Phairs/Fairs, Patent Rolls Cromwell 1655-1659, Lord Protectors Letters on behalf of Colonel Phaire, died Whitehall, Skibbereen, West Cork, 14th August 1657, from Thrift’s Abstracts.

Later generations of the family were in the Dunmanway area and may have been active early 18th century buying land from the Hollow Blade Company of London (victims of South Sea Bubble).

The family were active in Cork City ‘Phairs Cross’ on the Southside.

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Corrections / Clarifications:

1.) Oliver Cromwell died at Whitehall in London 3 Sept 1658 and Colonel Robert PHAIRE died in Sept 1682, so I have no idea what death is being referred to in the page by Gertrude Thrift.

2.) There is no proof to support that the below John FARE/PHAIRE the Tyler/Slater was a descendant of Colonel Robert PHAIRE.

3.) It is true, that Rev’d Dr. John Patrickson of Dunmanway co Cork did marry as his 2nd wife Elizabeth PHAIRE who was a daughter of Colonel Robert PHAIRE.

4.) The John FARE who according to Gertrude Thrift’s burial abstract was buried at St. Mary’s Shandon, Cork city on July 9, 1761. Although his name is spelled quite variously he is certainly the same John Phayer of Bruff co. Limerick who married Margaret Condon in at St. Peters church Cork City on 29 Jan 1753 (Cork MLB), and is the same man who signed his Will on July 8th, 1761 of which the abstract by W.H. Welply appears here:

“Cork Will of John PHAIRE: sgd 8 July 1761: pr. 18 Dec 1761. Slater: wife Margt. two sons. My daughter’s child. Executors – Richard Gardener of Cork clothier and John Callaghan of Blarney Lane. Wits: Thomas Knowles, John Condon, Mary Walsh.”

5.) Faulkner’s Dublin Journal published 11 July 1761 the death of John Phair as “Last week in Cork by a fall from a scaffold a few days before, Mr. ____ Phair an eminent Tyler.”

6.) According to all known records, John Fair / Phair / Phaire the Tyler and/or Slater did not dwell at anytime in West co. Cork.

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1835, Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates in the Commission of the Peace, Co. Cork, with addresses.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11079/page/255095

Popes Quay, Cork, someone got it wrong.

An old sign at one end of the Quay in the Irish Translation suggested that the Quay is called after the Pope in Rome. The other Irish version has the corrects signage insofar as it is called after the Merchant family.

Camden Quay is named after Lord Camden who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and visited Cork in 1795. Pope’s Quay is named after the widow of Thomas Pope who lived in Cork in the early eighteenth century. The Council Book of the Corporation of Cork records that ‘In November 1718 permission was granted to the Widow Pope to build a quay between Alderman Brown’s Quay and Mr Farren’s Quay’.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/corkphotographs/michaelolearycollection/camdenquay/

Correspondence with William Henry O’Driscoll, England, 1850-2, styling himself ‘The O’Driscoll’ as was his father who served in the British Navy and Devonshire 20 Guns and Grandfather from Creagh (Skibbereen) who entertained the Protestant Bishop Lord Dunboyne in Creagh says he is every bit an Irishman despite being born in England

From Grave Collection, Royal Irish Academy.

Re John Butler, Catholic Bishop of Cork:

http://fethard.com/research/fethard-born%20bishop.html

Portrait of Dr. John O’Donovan (1809-1861), Scholar, National Gallery  on loan to Royal Irish Academy.

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Correspondence between Doctor John O’Donovan 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.

Some time around this Timothy’s son who appears to be a bit if a rake made a fool of himself at a public meeting in Cork proclaiming his right to be head of the Clan.  A lady from of one of the other branches challenged hi, he was forded to retract and left in disgrace.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

From Grave Collection, Royal Irish Academy.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/walls-and-gate-remnant-of-estate-of-timothy-odonovan-esquire-odonovans-cove-kealties-durrus-west-cork/

From fairs to the era of Cork Co-op marts 1964.

Southern Star Centenary Publication 1989.

Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown pictured was a well known historian with Paddy O’Keeffe Bantry and John T Collins Cork. His family at one stage had a chain of creameries.

The strongest man in the World, Danno Mahony, Dereenlomane, Ballydehob, West Cork.

Courtesy Southern Star Centenary Publication.

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Derreennalomane,+Co.+Cork/@51.5863811,-9.5281993,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459f1017e6ba6b:0x2600c7a7bb4c0372

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/danno-omahony-world-wrestling-champion-from-dreenlomane-ballydehob-in-skibbereen-west-cork-july-1936/

Hi father was at least 6 foot 4 inches and the local champion at throwing the 56 lb weight. His American born wife Miss Burke was a cousin of the Burke (Yankees) of Cookeen, Durrus. On his death his coffin was shouldered from Ballydehob to Schull.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/baryte-mines/

Last train out of Macroom, Co. Cork, 1953.

Courtesy Southern Star Centenary Publication 1989.

Colm Creedon has written a history of the line now out of print, available in Cork City Reference Library.

Sire from 1870, Bull ‘The Celebrated Young Harkaway’, three years old son of Old Harkaway, Cladagh, Drimoleague, West Cork.

Courtesy Southern StarCentenary Edition 1989.

The Skibbereen Eagle keeping an eye on Russia, Dev and Stalin.

Courtesy Southern Star Centenary Edition, 1989.