Leaflet on Palm Nut Cake for Cattle, Poultry and Pig Feed, from the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, April 1920.

Grottos:

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/grottos-in-co-cork.html

Cork Signs:

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/individual-buildings-or-houses.html

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/1719-skiddys-almhouses.html

Aghonagh Cemetery

http://readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/a-lot-of-history-in-one-place

 

 

 

 

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Girl’s Register Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School, West Cork, 1866-1930, Boys 1883-, Pupils name, Townland, Parents Occupation, Former School if Relevant given, some Financial Records, one parent James Gilhooley, Irish Parliamentary Party MP for West Cork and Member of Bantry Band’.

A number of people in Ireland and worldwide are developing a project to bring together the various records to include those born in the district.   This will include verifiable dates of birth education, parents, townland, education, occupation marriage and if relevant emigration, Places of emigration may include Ottowa Valley, Canada, Boston, Rochester New York, Casper Wyoming, New York and San Francisco, South Wales, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.   If you have any interest or information to include please forward to pat25a@gmail.com

Girls 1870-1930:

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

Boys 1883-:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6146780186977414449

Catholic Records for Muintervara Parish from c 1818 included some ‘Protestant’ names as parents, sponsors, witnesses:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=&namel=&location=muintervara&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search&sort=&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&ddBfrom=&ddMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmBfrom=&mmMfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyBfrom=&yyMfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&ddMto=&ddDto=&mmBto=&mmMto=&mmDto=&yyBto=&yyMto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&event=

Tithe Aplottments by Townland courtesy Susan Baretta, Salt Lake City:

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/durrus/tithe.html

Griffith Valuation 1850:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doPlaceSearch&Submit.x=42&Submit.y=10&freetext=Place+Name&countyname=CORK&baronyname=&unionname=&parishname=DURRUS+PART+OF

Some Church of Ireland/Methodist Records:

Births:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit

Marriages:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit

Deaths:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MBTBrhs4DGE3MLaTgdKh3bGN61n_xDnYTOL-zztRKcM/edit#gid=0

Bandon Estate Records for some townlands from 1854:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0

Census 1901 and 1911, search by DED Durrus East and Durrus West:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year=1901&surname=&exact=&firstname=&county19011911=Cork&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&townland=&ded=durrus+east&age=&sex=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=&birthplace=&nativeCountry=&language=&deafdumb=&houseNumber=&familiesNumber=&malesNumber=&femalesNumber=&maleServNumber=&femaleServNumber=&estChurchNumber=&romanCatNumber=&presbNumberDiv=&protNumber=&parish=&barony=&yearsMarried=&causeOfDeath=&yearOfDeath=&familyId=&ageInMonths=&search=Search&sort=&pageSize=100

Civil Records from c 1865 in most cases births, marriages, deaths:

http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/agreement.jsp Continue reading →

The munificence of Kathleen Dukelow in Donating Philips’ Green to the people of Durrus, West Cork.

Kathleen Dukelow now in her 90s donated a site from her property and funds to build a community centre which will open officially soon.

Her school contemporaries recall her as the most intelligent pupil in the school with a great interest in botany, and she knows all the old bog plants.  In the 1940 she emigrated to London to work as a telephonist.

Her mother was Charlotte (Lotty) Phillips.  The Phillips family in Durrus originated with a family member who came around 1850 possibly at the time Lord Bandon recovered the Estate from the Evansons.  The Phillips were involved in managing the estate and ran the Bandon Arms Hotel in the village and a coaching establishment.  Their horses wee overwintered on Carbery Island.

Also in the photos is an old water pump before piped water came to the village

Use by Ruaidhrí  (Rory) Ó Caisaide (Cassidy) of Arabic Numerals in The Annals Of Ulster, 1489-1504, through Families Familiarity with Arabic Medical Treatises, Ó Casiade was a member of a Fermanagh Medical Family, hereditary physicians to the Maguire family.

