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Carrigboy, Durrus, School  Folklore Collection, 1938,

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

The End of Gaeltacht an Aird, Clonakilty, West Cork, School Folklore Collection, 1938, Water from a Foot Bath, The Magic of May Day, Voyage to Ring, The Curse of Castlefreke Wood, Lament for Father Power.

Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, in School folklore Collection 1937 and Folk Museum and West Cork Methodism.

Herbal Cures cobwebs to stop bleeding 1930s Folklore Collection on Traditional Cures, Sweathouses, Ancient Irish Herbal Tracts, Traditional Medical Families, herbal Science Degree CIT

https://durrushistory.com/2014/09/20/daniel-oconnell-in-folklore/     https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6137836682416283729

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Orthography of Durrus District, West Cork, Name origin of Townlands from old Irish with Gaelic Script, English names Settled by Dr. John O’Donovan, Ordnance Survey, 24th September 1842, with Landlord by Townland with Agents, Archaeological Features, Population, Land Description.

Portrait of Dr. John O’Donovan (1809-1861), Scholar, National Gallery  on loan to Royal Irish Academy.

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Tsunami, December 1942, Dunmanus Bay, Kilcrohane, Ahakista, West Cork, Devastates Remaining Seine Boats and evidence of earlier 1755 Tsunami uncovered in 1968 building of Barley Cove Hotel, Swimming Pool.

When the pool was being built the builder had to go down 18 feet to reach solid ground through sand. Atthe bottom they located an anchor.

Over a very short period a tsunami came in dried up the sea bed and then swept all in front including a umber of seine boats.  The O’Mahony family ran a fishing business from Letter, in Kilcrohane, their seine boats were destroyed as were the sheds and ancillary equipment.

The tsunami extended as far in as Ahakist devestating any boats on the coast/

That fishery had been badly affected by the outbreak of war but the tsunami by breaking up the boats put another nail in its coffin.

The experience was witnessed by a local man then a youth who later became prominent.

It occurred at  a point some 70 to 80 yards inland from the pier in Kilcrohane which  was reached by a freak tide one winter when he was a teenager.

It occurred in 1755. It originated as the result of a huge earthquake on the seabed off the coast of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It occurred on All Saints Day, the 1st. November, at about 9.40AM, when the churches were full of worshippers at Mass in the city.
Between 30,000 and 40,000 people died in Lisbon as a result of the earthquake, the resultant fires and the huge tsunami which followed. Most of the Atlantic coastline of North America and Europe, which included Ireland, was affected by the Tsunami. It is speculated that the sand dunes of Barley Cove originate from this.

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Clais na Bolainghe (Clashnabullagee), Small Pox Trench/Pit, containing remains of those who died of Small Pox,  identified in 1842 Ordnance Survey Orthography, 1842, Townland of Rooska adjoining Bantry Bay.

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Grave of Canon Goodman, Creagh Church of Ireland, Deconsecrated 1990,  Heading Towards Dereliction, Graveyard by the Banks of the River Ilen, West Cork.

1893 sketch of some Cork Clerical writers including Father Engish author of life of Father Art O’Leary, Maziere Brady, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen.

Funeral of Canon Goodman, as reported by Skibbereen Eagle, Skibbereen, West Cork, 25th January 1896, listing attendance.

Creagh Church:

http://www.abbeystrewryunion.com/#/creagh-church/4557285292

Creagh ‘1810’ Graveyard:

http://www.graveyards.skibbheritage.com/Search.aspx

Church, Canon Goodman’s Grave, Graves:

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Inis Beg, Growing Lemons by the Banks of the River Illen, Skibereen, West Cork, Roger Fenwicks, Blairs, Whites,  from 1710, the McCarthy Murroughs from 1860s, the Present Gardens

The Fenwicks were associated with the Whites later of Whiddy (originally from Co. Limerick despite their spurious genealogy), Blairs later Bantry/Durrus and Davies of Macroom ,in buying land cheap following the South Sea Bubble from the Hollow Blade Company in the 1710s.  Some of them were Law Students in the London Inns.  The Little Island referred to is Inis Beg in the Illen River, Skibbereen joined to the mainland by a bridge.

In the 1870s it was acquired by the Cork, Murrough family who took the extra name of McCarthy. One was a JP c 1875 a subscriber to Donovan’s history of Carbery.

The McCarthy Murrough Estate was acquired by the Land Commission c 1904 and only c 80 acres around the house remained:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3841&estate_id=3136

Present Estate including lemons:

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The present owners of the Inis Beg Estate, the Keane family, have done a magnificent job in restoring it.  In the glasshouse grow lemons, figs, and grapes.

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=4997

1713 Witness of Deed Blair, Dunmanway

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=4996

1818, Marries Coxes daughter:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=64623

Roger Fenwick, Little Island (Inis Beg) 1719, Trustee Marriage Settlement Blair/White, Dunanway later Bantry/Durrus

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=79090

1763, Dublin:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=151666

Roger Fenwick deceased 1802:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=360955

Baint Agus Sábháil na Móna, Saving The Turf, in Old Gaelic Script.

A plea for the restoration of the Seamhú/Buailteacht and the old Gaelic Script

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1939, Pattern at the Priest’s Gate, Gearhameen, Durrus, West Cork, Scoriochting, and the Priest’s attempt to Stop it as he did not like the Different Religions Mixing.

The photograph is of local girls on a Sunday afternoon before the Pattern a dance held on a raised podium.  Among the musicians was a fiddler Con Desmond.

Further up the road at Sea Lodge was the house of Tom Dukelow, an open house where the old neighbours gathered in the winter’s evenings for music, song and story telling.

A new priest to the parish was anxious to put a stop to it as he did not like the Catholics mixing wiht their Protestant neighbours.   They carried on regardless.

In the photograph are the McCarthy girls from across Dunmanus Bay at Coolculaghta.   They and other would row across the Bay.   Across the Bay was another base for music making ‘The Station Heights’ old coastguard cottages and the families there were great for music and dancing.

Father Roche had another joust with a parishioner who was living with a woman not married.  He called to the man’s house and read the riot act, the parishioner responded that Father Roche was also living wiht a woman (his housekeeper) unmarried who was younger then his woman, and that was the end of it.