Pre 1965 farming practices West Cork, Red Elephant and Epicure potatoes, working with the grufán, threshing with the steam engine, winnowing of wheat and oats, working in the bog.

Flor Crowley NT, Behigulane describes farming practices in Dunmanway for small to middling farms which would have been common to Protestant and Catholic farmers from the Famine to the early 1960s. From then on, reclamation, rural electrification and specialisation spelled the end for many of the prctices described.

The page sequence in the PDF is out, note the bottom page number.

In West Cork ong Ago

Some songs of West Cork, from 1880s ‘The Chapel of Charming Rossmore’, ‘Fifty years Ago (The ESB in Coolea), The Rookery, ‘Garnish’, ‘The Banks of Sullane’, ‘A Toast to Beara’, ‘The Shores of Coolough Bay’, ‘The Strands of Ballylickey and the transmission of music and song along the Butter Roads.

Rossmore from Flor Crowley, ‘In West Cork Long Ago’, 1979 Mercier Press

The others from Tomás Ó Canainn’s ‘The Songs of Cork’, publisged by Gilbert Dalton Ltd. 1978.

The late Tomás Ó Canainn was from Derry, a lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Music in UCC. He was a member of the group Na Fíli and played the accordion at the Irish mass in St. Peter and Pauls, in Cork.

Some of the songs in his book such as The Rookery were sung in West Cork but came from Cork City probably with the butter men returning from the butter market…

Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws included are The Worthy Mr. Henry Gallwey £1-10-0 his generous and worthy son £1-3s, Nicholas Mead 5/5d, Andrew Morrogh, William Gallwey, John Casey, Patrick Skiddie, Cornelius Sexton, James Gould, Daniel Leahy, Robert Gallwey, and Richard Casey each contributed 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny, Conformity and the Fishing Trade, Father Walsh parish priest of Durrus and Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poet.

There is a query as to what coin 5s 5d and 2shillings 8 pence halfpenny represented.

Some of the names Galwey, Mead, Skiddy, Morrogh, Gould were prominent Cork City Catholic Merchant names in the 17th century. It is likely that in 1723 they were involved in the fishing business and Continental trade which was thriving. Later…

Nearby Coomhola:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Coomhola,+Co.+Cork/@51.7541895,-9.4458886,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450c38d934d315:0xd0a2a192985b3ca6

Irish words and phrases from the Coomola and Bolin Valeys, Bantry, West Cork and interview with ‘Tadhg Meirseach’ translated from Irish, The Whiteboys, The Famine, Faction Fighting, Eating Roast Blackbirds, Doing the Rounds in Gougane, Eating Rye Bread.

Courtesy Julia Kemp and the Coomhola Borlin Development Association, 1998.

Coomhola Irish borlin

Irish in Durus, Drinagh, Dunmanway:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/words-in-irish-from-dunmanway-west-cork-from-flor-crolwey-nt-behigullane/

Words in Irish from Dunmanway, West Cork from Flor Crowley NT, Behigullane.    Flor is the short for Florence the old version of the name in Irish is Finín, Fineen, Finghín.

From his book ‘In West Cork Long Ago’, 1979, Mercier. Some of the practises flailing had probably gone out by the early 20th century.

Pages 9 and 10

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit

Drinagh 1940s

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/irish-on-ordinary-speech-drinagh-west-cork-1940s-agus-gaelige-i-measc-an-bhearla/

Cultural Vandalism in Ireland in the 1970s, machining away the Royal Insignia in Post Office Boxes at the Department of Post and Telegraphs, Engineering Workshops, Dublin.

A standing joke used to be that the only difference independence made to Ireland was the Post Boxes were painted green from red. Under the green paint lurked or still lurks the insignia of what ever British Monarch reigned when the box was installed.

The decision to repaint the post boxes from red to green was taken by Cork T.D., the Post-Master General, James J. Walsh in February 1922.

In the 1970s boxes were returned to the engineering stores for maintenance. From time to time operatives would spend quite a while machining away all traces of the Old Conqueror. It is not likely that this would have been approved at a senior level but at some stage lower down a blind eye was turned.

Proclamation of 11th November 1732 arising from seizure by Richard Tonson, Collector of Customs, Baltimore, West Cork, of 80 Anchors of Brandy from ‘Concert’ and the reseizure of 30 Anchors resulting in death of Customs man France Post and offering reward for apprehension of Murtagh McOwen Sullivan (owner of Concert), John Sullivan Gent Rosmacowen, his son-in-law Dennis McMurtagh Sullivan, Murthogh Sullivan Junior, Thomas Trenwith.

The Trenwith were one of a number of local Protestant families such as the Puxleys, Harmans, Hutchins some of whom were probably in the area in connection with fishing since the close of the 16th century. About 80 years ago a descendant of the Trenwiths died in the USA intestate leaving a large fortune and leading to a great deal of genealogy research in West Cork.

The Proclamations were commonly used in the unusual nature of Ireland from an administrative an legal perspective. Most were lost…