1840 Farewell Address to the Rev. Edward Spring, Zealous Proselytiser, Living Castletownbere. His son Sir Francis Joseph Spring, Indian Railway Engineer, Developer of Madras Harbour, Funded a Prize for Engineering at TCD.
Spring, Sir Francis Joseph (1849–1933), civil engineer, was born 20 January 1849, most likely in Magourney, Co. Cork, son of the Rev. Edward Spring, rector of Magourney; his mother’s name is not known. After receiving his early education at Midleton School, Co. Cork, Spring went on to study engineering at TCD, serving his one-year apprenticeship under Alexander McDonnell (qv), locomotive superintendent of the Great Southern & Western Railway, and graduating with his licence in 1870 (TCD did not offer a degree in engineering till 1871/2). Also in 1870, he entered the Indian public works department, where for nearly fifty years he played a major role in the development and administration of India’s major railways and ports.
The Rev. Spring and his brother were part of a band of proselytising Church of Ireland Clergy who plagued West Cork from around 1820 to 1850. Stirring up trouble, allegations that they were offering food and education to starving locals if they converted. The listing for subscribers for Teampall na mBocht Church at Toormore by the Rev. Fisher shows the background to their supporters.
1862 Testimonial to Dr. Mathew Lefebure, M.D. on Leaving Berehaven after 21 years of Service to the Poor, His wife Angelina Coppinger O’Donovan. The Lefebure family.
1844, 1846, 1859 Mathew B. Lefebure M.R.C.S.I. Child Claude Anthony Lewis wife Angelina “Parish Register. Possibly the person in Dr. John O’Donovan letters He has enquired about a document in the possession of Dr. Le Ferre who was married to an O’Donovan. 1846 donor famine relief Beara.
1840, also doctor, wife Abgelina, daughter Angelina Coppinger O’Donovan, son Cladius Anthony Lewis, 1840 “May be of Huguenot origin. Suggested related to O’Sullivan Bere through descent or marriage. James O’Donovan London and Skibbereen sub editor the Times, He also refers to a pedigree of the O’Donovans in the possession of Dr. Lefevre of Castletown Berehaven. ” “From Dr. 24 O 39/JOD/ 69 29 August – 20 September 1844 Holograph letters from Daniel Donovan, Bridge Town, Skibbereen, to John O’Donovan. Donovan explains his delay in responding to O’Donovan’s request for family information stating that he is waiting for papers from [Dr. Le Febure] which are in London. He offers his observations on the Donovan families of Carbery. He mentions Philip Donovan, the civil war and Cromwellian confiscations, destroyed manuscripts, Castle Donovan, properties currently and formally in the possession of the Donovan family and Donovan Island. [not certain if all pages belong toone letter] He offers his assistance to the work being carried out by O’Donovan. He apologises for the delay in sending the pedigree required by O’Donovan as he had lent it to the deceased Philip O’Donovan, who mislaid it. He is ‘anxious to cultivate your acquaintance and render you any assistance in my power’.
2 items 18cm O’Donovan papers Royal Irish Academy”
mong those mentioned in testimonial
‘Big’ Patrick O’Sullivan, Millcove: Castletownbere:
Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, Gaelic League Organiser, Cois Life, ‘OUR DUBLIN LETTER’ in the Southern Star. He often uses the phrase ‘long tailed family’ I think it roughly equated to a common phrase in obituaries in the Skibbereen Eagle adn Southern Star as the deceased bring of ‘an old and respected family’ applying to both Catholics and Protestants.
Looking at their obits in detail one category rarely appears and these are what Tod Andrew called ‘the people of no property’, labourers, those living in lanes in the villages and towns. The detailed obits show the immediate family then cousins, in laws, the the general public headed by the most important locals. Those who get obituaries are the middling to large farmers and business people. When you look at the over time you can discern the networks. Well known locally at the time but now forgotten.
The Gaels were defeated at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 the Chiefs went into exile. But a few increments below elements of the old families prospered as large tenant farmers and business people. The tend to be under the radar live modestly but they have the cash.Taking the triangle of Bantry/Drimoleague/Skibbereen quite a number are sufficiently well off the advance monies to local landlord families from the 1780s. See enclosed listing of deeds.
