Destroyed in Public Records Office, Dublin, 1922.

Will of Edward Turner of Balligobane (Bantry) Co. Cork, Merchant, signed 4th November 1633, Proven 26th November 1633, wife Joan, Son Edward, Eldest Daughter Ann Daughter Margaret daughter Three Daughters my last wife Sarah, Mary, Hester, Four Children, wife by former husband Samuel. Mary, Newton, only Sarah is of age, brothers Isaac and Henry Turner, sister Sarah Huggett in England, Executrix wife, Overseers: Anthony Stowell of Oneskayne (Enniskeane?), Edward Eyres of Durrus, Witnesses Edward Eyre, William Snelling, Thomas Whiddington, Charles Dennis.

Probably involved in fishing industry as were Snelling and Whiddington.  The Denis name lives on, Charlie Dennis was a noted local poet in the early-mid 20th century in the Rooska area.

Will of Thomas Holmes, Drumfinchin, Barony of Bere and Bantry, Clerke (Minister of Church of Ireland), Signed 10th July 1713, Proven 21st July 1718, To be Buried Bantry Church, Son Luke and Robert, Executrix wife Mary, Witness James Attridge, William O’Calianane, Pheebe Cullinchy, John Webber?

The Stowell may be Stawell later prominent in Kinsale and influential in British Admiralty.

Copied by Welply:

Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.

Copy of Will of Richard Roycroft (Obliterated in the Destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1922 but copied by William Henry Welply) of Clouney (Clonee, Bog Road), Parish of Durrus, agd 9th May 1801, Proved 1st August 1801, Son-in-law, George Swanton, Grandson Richard Lavers (Levis), granddaughter, Avis Notter, son Thomas Roycroft deceased, daughter Grace O’Sullivan. Executors George Swanton, Richard Lavers (Levis). Witnesses: Robert Lavers. Charles Dalton, John Vickery.

Membership lists of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1893 and 1945, snapshot of Cork Diaspora in Colonial Legal and Medical Service, and 1945 Gaelicisation of Irish Public Service, 1893 names include Francis Joseph Bigger, Belfast, Robert Day, Cork Antiquarian, Herbert Gillman Cork Historian, Rev. Graves Bishop of Limerick, Historian and Archaeologist, William Baylor Hartland Cork Horticulturist, P W Joyce Dublin Historian, Denny Lane, Cork Businessman writer and Historian, Lieutenant Francis O’Neill, Later Chief O’Neill, Chicago Police, Irish Music Collector, Canon Goodman, Skibbereen, Professor Of Irish TCD and Irish Music Collector, 1945 Historians Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, John T. Collins, Cork, Father TJ Walsh, Cork, Genealogists, Edward McLysaght, Herald’s Office, Dublin, William Henry Welply, Greenisland Co. Antrim, Count Eoin O’Mahony BL Cork, Sculptor Seamus Murphy, Cork, Playwright Lennox Robinson, Dublin, Oscar Prince of Prussia, Potsdam, Germany.

Grant of English King Charles 111

and privileges usual in such grants and with a grant of a market every Wednesday and Saturday at Ballygobane, alias Oldtown, in the said manor of Bantry and of 3 fairs yearly at the same place on 29 May, 10

Drunfinchin:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Dromnafinshin,+Co.+Cork/@51.6968672,-9.4269135,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450bc7c4fd6975:0x00e54e14683b6603

Some ‘Scholars’, Durrus District, West Cork, 1720-1890.

Those records (a work in progress) draws on existing reliable records.  Until the 1950s pupils at school were normally referred to as scholars.  Not everyone on the lists are scholars in the strict sense as some of their descendants in the 1901 census are illiterate.

Schools in Bantry/Skibbereen/Schull area West Cork 19th century School Boycott, Dromore (Bantry) 1880s. Remarkable as a consequence of the Catholic Church dispute with the British Government that for 30 years (c 1845-75) children were taught by untrained teachers. c 1830 Appointment of Master Madden, Ardfield at a Salary of £28 per annum.

Church Education Society Schools, Mizen/Iveragh Peninsula 183-1846, West Cork

Schools:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YDLRw4-b35oB91lsWfMmE3JF5ozgrk4CNx-7UEC6-Bk/edit#gid=0

Teachers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Eg1XT1Z9dnB0wf0B7dGZX_r85d8EwjnpBLxqCv0M9ck/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.com/2014/06/20/teachers-baronies-bantry-and-bere-west-carbery-west-muskery-co-cork-1828-9
Boys:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ZMnI4ICFF_4bdlDfufcYKaPZ_kMEuuxr87kl9MBRaQ/edit#gid=0

Girls:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/138TzqY7V9CE50bs1yEPKKBEz02XNJu2lPcNRVqbJFak/edit#gid=0

Bantry:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bantry,+Co.+Cork/@51.6808918,-9.4486028,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a56fb9974b9:0x0a00c7a99731a220

Bandon:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0x0a00c7a99731fbb0

1796, Bandon Catholic Chapel being built by Father Shinwick, List of Subscribers includes at least 49 Protestants.  Bantry Catholics in 1796 acknowledge the Liberal Donation for the proposed Chapel of Lord Viscount Kenmare and thank Richard Simon and Hamilton White for their Generous Benefaction.

