https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5559277,-9.2665077,13z

Some Early Quaker, Church of Ireland, Methodist Births, Skibbereen District, West Cork

Skibbereen area, (including Abbeystrewey), 20th April 2017, Quaker, Church of Ireland and Methodist, Births, 1639-

…

April 1921, Burning by IRA of The College, Rosscarbery, Co.Cork, reputedly the lineal successor of a famous school established in the sixth century by Saint Fachtna and Derry House Rosscarbery, House of Alexander Sullivan, Kings Counsel and Last Serjeant-at-Law Only Barrister Who Could Be Obtained to Defend Sir Roger Casement 1916

From James S. Donnelly, Junior, Big House Burnings, Co. Cork.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15b7e169f8306ae8?projector=1

Though their initial plan for a full-scale assault against the Rosscarbery police barracks was derailed, members of the West Cork Brigade mounted another and this time successful effort at the end ofMarch 1921. Bombs and fire destroyed the ground-floor rooms of the barracks before its defenders surrendered with heavy casualties two dead and nine more wounded. Adjacent to the barracks, and almost in the centre of the town, stood that venerable and Protestant institution called “The College” (figure 3), which was directed byMrs. Zoe Louise Becher, wife of the Rev. Harry Becher, the Anglican rector of Rosscarbery.1 Reputedly the lineal successor of a famous school established in the sixth century by Saint Fachtna, foundress of the diocese of Ross, the college had served “for a long time past”as a Protestant academy, and in 1921 it had perhaps forty students from well-to-do families. After the Rosscarbery RIC barracks had been blown apart, rumours spread that the crown forces were about to occupy the college; the IRA promptly intervened and burned it down on 2 April. About a week later, the Volunteers pressed their advantage, returned to Rosscarbery, and torched Derry House purchased two years earlier by the prominent barrister Alexander Sullivan.   As His Majesty’s first serjeant-at-law for the British administration in Ireland, Sullivan was highly unpopular. In fact, he had been the target of an attempted assassination in January 1920 while working as a crown prosecutor in County Kerry.  He was widely known for his denunciations of both the Sinn Féin party and republican violence. The destruction of Sullivan’s mansion removed one of the few remaining Big Houses in or very near the town was potential accommodation for police or soldiers.

The College is mentioned in the 1840s letters of Dealy, (Daly) Bantry shipowner and timber merchant, trade is bad and only for a loan from friends could he afford to send his boys to the college.

Private. I wrote you some disponding letters in April last. at that time I was hard pressed to meet some bills – and I was preparing to remove my boys from Rosscarbery School (Diocesan Secondary School) which would have been a severe blow to your aunt. but thank Providence I met more kind and good friends and if I can rub over another season I am in hopes that I will not owe any a man a shilling particularly if I can effect good sales & to encourage which I am offering goods on low terms. The fisheries have nearly failed here as yet this season & I hold a large stock of salt __ has improved the English market & I am a considerable holder.

Letter William J. Dealy, 1798- Shipowner, Bantry, Co. Cork re trade, fishing business to his son in Canada 1840, and the Dealy Brig

….

Past Pupil:

William Wood Wolfe (1871-1960), Magistrate, , 1905, The Bridge, Skibbereen, eldest surviving son of William John (1836-1894), farmed 500 acres shopkeeper, ed St. Faughnans, Rosscarbery, Methodist, agnostic in 1911 census later became Catholic, brother of Jasper Wolfe Crown His mother described his wife, a Catholic as a ‘low wretched barmaid  Skibbereen UDC, only Non-Catholic to chair UDC in 1910, listed 1913 at Snugville, Skibbereen, listed 1921.  Received IRA threats to withdraw just before Truce in July 1921.

….

Sergeant Sullivan’s mother was Donovan perhaps linked to the area his father was from Bantry.

…..

..

Alexander Sullivan, seen standing, Kings Counsel and Last Serjeant-at-Law Only Barrister Who Could Be Obtained to Defend Sir Roger Casement 1916. Note women facing Judges.  First women to be allowed by special dispensation to be part of a legal team in their case that of defending solicitor Gavan Duffy.

In July 1916, during his appeal against his death sentence for his role in the Easter Rising, Roger Casement wrote to his family, asking, “Who was the painter in the jury box?”

