1817 Report of the Commissioners of the Crown, to Investigate Abuses, at the Convict Department, Cork.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9015/page/203241

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Archbishop Richard Pocock, Tour of West Cork, 1758, Ploughland ‘An Area of Land Capable of Being Tilled by a Team of Eight Oxen in a Year, Franciscan Abbey Bantry 1460, Clandestine Import of French Brandy and Rum, Whiddy, Donemark, Land is let for 1 shilling an acre, Women marry at 13 Men at 16, Gentlemen of Good Families Chiefly Sullivans let land of 300 acres, Leprosy.

Impressions of Travellers, Halls of Ballineen, West Cork, RIC Station 1840 and Kohl 1844 Bantry to Kenmare on RIC

An English Traveller in Ireland 1672-4, Observations on hospitality, bragging, housing and sleeping patterns, baptism and death customs, obsession with genealogy, propensity to litigation.

Fowl and Turkey Markets in Durrus, West Cork, in the 1930s. In that era fowl plays an important part in the economy of farming households for poultry, eggs, fowl and even feathers. Merchants such as Lanes of Cork bought whatever feathers were available. Traditionally money earned in this way was the property of the woman of the house.

From the 1940s the business expanded with Whittakers of Cork having a hatchery and dispatching boxes of day ld chicks al yellow by box on CIE buses to country towns for collection.

Considering the current cheap price of poultry the price in relative terms must have been much more in those days.

From the Patent of 15th March 1679 to hold Fairs at Ballygobban to Bantry Market, West Cork, July 2014.

Prices on Cork Butter Market and Skibbereen Market where Carrageen (Little Rock) Moss is quoted per ton, May 1862.

Out for a day with the Ferret in Dunmanway, West Cork, Long Ago.

The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

Markets

In the early 1890s there was a weekly market in Durrus. The old fair was revived in May 1892 and a meeting held the evening before presided over by Richard Townsend (Magistrate, Dunbeacon) resolved that there would be four fairs a year and the next was to be held in July 1892. The May Fair had a good sale for horses and colts and was attended by Abbott of Cork and Vickery of Bantry (horse buyers). In 1912 there were butter markets on Wednesdays and Fridays near the present creamery. The main market was in Bantry with fair day the first Friday each month, the pig fair on a Thursday. Cattle were walked to the Fair with a very early start. May and November were the main cattle markets while February, May, July and August were more for horses, sheep and wool. The July market was known as the tinkers market.
In the 1930s near the former Wiseman’s store a Fowl market was held on Thursdays where Sullivans from Dunmanway bought available produce.. About three weeks before Christmas the area of the present Garda Station was the scene of a turkey market where Messrs Lyons of Bantry bought whatever was available.
In the early 20th century Bantry was considered to have the fourth largest fair in Ireland. Each outlying area had its place on the Square.. When the railway was running there were ‘specials’ with as many as eight carriages to carry cattle and pigs to Cork. The annual horse fair then, as now was Ballabuidhe which goes back to a charter of 1615 and probably much further and takes place in early August in Dunmanway. This was attended by buyers such as the Widgers from Clonmel who bought for the international market.
When the marts started, especially Bandon (1957) and Skibbereen (started by Cork Co-Operative Marts in 1958) it sounded the death knell of the fair for cattle.
Durrus Fair used to be held near creamery. It was revived in 1937 having lapsed for 20 years previously, and was held on the third Monday of every month. The market at Ballydehob was also attended.

Subscribers to Skibbereen, West Cork, Relief Fund, April 1863, Honorary Secretaries Rev. Charles Davis RCA, Rev O. McCutcheon (Methodist), Henry R. Marmion, Right Rev Dr. O’Hea (Bishop), McCarthy Downing (Solicitor and later MP), Sir H. W. Beecher (Landlord), H. W. O’Donovan (Landlord), James Hutchinson Swanton (Miller), Henry Newman (Landlord), Mrs McCarthy (Landowner), Glencurra, Messrs Allman Bandon (Distillers), Samuel Rearden (Auctioneer), D M McCartie Senior, Rec. C. Davis, Fitzgibbon and Co Skibbereen (Solicitors), Arnott and Co (Drapers), Henry R Marmion (Auctioneer/Land Agent), Dr. Donovan (Probably author History of Carbery), William Everett, Solicitor, Henry O’Donovan Solicitor, Paul Limrick Coroner, John Hennessey, Rev. John Fitzpatrick P.P., Midleton, John Henry Townsend, Dublin, Provincial Bank per Hugh Loudon, Rev John O’Brien, Rev O McCutcheon, Rev. J Mulcahy,, J. F. Levis (Merchant), Lady Beecher, J.W. Beecher (Landlord), Hollybrook, W. Bailie Senior, John O’Donoghue, Rev J Allen, Rev Dr Keane, Fermoy, Tomkins and Co., Cork, James Swanton Junior (Landlord), Lambkin and Co (Tobacco Manufacturers), George Robinson (Landlord) Coronea, Peter Spillane, Michael Sheehy, Eagle Office (Newspaper).

There was significant distress in the area after the great famine.

From the (Skibbereen) Eagle the descriptions are from other sources and may not be entirely accurate.

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1905 Valuer’s Report on Estate of Lord (Charles Pelham) Clinton, Crookhaven, West Cork 1905, Crookhaven formerly flourishing, Pilot Station, Fishing even the Isle of Man Fleet now gone, all now passed, Evidence of Want Of Circulation of Money, Copper Mine and Slate Quarry now Closed, Large Areas Quite Unprofitable, on Closed Examination Fertile Patches Between Rocks, Tenants Comfortable Many Houses Slated, Early Potatoes, Favourable Climate Produces Early Grass, Provider Scare in in Winter, Milch Cows of a Poor Description.

At the time the estate was subject to a significant mortgage to a British Insurance Company and presumably the report was commissioned to explore options. In the end the tenants acquire their holdings.

In former times Crookhaven was a major shipping center with ships stopping to take on supplies.

Francis Jobson’s Map of West Cork, 1589 including Cape Clear (Iniskyran), Baltimore, O’Driscolls, Rosbrin, Crookhaven, Bantry, Muintervara land of Rymers (O’Daly’s Bardic School), O’Sullivan Bere, Priest’s Leap.

The progress of the Attridge family from Lisheenacreaagh (Lisín-na-Creiche: little-fort-of-the-cattle-spoil), Ballydehob, West Cork to Rochester, New York, United States and Waterdown, East Flanboro. Ontario, Canada, with associated families, Gosnells, Skerkin Island, and Lees and Sheehans, photographs of Sally and William Atteridge, Rochester, born West Cork 18th century, and Protestant Hedge School Masters.

Proposed Railway from Bantry to Crookhaven to be a Port of Call, 1866 Sale with Tenant listings of of Two Ploughlands and Two Gneeves at Dunmanus, Mizen, West Cork, in occupation by Alexander O’Driscoll, Esq. prior to 1814 conveyed to William Swanton and Richard Long, by Lord Riversdale and others (subject to the right of all persons to use the water in the Well Holy? at Tobernasool), with lands Sparagrady, Gurteenalla, Derrenaclogh, formerly enjoyed by Thomas Attridge and his under tenants at Ballydehob, 1812 ,by Lease of 12th September 1768, to William Swanton, Ballydehob from Richard Tonson for three Lives renewed in 1840 for lives of William Swanton, William Swanton (last alive in 1866 aged 34) and William Justice and lands at Drimoleague, Meenies, and Conveyance of 1812 Lord Riversdale to William Swanton Lands .

The Notters, German Protestants settling in Crookhaven, West Cork, 1640s Estate on Mizen and Cork City Lands 1860s.

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Listing of 120 Tenants on the Estate of Lord (Charles Pelham) Clinton,Crookhaven, West Cork 1903, Greenane, Knockeenageragh, Ballyvoge Beg, Letter, Dough, Killeane, Lackenale. Corran More, Mullaghavoge, Cannaun, Corran More, Toreen, Knocgale, Castlemehogan, Crookhaven, Ballyvogue, Arduslough, Lisagriffin.

Lord Clinton das avquired many estates in West Cork put up for sale by the Landed estates Court from the 1850s such as the Hutchinson Estate, Bantry, District:

Legal Tenure of Some Townlands in Durrus District, West Cork, from c 1600.

Bere Island controversial:

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/family-show.jsp?id=2511

Letter to the Earl of Bantry 1854, (criticising his conduct towards his tenants) or, A warning to English purchasers of the perils of the Irish Incumbered estates court; exemplified in the purchase by lord Charles Pelham Clinton, M.P., of two estates in the barony of Bere, county of Cork.

He built a large house at Crookhaven, contractor father of William Martin Murphy:

April 1862, Proposal to form Joint Stock Company, ‘Bantry Bay Slate and Slab Company’ already operational at White Horse, Kilcrohane, under Captain O’Flaherty, used by John Moss, Durrus, in building Glenlough House 1850 and contractor William Murphy (father of William Martin Murphy) in building Lord Clintons Residence at Crookhaven, Testimonials from F Lisabe, W Thomas and E H Blake of Dublin.

By 1903 the estate was subject to a mot=rtgaget of £7,000 to a British Insurance company.

Schedule of Townlands: