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In my two previous posts on our wonderful West Cork colourful houses, A Lick of Paint…
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This gallery contains 16 photos.
Originally posted on Roaringwater Journal:
In my two previous posts on our wonderful West Cork colourful houses, A Lick of Paint…
11 Saturday Jul 2015
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Probably general area:
5th to 7th Century Bronze Pin, Found Goulacullin, Dunmanway, West Cork.
Courtesy JCHAS.
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Charlie Haughey, Instigator 1960s of Irish Civil Servant’s Spouses and Orphan’s Pension Scheme.
Before Haughey as Minister for Finance in the 1960s introduced the scheme the spouses and children of deceased civil servants had to rely o the charity of others.
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Genealogy of Galweys of Castlehaven West Cork including Attainment for Treason 1691, William Galwey in 1717 Decreed as a ‘Popish Inhabitant’ to pay under a ‘Robbery Warrant’ jointly with William Donovan £244 for Robbery, Committed by ‘Toreys, Robbers and Rapparees of the Popish Religion’ to Colonel Bryan Townsend and the Bordeaux, France Galweys.
From Galweys of Munster by Sir Henry Blackhall (a descendant) courtesy JCHAS, 1967.
Some branches of the Galweys conformed to the Church of Ireland and intermarried with the Townsends and other families.
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1766, Lord Lieutenant Gives Assent to the Building of a Turnpike Road from Kanturk to Cork. May have been an early butter road.
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December 1765, Irish House of Commons Vote £2,000 to Improve Navigation on Bandon River between Innishannon and Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Money not Spent).
This would have been some time after Sir Richard Cox westwards built Dunmanway and established the Linen industry.
Over the years various schemes including canals were mooted over the River Bandon.
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Petition against Captain Rock (Whiteboys), Bandon Co. Cork, 1820s Subscribers