http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/11075/eppi_pages/254839

From Irish tour, Cork section, Tour 1748 William Rufus Chetwood

There is another well, that has, in former Ages, been celebrated for the wonderful cures it performed, but since the dissolution of the abbeys, was choaked up, till lately cleaned (as I am informed) by Dr. B—y, an eminent physician of this kingdom, who wrote several elaborate pieces in his profession. They have many good springs in the parts adjacent to the city. We spent this morning to that of St. Bartholomew, which being that saint’s day, was surrounded by vast crowds of Roman Catholics, some on their knees at their devotion and others walking with their beads in their hands. This ceremony is called a Patron. The well is inclosed with green trees, close to the side of the road, and even the sight of it looks refreshing. When their devotions ere over they retired to several sutler’s tents…

http://dfg-viewer.de/v2/?set%5Bimage%5D=1&set%5Bzoom%5D=default&set%5Bdebug%5D=0&set%5Bdouble%5D=0&set%5Bmets%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fgdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de%2Fmets_export.php%3FPPN%3DPPN250904470

From the British State Papers….

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-2718741&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CBANTRY%2CBANTRY&accessmethod=0&Summary=True

Intelligence Organisation in Eire. CAB 66/3/31
be accepted, nor wholly dis-counted. One such report, however (of a U-boat coming into Bantry Bay and taking in provisions on the evening of the 9th November), comes first-hand from a reliable source. There are also reports that certain individuals in
Former reference: WP (39) 131
Date: 1939
Source: Cabinet Office papers

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/search_results.aspx?Page=12&QueryText=Bantry&SelectedDatabases=A2A%7cARCHON%7cBOOKSHOP%7cCABPAPERS%7cEROL3%7cMOVINGHERE%7cNRA%7cNRALISTS%7cPREM19%7cRESEARCHGUIDES%7cE179%7cWEBSITE%7cTRAFALGAR

In Northern Ireland there is a belief that the ‘De Valera Government’ actively provided fuel and other supplies to U-Boats during the war. This is generally told alongside the notion that the most bombed city in the United Kingdom was Belfast. Other stories told are the Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme.

From the Encumbered estates Court 1854 where the title to land before the court is recited.  This court was an attempt to ‘dry clean’ in a legal sense property which was so heavily encumbered that in effect in was unsaleable.  Apart from bank mortgages much of this property, the insolvent estates of Irish landlords, was heavily affected by family settlements to provided for annuities for family members, marriage portions and so on. The famine was only the last straw which broke the camel’s back, the financial distress had been piling up since the collapse in agricultural prices with the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1817.

Deed 12th April and 13th 1738, Earl of Burlington and Cork (descendants of Boyle), Sir William Heathcote to Richard Tonson (one of the Tonsons was the illegitimate son of Hull, who ran a fishery in Schull and was a major landowner).  All manorial rights…

The great collector of Irish music and Chief of Police in Chicago, Francis O’Neill (1848-1936), was born in the townland of Tralibane a mile or so off the Bantry Dimoleague road. In the same area is the townland of Gortatagort, Colomane. In this townland was born the mother of John Spillane the Cork songwriter. Christy Moore covers the song and it on You Tube ‘Christy Moore, John Spillane’s Gortatagort’.

In the nearby parish of Durrus there is a family photograph in the bicentenary book published for St. James Church.c 1910 of the Dukelow family Coomkeen in which Tina Dukelow b. c 1890 is shown with a fiddle, a neighbour Nell Burke bc 1910 played the melodeon. The music seemed to disappear over the years.

O’Neill collected a few tunes from a Beamish man from Caheragh/Drimoleague, there is no sign of him in the recent dictionary of Irish music a mystery…

present day Christchurch:

Home

This was transcribed by Cork Antiquarian Richard Caulfield in 1877 and the following is an extract

‘Church of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Cork, occupies the
site of one of the two ancient Parish Churches, once within the
City walls. It was also called the ‘King’s Chapel,’ and is mentioned as the
Church of the Holy Trinity in the Decretal Epistles of Pope Innocent III.,
in the year 1199, and is rated in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1291 at
fifteen marks. It was situated about 120 feet within the East wall of the
City, and beside it was the College of Christ Church, long since removed. The
Church-yard and adjacent ground was, till lately, within a few inches of the
surface, a marsh, and before the year 1S30 the vaults were filled with water
at the rise of every tide. When the present…