Kilcrohane Townlands

 

 

 

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.

The Fosters were interested in improving their new estate in Co. Louth. Anthony Foster invested in agricultural improvements, improving the drainage, fertility and general quality of the land. Arthur Young who wrote ‘Tour in Ireland’ visited the estate in 1776, five years before the rental, and said that the Chief Baron Anthony Foster’s ‘operations were of a magnitude he had never heard of before’ (CLAJ, X, 3, 1943 p227). John Foster developed the linen industry in the area, building mills and encouraging Protestant weavers to settle in Collon.

See Redmond Barry’s letter re Foster.

 

 

 

John Besnard, Junior. Police Court, Paradise Place, Cork, 1857. 1840 calling for Testimonial to late William Crawford Cork benefactor.  Family of Huguenot descent ran major sail making factory in Douglas.  Manager Savings bank lived next door, m Sophie baker, d Valentine, merchant, Bristol.  

John Besnard JP Senior. Sheriff 1810, Mayor 1831, Police Court, Paradise Place, Cork, 1857.  Voted in 1812 Cork election for Hutchinson and Longfield.  1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Jonas Travers, Perriers, Gibsons, Alexander O’Driscoll, JP.  Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club.   Ex-Officio Poor Law Guardian listed ‘Bernard’  1839.  Family of Huguenot descent ran major linen, rope, sail making factory in Douglas.  Bernards and relations Gibbons and Perriers ran Cork Corporation pre 1840.

Peter Besnard Esq., Cork. Member 1832 Cork Friendly Club Ex-Officio Poor Law Guardian listed as ‘Bernard’ 1839.

Richard Earl of Bantry, 1843, Glengariff Cottage. 1821 meeting on distress Skibbereen huge praise for Catholic Clergy for contributing to peace.  1817encouraging flax growing wiht Vicar of Bantry, Rev. Smith. 1822  Lord Lieutenant sends £100 for local distress, £50 for Berehaven. 1824 entertaining Dr. Egan, Co Adjutor Catholic Bishop of Kerry.  Subscriber Poor Relief Bantry 1832.  1834 Member Committee Cork Protestants.  Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster.  Subscriber Lewis 1837. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 at Seafield Park.  Somewhat surprisingly praised by Shea Lawlor, Bantry Liberal for his integrity.  (Apologies) Alexander O’Driscoll, JP suspended, Bandon 1841. Brother in law of Lord Viscount Ennismore.  Complaining 1848 of a chronic lack of cash as was his son Viscount Berehaven, mining royalties from Puxleys Allihies Copper Mines £1,500 per annum royalties through will of grandfather Hedges Eyre of Macroom.

James Redmond Barry, -1879), Pre 1820, Glandore and 11 Great Denmark St., Dublin, Fishery Commissioner advocate of fishery development in West Cork, Improving Landlord, Petitioned House of Lords to Vote 1821 as Representative of dormant title of Viscount Buttevant from 1405. 1818 encouraging Flax growing with mother’s assistance, mentions his farm of around 300 acres population 328 of whom one third at linen.  1821 request to Chief Secretary with Rev. Arminger Sealy, John Swete, Thomas Walker that military be sent to Timoleague re Captain Rock disturbances.  1828 Quarter Session Bandon. 1828 seeking reform of House of Commons. Involved with Richard Townsend, Castletownsend and Thomas Somerville, Drishane in setting up Agricultural and Country Bank in Skibbereen, April 1835.   Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Attended Reformers Dinner Bandon 1839 for Daniel O’Connell, MP,.  Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.  In October 1861 at O’Donovan’s Cove married Anne Mary J 3rd daughter of Timothy JP to David Fitzjames Barry, 2nd son to Redmond Barry, Commissioner of Fisheries Esq.  (an a political ally of Timothy).  She is later Executrix of her father’s estate then a widow. Listed 1870, Dublin, 439 acres. Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868.   Son Captain FitzJames Barry, J.P., grandson Richard Fitzwilliam Barry, JP, solicitor, Clerk of the Crown, King’s County, listed 1885-6. Left £1,500. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty, 1847.  Member as James, Bandon, Commission on Magistrates 1838

Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery.  1817 Chairing Cork Committee of Linen production an encouraging local development.   1821 writing to Chief Secretary re disaffection, Castlefreke, Clonakilty, sitting Rosscarbery, 1835. 1822 Lord Lieutenant sends £500 for local distress.  Protestant protest meeting Cork 1834.   Reputed to have bell rung in London church on hearing of death of Father John Power, Parish priest Kilmacabea.  Subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. – 1823 Blamed notorious tithe extractor Rev. Morritt for fatal affray at Castlehaven, welcomed Petty Session Courts and urged abolition of Manor Courts.  Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.  listed 1843.  Lord of Manor appointing Seneschals.  Member Commission on Magistrates 1838.  Member provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845.   HIs life size statue in Rosscarbery Cathedral has an inscription how he founded schools in various parts of his estates, clothed the surrounding hills with trees and improved agriculture and the amelioration of his countrymen’.  Carberys intermarried with O’Driscoll family.

 

 

 

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1831.  Fit and Proper Persons Appointed by Magistrates to Conduct Census, in the West Riding of Co. Cork.

An example of one appointments:

‘Big’ Patrick O’Sullivan, Millcove: Castletownbere. Lord Bantry Estate appointed as Seneschal   Not legally qualified.  Parliamentary Report 1837, Eppi.  Baronial collector since 1825 deputy Denis Murphy (Irish speaking) as collector.  Appointed fit and proper person to conduct 1831 Census with Mr. W. Murphy.  Seneschal of Altham, Mill Cove, Berehaven, Bantry and Donemark from 1843.  1841 organising voters from Beara in Conservative interest.  Sitting as Grand Juror, Cork 1842, 1844, Cork County Agriculture Society Dinner 1842.  Millcove. leased by Patrick O’Sullivan from the Earl of Bantry’s estate in 1852 when it was valued at £14. O’Sullivan worked as an agent for the White estate.  A deeply unpopular Landlord local tradition has it that he used to blow his bugle outside the Church after Sunday Mass to summon his tenants to draw hay or turf or whatever other task he designated.  1856 Chairman Berehaven Board of Guardians.

The house has been demolished though traces of the stone work can still be seen in the gardens which are now part of an art gallery and sculpture display.  He was agent for the Beara part of the Bantry estate working with receivers and banks to Lord Bantry while Augustus Payne from the Upton family operated the rest of the estate. His daughter Christina, who emigrated to the Unites States and became the matriarch of a very rich New York family, before ending her days sadly in a mental home. Ellen O’Sullivan,  Convent of Faithful Companions of Jesus, Limerick Chronicle died 6/06/1857, dau of Patrick O’Sullivan of Mill Cove, Berehaven, Laurel Hill.  Died Peshwar India 1881 Edward O’Sulllivan, Queen’s Regiment, youngest son of Patrick O’Sullivan, Esq., Millove, Castletownbere, agent to Lord Bantry and Seneschal.  Patrick O’Sullivan  was nephew to  Captain Paddy O’Sullivan of Faha also Agent to Lord Bantry whose sister was the mother of Peter McSweeney.  1857 Peter McSwiney, the last lineal descendant of the Mac Finin Dubh O’Sullivans (a 400 year old title), after his eviction from Dereen in Kenmare by the Lansdowne Estate, spent his last days in Ahakista Cottage. Patrick O’Sullivan, Lord Bantry’s Agent in Beara, Millcove Castletownbere, Agent to Lord Bantry brought the following to Cork 1841, to vote for Longfield/Leader in a Schooner, ‘Sophia’ via Adrigole and Bantry.  Longfield paid expenses. Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Murtagh O’Sullivan, Daniel Florence O’Sullivan, Daniel Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Timothy O’Sullivan, Roger O’Sullivan, Timothy O’Sullivan, Simms (Protestant), Denis O’Sullivan, From Adrigole, Daniel  Murphy (his deputy Irish speaking), Richard O’Sullivan (Protestant), Daniel Michael O’Sullivan, James Neill, William  Murphy, Murtagh Kelly.

