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Rent Roll for Drimoleague Townlands, Co. Cork 1748

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gurteeniher,+Co.+Cork/@51.6738761,-9.2772464,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484507e05cff361b:0x1e8f0e91544787fb 

Down Survey 1665-6

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carbury&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Drumaleige

Courtesy Dublin City Library, Pearse Street

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdElHOVN6WlJmVHRWZ1V0SzJlcVh6WUE#gid=0Image

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Murragh (Murbhach, Smooth Flat Place by River), (near Bandon, Co. Cork) Church of Ireland Records Marriages including 1739, Births 1750 Burials 1789 and some Kinneigh records

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Murragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.7432798,-8.89465,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f9bb97a3c51d:0x2600c7a7bb4c0c62

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/irishwills/#/102/

Cole:

Click to access cole_cropped.pdf

Skib Girl page for townlands, Tithe Aplottments, maps, Griffiths Valuation:

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/murragh-1353.html
William Skinner or Skynner 1632

Townland maps:

https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/704/#tl/priority/%5Esmartlabel_personal

John Allaway 1636

Thomas Beecke 1636

Thomas Townsend 1636

Richard Clavveshet 1639

Down Survey, 1665-68

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Kinealmeky&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zDQjBqIjSVxBIN-wngH5U-pO2iGfmWopAc_tJlW10B4/edit

https://picasaweb.google.com/100968344231272482288/DesertsergesBandonChurchOfIrelandNandMurraghPart2RecordsFrom1811

https://picasaweb.google.com/100968344231272482288/RecordsMurraghBandonNewcestownChurchOfIrelandFrom1843

Old Graveyard

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/farranthomas_inscriptions.htm

Murragh Tithe Aplottments 1833, Bandon Genealogy

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/murragh-tithes.htmM6065 P.1
1860 Maziere Brady on Murragh:

Click to access brady_vol1_cropped.pdf

1904 Cole:

Click to access cole_cropped.pdf

Murragh, 1910 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year=1911&surname=&exact=&firstname=&county=Cork&townland=&ded=Murragh&age=&sex=&relationToHead=&religion=Church+of+Ireland&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=&birthplace=&language=&deafdumb=&search=Search&sort=sex&pageSize=50 

Murragh, Parish, Dioceses of Cork

Register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, commencing at various dates, with 08 and concluding 1789

 

This copy was made from the original temporarily deposited by the Rector Margaret C. Griffith Deputy Keeper 30 November 1961

 

P.1  Speare a wife and Foott and Foott, Chancery  This book or paper was produced to the Reverend Ambrose Hicky at the time of his examination in this cause from the 20th…

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O’Donovan Estates, including Bawnlahan, West Cork, 1737

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O'Donovan Estates including Bawnlahan West Cork, 1737

From National Archives Dublin Ref. M4969

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Teachers of Baronies of East and West Carbery, Bantry and Bere, West Cork 1826

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In 1826-7 the House of Commons in London arranged for a report to be complied on the state of Irish Education.  This was the Commission of Inquiry into Education and is available on the House of Commons (British Parliamentary papers) website.  The report is by parish and includes the name and location of each school. the pupil numbers, by religion, whether it is supported and by what organization, whether scripture is read.  The teachers are given with  their pay and whether housing is providedi.  

 

A summary of certain counties of teachers details was done i 1882 by Dorothy Rins Dingfelder of California and E.J .McAuliffe and this is in the National Archives in Dublin.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdHRxZGNIZm9RczloSjdVZXZmTFZBd3c#gid=0

Name Religon Parish Townland
Bear and Bantry Baronies
Baylor, Catherine Catholic Kilmocomogue Black Rock Road
Clifford, James Catholic KIlmannagh Ballydonegan
Casky (Casey?), Timothy Catholic Kilkahern Irees
Daly, Jeremiah Catholic Kilkahern Kilcatteren
Day, Daniel…

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Bantry Estate Rent Books from 1780s Bantry Beara areas, Co. Cork

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There are two rent books relating to the Bantry Estate in the National Archives, Dublin, Ref. MS. 4944 and 4945

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=100968344231272482288&target=ALBUM&id=5872596379695712433

Non farming leases from Bantry House are included here

Non farming leases Bantry Area mainly from Bantry House Papers 1565-1914

Down Survey 1665-68

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Beara+%26+Bantry&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1

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JJ James (Jeremiah) Joseph Callanan, 1786 died Lisbon 1829, Cork Poet bridging Gaelic Ireland with Irish Literature in English, Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poems.

