1859.  Military Enquiry into  Activities of Co. Antrim Militia into Alleged Orange Riots Pre 12th July at Kinsale Co. Cork. 1,077 Panes of Glass Broken, Houses of 20 Protestants and  700 Catholics  Attacked,  100 Militia Men Brandishing Bayonets, Father Carton Attacked, Counterattack, Ballad of Kinsale or the Defeat of the Antrim Orangemen.

Peadar Ó h-Anracháin was able to recall this in a 1947 Southern Star Article.

There is a welter of contradictory evidence but no denial that significant property damage done.  The newspaper reports go into great length.

Some British Army Regiments in West Cork

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Cork Examiner 27th and 29th July 1859

 

 

 

Financial Data on Cork Magistrates, Probates, rentals etc Many from Landed Gentry

In many case the Estates and values are a lot smaller then what would be expected.  Clearly wealth resided with the Cork Merchants and Professionals. The Big Daddy Is Arnott who arrives with nothing from Scotland and ended up leaving over £600,00 probably in the hundreds of millions now and very charitable.

 

Some Cork Magistrates

 

Amended11thMay2016MagistratesintheCommissionofThePeaceinIrelandfrom1434Co.CorkandCorkNativesMagistratesAbroad.

 

 

 

Finance/Probate

 

To get some idea of comparative values, an RIC man in 1900 earnings allowing for uniform, accommodation and pension say €75 per annum, Garda say €30,000 net in 2016 a factor of 400 perhaps on the high side or Resident Magistrate €500 per annum District Justice €90,000 net of income tax, factor of 180.

 

Boyle Aldworth, Newmarket, married 1736 Jane Oliver, Clonodfoy, Limerick, marriage portion £4,000.

John R.  Beecher, Hollybrook, Skibbereen,1805 he assigned property to trustees to provide £225 pa for wife should she survive him.

Annual Estate Rent rolls estimate 1811, Bandon £30,000, Devonshire (Cork), John Smith-Barry, Lord Shannon, Lord Kingsborough, Longfield all £20,000

Mitchelstown Castle 1820s cost of building £100-200, 000, never lived in, burned 1919-1922 now Co-Op.

Richard Townsend rent roll 1820s estimate £8,000.

George Earl of Kingston, Mitchelstown estate estimated in 1823 at £42,000 per annum

Richard/Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty, 1825, annual income £2,000

Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Durrus, 1853, probate, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing).

Richard Hedges H. Beecher Esq., 1838, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, estate was sold in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851, 17,000 acres, 42 townlands, 8 parishes, debts in 52 charges amounting to £52,275. The sale realised £52,275, rent of £4,500 per annum Sir William Henry Lyons, 1858, Glanmire Road Cork, Merchant, probate £20,000.

William Fagan, 1859 £16,000, MP, Feltrim, Cork.

Major John (East India Company) Townsend Somerville, Point House, Castletownshend, 1861  £3,000

Philip Somerville, 1861, Prairie, Schull, £4,000

Paul Limrick, Solicitor, 1864, Union Hall, £180.

Becher Lionel Fleming (1821-1869), Landlord, Probate £1,400, 1869 to Becher L. Fleming, Oldcourt and Rev.Horace Fleming, Kilnagross, Clonakilty.

Colonel Morgan William O’Donovan or ‘The O’Donovan’, 1870, Montpelier, Douglas and Lissard, Skibbereen, Landlord, £35,000.

Richard  Quin/Quinn, 1870, Fir Grove, Innishannon, Landlord, £10,000.

Sir Thomas Deane Knight 1871,  Architect, 26 Longfield Terrace, Dublin, £14,000

Ludlow Bamish, Brewer, Cork, 1872, £5,000

Richard Wallis Goold Adams 1873 James Brook, Cloyne.  Landlord and Land Agent, £4,000.

Timothy O’Donovan, Landlord, Durrus, 1874, £2,000.

Daniel Donegan, 1874, Carrigmore, Cork, 1874, £20,000, by order of Court Donegan v Donegan.