The Census results were alas destroyed either the Public Records Office in 1922 or were pulped in World War 1.  Some historian accessed it such as the Coles (History of Culculaghta, Durrus family), Welply.

 1821 Census and Statistical Returns

In the Chief Secretary papers there are frequent references to the 1821 census and the poor pay of the enumerators and the supervising role of the Magistrates.  There are also a number of references to the Magistrates making statistical returns but it is not clear what these are.

Cork Magistrates:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit

 

 

Conveyancing Strategies employed by Landlords to Circumnavigate the Penal Laws from The Bantry Estate Records Relaxation and Catholics Using Rent Charges to Vote in Barony of Carbery early 19th Century.

 

 

The loosening of the electoral laws from 1790 gave Catholics in restricted circumstances the right to vote.  In Bantry and Durrus there was a concerted and ultimately successful campaign to register tenants in the Liberal Interest.  This was allied with Anti Tithe Agitation and Repeal.

Voting 1835, Freemen of Cork, Leaseholders entitled to Vote, Baronies of West Carbery , Bantry and Bere:

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The smaller rents are cottiers or labourers.  There are quite a number of significant tenant many with multiple holdings.  This is only the immediate town of Bantry the whole estate stretched to Beara c 40,000 acres a lot mountain and bog.  The original land owners were largely in place the O’Sullivan acting as Middlemen.  From the early 19th century the finances of the estate were perilous in contrast many of the larger tenants Catholic as well as Protestant prospered.

1822.  From Diary of  Richard O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan, (Bán Chlocháin), Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland, said the Whiteboys had been caught in a pitched battle with police and troops on January 25th nine had been found guilty of Insurrection Act and hanged.  This was prompted by an Excise raid on a Poteen Making Operation which developed into a running battle with the Whiteboys.   Some Local Customs Personnel.

Attempt to build new bridge at Bealkenmar (Béal Cinn Mara). Covenant in leases to fertilize with 4 boat of sea sand, he builds his own Sand Boat. Mr Hull calls with News of Failure of Roche’s and Leslies Bank in Cork.

Cork Banking Collapses:

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1820.  Memorial to Lord Lieutenant by William Swanton, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork. High Constable (Rate and Tax Collector), Barony of West Carbery For Relief on Losses Caused to Him in Banking Collapse when He had transmitted Due Amount to County Treasurer, Leslies, Stephen and Roches Bank, Supported by Lord Bantry and Magistrates Timothy O’Donovan (Durrus), William Hull (Schull), Richard Townsend (Skibbereen), Rev. Edward Jones Alcock (Durrus), Nathaniel Evanson (Durrus), Robert Kenny (Bantry). 1823 Application for Loan to Relieve Poor in Ballydehob, Which He founded.

1807, Failure of Cork Bank, Cotter and Kellets, with Liabilities of £420,000

Bawnlahan Fair, Ascension Thursday. Flax grown on Estate. Various varieties of early Potato. Tree Planting , Landed by Boat from Cork.

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Estates Maps of The O’Donovan (later Powell), 1727-1835, Bawnlahan, Parish of Myross, and Drinagh, all in Baronies of Carbery, West Cork, with some Tenant Listing and Features, Sand Quays, ‘Danish Fort’, Old Road to Ferry and Blind Harbour.

1729.  Daniel O’Donovan, (The O’Donovan) Bawnlahan, Leap, Skibbereen, Renounced Popery.  Late 1844 Sir Richard de Burgo.  Recanted at Castletownroche probably in connection with marriage.

Diary:

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Because of the Penal Laws his father Daniel O’Donovan conformed to the Church of Ireland in 1727. He married firstly Anne Kearney of Garrettstown House, Kinsale.

The O’Donovan’s mother was Jane Beecher who his father married as a widower in his 60s. She was between the age of 15 to 17. The following is from a Beecer relation:

Some really useful information there, especially the social events.  21. 1. 19 Fleming married at Brade.; that is the marriage of Lionel John Fleming to Eliza Townsend. The location is new to me.

