1611, Kinsale, A poor town ruined by the last rebellion.  One of the best harbours in the Kingdom.  Depends on fishing of pilchards, herring and hake which are taken in the Harbour.

 

In turn this is from Cogan survey of Irish Customs and Excise.

 

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From Dr. Went’s history of Irish Fisheries:

 

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1688, Jurors, Inquisition, Ballinspittle, Kinsale. Initiated by Mary de Courcy, Lady Kinsale, Widow of Patrick,  to Recover, Dower, Jurors: John Cloghlan (Couglan?), John How, Thomas Dodgin, Arminger Marsh, John Burrows, Edmund Kenny, Tomas Hewett, William Sweete, Benjamin Bellew, Edward Rashly, Dominic Brown, John Fepps

From 1594, Presentments, Corporation Records, Deeds of Kinsale Naming Inhabitants and Addresses.

1715, Common Place Book of Francis Hodder, Catalogue of Fruit Trees Planted, How to tell the Age of a Horse, Genealogical Information of Hodder/Roberts families in Bandon/Kinsale area.  From Conner Papers, Manch, Dunmanway.  Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght. 

From 1594, Presentments, Corporation Records, Deeds of Kinsale Naming Inhabitants and Addresses.

 

1686, Education Accounts of Jeany Hodder, Kinsale, Enquiry 1833, Commissioners, Lyle Acheson and Philip Fogarty to erect Bridge over River Bandon at Ferry opposite Ringrone.

 

1822. Local Fishery Committees, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Glandore, Baltimore, Crookhaven, For Bantry, Timothy O’Donovan J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Michael O’Sullivan, Rev. Edward Jones Alcock, Rector, Durrus, John Jagoe later Fishery Commissioner, Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry, Rev. M McChean, Bantry, John Sandys Bird. Background to Members Mainly Magistrates

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Will Dr. Teige McCarthy Rabach, (1664-1747), Callanan (Hereditary Physicians to McCarthy Reaghs) Relations, J.J. Callanan Poet, To My Nephews John and Richard Barrett, One British Shilling and No More for Their Disobedience to Me.

 

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MOST REV. TADHG (THADDEUS) MCCARTHY Deceased Parish Of Birth Kilbrittain Colleges Attended Irish College Toulouse Montpellier, France Appointments Bishop : 1727 – 1747 Bandon PP – 1725 Drimoleague PP : 1714. Bishop of Cork.  Notes. Known as McCarthy Rabach – also known as the McCarthy Reaghs. Born 1664. McCarthy was educated for the priesthood in France. He studied first at the Irish College in Toulouse where he graduated in arts and theology in 1695 and was tonsured in 1702. He took some courses in medicine in Montpellier in 1707.  n Cork, he lived sometimes (while not on the run) at Rawbuck’s Lane (now Eason’s Hill), off Shandon Street, which was named after him. Bishop McCarthy flaunted the penal code and built a chapel in his parish in 1730 on part of the site now occupied by the present Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne. It was described in the 1731 “The State of Popery” as a “large and sumptuous Mass-house”. It was popularly known as the “Bishop’s Chapel”. The foundation stone of the chapel bore the year 1730 and the bishop’s initials. This stone was inserted into the northern wall of the present building but was plastered over during extension work in the 1960s. St. Angela Bolster noted that it is located behind the 12th Station of the Cross

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCarthy_Reagh

Date Of Death 20/8/1747 Place Of Death Cork. Place Of Burial Old Graveyard, St Mary’s, Shandon.

