http://mountainviews.ie/summit/413/?PHPSESSID=5l2kk35md6ud3ch7btht5jvsa1

General Area:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Coomhola,+Co.+Cork/@51.7943944,-9.4619443,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48450c38d934d315:0xd0a2a192985b3ca6

Priest’s Leap 1612.

Thanks to Peter O’Driscoll, San Francisco

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NDTPl1L185Mv2CB_S7vCBjBLx7-xHlgaS0Br286x6hk/edit

Some history about the Priest Leap Poem; Edward O’Connor was the school master in the National School at Dromore in the parish of Caheragh between Bantry and Skibbereen/Drimoleague from 1930s until his retirment in December 1951. He was the teacher of the boys class or grades 5, 6, 7, & 8 until the mid 1940s and then the students were mixed both boys & girls. One of his demands or requirments was that all of his students would learn the poem of the Priest Leap.

The Priest Leap Poem was found written in faded lined paper with an ink pin (from the school desk ink-well). This copy of the poem had been written by a former pupil of Edward O’Connor.
So now you now know the family story on the Priest Leap. Attached is a video of the place from where the horse leaped and pictures of that location on the N71.

Early Map of Baltimore, West Cork (Between 1605-1640), showing English Settlement, Dunasead Castle, Sherkin Island, Loo Rocks, Storehouse for Preserved Fish, 12 Fishing Boats, Seine Pilchards, 5 Possible Royal Navy Boats.

Motif of John Molony (spelling varies), Surveyor, Co. Cork c 1750-1820.

In the 1739 deed from Burlington some Clonakilty tenants are names including one Molony, this is not a common name in Cork may be a relation of John Molony.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/estate-of-henry-jermyn-esq-aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-1275-acres-part-survey-of-killsarlaghta-aughadown-1790-by-john-molony-ploughland-occupied-by-denis-driscoll-and-syeeygosnell-275/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/survey-of-lislee-glebe-dioceses-of-ross-co-cork-old-and-new-by-john-molony-1801-showing-pound-courtmacsherry-road-earl-of-shannons-land-at-ballincurrig-and-hodges-and-foster-and-co-grafton-st/

An English Traveller in Ireland 1672-4, Observations on hospitality, bragging, housing and sleeping patterns, baptism and death customs, obsession with genealogy, propensity to litigation.

De Latocnaye 1796:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/observations-of-breton-traveller-jacques-louise-de-bougrenet-de-latocnaye-in-west-cork-bandon-macroom-dunmanway-the-priests-leap-and-bantry-1796-keening-at-funerals-raths-and-lises-flax/

william-rufus-chetwood 1748

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/a-tour-1748-through-ireland-in-several-entertaining-letters-author-william-rufus-chetwood-including-cork-and-kinsale-ale/

Kohl 1842:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/kohls-visit-to-bantry-co-cork-1842/

Halls 1840:

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/impressions-of-travellers-halls-of-ballineen-west-cork-ric-station-1840-and-kohl-1844-bantry-to-kenmare-on-ric/

The author is unknown the article was produced in the Journal of the Cork Archaelological and HIstorical society in the early 1900s. from which these pieces are

.

French Traveller in Ireland 1644, Boullaye Le Gouz, Description of Houses.

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100076/text001.html