This list comes mainly from the online catalogue of the Bntry House papers held in University College Cork, Boole Library with some from the Paddy O’Keeffe (Bantry businessman and historian) in the Cork Archives.

Occupations Bantry

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The National Archives in Dublin have two rent books from the Bantry Estate dating from the 1780s (ref MS. 5944 and 5955).  These contain details of tenancies and tenants in the Bantry and Beara areas.  Quite a numbe of the tenants are of the O’Sullivan family and would be in the category of middle-men.

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Date Name Occupation Place Bantry except where otherwise indicated

1565 Sir Owen O’Sullivan Landowner Granted Whiddy Island by crown, Paddy O’Keeffe papers.§
1591 Hugo Brightoy and James ~Derbyshire Fishery owners Whiddy Island Took a mortgage from Sir Owen O’Sullivan and his son Owen O’Sullivan mentioned in Paddy O”Keeffe papers Cork Archive.
1608 Edward Davenant (d…

From Dr O’Donovan’s ‘Sketches in Carbery’:

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John Collins, of Myross, whose name we have often quoted already, was a man gifted with natural qualities of a high poetical character, which, had
they been matured by art, or had he lived under more favourable circumstances, might probably have placed his name high on the roll of poets. However,
as we learn from the records of his life, he had to devote the greater part of his days to the drudgery inseparable from the office of a village schoolmaster,in order to support a wife and large family. The opportunities which university education, spare time, and command of money, give to others to cultivate the mind were wanting in his case, as, being thrown upon his own resources, he had to educate himself m a great measure, and at the same time procure a livelihood.

The late great Dr…

History of Parish of Kilmacabea (Glandore and Leap), West Cork, 1904, J.M. Burke B.A., B.L., Genealogies, Townlands, Coppinger’s Court, Antiquities.

1904 JCHAS, Burke was a colourful character trained as a Barrister, Editor of the Southern Star, TD, Blueshirt. His theories and opinions did not always receive universal approval.

Kilmacabea 1904 J.M. Burke

The King’s Writ runs in West Cork from 1298 A.D. Sheriff in Cork paid £36.15.4d for having the King’s peace by Mathew, Richard, Thomas Barett, Richard son of William Barett Junior, Basilia Barett Lochlain O’Donovan MacCrom, Molise O’Donovan McIvor, William O’Donovan, Thomas O’Hea, James O’Brian, Dermot son of Neil O’Donovan, Thomas son of Alexander Roche, Gilliosa O’Hegarty and Auliff O’Tuohy.

This is from a lecture on the Illen Valley, Skibbereen given c November 1960 by John T Collins, Cork Historian. It is from the Paddy O’Keeffe papers Cork Archives.

Collins and O’Keeffe were part of a historical circle that included Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan Clonakilty and Basil O’Connell (historian of the O’Connell family), Paddy Madden Cork Librarian. They were active in the 1940s 50s and 60s doing field trips research and in communication with leading figures in the Public Records Office, National Library.

The Paddy O’Keeffe papers have extensive…

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Philip O’Hea of Barryroe, Co. Cork at risk of Losing Seven Ploughlands during Penal Laws, Makes them Over to Colonel Townsend and Receives the Townland of Listonkin, Rent Free For Life Ancestry of John O’Hea, Justice of the Peace, Clonakilty, 1840.

Genealogy of the The O’Hea Family of South West Cork from c 1295 AD.

Out for a day with the Ferret in Dunmanway, West Cork, Long Ago.

From Flor Crolwey’s book ‘In West Cork Long Ago’. Mercier Press 1979. A fascinating account of old times. He was from Behigullane, Dunmanway a National Teacher at Behagh National School. He was a founder of ‘An Ból Chumann na hÉireann’ in 1954 the body regulating road bowlng.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/sports-recreation/sport/road-bowling/bol-chumann-na-heireannth/
The book is redolent of De Valera’s Ireland of the mid 20th century, the views now seems narrow.

Rabbits:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/the-rabbit-trade-in-the-1950s-before-mymamatosis-in-the-1950s-snaring-ferrets/

Irish on ordinary speech Drinagh, West Cork 1940s agus Gaelige i measc an Bhéarla:

irish Drinagh Skibbereen

Courtesy Skibbereen and District Historical Society

Drinagh, Máirín Lankford, Vol 8 2012

Gaelige, Donnachadha Ó Seaghdha, Vol 5, 2009

Rooska:

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Moulivard:

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Rounds, Holy Wells, at Rooska, Moulivard and Father Bernane from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

Devotions to Father Bernane, Moulivard, Durrus, 28th June, Holy Well Visitation at Kil-na-Comoge, Kealkil, Lady’s Day 15th August, Pilgrimage to St. Finbarr, Gougán Barra, West Cork, 25th September.

• Ahagouna (Irish: Ath Gamhna, meaning ‘Ford of the calves’). In Clashadoo town land.

• Ardogeena (152 acres) (Irish: Ard na Gaoine, meaning ‘Height of the flint stones’). On the east side is Lisdromaloghera (Irish: Lios Drom Luachra, meaning ‘Fort of the rushy ridge’)

• Ballycomane (1349 acres) (Irish: Baile an Chumain, meaning ‘town of the little valley’). Part of it is Ballinwillin with a boulder burial,with the remains of a millrace which may have been used by monks at the nearby church of Mouliward, ringfort and standing stone pair. Mass rock in Vincent Hurley’s farm. Former graveyard in Sam Attridge’s lands no remains.  The oldest family are probably the Hurleys (Vincents), they moved from Ballnacarriga outside Dunmanway and Darby Hurley who held Ballycomane Middle was evicted by Lord Carbery when a rent payment was missed, the farm was then given to the Vickerys c 1770…