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Owen Callanan, executor and beneficiary:  1734, 1753, 1756, 1770 Died Owen Callanan 1734 subscriber to ‘An Essay on Epidemic Diseases’. 1755 daughter of eminent apothecary married Dr Haly. Left £10 sterling by Bishop Teige Mccarthy Rabach 1664-1747 both executors of is will. CALLANAN, OWEN, near South-gate, CORKE JOURNAL 1756 (CJ 4/3/1756) In ad JTC 1st August 1765 letting of two fields at the Lough ready to mow contact him or Cornelius Leary Realeigh near Macroom father Art Ó Laoighre outlaw. Died Callanan, James, Mr., Surgeon, son Mr. Owen, Apothecary – (HC 5/2/1770). Michael Callanan apothecary, 1787 acquiring property at South gate formerly occupied by Owen Callanan, apothecary from Bennets. 1753 witness to deed with Richard Franklin Doctor of Physic. Daughter isabella 1766, marries Eugene Sweeney Bookseller is father Eugene trustee William Power, apothecary. and newspaper printer (Cork Journal). Wife died near South Gate September 1758. Son James died January 1770 at his house near North Gate bridge. Daughter died May 1764. The Callnan family were hereditary physicians to the McCarthy Riabhach family. CJ 4/3/1756) – TO be let in the town of Youghall, from the 25th of March next or such term as shall be agreed, the house near the clock-gate, wherein Thomas Hough shoemaker lately dwelt. For particulars, enquire of Mrs. Catherine Roche, near said house, or Mr. Owen Callanan near South-gate, Corke. https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/callnan-family-hereditary-physicians-to-the-mccarthy-riabhachs-1798-in-west-cork-dr-john-richard-elmore-owner-of-largest-linen-mill-in-munster-in-clonakilty-1820s-and-dr-william-and-albert-callnan/

Poet J.J. Callanan probably of same line:

 

Jeremiah Joseph (JJ) Callanan, 1786-1829, Some poems From Irish, Dirge of O’Sullivan Bere, The lament of O’Gnieve, The Outlay of Loch Lene, The Convict of Clonmel. Original English Gougaune Barra (I too shall be gone;- but my name shall be spoken When Erin awakes, and her fetters are broken), Oh Say, my ‘Brown Drimin’, On Cleada’s Hill (Mountain range between Millstreet and Killarney) the Moon is Bright, Poetry Hot Spots 1810s 1820s Carbery, Caheragh, Drinagh and Castlehaven. Extended Cork Callanan Medical/Apothecary Family. Patron Dr. Burke, Bantry 1820s.

Callanan, J. J. [Cork] city At Lisbon, on the evening of the 19th of September, 1829, Mr. J. J. Callanan. He was a native of this City, and had distinguished himself by his poetical compositions, which were of the first order of merit.‘ Cork Constitution

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Mathais Dunworth witness towill:

 

			Type of deed	Date of current deed		8 Feb 1737	Vol	Page	Memorial
			L	Date of earlier deed			92	184	64291
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place		Occ or title		A
A		P1	WRIGHT	Abraham	of	Cloyne, COR		Gent
B		P2	DAWLY	Charles	of	City of Corke		Gent		A
C		O Prev	WHETCROFT	Elizabeth	of	Cloyne, COR		Widdow of D
D		O Prev	WHETCROFT	Henry	of	Cloyne, COR		Merchant. Husband of C. Deceased
E		O Prev	PURCELL	Richard	of	Cloyne, COR		Butter merchant
F		O Adj	MARMIX	Henry	of	Cloyne, COR
G		O Adj	CREAGH	Anthony	of	Cloyne, COR
H		WD+WM	DONWORTHY	Mathias	of	City of Corke		Merchant.		A
I		WD	WRIGHT	Dillon	of	Cloyne, COR		Gent
J		WM	KENEFICK	Richard	of	City of Corke		Merchant.		A
K			SULLIVAN	William	of	City of Corke		Magistrate
L			ALLEN	John	of	City of Corke		JP
M			FULLER	George	of	City of Corke		JP
Abstract		A demised to B property in Cloyne
MS			Date registered	6th July 1738		Date abstract added		20131009

Abstract made by: Halifax

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David Bourk/Bourke Witness:

 

