Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws included are The Worthy Mr. Henry Gallwey £1-10-0, his generous and worthy son £1-3s, Nicholas Mead 5/5d, Andrew Morrogh, William Gallwey, John Casey, Patrick Skiddie, Cornelius Sexton, James Gould, Daniel Leahy, Robert Gallwey, and Richard Casey each contributed 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny, Conformity and the Fishing Trade, Father Walsh parish priest of Durrus and Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, poet.

There is a query as to what coin 5s 5d and 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny represented.

Some of the names Galwey, Mead, Skiddy, Morrogh, Gould were prominent Cork City Catholic Merchant names in the 17th century. It is likely that in 1723 they were involved in the fishing business and Continental trade which was thriving. Later some of the Galweys and Meads conformed to the Church of Ireland. In all probability this was a charade to protect their mercantile interests as the clergyman officiating was Pastor Davies. They were in partnership with him in sending cargos of pilchards to Portugal in shares of one sixteenth.

This transcript was obtained by Father T. J. Walsh, he had been Parish Priest of Durrus in the 1960s and wrote a History Of Muintervara for the Capuchin Annual. He had a particular interest in the O’Daly Bardic School and especially the poet Aonghus Ó Dalaigh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aonghus_Ruadh_na_nAor_Ó_Dálaigh

His sermons were speckled with such references which unfortunately were lost on his flock.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6hnQGE3ANjzeGVUT1pueV9jdkk/preview

 

Meade:

Regulations made in 1735 Between The Owners of Seine Boats in Bantry Bay, Dispute to be Determined by Mr Nicholas Mead at His House ‘Spread Eagle’ Presented to Fishery Enquiry 1836 by Mr. R. Young, and 1749 Bounty from Royal Dublin Society to Mr. Meade and Young for Fish Landings at Bantry.

 

1615. Patent 15 of King James 1 of England, David Meade to Sell Liquor in Carbery, and to James Roche and Richard Liquor Licenses at Crookhaven and Berehaven

 

Gallwey:

Genealogy of David Gallwey, Bantry, West Cork, son of Henry and Mary McCarthy conformed to the Church of Ireland 1770, Adjutant Bantry Volunteers, Left for Lisbon, son Consul for Portugal in Cork ancestor of Galweys in Portugal, Brazil, Tenerife, USA, Peru.

 

Gallwey Lawyers:

1861	Bryan Galwey	Solicitor?	Appearing in Bantry Quarter Sessions	Skibbereen Eagle
1720	John Galwey	London Inns, Middle Temple, King’s Inns	Bantry, 3rd son father Henry Gent, Merchant, Papist, mother Mary Mellefont, Ballingarry (Ballingeary?), John conformed to the Church of Ireland 1729.	Admission Middle Temple Register 1661-1781, Vol 1, Linen Hall Library Belfast. Sir Henry Blackhall, ‘The Galweys of Munster’

 

1435-1610

 

Gibson’s History of Cork, vol. 2, p. 1, points out that the Ronaynes were one of the twelve families from which during the period 1435-1610 the chief magistrate of Cork was chosen—the remaining eleven being those of Gould, Roche, Tyrry (Terry), Meade, Coppinger, Galway, Sarsfield, Morrogh, Skiddy (Scudamore), Walters and Lavallyn

 

Obituary Father Walsh:

 

Obituary of Canon T. J. Walsh, M.A., P.P., Cork Historian, 1984, former parish Priest of Durrus.

 

 

Some songs of West Cork, from 1880s ‘The Chapel of Charming Rossmore’, ‘Fifty years Ago (The ESB in Coolea), The Rookery, ‘Garnish’, ‘The Banks of Sullane’, ‘A Toast to Beara’, ‘The Shores of Coolough Bay’, ‘The Strands of Ballylickey and the transmission of music and song along the Butter Roads.

Rossmore from Flor Crowley, ‘In West Cork Long Ago’, 1979 Mercier Press

The others from Tomás Ó Canainn’s ‘The Songs of Cork’, publisged by Gilbert Dalton Ltd. 1978.

The late Tomás Ó Canainn was from Derry, a lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Music in UCC. He was a member of the group Na Fíli and played the accordion at the Irish mass in St. Peter and Pauls, in Cork.

Some of the songs in his book such as The Rookery were sung in West Cork but came from Cork City probably with the butter men returning from the butter market in the late 18th and early 19th century.

 

In Seán Ó Se’s recent memoir he describes his grand father who settled in Beara and was a butter carter.  He would, in the 19th century, stay over in a lodging house at the bottom of Shandon Street, in Cork and pick up songs from all over Cork and Munster ad then sign the at home.

Songs of west Cork

Pre 1965 farming practices West Cork, Red Elephant and Epicure potatoes, working with the grufán, threshing with the steam engine, winnowing of wheat and oats, working in the bog.

Flor Crowley NT, Behigulane describes farming practices in Dunmanway for small to middling farms which would have been common to Protestant and Catholic farmers from the Famine to the early 1960s. From then on, reclamation, rural electrification and specialisation spelled the end for many of the prctices described.

The page sequence in the PDF is out, note the bottom page number.

In West Cork ong Ago

Words in Irish from Dunmanway, West Cork from Flor Crowley N.T. (National Teacher), Behigullane, Dunmanway.    Flor is the short for Florence the old version of the name in Irish is Finín, Fineen, Finghín.

 

 

Magistrate of same name:

 

Florence Crowley,1895, Behagullane, Dunmanway, listed 1913.