The painter was a rather unlikely presence: Sir John Lavery, born into a Catholic family in Belfast, was renowned for his portraits of English high society, and his studio had been visited by royalty. He had been invited to record the appeal trial by the presiding judge, Sir Charles Darling, a former client of his. Yet, as Casement noted, the painter “came perilously near aiding and comforting” the prisoner in the way he “eyed Mr Justice Darling’s delivery” of the verdict confirming the death sentence. Casement also noted that Lavery’s wife, Hazel, looked “very sad” at the same moment. The uneasy relationship between Lavery’s position as part of the imperial artistic establishment and his growing sympathies with Irish nationalism would produce a painting at once monumental and hard to place.

Lavery’s record of this moment in history is literally the work of an insider: it is possible only because Lavery was respectable enough to be given privileged access to the trial. Lavery later claimed that Darling had commissioned the work. Yet the result is not the grand image of imperial justice that might have been intended. The conventions of the genre are honoured in the large scale – three metres wide and two metres high – and the meticulous portraits of dozens of individuals. A sense of dramatic moment is created by the slanting light and by the clock that approaches the fatal hour of 12.

But the judges are almost statuesque. All the animation is given to Casement’s defence counsel. And the centre of the picture is occupied by Casement himself, who seems simple and human amid the pomp. He looks not at his judges but at the viewer. This is to be the judgment not of a mere court but of history.  Courtesy Irish Times.

.

..

…

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.6090911,-9.3729205,11.19z

1837.  House of Lords The Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon v Henry Becher, Lands in 1737 Mortgage Killeenleagh, Lassanaroe, Cappamore, Cahergall (Kilcrohane), Marriage Settlement 1740 Including Ardenant (Schull), Balteenoughtra, Ballyourane (Caheragh), Barnitonicane (Ballydehob), Caherolickenny, Mauldenny, Derrynalamane (Ballydhob), Dunkelly (Crookhaven), Keelbronhoe (Ballydehob), Lassanaroe, Rathcool, Ratourah (Schull), Letterscanlan. Families Mentioned, Alleyn, Becher, Hedges, Townsend, Wright, Evans, O’Donovan, Hungerford.

The case recites the tortious history of various land transfers in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Many of the townlands former part of the Western Bandon estate that by 1910 was vested in the tenants.  Many of the tenants details are in the Cork Archives, Bandon Estate papers.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=51YDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA487&lpg=PA487&dq=wright+attorney+bandon&source=bl&ots=7ofpSoXzdf&sig=ok6GdnB0iGoz1lSQOBG061P-2jQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj04OyMoKvTAhVPaVAKHVjDBsIQ6AEITTAF#v=onepage&q=wright%20attorney%20bandon&f=false

Boole Library, UCC:

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=338

4 Nov 1852

Deed of Settlement made between George Evans, 7th Baron Carbery, Castle Freke, Co. Cork, and Harriet Maria Catherine, Baroness Carbery (his wife) in the 1st part, Edmund William Shuldham (her father and Lieutenant General in the East India Company’s service), Dunmanway, Co. Cork, in the 2nd part, and Fenton John Evans Freke (Captain in her Majesty’s Second Regiment of Life Guards), William John Freke (Solicitor), city of Dublin, and Edmund Anderson Shuldham, Dunmanway, Co. Cork, in the 3rd part, listing the trusts and agreements involved in the marriage between Baron Carbery and Harriet Shuldham in August 1852. A later declaration by Baron Carbery and his wife releases Fenton John Evans Freke as one of the Trustees of the settlement. Signed and sealed by only the Baron and Baroness Carbery. A declaration on the reverse of the settlement notes that George Evans, Lord Baron Carbery is “…Deaf and Dum, but being capable of reading”.

Lifting the Bonnet, The McCarthy Blood in the Shouldhams of Coolkelure, Dunmanway and Lord Carbery of Castlefreke, other West Cork landlord Families lineage.

Midsummer Athletic Sports , Coolkellure, Dunmanway, West Cork, 1877 under the Patronage of Colonel Shouldham including Throwing a Weight, Throwing Cricket Ball.

