Cowhair Hurling Balls
By Dr. A.T. Lucas, Director National Museum of Ireland,
Courtesy JCHAS 1952.
Cowhair Hurling Balls
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J.Seymour Murphy, 34, Duncan St., Cork, Pipe Organ builder (1842-82), examples at St. Marys Caheragh, reputably the best, Abbeystewry (Skibbereen), St. Pauls, Ballymoney (1849-1984)
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J.Seymour Murphy, 34, Duncan St., Cork, Pipe Organ builder (1842-82), examples at St. Marys Caheragh, reputably the best, Abbeystewry (Skibbereen), St. Pauls, Ballymoney (1849-1984)
The Architectural Inventory of West Cork states that there are only three Murphy organs at Caheragh, the best, Innishannon and Coolkelure (the Church built by the Dunmanway Shouldham (McCarthy) family).
In 1856 the Cork Examiner reported that Seymour Murphy had completed their 36th organ which was for the Convent at Mitchelstown. The firm closed in 1882 after 40 years in business.
Caheragh:
http://ireland.anglican.org/information/dioceses/parish/16490
The enigma of the bell from 1681 in Caheragh Church of Ireland Church, West Cork
Church plaques and some Graveyard inscriptions Caheragh, Bantry, Skibbereen, Beara areas West Cork.
Genealogy of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1729-1799), by Basil Morgan O’Connell K.M., Descendant of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’, Former head of CID in Burma, living in Dublin when ‘Not Fighting Communists’, author of The O’Connell Tracts.
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Genealogy of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1729-1799), by Basil Morgan O’Connell K.M., Descendant of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’, Former head of CID in Burma, living in Dublin when ‘Not Fighting Communists’, author of The O’Connell Tracts.
He wrote the O’Connell Tracts with his brother a retired Royal Navy Officer. It charts the lives of the descendants of Daniel O’Connell.
Burke’s father was an Attorney who conformed to the Church of Ireland to maintain his profession. Burke was a cousin of Nano Nagle and spent his early years with relations in North Cork. He was related to Joseph Nagle of North Cork and Blackrock, Cork, Lawyer, Businessman, and Land Owner ‘ the most hated Catholic’ by the Cork Protestants in the early 18th century for his legal prowess.
Courtesy JCHAS, 1955
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IRL-CORK/2005-10/1129412894
1588 Map of Beare and Bantry from Public Record Office, London, showing Soldiers besieging Castle, Deer in Glangariff, Churches, castles, Houses, Ships, with Commentary, 1958, by Bantry Antiquarian Paddy O’Keeffe.
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1588 Map of Beare and Bantry from Public Record Office, London, showing Soldiers besieging Castle, Deer in Glangariff, Churches, castles, Houses, Ships, with Commentary, 1958, by Bantry Antiquarian Paddy O’Keeffe.
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1824, Died at the advanced age of 105 at Crookhaven, West Cork, Mrs. Catherine Donovan, relict of Jeremiah Donovan of Keelcrohane (Kilcrohane), leaving numerous progeny of both sexes her eldest son in his 85th years.
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1824, Died at the advanced age of 105 at Crookhaven, West Cork, Mrs. Catherine Donovan, relict of Jeremiah Donovan of Keelcrohane (Kilcrohane), leaving numerous progeny of both sexes her eldest son in his 85th years.
There were traditional close links between Kilcrohane and Crookhaven cross Dunmanus Bay one or other were called the ‘Budies’ in various boating competitions.
From Rosemary FFolliott’s newspaper extracts.
1782, died after a long illness Thomas Donovan, Esq., North Lowerton, West Carbery, left the bulk of his large fortune to the Rev. Mr. Walsh, in the Parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes and a gold watch and a gold beaded cane to the Rev. Mr. James Crowley of the same parish.
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1782, died after a long illness Thomas Donovan, Esq., North Lowerton, West Carbery, left the bulk of his large fortune to the Rev. Mr. Walsh, in the Parish of Schull and his well chosen library of thousands of volumes and a gold watch and a gold beaded cane to the Rev. Mr. James Crowley of the same parish.
In old deeds and wills you come across example of wealth 18th century Catholics in the area such as Alexander Donivan of Squince, Castlehaven.
Decorative walking canes were once very common both in Ireland and in China.
From Rosemary Ffolliott newspaper extracts.
Died in Glandore, West Cork, 1812, Daniel Donovan Esq., Chief of that Ancient Family leaving widow and seven children.
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Died in Glandore, West Cork, 1812, Daniel Donovan Esq., Chief of that Ancient Family leaving widow and seven children.
From Rosemary Ffolliott’s newspaper extracts.
Marriage 1823 at Kilbolane Church, Neville Numan of Moyga to Miss Ann Pearse, Grand Niece of of the late Field Marshall de Lacy of the Russian Army.
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Marriage 1823 at Kilbolane Church, Neville Numan of Moyga to Miss Ann Pearse, Grand Niece of of the late Field Marshall de Lacy of the Russian Army.
From Rosemary FFolloitt Newspaper Extracts, the Grand Uncle one the ‘Wild Geese’
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lacy,_Peter_(DNB00)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Moritz_von_Lacy
Ada Longfield, MA, LLB, On 18th Century Cork Wallpaper, Discover of Crucificition Motiff Gravestones in Glendalough 1940s, wife of Harold Leask, Inspector of Ancient Monuments.
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Ada Longfield, MA, LLB, On 18th Century Cork Wallpaper, Discover of Crucificition Motiff Gravestones in Glendalough 1940s, wife of Harold Leask, Inspector of Ancient Monuments.
She was an expert on old Irish Wallpaper and did her thesis on this subject in Trinity College.
her husband was involved in a restoration of Glendalough in the late 1940s. The graveyard was then covered in furze bushes and she discovered a series of later 17th century gravestones with a cavalry motif. Many hundreds of these have now been discovered in the Wicklow, North Wexford and Carlow area many by member of the same families of sculptors who unusually always sign their name. Given the choice of stone they are in a remarkable state of preservation.
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Register of Boys in St. Stephen’s Hospital (Protestant Orphanage), Cork 1773-1802 with Boys’ names, ages, Masters to whom Apprentices many Mariners some disparaging comments, Blackguard, incorrigible, ‘a bad boy’, mother a ‘Papist’, bastard.
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Register of Boys in St. Stephen’s Hospital (Protestant Orphanage), Cork 1773-1802 with Boys’ names, ages, Masters to whom Apprentices many Mariners some disparaging comments, Blackguard, incorrigible, ‘a bad boy’, mother a ‘Papist’, bastard.
Courtesy 1957 JCHAS, from Jermyn and Co., solicitors
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West Cork History 