15 Sunday Dec 2013
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The assistance of Mary Dukelow, Brahalish, Durrus is acknowledged.
Townlands:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6&action=edit
14 Saturday Dec 2013
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The register was transcribed by the Public Record Office in 1949 (p59-153) M5061, parts of the original are difficult to decipher. It may be the case that the graveyard was shared with Catholics as there are a lot of ‘Catholic’ names far more than are usually found in 18th century Church of Ireland records.
The burials will have many Catholics. It is possible that not all are buried in the C of I graveyard as it appears very small. There are however many beautiful Catholic headstones in the grounds. The C of I had ownership of all old church sites and burial fees were an income. In some cases they did not follow up on the old churches/graveyards in a parish but in others they did. All Catholics and most non conformists in Dublin are buried in C of I burial grounds up to the early 1800’s and the 1st Catholic graveyard in Dublin was only in the 1820’s. As such C of I burial records are a great source for early Catholic death,
The Christian names are slightly different than those typically found 100 years later. The records suggest widespread childhood fatal illnesses with several members of the same family dying within a short period presumably children. In the original some of the entries have a symbol ‘+’ against the date, the reason is not apparent.
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/5957242447606366081
Full original register:
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/5938399680968746881
12 Thursday Dec 2013
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Gortnagrough:
James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus. Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague. She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate. He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790. The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century. Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family. Slowly lands including Blackrock House now Bantry House acquired by Richard White (Ancestor of Lord Bantry). Estate sold Landed Estates Court 1850s.
Magistrate:
James Hutchinson Swanton, Rineen Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143. Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. Prominent Methodist. From 1875 Carrisbrook House, Pembroke Ballsbridge. Businessman, miller. landowner, sitting Skibbereen 1861,
House at Rineen, in the 1901 census the house was occupied by Fr James Kearney and was categorised as a ‘First Class’ with 20 rooms and 16 windows in the front of the house. It was also occupied by a house-keeper, parlour maid and coachman.
Built around 1850 by James Hutchinson Swanton who was a Justice of the Peace, a man of considerable substance in the area and a major partner in the adjacent mill (now disused). Later he lived at Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, Dublin:
From Adrian Healy’s postcard collection Mill at Rineen:
12 Thursday Dec 2013
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12 Thursday Dec 2013
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11 Wednesday Dec 2013
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17th April 1833 Independence Kinsale http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/independence1833.shtml
1st August 1833 Charity Kinsale http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/charity1833.shtml
August 1833 William of St. John Kinsale http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/william1833.shtml
22nd March 1834 Independence Kinsale
12th May 1834 Independence Berehaven and Kinsale http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/independence1834.shtml
17th May 1834 Charity Kinsale http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/charity1834.shtml
26th November 1834 Brig Thomas Hanford Baltimore http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/sjlists1834.shtml#th
02 Monday Dec 2013
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Church records of St. Illttyds, Dowlais indicate that Irish laborers were coming to the area since at least 1815. The famine brought a wave of destitute Irish especially from Cos Cork, Kerry and waterford finding employment as laboring. The differences in religion, language and culture means from a fraught relations in the area. Gradually the Irish bettered themselves.
when the barytes mines in Durrus closed c 1920 hundreds of miners were thrown out of work. Some went to the USA but many went to South Wales
Daniel O’Driscoll came from Bantry in the early 20th century to Wales to work in the Marthyr Vale Colliery and later acquired licensed premises in Dowlais. He was elected a Socialist member for the Penydarren ward in June 1949, having served in the Council for the previous 16 years. He was actively involved in campaigning for secondary education. He served in WW2. The Mayor’s salary was fixed at 200 guineas. He appointed his Chaplin Fr. G. Murray, Dowlais, the firs Catholic in the history of the borough. His Sunday was held on June 4th at st. Illtyd’s Church, Dowlis.
A piece to this effect was written by Mike Rastatter on ancestry.com
27 Wednesday Nov 2013
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In Desmond and Jean Bowen’s book ‘Heroic Option’ The Irish in the British Army they suggest that apart from Irish Regiments raised in Ireland some 159,000 Irishmen were integrated into Enlish Regiments in the period 1793 to 1815. This process started after the Duke of Marlborough’s Wars on the Continent and the practical abeyance of the Penal Laws. In 1774 by a statute an earlier religious test was replaced by an oath of allegiance. There was an immediate surge of Catholics enlisting in the British Army which is reflected in these records.
The list of the Irish Regiments
Infantry
Royal Irish Regiment (18th Foot)
Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers (27th Foot)
Connaught Rangers (88th Foot)
Royal Irish Fusiliers (the’Faugs’)
Royal Irsh Rifles
The Prince of Wale’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Royal Munster Fusiliers
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Cavalry
6th Inniskilling Dragoons
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
5th Royal Irish Lancers
8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars
Service with Australian Forces:
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8080012
Bantry
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7980778
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4519432
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4516388
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4420591
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4377963
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3131386&I=1&SE=1
25 Monday Nov 2013
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In the late 18th and early 19th century Cork was a boom town on the back of the provision trade. The various British colonies and the British Navy and Army were supplied and many from a modest background came from the shadows of the penal Laws to establish fortunes, many of whose families are still prominent in Cork. The drawing below shows the Butter Market probably in the early 19th century. In its heyday its insistence on quality and honest dealing made it the benchmark for world butter prices.
In an interesting book recently published John A. Quish “100 Years of going to the Creamery he points out that after the famine Irish butter dominated the British market. By 1900 it had been displaced by the Danes whose quality and all year around supply ensured that they had a dominant position. He also chronicles the work of Horace Plunkett and Forbes in building up the Co-Op movement. Often their work fell on fallow ground against a background of suspicion and ignorance.
25 Monday Nov 2013
West Cork History 