Earlier Chieftains:

 

Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan of the Enniskillen Dragoons (c1764-1829), Chieftain of the O’Donovans, Bawnlahan, West Cork.

 

The O’Donovan Bawnlahan Estate passed by Marriage between the General and a Welsh Lady, Miss Powell then to her brother and his son.

 

Survey and Map by Robert J Wolfe December 1835, of Estate of Major Edward Powell (Estate of the Late Lieutenant Colonel Richard O’Donovan of the enniskillen Dragoons by his marriage with Miss Powell of Wales) at Drinagh, West Cork showing Major Tenants, Keelnacolly, Corrigfadda, Corrigagrinane, Kippagh, Knockmore, Corriglas Pike mentioned.

Henry Wintrop ‘The O’Donovan’ (1812-1896),  TCD, MA, DL. Pre 1910, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son Rev. Morgan, Corl ed Dr. Coughlan, m Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilbollyowne, Co.Limerick.  Son Colonel Morgan William MA, JP, ‘The O’Donovan’ and Alicia Jones.

Colonel Morgan William O’Donovan or ‘The O’Donovan’ -1870), MA, ‘The O’Donovan’, Mountpelier, Douglas, Cork,  m  Alicia Jones, 1863 patron Masonic concert Skibbereen, subscriber 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.  Probate to son Henry Winthrop O’Donovan, Lissard, Skibbereen, £35,000. Land record, 1870, 3,620 acres.

Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son of Henry Wintrop ‘The O’Donovan’ MA, DL. and  Amelia d ‘The O’Grady’, Courcy O’Grady, Kilbollyowne, Co.Limerick. Ed. Haileybury and Oxford, Lieutenant-Colonel Munster Fusiliers, Boer War, Chairman Carbery Agricultural Society..  M Mary Eleanor, odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, listed 1921.

Scholar Dr. John O’Donovan on O’Donovan Genealogy 1840s:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCiBrLiBZtDkU8Ug5hZn9HnIZgfN1dvK2kkfaDUb600/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

 

 

https://m.facebook.com/198591360267122/photos/a.241868365939421.55845.198591360267122/836370889822496/?type=3&theater

Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, one of Ireland’s first photographers from 1854, Glenbarrahane, Castletownsend, West Cork, and Coghill Magistrates.

Another early photographer at the time was the Rev. Freke of Durrus but thee is no trace of his work.

Getty Museum:

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3512/sir-john-joscelyn-coghill-irish-1826-1905/

 
  
Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet, and typically known as Sir Jocelyn Coghill, came from a long-established and wealthy Yorkshire family. He was born in Co.KIlkenny. His second marriage brought him ties to Ireland. When or how he became interested in photography is not known, but Coghill began taking paper negatives by the early 1850s or even before. His photographs reflect the interests of a wealthy amateur and include family portraits, idyllic country scenes, and architectural studies. Coghill became briefly active in photographic circles in 1857, contributing a view to The Photographic Album for the Year 1857; showing nine landscapes in the “Manchester Art Treasures” exhibition; and presenting a paper to the Dublin Photographic Society that detailed his second major photographic tour, a trip through Switzerland in the summer of 1856. He had by then established a strong preference for wet-collodion negatives, perhaps having been cautioned by a colleague who had lost several weeks worth of work when his waxed-paper photographs failed to develop properly. As far as we know Coghill exhibited only one other time, twelve Irish views in the Dublin International Exhibition in 1865. 
  
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007) 
  
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included here with permission. 
  
Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012. 

Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill Bart., DL, (1853-, 1889, Glenbarrahane, Castletownshend, Son Sir John Jocelynn (possibly one of Ireland’s first photographers from 1854) and Frances 3rd daughter Lord Plunkett, m Elizabeth Hildegarde Augusta d Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry Somerville, Drishane, Skibbereen, listed 1922.