			Type of deed	Date of current deed		30 Jun 1742	Vol	Page	Memorial
			ID Tripartite	Date of earlier deed			108	170	75137
No	Role(s) in earlier deed(s)	Role in current deed(s)	Family name	Forename		Place		Occ or title		A
A		P1	KEARNEY	Francis	of	Cork city		Esq		A
B		P1	KEARNEY	Mary orse ROCHE	of	wife of A
C		P2	ASHE	Jonathan	of	Cork city		Merch
D		P2	SARSFIELD	Dominique	of	Dochloyne COR		Esq
E	grantee; L	P3	HODDER	Francis	of			Merch
F	grantee; Life	P3	STACK	Edward	of			Shopkeeper
G	gratee; Life	P3	CAZALETIS	Peter	of			Skinner
H	gratee; Life	P3	CHAPPELL	Samuel	of			Carpenter
I	gratee; Life	P3	CHANDLEY	Abigall	of	widow & relict of J; guardian of K
J			CHANDLEY	Samuel	of	Cork city; dec’d		Apothecary
K	Life	P3	CHANDLEY	John	of	son & heir of J		minor
L	Life		HODDER	Anne	of	daughter of E
M	Life		HODDER	William	of	son of N
N			HODDER	William	of	late of Hodderfield (sic – Hoddersfield)
O			ROCHE	Francis	of			Esq
P	Life		STACK	Sarah	of	wife of F
Q	Life		MEADE	Richard	of	son of R
R			MEADE	William	of	Dean of Cork		Rev.
S	O		RANFIELD	John	of			Skinner
T	Life		CAZALETIS	Peter	of	son of U
U			CAZALETIS	James	of
V	Life		HOLMES	William	of
W	O		TAYLOR	Francis	of
X	Life		CHAPPELL	Sarah	of	wife of H
Y	Life		NUNN	Joshua	of
Z	Life		NELSON	John	of
27		WD	AHERN	William	of	Cork city		Esq
28		REG	BENNETT	George	of
29		WD WM	BOURK	David	of	Cork city		Gent
30		REG	BRADSHAW		of			Ald’n, Mayor
31		WM	CARY	Thomas	of	Cork city		Gent
32		REG	SULLIVAN	William	of
Abstract		Comment for person [A] :All earlier leases renewable for ever, whereas A&B in Trinity Term 1742 did levy fine on C&D, for all leases but not for the use of C&D Person [E] :A&B unto E of parcel of ground in N liberty of Cork city on which there were several houses, for lives of EL&M at £13 ster Person [F] :A&B to F plot of ground late in possession of O on which several houses were built, near Old Fort in S. Suburbs of Cork, for lives of FP& Q at £8 Person [G] :A&B to G of houses ground lately in possession of S, for lives of GT&V at £12 ster Person [H] :A&B to H of front house in north west quarter of Cork city lately dwelt in by W, for lives of HX&Y at £24 ster Person [I] :A&B unto J of front house, north side of Colemans Lane, with back house for lives of I K &Z at £23 ster Person [J] : Person [K] :A&B unto J of front house, north side of Colemans Lane, with back house for lives of I K &Z at £23 ster Person [L] :A&B unto E of parcel of ground in N liberty of Cork city on which there were several houses, for lives of EL&M at £13 ster Person [M] :A&B unto E of parcel of ground in N liberty of Cork city on which there were several houses, for lives of EL&M at £13 ster Person [N] : Person [O] :A&B to F plot of ground late in possession of O on which several houses were built, near Old Fort in S. Suburbs of Cork, for lives of FP& Q at £8 Person [P] :A&B to F plot of ground late in possession of O on which several houses were built, near Old Fort in S. Suburbs of Cork, for lives of FP& Q at £8 Person [Q] :A&B to F plot of ground late in possession of O on which several houses were built, near Old Fort in S. Suburbs of Cork, for lives of FP& Q at £8 Person [R] : Person [S] :A&B to G of houses ground lately in possession of S, for lives of GT&V at £12 ster Person [T] :A&B to G of houses ground lately in possession of S, for lives of GT&V at £12 ster Person [U] : Person [V] :A&B to G of houses ground lately in possession of S, for lives of GT&V at £12 ster Person [W] :A&B to H of front house in north west quarter of Cork city lately dwelt in by W, for lives of HX&Y at £24 ster Person [X] :A&B to H of front house in north west quarter of Cork city lately dwelt in by W, for lives of HX&Y at £24 ster Person [Y] :A&B to H of front house in north west quarter of Cork city lately dwelt in by W, for lives of HX&Y at £24 ster Person [Z] :A&B unto J of front house, north side of Colemans Lane, with back house for lives of I K &Z at £23 ster Person [27] : Person [28] :Justice present at Cork city 15Aug1742 Person [29] : Person [30] :Justice present at Cork city 15Aug1742 Person [31] : Person [32] :
MS			Date registered	12Nov1742		Date abstract added		20120529

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Extracts From West Cork and its Story, Jeremiah O’Mahony, National Teacher, Castletown Kinneigh, 1949-1950.

