West Cork History

Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta. Other families associated with same Brooks, Lannins and Millers of Dromreagh and Coolculaghta.

The Crostons may have come originally as weavers from Croston in Lancashire. There were branches in Bandon, Schull and Durrus, Cathoic as well as Protestant branches like most West Cork Protestant families. There was significant emigration of these families to Canada, Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts and Rochester, New York.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

March 1862, Meeting Flax Society, Colonel Bernard (Bandon), Colonel Beamish, Captain Sealy RN, JF Maguire, Mayor of Cork, Messrs W Thurley, D Cunningham, W Sheehy (Skibbereen), Edward Smyth (Knox Mills), W Dowman, Offer by Peter Riordan, Keilgane, Castleisland to buy Scutching Machine, Discussion of Rowen of Belfast new Scutching machine hint of past failures. proposed meeting with Sir Robert Peel ‘The Organ of the Irish Government’.

The Buachallán Bawn, Spinning Duet, probably pre 1800 sung by girls spinning flax or wool

Recollections of James Stanley Vickery as a grandchild in Molloch, Parish of Durrus, Bantry (1829-1907), Parents died of Cholera in Skibbeeen. House c 1740-70 and Probably Prior House in ruins Pre-1740, Teacher Healy, Bantry, probably Grandfather of Tim Healy, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Grandfather’s 2 Day Wake with Professional Keener.

West Cork History

~ History of Durrus/Muintervara

My Native Townland, Coolculaghta, from School Folklore Collection, 1938, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

The Ottawa Valley Irish

Durrus, West Cork, Townlands

Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

‘Black Denis’ Cronin, Coomkeen, Matthew O’Mahony, William Miller, Timothy (Casey) McCarthy, Coolculaghta, Basket Makers, 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

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

These Customs will Live In Ireland as long as Grass Grows and Water Runs and Oppression and Slavery have Failed to Destroy Them, Visiting the Spring on May Day Morning, St. John’s Eve, Skellig, Samhain from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy School, Durrus. West Cork.

Taking a ‘Greas’ at the Butter being Churned before the Days of the Creamery, from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

Rounds, Holy Wells, at Rooska, Moulivard and Father Bernane from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

Two Maritime Tragedies in Bantry and Dunmanus Bay from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.