane Townlands

1817.  Peter Besnard Inspector General of Linen for Provinces of Munster, Leinster and Connaught, report, Banon, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Dunmanway, Bantry, Export to West Indies and USA,  Exertions of Lord Bantry and Vicar of Bantry Rev. Smith, Lord Carbery. Redmond Barry, Colonel Hodder, Trade Depressed.  Praise for Right Honourable John Foster, Collon, Co. Louth, Promoter of Linen Industry as Chancellor of the Exchequer early pioneer of Capital Spending.

The Fosters were interested in improving their new estate in Co. Louth. Anthony Foster invested in agricultural improvements, improving the drainage, fertility and general quality of the land. Arthur Young who wrote ‘Tour in Ireland’ visited the estate in 1776, five years before the rental, and said that the Chief Baron Anthony Foster’s ‘operations were of a magnitude he had never heard of before’ (CLAJ, X, 3, 1943 p227). John Foster developed the linen industry in the area, building mills and encouraging Protestant weavers to settle in Collon.

See Redmond Barry’s letter re Foster.

John Besnard, Junior. Police Court, Paradise Place, Cork, 1857. 1840 calling for Testimonial to late William Crawford Cork benefactor.  Family of Huguenot descent ran major sail making factory in Douglas.  Manager Savings bank lived next door, m Sophie baker, d Valentine, merchant, Bristol.  

John Besnard JP Senior. Sheriff 1810, Mayor 1831, Police Court, Paradise Place, Cork, 1857.  Voted in 1812 Cork election for Hutchinson and Longfield.  1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Jonas Travers, Perriers, Gibsons, Alexander O’Driscoll, JP.  Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club.   Ex-Officio Poor Law Guardian listed ‘Bernard’  1839.  Family of Huguenot descent ran major linen, rope, sail making factory in Douglas.  Bernards and relations Gibbons and Perriers ran Cork Corporation pre 1840.

Peter Besnard Esq., Cork. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club Ex-Officio Poor Law Guardian listed as ‘Bernard’ 1839.

Richard Earl of Bantry, 1843, Glengariff Cottage. 1821 meeting on distress Skibbereen huge praise for Catholic Clergy for contributing to peace.  1817encouraging flax growing wiht Vicar of Bantry, Rev. Smith. 1822  Lord Lieutenant sends £100 for local distress, £50 for Berehaven. 1824 entertaining Dr. Egan, Co Adjutor Catholic Bishop of Kerry.  Subscriber Poor Relief Bantry 1832.  1834 Member Committee Cork Protestants.  Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.  Subscriber Lewis 1837. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 at Seafield Park.  Somewhat surprisingly praised by Shea Lawlor, Bantry Liberal for his integrity.  (Apologies) Alexander O’Driscoll, JP suspended, Bandon 1841. Brother in law of Lord Viscount Ennismore.  Complaining 1848 of a chronic lack of cash as was his son Viscount Berehaven, mining royalties from Puxleys Allihies Copper Mines £1,500 per annum royalties through will of grandfather Hedges Eyre of Macroom.

James Redmond Barry, -1879), Pre 1820, Glandore and 11 Great Denmark St., Dublin, Fishery Commissioner advocate of fishery development in West Cork, Improving Landlord, Petitioned House of Lords to Vote 1821 as Representative of dormant title of Viscount Buttevant from 1405. 1818 encouraging Flax growing with mother’s assistance, mentions his farm of around 300 acres population 328 of whom one third at linen.  1821 request to Chief Secretary with Rev. Arminger Sealy, John Swete, Thomas Walker that military be sent to Timoleague re Captain Rock disturbances.  1828 Quarter Session Bandon. 1828 seeking reform of House of Commons. Involved with Richard Townsend, Castletownsend and Thomas Somerville, Drishane in setting up Agricultural and Country Bank in Skibbereen, April 1835.   Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Attended Reformers Dinner Bandon 1839 for Daniel O’Connell, MP,.  Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.  In October 1861 at O’Donovan’s Cove married Anne Mary J 3rd daughter of Timothy JP to David Fitzjames Barry, 2nd son to Redmond Barry, Commissioner of Fisheries Esq.  (an a political ally of Timothy).  She is later Executrix of her father’s estate then a widow. Listed 1870, Dublin, 439 acres. Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.   Son Captain FitzJames Barry, J.P., grandson Richard Fitzwilliam Barry, JP, solicitor, Clerk of the Crown, King’s County, listed 1885-6. Left £1,500. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty, 1847.  Member as James, Bandon, Commission on Magistrates 1838

Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery.  1817 Chairing Cork Committee of Linen production an encouraging local development.   1821 writing to Chief Secretary re disaffection, Castlefreke, Clonakilty, sitting Rosscarbery, 1835. 1822 Lord Lieutenant sends £500 for local distress.  Protestant protest meeting Cork 1834.   Reputed to have bell rung in London church on hearing of death of Father John Power, Parish priest Kilmacabea.  Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. – 1823 Blamed notorious tithe extractor Rev. Morritt for fatal affray at Castlehaven, welcomed Petty Session Courts and urged abolition of Manor Courts.  Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.  listed 1843.  Lord of Manor appointing Seneschals.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.   HIs life size statue in Rosscarbery Cathedral has an inscription how he founded schools in various parts of his estates, clothed the surrounding hills with trees and improved agriculture and the amelioration of his countrymen’.  Carberys intermarried with O’Driscoll family.

