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1825. Bantry, West Cork. Grievance of Opulent Catholics (John O’Connell, Bantry) excluded from Quarter Sessions Juries in Preference to Protestants Former Officers Having No Property but a Half Pay of £40 a Year,

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier26 March 1825

1825.  Bantry, West Cork.  Grievance of Opulent Catholics excluded from Quarter Sessions Juries in Preference to Protestants Having No Property but a Half Pay of £40 a Year,

Father Collins Evidence to Select Committee of the House of Commons.

The reference to half pay is officers retired from the Napoleonic Wars.  Bantry historian reckoned there were 22 such officers in Bantry including some Catholics.

The reference to man worth £3-4,000 is probably JOhn O’Connell, the brewer McCarthy of Skibbereen:

John O’Connell Esq., Bantry.

Born 1790/1.  1816 deed as John Connell, shopkeeper, eldest son of Jeremiah (shopkeeper) and Catherine, on her death he sells interest in Bantry dwelling house to brothers Morgan 1792-,  (later merchant Liverpool) and Patrick (4th son) 1796, witnesses brothers James (later merchant, Cork), Castletown, Daniel, Reendonegan, all Gents.

1822, property at Glaunathanna leased by William O’Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass…

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John T. Collins Extraction of Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1784.

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

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John T. Collins Extraction of Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1784.

 

The reference to Basil O’Connell (1950s head of CID in Burma) is his work ‘The O’Connell Tracts’ tracing all known descendants of Daniel O’Connell ‘The Liberator’.

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/N94suEW1n68VPWkH7

Cork Mercantile Chronicle:  4th May 1808. Death of Mrs Mary Duke, relict of the late Edward Duke of Bandon, aged 105 years, she enjoyed the happiness of seeing 177 of her children, grand children and great grand children and was perfect in her intellect to the last moment. 

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Cork Mercantile Chronicle:  4th May 1808.  Death of Mrs Mary Duke, relict of the late Edward Duke of Bandon, aged 105 years, she enjoyed the happiness of seeing 177 of her children, grand children and great grand children and was perfect in her intellect to the last moment.

Courtesy Catherine Fitzmaurice, Bandon Genealogy.

 

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/Duke-family-records-Deaths-Bandon.htm

1829, Schools of The Sunday School Society, Co. Cork

06 Monday Aug 2018

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1829, Schools of The Sunday School Society, Co. Cork

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Both the Brookfield probably Bandon and the Durrus School (at Sea Lodge) opened in 1820.   This was probably due to the efforts of the Evansons who lived both at Brookfield in Bandon and Durrus.

Society for the Promotion Education of the Poor 1819

 

Sea Lodge (Durrus) Timothy Daly, 27 from 1824, Catholic recommended by Nathaniel Evanson 65 Patron Nathaniel Evanson Junior (probably in nearly Durrus Court)

 

Timothy Daly may be from Dromnea also part of Evanson Estate in KIlcrohane and was location of O’Daly Bardic School.  Ruins of school still extant just of Sheeps Head way from Durrus Court to Gearhameen, not the Sea Lodge on coast

 

Lemcon Robert Driscoll, 30, from 1820 Catholic recommended Rev A Evanson 79

 

Some West Cork Teachers:

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1798, Hibernian Atlas by Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor, Co. Cork

03 Friday Aug 2018

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1798, Hibernian Atlas by Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor, Co. Cork

 

 

 

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Reputed Soup Pot from Famine Soup Kitchen, Newtown, Bantry.

02 Thursday Aug 2018

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Reputed Soup Pot from Famine Soup Kitchen, Newtown, Bantry.

 

It is remarkable and a testament to the Irish people that Ireland has gone from famine, pestilence and mass emigration to being one of the most prosperous countries in the world.   It may be the case that in 200 years time countries such as Ethiopia will emulate Ireland.

 

 

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Rev. Robert Oliver and the Famine, Soup Boiler in Myross,  Spouses, Elizabeth Anne Levis, Skibbereen, Elizabeth Watkins Driscoll, Clonakilty.

Subscribers and Rules of Soup Kitchen, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1846.

Remnant of Ardgoeena (Árd na Gaoine/Height of the Flint Stones) House of Evanson Family, Durrus, West Cork on Former Ploughlands of O’Mahonys.

Famine in Skibbereen, West Cork, 1847, In the Parish of Kilmoe fourteen die on Sunday. Three of these are buried in coffins—ELEVEN ARE BURIED WITHOUT OTHER COVERING THAN THE RAGS THEY WORE WHILE ALIVE. And one gentleman, a good and charitable man, speaking of this case says—“I would rather give a shilling to a starving man than four-and-sixpence for a coffin.” One hundred and forty died in the Skibbereen Workhouse in one month ; eight have died in one day ! And Mr. M’CARTHY DOWNING states that “they came into the house merely and solely for the purpose of getting a coffin.”

The kitchen was located in Newtown, Bantry in the vicinity of the new Lidl Superkarket:

 

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The pot was probably suspended by chains over a crane.  The pot type was used elsewhere as in around Goleen for boiling fishing nets inn a preserving solution.