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Colonel Kendal Josiah William Coghill CB (1832-, 18??, Cosheen, Castletownshend, Son Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill , 3rd Baronet, Dublin, ed Cheltenham, Service Burma, Indian Mutiny, Egypt, m Anna Marin d Right Honourable Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland

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Old Caheragh Church and Caheragh Poets in Irish, Na Baróidigh, (Seán, Seámus, Riocárd) Lissane, Donnacha, Muiris and Paul Ó h-Anngáin, Donnacha Ó Briain, Diarmuid Ó Crualaoich, Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (lived later Glanmire), Church Bell Provided by Patrick Rocky Mountain O’Brien of Dromore.

Thanks to Peter O’Driscoll, Aughaville now San Francisco.

It is difficult as you drive from Drimoleague to Skibbereen over the improved farmland now used for intensive dairying that pre Famine, Caheragh was one of the most densely populated, non urban areas in the world.  The parish had a population of more than 10,000.  It was along with Drinagh and Castlehaven in the 18th century  a centre of Gaelic Poetry.   Eugene Daly in the Skibbereen Journal has recently published an article giving more details:

In the records of mid 18th century the Catholic Church in  Caheragh was a small shed and cabin:

Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

The old church was built by Fr. Dore, one of a number of Tipperary Priests seconded to the Dioceses of Cork.  Father Dore appears as an elector for O’Connell/Roche in the 1841 election.  It is believed that the church was built with stones from Ballyourane Castle formerly a McCarthy castle.

The Priests were dynamic school and church builders, introduced Parish Registers and were highly active politically.   Included were Father Quin in Durrus, Father Ryan Drimoleague and Father Doheney in Dunmanway.

Father Quin:

The Progression of the Parish Priests of Durrus, West Cork. from having the Tithe Proctors of the Rev. Alcock attempt to seize the bed of Father Quinn in the 1820 to Father Michael Daly 1875 Living in former Landlord Evanson House at Friendly Cove, and Father Bowen living at former Evanson Landlord House Ardgoena and Various Clergy living in another Evanson House, Durrus Court in the early 20th Century and some 19th and early 20th century Priests, including Father Bernane, Kearney..

The Tithes in 1833: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman.

Father Ryan:

Dublin Penny Journal, Journey to Durrus 1836, from Butler’s Gift (Drimoleague), West Cork, John Windle Cork Antiquarian and Father John Ryan, Drimoleague to the Rev. Alleyn Evanson.

Old Caheragh Parish Church, the church was built by Rev. David Dore about 1823, There are are four or five priest buried in the grounds Rev, Dore, Rev Palmer, Rev Wall, Rev Stack & Rev Hayes. Two outside on the grounds and three inside under the church floor.

The arch over the front gate with the bell tower was donated by a Patrick O’Brien who was related by marriage to the O’Driscoll of Coolbawn. He is better known as Patrick Rocky Mountain O’Brien.  He did write a book still available, Title Birth and Adoption: A book of Prose and Poetry.

Patrick Rock Mountain O’Brien was involved in the Fenian Movement in New York where he died about 1925. He was born in the townland of Dromore and one of the few people to board a ship bound for America at Bantry Bay. He would be a relative of the O’Brien family in Dromore.

The grounds where the church was built was part of Nick Keohan (Keohane) farm also the new graveyard.

In the 1960s after the new parish church was built the parish then purchased land for the new graveyard attached to the east side of the old church grounds. During the purchase they had the area mapped. nearby was part of a Goggin family farm and the old Murphy home. The original Murphy home was on no-mans land a rocky place by the side of the road. (Better known as a home built by a family that had been evicted by a landlord a family that found shelter by the side of the road) .

When you entered the gate to the church grounds on your right stood the old parish hall and attached to the hall was Danny & Nell O’Neil’s home. Just a few feet away was Jerry & Mary Murphys home where they raised 12 children on Jer Murphys wages as a shoe (cobblers).

On the stage in that Parish Hall in the winter of 1959 a play called the Damsel from Dublin was performed involving the match maker stage name was Brian Cleary that trick-ster.

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Caheragh Poets, courtesy  Eugene Daly’s 2015 article in Skibbereen Historical Journal:

1920s, Dorothea Browne, 2nd Woman to Qualify as a Solicitor in Ireland.

