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.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/37797

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.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/25484

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,

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/39617

Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) ‘Garden of Sleep’, on the Lost Graveyard of Courtaparteen between Sandycove and The Old Head of Kinsale.

https://www.dib.ie/biography/robinson-lennox-a7727

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).

Rushes:

Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/10434

George Boyle White (1802-1876), born Bantry, West Cork, East India Company Navy man, Surveyor, Australia 1830s Journals of Expedition.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/4946

John Westropp Carey, born Kinsale 1778 died Glenlough outside Bantry 1862. Married Margaret McCarthy, Daughter of Daniel McCarthy former Parish Priest of Durrus and Sarah Blair of Blairs Cove, Durrus. MIlitary service of him and his 6 Brothers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy marriage to Sarah Blair,  Blair genealogy, Petition 1820 Dublin Castle, 19th May 2022

Rev Dan McCarthy (Apostatised and married his ward Ms.Sarah Blair) P.P. 1790. He was one of the McCarthy Muclaghs and was known as ’An tAthair Tadgh Na Muclagh’.  His father used to dispute the claim of the McCarthys of Carrignavar the right to the Chieftainship of the McCarthys.  He was influenced by the radical teachings of Voltaire and Rosseau as a student in France.’ He was a classical scholar and acted as interpreter in Bantry between General Dalrymple and the French Officer Prosseau in 1796.  His daughter married John Westropp Carey who lived in Glenlough Cottage on the Northside. 

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From a descendant:]]

So far as Daniel McCarthy is concerned, he is my 4 x Gt Grandfather . My line from Daniel goes to Robert McCarthy, his son, 1803—1843. Robert was a Printer, and in the 1841 census he was 38 years old and living in Teiers (Friar’s Walk) Walk, St Nicholas Parish, City of Cork. All the children, of school age, were at St Nicholas School.   A sister of Robert, was Margaret McCarthy, 1802-1839, who in 1822 married John Westropp Carey, 1778-1862. A brother of Robert McCarthy was the Rt Reverend Welbore McCarthy, D.D.,  He was, I think twice, the Bishop of Calcutta’s Commissary, i.e. ‘temporary deputy’ and latterly Archdeacon and Archbishop of Grantham. Robert McCarthy had married in 1810, Mary Jane Agar, daughter of the Reverend Charles Welbore Agar, Rector of Inniscarra. Robert and Mary had a number of children. My 2 x Gt Grandfather being the Reverend John Agar McCarthy, 1832-1890, who was a Church Missionary Society missionary in India, and married his wife, Mary Jane Carey, 1831-1915, daughter of Michael Carey of Cork, in Calcutta in 1859. Michael Carey was one of seven Carey brothers, who all served in the Army and Navy at the time of the Peninsular War.  Michael Carey was a Lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment. He was wounded at Talavera, served through the whole Peninsular Campaign under the Duke of Wellington, and received a Medal with eight clasps for his services.  A brother of Michael Carey, Randall Carey was the youngest Midshipman on board the ship that Napoleon was taken prisoner in. As such, he had to receive Napoleon’s sword.  Reverend John Agar McCarthy and his wife, Mary Jane (nee Carey) had seven children, the eldest of which, is my Gt Grandmother, Lizzie Martin McCarthy, who was born in Pershar, on the Indian Afghanistan border in 1860. In the 1871 Census, Reverend John Agar McCarthy was Vicar Designate of St Saviours, Battersea, London. He continued as a Vicar in England until his death in 1890 at Swaffham, Norfolk. His daughter, Lizzie Martin McCarthy married Robert Kohloff Clark, son of the Reverend William Clark, CMS Missionary in India and Ceylon. 

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Somewhere in the Paddy O’Keeffe papers (Cork archives) there is a reference to him either having a pack of hounds of borrowing those of the O’Donovans I thnk around Newtown, Bantry.,

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Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1950 Funeral and Background.

Father William Holland, SMA, 1911-1952 was a relative.

His extended family included the O’Heas and Maddesn of Ardfield. Included was the famous Master Madden, after he finished this National School at Ardfield he ran a cramming school to prepare I think boys only for English Civil Service e Exams. Included among his pupils were future revolutionaries Sam Maguire and his brother and Michael Collins.

At the back of the book is a series of notations by John T.Collins from Kilmeen, Clonakilty. He was part of a loose group including Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, Clonakilty. He assisted Basil O’Connell in compiling ‘The O’Connell Tracts’. In the 1950s he was given access to a 18th century collection of Cork Newspaper compiled by the Kearneys of Garrettstown House. By the 1950s Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West had the collection. John T. Collins published widely in the Cork Historical adn Archaeological JOurnal available online great research highly accurate.

History of West Cork:

Pretty much a a stunning achievement before the Internet and Google and the he spent long periods serving in Northern Nigeria.

Funeral and background:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMIfS_tZBVzk6nxPSY8FobTKXQIT0pG4UgoqVjtlzdLiwteVHZKMEcdEG3NamhszA?key=azNfNy1XamRBdUdBTWthM2p6aHB6VkZ2LWl0MXRB

Funeral and background:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBDukIFQhkhJiRA5xOIfNPtIDgWzoz_-FHNDjPgPSoc/edit

1765, Accounts of Franciscan Community, Broad Lane, Cork, Diet, Rents, Taxes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tI6ilBqI0iH4Ofg6DInNrxUqFWQdLorHZ8qhV6IwoVo/edit

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Meat

23 lb beef

Shoulder of mutton 13 lb.

