Donemark:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Dunnamark,+Co.+Cork/@51.696677,-9.4515379,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450ba682129f09:0x162ef04913bed5e9

Gorteenroe:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gurteenroe,+Co.+Cork/@51.703532,-9.4498013,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450ba2cf976c59:0x2600c7a819c738b2

Ballylickey:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballylickey,+Co.+Cork/@51.7215344,-9.4377739,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450c0de21b654b:0x1800c7a937dfb3e0

Some Rent receipts, Kenmare Estate 1741-46, Bantry Beara Area, William Sullivan, Florence Sullivan, Rev. Thomas Miller, Mort Sullivan, Gilbert Mellifont Donemark, Michael Murphy Newtown and Mills, Beversham Harman Laheran, Patrick Galwey Gurteenroe, Daniel Cronin Gortdarrug Cooloum, Thomas Hutchins Ballylickey, John Riordan Ballylickey, Patrick Minihane Donemark, Richard Tobin Mills Donemark, Ards Coomleigh, Denis Leary, John Harman.

Bantry area substantial tenants 1742-1747 on Kenmare Estate

Gilbert Mellifont Donemark, rents collected by John Galwey of Cork and lodged in Hoares, John Harman, Lahern, Beversham Harman, Lahern, John Harman Derryduff, James Gallwey, Reendonegan/Donemark/Coomleigh, Henry Galwey and son Andrew, Droumsullivan/Glanneouogh, Patrick Galwey Gurteenroe, David Gallwey, Drounsullivan/Glancreagh, Denisl Leary, Gurtenroe, Richard Goodwin, Knockanacosduff, Thomas Huthins, Ballylickey,, Rev. Thomas MIller, Reendonegan, Michael Murphy Newtown arrears paid to James Gallwey, John Riordane Newtown, FRances Sullevane, Newtown, Richard Tobin Donemark Mills,

This is a selection of the rentals mentioned in the Casey Collection. In the main they are substantial tenants who would have worked some of the land themselves and in many cases sub let.

The Kenmare Estate was the Brownes/Herberts and was one of the few to remain in Catholic hands during the Penal Laws. It was probably O’Sullivan before the Confiscations.

Some records of the Kenmare Estate for Bantry District

1752, Daniel Harrington, Gortaweer, Beara, formerly under tenant of Puxley (he a poor payer of rent) now a direct tenant of Kenmare Estate has no English.

Catholic Middlemen on the Kenmare and Lansdowne Estates 1755 and 1775, Pride..Sloth..Drunkiness..Every one thinks himself too great for any industry except taking farms. When they happen to get them, they screw enormous rents from some beggarly dairyman and spend their whole time in the alehouse to the next village. If they have sons, they are to be bred to be priests, physicians or French officers; if daughters, they are bred to be no kind of industry but become encumbrances on their parents and the public an this sloth and beggary are transmitted from generation to generation. …1775.. Sauntering around the roads dong nothing, and their sons and daughters going to a dancing school at three shillings a quarter when they might be spinning or carding, digging or ploughing or sowing.

Memoir of Blind Harpist Arthur O’Neill, visit to Murtagh Mac Owen O’Sullivan at Berehaven, Co. Cork, Milesian Festival held by Lord Kenmare c 1720.

A stop is put to felling timber, June 1696, in forfeited woods near Bantry by Lord Bellemount’s steward. This was on Sir Nicholas Brown’s land commonly called Lord Kenmare, later which should have been reserved for the Navy. The coast has 24 privateers who report to the Western Irish, their friends, and land men and pillage the country, damaging Protestant families.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/04/20/middle-men-bantry-area-1740s-of-kenmare-brown-estate-michael-murphy-newtown-casey-miller-newtown-thomas-hutchins-ballylickey-various-galweys-gilbert-and-richard-mellefont-donemark-beversham/

Traditional Irish Marriage, in Early Medieval Ireland.

Marriage Customs from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork and Wedding Stone Kilcrohane.

Pre 1798 the Women’s Cloaks in West Cork and Kerry were Dark Blue after Grey, Custom of Greeting as a Benediction, the Wench with the family of Bishop Berkeley who refused to carry out cinders as she was descended from the Ancient Kings of Ireland, Marriage Customs, Backaughs (Beggars) from Crofton Croker.

https://voxhiberionacum.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/traditional-irish-marriages/

From the Office of the Hanaper, 1661-1684, Justices or Commissioners of the Peace for Co. Cork in Reign of King Charles 11

Extracts from Diary 1622 of Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Nonpayment by Blind John Power, of Rectorial Tithes, including Caheragh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Schull, Myross, West Cork, Gift to Lord Beaumont Departing, of Gelding, Caste of Falcons, Merlyns, 9 Barrels of Irish Fryce and Barrell of Pickled Scallops used for Food by the Irish, Sending Cutty (‘Cuidighe’ Irish for Companion) Ogle to England.

Courtesy Dr. Casey collection.

The tithe references are possibly a relict of the Norman incursions to West Cork. These areas belonged to either St Catherine’s of Waterford or the College of Youghal. They appear in the accounts books of St Finbarrs Cathedral Cork, from the 1780s, the ledgers are in pristine condition in the RCB Library in Rathgar, Dublin.

Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork, on Sir William Hull of Leamcon, Schull and Sir Thomas Crook, founder of Baltimore who ‘Unjustly took his Falcons’, and Sir Fineen O’Driscoll gave him Falcons

Payment of War Bonuses to Teachers during Word War 1, example Durrus National School, West Cork.

Included in the accounts records of the school, are computations of the relevant bonuses payable to teachers. This was widespread at the time, owing to a shortage of men in the United Kingdom of which Ireland was then a part.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=zojoAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=payment+of+war+bonus+to+teachers+world+war+1&source=bl&ots=0s2B5U2dS2&sig=nbS4gZ7fIjXo_sJ38rPK4bZWZG0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b0teVfyWAYTD7gaUpIDoAg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=payment%20of%20war%20bonus%20to%20teachers%20world%20war%201&f=false

Report 1934, by Canon Bastible, of Religious Inspection of Durrus National School, West Cork.

Jack Dukelow (1866-1953), Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork, linking O’Sullivan Bere to Past and Present Governor of Louisiana and former US Senator for Louisiana.

Jack’s daughter Sarah was the mother of Ernest Dukelow who was adopted by the Snelling family in New Orleans in the early 1950s. He became an Attorney and married Mary Landriue, up to last year US Senator for Louisiana. Her brother is the current Governor and her father a former one of the State.

Jack’s grandmother was Margaret O’Sullivan one of the Hurrig Sept. She is descended from the 1774 marriage of Michael Sullivan and Mary Vickery of Whiddy Island. It is believed that Michael descends from O’Sullivan Bere, possibly on the Finnin Dubh side. He was a Heart Tax collector in Bantry and extensive middle man.

Interestingly one of the descendants of the Tedagh (Durrus/Bantry) branch in the 1830s was living in New Orleans and papers had to be sent to him for notarization in connection with a family settlement.

Jack Dukelow:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gnw2LsIbV0Wxk2bGjzCPq9sH9rCCQOrYTh5c0bG7vf0/edit

Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.

Senator Mary Landrieu, Louisiana (1996-2014), USA, the the Dukelows of Durrus, West Cork.