Parish History

http://www.corkandross.org/parishHistory.jsp?parishID=11

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballynakilla,+Co.+Cork/@51.6285032,-9.8755619,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48457f2326389c1f:0x2600c7a819bb5012

Ballinakilla Churchyard, Bere Island, on the site of a Pre-Reformation Church containing Table Tomb to O’Sullivan, Mill Cove. Agent to Lord Bantry and to the parents of Denis Murphy the father of William Martin Murphy

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

William Martin Murphy, Bantry and the Noel Brown connection.

April 1862, Proposal to form Joint Stock Company, ‘Bantry Bay Slate and Slab Company’ already operational at White Horse, Kilcrohane, under Captain O’Flaherty, used by John Moss, Durrus, in building Glenlough House 1850 and contractor William Murphy (father of William Martin Murphy) in building Lord Clintons Residence at Crookhaven, Testimonials from F Lisabe, W Thomas and E H Blake of Dublin.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Abbey,+Co.+Cork/@51.6755658,-9.4787845,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450ae74e1778df:0xcf5b987d07037e66

The 1602 Destruction of the Franciscan Abbey in Bantry by the O’Sullivans after its use by the English Garrison under Captain Thomas Flower.  Grant of local lands by Elizabeth 1 to Richard Beacon not taken up as James 1 granted then to Valentine Browne 1620 later forming part of the Kenmare Estate.

The Abbey site is now the Bantry Cemetery.

It has been suggested that part of the stones from the ruined abbey were used to build Blackrock House by the Hutchinsons nearly this formed the basis of the present Bantry House.  Some of thr stones may have come from the McCarthy Castle at Scart, about 2 miles away which was replaced around 1620 by the Durrus Castle.

http://www.corkandross.org/parishHistory.jsp?parishID=11

https://durrushistory.com/2014/08/31/sir-george-carew-writes-to-lord-deputy-mountjoy-13th-may-1602-from-camp-at-bantry-abbey-prior-to-siege-of-dunboy-they-lie-in-such-incredible-strengths-of-huge-mountains-and-ugly-glynns-of-bog-and-woo/

Inventory, list and description of hundreds of historical coins found at Sea View, near the Abbey, Bantry, West Cork 1834 as described in Gentleman’s Magazine.

W Cowley and James White sitting with Jury in Cork February 1541 Deputies of the King’s Commission for Co. Cork forfeiting Monasteries, Abbey of the Cave of St. Finbarr or Gill Abbey (including lands at Kilcrohane and Bantry, West Cork), Benedctine Priory of Rosscarbery with Church and Buttery, Carmelite House, Kinsale.

Letter from Sir George Carew to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, from camp at the Abbey, Bantry, 1602.

kenmare estate:

Some records of the Kenmare Estate for Bantry District

Middle men Bantry area 1740s of Kenmare (Brown) Estate: Michael Murphy Newtown, Casey Miller, Newtown, Thomas Hutchins, Ballylickey, Various Galweys, Gilbert and Richard Mellefont Donemark, Beversham Harman Laheran, Henry Puxley Gortaneer, John Young Direenkallig Robert Young Droominateenly, Isaac and Joshua Doe, Forester

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6988592,-9.471449,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Father J. M. Cronin, visit to Bantry in 1959, Historian, (Rosminian from Glengariff area), his Inspection of Vatican Documents of 1199, in time of Pope Innocent 111, re Inis Cuinge/Chapel Island Bantry Bay, his Theories St Ruan, Carrignat and Kilcatherine named after St. Cait, Colomane and Dromina after St. Aine, Derryconnery after St. Ceannaire, St. Gobbain relative of St. Eltan, Glengariff after Garbhán, a Priest, old Churches made of Wood, ancestral lands of Cardinal Cushing in Bowen family of Bowenscourt (Elizabeth Bowen) receiving forfeited Estates

Inis Cuinge:

http://www.corkandross.org/parishHistory.jsp?parishID=11

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6497011,-9.4265841,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Sunday, 7th August, 1983 New York Times Article, Co. Cork with Photo, Casey’s Bar, Durrus, ‘Not many English people Visit Now because of the Troubles Up North’

These records used to be accessible now they can only be viewed behind a paywall.

Coomkeen

Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Records

Local Loans Schull

1.Durrus Reproduction

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Church+View,+Radharc+Alainn,+Co.+Cork/@51.5812581,-9.70351,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x484582d4581477bd:0x696f510b9d461537

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.

Memorial Stone, Photo, Townlands and 1899 Subscribers for new Catholic Church, Muintir Bhaire (Durrus), West Cork including, California, New York, Staten Island, Boston, Malden Mass., Francis O’Neill Chief of Police Chicago and Compiler of Irish Music, Queensland, Western Australia, London and neighbouring Parishes, site given free by Lord Bandon, Architect Hennessy Cork, Builder D. Donovan Bantry, Sculptor High Altar Davis Cork, Lead Lights Messrs Watson Youghal, Iron Work Messrs McGloghlin Dublin, Pulpit by Richard Power Bantry, Dedication and Durrus Churches, Catholic, Church of Ireland and Methodist

Stained glass including Tower of Glass (An Túr Gloinne) 1908 designed by A. E. Childs managed by Sarah Purser and Harry Clarke Studios commissioned by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, Pastor of Kilcoe and Lisheen Parish, West Cork, born Shannonvale, Clonakilty 1841, ordained Louvain Belgium 1870 died 1926.

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