1822. Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson, to Lord Lieutenant to Provide New Road from Bantry to Head of 1822.  Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson,  Brookfield, Co. Cork, to Lord Lieutenant to Provide New Road from Bantry to Head of Dunmanus Bay where People are Wanting Employment and Deficient of Food. and New Road Needed between Skibbereen and Crookhaven Where it Was not Possible to use Wheeled Carriages.


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1822.  Petition enclosed by Nathaniel Evanson,  Brookfield, Co. Cork, to Lord Lieutenant to Provide New Road from Bantry to Head of Dunmanus Bay where People are Wanting Employment and Deficient of Food. and New Road Needed between Skibbereen and Crookhaven Where it Was not Possible to use Wheeled  Carriages.

 

It is not clear if Brookfield is a name for Durrus Court or in Bandon

Nathaniel Evanson, 1799, Four Mile Water, Durrus, 1831, listed at North Main St., Bandon 1824, son Nathaniel Kings Inns 1818 he is Brookfields,  Bandon.   Senior member 1810, Bandon Militia.  Member or father Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1822 petitioning Chief Secretary for road works in Durrus/Kilcrohane in view of want of work and deficiency of food.  1826 election voted for Hutchinson.  Daughter Dora then at Bandon married Abraham Jagoe, Kinrath Cottage, Dunmanway she died at Blackrock, Cork, 1863.  In 1835 his rent charge at Dromnea, Gearhameen and Rasavourney, Rossiviree in Durrus was granted to Charles and Abraham Evanson entitling them to vote.  Charles possibly nephew son of his brother Charles one time Lord Mayor of Cork.

John Hyde, 1797, Creg(golympry), Kilworth, MP for Co. Cork, 1831.  Petitioning as MP for Youghal, with Lord Bantry 1822 to Lord Lieutenant for new road Bantry to head of Dunmanus Bay.  Carbery Freke map of Durrus area 1788 indicated Hydes as owner of Clonee townland.

 

 

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October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar


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October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

From Dr. Richard Caulfield’s Annals of Kinsale:

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1824, Evidence of Alexander O’Driscoll. Magistrate, Skibbereen, of Sale of Justice by Digging of Potatoes and Cutting Turf for Magistrates, Notorious Extraction of Tithes by Reverend M. Morritt, Skibbereen, West Cork.


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1824, Evidence of Alexander O’Driscoll. Magistrate, Skibbereen,  of Sale of Justice by Digging  of Potatoes and Cutting Turf for Magistrates, Notorious Extraction of Tithes by Reverend M. Morritt, Skibbereen, West Cork.

Alexander O’Driscoll, 1799, Clover Hill, Skibbereen, (two of same name in Skibbereen at the time not clear who is who) Middle man, 1824, Clover Hill, 1831, 1822, correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820.  Superceded 1810-30, listed 1838, dead with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland  1837.

Alexander O’Driscoll, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle,  1827 attended dinner given by Jeremiah Murphy, Hyde Park, Cork with Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Murphy, John Cotter, Perriers, Gibsons, Jonas Travers. 1835…

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Alice Beamish b 1797, Acres, Drimoleague, Co. Cork, only person found in 1930s by ‘Believe it Or Not’ to have lived three centuries


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The Beamish Book has an entry for Alice Beamish born 17th December, Acres, Drimoleague, married William G. Cotter b 13th November 1793, Derishel, Caheragh, died 11th March 1900, Clarkson, Monroe Co., County, New York.

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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.


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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

From Maziere Brady.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

There are references to the Coughlans, this branch wee protestant from around 1600 associated with Hulls and Boyle. Jeremy/Jeremiah married Susan Evanson of Durrus was attorney, seneschal, agent with Andrew Crotty for Boyle/Devonshire Estates in East Cork/Waterford. The Carrigmanus Coughlans are probably ancestors of one branch…

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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.


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1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

From Maziere Brady.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

There are references to the Coughlans, this branch wee protestant from around 1600 associated with Hulls and Boyle. Jeremy/Jeremiah married Susan Evanson of Durrus was attorney, seneschal, agent with Andrew Crotty for Boyle/Devonshire Estates in East Cork/Waterford. The Carrigmanus Coughlans are probably ancestors of one branch…

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1845, Projected Bandon to Bantry Railway with Provisional Committee, Magistrates, Landowners, Businessmen., Traffic Projections, Anticipated Packet Station, Railway eventually built by William Martin Murphy in the 1880s.


1845, Projected Bandon to Bantry Railway with Provisional Committee, Magistrates, Landowners, Businessmen., Traffic Projections, Anticipated Packet Station, Railway eventually built by William Martin Murphy in the 1880s.

There was an old man in Scart near Bantry who as a small child remembered the railway being built and lived to see the line lifted after 1961.

From:

Herapath’s Railway Journal

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