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1811 Grand Jury Map, Goleen, Schull, Ballydehob, Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork.

 

 

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Courtesy Cork City Council.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/grandjurymapofcountycork1811/grandjurymap4/#d.en.15538

 

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From the Recollections 1938 of Ben Good, Millowner, Rineen, West Cork of James Hutchinson Swanton (‘… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-114

Meeting at the Kings Arms Tavern, Cork, on 15th November 1791 of Named (Listed) Gentlemen of the Ci… – http://wp.me/p1UlSr-3DE

 

 

 

Safe Shares :1910-1914 : Stock dividend warrants for interest due issued by the following companies: Argentine Great Western Railway Company Limited; Buenos Ayres Western Railway Limited; Canadian Northern Railway Company; Central Argentine Railway Limited; The Central Uruguay Railway Company of Monte Video, Limited; The Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa Limited; The Cordoba Central Buenos Ayres Extension Railway Limited; East Indian Railway Company; The Eastern Telegraph Company; The Great Northern Railway Company; Great Western Railway; Arthur Guinness Son & Co. Limited; Lipton Limited; London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company; Midland Railway Company; and Western Australia Government.

From Armstrong papers. http://www2.ul.ie/pdf/943693677.pdf

After the proceeds of the sale of estates were received in the late 1890s and early 1900s many Landed families might have invested in the type of portfolio as set out above.

Work War 1 and the taxation measures of Lloyd George decimated the capital assets of Britain and  Ireland’s well off class.

Magistrate possibly of the Armstrong Tipperary line.

Rev. George Armstronge/Armstrong, 1796.  Signed petition 1827 against Catholic Emancipation as Chancellor Ross.  Rector of Rosscarbery, 1831, daughter Eleanor m John Fitzhenry Townsend, 1867, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin and Drishane, later Admiralty Judge of High Court.

 

 

 

 

 

135 Lease Parties: Edmond Schuldham, City of Dublin, of the first part William Armstrong, Mealiffe, county Tipperary, of the second part Property: The town and lands of Dromlinagh [Dromleena?] situate in the barony of Carbery, County Cork Term: 31 years Conditions: Yearly rent of £46 by two equal instalments on 1 November and 1 May. Schuldham to retain mine, mineral, shooting, hunting, and fishing rights to said lands Date: 1 August 1749 Size: 1 membrane (outsize)

1749.  Lease Parties: Edmond Schuldham, City of Dublin, and Dunmanway, of the first part William Armstrong, Mealiffe, County Tipperary, of the second part Property: The town and lands of Dromlinagh [Dromleena?] situate in the Barony of Carbery, (McCarthy Lands by Marriage), County Cork.

From Armstrong papers.  There are frequent references to commercial transactions 1740s between the parties.

 

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1848.  Attendance Book,  Dunmanway, West Cork,  Church of Ireland (Regular, Not Great), Parishioners Names, Addresses, Age, Deaths,  Confirmations.

Some of the names reflect theories of the linen industry by Sir Richard Cox in the early 18th century.  he brought families from Leitrim and Fermanagh.  Names such as McGivern probably a variation  of McGovern reflect this.

Gentleman’s Magazine 1749 on Sir Richard Cox and the development of the Linen Industry in Dunmanway, Co.Cork

The Norwoods probably originate from Ballinascarty.  When they came to Dunmanway they brought according to family lore tow Deasy brothers their ploughmen from whom the Dunmanway Deasys descend.  The Norwoods were teachers, middlemen and professionals.

 

 

 

1702, Deed from Rev. John Patrickson, Chantor of Cloyne (Dunmanway Sister Elinor Patrickson ancestors of Durrus Blairs) to Sir Richard Cox (1650-1733), Bandon, Chief Justice of Ireland, of Lands at Dunmanway and Kilbarry, Coolsnagh, Coomshiplogh, Inchiragh, Derrynacahreagh, Cloontiuirk, Dereens, Tonetove, Derrylahan, Mills and Tolls, Park, Castle, Malthouse, bounded by Derrenasabagh, Gortnavan. Founding Deed of Dunmanway Names John Clay, John Turk, Thomas White, Mathew Rhems, William Short, John Farr, George Lantry, John Lumsie, George Stuke, Richard Nott, William Sisk, Thomas Roche, James Grace, William Smith George Moore Bounded by the Lanes of Mahonoh and Cox Magistrates.

 

1853, Landed Estates Court Sale of Estate of Joseph Bennett, including Kilbrogan/Kilronan, Dunmanway, Northagill (Gortnadihn, Kilfadean, Knockenagh, Shreelane Parish of Kilmacabea), West Cork, along line of proposed Dunmanway to Drimoleague Railway, Maps, Major Tenant Listing.

 

Pre 1922, Pension Enquiry Forms Church of Ireland Fanlobbus and Coolkelure (Dunmanway) West Cork.

 

An Old Man Recounts: The First Time I visited Dunmanway c 1790, The Roads were Bad, My Sister and I were in Two Panniers at Each Side of A Horse My Mother on A Saddle in Between, Then Cars with Block Wheels Sawn of of a Thick Tree Bound Round With Iron, The They Got What They Called Scotch Cars With Spokes and Felloes at Opening of The Office of The Electric and International Telegraph Company , Dunmanway, Co.Cork, 1865. Messages from Cork, London and Crookhaven.

 

1817. Peter Besnard Inspector General of Linen for Provinces of Munster, Leinster and Connaught, report, Banon, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Skibbereen, Dunmanway, Bantry, Export to West Indies and USA, Exertions of Lord Bantry and Vicar of Bantry Rev. Smith, Lord Carbery. Redmond Barry, Colonel Hodder, Trade Depressed. Praise for Right Honourable John Foster, Collon, Co. Louth, Promoter of Linen Industry as Chancellor of the Exchequer early pioneer of Capital Spending.

 

 

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