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Commencement of the Teaching of Irish as an Optional Extra at Carrigboy/Four Mile Water/Durrus, Boys National School, West Cork 1896.

The boys who take the subject generally do after 4th class.

Late 7th Century Irish Scribes, First in the World to use Spacing between Words.

Hermitages on the Mizen, Muinter Bháire, Beara Peninsulas and the Island and the Deserts of Sinai, the Middle Eastern influences of the Book of Kells

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

Courtesy Dr. Casey collection.

Deodand due to Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork February, 1619 and its appearance in 18ht century leases.

1615, Purchase by Richard Boyle later Great Earl of Cork, for £100 of McCarthy Mortgage of fifteen Ploughlands of the Sluagh Teige O Mahown (O’Mahony) in Ivagha Peninsula, Ballydehob, West Cork.

The Duke of Devonshire commenced an action in 1854 in the Encumbered Estates Court to confirm that lands to be disposed of by Nathaniel Evanson did not include minerals. The land was originally sold by the Duke’s predecessor on title, Edward Boyle and his wife Mary by way of lease for 500 years from the 21st May 1626. The property including 3 ploughlands at Drumreagh, Dromelower and Ardgenane in Durrus including Murreagh was acquired by the Earl of Burlington and Cork and Sir William Heathcote who disposed of it to Richard Tonson in 1738 included as part of the Manorial rights to the Lord of the Manor of Ballydehob including the Durrus lands. In 1765 the Durrus lands were demised to Richard Tonson Evanson and renewed by Lord Baron Riversdale to Nathaniel Evanson in 1811, The Duke succeeded in his claim. The papers are in the National Library, Lismore papers 1854 List Ms43, 964. Leasehold Deed 4th September 1765, three Ploughlands at Murreagh, Ardogna, Dromreagh between Richard Tonson, Dunkettle, Cork and Richard Evanson, life interest to his wife Elizabeth (nee Shaw father woollen draper Cork?) son Nathaniel late Murreagh, all Evansons Four Mile Water, not clear if there are two Nathaniels one a party the other a witness. The property devolves from William Hull/Boyle though the Tonson illegitimate line probably originally either a mortgage or forfeit O’Mahony holding. The main house 2015 is still occupied. Mrs Beamish a successor lived there during the Famine and was noted for her benevolence and relief work. Registry of Deeds 246 102 157389 The Duke of Devonshire commenced an action in 1854 in the Encumbered Estates Court to confirm that lands to be disposed of by Nathaniel Evanson did not include minerals. The land was originally sold by the Duke’s predecessor on title, Edward Boyle and his wife Mary by way of lease for 500 years from the 21st May 1626. The property including 3 ploughlands at Drumreagh, Dromelower and Ardgenane in Durrus including Murreagh was acquired by the Earl of Burlington and Cork and Sir William Heathcote who disposed of it to Richard Tonson in 1738 included as part of the Manorial rights to the Lord of the Manor of Ballydehob including the Durrus lands. In 1765 the Durrus lands were demised to Richard Tonson Evanson and renewed by Lord Baron Riversdale to Nathaniel Evanson in 1811, The Duke succeeded in his claim. The papers are in the National Library, Lismore papers 1854 List Ms43, 964. Leasehold Deed 4th September 1765, three Ploughlands at Murreagh, Ardogna, Dromreagh between Richard Tonson, Dunkettle, Cork and Richard Evanson, life interest to his wife Elizabeth (nee Shaw father woollen draper Cork?) son Nathaniel late Murreagh, all Evansons Four Mile Water, not clear if there are two Nathaniels one a party the other a witness. The property devolves from William Hull/Boyle though the Tonson illegitimate line probably originally either a mortgage or forfeit O’Mahony holding. The main house 2015 is still occupied. Mrs Beamish a successor lived there during the Famine and was noted for her benevolence and relief work.

Cork Jail No 1 and 2, House of Correction, National School 1830s

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Berehaven Copper Mines, Allihies, West Cork, Methodist National School, 1875-1883

Baptismal Register (Methodist), Berehaven Mines, Co. Cork 1842-1878

Birth Marriage Death and Renounciation Records of Killaconenagh (Cill Church of Eacha Naoineach) (Berehaven), Co. Cork, Church of Ireland, 1787-1850 together with Methodist Records

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1883 Curriculum Boys National School, Carrigboy (Durrus), West Cork, including Agriculture, Physical Geography, Bookkeeping.

By the 1930s the curriculum had probably gone backwards.  Sarah Dukelow from Clashadoo/Sea Lodge after the death of her mother spent a number of years in Trillick, Co. Tyrone with relations and attended the local National School. The girls studied science algebra having to work out solutions on  the blackboard.   When she returned to St. James there were no such subjects.  Carrigboy school would have had the same broad curriculum.

This advanced form of education is consistent with some of the subjects available from Hedge School Masters such as Aeán Ó Coileáin:

Seán Ó Coileáin (1777-1813), Poet and Teacher of Surveying, Navigation and Science and other Hedge School Masters Myross, West Cork, early 19th century

The Recommencement of the use of ‘O’ in Irish Surnames, an example from the Girls School Roll, Carrigboy (Durrus) National School, West Cork, 1919.

For the ordinary Irish population for the 18th and 19th century names that habitually used the ‘O’ were written and spoken of without them.

Interestingly many Irish Protestant families of a Gaelic background high up the social scale used the ‘O’ such as ‘The O Donovan’ of Lissard.

The girls records of Carrigbui from 1866 are available and the ‘O’ is rarely used. this is an example of a girl, entry 791, Mary O’Brien, an orphan, from Friendly Cove.
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One of the peculiar aspects of the current usage is that some names which historically never had the O now have it attached.

Irish Surnames of Gaelic Origin