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

Sale 1850, of Rabbit Island, Squince, Parish of Myross, Barony of West Carbery, well adapted for feeding sheep or young cattle, an exclusive right of sea-weed in abundance all around the island.

Group photo at the corn 1930s Skerkin Island, West Cork, Old Fashioned photo 1947, harvesting seaweed with the ‘Scanhadór’

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.

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.

Griffith’s Roads: Report of Patrick Leahy, Civil Engineer, 1834 to Co. Cork Grand July of Progress of Road from Dunmanus Bay to Skibbereen, Nearly Completed, Extension to Ballydehob Approved, and Report of Edmund Leahy, County Surveyor to Grand July 1840 on Ballylickey to Crookstown, 27 miles Active, Bantry to Glengariff 10 miles Near Completion, Crookhaven to Barleycove, Ballydehob to Bantry To Be Finished Current Season.

1824 Sir Richard Griffith, Road Engineer, Progress Report, Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Wheeled Carts now Appear, where heretofore Loads were carried on the Backs of Horses, New Entrance to Town Of Bandon, Road From Courtmacsherry to Timoleague, Road from Clonakilty to New Fishery Pier At Ring, New Road Skibbereen to Bantry, Macroom to Killarney, with a Note on The System of Labour Organisation Used.

Richard Griffith letter to Dublin Castle on progress of road from Skull to Crookhaven, Co. Cork where ‘upwards of 3,000 are employed’, 1822.

Report of Richard Griffith Engineer on new road Skibbereen to Bantry 1823

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.

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.

Election of Daniel O’Connell, 8th July, 1828 from diary of Amhlaoimh Ó Súilleabháin (Humphrey O’Sullivan)

Subscribers Co. Cork, Durrus/Kilcrohane, 1846 to the ‘O’Connell Tribute’: Rev Richard Quinn, Parish Priest £2, Rev Simon Murphy, Curate, Denis McCarthy, £5, Eugene Sullivan £5, Patrick Sheedy £2, Richard ‘King’Tobin Senior 5s, Richard Tobin Junior 5s, Patrick Tobin Junior 5s, Patrick Tobin Senior 5s, James McCarthy 2s, Tom Donovan 2s 6d, Timothy Daly 2s, other smaller amounts

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Daniel Galwey, Kilkeran, Clonakilty, Under Agent for Lloyds Marine Insurance, Assaulted by Mob, Cape Clear, February 1834, Attempting to Recover Proceeds of Ship wreck.  Earlier Wreck of Europe off Rosscarbery.

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March 1824, Houghing of Livestock, Ballydehob, West Cork, 1824 Spillover of Whiteboyism.

http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter45.html

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1845 appeal to Enlarge the Churches of Schull, West Cork, to Accommodate ‘Upwards of Two Thousand Protestants of The Humblest Class’, with a Listing of Subscribers.

Of those listed most of the lay people are Land Owners, the Notters in Crookhaven, the Swantons in Ballydehob although many of the family were Methodist. There were at the time two Alexander O’Driscolls both Middle men in the general area one Catholic one Protestant. The Earl of Bandon listed had some small estates in the area including Dereenlomane where the barytes mines were. Dr. Sweetnam listed is probably of the land owning family and agents in the Caheragh area. Connell is not to be confused with O’Connell (relations of the Liberator were land owners in the general area) it is probably a variation of the Huguenot ‘Quesnel’.

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1881 Land War, West Cork, Disturbances arising from Possible Arrest of Father Murphy, Horse Soldiers in Ballydehob, Marines from Bantry Deported to Ballydehob, Gunboat off Schull, Rifle Brigade in Skibbereen, Railway Line from Skibbereen to Bandon Torn Up.

Incident Land War, Durrus, west Cork, 7th January 1886

Incident from Land War in Lisangle, Caheragh, West Cork, December 1881, Petty Session Justices. insist on evidence before issuing warrant.

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1852 Tribute to Doctor Stephen Sweetnam Esq., Dispensary Doctor, Schull, West Cork, For 18 Years, Praised for Efforts during Famine, with List of Local Subscribers.

PLG is poor Law Guardian.

William Bennett is probably the father in law of Alexander O’Donovan Blair of Blair’s Cove, Durrus, The Evansons are Durrus.  Clerks are Church of Ireland Ministers.  JP are Justices of the peace. Nathaniel Lannnier is probably Lannin.  The Longs and Jagoes are Landlords small.  Evans possibly Ardrala likely related to Evans Lissangle related tbt marriage to Crowleys (Rachel Evans, Lissangle,  married James brother of ‘Dr’ Jerry Crowley) Apothecaries, North St. Skibbereen possibly from Ballyourane.  Pier is likely Peer a common Huguenot name in the Goleen area.

The Revs Spring, Crosthwaithe, Triphook, Charles Donovan, controversial and divisive religious figures.

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Townlands, Place and Field Names in English and Irish Kilcaskin (Cill Cháscann) Parish, Barony of Bere, West Cork.

Courtesy Míchéal MacCárthaigh, 1989, JCHAS.

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/kilcaskan-1123.html

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Cork&parish=Clonmeen&townland=Kilcaskan&search=Search

http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/clergy/stories/kilcaskan.htm

1641 Forfeiture of Daniel O’Sullivan’s lands and 1823, From Report on His Majesties Quit Rents and Crown Lands in Ireland, Sale by Cant 1822 of 835 acres (Bog and Rocky Mountain, Kilcaskin, Barony of Bere and Bantry, Co. Cork, Title 1713 From Lord Justices and Council to John Davys, Gent., Dublin and 1641 Houses and Gardens, in Cork City, granted to Noblett Dunscomb.

Schools 1835, Castlehaven, Creagh, Kilcaskin, Kilcoe, Cape Clear Island, Kilgariff, West Cork, Commissioners of Public Instruction.