Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, 1896/7 Prizewinners with Photo of Past President 1892-7, Aylmer Coghill Somerville Deputy Lieutenant and The O’Donovan, President 1899.


 

Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, 1896/7 Prizewinners with Photo of Past President 1892-7, Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL, and The O’Donovan President 1899.

Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL, 1891, England,  Tally-Ho House, Castletownshend, listed 1913, President of Carbery Agricultural Show 1892-7, as was his father earlier in 1840s. listed at Shanacourt Castle, Castletownshend, 1921. Listed at Shanacourt Castle, Castletownshend, 1921.  Executor £489, of father Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Somerville D.L.(1825-1898)

Colonel Morgan William ‘The O’Donovan’ Oxon (1861-1940), CB, D.L., MA, 1888, ‘The O’Donovan’, Clann Cathal, Lis Ard, Skibbereen, son of Henry Winthrop ‘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, Colonel South Cork Militia Boer War, Succeeded Colonel Aylmer C. Somerville 1899 as President Carbery Agricultural Society.  Presented organ to Creagh Church to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.  1893 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.  Member Royal Society of Antiquaries 1889.  Considered the preservation of ancient documents a matter of importance. M Mary Eleanor, (Madame) odo Rev. J Yarker Barton, Chaplain to British Forces, she chaired the Women’s Emergency Recruiting Committee WW1, Skibbereen, listed 1921.   Attending 10 Grand Jury presentments

George Rye, Macroom, Co.Cork, Early Agriculturalist, 1730 on the Burning of Lime.

Agricultural Prizes, 19th October 1863, Bantry, West Cork, William Sullivan, John Tobin, Whiddy Island, Cornelius O’Donovan, John Godfrey, Newtown, John Vickery, Ballycomane, Pat Sweeney, Bantry, Cornelius O’Donovan, Coomkeen, John Lynch, Richard Tobin, Droumlicaroo, Michael Morris, Friendly Cove, John Keohane, Dromclough.

Munster Flax Society Visit to Bantry Farms 1860: Prizes James Philips, James Vickery, Ballycomane, Charles Dukelow, Best Dairy, Coomkeen, Improvements on Bandon Estate, Durrus 1869, praise for Charles Dukelow, Coomkeen, Slate Quarry, Barytes Mines,Considerable employment. Local Agent Colonel Bernard aided by Charles Skuse, Clashadoo. Bantry Agricultural Society, Annual Exhibition November 1861, at The Square, Attending: John Warren Payne (Land Agent), John Young, William Young, Robert White, J.P. Glengariff, George Bird (Land Agent), Bantry, John E. Barrett, Carriganass Castle (Land Agent, Kenmare Estate), Dr. McCarthy, Bantry, Rev. George Shean P.P., Bantry, Rev. Mr. Delat. C. C., Bantry, Christopher Gallway, J.P. Killarney, (Agent Kenmare Estate), William Jagoe, Richard Tonson Evanson (Ardgoena, Durrus, Landlord), Thomas T Curtain, Bantry, Cornelius O’Leary, Newtown, William Jagoe, Michael Hungerford Morris (Friendly Cove, Durrus, Landlord), J. Cullinane, Bantry, George Robinson, J. P. Coronea, Skibbereen, Landlord.

Minutes of Ballineen, Co. Cork, Agricultural Society 1845-7, ordered that pamphlet on turnips be translated into Irish for some of the Protestant famers, turnips, flax growing plight of labourers, attendance by name and townland 1847 contrasted with 1946 location of families.

 

 

 

 

Prizewinners, 1896 and 1897 Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen.

 

The names were abstracted by Teddy O’Regan, in an article on the Carbery Agricultural Skibbereen and District Historical Society, 2006. A number of additional items of information is included.  Most of the livestock exhibitors were substantial farmers.  Many of the names appear in agricultural shows from the 1850s.

