1844, Evidence of Michael Sullivan, Labourer, Abbeystrewry, Skibbereen, 5 children he would wish to be near National School, 6d per day if farmer employs him to whom he pays £2 for an acre and £1 for house. Labours away in Limerick and Tipperary digging Potatoes. Wife makes 2 shillings 6 d to 3 shillings a week from eggs poultry not allowed near farmer’s cornfield. One chaff bed, diet of dry potatoes, no milk, one pig obliged to keep in house, would emigrate cannot afford to do so,

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282505

Evidence of Father Barry, Parish priest, East Schull, West Cork, 1844, Ballydehob Copper Mines, Most Miners from District, Some from England, Wages for labourers comfortable 1 shilling per day, piece work for the women sorting, as opposed to 8d per day on a farm if available and on Emigration (Pre-Famine) if Provision was made would be availed of from Friends letters Abroad there is no Tyranny, No Oppression from Landlords, No Taxes, One of Two Ships recently Freighted for emigration from Ballydehob, Interesting the Emigration question was asked relative to the Colonies. Within three years an enormous exodus would begin not to the Colonies but to the USA, Land of The Free.

Interesting the emigration question was asked relative to the colonies. Within three years an enormous exodus would begin not to the colonies but to the USA, Land of The Free.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282501

Goleen, 1844, A Gneeve, one twelfth part of a Ploughland.

Old land measurements.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282490

John O’Connor, Esq., Landlord, Middleman, Merchant, Bantry came into an estate of 700 acres in 1825, 4 years of arrears by Tenants of Lord Riversdale, Prize Fighters, Head of a Faction, He forgave 3 years and a More Industrious Tenantry, Instead of Being in the Public House at Fairs and Market Fighting, you have Slated Houses and Barns, where there was nothing but Poverty and Indigence 13 £10 Freeholders and one £20.

Evidence on the possibilities of prudent estate management as is evident from the Commission generally lacking in the area.

O’Connor may be the brother-in;law of John Jago, whose wife was O’Connor.

Evidence of John Jagoe, (Grandfather of Mother Benigna, Australia and Father of John Jagoe BL), Bantry, Co. Cork, 1837 re Manor Courts to Parliamentary Commission.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282481

Evidence of Richard White Esq., Bantry, that the Cork Grand Jury need to raise £90-100,000 to run County Cork in 1844.

First sign of emergence of Cork Middle Class, Offer in April 1762 of £200 for apprehension of Leader of the ‘Levellers’, individuals names. Also list of Grand Jury and agents April 1765.

First sign of emergence of Cork Middle Class, Offer in April 1762 of £200 for apprehension of Leader of the ‘Levellers’, individuals names. Also list of Grand Jury and agents April 1765.

Some Grand Jury Presentment payments 1807, Co. Cork including for killing of otters two payments of £20 for Reformed Priests Reverend William Crowley and Rev. Daniel McCarthy (of McCarthy Muclagh family married his ward Miss Blair Blair’s Cove, Durrus, interpreter of French attempted invasion Bantry Bay)

1803, account by J.W. De la Cour, Treasurer, Cork Grand Jury for money raised for Public Works and for Militia (Bounty for Militia Soldiers and Family Subsistence Money) 1793-1803:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=grand+jury&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&mode=list&action2=-1

1830, £1,939 Voted out of Consolidated Fund, to Cork Grand Jury, to Provide Road from Bantry to Castletown also Included Grants for Collieries in North Cork.

Grand Jury (with some background) Sworn in for Cork Spring Assizes, 1863 by The High Sheriff, Thomas Somerville, Drishane Esq., Foreman The Right Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard Esq., Coolmaine Castle, Bandon, M.P., Sir George Conway, Colhurst, Ardum, Bart., Richard Oliver Aldworth, Newmarket House, Esq., Mountifort Longfield, Castlemartyr, Esq., Nicholas Dunscomb, Mountdesert, Esq., Thomas St. John Conat.,, Kilmurray House, Esq., Henry John Townsend, Castletownsend, Esq., Robert Heard, Kinsale, Esq, Thomas French Simpson, William S Meade, Ballymartle, Esq., Edward Daly., Kinsale, Esq., Thomas Parsons Belaird, Pembroke, Esq., Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus Esq., Horace Townsend, Derry, Esq., George B Treselian?, Bandon, Esq., Freeman Crofts, Cloughfadda House, Blarney, Esq., Thomas Leahy, South Terrace, Esq., William B Leslie, Lislee, Esq., Henry Hardy, Firmount?, Esq., John William Payne, Beach House, Bantry, Esq., Jonathan Bruce, Milltown Castle, Esq., Maxwell Gumbelton, Kilmaturin Esq.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282470

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ahil+More,+Co.+Cork/@51.7545514,-9.3989393,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450e96a09ff451:0x75a1830ed92f129e

Lord Kenmare:

http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/browne-hon-william-1791-1876

1840 Evictions by Lord Kenmare and his Middleman David Mellifont, at Ahil, Bantry and other areas, Distress, Typhus, Borrowing from Butter Merchants.

Mellifont lived at Carriganass Castle (Ballylickey/Kealkil) and this was bought by William O’Sullivan Esq.

The Mellifonts may have been rapparees in the Ballingeary area in the 17th century, conformed to the Church of Ireland and became land owners in the Bantry and Dunmanway areas, lawyers and military officers with property on Grafton St., Dublin. Is it possible that Mellifont is an agnomen for a local name such as O’Leary.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282467

Dereliction on Trinity College Dublin, Estates, in Co. Kerry, 1844, Sub let to Middleman Orpen.
Evidence to Parliamentary Enquiry in contrast to Lord Lansdowne Estate.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11941/page/282465