27 Saturday Sep 2025
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TCD Entry possibly
ELMS Thomas 1825 25 Thomas Mercator Cork
24 Wednesday Sep 2025
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Cpourtesy Brian Limrick
West Cork Flax, Linen, Textiles
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The first two weddings are described in Dr. Rachel Finnegan’s ‘The Memoirs and Diaries of Judith Isobel Chavesse. She goes into considerable details and here the full newspaper descriptions of those attending and the presents are listed. The 1893 weddings might be described as Protestant Gentry. The Local gentry had been on a downward spiral from the early 19th century but in 1893 they would have thought it inconceivable that their world would have largely vanished by 1922 excepting the enclave in Castletownshend. The 1910 is a Catholic wedding, again a very detailed listing of those in attendance and the presents. Despite the immense deprivation of many in the general district from the early 19ht century there was a thriving Catholic and Protestant middle class of professionals and merchants and this accelerated post 1922 particularly for Catholics. 1893, 1910 Skibbereen Weddings, Guests, Presents. Hilderard Augusta Somerville, Castletownshend, to Egerton B. Coghill, p. 4 . Presents, p. 8 1893 Henrietta Reeves Fleming, Newcourt, Skibbereen, the Rev. Haythornthwaite, p.14 Brides presents, p. 20 Bridegrooms presents, 27 A Pretty Wedding Jennings/Hayes, Skibbereen, 1910. Presents and Donors Listed, p.27
1893, 1910 Skibbereen Weddings, Guests, Presents. Hilderard Augusta Somerville, Castletownshend, to Egerton B. Coghill, p. 4 . Presents, p. 8 1893 Henrietta Reeves Fleming, Newcourt, Skibbereen, the Rev. Haythornthwaite, p.14 Brides presents, p. 20 Bridegrooms presents, 27 A Pretty Wedding Jennings/Hayes, Skibbereen, 1910. Presents and Donors Listed, p.27 The first two weddings are described in Dr. Rachel Finnegan’s ‘The Memoirs and Diaries of. Judith Isobel Chavesse
10 Wednesday Sep 2025
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Samuel Jervois, Brade, Skibbereen. Samuel Jervois , 1769, Brade, Skibbereen, in 1777 chasing Banditti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Richard and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan. Member at Bandon Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1792 as Provost of Bandon convened a meeting on foot of a requisition of 200 where it was resolved to support the Protestant Ascendancy. 1799 Supporter of the Act of Union Between Ireland and Great Britain. Maybe the father of Samuel who married Lucinda Allen. Purchased 1770 Shandon Castle Cork (now Irish Ballet Company). Elizabeth Murphy, widow of John Murphy of Newtown, is the sister of Samuel Jervois of Brade. In this deed Samuel Jervois is creating an indenture of 14 hundred pounds on the mortgage of Castledonovan to provide a dowry for his niece Martha (Elizabeth’s daughter), on her marriage to Dr Henry Baldwin Evanson in 1828. Among a number of Magistrate who at a meeting in 1812 in Skibbereen offered substantial monies towards the apprehension of those responsible for the murders of Ellen and Simon Loardan whose bodies were discovered in a lake at Bawnlahan and Glandore Harbour.
The only thing I’m not sure about is whether the lands at Castledonovan came into Samuel Jervois’s hands through his marriage to Lucinda Alleyn, or if they were Jervois lands all along, or perhaps even both families had interests in them. They are mentioned as “family lands” in his post-marriage settlement to Lucinda in 1818, but it’s not clear which family is meant, so Samuel may have already swapped whatever lands Lucinda originally brought into her marriage for the lands at Castledonovan. There is an earlier mortgage linking the Jervoises to Castledonovan (don’t know the date off-hand), but they may have been one of many families who acquired some portion from Daniel O’Donovan or when Lieut. Nathaniel Evanson mortgaged Castledonovan and moved to Four Mile Water. I suspect these lands were passed back & forth many times, probably each time someone married! Members of the Jervois family held over 450 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. In October 1855 and January 1856 over 100 acres of their property in the parish of Nohaval, barony of Kinalea, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The original lease, dating from 1710, was between the Busteed and Hodder families. In 1853 Samuel Jervois was among the principal lessors in the parish of Dromdaleague, barony of West Carbery. Townsend notes the discovery of copper on the estate of Samuel Jervois, at Leap, before 1810. Family history sources suggest that an earlier Samuel Jervois had come to Ireland with the Cromwellian forces in the mid seventeenth century. He had been granted land around Glandore. Will dated 1803 described as of Bandon extracted 1806.
