The operation of Cork Grand Jury to 1899.

 

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1710, List of the CLAIMS as they are ENTERED with the TRUSTEES at CHICHESTER HOUSE on COLLEGE GREEN DUBLIN, for Baronies of West Carbery Bantry and Bere including Baltimore, Sherkin, Clonee, Durrus, Reendonegan, Bantry.

This was part of the appeal process for those whe lands were forfeit for rebellion from 1641 and after.  Some of the appeals were successful as the Browns (earls of Kenmare one of the few catholic families to retain their lands during the Penal Laws.

Chichester House was build on the site of a suppressed nunnery and was later demolished to make way for the Irish Parliament.  In turn this was abolished in 1800 and the building now houses the bank of Ireland.

It is estimated that a very large portion of legal business in Dublin 1700-1730 was taken up with such claims at Chichester House adn in the 4 Courts then located in the area.Christchurch Cathedral.Because of the Penal Laws Catholics could only practice if they became members of the Church of Ireland.  Most did but they were regarded with suspicion as ‘crypto-Catholics.  A common complaint was that their affluent wives has chapels in the houses dn priests calling.  One of them famously said ‘I would rather leave my soul to God than my land to the Laws of Ireland’

https://books.google.ie/books?id=pWJZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=thomas+gan+attorney+cork&source=bl&ots=YErHW7Y-yj&sig=HWvXFJ761JKVhxdh_yhjfVg9sYU&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL37rFk5nLAhUBbRQKHSopAtQQ6AEISDAJ#v=snippet&q=cork&f=false

 

 

 

Some Burials from 1612, Bantry West Cork, Old Catholic, Church of Ireland, Methodist.

This is a mere snapshot in the absence or destruction of records.  For deaths post 1865 this can be viewed online at irishgenealogy.ie for free by Bantry Registration District.  I cannot say if the more detailed records are online but the original registers give the cause of death occupation address and the name of informant who is often a relative.

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1863, Military Discharge Papers of John Patrick Jagoe, Dunmanway, formerly Farmer, Private 39th Regiment of Foot, Enrolled 1845 over 16 years Service including Gibraltar, Crimea, Canada.

From the mid 18th century an enormous number of Irish men served in the British Army, Navy and the Army of the East India Company.

Courtesy Elizabeth Thorne, Australia.

Some West Cork  Military personnel:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11urZxIDy4fdnr2ih_r8mtr4i1zI5dqmLgz6ipOIRhCM/edit

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQrKsTDoupxktWQ41Wx5P4GFliNUT4Z2uyTdwyi0xjU/edit

 

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ahagouna,+Co.+Cork/@51.6213833,-9.5371587,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48459fce5a16b103:0x95e1055fb310a27b!8m2!3d51.6213805!4d-9.5349687

Some genealogical Data from Townland of Ahagouna, Clashadoo, Coomkeen from 1783, Durrus District, West Cork

These townlands has an enormous population pre Famine.  Ahagouna was possibly a weaving colony and before Ahagouna Bridge was built possibly 1775-1825 it was the main crossing point at the ford for western traffic on the peninsula.

The famine wiped out the cottier class it is possible to identify most from the Catholic church records (online Muintervara irishgenealogy.ie)  many of these families moved around probably subsisting on sod huts which might only last a year.

Very few of the original families are left but worldwide there are an enormous number of descendants

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Dinnsheanchas (Irish-Place Folklore), and the Goddesses of Ancient Ireland, fertility, sexuality, wa… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-10b

These Customs will Live In Ireland as long as Grass Grows and Water Runs and Oppression and Slavery… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-2UD

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wdTyNAC1E9WMUpBOHOisvfpemohBNuS9Ig/view?usp=drivesdk

 

https://www.driscolls.com/about/heritage

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll’s

Sale of Dunmanway Co. Cork, Lordship of Manor 1858, including Tolls of Ballygurteen fair, Patent all… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-2RA