1838. A Well Constructed and safe Corn Store at Farranmanagh, Kilcrohane, West Cork in Choice Good Corn Country. 3 Lofts Equal to Stowing 400 – 500 Hundred Barrels of Corn, beside a safe Flagged Floor, each of which are Aired with 12 Windows. On the Upper Loft A First rate Teackle or Machine also 1st Floor a Machine for Screening Corn. Henry Richard (Henry R.) Marmion, (1816-1896). Family early involvement in Shipping and Grain Stores.
Looking at this deed it seems the Dunmanway O’Sullivan, Bridgemount. Farranamanagh to Thomas Becher, Sherkin Island. Daniel O’Sullivan Esq., Dunmanway “530 222 347843 1800 Aug 26 Release SULLIVAN Daniel Farmer Farranmannagh, Co Cork mentioned 28 Aug 1800 A leased to B, the lands of Farranmannagh, Barony of W Carbery, for 3 lives RonPrice H 2/8/18 0:00 119530 222 347843 1800 Aug 26 Release SULLIVAN Timothy son of Daniel Sullivan [H]; aged about 10 yrs life 28 Aug 1800 A leased to B, the lands of Farranmannagh, Barony of W Carbery, for 3 lives RonPrice G 2/8/18 0:00
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.
The West Cork railway system waqs centred on the Cork Bandon and South Coast railway in Albert Quay Cork. An unconnected narrows gauge line connected Skibbereen to Schull. The system was extensive and not connected to the Iris rail System. The purpose of the Bill was to link both systems over two bridges over the River lee. Even the the West Cork system close c 1959 the connection was extensively used Adan the West Cork yards were used for the likes of fertiliser storage.
Most of the leading figures in West Cork are listed, political business and professional.
1951 Walter McGrath railway historian in the development of the system:
1849. Commencement of Cork Bandon Railway with The Bandon-Ballinhassig stretch operations with two engines, Rith Tinneadh (Speeding Fire) and Sighe Goithe (Whirlwind)
1845 Lord Bandon Calling on British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, at Downing St., London to Fix Bantry as Packet Station for America and the West Indies. 1845 Abandonment of Plan to Bring Railway to Berehaven.
This was part of the radical overhaul of the Irish Justice system post Independence ebay the Free State Government.
They abolished the Magistrates who still sit in Northern Ireland, This was praised by the former Lord Chancellor Ignatious O’Brien, (Baron Shandon 1857-1930).
When the lord chancellor, Redmond John Barry, retired in 1913 O’Brien was appointed to the vacant post. While he was a hard worker he was neither diplomatic nor forceful enough to be truly effective, and was notorious for his long-winded and self-important judgments. His judicial philosophy favoured sweeping aside precedent and technicalities in favour of substantive justice as he saw it; hence he was on good terms with Peter O’Brien (qv), though he disapproved of his politics, and at odds with Christopher Palles (qv), though he acknowledged Palles’s eminence as a jurist. He greatly enjoyed the social side of his office and the ceremonies and amusements of the viceregal court.
O’Brien was nearly ousted as lord chancellor in 1915 in favour of James Campbell (qv) by the first coalition government – his removal was also sought by T. M. Healy and William O’Brien (qv) (1852–1928) – but was retained after a public outcry orchestrated by the Redmondites, which threatened to affect American public opinion.
He expressed guarded optimism for the future of the Irish Free State, and admired the government of W. T. Cosgrave (qv), praising such decisions as the replacement of JPs by paid district justices and the creation of an unarmed police force. He emerges from its pages as a sensitive and somewhat neurotic meritocrat, haunted at the sufferings inflicted by inefficiency, and believing that the great fault of British administration of Ireland under the union was not so much brutality as stupidity.
The reminiscences of Ignatius O’Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18
A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster
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Ignatius O’Brien was the youngest son of a struggling Cork business family. After somewhat unhappy experiences at a Cork Vincentian school and the Catholic University of Ireland, he studied to become a barrister while supporting himself as a reporter on Dublin newspapers. Over time he built up a reputation in property and commercial law, and an ultimately successful career led to him being appointed a law officer and later lord chancellor under the post-1906 Liberal governments.
Bram Stoker apart from writing, Dracula was a qualified Barrister and spent 12 years as a Civil Servant in Dublin Castle. When he resigned he was Inspector of Petty Session Clerks. His guide “The duties of clerks of petty sessions in Ireland’ was used in the Irish District Courts until the mid 1930s
Peace Commissioners are appointed (and may be removed from that appointment) by the Minister for Justice under Section 88 of the Courts of Justice Act 1924. The powers and duties of Peace Commissioners consist primarily of:
Taking statutory declarations
Witnessing signatures on documents if required by various authorities
Signing certificates and orders under various Acts
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 gives Peace Commissioners the power to issue summons and warrants. These powers are less frequently used these days. Applications for search warrants should be made to the local District Court.