An Taoiseach Launches Dunmanway Promotional Video Spearheaded by Local Church of Ireland Parish

01 Wednesday Aug 2018

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A promotional video officially launched by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Friday 20th July, has already been viewed more than 100,000 times.  The new Dunmanway Tourism Promotional video, which is designed to showcase the highlights of the West Cork town. During his visit to Dunmanway, the Taoiseach visited the Sam Maguire Visitor Experience which includes the burial place of Sam Maguire, and rang the newly installed Sam Maguire Community Bells.

Dunmanway, West Cork, Ireland. 20th July, 2018. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visited Dunmanway today to see the birthplace and final resting place of Sam Maguire. He also visited the Sam Maguire Bells in St. Mary’s Church. The Rev Cliff Jeffers, Rector of Fanlobbus Union, and the Sam Maguire Community Bells Team posed for a picture with An Taoiseach. Photo: Andy Gibson.

Following the highly successful launch of the “Discover Dunmanway” brochure, website and VIP (Visitor Information Point) earlier this summer (reported

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Edward Townsend Esq., Commissioner Bombay Presidency of The Honourable East India Company, 1810-1882, Cuilnaconarha, Kilmeen, Clonakilty.

30 Monday Jul 2018

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Edward Townsend Esq., Commissioner Bombay Presidency of The Honourable East India Company, 1810-1882, Cuilnaconarha, Kilmeen.

Edward Townsend Esq., Commissioner Bombay Presidency of The Honourable East India Company, 1810-1882, Cuilnaconarha, Kilmeen, Clonakilty.

Townsend Family:

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=edward+townsend

Kilmeen Church of Ireland:

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Laurence Sulivan 1713-1786, Cork Born, Kinsman of Benjamin Sullivan Crown Attorney for Cork City and Co. Cork Chairman of The East India Company and M.P.

 

Limrick Family of Union Hall, (earlier Goleen), Kinsmen of Benjamin Sullivan (Ó Sullivan Mór) Beneficiaries of Prize £1 million after Battle of Seringapatam, India and Reach of East India company to West Cork

 

Samuel Thomas Heard (1835-1921), of Ballintubber, (late 17th century formal gardens), Kinsale, Co. Cork, East Indian Army Surgeon Major, inspired by Madras Horticultural Gardens he created Rossdohan gardens in Kenmare, Co. Kerry in 1873 utilising Furze as sea shelter emulating Lord Carbery at Castle Freke and son’s plant collecting in Abyssinia.

1799. General Plummer Young, (c 1740-, Bantry born Siege of Seringapatam, India and Extended Bantry, Young Family, Fish Merchants. Land Owners, Apothecaries and Doctors in Bantry since c 1600.

 

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1853, Meat, Drink and Entertainment Provided for Electors for Cork Election (Bread and Circuses).

24 Tuesday Jul 2018

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1853, Meat, Drink and Entertainment Provided for Electors for Cork Election (Bread and Circuses).

 

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/13043/page/158950

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1863, 2nd Casualty of US Civil War, Major Andrew Gallwey, son of the late John Gallwey, Esq., Skibbereen.

24 Tuesday Jul 2018

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1863, 2nd Casualty of US Civil War, Major Andrew Gallwey, son of the late John Gallwey, Esq., Skibbereen.

DEATHS.
At Baton Rouge, La., U.S. America, Major Andrew Gallwey, son of the late John Gallwey, Esq., Skibbereen. Having been wounded at the taking of Port Hudson, he was removed to Baton Rouge, where he died on the 9th July, a Christian soldier, fortified by all the rites of the Catholic Church, in the 26th year of his age. His brother Edward was the first victim whose life was sacrificed in the present American war.¹ He was killed at Fort Sumter, on the 13th April, 1861, aged 20 years.—May they rest in peace.

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Edward Gallwey was actually the second casualty of the Civil War, having been mortally wounded when a cannon exploded while firing a salute at the ceremony surrendering Fort Sumter to the Confederate forces. The first fatality was Pvt. Daniel Hough who was killed in the same accident. Thus the first casualties of the Civil War were from “friendly fire,” the first deaths from hostile action taking place when the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia forced their way through Baltimore on their way to Washington on the 19th of April 1861.

http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1863/AUG.html

 

 

Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven, West Cork from c 1650.

 

Michael Gallwey b 1790, Kilkeran, Co. Cork, Brewer and Provider of Royal Mail Coach Service from Cork to Skibbereen and Waterford and his brother Charles b 1811 Major with Sir De Lacy Evan’s Legion against the Spanish Carlists (1835-7) and Some Galwey Magistrates adn Lawyers.

 

Named Voters 1850 Election between Denis McCarthy Galwey, William Hungerford, George Travers for Position of High Constable in Barony of Ibane and Barryroe (Clonkilty), Co. Cork.

 

 

1763, Death at age of 102 of Henry Galwey Esq., Bantry From a Former Very Opulent Family Honest people Reduced in Recent Years Of Frequent Seizures Falling On Hard Times.

 

Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.

 

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=galwey&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&action2=-1

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