The would include the Blairs, Hutchinsons, Evanson, beggars on horseback with hardly a pot to piss in. There is an equivalent Protestant network of the same broad social and economic class like the Swantons of Ballydehob and the Shannons of Brahalish, Durrus, often they both work together as Grand Jury contractors or building work.
The class of people I am talking about tend to marry within the extended group and over a wider geographic area. Here the obits show the relationships.
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.
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).
Big Tom (Irish Speaker) Somerville, (1797-1882), Drishane, Castletownsend, Landlord, Magistrate, Kind Friend of O’Donovan Rossa.
Even going back years I was struck by Tom Somerville intervention caused by fatalities arising from the notorious collections of tithes by the Rev. Morritt. He seemed on his landlord’s side as a lone voice of reason. His granddaughter Edith Somerville, I thought captured a lot in the Irish Rm ((Resident Magistrate) stories. I would think the Somerville family were largely assimilated into local culture, even if not always obvious.
Thomas Somerville Esq. D.L. (1797-1882), Drishane House, Castletownshend, son of Thomas, m Harriett Townsend of Castle Townsend in 1822, d Colonel Richard Boyle Townsend (1756-1827). Magistrate 1822 to 1882. For 37 years Chairman Skibbereen Board of Guardians, Pre 1830, listed 1835 Castlehaven. Freeman of Cork. Irish Speaking exhorted calm in notorious affray 1823 caused by Rev. Morritt tithe extraction. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1838, sitting Skibbereen, 1835, 1850. Presentment sessions East Division of West Carbery, Skibbereen 1845. A Thomas Somerville at Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828, Cork Spring Assizes 1863 HIgh Sheriff as Thomas, Drishane. 1828 application to Dublin Castle re gas supply for Skibbereen. involved with Richard Townsend, Castletownshend and James Redmond Barry, Glandore, in setting up Agricultural and Country Bank in Skibbereen, April 1835. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Chairman Skibbereen Board of Guardians 35 years, 1848-81. Chairing Skibbereen 1847 distress meeting. 1847 distribution for Castletownshend of New England Relief Committee Famine Relief. Small estate 450 acres. Grandfather of Edith Somerville (1858-1949). Grandfather Admiral Somerville whose death in 1936 caused widespread outrage. Praised by Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa as his friend
Somerville family history:
HISTORY
The first Somerville to land in Ireland in 1690 was a refugee, fleeing persecution of the Church of Scotland of which William Somerville was a minister. He took his family and rowed twenty miles over rough water to Ulster, where they found refuge through family connections. He died four years later aged just 51.
Thomas Somerville was aged two when he made the journey by boat. The younger of two sons, he decided to make his career in the Church of Ireland. He went to Trinity College, Dublin, and became ordained. The family fortunes changed when he married Ann Neville in 1723. She came from a family of means, had an annuity of £500 a year, and they prospered and had eight children. In 1732 the family moved to West Cork, Thomas having…..
Dr. James Edward Somerville (1810-1904), M.D., Doctor, Union Hall, Skibbereen. Had an enormous repertoire of old Irish tunes, gifted with horses, beloved locally. Somerville Magistrates.
Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, 1896/7 Prizewinners with Photo of Past President 1892-7, Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL, and The O’Donovan President 1899.
Richard Skuse, Derrygarren, Barony of West Carbery, Co. Cork, Farmer, 29th April 1802, Sworn 1st May 1802.
To Michael Albridge (wrong should be Attridge), of Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Woollen Draper, and Jno (John?), Glasheen …Aulin?, Cork City, …..Allen said County farmer, all his interest in lands at Derrygarren and Ininshbeg (Inishbeg) both in Co. Cork, … held under Head Lease from Cornelius O’Driscoll, Esq. and the latter under Thomas Somerville and Burris Erwin, Esqs., in trust to pay Testator’s wife Mary Skuse, an annuity of £10 residue of profits from said lands to raise a payment of £40 each to the Testator’s seven daughters, Dorothy, Abigail, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary, Ann, Frances, and then to pay the profits to Testator’s son Francis Skuse for life, in default of his issue to said seven daughters. Dwelling house at Derrygarren, furniture to the said wife for life, then the furniture divided between the three youngest daughters Mary, Ann and Frances
Executors: Thomas Somerville, Michael Attridge, Jno Attridge.