Francis 3rd Earl of Bandon, Landlord, 1877, £18,000.

George Achilles Daunt, 1878, Landlord, Compass Hill. Kinsale, £7,000.

James Redmond Barry, Glandore, Landlord,  Fishery Commissioner, 1879, £1,500.

Sir Thomas Tobin 1881, Gunpowder Manufacturer, Ballincollig,  Probate in Ireland £5,303

Lord Bandon, 1881, 40,941 acres.

Nicholas Dunscombe, 1882, £6,358.

 

Richard Donovan, Clerk of Crown, Lisheens, Ballincollig, 1883, £10,164.

Richard Wheeler Doherty, 1883, Oak Villa, Bandon, Merchant, Land Agent, £8,170.

Thomas  Fuge, Rock Lodge, Youghal, 1883, £2,386.

William Wise, 1884, Dundanion, Blackrock, Cork, £51,000.

Edward Day Stokes, Corbally House, Riverstown, 1885, £1,259.

Captain Thomas Stuart, Retired Captain Royal Navy, Combermere, Glounthaune, 1885, £1,281

James Fownes Norton Wise, 1886, Rostellan Castle, Midleton, Ramsgate, £19,849.

Captain John McDonell Webb, Rosanna, The Hill, Douglas, Cork, 1886, £6,205.

Edward Bayly Warburton 1888, Resident Magistrate, Bantry, £1,385.

Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, requested by Lord Ardilaun rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.

John Limrick, 1890, Union Hall, £3,647.

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1891, Miller Landowner, Rineen, Skibbereen, £3,807.

Captain Thomas Somerville, 1891, The Prairie, Schull, Beach, Bantry,  £568, widow Millicent Hart M.E., Ardrala, Newcourt, Skibbereen 1898, £970.

Charles Peter Teulon, 59 North Main St., Bandon, 1892, £14,421.

Dr. Bartholomew W. Verling, 1893, Springfield Lodge (Oxclose), Newmarket, Retired Naval Surgeon, Landlord, Probate £1,792.

Francis Hodder Power, Roskeen, Kanturk, 1893,  £1,230.

John Henry Sugrue, 1893, Sidney-Place, Cork, Merchant (Glen Distillery), £77,372.

Thomas Hoskins Tarrant 1894, Charlesfort, Cobh, £1,252.

Sale Devonshire Estates to Sir John Arnott, 1896, £270,000.

William Starkie, 1897, Resident Magistrate, Queenstown, Cregane Manor, Rosscarbery, 6, Edward St, Regent’s Park, London, £3,710.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L., 1898, Union Hall, Drishane, £489.

Herbert Webb Gillman, 1898, Landlord,  Clonstead House, Coachford, £2,294

Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.

Richard Charles Pratt, 1890, Compass HIll, Kinsale, £2,704

 

Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.

Richard Charles Pratt, 1890, Compass HIll, Kinsale, £2,704

John Richard Wheeler, 1901, 85 North Main St., Bandon, Captain 2nd Regiment of Foot,  left £1,017.

George Henry Swanton, 1902, Fortview, Ballydehob, Small Landlord, £325.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, 1902, Bawnlahan, Leap, in Ireland £1,886.

Michael French, 1904, 1876, Westwood, Rosscarbery, £1,054.

Richard Lane Allman, 1904, Distiller, Bandon, £22,034.

Robert Dunscombe 1906, Mount Desert Cork, £841.

Simon Dring (1854-1909), Tower Hill, Glanmire, and Glengara, Killeagh. Son Robert Harding Dring, m. 1893 Maria Louise Finch da Captain John, Nenagh, succeeded by son Simon.  Family traces descent in Ireland from 7th century.  Member Irish Landowners Association 1910.  Died Cromwell Road London probate to widow £12,858

Simon Dring (1854-1909), Tower Hill, Glanmire, 1910,  £12,858

Henry Lavellin Puxley, 1909, Landlord, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire,   Probate in London Irish estate £2,251 .

