Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Welply was born in Balineen 1866 and died in Belfast at the age of 90. He was a School Inspector and after Partition opted to serve out his time in Northern Ireland. The wills were copied pre 1922 most are now destroyed. The RCB Library in Rathgar in Dublin have some of his papers including many visits to Archives and Libraries in Ireland and the UK.

This is taken from Dr. Albert Casey’s collection.

In 1945 he was a member of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society with an address in Greenisle, Co. Antrim.

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Francis McNamee had a piece in ancestry.com in 2010 taken from Gentleman’s Magazine Vol 19 October 1749 page 463 in relation to Sir Richard Cox and Dunmanway:

Submission from the Remberances, October 14th:

This writer quotes a faying of Themistocles the Athenian, Put but a poor and languid city under my care, and I will render it rich and flourishing; Which kind of ability; is what alone. he says, constiutes a great and able politician. Sir Richard Cox of Ireland in the year of 1733, came to the possession of a large, fruitful but uncultivated tract of land, inhabitated by a race of beggars, grown by habitual wretchedness so hardened that tho’, no sensible of the smart, they were not ashamed to prefer hunger and idleness to labour and competency. He therefore, directed his thoughts to remedy this evil; and wisely concluded that nothing but the establishment of a staple…

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Lease of Three Ploughlands at Ballydevlin (Goleen), West Carbery, William Richard Hull, (Descendant of Sir William Hull), Gunpoint to Cornelius Driscoll (likely ancestors of Driscoll/O’Driscoll Middlemen). Alexander O’Driscoll named in numerous Swanton, Attridge, Clerke deeds as witness and his children as lives in Sub Leases from Becher and Other Head Landlords in District.

Losses of Sir William Hull Leamcon, Schull, West Cork, 1641 and his Fishery at Newfoundland, part of greater Fishery which suffered from Bank failure in Bilbao in Basque Country 1641, Cornish Mining links.

Mining at Lemcon Manor Wm.H

Insolvent Debtor Wm.H

https://durrushistory.com/2014/11/18/hull-1624/

One of the descendants of Sir William Hull of Leamcon, was a WILLIAM HENRY HULL. I don’t have a d.o.b. but he was of Leamcon. His parents were Richard Edward Hull 1785-1846 and Henrietta Becher. His sister Maria Henrietta Amelia Hull marr. James Hingston, and other sister Lucinda Jane Elizabeth Hull marr. John Richard Hedges Becher.

On the 1st July the Lancaster Gazette carried a report on the Monster Meeting addressed by Daniel O’Connell.  Quoting the ‘Cork Examiner ‘, it repeated the reputed number of attendees of 500,000.

Daniel O”Connell arrived heading four stage coaches and a battalion of bands.  Parishes from all over West Cork were represented by crowds headed by the respective clergy of each parish.

Among the parishes were,

Bantry, Thomas Barry P.P.

Drimoleague,  John Ryan P.P., John Creedon C.C.

Kilmaceba,  Joseph Sheehan P.P.

Castlehaven, James Mulcahy P.P., Daniel Freeman C.C., Michael Ross C.C.

Aughadown, Maurice Geary P.P.

Durrus,  Richard Quin P.P.

In his address to the crowd Daniel O’Connell stated the it was for the right of every man over 20 years of age having a house, so they would  all have a vote except some idle gorsoons (young fellas), without a dwelling and who could not get some honest girl to…

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1845 Appointment of Rev. William Moore Crosthwaite, Vicar of Kilcoe, to Vicarage of Durrus, His familiarity With The Irish Language Renders This Appointment To this Extensive parish Peculiarly Sensible.

William Moore Crosthwaite Minister, 1842-1854. He was fluent in Irish which was remarked upon at the time as making his suitable for the parish. His family said that his death was brought on by a fever contacted in the famine when he was doing relief work. In London in 1847 seeking to raise funds for relief and wrote to London Times. He attended the opening of the new Church of Ireland Church on Cape Clear in October 1849 when the Vicar, the Rev. Edward Spring preached in Irish. The itinerant preacher Rev. Daniel Foley, accompanied by Rev. Fisher of Altar and Toormore, visited his parish in early 1849. He had a Curate, paid for by the Irish Society in London…

Images: we take them so much for granted, because it’s easy for us to go out with a camera or phone and capture a place, an event or our friends and family. I’m sure we have now all got hard disks, memory sticks or ‘clouds’ full of hundreds of pictures – perhaps far too many for us to appreciate individually.

Here are some images of Ireland, both old and new. The old ones are taken from the collection of Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, who documented life in rural Ireland between the 1930s and the 1950s – that’s between sixty and eighty-something years ago. I was fortunate enough to pick up a copy of his book of photographs when it first came out: now it’s ‘rare as hen’s teeth’*… The new ones are taken locally by my favourite contemporary photographer – Finola.

The thing about a photograph is that you know it is an…