Major John Reid’s Grant, Patent enrolled 14th January 1666. Basis for Evanson later Lord Bandon Estate.

1704 Bishop Downes tour mentions Landowners, Lord Anglesea, Bernards, Colonel Freke, Earl of Cork, Evansons, Hutchins, Earl of Cork has tithes of 12 ploughlands in this parish the otherhalf belong to the Vicar. The Vicar has all the other tithes amounting in all to £28 a year. The whoe Parish has 28 ploughlands.

Major John Reid, lands Derrycloughshagh (South part), Dromunder of Drominihy, Munane, Toughbane, Cappagh, Colshateriffe alias Clasnatariffe, Moulerane, Castleventry (part), Coarquolaghy or Coorecolaghy (Coolculaghta, Durrus?), Coolenslonge (part) bounded on the west with Tully and Kealty (Tullagh/Kealties Durrus), on the south by the sea on the east by Clony (Clonee/Durrus), on the north and north west with unprofitable mountains all in Carbery. Total acerage 9 statute) was 6,069 which included an odd particle of a few hundred acres rent £56 17s 11d

1661.  John Reed/Reed, Member Parliament, Bandonbridge, Coolnelonge (Durrus Court).

Paddy O’Keeffe,  Bantry Businessman and historian has this reference. It is not in the official history of the Irish Parliament.  However Colonel Reid, a Cromwellian was awarded the forfeit Estates of the O’Sullivans and McCarthys.  The Durrus estates came into the possession of the Evansons c 1690 and to the Bandon Bernards c 1710 who then leased back to Evanson.

 

Coolnalong is in the townland of Gearhameen the location of the substantial McCarthy (Mucklagh) Castle later know as Durrus Court

1844.  Evidence of Alexander O’Donovan, Petty Session Clerk, Bantry into Percolation of Local Cess Collectors.  It probably related to the O’Sullivans and their network who were the Baronial Constables (Cess Collectors) of Bantry and Bere at the time.

This evidence was given in Bantry to The Inquiry re Land Occupation on the 9th September 1844. He said that every Collectors of County Cess were dismissed around 1840.  Hutchins (local Magistrate) swore that the Grand Jury appointed the dismissed man’s son to the job.  He also said that every collector in his time for about the previous 20 years had been dismissed for percolation.  The actual deputy collector was dismissed and fled to America.  Hutchins and the authorities selected a police man to go to Clonakilty on his return he said he was dead which Hutchins doubted.

1844, 1853 Alexander Donovan/O’Donovan Petty Session Clerk Fees and emoluments received 1854, £39 15s Fees at Carrigboy (Durrus) no nae £11 5s. http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/13709/page/352276 Devon Commission took evidence from Kenmare estate agent Charles Gallwey re middlemen Alexander O’Donovan’s father probably the one mentioned as formerly holding extensive lands complains at state of property at end of lease.

Cork Grand Jury including reference to heart h tax, cess:

 

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The cess to pay for roads, bridges, and other public works was set in the Baronial ‘Presentment sessions’, where petitioners applied for funding for such works, were originally held as part of the county assizes, though the costs were paid from the barony cess if the work was of local benefit only. The county grand jury was supposed to have included jurors from each barony, though this did not always happen. From 1819, significantly modified in 1836, baronial presentment sessions were held for these purposes, with a local jury picked by the county grand jury from among the Barony’s highest rate-payers, according to a complicated formula. The baronial presentment sessions were a convoluted process, lacking public confidence and marred by allegations of corruption and favouritism. Special emergency sessions were held during the Famine of the 1840s for the make-work schemes.

Notification, July 1828, by William Swanton, Baronial High Constable, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork to Parties Aggrieved by Posting of Cess Levies at Church Doors West Carbery, West Division to Appear in Carrigboy (Durrus) Courthouse.

1729.  Daniel O’Donovan, ‘The O’Donovan’, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, Renounced Popery, under Penal Laws, 8 Years after his First Marriage to Miss Kearney of Garretstown House, he later married Jane Becher aged 16, from Rolls Office Records Destroyed 1922 and other O’Donovan Renunciations.