1659, Bandon District, Census of Ireland 1659 with supplementary material from the Poll Money ordinances 1660-1661
1688, Jurors, Inquisition, Ballinspittle. Initiated by Mary de Courcy, Lady Kinsale, Widow of Patrick to Recover Dower
1732, Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws
1766, Probable West Cork Subscribers of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellion’, Cork,
1778, UNDERNAMED SUBSCRIBERS; DO AGREE TO ASSOCIATE OURSELVES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESERVING THE PEACE OF THIS CITY AND THE PROPERTY THE INHABITANTS THEROF: CORK 26th March, 1778″
1780, West Cork Subscribers, John Fitzgerald’s Cork Remembrance.
1787, Subscribers to William Collins Poetry, West Cork
1787, Lucas Commercial Directory, Bandon
1789-1839, Churchwardens, Kilbrogan, Bandon
1794, On the eve of the Assizes The Minister, Churchwardens, and the Principal Inhabitants of Kilmeen thank the Government for their aid when their property was attacked by a deluded mob. p. 36
1796, Spinning Wheel Premium, Irish Flax Growers, 1796, p. 4
1799, Game Certificates, p. 89
1799, West Cork Supporters, Act of Union
1822, West Cork Subscribers Dr. Wood’s primitive Inhabitants of Ireland
1822 Local Fishery Committees
1825, Donors New Catholic Chapel, West Schull.
1826, Teachers of Baronies of East and West Carbery, Bantry and Bere, West Cork, p. 72
1826, United Parishes of Durrus and Muintervara, The Rev. Richard Quinn P.P. begs leave the undermentioned Ladies and Gentlemen by which he has been enable to nearly complete two churches in the United Parishes.
1914 Enthusiastic Election Meetings Schull Division at Kilcrohane and Ahakista for Denis McCarthy, O’Brienite (All for Ireland) Party. Allegations of Nepotism. Steam Rolling of Roads, Pier for Sea Sand , Priest Thrown off Old Age Pension Committees Mentioned.
Since the 1890s the general district was split Inuit two rival Nationalist factions. Frequent reports of election related disturbances,
The allegation of nepotism was directed at the Roycroft family of Mount Gabriel, The County Surveyor was a brother of Ned Roycroft was later based in Bantry., Quite a number of the extended Roycroft family held position associated with the Workhouse in Schull.
The Barrister referred to land other Bantry O’Leary lawyers
1904, 1910 Daniel O’Leary Barrister Metionedi in Obituary as attending funeral 1903 address mass meeting at the Abbey re Manchester Martyrs. 1904 funeral of Daniel O’Donovan, Solicitor and Land Owner, Skibbereen.
1878-1954 Daniel O’Leary Solicitor, MP 1916, Solicitor Arklow, Co.Wicklow Elected on death of James GIlhooley for O’Brien faction in Irish Parliamentary party. “1941 funeral of brother D. O’Leary, Solicitor, ex M.P., Arklow brother
1937, 1937 Joseph S. O’Leary Solicitor, 1939 Commissioner Best man at wedding of his brother J. O’Leary, Dunmanway, soilicitor, in Dublin 1937 to Miss Mary Kathleen Lavin.