Publishes in serial form in the Southern Star, later a book by the Kerryman.  The book was proofread by Padraig Ó Maidín (Paddy Madden), Cork County Librarian and John T. Collins, noted historian.

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/SxAHjWMhtUityRxf7

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Genealogy of O’Crowleys:

By Cork historian John T. Collins

DNA testing still shows link to families in Roscommon/Sligo/East Mayo.  The Crowley are a Sept of the McDermotts and came from that are to West Cork sometime after 1200.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cmrqrYKfvcynkE1c6

 

 

 

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There is one further article I will try and locate

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1847.  James Mahony, Illustrated London News, Famine Shepperton Lakes, Skibbereen, Schull, Ballydehob

https://books.google.ie/books?id=1dFCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=samuel+hutchinson+charleville+cork+1839&source=bl&ots=IUfVQu8wEb&sig=F7HgDljdn6KDXxNyZ9L10lKL-u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjk7ef42NndAhUINOwKHTwwC_s4ChDoATAAegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false

https://books.google.ie/books?id=1dFCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=samuel+hutchinson+charleville+cork+1839&source=bl&ots=IUfVQu8wEb&sig=F7HgDljdn6KDXxNyZ9L10lKL-u8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjk7ef42NndAhUINOwKHTwwC_s4ChDoATAAegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false

 

 

 

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New Zealand, West Cork Links.

I was asked if it was ok to list the site with other Irish Genealogy sites in New Zealand.  There has been a noticeable spike in interest from there and also in posting at Academia.ie on Cork Magistrates, Grand Jury, Legal History.

These are a few New Zealand related items.

Emigration to Australia commenced early 19th century that to New Zealand some time later.

 

1845. Transcription of Various Letters from John Henry Townsend , Ireland’s Oldest Magistrate, Durrus, West Cork, to Donald McLean Esq, Protector of Aborigines, Taranaki, New Zealand, together with Will, he Died 1912.

West Cork Clergy and letter from Fr. Tim Mahony, Brasher, New York, October, 1901 after Cork Visit to Inchigeela, Caheragh, Droumdeegy, Coolmountain, Ballyvilone, KIlmurray, Researching his Lantry/Lanktree family, Tánaiste of the O’Mahonys living in wretched hut, outside Ballineen, healthy children thriving in filthy house with pigs and hens in kitchen relatives going to Argentine Republic, New Zealand.

 

Mortimer McCarthy, Kinsale Co. Cork died New Zealand 1968 last survivor of Scott’s North Pole Expedition and his nephew Denis O’Donovan died 1970, England, torpedoed three times

 

The Brooks/Brookes of Dromreagh (Drom Riabhach, stripe, grey ridge), Durrus, West Cork coming early 19th century as Weavers from Ryelands, Raphoe, on the Abercorn Estate in East Donegal, some go to New Zealand early 20th century, and 1926 sale of family holding Dromreagh on move to Courtmacsherry, subject to ‘a trifling annuity’ with an acre and a half of furze meadow.

Rowland Robert Teape Davis (1809-1879), Bantry, west Cork New Zealand Labour Reformer, Politician

 

 

1851 Visitation Book West Cork, Church of Ireland parishes, Population 1834 and 1851, Schools, Parish Clerks Church Wardens.

 

Updated:

 

1781, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1. 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, 1851 Visitation

There is a dramatic fall in population in many of the parishes, the famine, emigration.  While some of the local Protestant were poor even the better off were vulnerable to famine fever.

The records are in the RCB Library in Dublin.  Unfortunately they do not allow digital photos so all the transcritin is in pencil so will need to be checked later.

The provision for education show a patchwork quilt of funding.   By the late 19th century most of the schools had entered the National School system.  It is likely that the curriculum and standard of teaching was poor in view of the financial pressures. In contrast to take an example Carrigboy (Durrus) National: school by the 1880s boys were offered bookkeeping, science, agriculture and girls domestic economy.  The school records there are all extant.

 

 

Kilgariff, Island and Desert (Clonakilty) Visitation 1851

John Hodgins £10

Church Education Society £5, incumbent £10 for schoolmaster £5 incumbent, £10 local, £6 Earl of Shannon, Infants Church Ed. Scy., £4, Subscriptions £9, Earl of Shannon £2, another part Church Ed Scy £13, local £5, W. B. Jones £2, local £9, 21 pupils. Boys 44, girls 45,infant 33. Knockcagha boys 14 girls 8 total 154.

