https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Rosscarbery,+Co.+Cork/@51.5776695,-9.038,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844534d26ee84cb:0xa00c7a99731a390

1450 AD Report of the Commissioner of Public Records in Bermingham Tower (Dublin Castle) ‘The Holegans were and are Loyal Subjects of the County and City of Cork since the Conquest of Hibernia and Ecclesiastical Seal of Father Maurice O’Helaghan of Ross, Co. Cork 1551.

The records were most likely destroyed in 1922.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1892.

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 12th April 1947, Investigation at Castletownbere 1859 of William Power, Shopkeeper, John Kelly Smith, patrick Murphy and Michael McCarthy Shopkeepers fears of the spreading of the Phoenix Society Skibbereen (Fenians), 25 men summonsed in Bantry for lighting tar barrels to show respect for Phoenix man let out of Jail Mr. Denis Sullivan, Orange Riot caused in Kinsale 12th July 1859 by Antrim Militia stationed there.

West cork had serious problems with Orange Parades in Dunmanway and Bandon with people killed in the early 19th century:

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=Search&category=27&searchDescTxt=dunmanway&offset=0&browseresults=true

Bandon 1822 Orange Riot caused two deaths

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/search/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=Search&category=27&searchDescTxt=bandon&offset=20&browseresults=true

Fenian Activity in Durrus:

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

Site on Harrington’s of Beara, with links

https://chrisharrington.wordpress.com/tag/clountreem/

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 18th December 1948, Some who have fallen Under The Sickle of the old relentless Foe of an known as the Grim Reaper, Father Joe Sheehy of the Vincentian Order, Sam Ross of Dromore, old IRA man, Inspector in the Pigs and Bacon Commission, his brother Gibbs shot during Troubles and Commemorated on a  Plaque in Bantry Courthouse, Sam’s  knowledge of local history from Insebeg to Coolnaclehy and Log-na-gCapall to Gleanntan-na-Fola, relating stories heard in his childhood of landlords and bailiffs, stories of wrestling matches, weight-throwing, athletics, salmon poaching, droll characters of his homeland.  The Rosses and his mother’s people the Kingstons of Upper Bawnahow, Drimoleague Parish designated in local speech as ‘long-tailed families’, The late Sam Ross of Durrus and his father Johnny who had an extensive farm at Log-na-gCapall from which he was evicted and settled at Glendart, Jerry O’Leary. late Solicitor, Glendart, and Dumnanway, Irish speaker unusual unlike many Lawyers who knew the ploughshare and harrow not.

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 15th February 1947 additional article on Thomas Swanton (1812-), Farmer and petty Landlord, Crianliath, Ballydehob, Correspondence with John Horn, Neptune Engine Works, Waterford, Temperance Lectures based on the Beatitudes, delivered annually in Irish and in the Irish Script in Tig an Mhargig (Market House), Ballydehob, follower of Swedenborg Teachings Joining New Jerusalem Group, offering to write Evening Service in bandon in Cork Irish, Proposal for Parliament of each of the 4 provinces of Ireland, references to Phoenixmen (Fenians)

Sam Ross in his recollections of youth is consistent with the stories collected by the local children in 1937:

https://durrushistory.com/2011/12/02/1938-school-folklore-project-sarah-dukelow-clashadoo-durrus/A strike at the Bog at Log-na-gCapall launched the Political Career of Michael Pat Murphy TD:

Strike in Log-na-gCapall Bog, Caheragh, during the Emergency, Michael Pat Murphy TD, Jasper Woulfe TD, Senator Patrick Joseph Sullivan, Kilcrohane adn Wyoming, and James Gilhooley MP

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballydehob,+Co.+Cork/@51.5630077,-9.4553674,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a1fdfeb67da7:0xa00c7a99731e680?hl=en

Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, in the Southern Star, Skibbereen, West Cork, 15th February 1947 additional article on Thomas Swanton (1812-), Farmer and petty Landlord, Crianliath, Ballydehob, Correspondence with John Horn, Neptune Engine Works, Waterford, Temperance Lectures based on the Beatitudes, delivered annually in Irish and in the Irish Script in Tig an Mhargig (Market House), Ballydehob, follower of Swedenborg Teachings Joining New Jerusalem Group, offering to write Evening Service in Bandon in Cork Irish, Proposal for Parliament of each of the 4 provinces of Ireland, references to Phoenix men (Fenians).

1902 meeting Desertserges, Father D. Bernard, C. C., Ahiohill introduced Mr. O’Houlihan, Gaelic League Organiser for Munster, said 4 years ago could not speak a word of Irish.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/01/26/peadar-o-hannrachain-cois-life-in-the-southern-star/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/10/peadar-o-h-anrachains-letter-from-dublin-cois-life-1947-southern-star-the-persevering-linguist-thomas-swanton-crianlarich-ballydehob-among-his-corespondents-james-h-dodd-d-d-trinity-coll/

Courtesy Southern Star, Skibbereen.

1937 Obituary of Dr. Michael McCarthy, Medical Officer of Health of Durrus, West Cork, native Drimoleague, Firing Party of Six Old IRA Men Fred Volley Over Coffin, Snapshot of Local Establishment.

Courtesy Southern Star, 21st August 1937.