Jonathan Swift on Carbery’s Hundred Isles

 

 

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Goodwin Swift probably a relation was a Customs mn in Crookhaven in 1753:

 

Extract from letter ‘Very Bad Mutton and Beef, you Can’t Conceive of the Wretchedness of it’, of Godwin Swift (Customs Man), 16th May 1757 from Crookhaven, West Cork, Ireland.

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Genealogy of Kenmare Orpen Family, Ancestors include McGillicuddy, Connor/O’Connor, Cork Families, Swanton, Hutchinson, Ashe, Millerd, Extended Family Sir William Orpen Artist, Orpen Solicitors Dublin, Sir William Petty Industrial Industrial Settlement 1670s Kenmare.

This detailed genealogy compiled in the 1930s by a family member relying on sources many no longer available shown the occupations of many family members.  Like many Irish families Catholic as well as Protestant in the same social milieu they took the opportunities as Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers adn Administrators in an expanding British Empire.

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Dereliction on Trinity College Dublin, Estates, in Co. Kerry, 1844, Sub let to Middleman Orpen. Evidence to Parliamentary Enquiry in contrast to Lord Lansdowne Estate.

Results 1841 Election, from Booth No 6 including Bantry and Booth No 3 including Carbery, Co. Cork with some voters, names, candidate voted for, abode, property qualifications.

St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Kenmare (Teampaill Naomh Pádraig Eaglais na hÉireann an Neidín, proposed seating 1858 included Marquis of Lansdowne, Mayberry, Herbert, Herman, Orpen, Hutchins family members, Outrage when windows broken 1898 and resolution condemning same by Catholic Vestry.

1833, Properties Rented from Protestant Episcopal See of Cork 6 Ploughlands at Kilcrohane 3 Ploughlands at Crookhaven by Richard de La Coer, John Bowen, 9 Ploughlands Schull, Probably Mannions Island Carbery Island. Rev. John E Orpen, Lisheen.

January 1739, Loss of Potato Crop due to Severe Frost, Plea from Cork Corporation to Stop Export of Oats, Chief Support of Poor.

 

From Richard Caulfield

 

 

1 Oct., 1766. Ordered, that a Memorial be sent to thee Lords Justices, in the name of the Mayor, &c., praying an order of Government to prevent the exportation of all sorts of grain, meal, and potatoes for a limited time,as corn in general has failed this season and a great scarcity dreaded next  winter and spring.

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1740.  a Memorial of Several Gentlemen Residing at or near Berehaven in West Cork, setting forth the necessity of having a Barrack built for one company and half of foot to prevent running of Goods and the Shipping Off of Men to Foreign Service

 

 

Sir George Carew writes to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, 13th May 1602 from Camp at Bantry Abbey prior to Siege of Dunboy They lie in such incredible strengths of huge mountains and ugly glynns of bog and wood, as I think no place of the world yields the like, and the ways of such advantage unto them as an 100 men may forbid an army of 5,000 to march from Bantry to Donboye, which is but 24 miles; and if there were no enemy to resist us, nor any baggage in our army, the ways in themselves are so difficult as in less time than eight days I cannot come thither, for three miles a day is the most we can march; and for horse or garrons to carry victuals and munitions no possibility of passage. Wherefore I have resolved by boats and shipping to cross the Bay of Bantry, and to land within seven miles of the castle, which is a reasonable way (though mountainous), yet indifferent as well for us as the enemy. I would not have believed any man’s report if my own eyes had not seen the mountains and glynns which here I find…’

 

Dirge of Murty Óg O’Sullivan Bere, composed in Irish by his nurse translated by Jeremiah Joseph Callnan, Murty killed John Puxley in turn he was betrayed by his servant Scully, killed, his body dragged by boat from Berehaven to Cork beheaded and his head lay for years on Cork Jail.

 

1822. Lord Bantry not renewing lease of any of his Tenantry involved in Smuggling.

 

Davy Crockett, Rev. James Fontaine, Battle of the Alamo and the Huguenots of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork.

 

Thomas Hutchins, Bantry, West Cork, being paid for Impressing Beara Seamen for British Royal Navy 1746.

