13th January 1816.  Viscount Bantry Created Earl of Berehaven and a New Viscount.

 

 

..

 

…

 

.

Not clear if this is the same but the reference to ‘young nobleman’ might suggest so:

 

Lord Richard Viscount Berehaven, 2nd Earl of Bantry. (White/Bantry), (1800-1868) Bantry, Pre 1831. 41 Belgrave Square, London. Bearhaven Lord “In a Silver Box, as a testimony of their High Esteem for this highly respected young Nobleman”. (1821) Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland.   Notified as Magistrate of Catholic Meeting on Loyalty to King 1825.  13th January 1816.  Viscount Bantry Created Earl of Berehaven and a New Viscount. Deputy Lieutenant 1832. Member Commission  on Magistrates 1838.  Attending Protestant Conservative Society meeting 1832.  Protestant Protest Meeting Bandon 1834.  He enjoyed an income of £9,000 per annum. He also married well in 1836 in London ; his wife’s Lady Mary O’Brien’s (a descendant of Brian Boru) dowry was £30,000.  At Bantry Vote Registration Session 1840 with Augustus Payne JP (His Land Agent), Revs Sadler and Triphook.   Probably focus of perceived ’Orange’ faction in Bantry by Liberals.  On death of his father became Earl of Bantry in 1851 following 3 years abroad. He amassed Bantry House Art Collection. Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845. Resolved, by Castletownbere Board of Guardian: ‘that the offer made on the part of Lord Berehaven of the house and offices at Cametringane as a temporary workhouse until the 1st August Castletown Board of Guardians 1850 be accepted’. Beara Estate sold to Lord Clinton c 1850 subject to scathing criticism of him and agent Patrick O’Sullivan, Millcove by Dublin Barrister Prendergast of treatment of tenants and recovery of arrears.

 

 

 

1588.  Patents Appointing Official Interpreter and Expounder in The Irish Tongue or Language.

 

From Dr. Casey Collection

 

1582.  Patent Appointing Cork Customs Officers.

Some Cork Customs Records:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K9FbQLKPjRm9HLMNy99__AAMLmis519psiSvcP71Rts/edit#gid=0

From Dr.Casey Collection.

…..

 

Cricket Match 13th April 1868, Bantry Cricket Club and Officers and men of H.M.S. Lark.  Bantry Wins

 

…

 

Bantry 1860s, Early Irish photographer Rev Freke of Durrus at Queen of Denmark’s visit to Bandon, Bantry Regatta August, 1864, Bantry Cricket Team (Toope, Jagoe, Meara, Warner, MacNamara, Thompson, Harris, Croly, T. Lannin, McCarthy, Byes) against Crew of H.M.S. ‘Lark’ (Irwin, Robothan, Mehegan, Dayrell, Hodge, Bride, Tickner, Cole, Brine, Martin, Byes) April 1868, Bantry and Skibbereen Agricultural Society, A Visit to Bantry September 1868, Sketches of Rooska, the Exquisite new Church (of Ireland) erected by Mr William Murphy, a mile Eastward the residence of the late Richard Levis, Esq. December 1869.

 

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

….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Cousane+Gap,+Co.+Cork/@51.7576433,-9.2658487,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!1m2!2m1!1skeimineagh+Co.+Cork!3m4!1s0x484505c8d6dfe2a1:0x5cf93d39ebdc559c!8m2!3d51.7576404!4d-9.2636204

 

 

The Sheehy Mountains, a  barrier Intersected by Cousane Gap and the  Pass of Keimineigh between two Culture Zones, Baronies of Carbery and  Bantry and  West Muskerry, Co. Cork.

West of Ballineen the land rises into the hills which link to the Cahas and separate the Carberies from northern Co. Cork.  The hills are intersected by the Cousane Gap through which Sir Richard Griffith built the road to Bantry Bay from Cork in the late 1820 and the famous Pass of Keimaneigh.

Proposed road over Cousane Gap, to Bantry, West Cork, 1822.

Passing into West Muskerry an area of rock hill and mountain with scrub and forestry the coastal area of the Carberies of West Cork must appear like a land of milk and honey.   Pre famine it had one of the highest rural a population density in the world compatible with China and India.  This was supported by the potato with ample supplies of sea sand and seaweed.   South West Cork was always a point of entry, legend has it that the first people to come to Ireland arrived at Donemark in Bantry. The last waves from the 1580s were the settlers from England, Scotland and Wales supplemented by Huguenots and some Germans. The present West Cork population has a genetic more complex than the headline surname would suggest.  The lack of documentary records and destruction makes it difficult but recent DNA evidence would suggest a significant pattern of intermarriage in the late 17th and 18th centuries.   West Muskerry had a small population and remained a stronghold of the old Gaelic Order.  There were regular forays from there as Rapparees, Tories, Whiteboys and in the 20th century the War of Independence and Civil war raged.

The Gentry of West Cork were on the surface of predominant English planter stock but again the patterns of marriage are complex. Townsend/Barry/Galwey/Meade, Shouldham/McCarthy, Beecher/O’Donovan/O’Neill, Blair/O’Donovan/Cleary, White (Lord Bantry)/O’Brien/Guinness, Puxley/Lavellan (Norman Carrigaline old Catholic), Evans/Freke (Lord Carbery), O’Driscoll, Dowe/Coughlan,  Jagoe/O’Connor.

Genealogy of Townsend family Co. Cork from 17th century, with intermarried families of Baldwin, Barry, Beamish, Carleton, Daunt, De Burgh, Fleming, French, Galway, Herbert, Hungerford, Maunsell, Meade, Morris, Newman, Robinson, Roche, Somerville, Synge, Trench, Warren.

Proclamation of 11th November 1732 23rd March 1732 arising from Grand Jury at General Assizes and Gaol Delivery sitting at the King’s Old Castle Cork whereby Murtough McOwen Sullivan, John Sullivan, Dennis Murtough Sullivan, Muthough Sullivan Junior, Otho Sullivan, Dermod McMortough, Miles Mahony, Denis Mahony, Mark Oge Downey, James McMarcus Downey, William Murphy, Mortough McFenneen Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan alias Raab, Daniel Sullivan, Bartholomew Desmond, James Welsh, Derby Leary, John Hegarty, Julian Cellig, Derby Murphy, Callaghan McCallaghan, Charles Charty, Ellen Conway, Mary Gibbons, Ellen Sullivan, Cornelius Murphy, Patrick,John, Cornelius, Denis Bartholomew, John Harraaghton of Ardnagashel (near Glengariff) Dennis Shannahane and John Marrihigg of Ardrawly (Skibbereen) to be Tories Robbers and Rapparees.

Raparees, Tories, Whiteboys, Anti-Tithers of Muskerry, The Mellifonts, First Boycott, Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, his cottage at Ballinascarty and Michael O’Riordan’s (Communist Party of Ireland) tribute to the Keohane Sisters Clonakilty, Co Cork.

the area is littered with monuments to past encounters on the Irish side. Apart from a mention of Smith a member of Crown forces at the Battle of Keimineagh there is no sign of any RIC/British Army Black and Tan casualties.

Keimineagh:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehy_Mountains

 

 

 

 

…..

Monuments:

 

…

 

…