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 visit to Bantry 1842

Thackeray’s Journey from Skibbereen to Bantry via Caheragh, August 1842

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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.

John Wesley’s Cork Visitations, 1750, 1752, 1762, including Bandon, Kinsale, meeting Whiteboys and their Oath to Queen Sive and overview of Methodism in West Cork.

Raparees, Tories, Whiteboys, Anti-Tithers of Muskerry, The Mellifonts, First Boycott, Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, his cottage at Ballinascarty and Michael O’Riordan’s (Communist Party of Ireland) tribute to the Keohane Sisters Clonakilty, Co Cork.

Meeting at the Kings Arms Tavern, Cork, on 15th November 1791 of Named (Listed) Gentlemen of the City and County of Cork with Lord Mayor and Sheriffs forming as Hanover Association to Combat Whiteboys

Recollections of O’Donovan Rosa, pre Famine West Cork Beggars, Cripples, Fair at Newmill, Faction Fights, ‘The Nation’, Whiteboys, ‘Keepers’ minding Corn before Seizure by Landlord During Famine.

The Reverend Alcock, Church of Ireland Minister, Journey in a Gig from Durrus to Gougán Barra, West Cork, 1827, aftermath of Whiteboys 1823 at Keimineagh, attempts to use Irish Testament complaint about futility of Holy Wells unsuccessful attempt to set up Irish school in the area.

August 1786 Episode:

Aftermath for O’Driscoll, January 1787:

1781, Letter Richard Wright, Port Surveyor, Skibbereen re Naval Movements Privateers, Dutch and French Boats.

1781, Letter Richard Wright, Port Surveyor, Skibbereen Enclosing Letter from Philip Townsend, Tide Surveyor, Berehaven, re Naval Movements Privateers, Dutch and French Boats

 

 

Some Cork Customs Personnel:

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Miss Mary Twomey from Schull near Skibbereen reads her Recantation from The Errors of The Church of Rome and Embraced the Protestant Religion at St. Nicholas Church, Cork.

Sometimes this would be done on inter-faith marriage, other time an empty formula for conveyancing or professional purposes to technically comply with the Penal Laws.

Another Twomey appears on the Cork Convert Rolls:

Thomas Twomy, Gent. 1730 Cork

Convert Rolls, Co. Cork.

Galwey Public Remounciation against Evils of Popery, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1730s. the Penal Laws and Caputo-Genocide in East Pakistan 1970s, and the Moranos, Crypto-Jews in Spain.

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Recantations (Public Conversions to the Church of Ireland), St. Nicholas Church, Cork, 1765-1774, Robert Meakings, Ann Crowley, Stephen Walsh, Walter Reilly, Thomas Byon, James McCarthy of Dunmanway, Catherine Barker, Coleman Walsh (Possibly Drimoleague) and Juli(?) Murphy.

Public renunciations against Popery and Conversions in Clonakilty, Inniscarra, Kilnagross and Caherconlish, Co. Cork, 1769-70 from John T Collins, Newspaper Abstracts.

Judges of Spring Assize, Cork, 1823, Met At Liberties of Cork, at Ballincollig and Escorted to City By Sheriffs, Constables and Military and selection of City Jury.

The Memoir of Judge Day from Tralee, late 18th century, also refers to this type of cavalcade.

Sale of 800 Gallons of Old Metheglin, March 1823.

Metheglin: Metheglin is traditional mead with herbs or spices added. Some of the most common metheglins are ginger, tea, orange peel, nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, cloves or vanilla. Its name indicates that many metheglins were originally employed as folk medicines. The Welsh word for mead is medd, and the word “metheglin” derives from meddyglyn, a compound of meddyg, “healing” + llyn, “liquor”.

Metheglin occurs in the memoir of James Stanley Vickery as being used by his grandparents at Molloch, parish of Durrus, Bantry in the 1820s.

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1907), Parents died of Cholera in Skibbeeen. House c 1740-70 and Probably Prior House in ruins Pre-1740, Teacher Healy, Bantry, probably Grandfather of Tim Healy, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Grandfather’s 2 Day Wake with Professional Keener.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Crookhaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.4684001,-9.7260407,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48458598cbd7f471:0x0a00c7a99731a1a0

Death February 1823, of Father Florence O’Crowley, former Parish Priest of Crookhaven Parish, West Cork, ‘Where it was His Hard Lot To Preside Over the Immense Parish where after His Removal to Coursey’s Country He Calmly Departed to the Home of His Hopes.

Source: Statement of Ted O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.

Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.

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Loss of ‘The Hope of Newry’ at Ballyisard, Crookhaven, West Cork, February 1823. Captain and Six persons Perished.  Voyaging from Newry to New York for Refit with Three Passengers.

Godwin Swift letters Crookhaven 1757

December 1807, ‘Good Rech’, of Pool (Poole), Shipwrecked off Crookhaven, Co. Cork, with Loss of Seven Lives, En Route from Newfoundland with a Cargo of Oil and Dried Fish to Messrs Penrose, Waterford (Family who Founded Waterford Glass) Some of the Cargo Exciting The Brutal Rapacity of the Surrounding Multitude. The Cork/Waterford Penrose family were Quakers related to the Cork Penrose/Fitzgerald family. They were active 18th century developers of Cork, Shipping Merchants whose property straddled the North Main Street area and the location of the present railway station.