Some records of the Kenmare Estate for Bantry District

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1752, Daniel Harrington, Gortaweer, Beara, formerly under tenant of Puxley (he a poor payer of rent) now a direct tenant of Kenmare Estate has no English.

From the Mizen and Muintervara Peninsulas, West Cork Protestants run the Republican Party in Rochester, New York in the 1850s on, ‘The 99 Cousins’

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16th October 1861, Donemark, Bantry, 16 acres to let prime land suitable for potatoes or corn, Four Boats of Sea Sand Will be Given.

Tisdall was probably both an auctioneer an land owner in the area.

First Foot, on Irish Soil, Donemark, Bantry Bay

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Letter from Florence McCarthy 1609 re building of Castles at Donemark, Bantry, Co.Cork 1215

 

Murphy’s Flax Mills Donemark 1860s

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Long/McCarthy/Gillman Estate, Caheragh, West Cork, Title from 1793, Sale 1861 19 Tenants named with rents acreage.

Prior to the Famine Cahreagh had one of the highest population densities non urban in Ireland and in the 18ht century was a reservoir of Gaelic Poetry.

Genealogy of Sweetnam family of Clehane/Cloghane, Caheragh, West Cork, arising from Marriage 1812 of Matthew Sweetnam (Murrahin) to Elizabeth Connell with descendants, USA, Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland compiled 1952 revised 1988.  Sweetnams of Kinsale 1676.

Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

Strike in Log-na-gCapall Bog, Caheragh, during the Emergency, Michael Pat Murphy TD, Jasper Woulfe TD, Senator Patrick Joseph Sullivan, Kilcrohane adn Wyoming, and James Gilhooley MP

The Mystic Hill of Mount Owen and Caheragh Parish, West Cork, place of origin of Ilen, Bandon and Meelagh Rivers, 21st November 1927 Charles Lindbergh flies over Castletownsend.

Diarmuid Ó h-Eigeartaigh (1856-1936), Letter, Caheragh, West Cork, Teacher, Scholar, Author of ‘Tadhg Ciallmahar’ re 18th century local events

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Bantry, West Cork, Galweys, Gurteenroe, 1756, ‘Very Opulent Honest People Reduced in Recent Years of Frequent Seizures’ falling on hard times

So of the irish Manuscript Commission publications are available online. This included the Kenmare Estate Records which covers some areas around Bantry and Beara.

There is a reference to the Galweys and their near relations the Melifonts.

Galwey Public Remounciation against Evils of Popery, Bantry, Co. Cork, 1730s. the Penal Laws and Caputo-Genocide in East Pakistan 1970s, and the Moranos, Crypto-Jews in Spain.

Genealogy of David Gallwey, Bantry, West Cork, son of Henry and Mary McCarthy conformed to the Church of Ireland 1770, Adjutant Bantry Volunteers, Left for Lisbon, son Consul for Portugal in Cork ancestor of Galweys in Portugal, Brazil, Tenerife, USA, Peru.

Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws included are The Worthy Mr. Henry Gallwey £1-10-0 his generous and worthy son £1-3s, Nicholas Mead 5/5d, Andrew Morrogh, William Gallwey, John Casey, Patrick Skiddie, Cornelius Sexton, James Gould, Daniel Leahy, Robert Gallwey, and Richard Casey each contributed 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny, Conformity and the Fishing Trade, Father Walsh Parish Priest of Durrus, Blackrock and Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, Dromnea, Kilcrohane, poet.

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Sale 1850, of Rabbit Island, Squince, Parish of Myross, Barony of West Carbery, well adapted for feeding sheep or young cattle, an exclusive right of sea-weed in abundance all around the island.

Will of Alexander Donovan, Squince, Parish of Myross, Co. Cork, Will Dated 22nd December 1785, Memorial Sworn at Skibbereen 29th May 1800. To his son Doctor James Donovan, Doctor of Physic, his interest in lands at Rinogreny, Keamore, Saravelly, Co. Cork, to his son Alexander Donovan his interest in the farm at Myross with all the utensils belonging to the fisheries, salt house, and large boat subject to the head rent and lands at Manhelare and Cusronan , Filmuck, and Carhngariff (Cahhugariff), Co. Cork, Executors his sons James and Alexander. Witnesses Daniel Collins, now Skibbereen, Doctor of Physic, John Wright, Glandore, Merchant, Richard Donovan recently deceased (1800), Warrensbrook. Witnesses to Memorial (1800), Daniel Collins, Richard Tomkins, Gent.

Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), Carbery Poet, ‘The Silver tongue of Munster’, born into an Ireland of Broken Abbeys, Roofless Churches, Battered castles, Burnt Houses, Deserted Villages united in common Poverty. Attendance 1773 at Coimba, Portugal, College for Christian Refugees.

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Some internments in old Church of Ireland Graveyard, Bantry, West Cork.

Courtesy Bantry Library.

Church and yard from c1720 prior burial possibly church in Kealkil.

Some Bantry Deaths:

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Hedge School Master,  Amhlaoimh Ó Suiliobháin (Humphrey O’Sullivan 1780-1838), Kilcrohane, West Cork.

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Moulivard (Ward, the Bard’s Hillock) Church, Durrus, West Cork.

Courtesy Bantry Library.

Christy Moore sings John Spillane’s Gortatagort (Gort an tSagairt), Chief Francis O’Neill, Pilgrimage to Moulivard Church and Irish Sinologist.

Monastery pre 1650 at Moulivard Church (Durrus East), Co. Cork

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