 

Major-General William de Wilton Roche Thackwell C.E., 1910, Aghada Hall, Rostellan, Gloucester, in Ireland, £2,157

The Right Honourable Hedges Eyre Chatterton, 1910, Glandore House, Leap £39,980

James Clugston Allman, Distiller, Bandon, 1911, £11,789.

Robert Day, 1914, 1889,  Myrtle Hill House, Cork,  Merchant, £46,271.

 

 

 

1846.  Arrival of Cork Examiner Awaited This Evening.  Celebration of the Liberation of William Smith O’Brien, MP, Young Irelander, All the Purchasable Tar Barrels were Brought Up, Amateur Band  Prepared ‘Honoured Son of O’Brien, ‘Scourge of the Dane’, Three Cheers for O’Connell, O’Brien and  Repeal.

 

O’Brien was a Protestant Landlord resident in London a direct descendant of Brian Ború who defeated the Danes at the Battle of Clontarf 1014.

 

 

Cork Examiner 03 June 1846

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O%27Brien

 

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

 

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

 

 

 

 

1846. Further from Villicus of Ballydehob, Pigs Wandering and their Owners fined.  Cause of Mischief Abuse of Grand Jury presentments by Land Owner in building Mount Gabriel Road to Favour his Land in time of Great Distress. High Praise for the action of James Hutchinson Swanton in practical Relief and in the Middle of Starvation Cattle Being Distrained for Rent.

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus.  Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague. She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate.  He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790. The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century. Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family. Slowly lands including Blackrock House now Bantry House acquired by Richard White (Ancestor of Lord Bantry).  Estate sold Landed Estates Court 1850s.

James (‘The Governor’) Hutchinson Swanton (c1815-1891), Rineen Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837. Praised for his personal generosity and practical work in Ballydehob during Famine.  Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. Prominent Methodist. In July 1869, it was agreed that Fifteenth Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland purchase Skibbereen premises from James Hutchinson Swanton for £250.From 1875 Carrisbrook House, Pembroke Ballsbridge.  Major businessman, shipowner, miller of Lorriga, Faran, Rineen with McNamara, landowner, Bendufff Slate Quarry, Director Provincial Bank, sitting Skibbereen 1861, subscriber (Pembroke Road, Dublin), Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.   Major land purchaser post Famine.  1870, 6,049 acres, 122, Pembroke Rd. Dublin.  Died Cheltenham.  Probate to James Swanton, Eastview, Glandore, £3,807

From the Recollections 1938 of Ben Good, Millowner, Rineen, West Cork of James Hutchinson Swanton (‘The Governor’). Businessman, Millowner, Shipowner, 1815-1891

 

 

Obituaty Swanton:

1891. Obituary James Hutchinson Swanton and Other Swantons.

Cork Examiner 22 July 1846

Cork Examiner 23 September 1846

 

 

 

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1833, ‘Villicus’ Writing, Ballydehob, West Cork Where ‘The Old Women Who Remain Up Every Night Up Lest they May Awake in The Morning With Their Throats Cut’, The Geese are Often Confined As Pledges for Rent, Collection of the Hated County Cess, Higgling over the New Line of Road between Bantry and Crookhaven, the Road from the Rebellious Village  to Four Mile Water (Durrus) in an Impassable State, Tithe Proctor to Absentee Rector, Parson Traill.

The rebellious village may be either Schull of Ballydehob.  The tithe extraction in the locality was very severe.  Shortly after the campaign inn Muintervara (Durrus Parish) had succeeded adn tithes ceased. This was due to the combined efforts of Timothy O’Donovan JP and his entourage including Father Quin PP of Durrus.

 

 

Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 29 January 1833

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.joycetower.ie/   Daniel O’Connell, Bantry Gang, Victoria Hotel, Cork.