Coolkellure House, 1865, for Colonel Shuldham, Dunmanway, West Cork

1832. Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery (1765-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery. Pamphlet urging Reform of Cork Grand Jury Places mentioned Parishes of Kilmeen, Kilmacabea, Parish of Rosscarbery, Bohanagh, Ardagh, Mealmoreen, Carrigluskey. Ploughlands, Gneeves Cuasses

1746. Sample Marriage Licence Bond.

..
Members of the Church of Ireland could get married by having Banns read three weeks in a row in Church or by applying for a Marriage Licence Bond. It is likely that this was the favoured route for the more prosperous.

Unfortunately most were destroyed in Dublin in 1922.

The Licences were administered by the Church of Ireland Consistory Courts. Some details of the Cork Court are included here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWBV3gRAeVpYqD5Nlq9j4by9xQGww9Y141pT1mZshpA/edit

…

..

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5918522,-9.6544772,16z

The Crostons in Durrus are generally weavers or labourers.  There are references to family member sin 19th century census reproduced in the Cole Family History unfortunately the records were destroyed in the Public Record Office in 1922 but the Cole history has survived.Some who emigrated to the USA in the 19th century did not fare well.

Frank Croston’s family probably moved around. His father’s house in the Griffith Valuation is very low insistent with a cottage but with no garden, the Landlord Daniel Burke, Senior, he in turn a tenant of John B.Gumbleton.  This is consistent with the patters of weavers and labourers staying within an area but moving.

Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

Records of South West Cork families such as Dalys, Haggertys, Swanton, Jagoe. Lannin, Levis, Dukelow, Beamish, Harrington, Mahony, McCarthy, Stout, Kingston, Raycroft, Jennings. Skuce, in Registers of Rochester New York, Register Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Rochester Genealogy Relevant Canadian Records.

Some West Cork Emigration to Rochester, New York, Ontario, Canada, Bradford and Haverill, Mass, Wisconsin, Minnesota Some families Mentioned, King, Lannin, Gallagher, Attridge, Croston, Kingston, Levis, Swanton, Salter, Daly, Mahony, Gosnell, Dukelow, Williamson

The progress of the Attridge family from Lisheenacreaagh (Lisín-na-Creiche: little-fort-of-the-cattle-spoil), Ballydehob, West Cork to Rochester, New York, United States and Waterdown, East Flanboro. Ontario, Canada, with associated families, Gosnells, Skerkin Island, and Lees and Sheehans, photographs of Sally and William Atteridge, Rochester, born West Cork 18th century, and Protestant Hedge School Masters.

Some Birth, Marriage and Death Records from 1592 of Church of Ireland, Methodist, Quaker and old Catholic Families, Skibbereen District, West Cork and Rochester, New York.

Courtesy Heather Croston, USA:

I suspect his father was the Francis Croston on the 1850 Griffiths Valuation of Kilcrohane, Reenacuppul. This is not far from Moulamill. The low valuation would be consistent with a weaver’s cottage:

….

When Frank as boarding in Rochester it was with Richard Varian listed as a labourer. It may be a coincidence but Frank and his brother William were in the brush making business.  The Varian brush business started in Cork then Dublin.  online genealogical forums suggest the family may have originated in Rooska. In the 18th century the Varians there were prosperous ‘yeomen’ farmers, intermarried with Fergusons and Roycrofts of Durrus. They appear in the Bantry House leases and in various deeds.

In 1848 Isaac Varian in Cork is listed a a member of the Council of the Irish Confederation of Young Irelanders a reforming political association, perhaps a vague connection of local political consciousness in the West Cork area as in 99 cousins in Rochester:

….

…..

1763. Magazine of Magazines [Limerick] April 1763  “At Corke, Daniel O’Donovan (The O’Donovan) of Banlahan (Myross, Skibbereen) to Miss Jane Beecher”

He was in his 60s a widower, she either 15 or 16.

It is a curiosity that whole some branches of the O’Donovans converted to the Church of Ireland most of those seem to retain an extraordinary interest in historical, genealogical matters.  This is evidenced by membership of learned societies, retaining ancient manuscripts and correspondence with antiquarians such as Dr. John O’Donovan.   In the case of one family member  who became in the 19th century a prominent Methodist Minister in Dublin and England he always called his houses after townlands in his homeplace.

Marriage Elizabeth Tonson to Colonel Daniel O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, (Myross), West Cork, MP for Baltimore, Chieftain Ancient Sept of The O’Donovans.

