Rickard Donovan, Attorney, Previously Crown Prosector for Cork west Riding, Clerk of the Crown for Cork, Salary £462 per annum, since 1838, First Cousin of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.

His father was a doctor in Clonakilty he being born at the family estate in Durrus.

Rickard Donovan is quoted for a paper he gave on the genealogies of the O’Driscolls by Dr. John O’Donovan:
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T105009.html

His duties, salary and background are set out on the enclosed.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=LFQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Rickard+Donovan+Esq.+Clerk+of+the+Crown+for+the+County+of+Cork&source=bl&ots=Ib4Sf4KBDt&sig=P4IaphF615zUMLUsse2WRkiyGzs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwA2oVChMIs8Oalqn3xgIVkwfbCh1OOQyB#v=onepage&q=Rickard%20Donovan%20Esq.%20Clerk%20of%20the%20Crown%20for%20the%20County%20of%20Cork&f=false

1836, Report in to Municipal Corporations including Bandonbridge, Cork, Clonakilty and Kinsale with Jurisdiction of Courts of Pleas some Defunct.

P 6 on

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10926/page/149200

Department of Inland Excise and Taxes for Cork City and County, 1783-1810 with Grades, Names, Salaries.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K9FbQLKPjRm9HLMNy99__AAMLmis519psiSvcP71Rts/edit#gid=0

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/8643/page/198654

Return of Petty Session Courts, Co. Cork 1835/6 including Bandon, Dunmanway, Bantry, Skibbereen, Carrigboy naming Magistrates and sometimes parties, Mr. Warner, Petty Session Clerk Bantry complain he has to pay for forms, paper, court books out of his emoluments, Summary Criminal Matters in Cork Gaols and House of Correction.

Petty Sessions from p 39. Criminal matters p.14

From University of Southhampton Project:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11054/page/254832

1840, Richard O’Donovan of Wexford, has an Estate of 4,800 acres an ‘Outrageous Orangeman holds Orange Meetings in a Restored castle’ Family acquired Land through Purchase of Cromwellian Debenture Probably Ancestor Murtagh O’Donovan, A Papist, from West Cork.

From Dr. John O’Donovan’s letter to his cousin in Waterford.