1654. Sir William Petty’s Analysis of Agricultural Prosperity Parish of Durrus, West Cork.


1654.  Sir William Petty’s Analysis of Agricultural Prosperity Parish of Durrus, West Cork.

 

Trinity College Dublin has digitalised the Down Survey Maps. If they are compared with the listing of landowners and lot numbers you can see the make up of the land.   It is divided into pasture, arable, woodlands, mountain and bog   Compared to the early 19th century Ordnance Survey Maps it is remarkable accurate even to the present day.  The maps were prepare for the forfeitures and subsequent plantations arising from the failed 1641 uprising against the English.

It is somewhat surprising how much of active arable land was available.  The main structure in the area was Coolnalong Castle still a very impressive structure.  Remarkable it was built around 1620 without defensive structures in the obvious belief that some type of peace would prevail.  This was the Castle of the McCarthy Mucklaghs adn the local area must have been pretty productive to afford such a structure.

Maps and Owner Listings:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/152lXzCwoM-yxx5oLFK1fXQi49t5u-DppX0D-XXTQBl4/edit#

 

Legal Tenure:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ASX2u0qoIxsBW1YhlYSawdLX2Y_XpL_vXcpblsgApXY/edit#gid=0

 

Sir William Petty, 1623-1687, True Genius, founder of Modern Economics and Government Accounts and Prohobition of Non-Protestants working in his Berehaven Mines

 

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

 

‘Three Hours Work a Day is Quite Enough’, James Maynard Keynes and Kerry Economics

The Potato. From Peru to the Great Irish Famine.


The Potato.  From Peru to the Great Irish Famine.

 

From the world’s oldest botanic gardens at the University of Padua, Italy.

 

 

Bantry Bay and Fort, 1685 with Possible Early Depiction of Potato Garden.

 

The Grufán and the Spade, Abandoned Famine Lazy Potato Beds, Kicrohane, West Cork.

 

Pre 1965 farming practices West Cork, Red Elephant and Epicure potatoes, working with the grufán, threshing with the steam engine, winnowng of wheat and oats, working in the bog.

 

Green Tops, White Rocks, Sherry Blues, Cruffles, Flounders, Seed Potatoes, For Sale, Skibbereen, 1863.

 

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

 

The Grufán and the Spade, Abandoned Famine Lazy Potato Beds, Kicrohane, West Cork.

 

 

 

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Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor, 1827, Some West Cork Schools


Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.


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Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/SinglebyAshWed.html

https://irelandsotherpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/the-skellig-lists/

http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_021652

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The Skellig
(2nd edition and supplement)

1910

By John Thomas (Jack) Roycroft b. Jan. 2, 1889, son of Samuel James Roycroft and Martha Skuce

The closing night of Shrove is here
All dark and stormy wild and dear
While o’er the road to Skellig Rock
The lads and lasses are seen to flock
Alone I stand and view the scene
Well knowing what this march doth mean
An even number forth doth go
Forth to that rock for weal or woe,
I scan the figures as they pass,
Along o’er the heather and dewy grass,
I think I’ve counted about two score
Yet indeed there may have been many more.
Some faces look merry, some look grave,
While dresses flutter and tresses wave.
And the stars through the clouds peep merrily down
To…

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Benjamin Sullivan, (1720-1767), O’Sullivan Mór, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork and Waterford Kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company.


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Benjamin Sullivan, (1720-1767), O’Sullivan Mór, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork and Waterford Kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company.  Barry Crosbie’s book 2012 Cambridge Press says they were brothers and sons to Philip O’Sullivan and Miss Irwin from a trading family with Roscommon and Cork connections.  He suggests Benjamin became a Judge in Calcutta, which seems unlikely.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=DpvRF0W5KIMC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=clerk+of+the+crown+for+cork+1750&source=bl&ots=US9h-C-l5P&sig=BNrHrORmT-zggnlr20xZ3uVq9eg&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiymt717p3LAhVDnw4KHbbMB_kQ6AEIHzAB#v=onepage&q=clerk%20of%20the%20crown%20for%20cork%201750&f=false

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/laurence-sulivan-1713-1786-cork-born-chairman-of-the-east-india-company-and-m-p/

According to Denny Lane, Cork Antiquarian, Benjamin Sullivan styled himself the head of the O’Sullivan Mór, Sept.

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1720-1767 Benjamin Sullivan Attorney, Barrister, 1752 Clerk of the Crown for Counties Cork and Waterford. Thomas Harrison writing clerk to him 1742, Married Bridget Limerick daughter of Dr. Limerick, Rector Kilmoe (Ballydehob), 1742 Father Philip mother Elizabeth Irwin a Presbeterian, Parish of St Paul. Benjamin Sullivan Senior Esq., eminent Attorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. Son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the…

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


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

James Hutchinson Swanton

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/james-h-swanton-j-p-c1815-1891-leading-methodist-and-businessman-gortnagrough-ballydehob-and-rineen-co-cork-and-wesley-college-2/

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