Death of General O’Donovan, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, 1829. ‘The late much regretted General O’Donovan was one of the very few proprietors of this County of the aboriginal Milesian Estate, held by his ancestors from time Immemorial. The General, was , we believe, the first of his family to drop the usual designation of an Irish Chieftain of being address as ‘The O’Donovan’ only. In Smith’s History of Cork 1750 he says ‘In this Parish of Miros (Myross) is Bawnlaghan the seat of O’Donovan, Chief of that Ancient Family, a worthy and courteous gentleman. The General was son of Daniel O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan by Jane daughter of Colonel John Becher of Hollybrook (near Skibbereen), grandson of Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahanby the daughter of Fitz-Gerald, Knight of Kerry and great grandson of Daniel O’Donovan, MP for Baltimore, in 1689, by Elizabeth Tonson, only daughter of Major Richard Tonson, of Spanish Island (great grandfather of the present Lord Riversdale) by Elizabeth sister of Thomas Beecher Esq.

Lt Col Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, son of Daniel O’Donovan, The O’Donovan of Clancahill’ and Jane Beecher, 1768; Major in 6th Dragoons 19 December 1799; Lieutenant-Colonel 2 May 1800; brevet Colonel 25 July 1810; subsequently Major-General 4 June 1813; Lieutenant-General 27 May 1825; Recognised at ‘The O’Donovan’, died Ireland November 1829.

1639 Ode In Old Irish (Translated) to Daniel O’Donovan, Superintendent of the West of Munster…Illustrious Chieftain of the Corenian Blood. From the papers of Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan (The O’Donovan), Bawnlahan (1768-1829)

Survey 15th March 1727 of O’Donovan Estate, Bawnlahan, Parish of Myross, West Cork Coolagon, Bawnlahan, Coolblaw, Cuppogh 2 Ploughlands 4 sub denominations Brade, Castle Jane, Ffooldoragh, noted.

1677. Lease from Helen, Elizabeth, Donogh McCarthy to Keadagh O’Leary ProbablyAncestor to Art Ó Laoighre, The Outlaw, Claim  before the Trustees of Irish Forfeitures

Th Trustees sat at Chichester House in Dublin.  The building was demolished to make way for the Irish Parliament now Bank of Ireland, College Green.

…

17th Century Cromwellian Confiscations in the Barony of Muskery, Co. Cork with some McCarthy Genealogies, 1600 O’Learys at Iveleary (Inchigeela) holding 30 Ploughlands and their Cork Catholic Lantry/Lanktree descendants, the O’Mahonys holding 60 ploughlands at Kilmichael part Moviddy.

1805, Admission to Gray’s inns, of Cornelius O’Leary, aged 36, Raleigh, Macroom, Co. Cork probably son of Art O’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre) Judicially Murdered.

Art O’Leary (Art Ó Laoighre), antecedents and descendants.

Courtesy Nick Reddin:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=5630

….

..

1780. Subscribers to Thomas Sheridan’s English Dictionary: John Clerk, David Jenkins, Thomas Lehy (Leahy), Bantry, Jeremiah Crowley, Possibly Caheragh, Daniel O’Driscoll., Esq.,  Dunmanus

…

The O’Driscolls are probably pre Celtic in origin. They lost their lands first lost most of their land to the O’Mahony when they left Limerick are due to Norman and later due to mortgage default to Richard Boyle,Great Earl of Cork adn forfeitures.

They pop up all over the triangle Bantry/Skibbereen/Crookhaven in the 18th century as middlemen, merchants, mariners, professionals some converted to the Church of Ireland.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=DfpdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP483&lpg=PP483&dq=thomas+sheridan+dictionary+of+the+english+language&source=bl&ots=Oyv79WnH_-&sig=NvFwvdC26k7ZZLX1gKi9r4eMlkQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNt46dwZ7TAhWGOsAKHVUMAyk4ChDoAQguMAI#v=onepage&q=thomas%20sheridan%20dictionary%20of%20the%20english%20language&f=false

Thomas Sheridan:

https://www.google.ie/search?q=thomas+Sheridan+dictionary&oq=thomas+Sheridan+dictionary&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39j0j69i60j69i61.15763j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

John Clerk, David Jenkins, Thomas Lehy (Leah…

…

1715.  Discovery of Genealogy of Tadhg-an-Duna, McCarthy, Dunmanway in Paris 1848.  Consigned as Rubbish in French State Papers.

