Timothy Casey McCarthy at 35 years old was the oldest man who fought at the Kilmichael ambush 20/11/1920. 1949 his friend Dick Gay, Building Contractor. Trouble with the Kinsale Unions

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Timothy Casey McCarthy at 35 years old was the oldest man who fought at the Kilmichael ambush 20/11/1920. After the ambush he was `on the run` but the British army found Timothy out he was there and called to his parent’s home in Coulculloghta, Durrus to capture him accompanied by a local RIC man. They were about to shoot his parents for harbouring a `murderer` when the RIC man spoke and said `these people are Caseys and its McCarthy you are looking for` and the old pair was saved and Tim was known as Casey afterwards.  Timothy ‘Casey’ McCarthy, Coolculaghta, (Captain of Durrus Company IRA) took part in the Kilmichael Ambush with General Tom Barry.  He worked for 40 years with Dick Gay, Carrigaline (the Gays were from nearby Droumreagh), died December 1956 firing party old IRA under Captain Raphy P. Keyes rendered military honours at the graveside.   Members included Mortimer O’Sullivan, John Keohane, Jack McCarthy, Jack Wholihan. In attendance were Tom Barry, Ned Cotter TD., Dick Gay, Senator Ted O’Sullivan attended removal from St. Finbarr’s hospital.  Dick Gay was building contractor and in the 1940s got a contract to build local authority houses in Kinsale.  He faced down the Kinsale unions who blacked his site as he insisted on employing his own men.   Dick Gay may have served an informal apprenteship with  either Timothy McCarthy or his father.

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1787 Clonakilty Memorial Signed by 19 Good Law Abiding Citizens.  To suppress Riotous and Illegal Meetings and Combinations

John T. Collins Extraction of Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1784.

John T. Collins Extraction of Cork Newspaper Extracts 1753-1784.

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Re Peadar Ó hAnnracháin. Peadar was a wonderful Conradh na Gaeilge organiser throughout a number of counties including Cork and he wrote several books as Gaeilge. He also wrote on the Southern Star as ‘Cois Life’ in the 1940s and 1950s. In that period he worked in the Pigs and Bacon Commission in Dublin.  The column often wandered over long lost history, family relationships and there was a touch of the ‘Seanachaí’ about them.  The daughter of the Gaelic Scholar, landowner and businessman in Ballydehob Thomas Swanton, Crianlarich, gave him her father’s papers.

One of 13 children, 10 of whom survived and the majority emigrated.

In Colaiste Chairbhe (owned by Judge Devoy, New York, later Tony O’Reilly, former CEO, Heinz Corporation).

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1641.  Listing of West Cork Gentry Indicted for ‘Treason’ at  Youghal Quarter Sessions

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Bandon Census

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Courtesy Peadar Ó h-Anracháin, Southern Star, Cois Life (Dublin Letter).

Peadar O’Hourihane, Raiceadoir/Auctioneer, Skibbereen

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Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) Meeting addressed by Peadar Ó h-Anracháin, in Durrus, West Cork, 1905.

Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) Meeting addressed by Peadar Ó h-Anracháin, in Durrus, West Cork, 1905.

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1826 Subscription List New Catholic Chapel Ballydehob. Some Catholic Swantons.

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The Catholic `swantons of Kilcrohane adn Casper Wyoming descedn from a Ballydehob Mining Captain working on the Kilcrohane mines. He married a local woman. According to family tradition he continuet to worship at St.James in Durrus but the children were brought up as Catholics.

Subscription Lists, New Catholic Churches at East Schull 1825, Rosnacaheragh (Akakista) 1826, Durrus 1899.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dM5rsbc3AyTde6dJK7aWogFA2A85emvdb1g0M-4IRCs/edit

O’Driscoll Properties, Three Ploughlands in the 1630s from a Schedule of 1850 of The O’Donovan

The enclosed in a number of articles by Peadar O hAnracháin, in the Souther Star from thr mid 1940s his ‘Dublin Letter’

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEc84UgnEmDBGiNgUUSEc_jnMaZO9mUoTE28DWIr9_8/edit

O’Driscoll pages 84-86

Futher information p. 86-95

Ceárdachas Gaelach: Fíodóireacht (Weaving) in Ireland, Brehon Laws 438 A.D.

