Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BXwDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA2

The Society had its roots in the Religious Controversies within the Church of Ireland in the 1820s and 30s and a reaction against Catholic Emancipation.

Among the figure involved in those times was the Rev. Caesar Otway, a somewhat exotic character combing the role of vigorous Orangeman as well as Antiquarian, Celtic Scholar and editor of the Dublin Penny Journal. He was a patron of William Carleton.  He travelled in the 1830s from Schull to Durrus and remarked at the industry of local farmer carrying creels of seaweed up the hill in Dunbeacon before the present Mine Road was built.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/caesar-otway-journey-mount-gabriel-1822/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/caesar-otway-skull-to-bantry-1822/

The Societies activities in Cork involved the Rev. Nagle and probably the Rev. Crosthwaite…

“Donn Fírinne was in the clouds last evening – today would be bad…” Donn Fírinne was a Munster fairy-king always connected with weather omens: …the people said that Donn collected the clouds on his hill (Cnoc Fírinne, Co Limerick) and held them there for a short while to warn of approaching rain, and from the reliability of this sign came his name, Donn of Truth… (from The Festival of Lughnasa, Máire MacNeill, University College Dublin 2008)

Only a month ago I wrote a post about a very low tide: I hadn’t realised that we were heading for an exceptional event, the lowest tide of the century! So I felt that our readers deserved to have this circumstance recorded as well, even though it involved braving what was probably the least hospitable weather that the spring has come up with so far! I should have taken notice of the omens from Donn…

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?vpsrc=6&ll=51.900409,-8.468056&t=m&source=embed&ctz=0&ie=UTF8&msa=0&spn=0.01324,0.025749&z=15&hl=en&mid=zpToGqj0GcYM.kXaXtDtRSH9E

Done by Aughadown ICA for 25th anniversary.

Aughadown townlands etc

Map from West Cork Genealogy:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Courtmacsherry,+Co.+Cork/@51.6338546,-8.7146887,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844594b253080cf:0x0a00c7a99731f960

Some of the records were copied by the Vicar for transmission to the Rolls Court at the end of his incumbency. At that time the Church of Ireland was the State Church and ran a parallel legal system dealing with probate matters.

Among the names in the community are those long associated with the area O’Hea, McCarthy, Collins, Coghlan, Hurley, O’Sullivan. The Travers family are associated with the sea as Master Mariners, Ships Husbands. There a number of marriages from Tide Waiters early Customs and Exise and Water Guards early Coastguard some English. During the Napoleonic Wars the signal tower at Seven Heads was occupied and some of the personnel married locally.

The Lislie Landlord family is represented, and their marriages including on to a Charles Andrews a Barrister of Comber, Co. Down in 1839.

A number of pages are missing as they did not copy well.

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