31.8.19 M. Anne and Henry went in a car to dine at Brade on Miss Jervis’s marriage with Mr. Scot. This is the marriage of Mary Anne Jervois and William Scott.

25.2.20 Went to Hollybrook and attended the funeral of John Becher to Aughadown church. The date and place of John Becher’s funeral is new to me.

27.11.20 Sent my letter to Richard Edward Hull Esq [married to Henrietta Becher], congratulatory on the birth of his son and heir. Not a child known to me, so sadly, this baby probably died.

2.1.22 Johnston church (between Milford Haven and Haverfordwest). In this church yard my Aunt Evans was buried. [footnote 24]. This one was especially interesting to me, as “Aunt Evans” would be Elizabeth [nee Becher] Evans, wife of William Evans of Bulgaden Hall. I had no idea what happened to Elizabeth.

12.10. 22 Tom Somerville married to Miss Townsend. This is Colonel Thomas Somerville to Henrietta Augusta Townsend.

ON the O’Donovan’sdeath the tithe devolvd to his kinsman Morgan ‘Donovn whose descendant is the currrent The O’Donovan.

The estate of around 3,000 acres devolved to his wife the former Miss Powell from Wales. On her death it went to her nephew Colonel Powell. Apparent he was a fair landlord but not being an O’Donovan he was not hugely popular locally.

From Diary of Richard O’Donovan, of Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland, said the Whiteboys had been caught in a pitched battle with police and troops on January 25th nine had been found guilty of Insurrection Act and hanged. This was prompted by an Excise raid on a Poteen Making Operation which developed into a running battle with the Whiteboys.

Quoted p. 50 in Donald McKay, ‘Flight from Famine’ The coming of the Irish to Canada’, Natural Heritage Books, Toronto, 2009.

Some Local Customs Personnel:

Skibbereen
1695	Edward Boyle	Collector	Customs service in London 1701 referes to Mary widow of Edward who had been plundered of £600 by ‘Tories’ in 1695
Died 1849	William Brickley	Late Customs and Excise
1806, died	James Campbell	Gauger	Gauger of up to 30 years
1851	A. Chatfield	Collector C&E	Signed ‘No Popery Petition 1851’
1848	Michael Doyle	Comptroller Customs may be Skibbereen	Married Skib 1848 Mary Jane, 2nd daughter J. Crolwey, Surgeon.
1778-	William Hingston	English Customs service later Light House Keeper Cape Clear	Whitehall one of 21 children of Lt. Edward Hingston adn Lucia Small, he m Jane carroll 1897 she was botn Old Court, 1783-1837.
1864	G. W. Hughes	Collector	Skibbereen Eagle
Dead pre 1791	Jones	Collector	Dauaghter died 1791 he is ‘late’
1862	Thomas H Love	Receiver of wrecks	March sale of Frederick Brunner Bantry	Skibbereen Eagle	John H. Love married Mary Elizabeth Collins , Skibbereen, may be related, March 1842, eldest daughter of late Thomas Collins Esq.
1816 Report	Edward Pentland Surveyor of Excise £130 p.a., Ambrose Allisor, Peter Tatton, Gaugers £80 p.a.	Edward kearney Schull Gaugher £80 pa
1739	Luke Mercer	Commander Thompson adn Vessel Bessrig	Creagh, m Mary Townsend (widow of John Becher), later estate Brennanstown, Co. dublin
1867	Mr. McIntosh	Inland Revenue Officer	Transfered to Castlepollard
1851	H.H. Lyold	Comptroller, C&E	Signed ‘No Popery Petition 1851’
1808	Samuel Morris	Collector Customs	Wife Sarah nee O’Donovan son Danile Kings Inns 1808 he then retired	May be related to Benduff Morrises
1839	Daniel O’Connell	Excise Officer	Giving evidence Ballydehob licencing prosecution
1860	James O’Donovan	From Skibbereen prominent in Exise in Swansea	Descended from O’Donovans of Myross one of the oldest in Ireland	Pikes Biography 1909
1846	Michael Daly, Comptroller, Custom House, New road, James Lynch Tide waiter,
1829	Laurence Regan	Customs man	Bantry voter registration. Regan, Laurence, High-st., Skibbereen, Custom-man	2 Lives, townland of Gortnaclogh
1829	John Regan	Customs Man	Bantry voter registration. Regan, John, High-st., Skibbereen, Custom-man	2 Lives, townland of Gortnaclogh	10b
1822	Alleyn Roche	Tide waiter
1761	Thomas Spaigh	Collector	UK Archives
1806 Died	Edward H Townsend	Collector	Died at Castletownsend	Saunder’s Newsletter 16th September 1806
1763	John Sweetnam	Surveyor of Excise adn Gauger
1796	John Sweetnam	Surveyor	Bridgetown, married Mrs Christina Attridge widow, dau of later Redmond Fitzgerald Esq., Cork City	Hibernain Journal 1796
1840	Townsend	Collector
1775-1847	Henry Owen Townsend TCD	Landwaiter, Dublin, 1810	Malmaison, Castletownsend, son John Mary Morris m Sarah Fenwick, Anne Homan, Vice Chairman Skibbereen Poor Law Union, Secretary Commissioners of Irish Fisheries 1820	Col John Townsend Australia History item 223
1737-1810	John Townsend TCD	One of His Majesties Commissioner’s of Revenue 1799	Sheperton	MP Dingle, Castlemartyr. Barrister
1851	Augustus Warren	Gauger	Signed ‘No Popery Petition 1851’
1781, 1790	Richard Wright Esq.	Collector	Son Samuel Townsend Wright Esq. married at Christchurch Cork to Miss Louisa Digby, 30th July 1790	Rosemary Ffoliott	It is likely that he got the Customs job throught the Townsend colllection

