Group photo at the corn 1930s Skerkin Island, West Cork, Old Fashioned photo 1947, harvesting seaweed with the ‘Scanhadór’

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/28/pishogs-christian-taboos-old-cures-holy-wells-from-sherkin/

Courtesy Dolly O’Reilly’s book

Enquiries in the Barony of West Carbery, some East Carbery and Bere in 1909 under the Pension Act 1908 of Census of 1851, by Townland, name and where applicable Maiden name.

The christian name is not given but in most cases should be ascertainable by checking the on lne 1910 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/irish-pension-records.html

The Census of 1851 was taken under the superintendence of the Registrar-General of Marriages, Mr. William Donnelly, assisted by Dr. (afterwards Sir) William Wilde. The chief features of that enumeration were the School Census and the Report on the Status of Disease, which, in addition to treating of the number of people suffering from sickness, dealt with the deaf and dumb, the blind, the lunatic and idiotic, and the lame and decrepit. An interesting Table of Cosmical Phenomena, Epizootics, Famines and Pestilences in Ireland, from the earliest records published, was also compiled by the Assistant Commissioner, aided by the eminent Irish scholars, Dr. O’Donovan and Mr. Eugene O’Curry, MRIA. The Agricultural Statistics (first commenced in 1847) for 1851 and 1852 were collected by the Commissioners, who also published detailed statistics of emigration.”

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Doctor John Browne (born Elphin Roscomon) (1798-1870), Master Bandon Endowed School, Evidence 1855, some boys gooing for East India Company Clerkships, Curriculum, Bandon Grammar School. Co. Cork, 1906 and 1924, Photograph Pupils names included.

Courtesy Bandon Historical Journal article Padraig Hamilton.

Some Bandon Men in South Africa, The Boer War, eating Horseflesh at the Siege of Ladysmith, The Mines 1903-4

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Thadeus O’Mahony, (1821-1903), Údar agus Ollamh.

Professor Thadeus O’Mahony (1822-1903), Ballineen, West Cork, Church of Ireland Minister, Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin (1861-79), Botanist, and the Brehon Law Commission in the 1850s with Dr. John O’Donovan. His father was Cornelius O’Mahony Gentleman. He married Annabella Geoghegan of Rathmines daughter of Henry in 1856. The same year he was Treasurer of the Ossianic Society in TCD and the O’Donovan Rossa/James Stephens Connection

Thomas England (1823-1869), Bandon, Co. Cork born California Architect and nephew of Bishop John England (1796-1842), Charlestown, South Carolina, Earthquakes, Hard times in USA.

Courtesy M,J. England

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Pishógs (Christian Taboos), Old Cures, Holy Wells from Sherki

Dinnsheanchas (Irish-Place Folklore), and the Goddesses of Ancient Ireland, fertility, sexuality, war, personifications of Ireland, and the obliteration of old customs and beliefs

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

Progress of Island and Coast Society Proselytising Education activities in West Cork, 1853, Bere Island, Capaneel, (Muintervarra; Doonore, Roskeera, Rooska, Geahies), Dunmanus Bay then Irish speaking, Here Island, Sherkin Island, Cape Clear, Kilcoe.

Sketches by Cork Antiquarian, John Windle (1801-1865), Ross Cathedral and Old Church, Mount Gabriel, Sherkin Island, Baltimore Castle, Ancient Brazen Vessel found in June 1845 and deposited in Castle Bernard (burnt down 1920), Lough Ine, Coppinger’s Court,

https://durrushistory.com/2014/12/07/james-m-burke-m-a-b-l-history-sherkin-island-west-cork-antiquities-townlands/ n Island, West Cork.

Courtesy Dolly O’Reilly from her book.

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Charles Wesley  Bandon, Co. Cork, 8th September 1746 and his brother John, 9th September addressing Bandon Meeting ‘By far the largest that I have seen in Ireland’

Bandon and west Cork were somewhat unusual that unlike most of Ireland excepting Dublin, Cork and Northern Ireland there was a substantial population of relatively poor Protestant labourers, artisans and small farmers.  This was the group which provided many of the early adherents to early Methodism.

John Wesley’s Cork Visitations, 1750, 1752, 1762, including Bandon, Kinsale, meeting Whiteboys and their Oath to Queen Sive and overview of Methodism in West Cork.

John Wesley, Founder of Methodism, Bandon, Co. Cork, 1752, ‘Preached in the street both this evening and at five o’clock on Tuesday morning October 3rd 1752, the moon supplied as much light as we needed till the sun supplied her place’

John Wesley preaching in room over Old Market House, Innishannon, Co. Cork

Medals and Memorials of Irish Volunteers; Great Island (Cobh) Cavalry, Cork Artillery, Imokilly Blue Artillery, Muskerry Light Blue  Dragoons, Kerrech Company (Kinalea and Kerricyrrihy Union), Youghal Union Volunteers, Kerry Volunteers, Kilfinane Volunteers, Cork Barrymore Cavalry, Cork County Volunteers (1803), Cork Cavalry, Kilworth Cavalry.

By Cork Antiquarian Robert Day, FSA, Courtesy JCHAS, 1905

1st Muskerry Cavalry 1796, Co. Cork from Robert Day F.S.A. Cork Antiquarian from papers lent pre 1895 by George and Morgan Gallwey, Esqs. and Silver Medal of Inchigeela Volunteers, 1784.

https://durrushistory.com/2013/08/11/bantry-protestant-militia-and-volunteers-1779/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/01/05/some-militia-commissions-and-extracts-from-proclamations-of-dublin-gazette-for-co-cork-1727-1756-copied-from-public-records-office-dublin-before-their-destruction-in-1922-by-rev-henry-r-swanzy-m/

Some West Cork Military Service covers part f this period:

1st Muskerry Cavalry 1796, Co. Cork from Robert Day F.S.A. Cork Antiquarian from papers lent pre 1895 by George and Morgan Gallwey, Esqs. and Silver Medal of Inchigeela Volunteers, 1784.

An excellent site of old images

Thanks to Daniel Pressley

http://www.myirelandtour.com/ireland-then-and-now/cork.php