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1923 Appointment of Peace Commissioners Cork City and County. Ignatious O’Brien (Baron Shandon) former Lord Chancellor approval of Free State Government Abolition of Magistrates. Bram Stoker The duties of clerks of petty sessions in Ireland
Right. Hon. James Francis 4th Earl of Bandon (1850-1924). Funeral Obits Constitutional Issue Arising from his Death as an Irish Representative Peer in the British House of Lords.
Right. Hon. James Francis 4th Earl of Bandon (1850-1924) , (see also Bernard) K.P., 1871, Castlebernard, Bandon. Registered Vestryman of Christ Church, Kilmeen, 1870. 1903, Sale. Lord Bandon gives notice of his intention to sell his estates in Co Cork – extensive holdings with some 15,000 tenants. 1874-1877 on the staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn. Chairman Irish Landowners Association 1910 Listed 1913, listed 1922. 1888. Landlords, Lord Bandon, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Bandon owns 40,941 acres in Co Cork, Duke of Devonshire has 32,550 acres. Two of the three largest landowners in the Co. His 41,000 acres were sold post 1903 to the Land Commission on what was regarded as fair terms. At the time 15,000 tenants. It is likely that his Land Agents the Dohertys Bandon Solicitors received a considerable amount of the proceeds as they had advanced multiple mortgages to Lord Bandon over the years. 1877 appointed Lord Lieutenant for Co. Cork, a position held by his father and grandfather. Married Georgina Dorothy Evans Freke d 7th Lord Carbery and wife Harriet Shouldham, the Dunmanway Shouldhams are descended in the female line from a McCarthy heiress who converted. 1883 President Cork Industrial Exhibition and in 1902-3 patron of Cork Industrial Exhibition. 1900 Knight of St. Patrick. Chairman Bandon Board of Guardians and Bandon Town Commissioners. 1919 elected President of group proposing a War Monument for Cork. Castlemahon burned by IRA and kidnapped 1921. Compensation paid by the Irish Government as follows for the house £37,000, furniture £43,300. Francis Bernard, great-grandfather of the first Earl, was a lawyer and politician while Francis’ younger brother Arthur is the 7th-great grandfather of Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.[4][5]James Bernard, father of the first Earl, was a politician. He died at Princes Gardens London. His funeral service in London was attended by officers of the Cork Artillery.
The family seat, Castle Bernard, built on ruins of former O’Mahony Castle, was one of the great houses burned during the troubles by the IRA under Sean Hales on 21 June 1921. The home was burned as a counter-reprisal measure against British policy of burning the homes of suspected Irish republicans.
Lord Bandon was kidnapped and held hostage for three weeks being released on 12 July. The IRA threatened to have him executed if the British went ahead with executing IRA prisoners. During his captivity, Bandon reportedly coolly played cards with his captors, who seem to have treated him fairly well. Reportedly, Lord Bandon would give one of his captors, Daniel (Dan) O’Leary (also known an Leabhair, Irish for ‘Book’, based on the fact he was so well read), money each day for Leabhair to travel from the house in Kilcolman townland, to Slatterys pub in Ahiohill to purchase Clonakilty Wrastler (a local beer).
Constitutional Issue heralded by the Belfast News-Letter. Like many problems cured by time. It may be the kind of issue that will arise from the likely unification of Ireland within the next 50 years.
1891 Doneen, Clonakilty, Barytes Mines taken over by Newcastle Firm Cameron, Swan and Smith, New Years Day Entertainment for Staff and family. £300 paid out in monthly wages. 90 Hands Employed, Carters and Boatmen staff 150, Deficient Harbour. Caed Mílte Failthe.
1891 Doneen, Clonakilty, Barytes Mines taken over by Newcastle Firm Cameron, Swan and Smith, New Years Day Entertainment for Staff and family. £300 paid out in monthly wages. 90 Hands Employed,Carters and Boatmen staff 150, Deficient Harbour. Caed Mílte Failthe
1927 Election County Constituency of West Cork Sub Agents of Jasper Travers Wolfe
Jasper’s mother was a strict Methodist and did not approve of his card playing or whiskey drinking.
His daughter:
1932, 1952 Dorothy Woulfe Barrister, London “The following evening the Independent candidate Jasper Travers Wolfe (former Crown Prosecutor, later independent TD) addressed a meeting in Bantry. His campaigns were managed by his daughter Dorothy. In later campaigns she would speak personally in Durrus and Dunbeacon. She qualified as a barrister in London and became Lady Ungoed-Thomas when her husband, Solicitor General in the post war Attlee Government was knighted. ” “Miss Wolfe BL, 1932, attending funeral of Michael Harrington, Merchant, Skibbereen. 1938, Message of sympathy Funeral of Father John Sheehy, (1892-1938), Curate. Courtmacsherry, of the Prominent Skibbereen Family, his Father County Councillor, One Time TD, Mass Celebrated by 100 Priests, Telegrams, Mass Cards. “
His brother:
