These records used to be accessible now they can only be viewed behind a paywall.
The Devastation of the Famine and Emigration as Evidenced by the Local Loan Reproduction Records
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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Building of Star of the Sea Church, Kilcrohane, West Cork, 1897, for £1,750, Builder Patrick Sullivan of Seskin, Bantry, Architect, Samuel F Hynes FRIBA, 41, South Mall, Cork, the Contractor was Father Kearney who is to supply local stone, gravel and sand and carriage from Durrus Road station or the landing Place, Dunmanus Bay.
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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Building of Star of the Sea Church, Kilcrohane, West Cork, 1897, for £1,750, Builder Patrick Sullivan of Seskin, Bantry, Architect, Samuel F Hynes FRIBA, 41, South Mall, Cork, the Contractor was Father Kearney who is to supply local stone, gravel and sand and carriage from Durrus Road station or the landing Place, Dunmanus Bay.
Samuel Hynes, Architect, (1854-1931), among his Commissions, Convent of Mercy Chapel and Munster and Leinster Bank, Bantry, Kilnamartyra School. Star of the Sea Church, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Presentation Convent, Melbourne, Australia.
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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Samuel Hynes, Architect, (1854-1931), among his Commissions, Convent of Mercy Chapel and Munster and Leinster Bank, Bantry, Kilnamartyra School. Star of the Sea Church, Kilcrohane, West Cork, Presentation Convent, Melbourne, Australia.
His list of commissions shows the dramatic expansion of Catholic Educational Establishments and Churches in the later 19th century and that of the Munster and Leinster Bank (now part of AIB), the Australian Commission shows the spread of Cork Religious Orders.
http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/2706/HYNES-SAMUELFRANCIS
http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/2706/HYNES-SAMUELFRANCIS#tab_works
Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.j. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England.
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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Bowlers Aughaville, Dromore, Colomane, Durrus, West Cork. Bill Barrett, Patrick O’Driscoll, Richard Barrett, John Connolly, Jimmy Crowley, J.J. Sullivan, Donald Crowley, Eugene Daly and Possible Origins in Co. Armagh and The North of England.
It has been suggested that road bowling was introduced to West Cork by weavers who came in in t18th century from the North of England.
Flor Crowley, a National Teacher from Dunmanway who taught in Bandon founded An Bol Cumann. He wrote extensively on local matters and is books are now collectors items.
Thanks to Peter O’Driscoll, San Francisco and Donal O’Mahony, Cobh.
Bill Barrett who always wore white tennis shoes. Patrick O’Driscoll of Aughavile was recognised as a reasonable good bowler he was the man that guided Bill Barrett during his early days as a bowler.
His grand son Peter O’Driscoll was told by Tom Hayes from Aughaville whom he met in San Francisco. Tom Hayes came to America & San Francisco in 1910, at the age of 17 years he was in the first World War, he died in 1974 and is buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetry. He never married.
Bill Barrett in his younger days was a senior class bowler. This was before you had tar and crushed rock surfaced roads.
Richard Barrett from Colomane Wood he would be a cousin to Bill Barrett, Richard brothers were Pat, Bob, Steven and John. Older men around Colomane often said that John Barrett had the ability to a great bowler.
Richard was a local good bowler not quit a senior class bowler.
John Connolly of Colomane West was a senior class bowler.
Jimmy Crowley of Colomane was a local good bowler He was from the family that owned the trashing machine.
Donald Crowley of Colomane Pub was a local good bowler.
J.J. Sullivan of Coomane north was a local good bowler, he came to America about 1958 he was a cousin to John Crowley’s family. My best guess is that John Crowley’s mother was J.J. Sulivan’s aunt.
The up and coming star was Eugene Daly of Dromore in 1960 and the later arrivals in San Francisco have told Peter O’Driscoll that Eugene was a senior class bowler.
Around Drimoleague and Drinagh, there was a family of Sheen’s (Sheehan?) three brothers John, Jerry and Michael. also a Humphrey O’Leary was a senior class bowler.
These are bowlers that that bowled on a Sunday evening along the main road from O’Driscolls pub in Aughaville to Crowleys pub in Colomane.
The score of bowl started from the roadside sign post about two hundred yard east of the Aughaville cross-roads and ended at the sign post about two hundred yards west of Colomane pub, a distance of two miles.
There are other bowlers that came from Bandon and places near Cork City to bowl from Aughaville to Colomane.
In the Durrus area Danny O’Mahony of Ahagouna reckoned to be the best 84 yard loft with Mick Barry. In his early years on the Dunbeacon Road sometimes Bill Barrett would mark for him.
In the local folklore a son of one of the O’Donovan Landlord families (either That of Timothy of the Cove or Richard of the Fort) was reckoned to be a good bowler. There is an excellent painting in the Crawford Art Gallery Cork of a member of the landlord Smith Barry family of East Cork bowling early 19th century in all his finery.
It has been said that road bowing was introduced to West Cork by weavers from the North of England. In the Durrus/Schull are the Crostons were a weaving family who may have originated in Croston, Lancashire. Another location for bowling is Armagh. Here too there were may families introduced in connection wiht weaving/linen/flax to West Cork in the early 18th century from Co. Armagh, names such as Johnson, Richardson, Shannon. Williamson adn Young among others..
Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.
01 Wednesday Apr 2015
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Photograph Committee Durrus Agricultural Show 1937, West Cork.
Held in the vicinity of school.
Centre Canon McManaway a driving force in getting the creamery established, the new road over the hill from Coomkeen to Bantry, the first Church of Ireland School at Ahagouna in the Free State
Tom Deane, tall at back, former Dublin Metropolitan Police, Crottees he was so tall the Police had to have a special bicycle made for him. Community activist, member Church of Ireland Diocesan Synod.
Jim Pyburn, Dunbeacon, middle row, third ro left.
Richard Sweetnam, Dunbeacon?
Eddie Hurst (front row, left), model farmer, Beach House Bantry now the property of the Wagner family maried to Shannon Clashadoo also model farmers, father of Hazel Vickery, Bantry.
Jack Minihane (far, right)
Courtesy St. James’ Durrus. A Parish History.
A Good Sheltry Farm gone to Forestry, Upper Tedagh, Durrus/Bantry, Homeplace of Sullivan/O’Sullivan family (Hurrigs), some claim Descent from O’Sullivan Bere from 1777 marriage of Michael Sullivan with Mary Vickery and some property dealings of the family
01 Wednesday Apr 2015
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There is a very substantial number of buildings, at the old O’Sullivan (Hurrig) farm in Tedagh, Parish of Durrus. ‘Big Jim’ of the family sold and left for East Cork c 1959. The family who make ‘Tedagh Candles’ lived there until the 1970s after which time the house and building were abandoned. Now they are falling prey to Japanese Knotweed and forestry.
The newer of these was last lived in late 1940s when the farm was purchased by Johonny Love or the older farmhouse in ruins at the back. The bog at Aghagoheen/Clonee nearby is almost depleted but there is still plenty of bog oak exposed on high ground.
A Good Sheltry Farm gone to Forestry, Upper Tedagh, Durrus/Bantry,Homeplace of Sullivan/O’Sullivan family (Hurrigs), some claim Descent from O’Sullivan Bere from 1777 marriage of Michael Sullivan with Mary Vickery and some property dealings of the family.
The last of the family to live there was ‘Big Jim’ who moved to Glenville, East Cork c 1957. This branch of the O’Sullivans descend from the 1777 marriage of Michael Sullivan who was a Heart Tax Collector, and had an interest in various lots of land to Mary Vickery of Rooska.
Other O’Sullivans were in the late 18th and early 19th century Baronial Constables even though Catholic for the Baronies of bantry and Bre. This was not a police position but involved the collection of cess a local tax for which they received a poundage of 4% as well as other local taxes. They employed a whole paraphernalia of bailiffs and drivers (who seized cattle for no payment) Thus Michael Sullivan was probably connection with this extended family.
Large areas of land are going over to forestry in response to the economic challenges facing farmers. It is ironic that this and many like it were carved out of inhospitable terrain over many generations.
There are an enormous number of descendant worldwide. The family has been extensively researched and DNA testing is showing even more links.
http://members.pcug.org.au/~nickred/deeds/memorial_extract.cgi?my_memorial=282192&my_indexer=RonPrice
http://members.pcug.org.au/~nickred/deeds/memorial_extract.cgi?my_memorial=519261&my_indexer=RonPrice
http://members.pcug.org.au/~nickred/deeds/memorial_extract.cgi?my_memorial=523894&my_indexer=RonPrice
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Brendan Shanahan, Canadian Ice Hockey Champion, son of Donal Shanahan, Dromreagh, Durrus, West Cork.
01 Wednesday Apr 2015
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Brendan Shanahan, Canadian Ice Hockey Champion, son of Donal Shanahan, Dromreagh, Durrus, West Cork.
Donal appears as number 905 on the Carrigboy School Register in the book published re the 100th anniversary.
The Descendants of Sir William Hull, 1600, Leamcon, Schull, West Cork, From Opulence to Penury.
