The Beara Book of Wonders, 1991 Collection of 21 stories with 7 colour illustrations by the children of Beara, West Cork, Grandfather tells a story, The Gallaun, The Mysterious Cow, The Two Giants, Storms and Reic. After Reic, The Rib of Hair, Droichead-na-nGadaí (Bridge of the thief), The First Fox to come to Dursey Island, Peadarín O’Shea and the Fairies. Ros Caha, Bád Sidge (Fairy Boat), Patrick O’Sullivan’s Story, The Mysterious Holy Water Font, Cuas na Seisrighe (Cave of the Pair of Ploughing Horses), The Boaster, The Woman from the Sea, The Slater and the Ráib (well known Murderer), The Devil at Dunboy, Press Gangs, Illustrations: Reic, Storytelling, The Stolen Child, The Rib of Hair, Droichead-na-nGadaí, Peadarín’s House, The First Fox to Come to Dursey.

Note on scanning the pagination is out of synch.

Courtesy Allihies Folklore Group 1991.

Allihies Folklore Childrens Project 1991

The reference to Press Gangs is…

Silver Chalice of Baltimore Church possibly thanksgiving from Captain of ‘Agatha’ 1631, Church of Ireland, Baltimore, West Cork

Article probably by Robert Day c 1906 JCHAS.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/silver-plate-at-church-of-ireland-schull-west-cork/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/1st-muskerry-cavalry-1796-co-cork-from-robert-day-f-s-a-cork-antiquariasn-from-papers-lent-pre-1895-by-george-and-morgan-gallwet-esqs/

ory.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/silver-medals-struck-for-soldiers-and-sailors-friendly-association-bantry-garrison-arising-from-attempted-invasion-of-bantry-bay-1796-from-dr-richard-caulfields-manuscripts/

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 Isle of Man as a Potato Garden.

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

In the recollections of James Stanley Vickery written in Australia in the 1890s he describes growing up in the 1820s as an orphan with his grandparents in Molloch, in Durrus/Bantry. He refers to going as a child to Healy’s school in Bantry. Apparently a good teacher but put the fear of God into the children. Tim Healy was born in Bantry his father was master of the workhouse and his father a teacher who originated in Donoughmore. That makes Vickery’s teacher a candidate as Healy’s grandfather.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/recollections-of-james-stanley-vickery-as-a-grandchild-in-molloch-1829-1911/

Like Healy John Hely grew up in Gortroe near Donoughmore in relatively humble…

Some additional Cork Newspaper Extracts from 1754 of a Genealogical and Historical interest extracted by John T. Collins.

In terms of provenance it seems that he was ve access to the colection by Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West. It may have originate with Garretstown House near Kinsale with the Kearney family the to their relationsthe Rochford an Franks the to Owen Farrelly, Solicitor, Tuckey St., Cork.

‘An Act to prevent the further growth of popery’, Convert Rolls for 18th Century Co. Cork and other Renunciations against ‘Popery’, Co. Cork with letter January 1732 from Parish Priest Bantry listing supporters of Crypto-Catholics.

The Bantry letter was located probably in the 1950s by Father TJ Walsh in the Archives of Cork Dioceses. He was later parish Priest, of Durrus. He was an esteemed historian.

The book compiling the Convert Rolls was done by a scholar Eileen O’Byrne for the Irish Manuscripts Commission. A revised version is now available on line.

http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/servlet/Controller?action=publication_item&pid=61

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6090895410812374209

The enclosed spreadsheet (a work in progress0 sets ou a summary together with some genealogical information with Dr. Edward Mac Lysaght’s version of the irish names for families of Gaelic origin.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-TQFfRKt_p6AGtxLaHODge_ReszztDcE-NFF1626_c/edit#gid=0

Looking at the names the cluster of old Cork families emerges. The Penal Laws obeyed the Law of unintended consequences, some of its provisions…

Sean-fhocals of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864)

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/workbook-in-irish-of-william-smith-obrien-1803-1864-young-irelander-london-with-transcritions-of-poems-by-dermot-omulqueeney-and-other-munster-poets-sean-fhocals-wise-sayings-newspaper-extra/