1908 Solicitors. O’Leary Patrick, The Square Wolfe Jasper, The Square. Attending funeral James Flynn, (1817-1896), Caherdaniel, died 1896. Funeral of 1900, James Wiseman, Beach, Bantry. 1904 relief fund Charles Martin McCarthy wife and children he a boatman Bantry died trying to save a sailor. 1909 attending the funeral of Dr. William Jennings, J.P. 1917 attending funeral of three crew lost when Minnehaha torpedoed by the Germans. ” “Magistrate William Henry O’Sullivan, 1897, The Square/Main St., Bantry, daughter Annie m 1906 Patrick O’Leary, Solicitor, Bantry son of Florence Glendart, listed 1921. 1898 funeral of Mrs. Margaret O’Connor mother of Benjamin, JP. 1904 funeral of Daniel O’Donovan, Solicitor and Land Owner, Skibbereen. 1909 attending funeral of Mrs. Martha Rogers, Durrus. 1913 attending the funeral, Skibberen, Dr. Patrick (PJ) Burke, Skibbereen. ” “1941 funeral D. O’Leary, Solicitor, ex M.P., Arklow brother J. O’Leary, brother Miss M. O’Leary, Dunmanway, sister Mrs. Creedon, Parkgariff, Monkstown, sister Mr. J. O’Leary, Dunmanway W. H. O’Sullivan, Bantry brother-in-law Charles Donovan, Bantry, brother-in-law D. Creedon, Solicitor, Dunmanway, nephew T. O’Brien, Killeagh, nephew Mary O’Leary, Bantry, niece Patricia Creedon, Monkstown, niece ” His uncle Patrick O’Leary, Glendart, was involved in the Fenian raid on Canada mentioned by Rocky Mountain. Died 1936, Mountmellick William Clerke Apprentice to Patrick O’Leary, qualified 1919 Pracised in Mountmellck died there 1936. Attending 1923, Mrs. Nora O’Leary nee McCarthy Courtmacsherry, Woodlands, Dunmanway. Wife of Jeremiah O’Leary Solicitor.
Edward (Ned) Roycroft (1850-1937), 1894, Mount Gabriel, Schull, farmer, listed 1913. 1892 Poor Law Guardian. Attending the funeral, Bantry Jane Dillon nee Roycroft (1843-1892). 1899 Chairman Schull Board of Guardian and District Council. Farmer 1901 has one servant. One of the first to be elected to Cork County Council. Signed Requisition 1905. Cork Junction Railway Bill. Requisition to the Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon K.P., to Call a meeting for the purpose of Approving the Cork Junctions Railway Bill. 1911 executive committee Carbery Show. 1913 attending funeral of Mrs. Mary O’Sullivan nee O’Driscoll, Kilthomane, Crottees, Durrus. 1914 County Council election assentors Dr. John Shipsey and Rev. G.B. Fairbrother. Vice President Carbery Show 1915. Married Kate McCarthy associated with the Irish Parliamentary Party, Roycrofts may descend from 2 brother who who came to Bandon 1600. His son William who succeeded him on the Co. Council. Quite a number of the extended Roycroft family were employed at the workhouse or Union. Chairman Schull Board of Guardians, Skibbereen to Schull Railway, Committee member Cork Mental Hospital. Supported Treaty, nominated and supported Jasper Wolfe as a TD. Partner with his son in a drapery shop in Schull. Huge funeral.
1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
Emigration from Gearhies, Muintervara, to Joliet, Illinois, America. Visit of Bantry Born MP, Tim Healy 1881, Hotbed of Fenians, Hibernian Activity, Pro Boer Meeting Attended by Many Irish.
Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.
1931 Funeral of Tim Healy, Bantry Born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of Irish Free State. Genealogy (by John T. Collins 1944) of O’Healys/Healys/Hely from 5th Century, Patron Saint of Family St. Lachtin died 622 AD.
1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s , MP, Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board and Non Attending Board Member 90 Year old Earl of Mount Cashel.
William Warner of Bantry owned creameries at Killarney, Enniskeane and Ballinacarriga and developed a brand of butter aimed at the export market. In partnership with James Manders (son-in-law) who later left the partnership he started a factory at William Street. By 1886 its production was £6,000 in the summer and employed a hundred men including fifty coopers. In 1892 it was producing 800 tons a year.
The Musgrave Cork family owners of the Super Valu Group are descended from Bantry Warners on the female side.
