Alfred Loughwed  Gillespie, Co Roscommon, founded 1909, Dunmanway, First Electricity Power Station, Co. Cork and the Bandon Mills and Electric Lighting Company, Coolfadda Mills.


Alfred Loughwed  Gillespie, Co Roscommon, founded 1909, Dunmanway, First Electricity Power Station, Co. Cork and the Bandon Mills and electric Lighting Company, Coolfadda Mills.

The Bandon operation was controlled by the Brennan family. Joe Brennan first Governor of the Irish Central bank was of this family. The operation was taken over by the ESB when thy commenced nationwide electrification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brennan_(civil_servant)

 

Since the 1950s Dunmanway has been the West Cork, Headquarters of the ESB.

 

There were local power stations in Bantry and Bandon prior to rural electrification.

 

 

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Kilcoe (West of Skibbereen), West Cork, Church of Ireland Graveyard


Kilcoe (West of Skibbereen), West Cork, Church of Ireland Graveyard

Skibbereen Heritage Centre has added burial registers for SIXTEEN West Cork graveyards to the West Cork Graveyard Survey database. The Kilcoe Protestant graveyard has also been added to the survey.
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A Day of General Humiliation was Observed in September 1846 by the Protestant Churches of Aughadown, Kilcoe, Durrus, Schull, Kilmoe, West Cork, In Reference to the Alarming State of Things (The Famine) and With Much Apparent Devotion.

Obituary Mr. John Copithorne, Kilcoe, Skibbereen, West Cork, and Mrs Ann Copithorne 1908.

Extracts from Diary 1622 of Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Nonpayment by Blind John Power, of Rectorial Tithes, including Caheragh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Schull, Myross, West Cork, Gift to Lord Beaumont Departing, of Gelding, Caste of Falcons, Merlyns, 9 Barrels of Irish Fryce and Barrell of Pickled Scallops used for Food by the Irish, Sending Cutty (‘Cuidighe’ Irish for Companion) Ogle to England.

Room to let in Hell, might suit Lawyer, Dublin Four Courts pre 1796, Sir William Foster Stawell, Old Court, Mallow, Co Cork, Chief Justice Victoria, and Supreme Court Building, Melbourne modelled on Dublin Four Courts


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The letting may be apocryphal.   Before the opening of the Four Courts, Dublin, in 1796 many of the Superior Courts were located on the first floor of buildings in a quarter of Dublin known as Hell.   This was across the River from the present Four Courts in the precincts of Christchurch and had an unsavoury reputation for taverns, brothels and gaming dens. At one stage students of Trinity College risked expulsion if found in the area.

The completed 4 courts with its symbolic Round Hall and Dome was the inspiration for Melbourne Superior Court instigated by Chief Justice Stawell who had practised at the Irish bar and was from Mallow,

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

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

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stawell-sir-william-foster-4635

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Outer reach of Norman Conquest in West Cork, Caheragh in ownership pre 1317 of John de Cogan, cluster of Norman surnames in area Burke, Barrett, Goggin, devolution of Townlands to Monasteries of Youghal and Waterford


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Outer reach of Norman Conquest in West Cork, Caheragh in ownership pre 1317 of John de Cogan, cluster of Norman surnames in area Burke, Barrett, Goggin, devolution of Townlands to Monasteries of Youghal and Waterford.

From Maziere Brady’s history of Cork Dioceses 9online Cork and present):

Maziere Brady de Cogan Rotated Caheragh Scanned MEE Image

Maziere Brady:

Click to access brady_vol1_cropped.pdf

The Cathedral of St. Fimbarrs, in Cork, succeeded in title to some of the old Norman lands including the townland of Letterlickey nearby as well as lands in Schull. Kilcrohane and the Bantry area.

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Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’


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Charles Haughey and Roger Hayes a reforming duo at the Department of Justice 1959-1964, the Succession Act influence of the Brehon Laws outrage to the threat to the integrity of the family farm and the threat to ‘Women of certain age’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haughey#Minister_for_Justice

The public sins of Charlie Haughey are well known and ventilated. A lesser episode in the career of this complex character is his tenure at the Department of Justice. Firstly as 2 years as Parliamentary Secretary to Oscar Traynor and as full Minister for around two years from October 1961. There Is a road in north Dublin called after Traynor.

Traynor was an elderly cadre veteran like many in FF/FG of the War of Independence and Civil War. Like many of his confreres he ruled a rigid unyielding Department over one of the microstates of Ireland post partition. The Department in the 1950s was involved in holding the…

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1808 Application of James B O’Sullivan, Paper and Linen Manufacturer, Dripsey and Blarney,Cork Co. Cork with Memorial Listing Extensive List of Magistrates, Bankers, Clergy, Business People in Support including Bradshaw Popham Inspector of Linen and Hemp Manufactories


Application of James B O’Sullivan, Paper and Linen Manufacturer, Dripsey and Blarney,Cork Co. Cork with Memorial Listing Extensive List of Magistrates, Bankers, Clergy, Business People in Support including Bradshaw Popham Inspector of Linen and Hemp Manufactories

Some duplication to attempt better resolution.

 

This is from the Chief Secretary Papers.

 

Cork Magistrates:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvT84JCKTIhMqqZjJsF_AUJLH8S820ksObykwOty3wg/edit?pli=1

 

From the Patent of 15th March 1679 to hold Fairs at Ballygobban to Bantry Market, West Cork, July 2014.


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From the Patent of 15th March 1679 to hold Fairs at Ballygobban (part of present Bantry) to Bantry Market, West Cork, July 2014.

July 2014 Market:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6035140813157711873

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Bantry.htm

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Pension Enquiries 1908-22 from Census 1841 and 1851 for Baronies of East and West Carbery, Bantry and Bere, West Cork.


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When the Old Age Pension was introduced it was sometimes necessary for the authorities to enquire to the Public Records Office. This was done by looking at the census of 1841 or 1851 to determine if the applicants date of birth was correct. The original census were destroyed in 1922 and this is evidence in some cases of birth and census entry. It can be consulted in the national Archives in Dublin.

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Genealogy of Sweetnam family of Clehane/Cloghane, Caheragh, West Cork, arising from Marriage 1812 of Mathew Sweetnam (Murrahin) to Elizabeth Connell with descendants, USA, Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland compiled 1952 revised 1988.


Post 1823 Letter from William Hull, Lemcon, Skibbereen, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to his former letter, emphasising the need to provide a simpler and less expensive means for the lower classes to recover small debts owed to them. Encloses, in support of his claim, a document entitled ‘ “a Manor Court Decree” taken by Richard Connell against Edward Butler, both of Kealfada, County Cork, demonstrating that the legal costs far outstrip the amount of the original debt; decree originally signed by John Sweetnam, seneschal [of Aghadown and Schull Manors], 4 October 1823. Chief Secretary Papers

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Genealogy of Sweetnam family of Clehane/Cloghane, Caheragh, Wesr Cork, arising from Marriage 1812 of Mathew Sweetnam (Murrahin) to Elizabeth Connell with descendants, USA, Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland compiled 1952 revised 1988.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325479,-9.3065158,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0xa00c7a99731ea90

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