 

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Early Map of Baltimore, West Cork (Between 1605-1640), showing English Settlement, Dunasead Castle, Sherkin Island, Loo Rocks, Storehouse for Preserved Fish, 12 Fishing Boats, Seine Pilchards, 5 Possible Royal Navy Boats.

 

1760, Pue’s Occurrences. Explanation of Place Names ‘Quarantine Hill’ North East Sherkin Island and Quarantine Baltimore, West Cork

 

Pishógs (Pre-Christian Taboos), Old Cures, Holy Wells from Sherkin Island, West Cork.

 

James M Burke, M.A., B.L., History Sherkin Island, West Cork, Antiquities, Townlands.

 

Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.

 

1692.  Colonel Thomas Becher Appointed Governor of Island of Inshirken (Sherkin) near the harbour of Baltimore, West Cork, Salary of 10 Shillings a Day.

 

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Patent of Charles 2, 1668 of England to Lands in West Cork to Henry and John Beecher and John Bayley

1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

 

Will of Thomas Becher, Property Magnate, Sherkin Island, West Cork, Esq., 21 August 1705. Proved 11th March 1708. 11 March 1708. Brothers in Law Henry Turner Richard Turner and John Roberts Trustees and Executors. Wife Elizabeth Becher. Sons Edward and Michael Becher both married. His Henry John and Lionell Becher daughter Susan Becher. Kinsman Francis Becher Tallough (Tallow) Co Waterford Clerk. Legacy to Parish of Ballymodan (Bandon) Ardtentane, Cahiroleckeny, Ratooragh, Gortloen, Banratonacane, Kiltomane, Mauladinny and Coomfarna in parish of Schull. Ballyrisode, Dunkilly, Callirisoughtra, Baltenoughtra, Kilbean, Lynane, Cahir, Quorisk, Co Cork. Baneaknockakane and Quolaigh, Parish of Schull, Co. Cork. Old Court, Kilfenan, Glaunaroura. Leasehold lands of Aghadowne, Kilkilleene, Callitrumore, Callitrumbegg, Drumnacahara, Lysheenoughra, Kilmoonagh, Cluddagh, Smorane, Quoecurine, Rinedolane, Gortnaclough, Skibbereene alias New-Stapletown, Coronra, All in Co Cork Witness: Dive Downes (Son-in-Law) Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross. Robert Conrad, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Esq. Benjamin Weekes, Cork, Notary Public, James Russell servant to Bishop of Cork.

 

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.

Beecher Estate Improvement from 1841, Voluntary Surrender of 200 holdings , reallocations, new roads.

 

 

 

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Trí Cois-Céim an Coillaigh, 3 steps of the Cock, sign of the Day’s starting to Lengthen – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-VR

Goleen Bridge (Multiple Gullett/Clochán), West Cork

 

 

 

Skibbereen to Crookhaven:

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Griffith’s ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466,

Griffiths  Cork projects known as the ‘Wellesley Roads’ included Skibbereen to Crookhaven, 46 km. built between 1826 and 1829 and costing £13,466, Bantry to Skibbereen, Crookhaven to Bantry and the road to north Cork to Banteer.   HIs works are characterised by a high degree of engineering excellence. It was said that in building bridges he insisted on going to bed rock for foundations, the Grand Jury contractors would be happy with building on gravel resulting in so many were washed away in floods.  His schemes highlights the deficiencies of the Grand Jury system and might be looked at like the recently completed motorway schemes in Ireland. The effects were dramatic, on the Mizen Peninsula they first wheeled carts made their appearance.  Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), the Scots Engineer who was also involved said the North Cork Road opened up the entire area to commerce with a beneficial result.