..

In Dr John O’Donovan, Annals of the Four Masters there is an appendix and the McCarthys feature at p.2492.  He refers to a letter from Tim O’Donovan benefactor of Jerry-an –Duna who died at O’Donovan’s Cove in his 84th year. He says ‘His appearance was most respectable, and he had the manners and information of a gentleman; all classes around Dunmanway had a respect for him to the last, and he acknowledged his descent from Teige-an –Duna. He was married to a Miss Callanan of Kinsale, a very respectable lady, who ran off with him, and he spent what fortune she brought him with his Irish recklessness.  He often told me that his family papers were in a chest the left with a Mrs McCarthy of Glanda, near Dunmanway. He made a request to me to have him interred in the family tomb at Kilbarry (I mile west of Dunmanway) which of course I complied with  and he was buried with his ancestors, and with all due respect.  His eldest son Charles, is now living in Cork, he is I am told, a well-conducted honest man, but in very low circumstances.

O’Donovan Hostory (Durrus/Kilcrohane):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

Letter from Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., to Dr. John O’Donovan, re Jerry McCarthy (Jerry na Duna), 24039/JOD/278(ii)

O’Donovan’s Cove,

August 17th 1847

Sir,

In reply to your favour I beg to state that my old friend Jerry McCarthy commonly called Jerry na Dunna from his ancestor’s property the ancient castle of Dunna in the  adjacent district to Dunmanway.

He died some years ago at my house in his 84th year.  He spent most of his later years at my place. I was partial to him as being a resident old gentleman his appearance was most respectable and he had the manners and formation of a gentleman.  He was married to a Miss Callanan of Kinsale a very respectable lady she ran off with Jerry na Duna and he spent what portion she had.

They parted after having some children, Mrs McCarthy got some work as a Governess for herself and daughter in some highly respectable  family.

I think the daughter is alive, her eldest son is a painter and glazier he was married to one of the Henegans of Drimoleague and resided chiefly in Kilkenny.  I don’t know when he married when last I heard of him I think he was waiting to go to America.

BB Jerry after his demaine (death?)  his papers were in a chest which he left with Arthur McCarthy of Glanadra near Dunmanway.  I was after anxious to look at the documents but he attached no such importance to them.

I did not wish to ask.   He made a request to me to have interred at the family tomb at Kilbarry which of course I complied with and he was buried with his old ancestors with all due respect, this is all I know of him.

I think his mother was an O’Donovan, he was very unfond of talking of his family and  very sensitive of any allusion being to their former respectability in contrast to his own desperate state.  I always avoided the subject.

It seemed to wound his feelings for he had great pride and this I was really anxious to know.. his cruel family  and the story of the decline of his ancestor’s house. I could not do anything that I thought may be disagreeable to him

I shall always be glad to give you any information in my power

..

1749. Lease Parties: Edmond Schuldham, city of Dublin, and Dunmanway, of the first part William Armstrong, Mealiffe, County Tipperary, of the second part Property: The town and lands of Dromlinagh/Dromleena? situate in the Barony of Carbery, (McCarthy Lands by Marriage) County Cork.

James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, KP (12 September 1850 – 18 May 1924), McCarthy Ancestry of Wife.

1709. Sale of Part Estate Muskerry by Hollow Blade Company to Humphry Massy, Macroom, Protestant of Late Donogh McCarthy late Earl of Clancarthy Attained for Treason.

Genealogy of McCarthys of Glenachram from 1366 and history of Dunmanway, Togher Castle, West Cork.

Correspondence between Doctor John O’Donovan and Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate from 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, West Cork, mentioning his grandfather educated at Toulouse, France, in 1754, lands held in trust mid 17th century by Protestant ‘Nominees’ who behaved with honour, recent history concerning Jerry ‘en Dana’ McCarthy and the McCarthys of Glanda, Dunmanway, denies claim of Rev. Morgan O’Donovan, of Douglas, Cork, to be head of the Clan.

..

Richard Caulfield, transcription:

Click to access annals_of_kinsale_part5.pdf

,