1850 Rescue in Dunmanus Bay, West Cork of Mountaineer, 869 Tonnes, 35 Days out of Quebec and later 1862 Sale of Salvage by Receiver of Wreck, Thomas H. Love, Skibbereen.

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1825, Salvage Award by Baron Pennyfeather at Cork Assizes from Rescue at Crookhaven, West Cork, of Clio of St. John’s New Brunswick en Route to Cork abandoned in a Storm Boarded with 34 Salvage claims Awards to Daniel Coughlan, Esq. £220, Joseph Baker Esq. £80, F.(Thomas) Raycraft (Roycroft) Esq.£50, Francis Gillies Esq. £60, A.O’Driscoll Esq.£60, John Notter Esq.£60, Florence McCarthy Esq. £100, Richard Medway £100.

1845, John Coughlan of Crookhaven, West Cork Owner of Whaler ‘The Wild Irish Girl’. Rescues Schooner British America (Canada) ‘Exile’.

1847 Report on memorial presented to the Lords of the Admiralty with regard to the Harbours and Lighthouses of Co. Cork mentioning the catchment of the River Bandon, Innishannon, Kinsale Fishery and Harbour, Courtmacsherry, Illen Skibbereen, Baltimore, Schull, Carrig-na-Melia off Castle Island, the Cosheen Fishing and Mining Company rescue of East India Man ‘Charlotte’ by Cosheen fishermen.

1850 Rescue in Dunmanus Bay, West Cork of Mountaineer, 869 Tonnes, 35 Days out of Quebec and later Sale of Salvage

Dunbeacon station referred to was The Station heights later a locus of music and dance after the Coastguard left.

Courtesy Peter Evans.

Dr O’Donovan referred to is likely to be below Magistrate, his brothers Timothy and Richard of O’Donovan’s Cove adn Fort Lodge both Magistrates.

Dr. Daniel O’Donovan 1818, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen, listed 1838, son Richard Esq. O’Donovan Cove, and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince.  Fond of dogs.  Father? of Dr. O’Donovan author History of Carbery.  Brother of Timothy and Richard O’Donovan JP and uncle of Richard O’Donovan JP. Daniel O’Donovan MD has land in Knockeens, Glanroon in Griffiths.  Rented Ahakista Cottage from Charles Evanson.  He was married to a sister of Rickard Deasy of the Clonakilty brewing family, MP. and Attorney General for Ireland and later Judge. Subscriber at Woodview, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.

SOURCE:- The Cork Southern Reporter Dec 19 1850

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1862.  Death of Sister Joseph Xavier (Fanny) Murphy, daughter of Nicholas Murphy (of Brewing/Distilling Family), Clifton, Cork.  Foundress and Endower of Bantry Convent of Mercy.

The convent is no longer a secondary school.  The Chapel is noted for its art windows.  It was a Catholic secondary school for girls but had protestant pupils who in their recollection always had their religious beliefs respected.

Samuel Hynes, Architect, (1854-1931), among his Commissions, Convent of Mercy Chapel and Munster and Leinster Bank, Bantry, Kilnamartyra School. Star of the Sea Church, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Presentation Convent, Melbourne, Australia.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/irishbuilder/bantryconventofmercychapel/

Click to access bantry_conventchapel_1877.pdf

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SOURCE:- Cork Examiner Feb 21st 1862

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Charabanc on Thomas Vickery’s Prince of Wales Route, Bantry to Kenmare/Killarney.

 

 

 

Thomas Vickery, Bantry, 1808-1883, Hotel and Transport Pioneer in Irish Tourist Industry, Winter Sale of Horses and some Vickery Genealogy..

 

Thomas Vickery, Bantry, 1808-1883, Hotel and Transport Pioneer in Irish Tourist Industry, Winter Sale of Horses and some Vickery Genealogy.

 

 

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1842.  Letter to Dr. John O’Donovan, Antiquarian re O’Donovans of O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork.

From Graves collection Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.  This is part of a large correspondence of Dr. John O’Donovan, antiquarian from South Kilkenny anxious to trace his paternal roots in Carbery.

Portrait of Dr. John O’Donovan (1809-1861), Scholar, National Gallery  on loan to Royal Irish Academy.

 

 

James O’Donovan is a journalist with the London Times newspaper.

 

 

Letter from James O’Donovan/Donovan (Cousin of Timothy O’Donovan),  to Dr. John O’Donovan 2409/JOD/274 (viii)

Cygnet Cottages, Perry St.,

Gravesend, Kent,

July 14th 1842.