08 Monday Sep 2025
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1823. Several Thousand Assemble Kilpatrick Road, to engage in the lawless and dangerous practice of bowling near Bandon. Multitude dispersed by Rev. Joseph Jervois with some of the new Police
Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England
06 Saturday Sep 2025
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835 Townland Survey, p. 1
Introduction, p. 3
With help from AI, p. 3
1827 West Cork Vestries Sums Applotted, p. 5
Miscellaneous Vestries, p. 31
Meeting of Select Vestry, Skibbereen, West Cork, 10th May 1832, to appoint Officers of Health under Statute of the 59th year of His Late Majesty, King George 3, p. 31
Early Church Wardens, 1699, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1. 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, 1851, 1861 Visitations, p. 31
1824. Cover letter and memorial from the church wardens of the parish of Fanlobbus, Dunmanway, County Cork, concerning prosecution of Sabbath profaners, p. 32
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Late 18th early 19th Century Interplay of the Select Vestries of the Church of Ireland (State Church) in Local Administration, Barony of Carbery, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Durrus, Cess Payer Representatives Named, p. 32
1851 Visitation Book West Cork, Church of Ireland parishes, Population 1834 and 1851, Schools, Parish Clerks, Church Wardens.p. 32
1830 keeping the Sabbath in Clonakilty, p. 32
Townlands and Placenames, 1794 Principal Inhabitants Thanks to Government, 1870 Registered Vestrymen, Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinorp. 32
1793-1803. Cork Grand Jury Returns including provision for Militia from 1795., p. 32
The Military Levy was raised through parishes by the Churchwardens, the parishes were subject to a levy or a bounty to be paid in lieu. The surviving records of Drimoleague and Castlehaven Select Vestries confirm this., p. 33
1757 Castlehaven, (Skibbereen), Select Vestry Records, shows interaction of parishes in road building: Cullane, Daniel, app. Director of the High Way in CTend 37. VM 4 OCT 1757., p. 33
March 1798. Rosscarbery Select Vestry meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in Militia and to Levy Seven and a Half Pence Per Gneeve. Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery, p. 33
Cork Grand Jury (Civil Jurisdiction) To 1899, p.33
03 Wednesday Sep 2025
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Chief Secretary Papers:
Match 139 from ‘CSO/RP’NAI REFERENCE:
CSO/RP/1830/1018TITLE:
File of documents regarding the question whether the police ought to assist civil powers in invigilating the keeping of the SabbathSCOPE & CONTENT:
File of documents regarding the question whether the police ought to assist civil powers in invigilating the keeping of the Sabbath. Includes letter by [Rev] CC Townsend, Rector of the Union of Kilgariffe, Clonakilty, [County Cork], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about orders to Lieut Barry, Chief Constable, that police ought not enforce laws on the observation of the Sabbath; letters from Maj William Miller [Inspector General], Fermoy, [County Cork], alerting government to orders given to police to be employed in that way, and enclosing letter by WJ Brady, Chief Constable, Castleconnell, [County Limerick], on local churchwarden St Ledger Watkins giving orders to Constable Dennis Eagon, and also enclosing an order by magistrates Richard Mahony, Charles O’Connell, and Francis A Chute, Caherciveen petty sessions, [County Kerry], to the police to invigilate the keeping of the Sabbath. Finally, following advice from Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], Miller prepares a circular for all police to say that the duty falls to parish constables where they exist, and that otherwise, police can be involved.EXTENT:
5 items; 17ppDATE(S):
3 Jul 1830-23 Sep 1830DATE EARLY:
1830DATE LATE:
1830ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
1830/1072
02 Tuesday Sep 2025
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Barytes Mines Company (later Dunmanus Bay Barytes Company),
Rents and royalties owed Lord Bandon by the Dereenalomane
Barytes Mines Company (later Dunmanus Bay Barytes Company),
U137 Bandon Estate Office, Rentals and Other Volumes
©Cork City and County Archives 2013
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U137/RL/A/047
Date: 1901 – 1917
Level : item
Title: Rental
Extent: 134 folios, and enclosures
Scope and Content:
Rental, with title page stating ‘Estate, Earl of Bandon, Ledger, Western, Church Lands’. This is
followed by an index of townlands: Ardentenant, Ballygourane, Balteen, Barnatonicane,
Ballyvonane, Balteen Mine, Cahirolickane, Dereenalomane, Dunkelly East, Dunkelly West, Gortduff,
Lackavaun, Kilbronoge, Lassanaroe, Rathcool, Woodlands, and Knockeens. The top of each folio
contains the following fields: OS Sheet number and number of Holding; Denominations (townland);
tenant’s name; area; rent; valuation, land; valuation, buildings; gale days; commencement of ‘stat.