Shoulder of mutton 11 lb.

Mutton a leg weight

Beef 20 lb.

Leg of mutton 10.5 lb.

Leg of mutton

Beef

Pork one side for the house

Hind muton 6 lb

Shoulder of mutton 10 lb.

Quarter of Mutton

Fish

Ling 8.5 lb.

Cod for Friday

Ling 19 lb.

Cod 2 fresh

Salmon

Dried Ling 10 lb

Ling 7.75 lb

Entire Smoked Salmon

Salmon another cut

Ale 2 quarts

Mackerel

Vegetables

Potatoes 25 weights

Turnips

Greens

Leeks and celery

Spinach

Butter

Butter cask half hundred weight

Other butter

Butter 13lb

Butter for basting mutton

Butter

Butter quarter

Sundry Consumables

Salt half pack

Salt

Sand for altar

Coarse sand for altar and stairs

Sand for stairs

Sand for Parlour

Sand free for washerwoman stone

Straw

Candles 2 lb

Mustard 5 pints

Vinegar 1 pint

Incense

ZFlesh eating oil

Alcohol

Ale 2 days

Punch 1 snag

Dram

Ale one quart

Brandy one pint

Porter

Claret

Punch

Punch snag

Claret

Ale 2 quarts

Beer 1

Ale 6 quarts

Wine 1 gallon

Brandy half pint

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 5 quarts

Brandy noggin after dinner

Ale one quart

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 6 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 4 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for strangers

Rum quart, sugar and oranges

Brandy half pint

Wine gallon for the altar

Metheglin 1  pint

Punch

Beer and ale for the family, 5 quarts\

Porter

Ale 2 days for Biddy

Coal

Coal and porterage in total 4 loads

Water

Water for the chaapel

Water for washing the parlour

Water for the kitchen

The waterman

For water

Taxes, Rents

Parish rates

Minister’s Money

Parish rates

Sheriff Butler, half years rent

Rent to William Worrell

Hearth money

Parish Rates

Ministers Money

Church rates and clark’s gallery

Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Crowley (Diarmiuid Ó Crualaoich), (1875-1847), Kilbrittain Born Supreme Court Judge of Dáil Courts. Stormy Petrel

A full account of his life is give here:

DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY:

https://www.dib.ie/biography/crowley-o-cruadhlaoich-diarmuid-a2253

 “The Count Plunkett habeas corpus application and the end of the Dáil Supreme Court” in-person lecture given by Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan on 28 April at 6:30pm, as part of the Four Courts 100 lecture series.

https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/7eea56a7-90ff-4782-9e22-56d7b2e87fd6/CourtsDecadeofCentenariesCommemorationsPosters.pdf/pdf#view=fitH

For his earlier life as a British Civil Servant you would wonder if he attended the famous cramming

Master Madden

Oillscoilan t-Sleigh, The Academy of Master Madden late 19th century, Ardfield, Clonakilty to Prepare Boys for the British Civil Service Exams. Pupils included Michael Collins and Sam Maguire.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/18842

The Crowley seems to have a history of awkward Customers

Father Jeremiah Crowley was jailed following criminal libel trial instigated by the Local Church of Ireland Minister on Mizen. He was give a heroes welcome leaving and returning to Cork. Later unhappy differences between him and Cork bishop entailed him leaving for America same scenarios left the Catholic Church became a Bible hall preacher denouncing the errors of Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_J._Crowley

The Crowley of West Cork are really McDermotts of Roscommon whop arrived as mercenaries in West Cork some time after 1200. Their nick name Crua (Tough) Laoich (Warrior) eventually became the surname. As McDemotts they are probably part of there Northern Uí Neill descending from Niall of the Nine Hostages;

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/niall-of-the-nine-hostages-descendants

In this category also are probing many of the Norther Loyalists with a Scots Presbeterian background, descending from the Irish who migrated to Western Scotland pre 1000 returning in the Plantation in the 17th century similarly the Scots Irish in America.

From Dr. Niamh Howlin’s new book:

1911 Clonakilty Show, Novelty of Alfa Laval Milk Separator, Local Agent, Atkins, Clonakilty, Prizewinning foal  from horse bred by Boss Croker, Greyhounds,Terriers, Milk Churning Competition, Milch Goats Class among others.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UnFjKSVLeyAiw6B2nm93dPuKGlcdSEr4-f2RqG6dxOA/edit

Boss Croker:

https://www.dib.ie/biography/croker-richard-welsted-boss-a2196

Alfa Laval:

Clonakilty being a major centre of the dairy industry.

History of Alfa Laval

https://www.alfalaval.com/about-us/our-company/history-of-alfa-laval/

1910. A Beautiful Old Gaelic Custom.

The candle is still lit all over Ireland at Christmas. In former time it was common for local shops to give a candle as a token for the family custom over the year.

Comment:

My family continues this tradition. It is always the youngest in the house who lights the candle.

1909 Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dri7_U_cn3JCzy3PhSeG5YjiZCJum7iF1euGguAE50k/edit

1843-1954 West Cork Agricultural Societies and Shows

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoNjmDNQKT_pk3nvlCsT72YWYoDENcs–uaJxh2ber8/edit