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‘…mean thatched cabins…….’ The Masshouses in South East Cork in 1731.


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Penal laws against the Catholic Church had existed in Ireland since the reign of Elizabeth I, but the most infamous laws were passed by the Irish Parliament in the 1690s into the early 1700s. Penal laws against the Catholic Church had existed in Ireland since the reign of Elizabeth I, but the most infamous laws were passed by the Irish Parliament in the 1690s into the early 1700s.

These Masshouses are generally mean thatched cabins; many, or most of them, open at one end, and very few of them built since the first of King George the First.

These words are from the official return made to the Irish government in December 1731 by Henry Maule, Bishop of Cloyne in the Established Church (Church of Ireland). The Irish House of Lords had ordered an inquiry into the ‘State of Popery’ in Ireland and each bishop was required to submit detailed returns. The House of Lords wished to know how effective the Penal Laws enacted since 1693 had been in curtailing the practice of Catholicism.There were a number of restrictions imposed by these…

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Reilig Chill Aingeal/Church of the Angels, (Kilheangle/Dunbeacon), Durrus, West Cork, Ruined Church and Graveyard


Reilig Chill Aingeal/Church of the Angels, (Kilheangle/Dunbeacon), Durrus, West Cork, Ruined Church and Graveyard

The graveyard has been restored there are a vast number of stones marking the local dead. this area was at the epicentre of the famine and the writings of Doctor O’Donovan about distress in the area make for harrowing reading.

Courtesy Peter Clarke:

http://sheepsheadplaces.net/dunbeacon-burial-ground

Courtesy Graves:

http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/dunbeacon/co-dunb

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Rate of Tithes in Co. Cork 1786, from Debate in Irish Parliament


Rate of Tithes in Co. Cork 1786, from Debate in Irish Parliament

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.

Acquisitions of Three Ploughlands at Dromreagh, Murreagh and Ardogina, Durrus, West Cork in 1765 by the Evanson Family from Tonsons (Hulls) and 1790s and Deed Disposing of Half Tithes of Durrus Kilcrohane 1790s the Tithes of Co. Cork Having Been Acquired by Richard Boyle The Great Earl of Cork, Early 17th Century by Underhand Means.

From Southern Reporter and Commercial Courier 29th September 1832. More Arrests. The Reverend Mesrs Quin and Kelleher the Roman Catholic Clergy of Meentervaria (Durrus Parish) West Cork, were arrested on Saturday on the 15th for having attended at a Tithe Meeting. Bail was immediately procured in the person of Richard O’Donovan Esq., and Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill (Kilcrohane).

The Tithes in 1833: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman.

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1837, Manor Court and Ecclesiastical Manor Court, Leamcon, Schull, and Petty Session Court, Toormore, Schull, Manor Court Aughadown Seneschal Appointed by Lord Carbery, West Cork.


1837, Manor Court and Ecclesiastical Manor Court, Leamcon, Schul, and Petty Session Court, Toormore, Schull, West Cork.

A legacy of the Hulls

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

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL, author of Law of Irish Fisheries) Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

Manor Courts Ballydehob 1621, Bantry 1679, Co. Cork, and coments by John Jagoe, Bantry re same to Commission 1836.

Petty Session Court Witness Summons, Conna, Co. Cork, 1828

Will of William Hull, 1726, Lemcon, Schull, West Cork, witnesses, Daniel Donovan Gent., Dunmanus, Owen Lander, Seneschal Lemcon Manor Court, Denis Donovan, farmer, Dunmanus. and the Manor Courts of Ballydehob, Bantry and their poor Reputation..

Lewis:

A manorial court is held at Lemcon, every third Monday, at which debts under £5 are recoverable; there is also an ecclesiastical manor belonging to the bishop of Ross, for which a court is held occasionally; and petty sessions are held at Towermore every alternate week.

Aughadown:

A manor court is held monthly by a seneschal appointed by Lord Carbery, for the recovery of debts
under 40s; and here is a constabulary police station.

Lowertown Catholic Church Built from 1966 by Father Horgan, Schull, West Cork, with Window Memorials and Rusted Modern ‘An Post’, Postbox.


Lowertown Catholic Church Built from 1966 by Father Horgan, Schull, West Cork, with Window Memorials and Rusted Modern ‘An Post’, Postbox.

The post box just happens to be outside the church adn for a modern box is rusted. Those in use from British times pre 1922 and the early An Post boxes are in impeccable condition (regularly maintained) a pity the moern organisation buys cheap boxes for an important part of petty architecture.

Father Horgan my be the priest who bult the priest’s house in Durrus and othe structures.

Arderavinna Thatched Catholic Church built by Father Florence Crowley, Collapsed 1825 During worship Replaced by Ballinasten Church Built by Father Michael Prior in use to 1966 when present Church at Lowertown, Schull, West Cork built

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October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar


https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kinsale,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060626,-8.5312562,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x484461fb98d2012b:0x0a00c7a99731ef70

October 1766, Seizure by Mob of Disorderly Fishermen at Kinsale, Co. Cork of Sloop Laden with Potatoes Bound for Gibraltar

From Dr. Richard Caulfield’s Annals of Kinsale:

Click to access court_book_Part15.pdf

McCarthys of Virginia, USA, Descent from Charles 27. Owen 18, Came to Virginia 1635, Plantation and Slave Owners, Prominent in York, Richmond, Fairfax, Counties Virginia, Daniel Speaker in House of Burgesses 1715 and King’s Attorney, Rappahannack.


McCarthys of Virginia, USA, Descent from Charles 27. Owen 18, Came to Virginia 1635, Plantation and Slave Owners, Prominent in York, Richmond, Fairfax, Counties Virginia, Daniel Speaker in House of Burgesses 1715 and King’s Attorney, Rappahannack.

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Pedigree and Will of Daniel McCarthy, 1702, Estate Owner, Slave Owner, Extended family Include Hallorans, Burkes, Connells other Irish Pedigrees Lyons and Morre of Offaly names include Donovan, Driscoll, Evanson from Vere Langford Olivere’s , 1896, History of Island of Antigua.