Courtesy Mr and Mrs Camier

19th century roll book

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/rockwood-mixed-national-school-ballydehob-west-cork-roll-book-from-1868-with-some-parents-names-addresses-occupations-last-school/

Ireland out of step with Cork on standard time until 1856 when Cork gave up its own time.

Before the railways and the telegraph time was not standardised and many areas had time out of keeping with neighbouring areas. Cork held onto its own version of time until 1856 when it fell in with the rest of Ireland.

This is quoted in ‘Layers’ Tom Spadling’s book on Cork Street Signs. 2013 Associated Editions.

The Cork Examiner on the 7th December 1855 ‘that all the principal towns of Ireland with the exception of Cork were using ‘Dublin time’.

Schools 1835, Ardfield, Aughadown, Skibbereen, Berehaven, West Cork, Commissioners of Public Instruction.

Schools 1835, Castlehaven, Creagh, Kilcaskin, Kilcoe, Cape Clear Island, Kilgariff, West Cork, Commissioners of Public Instruction.

Castletownbere Petty Sessions, Co. Cork, October 1839, Timothy O’Donovan JP of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus. Seeks to Ensure the Rule of Law is Adhered to.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Tomothy O’Donovan was one of the first Catholics appointed as a Magistrate in Co. Cork in the early 19th century.

Southern Report from Cork Commercial Courier dated the 17th October, 1839:

Controversy at Castletownbere Petty Sessions Court – On Monday the Court opened at ten o’clock with the following Magistrates:

J.G. Jones
Richard H. Beecher
H. Townsend
Samuel Hutchins
Timothy O’Donovan of Donovan’s Cove
J.G. Jones in the chair

Mr. O’Donovan addressed the Court and said he felt reluctant to interfere in matters of local jurisdiction out of his own district, yet as a Magistrate of longstanding in the county of Cork he felt bound to protest against certain proceedings of two or three Magistrates assembled here on Saturday last, when it establishes a precedent…

The Parish of Cill-na-Martra, Co. Cork, its Ancient Topography and Traditions compiled in San Francisco, California, 1894, partly from 18th century documents.

Kilnamartra 1

Killnamarta 2

An English Traveller in Ireland 1672-4, Observations on hospitality, bragging, housing and sleeping patterns, baptism and death customs, obsession with genealogy, propensity to litigation.

De Latocnaye 1796:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/observations-of-breton-traveller-jacques-louise-de-bougrenet-de-latocnaye-in-west-cork-bandon-macroom-dunmanway-the-priests-leap-and-bantry-1796-keening-at-funerals-raths-and-lises-flax/

william-rufus-chetwood 1748

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/a-tour-1748-through-ireland-in-several-entertaining-letters-author-william-rufus-chetwood-including-cork-and-kinsale-ale/

Kohl 1842:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/kohls-visit-to-bantry-co-cork-1842/

Halls 1840:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/impressions-of-travellers-halls-of-ballineen-west-cork-ric-station-1840-and-kohl-1844-bantry-to-kenmare-on-ric/

The author is unknown the article was produced in the Journal of the Cork Archaelological and HIstorical society in the early 1900s. from which these pieces are

.

Motif of John Molony (spelling varies), Surveyor, Co. Cork c 1750-1820.

In the 1739 deed from Burlington some Clonakilty tenants are names including one Molony, this is not a common name in Cork may be a relation of John Molony.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/estate-of-henry-jermyn-esq-aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-1275-acres-part-survey-of-killsarlaghta-aughadown-1790-by-john-molony-ploughland-occupied-by-denis-driscoll-and-syeeygosnell-275/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/survey-of-lislee-glebe-dioceses-of-ross-co-cork-old-and-new-by-john-molony-1801-showing-pound-courtmacsherry-road-earl-of-shannons-land-at-ballincurrig-and-hodges-and-foster-and-co-grafton-st/