 

Her mother was Mrs. Brown, nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna.  her grandmother was Mercy Peer that family probably originally from around Crookhaven of Huguenot extraction. She went on to found the firm of PF O’Reilly with her husband which is still operational.  He husband was a Fine Gael Senator and later Taxing Master of the High Court.   Her sister qualified as a doctor and was the first female Area Health officer in East London.

 

Some Cork Lawyers:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMDGaZCW9Z6Cq_C_gwm_FB2orzTe2WxR0WcLXjZZO40/edit#gid=0

 

 

Thanks to Peter O’Driscoll, San Francisco.

“This Classic report of 1948 score” this is a report on a famous (road bowling contest between Jimmy Crowley and Dan Dempsey, Glandore, it was reported in The Kerryman a newspaper on Saturday, April 3rd 1948.

The contest took place on the Skibbereen Castle Townshend Road on Sunday, March 21st, 1948.

The two reasons this contest became famous are:

One the score was never finished.

Two it took place when bowl playing was making a transition from been played on a rough surfaces road to played on tar surfaced road.

Jimmy Crowley and two brothers: his older brother John and younger brother Joe are better know as the Crowley family of Colomane that owned and operated a Ransom Thrashing Machine. They were one of the first to bring this modern type Thrashing Machine to West Cork. They traveled from farm yard to farm yard to thrash the local farmers grain crops of oats, barely & wheat.

This Crowley family were first or second cousins to Jeremiah Wholey that is listed in the new post on West Cork History (of May 2015) Bringing the Iron Wheeled Threshing Machine from Kealkil, West Cork from 12th October to West Waterford in the 1940s and other areas. These Crowley also followed in the foot steps of Jeremiah Wholey to some area of County Waterford.

Jeremiah Wholey, Bringing the Iron Wheeled Threshing Machine from The Mealagh Valley, West Cork from the 12th October to West Waterford in the 1940s and others in the area, 1910 Threshing Photographs, Coomkeen, Durrus, Jack Attridge’s home built Threshing Machine.

Bowling:

Possible origin of Bowl Playing in West Cork from North of England Weavers via Armagh, Bowling in Caheragh and Mick Barry training UCC Bowling Team 1970s

Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England.

Flor Crowley, Founder An Ból Cumann:

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

1700 Bishop Downes Visitation. ownership Drimoleague:

 

 

 

 

From Dublin Journal, 1st November 1748, Rent Roll of Tenants 1748, Drimoleague, West Cork. Estate of Robert Sandford, Agent James Harris, Boulteen, Bandon.

Rent Roll of Tenants 1748, Drimoleague, West Cork.  Estate of Robert Sandford, Agent James Harris, Boulteen, Bandon.

Morgan Donovan is one of the O’Donovans, Mountpelier (Douglas, Cork) acquired through Ronayne marriage who converted to the Church of Ireland some of  whose descendants became ‘The O’Donovan’ though disputed among other branches.  This branch of the O’Donovans originated in Union Hall.  On the death without issue of Lieutenant General O’Donovan of Bawnlahan (Myross) early 19th century the Chieftainship passed to this branch i.e. the tithe ‘The O’Donovan’.  In the 19th century there was a marriage between the Ronaynes and Evans of Caheragh, both are buried in old Caheragh graveyard.  Possibly the magistrate:

Morgan Donovan, 1733, possibly Ronayne’s Grove, Great Island, Cobh, widow Mary died 1770.

He holds Lisangle in Caheragh.  One of the families there were the Evans one of whom Rachel married 1805 James Crowley, probably from Ballyourane, an Apothecary in North St., Skibbereen and a brother of ‘Dr’ Jerry Crowley also an Apothecary of North St.

The Tonsons are descendants of Sir Richard Hull of Leamcon Manor, Schull.  later they lived outside Fermoy.

Tim Donovan is the ancestor  of Timothy O’Donovan, Richard O’Donovan and Dr. Daniel O’Donovan, all Magistrates,  of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus Timothy is buried in the old Caheragh churchyard.  According to tradition the rents for Caheragh were received by the the O’Donovans at The Cove in gold sovereigns al all washed in boiling water.

