Letting of Clonee, Durrus, West Cork, 1679 to George Simms in trust for Widow Burridge od Ross?.

In the Paddy O’Keeffe papers relating to a Genealogical query there is a reference to this letting. The land at Aghagoheen, Skart nearby were let to Mr. Reed Esq at £27 p.a.

It comes from Richard Caulfield’s book p. 174 of the Rent Roll of the Lands of the Bishop of Cork, and this is the 1st April 1679.

The Western Estate of the Bishop of Cork included lands at Schull. Kilcrohane, Bantry, Letterlickey which may have belonged to the Abbey Of St. Catherine in Waterford prior to its suppression. That in turn may have originated with the Norman’s incursions into West Cork.

The Symms family reputedly had a brewery in Bantry in the 18th century. A number of the family are buried in the old churchyard.

Genealogy of O’Driscoll family from Ederscél, 942 AD, with sketch of vanished Castlehaven Castle by Edith Somerville.

From Father Woulfe’s History o West Cork, 1948.

The O’Driscolls are probably among the most ancient of West Cork families. They are probably pre-Celtic tracing their origins from among the first people to come to Ireland possibly fro Iberia.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/correspondence-with-william-henry-odriscoll-england-1850-2-styling-himself-the-odriscoll-as-was-his-father-who-served-in-the-british-navy-and-devonshire-20-guns-and-grandfather-from-creagh/

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https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/1537-the-odriscolls-of-baltimore-west-cork-and-the-sancta-maria-de-soci-from-lisbon/

At the fireplace in the Anchor Hotel Bantry, the Future Governor General Tim Healy (1855-1931) with friends asked as a parting gift that ‘something be done about the path from Adrigole to Lauragh’ now the Healy pass and Bill O’Donnell’s Memoir ‘The Shortest Way Home’

The Anchor Hotel used to belong to Bill O’Donnell, who a few months ago at the age of 86 brought out a memoir of his journey around the world in the early 1950s. Inspire.ieproduction. He had earlier written a novel ‘The Small Kingdom’ and has a third book in his head.

His brother Brian owns the famous Pub in Cork the ‘Hi B’

Possible connection between Tim Healy, (1855-1931), MP, King’s Counsel, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-94). lawyer, Statesman, Provost Trinity College Dublin, son Viscount Donoughmore, (if you gave John Britain and Ireland as an estate he would come back and look for the…

Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork. (Shandon inserted as it happened to be in same Journal)

Courtesy 1944 JCHAS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Healy_(politician)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hely-Hutchinson_(statesman)

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‘Bantry Gang’, Tim Healy, Journalist, King’s Counsel, MP. Governor General Irish Free State, A. M. Sullivan, King’s Counsel, MP, T.D. Sullivan, Father-in-Law of Tim Healy, Composer ‘God Save Ireland’.

The extended Healy/Sullivan/William Martin Murphy family were known as the ‘Bantry Band’ for their Anti-Parnelite stand.   Their descendants live on in the O’Higgins political family of Fine Gael.

Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore adn 1850 census of St. Annes Parish, Shandon, Cork.

12th century Bronze Shrine (Misacht) inlaid with Gold and Silver containing the hand of St. Lachtin, Patron of the Healy/O’Healy Clan, Donoughmore, Co. Cork had been in the custody of the Ancestral Family of Tim Healy, MP (born Bantry).

At the fireplace in the Anchor Hotel Bantry, the Future Governor General Tim Healy (1855-1931) with friends asked as a parting gift that ‘something be done about…