 

In relation to the Kearneys they had the nomination of a minister to a local parish.  When around 1820 one of their descendants Rochford converted to Catholicism it caused chaos in the Church of Ireland. It may have been necessary to pass an Act of Parliament to resolve the issue.

 

 

 

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Cornelius Donovan	1769	Kilnagross (Clonakilty)		Public recantation with Tim Collins and Tim Sullivan	Dr. Casey, Vol t John T Collins newspaper references	Public Recantation not clear if it is the same as above alos on same day Denis, Hallsey
Denis Donovan	1778	Parish Drodaleague (Drimoleague)
Mary Donovan see Mary Ronayne	1733	Wife to Morgan Donovan, Pouthole, C. Cork		The succesors of Montpelier possibly Ronayne’s Court laid claim to the Chieftanship of the O’Donovans, Rev. Morgan O’Donovan made available his collection of deeds going back to the 16th century to Dr. John O’Donovan researchig the O’Driscolls.	On April 29th, 1733, Mary Ronayne “recanted” in the parish church of Marmullane, Thomas Somerville, curate, being witness.2 The “Convert Rolls,” Egerton MSS., No. 77, British Museum, give: “Mary Ronayne, Diocese of Corke, spinster, ‘conformed’ on 29th April, 1733.”	This branch of the O’Donovans later claimed the Chieftamcy
Mary Donovan see Mary Ronayne
Bartholomew Donovane, Gent	1709	Son of Daniel Donovane, Co. Corke

Daniel O’Donovan, Gent.

1729, recorded Rolls Office 1724.

Banlaghan/Banelehane, (Myross, Skibbereen) Co. Cork

Son of Richard and daugther of the Knight of Kerry. ‘The O’Donovan’ the head of the Clan who in his 60s married firstly Miss Anne Kearney, Garretstown, for the second time Jane Beecher aged 15/6 and had a second large family. He renamed the Estate Castle Jane.

Renounciation after first marriage andThe Kearneys of Garretstown House alos renounced relations the Franks, Rochfords. 49 years before his death.

His grandson Liutenant General Richard O’Donovan, married Miss Powell from Wales, they had no children the estate passed to her nephew. Th tittle of Chieftaan ‘The O’Donovav’ passed to th Monypelier (Douglas) Cork branch.

 

Rev. Patrick Ernest Donovan (1861-1953), Foronaught, Myross, Skibbereen, West Cork, Irish Speaking Methodist Missionary.

Rev. Patrick Ernest Donovan (1861-1953), Foronaught, Myross, Skibbereen, West Cork, Irish Speaking Methodist Missionary.

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1799, Methodist Rev. Averill, Tour, Bandon, Benour, Dunmanway, Glandore, Castletownshend, Skibbereen, Baltimore, Adrallagh, Aughadown, his assistant Preaching in Irish at Ballydehob, Altar, in a Little Cabin, 30 Protestants Piteous, Clothed in Rags, Rooska probably Vickeries, Bantry.

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July 1865, Opening of Bantry Methodist Church, Co. Cork, by James Hutchinson Swanton, Esq., (O’Sullivan Descendant) J.P., Rineen Mills. The Church is a building of considerable architectural merit and is used as a medical centre.

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1803, Methodist Minister Rev John Rogers, Unpublished Memoir.   Preaching on Circuit in West Cork 1803.    He married Mary Croston, 1810, Crookhaven Church.  Among those mentioned, Skibbereen, Atkins, William and Susan Atkins, John Evans, Ardrally, William Young, Letterscanlan, Cole, Dromore, Roger Young, Thomas Kingston, Caherincrin, Bantry, (where he preached to hundreds), James Vickery, Rooska, William Vickery, Dunbittern, John Skuse, Richard Allin (Allen), Ballyriggard, Richard Roycroft, Kilpatrick, Melvin, English, Schull, Swanton, Ballydehob, Mrs Moore, Newcourt, Mr. Wright, Glandore,

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32237

 