The Kingstons became one of the most numerous families in the area with Church of Ireland, Methodist and Catholic branches.

Harris/Daniel connection, The Harris family are also in Durrus 18th century possibly linked to the Evansons:

 

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The Limrick house is the large one to the left in the 1900 Lawrence photo.

Limrick Family of Union Hall, (earlier Goleen), Kinsmen of Benjamin Sulivan (Ó Sullivan Mór) Beneficiaries of Prize £1 million after Battle of Seringapatam, India and Reach of East India company to West Cork.

The East Company recruited for their Army and Navy well into West Cork  There are references to recruits from the most remote townland from Beara from c 1760.  The Skuse family of Clashadoo Durrus and Deerrynafulla, Ballydehob is descended from an ancestor born in India the father presumably from Glengariff serving as a soldier in the service of the East India Company.

Chronology of Limrick name, including historical events in West Cork, by Reverend H.L.L Denny, including East India Company, Relation, O’Sullivan Mór.

Criss-crossing the North Atlantic mid to late 18th century, and letter November 1752 by Rev. James MacSparran from Narraganset, Rhode Island, New England, to his friends back in Ireland including one to Paul Limrick, Rector Schull, West Cork, which commiserates with him about his son Robert marrying a Catholic. “Papists are Christians, and are to be preferred to many Protestant heretics I could name to you”

John Limrick, Esq., (1812-1890), 1860, Union Hall, 2nd son of Captain William Somerville Limrick who died 1831, Union Hall, patron Masonic concert, Skibbereen, 1862, sitting Skibbereen 1850, subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876. 1870 return, 8,181 acres. Some of his wealth came from his father who, having probably served with Arthur Wellesley (Wellington) at the battle of Seringapatam in 1799, gained a substantial amount of prize money in India. The prize money after Seringapatam was over £1M distributed among the victors. Col. Limrick then became a member of the East India Company on his retirement, maintaining a London address.  Col. Limrick’s brother, Rev Paul Limrick, garrison chaplain at Fort William in Calcutta, is also believed to have owned considerable property in India. I guess that family connections to the Sullivans  (Benjamin Sullivan Cork Attorney self styled Ó Sullivan Mór kinsman to Laurence Sullivan, Chairman East India Company) would have helped.  It  assumed John Limrick’s daughter Lucy inherited his estate which then passed onto the Spaight family.    Executor of brother Dr. William Limrick 1869, £3,000.  Probate  1890 to William Tower Townsend JP, Myross Wood, effects £3,647.

 

Other Limerick Magistrates:

Rev. Paul Lymerick, 1729, Goleen. m daughter of Doctor Robert Gourney, Prebendary of Comber, daughter Bridget m Sir Benjamin Sullivan (styled Ó Sullivan Mór), Clerk of the Crown Co. Cork and Waterford 1742.

 

Benjamin Sullivan:

 

1720-1751, 1767

Benjamin Sullivan, self styled O’Sullivan Mór, according to Denny Lane

Attorney, Barrister, Notary Public, 752 Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor) 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 Atttorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the Right Hon John Sullivan of Richings Park, Co. Bucks, Privy Councillor, MP Old Sarum, Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan Captain RN and MP for Seaford Baronet UK 1804.

Protest against him being appointed Freeman as he allegedly did not serve 7 years as an apprentice, 1742, Memorial 77771. May be related to Laurence Sullivan speculation the Laurence was an illegetimate elder brother, d so Lawrence may be variation of Lábhrás a name common among tthe O’Sullivan Beres, Chairman of East India Company. Parlimentary biography gives his address as Dromeragh. (Dromreagh Durrus?)

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm

Oldest son Benjamin, 2nd son John,Memorial 1764, 161080, Thomas Lloyd Councellor mentioned with John Lloyd Victualler, deed of 1750 mentioned wit George Dunscomb and Nicholas Weekes, Councillor Cork

 

 

Dr. William S. Limrick (1812-1869), Pre 1831, Union Hall, brother of John, family descend from Rev. Limrick in Goleen early 18th century, Probate from Ballinacollah House, Cork to Paul Limrick, Union Hall, JP, brother,  £3,000