 

  1. F. Sweetnam, Carrignear

Aileen Wilson, Corran, Leap

The O’Donovan, Lissard, Skibbereen, (Landlord)

  1. Trinder, Droumkeen, Innishannon, (possibly related to Aughadown/Ballydehob family)
  2. Law, Ahaliskey, Clonakilty
  3. Bence Jones, Lisselane, Clonakilty (Landlord)
  4. Young, Rathravane, Ballydehob

Samuel Woulfe, Ballydehob

Henry O’Donovan Becher, Castlehaven, (Landlord?)

Denis O’Driscoll, Castlehaven

Crowley, Western road, Clonakilty

Carey, Skibbereen

H. Jeffrey, Lettercollum, Timoleague

Josiah Jeffrey, Derry, Rosscarbery

J. G. Shannon, Gurteenakilla, Ballydehob

Shannon, Derrygreen, Skibbereen

  1. O’Brien, Bawngar, Church Cross
  2. O’Donovan, Lassanroe, Skibbereen

Patrick Hurley, Moneyvolihane, Castlehaven

Patrick Walsh, Carrigfada, Skibbereen

Daniel Minihane, Creagh, Skibbereen

Jeremiah Geaney, Drishanebeg, Castlehaven

Vickery, Ballycomane, Durrus, George Vickery of same family also appears

Hosford, Castlelands, Enniskeane?

Miss S. Perrier, Ballinure House, Blackrock, Cork, may have Woulfe, Ballydehob relations

O’Sullivan, Cloghane, Skibbereen

James Barry, Lick, Skibbereen

P. Hawkes, Barryshall, Timoleague

S. Woulfe, Skibbereen

  1. McCarthy Morragh, Innnishbeg, Skibbereen (Landlord), Kay Summersby mistress of President Eisenhower,  in WW2 was a McCarthy of this family.

Eugene Sweeney, Lickowen, Castlehaven

Miss E. Reeves, Glandore

  1. O’Brien, Skibbereen
  2. O’Regan, Forenaught, Union Hall

Mrs. T. Downes Skibbereen, (Solicitor family?)

John O’Mahony, Town View, Skibbereen

Mrs. O’Neill, Tooreeasillane

  1. Jagoe, Leap
  2. O’Connell, Castletownshend

Morgan Lambert, Bawnagallopy, Skibbereen

Rev. M. Cunningham, Leap

Rev. J. O’Hea, Ardfield, Clonakilty

James Barrett, Ri, Clonakilty

Jerome C. O’Sullivan, Clonakilty

John J. Levis, Highfield, Oldcourt, Skibbereen

Thomas Shannon, White Hall, Skibbereen

John Kingston, Scahana, Union Hall

Michael Crowley, Droumadaca, Drimoleague

Jonas Woulfe, Bantry

Timothy Sweeney, Clonakilty

  1. A. Beamish, Skibbereen

Daniel Leonard, Big Marsh, Aughadown

  1. Roycroft, Skibbereen
  2. Hosford, Gortnaclogha, Skibbereen

John J. O’Connell, Skibbereen

David Law, Ahiiskey, Clonakilty

Denis McCarthy, The Castle, Glandore

William Jennings, Skibbereen

James Tinder, Church Cross, Aughdown

John Sweeney, Coolnaclehy, Caheragh

George Vickery, Ballycomane, Durrus, Vickery family in Ballycomane since 1780s, originate Rooska.

James Hurley, Ardagh, Rosscarbery

John Minehane, Lisheen, Church Cross

Bartholomew Hourihane, Cooldurrighy

Cornelius O’Donovan, Junior, Cooldurrighy

Jeremiah O’Mahony, Coomnageehy

William O’Donovan, Aughadown

Patrick Hickey, Coronea, Skibbereen

Patrick O’Brien, Lick, Skibbereen

Denis O’Brien, Skibbereen

Cornelius O’Sullivan, Moneyvolihane

John Fitzgerald, Derryconnell, Schull

  1. Shields, Templebryan, Clonakilty

 

 

Attendance by Willie Kingston, Solicitor at Dáil Courts in West Cork, 1920 Arbitration Hearing Skibbereen, Cow Sold With Another’s Cows Tail, Sittings at Fahoura School, Bantry Donemark Mill, Caheragh Ballyourane Barn, Derryclough Field.