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1831.  Fit and Proper Persons Appointed by Magistrates to Conduct Census, in the West Riding of Co. Cork.

An example of one appointments:

‘Big’ Patrick O’Sullivan, Millcove: Castletownbere. Lord Bantry Estate appointed as Seneschal   Not legally qualified.  Parliamentary Report 1837, Eppi.  Baronial collector since 1825 deputy Denis Murphy (Irish speaking) as collector.  Appointed fit and proper person to conduct 1831 Census with Mr. W. Murphy.  Seneschal of Altham, Mill Cove, Berehaven, Bantry and Donemark from 1843.  1841 organising voters from Beara in Conservative interest.  Sitting as Grand Juror, Cork 1842, 1844, Cork County Agriculture Society Dinner 1842.  Millcove. leased by Patrick O’Sullivan from the Earl of Bantry’s estate in 1852 when it was valued at £14. O’Sullivan worked as an agent for the White estate.  A deeply unpopular Landlord local tradition has it that he used to blow his bugle outside the Church after Sunday Mass to summon his tenants to draw hay or turf or whatever other task he designated.  1856 Chairman Berehaven Board of Guardians.

The house has been demolished though traces of the stone work can still be seen in the gardens which are now part of an art gallery and sculpture display.  He was agent for the Beara part of the Bantry estate working with receivers and banks to Lord Bantry while Augustus Payne from the Upton family operated the rest of the estate. His daughter Christina, who emigrated to the Unites States and became the matriarch of a very rich New York family, before ending her days sadly in a mental home. Ellen O’Sullivan,  Convent of Faithful Companions of Jesus, Limerick Chronicle died 6/06/1857, dau of Patrick O’Sullivan of Mill Cove, Berehaven, Laurel Hill.  Died Peshwar India 1881 Edward O’Sulllivan, Queen’s Regiment, youngest son of Patrick O’Sullivan, Esq., Millove, Castletownbere, agent to Lord Bantry and Seneschal.  Patrick O’Sullivan  was nephew to  Captain Paddy O’Sullivan of Faha also Agent to Lord Bantry whose sister was the mother of Peter McSweeney.  1857 Peter McSwiney, the last lineal descendant of the Mac Finin Dubh O’Sullivans (a 400 year old title), after his eviction from Dereen in Kenmare by the Lansdowne Estate, spent his last days in Ahakista Cottage. Patrick O’Sullivan, Lord Bantry’s Agent in Beara, Millcove Castletownbere, Agent to Lord Bantry brought the following to Cork 1841, to vote for Longfield/Leader in a Schooner, ‘Sophia’ via Adrigole and Bantry.  Longfield paid expenses. Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Murtagh O’Sullivan, Daniel Florence O’Sullivan, Daniel Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Timothy O’Sullivan, Roger O’Sullivan, Timothy O’Sullivan, Simms (Protestant), Denis O’Sullivan, From Adrigole, Daniel  Murphy (his deputy Irish speaking), Richard O’Sullivan (Protestant), Daniel Michael O’Sullivan, James Neill, William  Murphy, Murtagh Kelly.

The Census results were alas destroyed either the Public Records Office in 1922 or were pulped in World War 1.  Some historian accessed it such as the Coles (History of Culculaghta, Durrus family), Welply.

 1821 Census and Statistical Returns

In the Chief Secretary papers there are frequent references to the 1821 census and the poor pay of the enumerators and the supervising role of the Magistrates.  There are also a number of references to the Magistrates making statistical returns but it is not clear what these are.

Cork Magistrates:

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Conveyancing Strategies employed by Landlords to Circumnavigate the Penal Laws from The Bantry Estate Records Relaxation and Catholics Using Rent Charges to Vote in Barony of Carbery early 19th Century.

The loosening of the electoral laws from 1790 gave Catholics in restricted circumstances the right to vote.  In Bantry and Durrus there was a concerted and ultimately successful campaign to register tenants in the Liberal Interest.  This was allied with Anti Tithe Agitation and Repeal.

Voting 1835, Freemen of Cork, Leaseholders entitled to Vote, Baronies of West Carbery , Bantry and Bere:

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The smaller rents are cottiers or labourers.  There are quite a number of significant tenant many with multiple holdings.  This is only the immediate town of Bantry the whole estate stretched to Beara c 40,000 acres a lot mountain and bog.  The original land owners were largely in place the O’Sullivan acting as Middlemen.  From the early 19th century the finances of the estate were perilous in contrast many of the larger tenants Catholic as well as Protestant prospered.