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John Cullinane, (1834-1900) The Square, Bantry. 1895 treasurer Bantry Terrier Coursing Club. 1898 thanked by Bantry Board of Guardians for providing a meal for the inmate of the workhouse consisting of meat and vegetable followed by currant cake and
Timothy O’Donovan JP to Dr. John O’Donovan on The Real Irish Greyhound not the wolf dog called the …..‘Guire Mac Fhira’ the Irish Grey Hound is called ‘Conn’ and was spelled Gre-hound, this breed is quite smooth silk like satin it is a mistake to confuse the rough or wiry dog being of Scotch descent and never could compete with the real Irish in Fleetship or Beauty, Richard Hungerford Evanson, Coursing at Dromreagh in the 1864.
The O’Donovans were clearly into dogs, his brother Doctor Richard placed an ad in a newspaper in the 1827 for a lost bitch ‘Lily’ at Ahakista. The House at O’Donovan’s Cove had a large area devoted to kennels
Many thanks my dear friend for your recent collection and very handsome present, which I value highly, and my young friend, I shall it have properly framed, and ornamented with name of the artist. I hope the book arrived safely . In some of the old Coats of Arms of the O’Donovan family I have seen the motto was ‘Ver Super Hostem”. I could not account for this crest was always the same .. The Carbery O’Donovan I regret to say are wearing he is at present abroad and is now fourteen. His father has been in Germany for 3 years and was very reckless and extravagant but his property fortunately was strictly entailed the land is secured to his family. His wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of my wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch?. The grandson the present Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere I return Count McDonnell’s letter which is very interesting such as may be expected from one of the ancient race. I also return the other letters, with the Crest of the Wexford Donovans and your own. I hope to hear sometime from you at your pleasure and look forward with hope to our meeting in the ensuing. …….papers and the pleasure when of my young friend, your son, I would accompany you. I have still … of the real Irish Greyhound not the wolf dog called the …..‘Guire mac Fhira’ the Irish Grey Hound is called ‘Conn’ and was spelled Gre-hound, this breed is quite smooth silk like satin it is a mistake to confuse the rough or wiry dog being of Scotch descent and never could compete with the real Irish in fleetship or beauty.
Wishing you and yours every prosperity and happiness I remain your obliging friend an affectionate clansman,
Timothy O’Donovan
I also return the very pleasing testimonial of the merits of your son Edmund from Sir Bernard Burke.
Footnotes:
Latin ‘A man above his enemies” The Cork Levellins were of Norman descent some of the family conformed to the Church of Ireland. Elsewhere Dr. O’Donovan comments on the Wexford branch who may have come from West Cork purchasing Cromwellian Debentures in the 1840s the incumbent was described by Dr. O’Donovan a a ‘Bigoted Orangeman’
Timothy O’Donovan (1790-1874), 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, in ruins 1875, Durrus, listed 1838, son of Richard Esq. and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Correspondent with Antiquarian Dr. John O’Donovan re O’Donovans of Carbery. Brother of Dr O’Donovan and Richard O’Donovan JP and uncle of Richard O’Donovan JP. Hisson’s wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of his wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water Park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch. The grandson the present (1860) Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. In 1838in the Liberal interest where at Bantry voter registration 15 were registered as opposed to 6 ‘Orangemen’ the tenants of Timothy O’Donovan JP were chiefly among those who registered. Among these were probably McCarthys of Tulig later prominent in Nationalist politics of whom John Mccarthy (1859-1931)became a leading in Nebraska and wrote a poem in praise of Timothy O’Donovan. Attended Great Meeting in Bantry 1840 re Poor Laws. Chaired 1846 distress meeting Bantry on proposition of Father Michael Barry PP Bantry. Landlord and political organiser. Member Election Committee, Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty (later Attorney General) 1855 Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen. Juror Cork Spring Assizes 1863. Land record, 1870, Kate O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, 1,940 acres and Reps Timothy O’Donovan 1,940 acres. 1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818 Probate to daughter Mrs Anne Barry, widow, effects £2,000.
1866. Kennels Sought in Skibbereen for West Carbery Harriers.
Marmion is probably merchant, landowner, owner of coaches. The Family came from around Dundalk to manage Becher Estate c 1740, an old Norman family who conformed to the Church of Ireland.
Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle; or, South Western Advertiser 08 December 1866
In the 19th century there is a lot of concentration on religious and political differences. We forget the common culture and dogs in their manifestation was one of them.
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