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Colonel Grove White, Born Melbourne, Australia 1852 died Cork 1938, Cork Antiquarian, Member County Council, Munster Agricultural Society

16 Monday Nov 2015

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Colonel Grove White, Born Melbourne, Australia 1852 died Cork 1938, Cork Antiquarian, Member County Council, Munster Agricultural Society

Colonel James Grove White (1852-1938), Historical Notes North East Cork precursor to Dr. Casey’s of Birmingham Alabama O’Kiev Coshe Mang.

Another Australian born Cork figure in the 19th century was Richard Townsend, of Dunbeacon, Durrus Ireland’s oldest Magistrate.

Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855

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Our New Navigation Page

15 Sunday Nov 2015

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sailing day 1We now have over 250 posts, dating back to 2012, and it’s getting harder to find  older information on Roaringwater Journal. Help was urgently needed, so your dedicated bloggers have pulled a few all nighters (OK not really – we’re too old for that) and produced – TA DAH! – a Navigation page.

Click on the Menu button (the left one in the header photo)  and click on Navigation. This brings you to the new Table of Contents page. We’ve created four divisions, the first three about West Cork: A: PLACES TO SEE; B: THINGS TO DO (including child-friendly stuff); and C: ABOUT WEST CORK; The last division is D: ABOUT IRELAND. Each one has subdivisions and numerous post links.

Take a browse and tell us what you think. Suggestions for improvements are welcome. Now that we’ve set it up, we can keep this page updated as we go…

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‘…mean thatched cabins…….’ The Masshouses in South East Cork in 1731.

12 Thursday Nov 2015

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Penal laws against the Catholic Church had existed in Ireland since the reign of Elizabeth I, but the most infamous laws were passed by the Irish Parliament in the 1690s into the early 1700s. Penal laws against the Catholic Church had existed in Ireland since the reign of Elizabeth I, but the most infamous laws were passed by the Irish Parliament in the 1690s into the early 1700s.

‘These Masshouses are generally mean thatched cabins; many, or most of them, open at one end, and very few of them built since the first of King George the First.‘

These words are from the official return made to the Irish government in December 1731 by Henry Maule, Bishop of Cloyne in the Established Church (Church of Ireland). The Irish House of Lords had ordered an inquiry into the ‘State of Popery’ in Ireland and each bishop was required to submit detailed returns. The House of Lords wished to know how effective the Penal Laws enacted since 1693 had been in curtailing the practice of Catholicism.There were a number of restrictions imposed by these…

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Reilig Chill Aingeal/Church of the Angels, (Kilheangle/Dunbeacon), Durrus, West Cork, Ruined Church and Graveyard

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Reilig Chill Aingeal/Church of the Angels, (Kilheangle/Dunbeacon), Durrus, West Cork, Ruined Church and Graveyard

The graveyard has been restored there are a vast number of stones marking the local dead. this area was at the epicentre of the famine and the writings of Doctor O’Donovan about distress in the area make for harrowing reading.

Courtesy Peter Clarke:

http://sheepsheadplaces.net/dunbeacon-burial-ground

Courtesy Graves:

http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/dunbeacon/co-dunb

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Rate of Tithes in Co. Cork 1786, from Debate in Irish Parliament

09 Monday Nov 2015

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Rate of Tithes in Co. Cork 1786, from Debate in Irish Parliament

Extracts from Diary 1622 of Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Nonpayment by Blind John Power, of Rectorial Tithes, including Caheragh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Schull, Myross, West Cork, Gift to Lord Beaumont Departing, of Gelding, Caste of Falcons, Merlyns, 9 Barrels of Irish Fryce and Barrell of Pickled Scallops used for Food by the Irish, Sending Cutty (‘Cuidighe’ Irish for Companion) Ogle to England.

Acquisitions of Three Ploughlands at Dromreagh, Murreagh and Ardogina, Durrus, West Cork in 1765 by the Evanson Family from Tonsons (Hulls) and 1790s and Deed Disposing of Half Tithes of Durrus Kilcrohane 1790s the Tithes of Co. Cork Having Been Acquired by Richard Boyle The Great Earl of Cork, Early 17th Century by Underhand Means.

From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 29th September 1832. More Arrests. The Reverend Mesrs Quin and Kelleher the Roman Catholic Clergy of Meentervaria (Durrus Parish) West Cork, were arrested on Saturday on the 15th for having attended at a Tithe Meeting. Bail was immediately procured in the person of Richard O’Donovan Esq., and Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill (Kilcrohane).

The Tithes in 1833: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman.

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1837, Manor Court and Ecclesiastical Manor Court, Leamcon, Schull, and Petty Session Court, Toormore, Schull, Manor Court Aughadown Seneschal Appointed by Lord Carbery, West Cork.

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1837, Manor Court and Ecclesiastical Manor Court, Leamcon, Schul, and Petty Session Court, Toormore, Schull, West Cork.

A legacy of the Hulls

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL, author of Law of Irish Fisheries) Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

Manor Courts Ballydehob 1621, Bantry 1679, Co. Cork, and coments by John Jagoe, Bantry re same to Commission 1836.

Petty Session Court Witness Summons, Conna, Co. Cork, 1828

Will of William Hull, 1726, Lemcon, Schull, West Cork, witnesses, Daniel Donovan Gent., Dunmanus, Owen Lander, Seneschal Lemcon Manor Court, Denis Donovan, farmer, Dunmanus. and the Manor Courts of Ballydehob, Bantry and their poor Reputation..

Lewis:

A manorial court is held at Lemcon, every third Monday, at which debts under £5 are recoverable; there is also an ecclesiastical manor belonging to the bishop of Ross, for which a court is held occasionally; and petty sessions are held at Towermore every alternate week.

Aughadown:

A manor court is held monthly by a seneschal appointed by Lord Carbery, for the recovery of debts
under 40s; and here is a constabulary police station.