Flax is growing again in Durrus part of Glas scheme to assist birdlife, the farm in question once had a flax pond.  The commercial part of the plant is from the root upwards:

 

 

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Miscellaneous items West Cork Flax growing, linen, weaving:

 

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A glimpse of the 18th and early 19th century Linen/Flax Industry in Durrus and Schull, West Cork, from the Lost Census of 1766, 1821, 1841, 1851, with names Cole, Croston, Webb, Whitley, Johnson. 1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher (Early Statistician) and Reverend Edward John Alcock both Durrus to Poor Laws (Ireland) relating to Spinning in Area.

The Linen and Flax Industry in Dunmanway, West Cork, Fines for Steeping Flax in the River Bandon and other Rivers , 1835.

 

Munster Flax Society Visit to Bantry Farms 1860: Prizes James Philips, James Vickery, Ballycomane, Charles Dukelow, Best Dairy, Coomkeen, Improvements on Bandon Estate, Durrus 1869, praise from Charles Dukelow, Coomkeen, Slate Quarry, Barytes Mines,Considerable employment. Local Agent Colonel Bernard aided by Charles Skuse, Clashadoo. Bantry Agricultural Society, Annual Exhibition November 1861, at The Square, Attending: John Warren Payne (Land Agent), John Young, William Young, Robert White, J.P. Glengariff, George Bird (Land Agent), Bantry, John E. Barrett, Carriganass Castle (Land Agent, Kenmare Estate), Dr. McCarthy, Bantry, Rev. George Shean P.P., Bantry, Rev. Mr. Delat. C. C., Bantry, Christopher Gallway, J.P. Killarney, (Agent Kenmare Estate), William Jagoe, Richard T.Evanson (Ardgoena, Durrus, Landlord), Thomas T Curtain, Bantry, Cornelius O’Leary, Newtown, William Jagoe, Michael Hungerford Morris (Friendly Cove, Durrus, Landlord), J Cullinane, Bantry, George Robinson, J. P. Coronea Landlord.

 

Minutes of Minutes of Balineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

 

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The Co. Antrim Rolls give an idea of the scale of the catastrophe inflicted on the Irish People in 1922.

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1788 Kinsale Heart Tax Returns with Exemptions. Loss of Window Tax Returns and Irish Tax Revenue 1818-8. Applications to Reopen Closed Hearths on Advice of Physicians for Those with Fever.

 

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

 

1812.  Cork.  Rates of Tax on Hearts and Windows, Greyhounds at £1 per annum, Miscellaneous Dogs (Hounds, Pointers, Setting Dog, Spaniel, Lurcher, Terrier), at 10 shillings, Male Servants. Lodgers, Horses, Geldings, Mares, Mules,  Carriages, Coaches, Berlins, Chariots, Galashes with 4 Wheels and Two Horse Carriages with 2 Wheels. Michael Sullivan/O’Sullivan, Hurrig Sept of O’Sullivans, Bantry, Heart Tax Collector, Alleged Descendant of O’Sullivan Bere.

 

Extract From Lost 1851 Census, Williamson Family, Droumatinaheen, Durrus, West Cork and Sullivans of Clonee who claim descent from O’Sullivan Bere., Vickery/Sullivan Marriage, Paul Shannon Gortaneish (Kealaties).

 

 

 

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1803, Methodist Minister Rev John Rogers, Unpublished Memoir.   Preaching on Circuit in West Cork 1803.    He married Mary Croston, 1810, Crookhaven Church.  Among those mentioned, Skibbereen, Atkins, William and Susan Atkins, John Evans, Ardrally, William Young, Letterscanlan, Cole, Dromore, Roger Young, Thomas Kingston, Caherincrin, Bantry, (where he preached to hundreds), James Vickery, Rooska, William Vickery, Dunbittern, John Skuse, Richard Allin (Allen), Ballyriggard, Richard Roycroft, Kilpatrick, Melvin, English, Schull, Swanton, Ballydehob, Mrs Moore, Newcourt, Mr. Wright, Glandore,

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