Memoir of Blind Harpist Arthur O’Neill, visit to Murtagh Mac Owen O’Sullivan at Berehaven, Co. Cork, Milesian Festival held by Lord Kenmare c 1720.

I travelled the principal part of the County of Cork without anything occurring worth relating. I spent one Christmas with a gentleman that lived in Berehaven named Murtagh MacOwen O’Sullivan, who lived in a princely style. My boy came to me one morning when in bed, who desired me to bless myself. I asked him why so. ‘Och, Sir ! there is a pipe of wine and two hogsheads of some other liquor standing up in the hall with the heads out of them and a wooden cup swimming in each of them for anyone that pleases to drink their skinful.’ I mention this merely to record the hospitality of the gentlemen of the province of Munster. Nor was this the only instance of it, as…

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Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork. (Shandon inserted as it happened to be in same Journal)

Courtesy 1944 JCHAS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Healy_(politician)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hely-Hutchinson_(statesman)

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1829.  Death of The O’Donovan, General O’Donovan in his 61st Year, Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork. and Passing of Chieftainship of Clann Cathal to Montpelier (Douglas, Cork) Branch.

He married a Miss Powell from Wales and on his death the estates passed out of the family ending up ultimately with her nephew.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, (1801-1902), 1874, Bawnlahan (O’Donovan Estate), Leap, Resident, £67, 2nd. son Major Edward Powell and Eleanor d James B. Buchanan, m Mary Ann d Lieutenant-General Hutchesson, oldest son Rev. Francis Perry Hutchesson b 1843, Newcastle. Estate to Powells from Lieutenant-General O’Donovan (The O’Donovan) on death of his widow to her brother Major Powell.  Probate last address 2, Alfred Place, Dover, in Ireland £1,886. Land record, 1870, 2,475 acres.

Doctor John O’Donovan queries into family:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit

Lt Col Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, Skibbereen, West Cork, son of Daniel O’Donovan, The O’Donovan of Clancahill’ and…

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Letting of 18 Gneeves at Kealties, Durrus, West Cork from Stephen Derinau to Young Roycroft, Gent, Clonee.

Enclosed is a will of Roycroft presumably the same family copied pre 1922 destruction.

Deriniau is probably a representative of the Congreve or Tonson family as the land eastward was part of the  Bandon Estate at the time rented to the Evanson. to the west the O’Donovan Estate.

Clonee:

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Sale of Durrus/Bantry, West Cork Estate of Arthur Hutchinson Deceased by landed Estate Court, 1854 including…

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West Cork Railway Map 1940, Comic Postcard Schull/Skibbereen Tramway, Timoleague Line with Ardageen, last Train out of Macroom 1953, 1956 Diesel Railcar

Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, a granddaughter of Rev. John Madras who married Miss Evanson of Durrus, married a grandson of The Liberator, Daniel O’Connell,  1867, he was son of Charles O’Connell, Resident Magistrate, Bantry.

Ann Maria Curtis, Dungourney, granddaughter, of Martha Evanson, Ballydivane/Friendly Cove, Durrus, married 1867, The Liberator’s (Daniel O’Connell) grandson (Son of Charles Resident Magistrate, Bantry).

John T. Collins, Newspaper Extracts, Died 2nd March 1754 Mrs. Madras, w (wife or widow?) of Rev. M Madras.

Updated:

Genealogy of Cork Huguenot Madras family post 1750 from Amsterdam by letter from India Office 1939, interconnected families Longfield Connor Fort Robert, Evanson Durrus, Travers Butlerstown, Baldwin Curravody, Alleyn.

The Rev John Madras referred to was a curate in Durrus c 1800 when he married Miss Evanson.

From Meziere Brady:

Graveyard inscription courtesy Richard henchion.

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Youngest Son of Madras family mentioned as life also Evansons, Whites of Bantry:

http://members.pcug.org.au/~nickred/deeds/memorial_extract.cgi?my_memorial=436594&my_indexer=Roz%20McC

Durrus 1800 John…

Rathclaren:

https://www.google.ie/maps/search/Rathlaren+Cork/@51.656201,-8.7002135,14z

Bathurst, New Brunswick:

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The ending of the Napoleonic Wars withe Battle of waterloo caused a huge collapse of farm prices and triggered a widespread depression. In the greater Bandon area this was worsened by the dependance of the textile industry much home based which could not withstand competition from England.

There are many accounts of widespread distress among Bandon weavers.

Emigration from the Bandon/Rathclaren area, Co Cork from c 1815 to Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

Sharon Haggerty, in Vancouver, British Columbia, has set up a focus e mail for those interested.

An account of the Kilgariff, Clonakilty, West Cork, Eedy family to Clifton and Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada some of the names mentioned Knowles, Bateman, Beamish, French, Morris, Stanley, Woulfe, Crowley, O’Donovan, Cahalane, Donoghue, A Glass of Whiskey Ballygurteen Fair prior to Emigrating.

can-chaleur-bay-irish@rootsweb.com.

Aibidial Gaoidheilge Agus Caiticiosma, First Book Published in 1571, in Irish, in Ireland Acquired by Trinity College Dublin, 1995, TCD Hurling Team Photo, 1880. One Time Member Sir Edward Carson (Lord Carson).

Courtesy Four Courts Press.

The hurling photo has sticks probably home made called ‘hurls’, the form played by the club was that common in the North of Ireland ‘Camánanacht’ more like modern shinty.  When the GAA was established in 1884 the southern version Iomán was adopted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carson

During the Home Rule Crisis in the early 20th century a ditty ran as follows ‘Sir Edward Carson had a cat and every time it caught a mouse it cried ‘No Home Rule’.