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
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Lease of Three Ploughlands at Ballydevlin (Goleen), West Carbery, William Richard Hull, (Descendant of Sir William Hull), Gunpoint to Cornelius Driscoll (likely ancestors of Driscoll/O’Driscoll Middlemen). Alexander O’Driscoll named in numerous Swanton, Attridge, Clerke deeds as witness and his children as lives in Sub Leases from Becher and Other Head Landlords in District.
Losses of Sir William Hull Leamcon, Schull, West Cork, 1641 and his Fishery at Newfoundland, part of greater Fishery which suffered from Bank failure in Bilbao in Basque Country 1641, Cornish Mining links.
Hull Loses 1641:
Some Schull burials:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaIpcG9x-C8FBr62aJXcDlQ-jd3_sVtRU-HlkW5OmGM/edit#gid=0
Seizure of Captain Claes Campane, Dutch Pirate’s Cargo by Sir Sir William Hull, at Leamcon, Schull, West Cork, and his appeal for the King’s mercy, disposition of cargo of Pepper, Tobacco, Camphor, Cheney roots, Elephant’s teeth, Muscovy Hides, 1624 From Doctor Richard Caulfield’s Annals of the Corporation of Cork, and Customs Personnel, Baltimore.
One of the descendants of Sir William Hull of Leamcon, was a WILLIAM HENRY HULL. I don’t have a d.o.b. but he was of Leamcon. His parents were Richard Edward Hull 1785-1846 and Henrietta Becher. His sister Maria Henrietta Amelia Hull marr. James Hingston, and other sister Lucinda Jane Elizabeth Hull marr. John Richard Hedges Becher.
William Henry Hull marr. Lucinda Hingston 31 Jan 1852 in Magourney Co.Cork. They had at least three children – Richard Edward Hull c1855; Henrietta Anna Hull c1859 and Lucinda M. Hull c1862, all b. Schull.
I have read that WHH died in 1865 in Southampton, Hants, but have not managed to verify this. His wife is shown on English census for 1871, 1891 and 1901 as widow.
The reason I wanted to tell you about this fellow is because I found a couple of news articles about him which I thought you would be interested in…..see attached.
It seems that William Henry Hull went from an affluent landowner at Leamcon in 1861, to an insolvent debtor in 1864. I wonder what happened to him in between? I see that in 1864 he was living in Lucan. Did he go to gaol I wonder? If he died in 1865, what prompted them to go to England? They were in Worthing Sussex in 1871; Christchurch Hants in 1891 and Chelmsine Somerset in 1901. Maybe his widow and children were back in Ireland in 1881 as they are not on the English census that year. His wife Lucinda died in Exeter in 1907. His son Richard Edward Hull never married. He lived in Exminster, Devon on 1911 census, described as ‘an Irish landlord’. I did not trace a death in England for him.
It seems the mining boom in Ireland around that time made some people rich and some people poor.
Magistrates:
Edward Richard Hull, 1742, Lamcon, Schull
Richard Hull, 1665, High Sheriff, Co. Cork, 1678 Rosscarbery, m Frances Bennett, possibly Sir Richard Hull, Judge of Court of Common Pleas),
Richard Edward Hull, 1875, Lemcon Manor, Schull, Non-Resident. m Henrietta/Harriett Becher. Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. She died 1837, probate 1837 and 1897 to William T. Townsend, JP, Derry, Rosscarbery rep of husband. 1870 return 2,671 acres.
William Hull, 1699, Lemcon Manor, Schull, probably William whose will 1726, witnessed by Daniel Donovan, Gent., Dunmanus, Owen Lander, Seneschal Lemcon Manor.
William Hull Esq., 1766, Cahirmee, Buttevant
William Richard Hull, 1768. Lemcon, Schull, 1813 after he read the death sentence on Catherine Donovan he was attacked by at a fair by her friends. (Hibernian Chronicle 4/2/1799), CORK, Committed to the county gaol by Rev. Rich. Townsend, TIMOTHY DRISCOLL, charged with administering unlawful oaths, and with conspiring to take away the lives of Richard and Wm. Hull, Esqrs. Contemporary of Lionel Fleming in Ballydevlin until 1837.
William G. Hull, Lemcon Manor, Schull, listed 185. Possible subscriber 1821 Dr Thomas Wood’s ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. patron Masonic concert Skibbereen 1862, subscriber as ‘W.H.’, 1861 to Smith’s History of Cork.
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2, Letting of Slate Quarry, Droum, Leap Apply, John Limrick Union Hall.
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
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1862, Letting of Slate Quarry, Droum, Leap Apply, John Limrick Union Hall.
West Cork Agricultural Society Ploughing Competition, 1862.
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
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West Cork Agricultural Society Ploughing Competition, 1862.
West Cork History 