1961, The Rev. Skuse at Durrus Road Railway Halt, Just Before Closure or West Cork System By Todd Andrews.

It is hard when you drive through the rich dairy farms of present day Caheragh that pre 1847 it was one of the world’s most densely populated rural areas akin to China and India.

1850s Enigma.  Premises formerly known as Manse of Drimoleague, Deane Street Cork, in Landed Estates Sale Chatterton.

It may be that Drimoleague was a sinecure parish Maziere Brady may provide an answer.

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1859. Landed Estates Court Sale of Estate (567 acres) of Thomas Hungerford at Inchafune (Keelnareliga, Gutteeetown,The Commons, Monanearig Bog), East Carbery, 3 Miles East Dunmanway, West Cork, Maps, Among Names, Bryan, Butler, Carroll, Crowley, Cullinan, Donegan, Driscoll, Dullet, Gillman, Holmes, Jagoe, O’Callaghan, McCarthy, Dr. Morrison, Murphy, Santry, Swanton.  Possible connection between Judge Robert Swanton, New York and Cork Dunscomb family.

The Solicitors are Tuckey and Dunscomb in Cork.  Re the lives in Leases there are Swantons named.  Judge Robert Swanton, United Irishman and Judge Marine Court in New York and his US Citizenship papers signed by a Dunscomb suggesting a family relationship.

1837. House of Lords The Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon v Henry Becher, Lands in 1737 Mortgage Killeenleagh, Lassanaroe, Cappamore, Cahergall (Kilcrohane), Marriage Settlement 1740 Including Ardenant (Schull), Balteenoughtra, Ballyourane (Caheragh), Barnitonicane (Ballydehob), Caherolickenny, Mauldenny, Derrynalamane (Ballydhob), Dunkelly (Crookhaven), Keelbronhoe (Ballydehob), Lassanaroe, Rathcool, Ratourah (Schull), Letterscanlan. Families Mentioned, Alleyn, Becher, Hedges, Townsend, Wright, Evans, O’Donovan, Hungerford.

1851. Report of A. N. Neal, Inspector of Drainage on Land Improvement in South West Cork. Larger Farmers Precluded from Applying For Benefit of Land Improvement as They Did Not Possess Sufficient Legal Title under Act. Praise for William Bence Jones (Clonakilty). Rev. R. Wright (Probably Beecher Land Agent), Rev. John Triphook (Mizen Peninsula) Rev. Thomas Tuckey (Probably Drimoleague), Mrs. L. C. Kearney (Garretstown), Mr. John Moloney, William T. Hungerford (Rosscarbery), Henry Baldwin, Cornelius O’Callaghan, Rev. John Murphy (Probably Newtown , Bantry).

1844. Witnesses To Her Majesty’s Commissioners into The Law and Practice of Occupation of Land in Ireland At Bantry (Rev Christopher Freeman Curate, Richard White Esq. Landlord, Michael Murphy Miller Middleman Donemark, William Neale, Rev. Somers Payne, Land Agent, John O’Connell Esq., Rev. Thomas Barry Parish Priest, Samuel Hutchins Esq. Landlord, Alexander Donovan, Timothy Connor, Cornelius Connor, Cornelius Henry Donovan, Skibbereen James McCarthy, John Collins, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Rev. John Wright (Creagh, Receiver for 38 years to Sir William Becher), Rev. James Barry, Daniel McCarthy (Malster Brewer), Henry Newman Esq. (Land Agent Secretary Agricultural Society) Caheragh, Michael Sullivan Labourer, Thomas John Hungerford (Rosebank, Skibbereen Land Agent 18 years), Thomas Townsend Esq. (Smithville, Skibbereen, Half-Pay Lieutenant Royal Navy Land Agent for 10 Years to his Aunt), William Hedges Eyre Becher Esq., Magistrate Landlord 17,000 acres from Skibbereen to Crookhaven , Charles McCarthy, John Hayes Rosscarbery 130 acres, Bandon (Maskelyne Alcock Esq., Roughgrove, Bandon, Magistrate 300 acres, Daniel Connor Esq., Manch Magistrate, Chairman Board f Guardians, Landlord, Agent, Rev. William Hunter Presbyterian Minister 30 acres and 70 as undertenant, Benjamin Hosford, Maryville, Inniskear, 350 acres, Thomas Joseph Biggs Esq., Garryhandkardmore, Kinlea, Gentleman Farmer, Model Farmer 650 acres, William Anthony Spiller Esq., Upland Bandon Secretary Agricultural Society, Kinsale (William Henry Herrick Esq., Shippool Innishannon Magistrate Landlord, Thomas Herrick Esq., Coolkirky 650 acres, William Richard Meade Esq. Landowner 400 acres, Member Agricultural Society Barrister, Michael Forrest Farmer Meadstown Liscleary 240 acres,, William Dent Springhill Farmer High Constable barony Kerrycurry, James Bogue, Lahera, Bandon in Ireland over 6 years native Scotland, 315 acres. Part of the University of Southampton project making Irish Parliamentary records available on line. The report may be read online and gives good picture of the pre famine period.

1863. We Hope We May Never See Carbery Without A Pack of Hounds. Dinner to Henry Jones Hungerford Esq., Cahermore, Rosscarbery, West Cork.

1829, Thomas J. Hungerford’s Cork and Skibbereen Union Coach.

1828. High Court Application to Remove Hungerford, Coroner for West Cork.

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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.

1851 Landed Estate Sale of Roughgrove/Derrygariff, Within Two Miles of Bandon Co.Cork c 400 acres Originating Fee Farm Grant  of 1610 Sir Bernard Granville to Giles Maskelyn and Sub Leases 1612-1625 of Roughgrove Estate, Bandon, Co. Cork, Maps Tenant Listings.

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1601. Reputed Ambush and Massacre of O’Sullivan Bere Troops at Bishopsland Bridge, Caheragh, West Cork, by O’Mahonys, returning from The Battle of Kinsale. This is in local tradition.  After the battle local people tended to the survivors some married in locally adn are the origin of some of the Caheragh O’Sullivans.

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

Letter from Sir George Carew to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, from camp at the Abbey, Bantry, 1602.

Monastery pre 1650 at Moulivard Church (Durrus East), Co. Cork

Possible alternative Journey of O’Sullivan Bere to Battle of Kinsale through Ballydehob Postulated by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Antiquarian

Possible alternative Journey of O’Sullivan Bere to Battle of Kinsale through Ballydehob Postulated by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Antiquarian

Plan of the Siege and Battle of Kinsale (Ceann Sáile) 1601, Petition to the Pope in 1484 requesting that no more clergy be sent from Bath to St. Multose and that only native clergy be appointed as English clergy could not administer sacraments in Irish, Prosperity in the 18th century, Shipping News in ‘A Short History of Kinsale’