Names and Addresses of Cess payers of Co Cork Baronies of Bantry and Carbery (East and West Division) c 1830.

The Cess payers number the larger farmers and business people. They appear in road presentments and other local business records.

1839 County Cork Record Jury. Summer Assizes.

Sir William Abraham Chatterton, Castlemahon, Cork,Thomas Hungerford, Cahirmore, Clonakilty, Thomas Somerville, Drishane, Skibbereen, Edward Townsend, Whitehall, Skibbereen, Standish Harrison Castle Harrison, Charleville, Daniel Connor, Manch, Dunmanway, Thomas Perrott, Fermoy, James Joseph Roche, Aghada House, Midleton, Henry M. Mitchell, Mitchelsfort, Watergrasshill, Charles Connell, Cloverhill, Blackrock, Cork, Samuel P. Townsend, Garrycloyne, Watergrasshill, Edward J. Morrogh, Glanmire House, Charles Colthurst, Clonmoyle, Coachford, St. John A. Clarke, Overton, Bandon, Henry Cole Bowen, Bowen’s Court, Doneraile, Jeremiah Eugene McCarthy, Cork, Denis O’Callaghan, Cahirduggan, Midleton, John McCarthy O’Leary, Millstreet, William Cooke Collis Junior, Castlecook, KIlworth, Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Henry Leader, Mount Leader, Charleville, Pierce Power, Clonmult, Fermoy, herbert Gillman, Bennetts Grove, Clonakilty, Benjamin Sweet, Greenville, Bandon, George Bruce, Milltown Castle, Charleville, William MInhear, Raleigh, Macroom, William Harrington junior, Crosshaven, William Brown, Coolcower, Macroom, Jonas Travers, Butlers town, Gerard Barry, Ballinahina, Cork, John Molony, Ballinaboy, Ballinhassig, George Cooper Stawell, Oldcourt, Bandon, Edward Barrett, Carrigbuee, Macroom, Simon Cook, Oldtown, Henry Baldwin, Mount Pleasant, Bandon, John O’Sullivan, Coomatringane, Castletownbere, Benjamin B. Creagh, Doneraile, Edward Supple, Kinsale, John Leade, Junior, Keale, Millstreet, Richard Donovan, Lisheens, Henry Herrick Woodlands, Bandon, Philip Harding, Firville, Macroom, Thomas Lloyd Williamson, Castleview, Fermoy, William Barry, Charleville, John Nason Newtown, Fermoy, Jonas Morris Townsend, Shepperton, Skibbereen, Christopher Crofts, Ballyhoura, John Howe, Glanavirane, Kinsale, Patrick Coleman, KInsale, Edward Purcell Junior, Bawnishal?,

Cork Grand Jury/Agents 1765.

Grand Jury (with some background) Sworn in for Cork Spring Assizes, 1863 by The High Sheriff, Thomas Somerville, Drishane Esq., Foreman The Right Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard Esq., Coolmaine Castle, Bandon, M.P., Sir George Conway, Colhurst, Ardum, Bart., Richard Oliver Aldworth, Newmarket House, Esq., Mountifort Longfield, Castlemartyr, Esq., Nicholas Dunscomb, Mountdesert, Esq., Thomas St. John Conat.,, Kilmurray House, Esq., Henry John Townsend, Castletownsend, Esq., Robert Heard, Kinsale, Esq, Thomas French Simpson, William S Meade, Ballymartle, Esq., Edward Daly., Kinsale, Esq., Thomas Parsons Belaird, Pembroke, Esq., Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus Esq., Horace Townsend, Derry, Esq., George B Treselian?, Bandon, Esq., Freeman Crofts, Cloughfadda House, Blarney, Esq., Thomas Leahy, South Terrace, Esq., William B Leslie, Lislee, Esq., Henry Hardy, Firmount?, Esq., John William Payne, Beach House, Bantry, Esq., Jonathan Bruce, Milltown Castle, Esq., Maxwell Gumbelton, Kilmaturin Esq.

1827, Assistant Sought for Respectable Linen and Woollen Establishment Must Speak the Irish language.

At the time there were probably around 4 million people in Ireland who either spoke or understood Irish some of them affluent. It is unusual to see such an advertisement.

Amhlaoimh Ó Suilleabháin, Linen Merchant, Killarney/Callan, South Kilkenny:

South Kilkenny school Building Progmamme 1790, Cinn-Lae Amhlaoimh Uí Shuilleabháin, Diary of Humphret O’Sullivan 1780-1837

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1827, Lost, Beagle Bitch answers to name of ‘Lily’. Belongs to Dr. O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Reward to Person if Poor.

This may be the celebrated Dr. O’Donovan active in Famine Relief adn author of a History of Carbery. Up to the 1830s there was a large beaging establishment at O’Donovan’s Cove. There may have been a change in the law at the time ending it.

