https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6090222,-9.5879834,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Walls and gate remnant of Estate of Timothy O’Donovan Esquire, O’Donovan’s Cove (Kealties) Durrus, West Cork.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6035089335512826753

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/odonovan-estates-muintervara/

Evidence of Timothy O’Donovan to Parliamentary Enquiry on Fishing Industry.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-the-fishing-industry-sitting-in-bantry-april-1836/

O’Donovan Genealogy Ardahill (Kilcrohane) and Fort Lodge

Ardahill
Dr John O’Donovan traces the decent of the O’Donovans back to Eoghan Taidhleach pre 166 A.D. in his appendix to the Annals of the Four Masters.

Keadagh More, (a gentleman of great stature, bodily strength, and military abilities) sons Daniel and Rickard
Rickard’s son Daniel married Eleanor, daughter of Mac Fineen Duff (O’Sullivan) by Elizabeth only daughter of Captain Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, their son was Keadagh.
Keadagh O’Donovan, of Inchaclough Bantry (later part of the White Estate) on 1843. His only surviving son was Timothy who was married to the daughter of Daniel O’Sullivan of Reendonegan near Bantry by the sister of Daniel O’Connell.
Tim O’Donovan 1794-12th May 1844 at Ardahill…

The work of West Cork Masons, Garryvurcha (Garryvurcha, Garraidhe Uí Mhurchadha Murphys Garden), Church Road, Bantry, Church of Ireland post 1701.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6035144843696815009

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/gravestone-inscriptions-old-bantry-church-of-ireland-graveyard-garryvurcha-garraidhe-ui-mhurchadha-murphys-garden-west-cork/

Bishops of Cork 630 AD to 1807 AD from Records of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork.

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:

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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/