Letter 15th July 1580 Pelham to Sir William Winter refers to Sir Owen O’Sullivan Bere
PELHAM to SIR WILLIAM WINTER.
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Title: PELHAM to SIR WILLIAM WINTER.
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Your letters of the 29th and 9th have been brought me by my cousin Grevell and Mr. Holden.

The Marshal’s bad ministers have suffered that traitorous priest to escape me that you so carefully sent. Before Sir Owen O’Sulivane Beare departs from me, I will look for the redelivery of him, and for conformity of subjection within Beare and Bantrie. Thanks for the articles which concerned his (Sir Owen’s) misdemeanours.

If the ship of victuals come from Dublin, pay yourself of the proportion of beer, and the remain I wish to be put into Castle Mange.

I have sent you herewith an authority, not only to execute by martial law such as…

Query from the Privy Council of England, 1586 concerning Escheatment of Desmond Lands and whether the Customs of Fishing at Berehaven, Bantry and Baltimore, West Cork belong to her Majesty.

ESCHEATED LANDS.
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Title: ESCHEATED LANDS.
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“Instructions to be annexed to the commission for the inquisition of the state of the tenants and occupiers of the lands and territories escheated to her Majesty by attainder of the late Earl of Desmond and others, for their treason in Munster.”

(1.) The Commissioners to make inquisition of all the occupiers, and how many have sued out letters patent, and how the patentees have observed their covenants for the inhabiting of the lands with English people, and what profits they have received; and to charge them to be ready to pay the rents, which are to be paid this year after Michaelmas.

Death of William Jones, (1741-1831) aged 89, Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor) and petitions to be Elected by Freemen of Cork for Position of Clerk of Crown and Town Clerk.

Some years later Richard O’Donovan was made Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork at a gross salary of £350per annum. He was son of Doctor O’Donovan, Clonaklty and was associated with Rickard Deasy Queens Counsel, late Attorney General for Ireland

Death of William Jones, (1741-1831) aged 89, Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor) and petitions to be Elected by Freemen of Cork for Position of Jones, Mr. [No address given] To the Freemen at Large of the City of Cork. Gentlemen, The Official Situations which were held by my respected and lamented Uncle, Mr. William Jones, having become vacant by his demise, I beg to offer myself as a Candidate for the Clerkship of the Crown…

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