From his book ‘In West Cork Long Ago’, 1979, Mercier. Some of the practises flailing had probably gone out by the early 20th century.

Pages 9 and 10

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit

Drinagh 1940s

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/irish-on-ordinary-speech-drinagh-west-cork-1940s-agus-gaelige-i-measc-an-bhearla/

Out for a day with the Ferret in Dunmanway, West Cork, Long Ago.

From Flor Crolwey’s book ‘In West Cork Long Ago’. Mercier Press 1979. A fascinating account of old times. He was from Behigullane, Dunmanway a National Teacher at Behagh National School. He was a founder of ‘An Ból Chumann na hÉireann’ in 1954 the body regulating road bowlng.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/sports-recreation/sport/road-bowling/bol-chumann-na-heireannth/
The book is redolent of De Valera’s Ireland of the mid 20th century, the views now seems narrow.

Rabbits:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/the-rabbit-trade-in-the-1950s-before-mymamatosis-in-the-1950s-snaring-ferrets/

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ballynacarriga,+Co.+Cork/@51.7060748,-9.0385552,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844ffba76bcf49f:0xafc048ff8d8b26f1?hl=en

Earliest representation of West Cork person, 1585, Catherine Cullinane, Ballynacarriga Castle, Dunmanway.

In Brian Lalor’s excellent book of sketches and commentary he refers to the earliest portrait of a West Cork person. (Brandon Book Publishers Ltd. 1990)

This is Catherine Cullinane, wife of Randal Hurley who build Ballinacarriga Castle in 1585. The castle was forfeit in 1654 to the Crofts.

Ballynacarriga Castle was built in 1585 by Randal Hurley. (The date 1585 can be seen in a window-recess on the top floor). The castle was forfeited by the Hurleys in 1654, and it passed to the Crofts. It is believed that the castle was used as a chapel as well as a family residence. Locals say that the chapel was still in use until 1815.

Catherine Cullinane is shown in two window embrasures in the main chamber on the upper floor in carvings in low relief. She is shown in Elizabethan Dress, three roses represent her three children. Her initial and those of Randal Hurley are also carved.

http://www.britainirelandcastles.com/Ireland/County-Cork/Ballynacarriga-Castle.html

Sale by Cant (Public Auction) in Chichester House, Dublin 1703 of Galwey lands in East and West Carbery Forfeited, Kilfaghna, Drombeggy, Cullinagh, Dirryleigh, Shrilane, Gortard, Balliisland and ten small islands, Knockeeridane, Castlehaven, Gortard, Creaghm, Coney Island, Baltimore, Raghmore, Cloghanmore, Cloghanbeg, Lissangel, Caheragh, Gortnamuckla Lisalchorig with some tenants listed, Coppingers, Hollow Blade Company, South Sea Bubble.

Those Irish landowners who backed the wrong horse at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 had their lands Forfeit by The English who then went through the charade of a legal sale process. These were processed at Chichester House in Dublin. The Irish Parliament at College Green was built on the site of Chichester House which in turn was built on a former nunnery. Somewhat surprisingly claims of widows and children were sometimes allowed. In the 1730s it was estimated that up to two thirds of the business of the Four Courts in Dublin was taken up with contentious land matters.

Some of the lands were bought by the Hollow Blade Company which financed King William of Orange wars. When they got into trouble with the South Sea Bubble local landowners purchased the lands in the 1720s.

Another family going through the same process was the Coppingers. The Coppingers are of Hiberno-Danish descent. Even still in Cork some of the descendants have blond hair. They were moneylenders/bankers and acquired the lands through the default of the old Gaelic Landowners who borrowed from them. The Freke/Carbery estate was acquired in this fashion.  A previous owner had been Sir Walter Coppinger.

The Galweys and Coppingers appear in the records of Cork City from the late 13th century and through changes of religion have proven remarkable for their survival instincts.

Deed of 1718 between William Bailey, Ballinacolle, Myross, West Cork wherein Charles Stanton is to teach his daughter and four children dancing, jigs, hornpipes, minuets and country dances, witnesses Darby Donovan Will Hayes together with further Deed of Apprenticeship between William Bailey and Elizabeth Coughlan.

From John T. Collins History of Illen Valley 1960 in Paddy O’Keeffe papers

The King’s Writ runs in West Cork from 1298 A.D. Sheriff in Cork paid £36.15.4d for having the King’s peace by Mathew, Richard, Thomas Barett, Richard son of William Barett Junior, Basilia Barett Lochlain O’Donovan MacCrom, Molise O’Donovan McIvor, William O’Donovan, Thomas O’Hea, James O’Brian, Dermot son of Neil O’Donovan, Thomas son of Alexander Roche, Gilliosa O’Hegarty and Auliff O’Tuohy.

This is from a lecture on the Illen Valley, Skibbereen given c November 1960 by John T Collins, Cork Historian. It is from the Paddy O’Keeffe papers Cork Archives.

Collins and O’Keeffe were part of a historical circle that included Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan Clonakilty and Basil O’Connell (historian of the O’Connell family), Paddy Madden Cork Librarian. They were active in the 1940s 50s and 60s doing field trips research and in communication with leading figures in the Public Records Office, National Library.

The Paddy O’Keeffe papers have extensive references to their doings.

Rev. Thaddeus O’Mahony, Enniskeane, Co. Cork, 1821-1903, Third professor of irish at Trinity College Dublin Botanist discoverer of Kerry Lily 1848.

Courtesy Bandon Historical Society.