https://durrushistory.com/2011/10/29/james-hennessy-irish-merchant-ostend-1699-1758/

1749.  Opening of Kinsale Charter School by The Incorporated Society in Dublin For promoting English Protestant Schools.  20 Boys Admitted making Nets. Corporation and Local Subscriptions of £78 a Year.

Pue’s Occurrences 26 August 1749

Further Reports into Protestant Charter Schools Dunmanway and Innishannon, Co. Cork, Some Boys in Dunmanway from Clontarf, Straw Bedding, Generally Poor Conditions.

1750 English Protestant Charity Schools, Innishannon, Kinsale, Dunmanway, Co. Cork.

An account of Expenditure on Protestant Charter Schools, including, Innishannon, Ross and Dunmanway, Co. Cork, 1812-1815, 1825.

High child mortality at Innishannon Charter School, Co. Cork early 19th century and unrelated parliamentary Report on school 1813.

1748.  escape of Thomas Trendle from Constables Conyeying him from Skibbereen to Cork Jail.  Aged 26 Pock Marked, Wearing Cream Coloured Coat, Brown Waistcoat, Bandle Cloth Shirt, Brown Wig.  Ports Alerted.

Pue’s Occurrences 18 March 1749

1749.  Sittings of HIgh Court on The Munster Circuit and Sergeant Sullivan (1871-1959). The Last Sergeant of the Kingdom of Ireland Buried Glasnevin.

Of the 1749 Justices listed one is Sergeant Marshall. The Office of Sergeant was third after the Attorney General,  Solicitor General.  The last was Sergeant Sullivan who defended Roger Casement and is buried in Glasnevin.   His grave describes him as the last Sergeant of the Kingdom of Ireland which theoretically still exists,  from Norman times when the islands of Britain and Ireland shared a Sovereign.  The 1800 Act of Union was between Parliaments, the 1922 Treaty was silent on the question as was the 1937 Constitution.  The Kingdom was a common phrase pre 1914 to described the whole island of Ireland.

Pue’s Occurrences 14 February 1749

1749.  Sale by Public Cant of Lands at Maulmurreen, Parish of Killfahenabeg , Barony of East Carbery, Co. Cork in the Cause of Rev. Horatio Townsend Plaintiff and William Morris The Elder and William Morris The Younger, Defendants.

Re Townsend family, Colonel John Townsend in Australia has done a family history at the back there is a person and place index:

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/home.php

The Morris family owned the Benduff Slate Quarry in Rosscarbery and among the families they intermarried were the Evansons of Durrus.

 They may have been Quakers at one stage.

Pue’s Occurrences 18 February 1749