Tom Hsford Schoolmaster Skibbereen

Before the coming of ‘free secondary education’, in the mid 1960s secondary education in Irish towns was patchy or non existent. In Skibbereen Catholics were provided for by a girls convent and to some extent by the De la Salle Brothers. In the 1991 booklet on the 100th anniversary of the Church of Ireland Church at Abbeystrewry there is a portrait by Trevor Royrcoft of Tom Hosford who ran a secondary school for boys and girls of all religions in Skibbereen. Thomas Hosford MA appears in Guy’s Directory of 1914 as having a Church Of Ireland Intermediate and Collegiate school. In the census of 1901 and 1911 he is born either in 1874 or 1978 a member of a large farming family and he took his MA in Trinity College Dubln. It is clear from the article that many benefited from his selfless devotion to his…

Before the coming into being of Wyndeham’s Land Act in the early 20th century it was common for farms to be let to Dairymen. The Dairyman would pay a fixed amount per cow and would have the use of the herd together with land to grow potatoes and corn. In this case the land was rented by the Philips family from the Earl of Bandon and comprised part of their holding. John Sullivan had been a dairyman in other locations in the area.

Dairy Agreement for Rusheeeninaska, Durrus, Phillips:Sullivan 18th January 1897.

This account of the Cole family from west Carbery was privately published in Belfast in 1943. It is remarkable insofar as it contains extracts from various census of the 18th and 19th centuries and other fragments of historical records no longer available. it is probable that most of the research was conducted c1910 in the Public Record Office before the shredding of census for war material in World war 1 and the destruction of records in the Public Records Office in 1922.

Carbery Cole Book

The Reverend R.Lee Cole, M.A. B.D. of the Methodist Church was the son of the Reverend Richard Cole from Durrus, he resided in Skibbereen for some time. His grandfather Mr. Richard Lee practised as an architect in Skibbereen.

Goleen

This list comes mainly from the online catalogue of the Bntry House papers held in University College Cork, Boole Library with some from the Paddy O’Keeffe (Bantry businessman and historian) in the Cork Archives.

Occupations Bantry

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The National Archives in Dublin have two rent books from the Bantry Estate dating from the 1780s (ref MS. 5944 and 5955).  These contain details of tenancies and tenants in the Bantry and Beara areas.  Quite a numbe of the tenants are of the O’Sullivan family and would be in the category of middle-men.

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Date Name Occupation Place Bantry except where otherwise indicated

1565 Sir Owen O’Sullivan Landowner Granted Whiddy Island by crown, Paddy O’Keeffe papers.§
1591 Hugo Brightoy and James ~Derbyshire Fishery owners Whiddy Island Took a mortgage from Sir Owen O’Sullivan and his son Owen O’Sullivan mentioned in Paddy O”Keeffe papers Cork Archive.
1608 Edward Davenant (d…

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From Peter J. Clarke’s site, Irish Genealogy E Books.

Captain Smith’s assessment, 1697.

Baltimore

Seamen  9

Fishermen  188

Boatmen  84

Total  268  Ireland  4428 Baltimore 6%

Whereof Papist 268

The Centre for Irish latin American Studies has an interesting article concerning Susanna Beamish-Strachan http://www.irlandeses.org/imsla2011_7_04_10_Conrad_Hicks.htm

She was born outside Dunmanway, Co. Cork to a Church of Ireland family but formed an attachment to the Methodist Church.  She left to go to a Bible College in London and met Henry Strachan (1872-1945) a Canadian of Scots decent.  They went to Argentina, and over the years travelled as missionaries in South and Central America settling in Costa Rica.  They founded a Bible College and the article documents their work.