tenure’; record number; and ‘Remarks’. In this last is generally noted the amount and date of fixed
rent, the Rural District, and the Electoral District. The lower part of the folio records rents and
arrears due and received. Over most of the folios notes are added in blue crayon stating the
purchase money and annuity agreed in a purchase agreement. The volume contains a number of
enclosures, stored separately:
List, ‘Bandon Estate – Purchase under LP Act 1903’ [Land Purchase Act], noting name of townland,
name of tenant, and area and rent details. [4pp and one rough list (1p)];
File of correspondence regarding rents and royalties owed Lord Bandon by the Dereenalomane
Barytes Mines Company (later Dunmanus Bay Barytes Company), 1913-20, including extract from
lease 30 November 1896 Earl of Bandon to Threlfall and Norman Leigh, draft copy advice [1915],
Letters to and from RW Doherty and George Webb, Bandon Estate Office; schedule of output at
Dereenalomane 30 April 1915, and letter regarding surrender of the lease as the mine is worked out,
8 July 1920. [24 items]
Scart and Barytes Mines Derreenlomane, (Doirín na Lomán: Little Oakwood), Ballydehob, West Cork, Barytes Mines,
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31 Sunday Aug 2025
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The Mellifonds were of N orman extraction and because of the penal Laws some conformed to the Church of Ireland.
Gilbert Melefont, Gent. 1731/32 Parish Fanlobbus (Dunmanway). Probably Attorney, Dunmanway from 1730s Family heavily involved in Bantry area Donemark tenants of Kenmare Estate, middle men, later Magistrates in Dunmanway Melefont family member attained as rapparees in Balingeary area 1690, Sir Henry Blackhall on Munster Gallweys May be brother of David of Mellifont one of family Mary Mellifont married Henry Gallwey Bantry c 1700. Family of Norman origin prominent Kinsale
Convert Rolls, and Public Recantations, Co. Cork 18th and 19th Century and a Protestant Converts to be Catholic
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1831 Persons Appointed Fit and Proper Persons to Taking a Census, Barones Bere, Bantry, East Division, East Carbery, East Division, West Carbery, West Division, East Carbey, East Division, West Carbery, Courseys, Ibane and Barryroe, Kilmmeaky (Bandon)
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Dunbeacon Graveyard:
6th March 1867 Mrs. Ann T.(ownsend) Shanahan Probably Dunbeacon Philip probably died 1892 aged 96 58 Grave: Erected by Philip Shanahan ot the memory of hs wife Ann T d 26th March 1867 aged 58 ” Philip Shanahan. was born Abt 1796; d.5 Aug 1892-Dunbeacon, County Cork, Ireland. Philip married Anne TOWNSEND on 14 Nov 1826 in East Schull, County Cork, Ireland . Anne was born about 1812. She died on 26 Mar 1867 in Dunbeacon. County Cork, Ireland. “
1892 Philip Shanahan Probably Dunbeacon Philip 1892 aged 96 96 Grave: Erected by Philip Shanahan ot the memory of is wife Ann T d 26th March 1867 aged 58
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