1846. Starvation In Skibbereen, March of 800-1,000 at Caheragh, Trouble in Bandon, Co. Cork.
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1826. Death in Faction Fight, Clonakilty and Deaths Arising From Rev Morritt’s Extraction of tithes at Castlehaven, West Cork.
1823. Inquest into Affray Occasioned by the Rev. Robert Morritt, Rector of Creagh and Castlehaven, Notorious Extraction of Tithes, Caused at Castlehaven, West Cork, at which Fatalities Occurred, Stones Placed into Mouths of Killed Policemen, Press Excluded from Publishing Preliminary Investigation on Morritt’s Motion.
1823. Rev. Robert Morritt, Rector of Creagh and Castlehaven, West Cork Notorious Extractor of Tithes, Searching for Arms in Ballydehob, Caused Affray at Castlehaven at which Fatalities Occurred, Stones Placed into Mouths of Killed Policemen, later Paris Defamation action Against Three English Clergymen.

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1844, Petty Session Courts with James Little, Resident Magistrate (RM), and Local Magistrates Listed, Bantry, Carrigboy (Durrus), Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Goleen, Remineen (Beara/Glengarriff), West Division, West Cork.
1844 a series of reforms had resulted in the establishment of the Petty Session Courts, presided over by a Resident Magistrate. He did not have to be legally qualified, many were former British Army Officers. or RIC District Inspectors. He was assisted by at least two local Magistrates or Justices of the Peace and the hearing were conducted in Courthouses., the Clerk of Petty Session played a pivotal role.
Formerly the local Magistrates held court often in their own houses, giving a perception of the partial and sectarian administration of justice.
In this listing, the only Church of Ireland clergymen shown are the Rev Alleyn Evanson of Durrus Court, Gearhameen, Durrus. At this stage he was an ‘beneficed clergyman’ not practising but a land agent and middleman. The Rev. Richard Wright, of Skibbereen was also a land agent.
Earlier there would have been very significant presence of ministers representing the then Irish State Church.
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1661-1679. Appointment of Cork Magistrates during Reign of English King Charles 11.
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Dalys of Kilcrohane, Bards, Reputed Educators of the Sons of the King of Spain, Genetic DNA link to Bandon, Co. Cork Dalys, Ó Dálaigh Slíocht 2017
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Dalys from Bandon. Those Dalys we know are genetically related to Dalys of Kilcrohane on Sheepshead, the minor Bardic branch of Anghus Ó Dalaigh. There are others in our the Daly database who are descended from the senior Bardic branch of Drumnea, Kilcrohane.
1708 Deed and Feoffment, Donogh Daly, Farnanmanagh, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Witness Owen Daly.
100th Birthday Party, Jer Jack Daly (1915-2018) from, Kilcrohane, Muintervara, West Cork
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DALY Anc Rem Day 2017FDALY Gathering 2017
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This gallery contains 16 photos.
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The world around us is starting to wake up from its winter snooze. We are shooing…
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Ballydehob’s own railway was known, affectionately, as The Flying Snail. Way back in 2013 I wrote a piece…
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The 1820s were grim economically for West Cork. The collapse of the textile industry which in the Baronies of Carbery was dependant on home weaving was hard hitting on those families partly dependant on it.
This triggered wide spread emigration mostly but not exclusively Protestant to Canada and Rochester, New York. Many of the families listed here had members who emigrated.
1830 Tithe Applotments (Tax Assessments) for Durrus District, West Cork, for Church of Ireland/Methodist families. This might loosely be described as a tax assessment. Not all people are included, no labourers, cottiers, artisans such as shoemakers are excluded. However by combining the amount of land and its value it provided valuable information. Discernable are clusters of small holdings in Coolculagta, Ardgoena, Droumreagh which were likely to have been weaving centres.
You can see clusters of small holding probably weavers in Drumreagh, Ardgoena, Coolculaghta. Also there are names which are no longer around.
The originals can be viewed here, some parts such as Clashadoo are missing, the transcriptions are very poor:
Tithe Aplottments 1830 DurrusParts of Bantry, Church of Ireland
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Kilbronogue:
1847. Father John Kelleher, PP. Ballydebob, on evils of Land Tenure. Townland of Kilronogue, Ballydehob, West Cork, Population 1841 445, 1847 125 Dead from Hunger, 6 from Disease, 84 Missing. 1841 74 Houses, 1847 27 Unroofed, 11 Unoccupied.
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At Kilbronogue the Revd. continued his journey escorted by Captain Harston, agent of the British Association and the Roman Catholic Parish Priest, Fr. Barry. He visited nine houses before turning away with despair. “In the ninth house that of Charles Regan, I found that of eleven only three remained. We had met the woman of the house on the road and she accompanied me to most of the houses. When we arrived at her cabin she said: ‘I have a fine young man of nineteen years of age and you could carry him in the palm of your hand.’ I entered and saw a bundle of skin and…
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Roads are discovered to yield a more profitable crop than farming, 1809 Presentments John Arundel, William and John Swanton, Ballydehob, Alexander O’Driscoll, Skibbereen, John and William Warner, Bantry, Samuel Townsend Henry Ryan, Skibbereen, Later, Birds and Tobins of Kilcrohane, Moss and Nicholas Families Durrus, Shanahans Dunbeacon, Vickeries Ballycomane, Fitzgeralds Baltimore.
The latter families many intermarried and with McCarthys, O’Sullivans, Murnanes of Letterlickey, Catholic Shannons of Brahalish.
The Fitzgerald are probably the ancestors of JFK’s mother.
Later c 1830s records show the Tobins securing contracts with the Birds of Bantry (Birds and Tobins local agents Lord Bantry) for areas quite distant from home place almost like Irish ‘subbies’ in England.
In 1739 (13 Geo. II, 20 c. 10) Grand Juries were given the power of acquiring any land, other than built-up areas or private gardens, avenues and orchards, that was needed for new roads, and though damages were payable it was the jury itself that assessed them. In fact there was little objection to finding room for new roads in a country where land was owned in large blocks and used extensively rather than intensively.
From Professor Andrews former geographer TCD:
Indeed in the last analysis it was the Irish tradition of low yielding husbandry that made many middle-class tenants and small gentry so assiduous in their efforts to secure road contracts as a supplementary source of income : as one Co. Limerick landowner succinctly expressed it, ‘roads are discovered to yield a more profitable crop than farming.’10 Grand Jurors were thus subject to pressure from their friends and dependents to present money for roads whether they were necessary or not, and inevitably new lines proliferated.
Cork Grand Jury 1890 presentments p.128-9.
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