https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Derryginagh+West,+Co.+Cork/@51.6767116,-9.4097091,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a2efb8e2151:0x2600c7a7bb4c3112

Lease of 1795 from Bantry Estate to Maurice Spillane of 87 acres at £15 per annum with a covenant ‘To buy all his malt and beer at brewery to be approved by lessor under penalty of 10s per barrel of malt and 5s per barrel of beer’

Bantry Estate Rent Books from 1780s Bantry Beara areas, Co. Cork

 

 

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Whiddy+Island,+Co.+Cork/@51.69274,-9.5071249,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450b33c942ea51:0xe2d24a96b0aad7f3

Lease of 1836, Reenvanagh, Whiddy Island, ‘Covenant to lay out by Lessee (Tobin) Ten Boat Loads  (each containing thirty horse loads) of Best Coral Sea Sand Annually of Premises under a penalty of £10.

Tobins:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13bW08jLMERwfI5cGHHxXfd4IIHkBbpMYfJBmXA9ROX0/edit

The land on Whiddy is very fertile.  A significant part of the Island was used in 1967 by Gulf Oil to build a major oil tank farm still operational which holds Ireland’s strategic oil reserve.

The reference to one of the lives of a son of a local Catholic Landlord Timothy O’Donovan might suggest their involvement in the coral sand business.  This operated in Bantry until the 1950s.  Until guano from Chile and late chemical fertilisers came in the late 19th century Bantry Bay coral was prized as  a fertiliser.

https://durrushistory.com/2014/09/29/the-use-of-mussel-seed-as-a-lime-substitute-in-kilcrohane-west-cork-to-the-1920s/https://durrushistory.com/2012/08/28/history-of-whiddy-island-bantry-bay-co-cork-from1261-from-paddy-okeeffe-papers/

History of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Co. Cork from 1261, from Paddy O’Keeffe papers

Lease of Raheen Townland, Bantry, West Cork, 1787 ’12 Statute Hogsheads of Good and Well Saved Black Turf’ and £49 per annum and payment of Rent on Bere Island by Butter

Bogs and turf feature frequently in leases of land in West Cork and turn up on Estate Records, Rent Books or on the schedules of property prepared for sale.

A country side tht up to say 1730 was heavily forested was denuded by exploitation for smelting and the oak forests for the Royal Navy and later in the century by the population explosion.  Turf as  a fuel was of extreme importance.

On a letter of protest written to Clinton who purchased part of the Bantry Estate in Bere Island there are references to rapacious behaviour on the tenants adn apparently for many tenants the rent was paid partly or entirely in butter.

Letter to the Earl of Bantry 1854, (criticising his conduct towards his tenants) or, A warning to English purchasers of the perils of the Irish Incumbered estates court; exemplified in the purchase by lord Charles Pelham Clinton, M.P., of two estates in the barony of Bere, county of Cork.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Crookhaven,+Co.+Cork/@51.4684006,-9.7260407,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48458598cbd7f471:0xa00c7a99731a1a0

 

 

Magistrate:

 

Richard Henry Notter, Apponted 1857, Lissacaha House, Lowertown, Schull, Resident, Property Value £16

 

The Notters, German Protestants settling in Crookhaven, West Cork, 1640s Estate on Mizen and Cork City Lands 1860s.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2494

• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree of the Notter family (Leader Collection)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Notter, 8 May 1858, Vol 51, MRGS 39/025, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• University College Cork, Boole Library Archives: Seventeen ms. essays by Isaac Nash Notter, Enaughter, Goleen, Co. Cork, subjects include his family, the O’Sullivan and O’Mahony families, Fr. John Murphy (1796-1883). Ms.U/53

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6122301367724327985

Sharpe, Doctor. [No address given]
To Be Sold, The Interest in the Dwelling-House of the late Doctor Sharpe, immediate
possession can be given. Apply to Richard Notter, Esq. Lapp‘s-Island. July 7.‘

CC (07/07/1829)

Some Marriages:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6092662,-9.6094974,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

O’Donovan Estate, Kicrohane/Durrus, West Cork, 1752 to Sale 1868, Legal Tenure, Legal Succession in Title, Tenants 1860s, Names, Acreage, Tenure, Rent.

