Dr. John O’Donovan, The O’Daly Family (Bards Muintervara) 1852, Extract


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Original Book Cornell University, New York

Prom the Genealogical Table given at p. 4, it is clear that
Cuchonnacht na Sgoile O'Daly, who died at Clonard, in 1139,
was the first man of the O'Dalys who was celebrated for his
learning. Prom his period forward poetry became a profession
in the family, and the Corca-Adaim sent forth poetical
professors to various parts of Ireland. About the middle of
the twelfth century Eaghnall O'Daly settled in Desmond, and
became chief professor of poetry to Mac Carthy, king of Des-
mond. Prom him, no doubt, the O'Dalys of Muintir-Bhaire, in the south-west of the County of Cork, are descended ; but their pedigree has not been preserved by the O'Clery's or Mac Pirbises, and it is to be feared that it is irrecoverably lost. Dr. O'Brien, indeed, asserts in his Irish Dictionary (voce dala), that the O'Dalys of Munster are descended from…

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Genealogy of McCarthy (Muclagh/Clann Tadhg Ruaidh-na-Scairte) family of Scart (Durrus/Bantry), West Cork, later Cul-na-long, from 1185 AD including descendants of Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy from Samuel Trant McCarthy, High Sheriff Co.Kerry, Srugrena Abbey 1912 intermarried with O’Learys Incigeela, McCarthys Kilcoe, O’Donovans, O’Mahonys Dunbeacon, McCarthys Dunmanway, Blairs Bantry/Coolculaghta/Blair’s Cove among others, 18th century family members in France.


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Scart, off Bantry/Cork Road.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Scart+Bawn,+Co.+Cork/@51.6534995,-9.44243,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a62a3e042d3:0x18527287bfa37acc

Cool-na-Long, Gearhameen:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6208836,-9.5478897,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Genealogy of McCarthy (Muclagh/Clann Tadhg Ruaidh-na-Scairte) family of Scart (Durrus/Bantry), West Cork, later Cul-na-long, from 1185 AD including descendants of Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy from Samuel Trant McCarthy, High Sheriff Co.Kerry, Srugrena Abbey 1912 intermarried with O’Learys Incigeela, Mccarthys Kilcoe, O’Donovans, O’Mahonys Dunbeacon, McCarthys Dunmanway, Blairs Bantry/Coolculaghta/Blair’s Cove among others, 18th century family members in France.

From Judge Samuel Trant McCarthy’s General McCarthy History.

The Castle was in the townland of Scart around a mile from Durrus Cross adn the family moved to the then new Castle at Cul-na-Long, Gearhameen, Durrus s till well preserved. Their lands partly came into possession of Sir. Walter Coppinger (the Coppingers are of Hiberno-Danish descent) who went into possession when they defaulted on the mortgage c 1640 these would be the eastern end Caheragh and Ballycomane. His land was forfeit due to rebellion and eventually came into…

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Copy of Will of William Joseph Harris, Mathematical Instrument Maker, Cork, and other Wills copied by Welply pre 1922.


Copy of Will of William Joseph Harris, Mathematical Instrument Maker, Cork, and other Wills copied by Welply pre 1922.

Welply a Cork Antiquarian copied many historical documents prior to their destruction in the Public Records Office in 1922. He was a Senior School Inspector who opted on Partition to move to Northern Ireland. He died there in the 1950s in his 90s. All along he kept up his interest in Cork history. As he points out in one of his articles he is a McCarthy, the Welply name being adopted in the 18th century.  The RCB Library in Rathgar, Dublin have his papers.

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Genealogy of Conor McCarthy, (son John McCarthy Mór), Barony of Muskerry, died 1761 assumed his father-in-law’s surname Welply, names include Baldwin, Uncles, Collins, Jagoe, Riordan.

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.

Some 18th Century Cork Wills from the Registry of Deeds with an Explanation of Registry procedures.

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Why does economics matter so little in Northern Ireland?


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Why does economics seem to matter so little in Northern Ireland?  The biggest political debate in the UK’s contemporary history – whether or not to pull out of the European Union – is now taking centre stage in British politics and will stay there for most of the next two years. It is basically about two things: national sovereignty and national economic self-interest. An answering debate is starting in Ireland, initiated, inter alia, by a thought-provoking book of essays, Britain and Europe: The Endgame – An Irish Perspective, published recently by the Dublin-based Institute of International and European Affairs¹.

A key conclusion of the chapter on Northern Ireland, by the economist John Bradley (who has written extensively on both the Northern and cross-border economies), is that NI faces two broad choices in the potentially tumultuous period ahead: one is to muddle along with “agendas crowded by the mistrust…

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Commencement of the building 1870s of the Modern ‘Traditional’ Farmhouse in West Cork.


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Commencement of the building 1870s of the Modern ‘Traditional’ Farmhouse in West Cork.

The farmhouse we regard as traditional, two storey slated, three windows on the upper floor two: one either side of the door, dates from the 1870s. A sign of the increasing affluence post famine.

The Valuation Office records post 1850 based on the Griffith Valuation record the change in occupier. Sometimes a marginal pencil entry shows the building of a new farmhouse. It is common for a comment to show an old farmhouse often in the farmyard being used as an outbuilding.

Post Griffith’s Valuation records, 1853-1905, of Occupiers of Durrus West, West Cork, Townlands of 1853-1905, Crottees, Droumaniaheen, Rusheeninaska, Carrigboy (Durrus Village), Clashadoo including Ahagouna and Coolnahorna, Coomkeen, Gearhameen, Brahalish, Rosssmore, Kealties.

It was common on even larger farms to have a one storey thatched house right in the middle of the farm yard.

For smaller farms the historical Ordnance Survey of the 1830s shows patterns of ‘clacháns’ clusters of houses most of which were decimated in the famine.

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,490932,542441,9,8

The Bandon Estate Records sometime also record after 1850 the building of new houses.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0

The example here is of the Daly family in Crottees new house from the 1870s:

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1828 Public Works Allocations, New Public Roads Skibbereen to Bantry Macroom to Glenflesk


Bantry to Skibbereen:

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Macroom to Glenflesk:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Macroom,+Co.+Cork/@51.9048034,-8.9588478,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844e44c4c6d2a55:0x0a00c7a997319de0

1828 Public Works Allocations, New Public Roads Skibbereen to Bantry Macroom to Glenflesk.

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

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

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10173/eppi_pages/224961

Some Genealogical Records of Boys, Durrus District, West Cork 1685-1919.


Some Genealogical Records of Boys, Durrus District, West Cork 1685-1919.

For the centenary celebrations of Carrigboy (Durrus), Catholic schools team compiled a list of the pupils from 1919 to 2014. This template is used, very much an early stage of gathering information with collaboration from many in Ireland and worldwide.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AfjsLUsxlgjoMPvvaqDoKGTot7LgYqgMeEH6bauQv8E/edit#gid=0

Listing of Cork Magistrates to Whom copies of Statutes have been delivered 1824-1826.


Listing of Cork Magistrates to Whom copies of Statutes have been delivered 1824-1826. pages 4-5 of open document.

1835, Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates in the Commission of the Peace, Co. Cork, with addresses.

Magistrates Co. Cork, 1881 Parliamentary Return with Appointments from 1813.

Professional background Resident Magistrates Ireland 1888

Memorial of Magistrates of South West Cork, 1822 re Whiteboy Disturbances

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10172/page/224943