Becher Hungerford, Joseph Conroy

William Bence Jones (1812-1882), B.L., Lisselane, Clonakilty, London Bar 1837. Attending Landlord Meeting Bandon Courthouse 1846, listed 1854, 1861, listed 1875-6. Subscribing £2 1851 to Clonakilty Infant School.

Representative Church Body Library, Dublin Records of the Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. D. 12

1102

902 (-18%)

In Durrus and probably more areas the local leading citizens Catholic and Protestant petitioned in the 1820s for a non denominational National School.  However the Minister Alcock vetoed it so the local National Schools in effect became Catholic schools.

Here in some parishes the local provision was  a disaster, Abbeystrewey (Skibbereen) the school was funded by the Becher Estate.  That became insolvent was then was sold in the Landed Etates Court so there was no money to pay a teacher.

You can also discern the earlier activity of the vigorous proselytisers Spring on Cape Clear, Charles Donovan in Schull the Rev Fisher in Goleen, Crosthwaite in Durrus/Kilcrohane, O’Grady in Beara by the numbers of schools and children.

 

Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (1766-1837), Irish Scribe, Scholar, Teacher,  Patrons Henry J. Heard, Vicar General of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Ross.  Heard commissioned copies of Fenian prose tales. Other patron Cork banker, James Roche.  In 1824 the family moved to Murragh, near Bandon where Mícheál Óg took charge of a school. Whilst in the Bandon area he received several commissions for transcriptions.

Exhibition at the Royal irish Academy:

Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (1766-1837), orphaned at the age of eight, ‘gan chuid, gan charaid’ (without family or friends), spent two years in East Carbery where he attended school; his schooling was interrupted to herd cows and carry out other farm tasks. Coming from a scribal tradition, he considered farm labouring beneath him and he returned to a hedge school at eighteen, studying mathematics and Latin.  Mícheál Óg’s earliest scribal work consisted of verse compiled for his own use when he was nineteen and is held by Maynooth University Library. He often worked at the house of Mícheál Ó Caoimh, poet and scribe, who described him as ‘A low-sized tawny fierce churl full of merriment, who leaps gracefully over the fence … who writes Irish perfectly

He had begun to work for patrons whose first language was English, one of whom was Henry J. Heard, Vicar General of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Ross.  Heard commissioned copies of Fenian prose tales. Other patron Cork banker, James Roche.

By 1823 the family was destitute and Ó Longáin’s sight was failing. In 1824 the family moved to Murragh, near Bandon where Mícheál Óg took charge of a school. Whilst in the Bandon area he received several commissions for transcriptions.

Royal Irish Academy:

https://www.ria.ie/scribing-ireland-o-longain-family-and-royal-irish-academy

 

Phoenitic version of Our Father in Irish, Murragh:  https://durrushistory.com/2014/03/10/phonetic-rendering-of-apostles-creed-in-irish-murragh-bandon-west-cork-1779-church-of-ireland-records/

 

1847, Irish Speaking Among Protestants in the Bandon Valley,  West Cork.

 

https://durrushistory.com/2017/11/27/1847-irish-speakingamong-protestants-in-the-bandon-valley/   

1781, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland, Dioceses of Cork. Selected Parishes, Parish Clerks, Teachers, Churchwardens.

The visitation book is in good condition but a few names are hard to make out.

RCB Library, Dublin,

https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library

Ref D121.1

Updated version:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FUf37RhSaONXYllElgpDOdwUA9nWaYACxQwxrz4QzEI/edit#gid=0

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1781, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1

With 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, including Ross Dioceses:

1781, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1

Going on the names of some of the teachers they may have come from  hedge school background.  Some West Cork Teachers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eg1XT1Z9dnB0wf0B7dGZX_r85d8EwjnpBLxqCv0M9ck/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=100968344231272482288

Bishop Dives Downes did a visitation in 1699/1700 much of which is reproduced in Maziere Brady’s History of the Dioceses by parish:

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/bradysclericalandparochialrecords/

Other Cork Records:

D12 Cork Cloyne & Ross
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