West Cork History

Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

The author is the late Walter McGrath, a Cork journalist, historian and railway fan.

Courtesy JCHAS, 1969.

Many of thr Fenian Prosoners had distinguished careers on their eventual release. About 20 have Cork connection including the Protestant Poet Ned Kelly from Kinsale, Bandon man John Lynch a private in the 5th Dragoon Guards.

60 men seen drilling in a field in Durrus, West Cork in Fenian times, London, Rochester New York and Chinese family connections.

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West Cork History

~ History of Durrus/Muintervara

Townlands, Place Names, Shore Names, Field Names, Cill Cháscann (Kilcaskan), Beara, West Cork.

Tithe Meeting Speech in Irish at Carrigaline, Co. Cork, 1832 as reported in the Mercantile Chronicle.

Re-Discovery of Fenian Convict Newspaper ‘The Wild Goose’, produced by ‘A Collection of Ocean Wasters’on board the ‘Hougoumont’ on 89 day Voyage October 1867 to January 1868 from England to Fremantle (Perth), Western Australia with listing of the 80 Fenian Prisoners.

Reproduction of the Gaelic Script and Letters employed by Seán Ó Dreada on Graves of Jeremiah O’Leary died 1828 buried Carrigrohanebeg, Co. Cork and his kinsman Jeremiah O’Leary died 1797 buried Macroom, members of Sliocht Lughadh na Salm Sept.

Genealogical Chart of Galwey Family of Kinsale, Co. Cork post 1557

Provisional Reconstruction of O’Driscoll Genealogy from pre 1414, Baltimore, Castlehaven and Spain.

From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Mrs Alice Butler, widow of John Butler, Surgeon, living next door to Mt. Uppington, Clockmaker, Fishamble Lane, Cork, cures ulcers, mortifications, scurvy, ague, megrims rheumatic pain.

From The Corke Journal, 1758, ‘Died lately, Charles McDermott, of Shrule, Co. Sligo, commonly called ‘The Prince of Coolavin’. Aged 98. A Gentleman who to the very last retained all the Grandeur of the Old Irish Chiefs’

Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

Proposed road over Cousane Gap, to Bantry, West Cork, 1822.