1953 Dr. Jackson Wolfe, LL.D Legal Author London Brother of Jasper Wolfe at his funeral, Skibberen 1953.
His apprentice, 2nd woman solicitor to qualify:
1923 Dorothea Browne, later Mrs O’Reilly Mother nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna, Durrus, father Sergent RIC died of Cholera Mitchslstown Workhouse 1900 leaving 8 children “Apprenticed to Jasper Wolfe, Skibbereen, then Crown Prosecutor for West Cork, later independent TD. 1920s, Dorothea Browne, 2nd Woman to Qualify as a Solicitor in Ireland. Her mother was Mrs. Brown, nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna. She went on to found the firm of PF O’Reilly with her husband which is still operational. Her husband later Fine Gael Senator and Taxing Master of the High Court. ” Grandmother Mercy Pier of Huguenot ancestry. “Telegram of sympathy fr her and husbadn P.F.O’Reilly. Funeral 1941, Mrs. Rachel Wolfe nee Wood, Snugboro, Skibbereen, aged 95, mother of Jasper Wolfe, Solicitor buried Aughadown,. Southern Star 25th January 1941
Sub Agent Maurice Gilhooly, Bantry. Soon James Gilhooly, MP for West Cork Jasper was his election agent.
Durrus Herbert Dukelow, Blairs Cove. He spent some years in America activity as a Bantry Rural Councillor. His wife Charlotte Philips her father Robert Philips owned Bandon Arms Hotel in Durrus and a coaching establishment always involved in politics. His daughter Kathleen died recently in her late 90s donated site and a large sum of money to establish a community centre Philips Green.
Baltimore Isaac Shipley fish merchant
Schull: Dr.Edward Shipsey family long tradition of medicine Magistrates heavy involvement in politics.
Skibbereen, W. Wood Wolfe probably a cousin and been a Magistrate.
1952, Enormous Funeral, Skibbereen Closes Down, of Jasper Travers Wolfe, Born 1872, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor West Cork, Three Times Elected TD, ‘He Had all of Munster as His Client’, First Corkman to be President Incorporated Law Society.
James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, West Cork, Member ‘Bantry Band’, children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School. In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.
1928. Busy Bees Barred at Crookhaven But they Buzz Boisterously at Skibbereen Court. Jurisprudence of Bees in Crookhaven, Bees are Animals. Bees when Burned Evaporate. Music Hath Charms to Soothe The Savage Bee. You Can’t Bring The IRA Now!’ A Swarm of Bees in May is Worth a Load of Hay, in June A Silver Spoon, July not Worth a Butterfly.
1884, 1917 Jasper Travers Wolfe Solicitor, Crown Solicitor, TD “Norton, Skibbereen, 1st place Law Society Final Exam, Director Skibbereen Eagle member Governing Body, UCC. subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895. 1895 Funeral and wreath of Bantry Solicitor Daniel O’Donovan aged 26. Native Skibbereen:Returning officer west Cork constituency election agent James Gilhooley MP. 1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner. 1909 attending the funeral of Dr. William Jennings, J.P. 1914 RDC election nominated by Parish Priest Fr..Michael O’Callaghan. 1935 funeral of Dr.Edward Shipsey, Schull. 1937 attending Ned Roycroft, funeral. Roycroft had nominated him and supported him as TD,
Robinson, Lennox (1886–1958), playwright and director, was born Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson on 4 October 1886 near Douglas, Co. Cork, youngest of seven children (of whom twins died in infancy) of Andrew Craig Robinson, stockbroker, and Emily Anna Robinson (née Jones). When Lennox was six years old his father took orders in the Church of Ireland and in 1895 moved his family to Kinsale, and thence in 1902 to the rectory in Ballymoney, west Cork. Owing to ill health, Lennox had little formal education, being tutored at home except for a couple of years spent at Bandon Grammar School up to 1904. At home he read widely, dabbled in music, and edited a family magazine, Contributions. On a visit to the Cork opera house (August 1907) Robinson was greatly influenced by the Abbey Theatre company, then on tour with ‘Cathleen Ni Houlihan’ by W. B. Yeats (qv) and ‘The rising of the moon’ by Lady Gregory (qv). Some months later Robinson wrote his first play for the Abbey, where he made his career.
In the 1920s Robinson tried to move beyond the conventional Abbey ‘peasant’ play into more middle-class, urban material. In ‘The big house’ (1926) he dealt with the theme of the Anglo-Irish caught up in the wars that ravaged his native Co. Cork from 1919 to 1923, and returned to the plight of unionists in southern Ireland in ‘Killycreggs in twilight’ (1937). Regrettably, neither of these plays was as popular as the lighter comedies such as ‘The whiteheaded boy’, ‘The far-off hills’ (1918), and ‘Drama at Inish’ (1933).
West Cork History 