 

The Genealogical ignorance of my worth kinsman in the nearest degree remind me of a contest for the family presidency which took place three or four years ago. at a public assembly in Cork and in which figured foremost concerning Richard O’Donovan (Eldest son my cousin Timothy of the Cove) and was at he … part causing him to be presented and introduced as ‘The O’Donovan’ whereupon, a lady expressed some curiosity to see this ‘O’Donovan’ and having been gratified by an introduction, most indignantly repudiated all pretence of such distinction, claiming it as a right inherent to her cousin the Richard O’Donovan of Lisheen.

The abashed youth abandoned the assembly and with that his claim, as I may say, the lady having subsequently informed me with much self-satisfaction, that, she  .. that night.

I saw last year in the possession of Doctor O’Donovan, of (Norton) Cottage, Skibbereen, an uncle of this Richard, a printed copy of a Genealogical Pedigree of the McCarthy family purchased in Paris, and in this there is frequent allusion to the O’Donovan family and to the .agary Donovan inconnection with the McCarthys.

Rickard? O’Donovan, is a man of considerable literary attainments and has, probably directed himself also to a much of antiquarian research as would interest him on inquiry as to his own pedigree. on the paternal and maternal side.  I enclose a note to him which if   you are likely to be productive of any useful results, you can enclose to him.  His father was the late Richard O’Donovan of O’Donovan’s Cove and his mother was my father’s sister (consequently of Ringorish? family).  He surprises me much when that his elder brother Timothy, of the Cove, could not give you any information as he is not only a man of much family pride, but also a of very extensive information (for a country gentleman) and of intellectual abilities above the ordinary standard.  

 

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Some Church of Ireland and Methodist Marriages Bantry, West Cork from 1610.

 

 

 

 

Deaths;

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

-Bantry (Kilmocomogue), 14th March 2017, From 1610, some Church of Ireland, Methodist Marriages

 

1934 Debate in Dáil (Irish Parliament) on Flax Bill, Deputy Thomas Hales, Fianna Fáil, Bandon ‘West Cork is isolated. It is no man’s land as far as industries go. It is too far away and too far out of the world. It must be remembered that flax must have a poor soil and that the land that is suitable for the growing of wheat or beet may not be suitable for the growing of flax. Flax does absorb an enormous amount of potash out of the land, but generally, in speaking of poor land, I have seen cliffs where flax can be grown.  Deputy  Timothy Joseph O’Donovan, Fine Gael ‘In times gone by, when an alien Government was here, when there was a slump in the linen trade, they compelled the clergymen, in order to encourage the development of the Irish linen trade, to wear linen surplices and cypresses at funerals and church services generally. That was, at that time, a great incentive to the development of the Irish linen industry, and if our Government were to go on these lines and to do something similar, they would help to bring back one of our oldest and one of our greatest industries, an industry that would give a great deal of employment.

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.

Flax Growing in West Cork.

1869, Skibbereen, West Cork, Becher Scutching Mill being Extended, for Scutching, Wool Carding, Cutting Furze, Hay, Oats, Wheel for Sale, Drinagh Mill ‘a Little of Repair’ Fine Water Power Suitable for Flax

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

1891, An unfortunate dispute between the local Scutch Mill owners as to the relative claims of Clonakilty, Dunmanway or Ballineen, West Cork to have a flax market was the means of preventing northern buyers attending the Southern markets and Flax growing in Ireland generally.

Flax Growing in West Cork.

Mr. Thomas Hales

(05/03/1892 – 29/04/1966)

Party: Fianna_Fáil (Fianna_Fáil members of the 8th Dáil)

• House: 8th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1933-1937

Details

Defeated in the 1937 election.

Mr. Timothy Joseph O’Donovan

(04/04/1881 – 28/06/1957)

Profession: Farmer

Party: Cathaoirleach (Cathaoirleach members of the 6th Seanad)

• House: 7th Seanad
• Constituency: Agricultural Panel
• Period: 1951-1954
• Party: Farmers Party

• House: 6th Seanad
• Constituency: Agricultural Panel
• Period: 1948-1951
• Party: Cathaoirleach

• House: 5th Seanad
• Constituency: Agricultural Panel
• Period: 1944-1948
• Party: Farmers Party

• House: 11th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1943-1944
• Party: Fine_Gael

• House: 10th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1938-1943
• Party: Fine_Gael

• House: 9th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1937-1938
• Party: Fine_Gael

• House: 8th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1933-1937
• Party: Centre Party

• House: 7th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1932-1933
• Party: Independent

• House: 6th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1927-1932
• Party: Farmers Party

• House: 5th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1927-1927
• Party: Farmers Party

• House: 4th Dáil
• Constituency: Cork West
• Period: 1923-1927
• Party: Farmers Party

Details

Defeated in 1944 election
Seanad – Leas-Chathaoirleach 25 October 1944
Seanad – Cathaoirleach 21 April 1948
Seanad – Leas-Chathaoirleach 7 November 1951
Died 1951

 

 

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