Ó Casiade was a member of a Fermanagh Medical Family hereditary physicians to the Maguire family.

From Daniel Mccarthy’s TCD MS 1882 (The Annals aoaf Ulster).

Courtesy Four Courts Press:

Sir Edward Sullivan, Barrister,  Publisher Book of Kells, Bookbinder in Style of Irish Parliamentary Bindings 1613-1800, son of  Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart., LLD, PC, (1822-1885), from Mallow, Co. Cork, Solicitor General, Attorney General, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/05/sir-edward-sullivan-bart-lld-pc-1822-1885-from-mallow-co-cork-to-lord-chancellor-of-ireland/

Courtesy Four Courts Press.

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000237535

Aibidial Gaoidheilge Agus Caiticiosma, First Book Published in 1571, in Irish, in Ireland Acquired by Trinity College Dublin, 1995, TCD Hurling Team Photo, 1880. One Time Member Sir Edward Carson (Lord Carson).

Courtesy Four Courts Press.

The hurling photo has sticks probably home made called ‘hurls’, the form played by the club was that common in the North of Ireland ‘Camánanacht’ more like modern shinty.  When the GAA was established in 1884 the southern version Iomán was adopted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carson

During the Home Rule Crisis in the early 20th century a ditty ran as follows ‘Sir Edward Carson had a cat and every time it caught a mouse it cried ‘No Home Rule’.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6347339,-9.5268343,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Attempting to Identify the Millions who Perished by Disease, Starvation or Emigrated in the Irish Famine, 1847,  and Pockets of Affluence, a Micro Example, Muintervara.

Pre Famine Ireland had a rural population in congested areas rivalling China, India or Haitai.   The Famine fell disproportionately on the cottiers or those below them.

This class, as it dod not have a property interest, does not appear in the 1830 Tithe Aplottments of later in the 1850 Griffith Valuation.   The relevant Census have been destroyed for Ireland.

Regarding affluence it is also possible ti identify clusters of families from whom sprang the teacher.s priests, shopkeepers and strong farmers.  We all have a tendency to marry within peer groups and the same process is evident from an examination of birth and marriage records but in this case the marriages take palace over a wider geographic area.

Contratry to popular belief a strong class of Catholics survived and prospered in the 18th and 19th centuries dwelling just below the radar.

However for many parts of Ireland the catholic Church Records and some of the Church of Ireland have been digitalised at:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=&namel=&location=muintervara&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search&sort=&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&ddBfrom=&ddMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmBfrom=&mmMfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyBfrom=&yyMfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&ddMto=&ddDto=&mmBto=&mmMto=&mmDto=&yyBto=&yyMto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&event=

This can be cross checked by 1830, Tithe Aplottment (courtesy Susan Beretta, Salt Lake City):

http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/durrus/tithe.html

It is possible by townland to identify those born 1820-1845, by reference to parents, and sponsors.  Sometimes the parents marriages are shown with the names of witnesses.  By a slow process of cross matching it is possible to identify families.  It requires some knowledge of the various versions of Christian names Surname sand Townland as the spelling vary enormously.  One pattern emerges for the local area of Muintervara..  The class in question are geographically mobile moving from townland often presumable from mud cabin to mud cabin but by concentration on the parent it is possible to plot their locations.   For most of the townlands this class have completely disappeared, the lucky ones re emerged in the United States which interestingly at the time did not turn Emigrants away unlike contemporary European regarding Africans.

Caricatures of the Irish in London Press early 19th century:  Irish Bog Trotters 1812, Posting in Ireland 1805, A New Irish Jaunting Car 1819, Paddy Whack’s First Ride In a Sedan 1800, The Scare crows Arrival or Honest Pat Giving Them an Irish welcome 1803.

Courtesy Nicholas K Robinson, Four Courts Press.

It is interesting in the Coaching Cartoon a man is shown presumably an old soldier with a stump of a leg maybe a legacy of all the earlier wars.