Crookhaven
According to legend the Hulls and Coughlas were intermittently involved in smugling
1700	Thomas Dyer	Tide Waiter	Referred to in Dives Downes visitation
October 1707	Complaint by William Lowdnes to Rev Com Ireland	6 East India Company Ships arrived and broke bulk to prejudice of Customs Revenue	British History Online
1788	James McCarthy and Isaac Baker	Revenue Officials	Deed witnesses, O’Driscoll/McCarthy Middle Men	Ther is also a Baker family at the time tithe Proctors to the absentee rector, mortal enemies of newly appointed Daniel Coughlan in 1810s
c1820s	Michael Tisdall	Customs in England	Rockhouse, Clifton, father Rev. Fitzgerald Tisdall, Rector Kiloe, Founder Crookhave Yeomanry Corps murdered Priest’s Leap, 1809
1759	Goodwin Swift		Toby Bernard, Mizen Journal 2004. Extract from letter of Godwin Swift (Customs Man), 16th May 1757 from Crookhaven ‘Now with regard to the place and provisions: you are to know that you see nothing here but mountains of rock (not cliffs) and yet those rocks are more dear to poor people or strangers as the lands within 2 miles of Dublin. There is here undoubtedly great plenty of fish, yet the people are so lazy they’d rather live on salt mackerel and potatoes then give themselves the trouble to take fresh fish. There is no garden stuff here, very bad mutton and lamb, and no beef, not a tree or even a shrub within 8 miles of the place….	30th June 1757 ‘…nothing but rocky mountains around us for 20 miles, where not even a slide car can go the road, nor any other cattle than little horses bred and used to this country….you can’t conceive the wretchedness of it. We have neither bread to eat nor malt liquor wine or cider to drink, nor meat except a little mutton and bad lamb. Our liquor a bad toddy, our victuals potatoes and fish and lie in a cottage..