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JJ James (Jeremiah) Joseph Callanan, 1786 died Lisbon 1829, Cork Poet bridging Gaelic Irelad with Irish Literature in English, Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poems.

The Trinity Alumini records record him as Pensioner admitted 6th July 1801, aged 15, Roman Catholic, son of Hogn Pyhsician educated Mr. Lee Vernon 1805 see Allibone.

Presumably a brother slightly different spelling ‘Callinan’ Thomas educated Mr. Barrington admitted 5th July 1802.

Walker’s magazine records a marriage in November 1779 between John Callanan MD and Miss Cooper, Barry’s Court, daughter of William. It is possible that Cooper is a version of Coppinger and might account for his schooling in Cobh.

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From Dr. Casey collection.

It is forgotten but a section of the Catholic population survived and some thrived during the Penal Laws. The Callanans appear as apothecaries in Cork, Doctors, and are close to McCarthys, Nagles and O’Learys (of the ‘outlaw’ family Raleigh Macroom) and form a…

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Machnamh an Duine Dhoilíosaigh (The Melancholy Man’s Reflections), Seán Ó Coileáin, (1754-1817) (John Collins, The Silver Tongue of Carbery), and his Manuscripts.

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Homeplace, Myross

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Myross,+Co.+Cork/@51.5258308,-9.141587,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845ae67f214a615:0x2600c7a819bb5ac2

Machnamh an Duine Dhoilíosaigh (The Melancholy Man’s Reflections), Seán Ó Coileáin, (1754-1817) (John Collins, The Silver Tongue of Carbery), and his Manuscripts.

Courtesy JCHAS 1892

Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), Carbery Poet, ‘The Silver tongue of Munster’, born into an Ireland of Broken Abbeys, Roofless Churches, Battered castles, Burnt Houses, Deserted Villages united in common Poverty. Attendance 1773 at Coimba, Portugal, College for Christian Refugees.

https://durrushistory.com/2013/12/21/sean-o-coileain-john-collins-1754-1816-poet-of-carbery-co-cork/

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Scan 1371 Machnaimh an Duine Doilgheasaigh

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Travels in West Cork, 1790 of French Consul. Charles Étienne Conquebert De Montbret

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In 1773 Silé Ní Chinnéide took extracts from De Montbret, French Consol, of his journal covering his journey in West Cork in 1790 from papers in the Bibioléque ãtionale in Paris and published it in two articles in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

Of interest are the extensive pieces in relation to Michael Kearney an extensive farmer in Garretstown adn a listing of the various textiles manufactured in Bandon.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/5923984015652759761

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William Martin Murphy, Bantry and the Noel Brown connection.

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A talk was held in the Maritime Hotel Bantry on Saturday evening the 14th July 2013 to explore the legacy of William Martin Murphy.  The speakers were Jim O’Keeffe former Junior Minister, TD, and Chairman of Murphy O’Connor & Co of Bantry a building providing firm founded ny William Martin Murphy and now entering its second hundred years.  Also present was local historian Hazel Vickery and Padraig Yeates former Irish Times journalist and historian of the 1913 lockout.

Mr O’Keeffe outlined Murphy’s early life birth in Castletown Bere and moving to Bantry as an infant where is father operated as a builder.  He was sent to Dublin as a day boy at Belvedere College and lodged with the Sullivan brothers (of “The Nation’) off the South Circular Road. His father was anxious that he train as an architect and he attended appropriate lectures at the Catholic University as well as…

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Quakers Skibbereen and Bandon, 1696

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In Mazier Brady’s history of the Diocese of Cork Cloyne and Ross he quotes from Dives Downes journey of 1700 when he visited Skibbereen.   He says that the Quakers about 8 families meet on Sundays and Thursdays a silent meeting.  On Thursday the 30th May 1700 a meeting was held attended by about 40.  He says that two Yorkshire Women visit from time to time.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/batch2/bradyvol2/#/458/

He also mentions Fontaine a French Huguenot based in a Maritime enterprise in Berehaven he preached and most of the Protestants attended out of curiosity.   Among the Berehaven colony of about 13 families was the ancestor of Davy Crockett.

In the Bandon Genealogy site there is a reference to  Quaker families from Skibbereen with the Massey and Houlden families mentioned.

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon_quaker_records.htm

Bennet’s History of Bandon refers to the Quakers in Skibbereen having a meeting house in 1996.

http://www.paulturner.ca/Ireland/Cork/HOB/hob-19.htm

In 1724 Benjamin Holme…

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