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Sergeant Pritchard, Royal Engineers, 1901, Probable Re-survey Ordnance Survey, Durrus, West Cork, Chainmen, Surveyors, Sappers, Other Chain Men, Charles Mccarthy Fawnmore, Kilcrohane, Jeremiah O’Donovan Gortnakilla, George O’Mahony, Rosskerig.

In the Carrigboy Girls School record there are entries for Beatrice and Dorothy Pritchard their father a Sergeant Royal Engineers for 1901, they seem to have been in the school for a about a year.

At the time local young men were employed as chain men or surveyors probably in connection with a re survey by the Ordnance Survey.  It is likely that they operated under the supervision of someone like Sergeant Pritchard.  There are quite a number of such men and include one of the Skuses of Clashadoo who when the period of local employment ceased joined the Royal Engineer as a sapper.  Looking at some of the RE records this was a common form of entry.

Charles McCarthy (born approx 1880) from Fawnmore, Kilcrohane, later joined the Royal Engineers and went overseas (reported missing in action missing for a few weeks but pulled himself out of some hole and was decorated for bravery and engineering skill, buried in South Hampton)

His brother in law Jerhmiah O’Donovan, Gortnakilla was also a sapper, as was George O Mahony from Rosskerrig

His neighbour Jeremiah Crowley, Ahagouna was also so employed and in his Ellis Island entry to the USA c 1904 he is described as surveyor.  He went on to run a very sucessful business in San Francisco. Even in National School he was doing book keepin at the age of 9.

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Sewing Machine Lessons Start in Carrigboy (Durrus) Girls National School 1890.

http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/singer-sewing-machine-patented

Girls Register 1866-1930:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6146640094366678001

More Scaraveens (‘scairbhíní’)‘, Garbh Mí na gCuach’ (the Rough Month of the Cuckoo), the period between April 15 and May 15, Alexander Buchan, Scottish Meteorologist.

Courtesy Irish Examiner, Mixed Messages.

The Plants won’t be safe from Frost until the Scaraveens are Gone 15th April to 15th May, (Scairbhín)

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/donal-hickey/farewell-to-rough-month-of-the-cuckoo-193747.html

Henry Morgan Esquire, Sketches and Drawings on Stone, 1860s Views of Cork Harbour, Seine Fishing, Early Trains, Steam Paddle Ships, Trabolgan the Seat of W.B. Roche Esq. M.P., Cork Harbour Light House, Haulbowline and White Point, Coolmore and Carrigaline River, Cross Haven, Queenstown named by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, August 3rd 1849, on Her Graciously landing There, Belgrove and East Ferry Church, East Grove East Ferry, Monkstown Bay, Belvelly Bridge and Castle, Monkstown, The Giant Stairs and Monkstown Reach, Monkstown Baths, Carrigaloe, Horsehead, Foaty Bay, Lough Mahon Inchera, Blackrock Castle, The Glanmire Channel, Tivoli, Cork from The Navigation Wall, Lithographer, Spreat, Lith, Exeter, with Pre Amble from Father Prout

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The Plants won’t be safe from Frost until the Scaraveens are Gone 15th April to 15th May, (Scairbhín), Donegal/Cork/Kerry

Kingston West Cork Genealogy:

https://kyngeston.wordpress.com/