This information piece in the Southern Star was sponsored by the Hospital Trust. In later years it enjoyed a bad press but in its heyday in Ireland it brought huge amounts of foreign exchange to the county the lottery being illegal in most countries except in Ireland

Joe McGrath one of the founders later became involved in establishing Waterford Glass:

http://centretruths.co.uk/pctih/085_Joe_McGrath.htm

Updated Clothiers, Flax, Linen, Textiles, Weaving, West Cork

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0vIz1nxG34pJua7qC7jtTCKWLjwVY81jSl0usPdojk/edit

William O’Sullivan, Carriganass Castle, Kealkil, Bantry, (1775-1859). His Life and Times. A Landlord, Middleman, Moneylender, Political Activist.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12y7RsWJg2F8ZlJ-q2yLDh7rZhZz-sByfqI90VfH03zI/edit

William O’Sullivan is a figure not well known but he is representative of a tenacity that characterised elements of the old Gaelic order despite the Penal Laws.  The bulk of the land held in West Cork by Catholics was forfeit for ‘Rebellion’; or lost through the legal chicanery of people like Richard Boyle the Great Earl of Cork or Sir Walter Coppinger.  The only families that come to mind who managed to retain their lands were the descendants of Sir Teague O’Regan who retained ownership to about 1905 when the estate outside Rosscarbery was acquired by the Land Commission.  Also Lord Kenmare estate took in part of the general Bantry aea as well as Kerry.

Landlord families could be adaptable, The Bernards of Bandon later the Earls of Bandon had extensive estate in West Cork and Kerry.  Annually there was a dinner for major tenants those in West Cork tend to be pious Protestant the dinner was a  muted affair.  However the Kerry dinner was for mainly Catholics and resembles a mediaeval feast by an Irish Chieftain, uilleann pipers, fiddlers and drink overflowing.

Recent work on land ownership and the Penal Laws would suggest that perhaps up to 30% of the land was in de facto Cathoolic ownership.  Underneath ownership there were various estates in land and the class of which William O’Sullivan was a member in West Cork had effective control subject to a head rent right through the 18th and into the 19th century.

Even for the group of whom William O’Sullivan was a member the pettifoggery of the Penal Laws rankled.

Father Barry, Parish Priest of Bantry  in evidence to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Distress in Ireland under the Insurrection Act sitting in Bantry.   He said that 

Protestant  Half Pay Officers  on £40 a year  preferred as Quarter Session Jurors in Bantry to Opulent Catholics the likes of Deasy, Clonakilty on £2,000 a year. He was also presumably referring to John O’Conell of Bantry, a wealthy merchant and political activist.

In assessing the Penal Laws it is worth bearing in mind that in France broadly similar laws were passed but with the exception that they were applied to their own people the Huguenots.  In Ireland’s case they were imposed by an alien invading power.  By 1750 the worst was probably over but legal disabilities on holding land or having professional qualifications remained until the 1770s onwards.  Perversely the Penal Laws contributed to the development of a very wealthy Catholic Mercantile Class……,.,

Recollections Of An Old School in Gallows Hill, Bandon

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1944 Installation of Micro Hydro Electricity Scheme at Castletown Kinneigh by Colonel Patrick (P.J.) Coughlan.

1944 Installation of Micro Hydro Electricity Scheme at Castletown Kinneigh by Colonel Patrick (P.J.) Coughlan.

The Colonel is better known for his Blueshirt (Quasi Fascist ) Organisation in the 1930s associated with the Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael political party and other fringe movements including support for Duffys Brigade to help Franco in Spain. He also was the organiserof the annual Michale Collins commoratin at Beal na Blath

Here however he is involved in setting up a small community based hydro scheme as in the newspaper report. There are futher details of a tenancy dispute with Colonel Conner of the Manch Estate. It must have resulted in the Colonel recovering posession as Colonel Coughlan afterward is operating from Fort Robert nearby.

Apparently the late Tommy Camier who set up Camiers Garage in Ballydehob developed aa small hydro dam on his family farm At Gortnagrough when he was only about 12 yers of age.

Colonel Patrick J. Coughlan, Manch Cottage, Ballineen

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