 

James Joyce was on his paternal grandmother’s side a direct descendant of Daniel O’Connell.   His father in various guises features prominently in the works.  He  was on the edge of ‘The Bantry Gang’ of politicians but after the fall of Parnell loathed Tim Healy.  In his youth he studied medicine for a period in what is now UCC.  College folklore had it that up the 1970s, the desk with his initials carved into it was in the medical lecture theatre. The family owned extensive property around Rocksavage/South Terrace in Cork which was over time dissipated.  James Joyce’s journey with his father to Cork and his stay at the Victoria Hotel is in Portrait of an Artist

1830. FEINAGLIAN BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, FOR CLASSICAL & GENERAL EDUCATION, Clonakilty, opposite the Emmet Hotel in Shannon Square (now Emmet Square), principal Edward B. Trenor, ex-Sizar and Exhibition Scholar, TCD, Principal. Boarders £30 per year, Day Pupils £6.  Within a few minutes walk from the School, the pupils have the advantage of sea-bathing, MR. TRENOR always accompanying them.

From Galwey family history, p. 100.

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Oillscoilan t-Sleigh, The Academy of Master Madden late 19th century, Ardfield, Clonakilty to Prepare Boys for British Civil Service Exams, Pupils included Michael Collins and Sam Maguire.

Tom Hosford, Died 1938 A unforgettable schoolmaster, Skibbereen, early mid 20th century.

William, bapt 25 (28) Mar 1830, 28 Jul 1846 listed for academic success at Feinaglian School for Classical & General Education, Clonakilty with his brothers Daniel, Eugene, and John. This was a private boarding and day school (on a site opposite the Emmet Hotel) in Shannon Square (now Emmet Square), principal Edward BTrenor AB (TCD); offered Greek, Latin, English, Antiquities & Ancient Geography, Modern Geography, Euclid, Algebra, etc; no corporal punishment. Gregor Von Feinagle (1765? – 1819) of Luxembourg wrote The New Art of Memory (1812) and Dublin had a Feinaglian Institute set up in 1813 100 with the object of “the improvement of education for the higher classes of society”. 5. Daniel, bapt 25 (20) Sep 1

(CC 28/7/1846) – SHANNON-SQUARE, CLONAKILTY – FEINAGLIAN BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL, FOR CLASSICAL & GENERAL EDUCATION, – EDWARD B. TRENOR, AB, ex-Sizar and Exhibition Scholar, TCD, Principal.

AT the Half-Yearly Examinations held on the 26^th, 27^th and 30^th ultimo, the young gentlemen, whose means are subjoined in the order of merit, were distinguished for superior answering in their respective classes.

In Greek – Broderick, James; Gallwey, Daniel; Gallwey, Wm.; Beamish, George, Square; Holland, Thomas; Lucy, Jeremiah; Beamish, Geo., Ballivackey; Hungerford, Richard; the last three being equal by general answering during the half-year.

In Latin – Broderick, James; Gallwey, Daniel; Gallwey, Wm.; Beamish, George, Square; Lucy, Jerh.; Holland, Thomas; Gallwey, John; Beamish, Geo., Ballivackey; Hungerford, Richard; the last three having cut for first place. Beazley, Abm.; M’Carthy, Jerome; Beazley, Thos.; Beamish, Thos., Ballivackey; Beamish, Thos., Dunmore; Beamish, Henry, Dunmore; Cruiesse, Ringrose L.; Beazley, Michl.; Cruiesse, Ambrose H.; M’Carthy, Dennis.

In Latin Composition – Broderick, Jas.; Beamish, Geo., Square; Lucy, Jerh.

In English do. – Holland, Thos.; Beamish, Geo., Square; Broderick, Jas.; Gallwey, Daniel; Lucy, Jerh.

In Antiquities & Ancient Geography – Broderick, Jas.; Holland, Thos.; Beamish, Geo., Square.

In Modern Geography – Hungerford, Richd.; M’Carthy, Jerome; Gallwey, John; Beamish, Geo., Ballivackey; Gillman, Richd.; O Hara, John; Beamish, Henry; Beamish, Thos., Dunmore; Cruiesse, Ringrose.