1824, Evidence of Sir Richard Griffith Esq., Road Engineer, to House of Commons Select Committee, on Harmony in West Cork between Protestant and Catholics, Distress of 1822, Only Part of Ireladn he Employed Poor Protestants on Road Building, Evidence of Alexander Nimmo, Scots Road Engineer on Building of 19 miles on the Northern Side of Bantry Bay under Joint Supervision of Captain O’Sullivan Most of His Workers are His Tenants Not Paid in Cash but in Rent Abatement. Elsewhere Nimmo’s evidence of Enormous Economic Benefits of Road Building

Griffith’s Roads: Report of Patrick Leahy, Civil Engineer, 1834 to Co. Cork Grand July of Progress of Road from Dunmanus Bay to Skibbereen, Nearly Completed, Extension to Ballydehob Approved, and Report of Edmund Leahy, County Surveyor to Grand July 1840 on Ballylickey to Crookstown, 27 miles Active, Bantry to Glengariff 10 miles Near Completion, Crookhaven to Barleycove, Ballydehob to Bantry To Be Finished Current Season.

 

 

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1734, Cork Subscribers to the Poetry of The Rev. Robert De La Coer (The Mad Parson), (1709-1781)

 

Subscribers from p 59, mostly from Cork or with Cork connections.

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JAMES DE LA COUR or DELACOURT, an Irish poetical writer, was the second son of Robert De la Cour, esq. of the County of Cork, in Ireland, and born at Killowen, near Blarney, in that county, in 1709. He was educated at the university of Dublin, where to his classical studies he added an uncommon predilection for poetry, and before he had reached his twenty-first year, produced a poem entitled Abelard to Eloisa, in imitation of Pope, which was thought to possess a considerable portion of the spirit and harmony of that master. From this time he proceeded to publish shorter poems and sonnets, which were all favourably received; and in 1733 appeared his principal work, The Prospect of Poetry. So creditable a publication, and at such an age, gained him much and deserved applause; and in this list of admirers he had to count on some of the best judges in both countries.

Soon after this he took holy orders, but had little zeal for the profession, and produced his sermons as matters of ordinary duty: his muse was the mistress which engaged his principal attention; and, as the muses generally love “the gay and busy haunts of men,” this pursuit was of no service to his promotion or clerical character. He unfortunately, too, loved his bottle as well as his muse; and by such indulgences sunk in the esteem of his fellow citizens, who said poetry affected his head; and in a little time they gave him the title of “the mad parson,” under which general character, the graver kind of people grew cautious of his acquaintance, whilst the young ones solicited his company to enjoy his eccentricities. In time he fell so much into this last seduction, that be was the volunteer of any party who would engage him for the night. This constant dissipation at last enfeebled his understanding; and the charge which malice and ignorance at first fastened on him, was now realized; his intellects were at times evidently deranged; and he fancied himself, after the example of Socrates, to be nightly visited by a demon, who enabled him to prophesy all manner of future events.

In the career of this unhappy impression, the following circumstance deserves some notice: A gentleman one day meeting the doctor in a bookseller’s shop, during the siege of the Havannah, asked him whether he could tell him when the garrison would surrender? “O yes,” says De La Cour, very confidently, “I’ll tell you the precise day; it will be on the 14th of August next” “Do you pledge yourself for that day?” “So much so,” replied the doctor, “that I will stake my character as a prophet on it, and therefore I beg you will take a memorandum of it.” The gentleman immediately noted it in his pocket-book; and it so happened, that on that very day we had in account of its surrender to the British arms. A public event thus predicted six weeks before it happened, and falling in so accurately according to the prediction, of course made a great noise in a little place. The common people wondered at, and even philosophers could not resist pausing on the coincidence of circumstances: but the doctor was elated beyond measure. He now claimed the diploma of a prophet, and expected to be consulted on the issue of all important circumstances.

He continued thus many years, prophesying and poetizing; and though in the first he made many mistakes, in the latter he in a great measure preserved the vis poetica; particularly in his satires on individuals, which sometimes exposed and restrained those too cunning for the law, and too callous for the pulpit. He had originally a little estate of about £80 per year left him by his father, which, with the hospitality of his friends, enabled him to live independent. Towards the latter end of his life, he sold this to his brother-in-law, for a certain sum yearly, and his board and lodging; but at the same time restrained himself from staying out after twelve o’clock at night, under the penalty of one shilling. In consequence of this, the doctor’s balance at the end of the year was very inconsiderable.

He died about 1781, at the advanced age of seventy two, leaving behind him many monuments of poetical talents, and adding another testimony to the truth of Dr. Johnson’s observation, “that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.”