March 1719, Munster Circuit, Assizes Sitting at the Tholsel, Cork, Lord Chief Baron Gilbert and Mr. Baron Pockington.

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January 1823, Distribution of Blankets for the Poor of Co. Cork, by Ladies Parish Committees Provided by London Society.

The ladies seem to be predominately the wives or sisters daughters of Landlords mostly Protestant but not exclusively.

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Legal Dispute over Extraction of Seaweed at Friendly Cove, Durrus, West Cork, 1887.

The use of seaweed in farming, Edible seaweeds, rights to harvest seaweed attaching to land in townlands of Brahalish and Rossmoe, Durrus, West Cork, Rev. Caesar Otway 1822 on seaweed use Mount Gabriel/Dunbeacon.

Sale of Calf Island and Doneen, Travenes, Aughadown, good for Seaweed, Kelp burning, half Ploughland, Six Gneeves, acquired by Samuel Townsend from Ecclesiastical Commissioners 1837, father of Samuel Nugent Townsend, The Commissioners title arising from ‘All Gorts and Glebe lands acquired since 1688, and lands at Caheragh, Nine Gneeves, Title commencing with Lease of 9,999 years from 1749 from Tonson to Thomas Marmion then occupied by Thomas Wood Esq. by Lease from Robert Sandford, Gentleman, prior to 1850 occupied by Alexander O’Driscoll, Esq.

1843, Cases of Trespass for Seaweed Extraction, Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Magistrates Declining Jurisdiction for Extraction below Low water mark.

Carrigín Cool na h-Orna, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork, a hint of Pre-famine Agriculture and other Incorporeal Hereditaments.

1869 Arrival at Skibbereen of Celebrated Fenian Prisoner Recently Released Michael O’Regan.

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Appointment by Lord Chancellor on Recommendation of Lord Fermoy of Richard Hungerford Morris of Friendly Cove, Durrus, West Cork, to the Commission of the Peace for County Cork (Magistracy).

Cork Examiner 22nd September 1866.

Morris was a prize farmer winning many prizes for crops and beasts. He married into the Evanson family who had Friendly Cove, the house is still extant looking onto Dunmanus Bay. His Morrises came from Castle Salem, Rosscarbery. HIs descendant, Dick Morris was alive to the 1930s in the area.

1837 County Record Grand Jury: Sir William W Beecher Bart., Ballygiblin, Robert McCarthy Esq., Carrignavar, George Bruce, Milltown Castle, William Harrington Junior, Crosshaven Cottage, Daniel O’Callaghan Cahirduggan, Benjamin Bousfield Creagh, Doneraile, Sampson French, Cosquinn, Henry Brazier Mitchell, Mitchelsfort, Henry Herrick, Farrenlough, Innishannon, Charles Connell, Cloverhill, Henry Cole Bowen, (Elizabeth Bowen family) Bowens Court, Francis Woodley, Deelish, Richard H Gumbleton, Curryglass, George Daunt, Newborough, St. Augustus Clerke, Overton (Bandon), Thomas Hungerford, Somers Payne, (Land Agent for Lord Bantry among others) Upton (up to recently the property of Rosminian Fathers), Thomas Somerville, Drishane (Skibbereen), Pierce Power Clonmult, Jonas Travers, Butlerstown, Achilles Daunt, Kinsale, Edward Supple, Kinsale, Thomas Knowley, Killeagh, Bartholomew Barry, Kilbolane House, Adderley Beamish, Kilcolman, Samuel P. Townsend, Palace Town, Richard Hill, Doneraile, John Molony, (Possibly Surveying family) Ballinaboy, William Cooke Collis Junior, Castle Cook, John O’Sullivan, Coumatringane (Beara), John Hawkes, Kilcrea, John Leader Junior, Keale, Edward Bedha Thornhill, Castle Kevin, John Nason Junior, Newtown, Simon Davis Crook, Oldtown, Philip Harding, Firgrove (Macroom), Henry Baldwin, Mount Pleasant (Bandon), George Cooper Stawell, (Old Kinsale Family) Old Court, William Barry, Charleville, Thomas Lloyd Williamson, Castleview, Arthur Gethin Creagh, Ballyellis, Richard Donovan, Lisheens (Either Skibbereen or Ballincollig), Joseph Coughlan, (Family originally from Carrigmanus Protestant from 1600 allied to Hulls and Boyle) Ballygarvan, Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Benjamin Sweete, Grenville, Herbert Gillman, Bennett’s Grove, Cornelius O’Brien, Kilcur, Samuel Townsend, Whitehall (Skibbereen), Standish Harrison, Castle Harrison, John Allen, Glandore, Jonas Morris Townsend, Shepperton (Skibbereen).