In English Grammar & Parsing – Beazley, Wm.; Gillman, Richard.

In Euclid – Broderick, J.; Beazley, Wm.

In Algebra – Broderick, Jas.

In Writing – Beazley, Wm.; Broderick, Jas.; M’Carthy, Jerome; Gillman, Richd.; Beazley, Abm.; Gallwey, John; O Hara, John; Noonan, Francis; Gallwey, Eugene; Beamish, Henry.

In Reading – Wicherly, Christopher; Mansfield, Thos.

In Spelling – Lucy, Jerh.; Broderick, Jas.; Holland, Thos.; Beamish, Geo., Square; Gallwey, Wm.; Gillman, Richard; Hungerford, Richd.; Beazley, Abm.; M’Carthy, Jerome; Gallwey, John; Beazley, Michl.; Beamish, Thos., Dunmore; Cruiesse, Ambrose H.; Beamish, H.; Gallwey, Eugene; M’Carthy, Chas.; Noonan, Francis; O Hara, John.

MR. TRENOR can accommodate Ten Boarders, who shall be treated, as far as respects domestic comforts, as members of his own family.

Corporal punishments are not resorted to. Confinement after School hours, and the imposition of additional lessons being substituted. The pupils are catechised in the School, once a week by a Clergyman of the parish.

Business will be resumed (DV) on Monday, 3d of August, when the attendance of all the pupils is earnestly requested.

Within a few minutes walk from the School, the pupils have the advantage of sea-bathing, MR. TRENOR always accompanying them.

Terms for Boarders, £30 a-year – to be paid quarterly – for day pupils, £6 a-year, do.

A well-qualified ENGLISH ASSISTANT, who can also assist in the junior classics, having Testimonials of capability and experience, may expect a Liberal Salary. Apply at the Constitution Office, or to MR. TRENOR, Clonakilty.- Shannon Square, Clonakilty, July 22^nd.

1863.   Ellen, who also reposes here, was the last of the McCarthy Reaghs

From updated History of Galwey family online, p 97.  Excellent history amazing level of details of times adn customs as well as genealogy:

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Michael Gallwey, b. 15 Jan 1803, RM West Cork (appears appointed 24 May 1848), ran a stage coach service Skibbereen to Cork, later at Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, JP Co Cork. He was said to have “some of the fine old characteristics of the real Irish gentleman, with a sympathetic knowledge of the condition of the country and of its people. He was a fine Gaelic scholar and speaker …” (Cork Examiner). He m. 25 Feb 1827 Ellen (d. 27 Jul 1863), dau of Daniel McCarthy of Gurtnascreeny, Co Cork. He d. 14 May 1866 (bur Templeglantine An inscription on his tomb reads ‘Ellen, who also reposes here, was the last of the McCarthy Reaghs’)

Michael Galway, RM, Kilkieran House?, 1861.  Supporting Alexander O’Driscoll, JP suspended, Bandon 1841. Skibbereen 1847. Skibbereen 1847 distress meeting. Presentment sessions Ballydehob 1845 address Gortnascreena. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty 1847. Gallwey, Margaret, Miss, ‘not 15 years of age’, dau Michael, Esq., JP, Skibbereen, at Gurtnascreena, Skibbereen – (CE 3/9/1845)  Attending Railway meeting Drimoleague 1856.  Michael, b. 15 Jan 1803, RM West Cork (appears appointed 24 May 1848), ran a stage coach service Skibbereen to Cork, later at Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, JP Co Cork. He was said to have “some of the fine old characteristics of the real Irish gentleman, with a sympathetic knowledge of the condition of the country and 97 its people. He was a fine Gaelic scholar and speaker …” (Cork Examiner). He m. 25 Feb 1827 Ellen (d. 27 Jul 1863), dau of Daniel McCarthy of Gurtnascreeny, Co Cork. He d. 14 May 1866 (bur Templeglantine An inscription on his tomb reads ‘Ellen, who also reposes here, was the last of the McCarthy Reaghs’)