This was one of the first estates in Ireland to be bought by a Catholic in the 18th century, post confiscations.    The O’Donovans may have made their money on the pilchard industry.

Walls and gate remnant of Estate of Timothy O’Donovan Esquire, O’Donovan’s Cove (Kealties/Tullig) Durrus, West Cork.

Correspondence between Doctor John O’Donovan, L.L.D. and Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate from 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, West Cork, mentioning his grandfather educated at Toulouse, France, in 1754, lands held in trust mid 17th century by Protestant ‘Nominees’ who behaved with honour, recent history concerning Jerry ‘en Dana’ McCarthy and the McCarthys of Glanda, Dunmanway, denies claim of Rev. Morgan O’Donovan, of Douglas, Cork, to be head of the Clan.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry, sitting in Bantry April 1836. Evidence of Richard Young gave evidence that his great grandfather had lost £2,000 when a Finance House in Bilbao had collapsed. This may have been the Consulado de Bilbao in 1651

O’Donovan estates, Muintervara

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6131948239663968753

Kiloveenogue:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Killoveenoge,+Co.+Cork/@51.6469607,-9.560173,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845759c1670b627:0x1f320a7d40510a02

Gortacloona:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gortacloona,+Co.+Cork/@51.6524358,-9.4773595,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450a97c91a9a1d:0x0c5e17d6e23f08e6

Proposed sale of Bantry Estate 1852, West Cork,  at Landed Estates Court with Map of Estates, showing Silver Mines at Gurtycloona and Kelvenogue.  It is not certain if the sale proceeded. The silver mines may be lead. The Valuation Office records state that the Kileenovogue mines were working in the 1860s.

The Gortacloona mine may be the same as the one at Aughigheen in the Ordnance Survey Historical map c 1840 of disused lead mine.  For soe years in the 1980s the disused school in this townland had an experimental theatre.

There is a 12th century reference to a Silver Mine or Lead Mine in Durrus probably at Gearhameen in one of the English archives.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kealkill,+Co.+Cork/@51.7497057,-9.3813395,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450edc918d50c5:0xa00c7a99731c960

Sale of Kealkil Estate, Bantry, West Cork,  at Landed Estates Court, 1852, including Lackareaagh, Geareagh, Groumanassig, Map (showing ruined Tuck Mill), Tenants, O’Sullivan Carriganass,  Marriage Settlement referred to.

Extracts from Diaries of Sir John Moore, Commander British Forces during 1798 Rebellion West Cork, on Animosity between Catholic Tenants and Protestant Landlords  and Catholic recruits and Yeomen Officers and their treatment, House Burning Caheagh ,Order to Troops to Inflict Terror, Army Movements to Schull, Ballydevlin, Attempts to Pacify without undue Violence.

Post 1798 Arms Seizures Caheragh, West Cork.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Bandon,+Co.+Cork/@51.7461234,-8.7318174,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844f4296d3db1af:0xa00c7a99731fbb0

Bandon Yeomanry 1799,  Commander Captain G. Kingston, Subalterns Baldwin Sealy, Isaac Dowden, Thomas Dowden, William Sullivan with Medal Bandon Boyne Yeomanry 1690.

The Dowdens may have been Presbyterian.  The Sullivans were an old Bandon Family prominent merchants, Lawyers, Churchmen (Church of Ireland), Masters of Bandon Grammar School.

For some Bandon Lawyers including Sullivans:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMDGaZCW9Z6Cq_C_gwm_FB2orzTe2WxR0WcLXjZZO40/edit#gid=0

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/12/yeomanry-corps-co-cork-1823-18

Yeomanry Corps. Co. Cork, 1823-1834, from the Cellars of the Public Records London, England.

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Site of the modern library.  Probably started by the Kingston family.