Day with Destiny, Michael Collins, leaving Eldon Hotel, Skibbereen, West Cork, 22nd August 1922.

22nd August 1922

Courtesy De La Salle Past Pupils Union, Skibbereen, ‘And Time Stood Still

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)

Weaving Vittory Linen Cloth in Dunmanway, West Cork, 1813 for Brazilian Slaves, william Norwood Master of Charter School, family originally from Ballinascarthy when the moved they brought tow Deasy brothers as ploughmen from whom Dunmanway Deasys are descended.

The 1813 parliamentary Report in to the Charter Schools includes Dunmanway and gives a good account of William Norwood the Master for 123 years and his wife. The boys are put ot as apprentices to weavers. An interesting account of the trade which for Vittory cloth supplied in Dunmanway was not thriving and was bought by Cork Merchants for Brazilian Slave trade.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The Norwoods were a prominent Dunmanway family, it is believed they originated in Ballinascarthy and when they came to Dumnawnay they brought with two Deasy men as ploughmen. The Dunmanway Deasys descent from this line.

Norwood Estates West Cork:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2586

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century…

Society for the Promotion of the Education of the Poor, 1827, Some West Cork Schools

http://books.google.ie/books?id=t3QWAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA85&lpg=RA2-PA85&dq=john+kirby+bantry&source=bl&ots=SoV4PMlkBE&sig=uFamEQyYVcvsxr9HUiVj4gIYxPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=STn9U_RB6MXsBuLxgKgH&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=john%20kirby%20bantry&f=false

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15-0T1szKkpbk6NAGNEkr7xaRlJ0_hiwSYRhLVQxnfs8/edit#gid=0

Schools in West Cork 19th century

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/schools-in-bantryskibbereenschull-area-west-cork-19th-century/

The world of the Irish RM, Elizabeth Somerville ( 1858, Corfu – 1949) with the West Carbery Hounds early 1900s.

Note in the photographs the almost completed absence of trees unlike today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Somerville

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/s/Somerville_E/life.
htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerville_and_Ross

Threshing at Hollybrook, Skibbereen, West Cork with Marshall’s Gainsboro Steam Machine 1930s

Courtesy De La Salle Publication

High child mortality at Innishannon Charter School, Co. Cork early 19th century and unrelated parliamentary Report on school 1813.

Some time ago looking at burial records from Innishanon Church of Ireland I was struck at what appears an abnormal rate of child mortality at the Charter School. This is in the early decades of the 19th century. At the time it was common for children to die young and this is reflected in the local burial registers of other churches This in particular stands out and reminds one of the Besssboro mothers and babies home (formerly the house of the Pike family) in Blackrock in Cork.

Google books had the 1813 Parliamentary Report into the irish Charter Schools which includes Innishannon.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century, were envisaged by their supporters as the positive side to government policy towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The…

Abstract of will of Thomas Becher, Skerkin Island, West Cork dated 21st August 1705 listing some townlands in Schull, Caheragh, Skibbereen.

From Irish Manuscript Commission Online, originals lost in 1922.

Landed Estate Database:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2436