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)

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6107471241433672929

‘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…

Gardening in Early Christian Ireland from 6th century in Monasteries and generally, plants, medicinal herbs, orchards, vines, industrial crops flax, teasel and hemp.

Gumbelton Estates including areas of Kilcrohane adn Durrus West Cork, William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911) garden at Belgrove, Great Island, Cobh, Co. Cork and donation of Botanic library to Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin.

Friendly Cove:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2675&estate_id=2491

Fort Lodge:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2676&estate_id=2491

Generally:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2491

William Edward Gumbleton was descended from the Cork Penroses the shipping family on his mother’s side.

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

The gardens at Belgrove were of international repute. The library attaching were bequeathed to the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Samuel Thomas Heard (1835-1921), of Ballintubber, (late 17th century formal gardens), Kinsale, Co. Cork, East Indian Army Surgeon Major, inspired by Madras Horticultural Gardens he created Rossdohan gardens in Kenmare, Co. Kerry in 1873 utilising Furze as sea shelter emulating Lord Carbery at Castle Freke and son’s plant collecting in Abbyssinia.

Heard Family:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2106

Ballintober Gardens:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2106

West Cork Military Service:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEY1U09tUm4zUWNvcFBmTllEdVZMaEE#gid=0

Son’s visit to Abbyssinia:

http://plants.jstor.org/visual/KADC5933

Rossdohan gardens:

Berehaven:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Castletown-Bearhaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.6514949,-9.9103302,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48457e4fcf1360df:0x15e0b4d55c1c38fd

Dorset:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Stalbridge+Park,+Sturminster+Newton,+Dorset+DT10,+UK/@50.9596983,-2.3889487,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x487249bbb56149a3:0xceae17b5bbaed297

Present by Daniel Sullivan, Berehaven, West Cork, to Richard Boyle, The Great Earl of Cork, c 1636 of Harvey Apples, Bon Chretien and Bergamotte pears, Arbutus for his new garden at Stalbridge Park, Dorset and Irelands first horticultural export The Strawberry Tree’ (Arbutus unedo) from 1580s.

Around this time Boyle’s reach extended into the Schull area where he acquired property by mortgage

Richard Boyle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Boyle,_1st_Earl_of_Cork

In his Lismore Estate he had apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and cherries and wherever possible acquired Irish stock.

His gardens at Stalbridge Park, Dorset were laid out by Isaac de Caus.

The strawberry tree was very much in demand in England during the 17th century.

Courtesy Terence Reeves-Smyth ‘Irish Gardens and Gardening before Cromwell’, quoting Townsend on ‘The Great Earl of Cork’ p. 296

Inventory of plants grown by Gaelic irish 1620 prepared by Philip O’Sullivan Bere, and early 19th century cultivation of grapes and pineapples by Timothy O’Donovan Magistrate of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, West Cork.

Included are parsley, camoline, fennel, mint, tamarisk, hysopp, wormwood, rue, mustard, rosemary, sage, cabbage, pumpkin, radish, lettuce, parsnip, sunflowere, and lily. Fruits include apples, pears, arbutus, walnut, chestnut, pine and mulberry.

Across Bantry Bay, in the early 19th century Timothy O’Donovan, of O’Donovan’s Cove was growing exotics such as grapes and pineapples

Courtesy Terence Reeves-Smyth ‘Irish Gardens and Gardening before Cromwell’, quoting Selections from the Zoilopmastix of Philip O’Sullivan Bere. Stationery Office Dublin 1960, Appendix A.

Patriotic verse by John Philpot Curran, (1750-1817), Lawyer, Wit, MP. Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor, father of Sarah Curran, Newmarket, Co Cork, ‘Let us be Merry before we go’, ‘The Monks of the Screw’, ‘Cushla Ma Chree’

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/c/Curran_JP/life.htm