Baltimore
1656	Roger Haughton	Collector	May be from Shanagarry East Cork Penn Quaker connections
1732, 1753	Richard Tonson Collector, possible JP	Francis Post died in affray, he Cutoms seized 80 anchors of Brandy from the sloop ‘Conerrt’ belonging to Murtogh mcwn Sullivan Rossmacowen	The Sullivans and Thomas Trenwith attacked the Customs killing Thomas Post a Proclomation was issued for their seizure	Tonson may be an ilegetimate descendant of Hull
1820	Patrick Harrington 32 years service Cockswain, Murtogh O’Sullivan 24 years service Cockswain,	W Anderson Cockswain 40 years service Jeremiah Denshy 28 years service Cockswain	Parliamentary Report 1820
November 1826 Died	Hungerford Baldwin Esq.	Port Surveyor	Died at Castletownsend	Rosemary FFolliott
1840	F Skuse Revenue Boatman, D Buchanan Boatman (Coast Guard) 28 years service retirement bodily debility		Parliamentary Report 1840
1761	Thomas Spraigh	Collector of Baltimore	Freedom of Cork 1761, brother-in-law Jhn Hely Hutchinson, MP, Provost Trinity College
1624	James Stanley	Searcher	Present at Leamcon at seizure by Sir William Hull of cargo of Dutch Pirate Claes Campane	Caulfield’s Annals of Cork
1824	SAM YOUNG,	Surveyor, Bantry, Feb. 19.	SAM YOUNG, Surveyor, Bantry, Feb. 19.	Shipwreck

 

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1845, John Coughlan of Crookhaven, West Cork Owner of Whaler ‘The Wild Irish Girl’. Rescues Schooner British America (Canada) ‘Exile’.

Courtesy:

Toby Bernard, Mizen Journal 2004

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.

‘Now with regard to the place and provisions: you are to know that you see nothing here but mountains of rock (not cliffs) and yet those rocks are more dear to poor people or strangers as the lands within 2 miles of Dublin.  There is here undoubtedly great plenty of fish, yet the people are so lazy they’d rather live on salt mackerel and potatoes then give themselves the trouble to take fresh fish.  There is no garden stuff here, very bad mutton and lamb, and no beef, not a tree or even a shrub within 8 miles of the place….

30th June 1757  ‘…nothing but rocky mountains around us for 20 miles, where not even a slide car can go the road, nor any other cattle than little horses bred and used to this country….you can’t conceive the wretchedness of it.  We have neither bread to eat nor malt liquor wine or cider to drink, nor meat except a little mutton and bad lamb.  Our liquor a bad toddy, our victuals potatoes and fish and lie in a cottage..

May be related:

Crookhaven
According to legend the Hulls and Coughlas were intermittently involved in smugling
1700	Thomas Dyer	Tide Waiter	Referred to in Dives Downes visitation
October 1707	Complaint by William Lowdnes to Rev Com Ireland	6 East India Company Ships arrived and broke bulk to prejudice of Customs Revenue	British History Online
1788	James McCarthy and Isaac Baker	Revenue Officials	Deed witnesses, O’Driscoll/McCarthy Middle Men	Ther is also a Baker family at the time tithe Proctors to the absentee rector, mortal enemies of newly appointed Daniel Coughlan in 1810s
c1820s	Michael Tisdall	Customs in England	Rockhouse, Clifton, father Rev. Fitzgerald Tisdall, Rector Kiloe, Founder Crookhave Yeomanry Corps murdered Priest’s Leap, 1809
1759	Goodwin Swift

Daniel Coughlan, Crookhaven, Involved in relief 1822, Scathing on absentee tithe holders Rev. Francis Langford, Co. Limerick and his proctor William Switzer and Dr. Traill of Co. Antrim, rector of Schull and his proctor Joseph Baker.  He advised Dublin Castle that much of the local recent troubles was due to the severe tyranny and oppression of such petty tyrants.  Brother of famous Royal Navy Captain Coughlan who was raising money in 1822 in London for relief.

 

 

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1844.  Parliamentary Enquiry into The State of Land in Ireland, Sitting, Bantry, Skibbereen, Bandon, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland.

 

 

To look at the transcripts scroll to the page approximate number.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/281538