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Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
…At Oldcourt a boat-building yard flourished within the walls of an old O’Driscoll castle overlooking the…
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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This gallery contains 16 photos.
Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
…At Oldcourt a boat-building yard flourished within the walls of an old O’Driscoll castle overlooking the…
24 Monday Aug 2015
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Ellen Hutchins Festival, Bantry, 2015, Tribute to Irish Botanist Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815), Ballylickey, Bantry, West Cork, by Dawson Turner of Yarmouth (1775-1858), ‘In every native of the hill and veil She found attraction, and, where beauty fail’d Applauded odour or commended use Genus ‘Hutchinsia Alpina’ named after her and the Bantry Hutchins family.
Ellen Hutchins was descended from Hutchins on both sides. On her father’s side the Cork Hutchins were a rough bunch, smugglers, middle men and even her own brothers were incessantly squabbling. The family had a number of houses at Ballylickey and Ardnagashel.
She is probably buried in the old Bantry Protestant Graveyard:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdERmc3BGbFczVFZqN0FTUkJtU1RsU2c#gid=0
Ardnagashel and Arbotoretum:
http://ardnagashel.wordpress.com/the-hutchins/ellen-hutchins/
http://irishscientists.tripod.com/scientists/ELLEN.HTM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hutchins
Dawson Turner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Turner
Thomas Hutchins 1746:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/thomas-hutchins-bantry-west-cork-being-paid-for-impressing-seamen-for-british-royal-navy-1746/
Sale of Hutchins Estate 1854:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/sale-of-durrusbantry-west-cork-estate-of-arthur-hutchinson-deceased-by-landed-estate-court-1854-including-to-townlands-of-derrivahallow-killovenogue-clonee-ahagoheen-parkanna-part-of-moulivard/
Middle Men Kenmare Estate:
Courtesy Wendy Walsh and Dr. Nelson:
24 Monday Aug 2015
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http://ireland.anglican.org/information/dioceses/parish/16310
150th Anniversary of Coolcelure Church of Ireland Church, Dunmanway, Co. Cork.
This was celebrated by a wonderful concert and floral display.
The church is associated with the Shouldham family. Shouldham married a McCarthy heiress early 18th century and the estate extended to over 10,000 acres. She may the Anastasia Shouldham who appears in the mid 18th century Convert Rolls. In the minority of their son, mid 18th century the estate was managed by the Galwey family of Enniskeane.
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3022&action=edit
24 Monday Aug 2015
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Memorial by Colonel Daniel Francis O’Mahony, of Chicago, USA to his Grandfather Daniel O’Mahony (Cianach) died 1857 aged 80, A Giant in Stature, Na a Leader in Nature, O’Mahony Mor The Cianach Mor, Worthy Descendant and Representative of of Mahon Son of Cian and Sabia, Daughter of Brian Boru, under the protection of St. Mocolomóg at Kinneigh, Co,. Cork.
Adjoining St. Bartholomew’s Church of Ireland Church, Kinneigh.
http://ireland.anglican.org/information/dioceses/parish/16340

24 Monday Aug 2015
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Ricard O’Sullivan Burke (1838-1922), Clouneyreague, Kinneigh, Co. Cork, Soldier, Fenian, Patriot, Colonel US Civil War, Member Clann na Gael in USA, his Brother Morgan.
Memorial Kinneigh Graveyard.
Another member Clann na Gael Connie Neenan:
24 Monday Aug 2015
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Midsummer Athletic Sports, Coolkellure, Dunmanway, West Cork, 1877 under the Patronage of Colonel Shouldham including Throwing a Weight, Throwing Cricket Ball.
Before the establishment of the GAA in the 1802 cricket was relatively popular in Ireland many Estates fielded a team.
Maps 1801-1803, Shuldham (McCarthy) Estate 10,000 acres Dunmanway, Co. Cork
20 Thursday Aug 2015
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Timothy Mahony (1892-1974), Wyoming’s Rancher Poet
Courtesy Harry Ward.
19 Wednesday Aug 2015
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Elihu Burritt (1810-1879), ‘The Learned Blacksmith’, of Boston, USA, Visit to Skibbereen, West Cork, 1847 to ‘Fathom The Cause of Extent and Cure of Ireland’s Misery, his Pamphlet ‘Four Months in Skibbereen’ raised $100,000 for Famine Relief and his Project the Jamestown Relief Effort.
19 Wednesday Aug 2015
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Obituary (Death of Noted Cork Gael) of Connie Neenan (1892-1987), Activist War of Independence, Civil War, Cork, USA Businessman, Benefactor of The “Barrs’ (St. Finbarr’s) Hurling and Football Club.
His unpublished memoir of the period in the Cork Archive makes for fascinating reading.
19 Wednesday Aug 2015
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Seán McBride (Later Senior Counsel, Minister for External Affairs and Assistant general Secretary United Nations, High Commissioner for Namibia) at IRA Convention, Exchange Hotel Dublin, June 1922 ”All Those in Favour of The Republic, Come To The Four Courts, Leading Ultimately to The Destruction Of 1,000 Years of Ireland’s Records.
From Connie Neenan’s memoir.