Attendance by Willie Kingston, Solicitor at Dáil Courts in West Cork, 1920 Arbitration Hearing Skibbereen, Cow Sold With Another’s Cows Tail, Sittings at Fahoura School, Bantry Donemark Mill, Caheragh Ballyourane Barn, Derryclough Field.

During the War of Independence the King’s Writ ceased to run in many parts of Ireland. Sinn Féin ran the Dáil courts which on Independence in 1922 were abandoned.  The Courts were illegal under the then British Law and any Lawyer was subject to imprisonment and disciplinary action by the Incorporated Law Society or the bar Council.  Nevertheless the courts were widely used with full legal representation.

Willie Kingston was a partner with is first cousin Jasper Wolfe in Wolfe and Co. Skibbereen.  A Kafka situation developed insofar as from 1916 Jasper was the Crown Prosecutor fro West Cork and his cousin was illegally representing clients in the same practice.

Willie was in is own words the only Protestant in Skibbereen to sign a petition against  Conscription in 1917.

Memoir of Willie Kingston (1885-1975), Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Solicitor and Historian, World War 1 in Skibbereen attendance at Dáil Courts.

Story of West Cork, Willie Kingston

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Banking Collapse in Cork, Lawton, Carleton and Feray in 1760, 13th May 1793, Sir Thomas Robert’s Bank stopped payment, 25th May 1820 ‘A Panic beyond example in our memory has been struck into the minds of the trading community of Cork and the South of Ireland by the failure of Roche’s bank at twelve o’clock, followed almost immediately by that of Leslies’ Bank.


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Hugh Lawton, 1767, Castlelane, Alderman Cork, Mayor 1777.  Merchant, Partner 1750 inLawton, Carleton and Feray, Bankers, Bank collapsed 1760.  Lawton’s Quay called after him.

Banking Collapse in Cork, 13th May 1793, Sir Thomas Robert’s Bank stopped payment, 25th May 1820 ‘A Panic beyond example in our memory has been struck into the minds of the trading community of Cork and the South of Ireland by the failure of Roche’s bank at twelve o’clock, followed almost immediately by that of Leslies’ Bank.

Courtesy Melosina Lenox-Conyngham’s ‘Diaries of Ireland’ 1590-1987.

Address by Merchants, and their listing, of Cork, 20th March 1754, to the Duke of Dorset Lord Lieutenant, thanking him for his support of the Public Credit during the Recent Crisis.

Banking Collapse in Cork in the 1820s Roches and Leslies Bank and House of Commons, London, Select Committee Query re Collapse, only functioning Bank left Pikes. First run 1820 Deputation including…

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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.


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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.

The Powells acquired the O’Donovan estate by the marriage of a Powell man and an O’Donovan heiress.

Major Powell at the time also possessed the old O’Donovan Estate at Bawnlahan.

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Gather Your Seaweed


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Today is Oiche Fhéile Bhríde – St Brigid’s Eve. The Saint’s festival – tomorrow – marks the beginning of Spring: we will feel the lengthening of the days, and we have to be alert for so many portents.

Firstly – Hedgehogs. Watch out for your Hedgehogs: to see one is a good weather sign, for on Brigid’s Eve the Hedgehog comes out of the hole in which he has spent the winter, eyes up the weather and, if he likes the look of it, starts his foraging. If he goes straight back in again, then you’ll know that the storms will continue! This is according to Kevin Danaher, a frequent contributor on our seasonal folklore. The wind direction on the eve of the festival ‘…betokens the prevailing wind during the coming year; the festival day should show signs of improving weather, although an exceptionally fine day is regarded as an omen of poor weather to…

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Death of The O’Donovan


 

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

 

 

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Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, (1826-1905), one of Ireland’s first photographers from 1854, Glenbarrahane, Castletownshend, West Cork, and Coghill Magistrates. Part of his Collection in Getty Museum, Los Angeles.


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