Parish Priest of Schull and Kilmoe, West Cork, Rev. Jeremiah Hart converts to the Church of Ireland in 1774.

From Irish Genealogical Abstracts from the ‘Londonderry Journal 1772-1784’. The Journal makes frequent references to conversions as to that of Daniel O’Sullivan and Timothy Harrington, Parish of Bantry in the 24th November 1775.

Sometimes conversion may have been for doctrinal other times for Commercial reasons but by the 1777s the Penal Laws were in abeyances. Probably more frequently marriage was the reason.

In the 1790s was the sensational conversion of Father Daniel McCarthy Parish priest of Durrus.

In the early 18th century ‘Perversion’ of Protestants to Catholicism was a major concern in Church of Ireland reports.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xdMM_GItPxoC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=-RzMch1XLJ&sig=d_acNPy6H1BMnO3x3-hMDTQTDVM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d-JnVI6qMcXBPJ7RgLgL&ved=0CDUQ6AEwCQ#v=snippet&q=Cork&f=false

From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’

From John T Collins, newspaper gleanings.

Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.

Baltimore:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Baltimore,+Co.+Cork/@51.4804517,-9.3600582,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a32d9e6ca7db:0xa00c7a99731fe20

Castlehaven:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castlehaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.5108647,-9.1919605,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845af85f3f3c235:0x1800c7a937dfd780

On the north side of the Mizen we found Canty’s Cove. The little road which approaches the Cove from the west has been recently resurfaced, and there have been some major restoration works on the stone jetties and steps there. Don’t try to reach the Cove from the east side: a trackway is shown on the OS map (88), but it is virtually impassable – even on foot – at this time of the year, as the harsh winter storms have waterlogged the ground and submerged parts of it.

Wild coast beyond Canty’s Cove

Our reason for visiting the Cove? We were looking for pirates! Or, at least, for traces of them… We had heard that there are ‘pirate steps’ in the vicinity of the Cove, and we had unearthed some legends of Canty himself: a notable pirate and all-round rogue.

As with many of the ‘secret’ quays hidden away around the…