The general area of uplands was much used for hunting, to the East Lord Bandon from 1850 used Durrus Court as a shooting lodge and paid some of the tenant to act as Gamekeepers.

Across the Bay in the 1870s Michael Morris of Friendly Cove (Evanson descendant) held coursing meetings at Coolculaghta.

In the newspaper ad there is a reference to Barrett of Dunmanway. That family were intermarried to the O’Donovans of the Cove. One branch of of the Barrett family were agent of the Kenmare Estate and lived at Carriganass Castle, Kealkil and on the female line were O’Sullivan.

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1827, Died at Berehaven at the age of 72, Mr. Jeremiah ‘The’ O’Sullivan, Grandson of Murtagh McOwen O’Sullivan, one of the last members of the O’Sullivan Race of the MacFineen Duff Family.

Spanish Knights of Irish Origin, The Count of Berehaven, Brigadier Daniel O’Sullivan, Governor of Coruna, born Bantry, West Cork, sponsor of Dionisio O Calaghan born Madrid 1718, Grandmother Margaret McCarthy, born Cork, Captain Daniel O Sulivan, Spanish Service born Inchiclogh, Bantry, sponsor Juan McKenna born Madrid 1714, Alexandra O’Neill born Madrid 1765.

Ballinakilla Churchyard, Bere Island, on the site of a Pre-Reformation Church containing Table Tomb to O’Sullivan, Mill Cove. Agent to Lord Bantry and to the parents of Denis Murphy the father of William Martin Murphy

A Good Sheltry Farm gone to Forestry, Upper Tedagh, Durrus/Bantry, Homeplace of Sullivan/O’Sullivan family (Hurrigs), some claim Descent from O’Sullivan Bere from 1777 marriage of Michael Sullivan with Mary Vickery and some property dealings of the family

Abstract of Title from the Earl of Bantry to Daniel O’Sullivan, Rents of Brennymore, Kealkil, West Cork, 1787, William O’Sullivan,Esq., Ahill,  who bought Carriganass Castle from Mellifonts c 1820 names mentioned James Morgan Cooke, Thomas Stephen Coppinger, Denny Lane, John Barrett O’Sullivan, Norcott Parker, Robert Neville Reaves, and de facto control of Confiscated Lands by O’Sullivan Septs in Bantry/Kenmare Estates in South Kerry, Beara and Bantry areas..

The 1602 Destruction of the Franciscan Abbey in Bantry by the O’Sullivans after its use by the English Garrison under Captain Thomas Flower. Grant of local lands by Elizabeth 1 to Richard Beacon not taken up as James 1 granted then to Valentine Browne 1620 later forming part of the Kenmare Estate.

Appointment of Civil Process Officers, Co. Cork, West Riding, 1st November 1826, by J. Chatterton, Clerk of the Peace,, Bantry: Timothy Sullivan, Jeremiah Sullivan, Jeremiah Day, Robert Warner, Clonakilty: Thomas O’Hea, John Bateman, Dunmanway; Jeremiah Crowley, Timothy Daly, Enniskeane: Robert Thompson, Patrick Connor, Rosscarbery: Andrew McCarthy, James Brien, Skibbereen: George Hayes, Michael Caverly, Morty Sullivan.  Macroom, Barry Sheehan, James Uncles, Patrick Reardon, Millstreet, Thomas Bride.

On the Bantry contingent members of the Sullivan family were drivers to the Kenmare Estate and were bailiffs in the late 19th century. One of the Warners was in the late 18th century a Baronial Constable and they were in the RIC early 19th century.

Some Cork Lawyers:

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British Army troop Movements, West Cork, 1789 1st Royal replacing 21st and 24th Regiments who are going to the West Indies to Berehaven, Bantry and Skibbereen, 1790, 66th Regiment replacing 51st Regiment to Skibbereen, Bantry, Berehaven, 1819, 81st Regiment replacing the 97th to Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Bantry, Whiddy Island, Bere Island.

1817, To be Let on Estate of Robert Hedges Eyre Esq., 10 to 15,000 acres, in Lots, in Barony of Bere and Bantry, Great Encouragement Given to Military or Naval men who Understand Country Business must Be Resident.

Proposals invited 1810 for the Supply of Bread to the British Army, on Bere Island and 1818 to Supply Ordnance at Bantry Bay with Candles, Fuel, Coal and Turf.

Post the attempted invasion Bantry Bay was highly militarised with Martello Towers , one on Garnish Island , Gun Forts at Whiddy and the Naval Installation on Bere Island.

Letter 1809 from Seville, from Grenadier, 40th Regiment, 1st Battalion, to his Mother a Poor Fruit Seller in Clonmel, Describes Battles in Portugal and Spain, can live comfortably on 6d a day.