The Grand Jury performed many of the functions of the modern County Council having a Treasury and Surveying Department. One way of looking at the Jurors are as a type of County Councilor the list shows a wide geographic spread.

The encroachment of the Catholic interest can be seen. Probably by 1790 the Catholics were the dominant economic force in Co. Cork the position strengthened with the relaxation of the Penal Laws and the entry of Catholics to the Legal profession from 1790.

Out of 57 Jurors probably 12 are Catholic Landowners predominantly.

First sign of emergence of Cork Middle Class, Offer in April 1762 of £200 for apprehension of Leader of the ‘Levellers’, individuals names. Also list of Grand Jury and agents April 1765.

Grand Jury Presentments 1807 Sitting at King’s Old Castle, Cork, Presided over County Treasurer, Robert De la Court, Sanctioning works to Roads, Bridges, Piers, Some Places mentioned, Skibbereen, Ross, Dunmanway, Bantry, Ballydehob, Crookhaven, Macroom some Contractors, Timothy McCarthy, Michael Driscoll, Horace Townsend, Richard Townsend, Denis Nehane, John Arundel, William and John Swanton, Alexander O’Driscoll,, James Creach, John and William Warner, Lord Carbery and John Crowley,

Grand Jury Presentments 1828 for Co. Cork including Provision for Dispensaries at Bantry. Ballydehob, Skibbereen, Clonakilty.

Cesspayers, (Middlemen and Strong Farmers) Nominated by the County Grand Jury, in Baronies Bere and Bantry, Carbery, West Cork, 1834.

Evidence of Richard White Esq., Bantry, that the Cork Grand Jury need to raise £90-100,000 to run County Cork in 1844.

Repeal Demonstration (Against Act of Union 1800 between Ireland and Great Britain) in Clonakilty, West Cork, 6th December 1840, Chaired by Maurice Power, JP, MD, Thomas Deasy, Patrick O’Hea Secretary, John Donovan, John Callanan, Cornelius McCarthy, John Murray.

Daniel O’Connell addresses Monster Meeting of 500,000? on Repeal in Skibbereen, June 1843, and Bandon, Skibbereen and Bantry connections with O’Connell with O’Donovan Rossa’ Recollections of ‘Wandmen’ at the Meeting.

On the 19th June 1843, the Liberator of Your Country, the Beloved Son of Erin will be Among You and We Appeal to the men of The Baronies of Carbery to Meet to Denounce ‘The Odious Act of Union 1800’, with Listing of Priests, Lawyers, and Liberal Protestants including, Samuel Beamish and Thomas Fuller, Dunmanway, Samuel Jervois, Brade, Samuel Jervois, Cooran, Michael Warren and Maxwell Irwin, Clonakilty, Arthur Atteridge, River View, William Williamson, Schull.

Alexander Donovan, Clonakilty, 1822 Admission Gray’s Inns, 1836 Reporter Court of Common Pleas, London, Judge Dominica, his brother Rickard Donovan, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork from 1838 (Equivalent to State Solicitor), Extended family Network by Marriage including Daniel O’Connell and the Puxley Mining Family of Beara.

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1840, Ballygurteen (Dunmanway/Clonakilty), West Cork, fairs 24th June, 25th July, 28th December, under a patent Granted to the Reverend Sir Michael Cox, Bart in the Reign of George 111 (1738-1820).

Fairs and Tolls could be lucrative. In Bantry the Bantry estate collected tolls until well into the 19th century they were levied on animals or produce entering the town on fair days. Sometimes they were farmed out.

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An account of the Kilgariff, Clonakilty, West Cork, Eedy family to Clifton and Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada some of the names mentioned Knowles, Bateman, Beamish, French, Morris, Stanley, Woulfe, Crowley, O’Donovan, Cahalane, Donoghue, A Glass of Whiskey Ballygurteen Fair prior to Emigrating.

From ‘Harvey’s Jocular Medley’, ‘The Annual Fair will be held on the 13th May 1738 at Donovan’s Leap, (West Cork) now called Tonson’s Leap in West Carbery. Affords a place where vast numbers of cattle may be exposed for sale. Free of customs and Tolls for three years. Having a glass of Whisky in a Tent at Balagurteen Fair (near Dunmanway), 1828 prior to emigrating to Canada.