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It’s about as far away as we can get from St Patrick’s Day, so it’s probably…
13 Sunday Sep 2015
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This gallery contains 13 photos.
Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
It’s about as far away as we can get from St Patrick’s Day, so it’s probably…
13 Sunday Sep 2015
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This gallery contains 16 photos.
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Heather blooms here in late summer and through the autumn – not, as in the song…
10 Thursday Sep 2015
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09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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Cattle Houghed and Killed, Later 4-5 Houses Burned at Farm at Shrilane, Skibbereen, West Cork Recently Let By Samuel Jervois, Brade.
09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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September, 1806, Died at Skibbereen aged 114 Years, John Blakeney
The name appears in some of the birth records:
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09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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Death of Captain Stephen Sweetnam, 70th Regiment of Foot, of Skibbereen, Co. Cork, in the West Indies, Involved in Storming of Deig and Bhurtpore, India.
Some Sweetnam Genealogy:
09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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August 1786, 1,500 Whiteboys Assemble in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, at Bridewell and Liberate All Their Companions Imprisoned Therein Further Tiding From west Carbery August 1786 , 800 Whiteboys March on Magistrate, Archdeacon Tisdall, Later under Captain Right (O’Driscoll) Break into Jail With Sledge Hammers, Release prisoners Reinforced from Bantry.
Recollections of O’Donovan Rosa, pre Famine West Cork Beggars…
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09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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James Swanton Vickery (C1837-1908) from West Cork, to Stockbroking in Australia.
The Vickery and Swanton families were active in various businesses in Bantry, Skibbereen and Bandon.
The web site has him born at Mollock, Durrus. This may not be correct. Most likely Skibbereen with the Vickeries originally from Bantry. James Stanley Vickery probably a cousin, lived there with his sister in the early 1830s after the death of their parents with cholera.
09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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1786, Clonaklty and Skibbeeen Designated Post Towns with Additional Postdays from Bandon and Kinsale, Co. Cork.
In 1842 the novelist Thackery who was also a Post Office Inspector traveled through West Cork.
Thackeray’s Journey from Skibbereen to Bantry via Caheragh, August 1842
09 Wednesday Sep 2015
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August 1786, 1,500 Whiteboys Assemble in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, at Bridewell and Liberate All Their Companions Imprisoned Therein Further Tiding From west Carbery August 1786 , 800 Whiteboys March on Magistrate, Archdeacon Tisdall, Later under Captain Right (O’Driscoll) Break into Jail With Sledge Hammers, Release prisoners Reinforced from Bantry.
August 1786 Episode:
Aftermath for O’Driscoll, January 1787: