Proposed Electoral Division of Bantry, Castletownbere, Dunmnaway, West Cork, 1841 with Population, Area, Valuation by Townland.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/12747/page/157970

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. Page 10.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10401/page/230587

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

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

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.675629,-9.5469187,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

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.