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From the National Library collection of Irish Manuscripts. The Library also has original conveyancing deeds in Irish going back to 1540.

The Commissioners of Education reported on Classical Schools in 1812 including. Midleton, Bandon Kinale, Clonakilty:

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/10244/eppi_pages/226615

Midleton (Middleton):

Founded by Elizabeth Countess of Orkney, provided for an endowment fro 2,000 acres, worth in 1812 £2,000 per annum. School house can accomodate 50 borders, very old over a century. in bad repair. Headmaster Rev Richard Grier appointed 1799, salary £100 and £40 as usher, £10 as agent. £10 for repairs, four exhibitions of 10 shillings each. 6 boarders, 8 day scholars for two of whom are Catholics four scholars have left two have entered University. Staff consists of one classical assistant £40 with board and lodging.

Terms are 30 guineas for boarders 8 guineas for for day-scholars.
Numbers have declined in 1783 there were 65 boarders, 1788 10 boarders, 8 day scholars and in 1812 14 in total. Several large classical schools nearby Fermoy, Midleton another nearby the headmaster of which is a Catholic Priest. In 1723 Mr. Harris of Cork left rents for a Mathematical Lectureship but not taken up.

Bandon:
Endowed by the Earl of Cork and Burlington 1610 now £20 per annum. Headmaster Rev. William Sullivan his house lately built by order of the late Duke. 20 boarders and 25 day-scholars, one classical assistant. No provision in endowment for free education.

Clonakilty:

Recently established by the earl of Shannon. This is can accommodate 30 boarders opened 1808. Rev.W.Stewart Master in view of reputation of present master he has enlarged by taking an adjoining house can now accommodate a total of 100 boarders. and 12 day-scholars. Three resident assistants as well as Masters of French, Writing and Dancing.

At present one of the most reputable and largest Classical Seminaries in the South of Ireland

Kinsale (Kingsale):

Endowed in 1767 by Lord de Clifford, with a salary of £50 per annum with a large house formerly occupied by his ancestor Mr. Southwell. Schoolmaster Rev. John Stewart in 1810 in Mr. Stewart’s private house cannot accommodate more then 2 or 3 boarders and 30 day scholars. Boys are the sons of neighboring gentlemen and wealthier class of Shopkeepers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdDA2VHduY1pNUHllbFFHbzJKRUhzU3c&usp=drive_web#gid=0

This return was made to Parliament. The House of Apothecaries continued to operate in Dublin until 1972.

Transcribed by Kae Lewis:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mturner/cork/apothecaries.htm

Apart from the main urban centers there are many from the smaller towns in the northern counties. Many of these may have emigrated later.

Cork

William Gallewey, 1685,
William Gosnell 1835,
William Gonell, the Younger, 1838,
John Herrick, 1751,
George Holmes 1741,
George Holmes 1843,
John Kinneally 1749,

In the West Cork area:

Bantry

1754 William Goodwin, Apothecary, named in White Lease Lease 1754 between Richard White and Richard Goodwin, Apothecarry, for a tenement and premises near Great Bridge formerly held by Rev. John Kenny and Item 732, UCC Library, Bantry House Collection.
Samuel Young 1792, 1800 set up own shop (the Youngs were in the fishing business in Bantry since the 1640s)
John Young 1818
Samuel Young 1818
John Field 1822

Bandon
William Belcher, Bridge Street 1787,
George Beamish, 1796,
William St. John Jagoe, Bridge Street,1787,
William Jagoe 1811,
Edward Homan 1811,
Francis House, 1787,
Edward Hayes, 1813,
Francis Hayes 1810
Richard Lone and surgeon 1787,
James Trasilian 1816
William Gash 1816
Robert Wheeler 1816, 1824 set up own shop
William Cooke 1817
Henry Belcher 1820
Edward Toole 1822
David Scott 1822
Alexander Heard 1824

Castletown Bere
Richard Duchet, wife Harriet daughter Avice, 1839
Mathew B. Lepubure, also doctor, wife Angelina, daughter Anglina Coppinger O’Donovan, son Cladius Anthony Lewis, 1840.

Clonakilty
James Deasey 1813, 1821 open on his own
Gresham Herrick 1813
James Spiller 1816. 1819.
Michael Deasy 1819
John Bennett 1820
James Collins 1820
James O’Regan 1820, 1823
Tomas Spiller 1829

Dunmanway
Thomas Holmes 1828

Kinsale
Moses le Croix, Huguenot, late 17th century
Denis Kelly 1806,
Denis Kelly 1813
Patrick McAllenon 1813
John McCarthy 1813
Thomas Markhams 1824,
John Newman, wife Elizabeth son Martin, 1728,
John O’Regan 1826
Richard Griffith 1827
Thomas Hackett 1826
Robert Smith 1787

Macroom
Nicholas White, wife Mary, son 1821 sponsors Corless Hawkins Barter Mrs Eliz Cooper
Thomas Massey (Janeville) 1824

Rosscarbery
JohnM Mahoney 1826

Skibbereen
James Crowley 1800
Alexander McCarthy 1808 set up own shop
John McCarthy 1816
Francis Clerke 1817
Stephen Sweetnam 1824
Jonathan Clarke 1824
Cornelius O’Driscoll (Hollybrook) 1826
Daniel Donovan 1826
Jer Crowley 1827
Denny Taylor 1827
G.A.Rountree 1828
1835 James William Carey aged 1 year 8 months died his father Mr. Carey Apothecary, Skibbereen

http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/10244/eppi_pages/226615

The Royal College of Physicians have returns of Apothecaries from 1792 to 1972:

http://www.rcpi.ie/article.php?locID=1.12.19.28

On medical matters in the Irish Catalogue of the National Library there is an extensive collection of manuscripts of medical textbooks, books of remedies, cures etc all in Irish which can be inspected and photographed. Some of these go back to the 13th century.

University College Cork are involved in a major project to digitalise the old Irish medical Texts:
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/medical.html

From Dr O’Donovan’s ‘Sketches in Carbery’:

Click to access sketchesincarber00dono.pdf

John Collins, of Myross, whose name we have often quoted already, was a man gifted with natural qualities of a high poetical character, which, had
they been matured by art, or had he lived under more favourable circumstances, might probably have placed his name high on the roll of poets. However,
as we learn from the records of his life, he had to devote the greater part of his days to the drudgery inseparable from the office of a village schoolmaster,in order to support a wife and large family. The opportunities which university education, spare time, and command of money, give to others to cultivate the mind were wanting in his case, as, being thrown upon his own resources, he had to educate himself m a great measure, and at the same time procure a livelihood.

The late great Dr. John O’Donovan styles him the last Irish scholar, historiographer, and poet of Carbery, and the name by which he was popularly known through the South of Ireland was ” The Silver Tongue of Munster.”

Collins was born about the year 1754, at Kilmeen, to the north of Clonakilty ; his parents were of the farming class; he was descended from the O’Cullanes
(Anglicised into Collins), an Irish sept, who formerly occupied Castle Lyons (in East Cork), and the district around it. The only property he inherited, like the majority of his countrymen, lay in the gifts which nature had bestowed on him—a fluent tongue, a ready wit, and a sound constitution. He was destined at first for the priesthood, but did not long pursue his studies in that line, having no vocation for a clerical life.

He ultimately during his rambles took up his residence in Myross, where he taught school for a considerable period, and in which place he composed several beautiful poems in the Irish language, amongst others—”The Buachaill Bawn,” “An Ode on Timoleague Abbey,” very much admired (translated by Ferguson), and a translation in Irish of that charming poem of Campbell’s, ” The Exile of Erin,” which Irish scholars say excels the original.

The following is a translation of a portion of the ” Buachaill Bawn,” by Erionnache. One verse only is given, merely to convey some idea, although a faint
one, of Collins’s poetry. Irish poems do not admit well as a rule of being translated into English, both languages being so dissimilar in sound, mode of expression,

 BUACHAILL BAWN (THE FAIR BOY).

With crimson gleaming the dawn rose, beaming
On branching oaks nigh the golden shore,
Above me rustled their leaves, and dreaming,
Me thought a nymph rose the blue waves o’er;
Her brow was brighter than stars that light our
Dim, dewy earth ere the summer dawn,
But she spoke in mourning : ‘ My heart of sorrow
Ne’er brings a morrow, Mo Buachaill Bawn !

Some of Collins’s manuscripts fell into the possession of a Mr. 0′ Grady, of Dublin. They were written about 1774, and beside his poems contained
a history of Ireland, which was left in an unfinished state. Collins died at Skibbereen, in the year 1816, at the age of 64 years.

From Collins Genealogy: http://www.araltas.com/features/collins/

Sean Ó Coileáin (1754 – 1817) of Corca Laoidhe was a poet in the old Gaelic tradition, when poets commanded respect and were given the hospitality of the king’s castle. Unhappily for Seán, the kings had all been deposed and the people who would have been his patrons were as poor as himself. He drank, but rather than making him happy, his drinking drove away his first wife and so enraged his second (her sister) that she set fire to the house. Sean was a reluctant schoolteacher, but his poetry must have been appreciated, for he was known as the “Silver Tongue of Munster”. There is some mystery surrounding a strangely melancholy poem of his which has been compared to Gray’s Elegy. Whether Ó Coileaán or an earlier poet wrote it continues to puzzle the folklorists.

The late Peadar Ó h-Annracháin (Cois Life of the Southern Star) was given Swanton’s papers by one of his daughters. They included a letter from John Collins of Union Hall, son of the poet Sean Ó Coileain, dated March 10th, 1845, concerning the authorship of the Irish translation of the ‘Exile of Erin’. Collins asserted his father’s claim.

Royal Irish Academy:
MS G 523
‘Amhráin agus dánta Sheághain Uí Choileáin, maille le beathaidh an fhilidh’. By (James Buckley?), 1926. 9 x 7 ins.

In a recent book, Guardian of the East India Company: The Life of Laurence Sulivan
By George K. McGilvary, the possible Cork origins of Laurence Sulivan are explored. Google Books provides an extract showing the various links.
http://books.google.ie/books?

In one of the books on Sullivan it is suggested that he was an illegitimate older brother to Benjamin Sullivan. It also suggests that his Christian name Laurence (Larry) is the English version of the Irish Leabhrás, a common name in the O’Sullivan Bere family.

Benjamin Sullivan (1720-76( was a State Attorney for Cork City and County in the early 18th century and he was described as a ‘Kinsman’ to them. His father was Philip and his mother was an Irwin described as a Presbyterian, he was born in the Parish of St. . Two of Benjamin’s sons went to India, his influence did them no harm (is fearr focal sa Chúirt ná punt sa sporrán!) did well and later became MPs in England.

Looking at deeds in which the Cork Sullivans were involved as attorneys on the Registry Of Deeds Project:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/deeds_index/name_index.php

quite a number eminate from the Mizen area.  In 1700 Bishop Dives Downes on his tour refers to landowners in Schull including Mr. Sullivan, a Protestant.

1720-1767 Benjamin Sullivan Attorney, Barrister, 1752 Clerk of the Crown for Counties Cork and Waterford. Thomas Harrison writing clerk to him 1742, Married Bridget Limerick daughter of Dr. Limerick, Rector Kilmoe (Ballydehob), 1742 Father Philip mother Elizabeth Irwin a Presbyterian, Parish of St Paul. Benjamin Sullivan Senior Esq., eminent Attorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the Right Hon John Sullivan of Richings Park, Co. Bucks, Privy Councillor, MP Old Sarum, Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan Captain RN and MP for Seaford Baronet UK 1804. Protest against him being appointed Freeman as he allegedly did not serve 7 years as an apprentice, 1742, Memorial 77771. May be related to Laurence Sullivan speculation the Laurence was an illegitimate elder brother and so Lawrence may be variation of Lábhrás a name common among the O’Sullivan Beres, Chairman of East India Company. Parliamentary biography gives his address as Dromeragh. (Dromreagh Durrus?) http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm Oldest son Benamin, 2nd son John,Memorial 1764, 161080, Thomas Lyd Councellor mentioned with John Lloyd Victualler, Cork

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEkxdVM0YVNzbzFHbV8tRGxNM2pmMWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

id=x8St6IV3aOIC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=laurence+sulivan+east+india+company&source=bl&ots=g3UStkvm_s&sig=ROeZVLd3_LUWnN6o6oYdIRhRsPk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z86wUqzINpSg7Abe1YGgAw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=laurence%20sulivan%20east%20india%20company&f=false

For a brief outline of his Parliamentary career:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sulivan

Sullivan Lawyers Cork:

1708, 1709, 1715, 1728, 1783? same?

John Sullivan

1709 Registrar. Attorney/Registrar, 1763 Comissioner. 1771 listed as Clerk of the Crown with Benjamin Sullivan for Co. Cork and Waterford.1771 Coroner Cork City.

Ancient Freeman. 1710 Thomas Banfield a clerk later atorney. 1709

Named in Council minutes, in some deeds a John Sullivan Junior

1709 Commissioner for Affadavits, Memorial 1719 23650

Executor in will 1729 of Charles Newman Irish Manuscrit Commission

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1756

John Sullivan

Clerk to Benjamin Sullivan, Coroner 1767

May be John Sullivan Junior Attorney. Cork election Hely Hutchinson papers 1783, attorney Christ Church Lane.

1767 that £12 19s. 3d. be paid John Sullivan, gent., one of the Coroners, expense in feeing lawyers and prosecuting Robt. Murray for the murcdler J of Capt. Rea;

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/caulfield_complete.pdf

1799

John Sullivan

Master In Chancery

Memorial 500

Other names John Austen, Thomas Austen, witnesses, John Bayly

1720-1751, 1746, 1749, 1767, dead 1767

Benjamin Sullivan, self styled O’Sullivan Mór, according to Denny Lane

Attorney, Barrister, Notary Public, 752 Clerk of the Crown (State Solicitor) for Counties Cork and Waterford. Thomas Harrison writing clerk to him 1742, Married Bridget Limerick daughter of Dr. Limerick, Rector Kilmoe (Ballydehob), 1742. 1771 listed as Clerk of the Crown with John Sullivan for Co. Cork and Waterford. By an order of 26 April, 1749, Benj. Sullivan, Attorney ; Mr. Will. Snow, Attorney and Mr. Thos. Allyn, Attorney, be admitted free. I, Hugh Millerd, Jun., do protest to the makeing of Mr. Benj. Sullivan, Mr. Wm. Snow, and Mr. Tho. Allcyn free as they diu not serve seven years’apprentiship, nor a sufficient Council at the time, the questions being put,only the unucrnameu: Mr. Mayor, two Sheriffs, Recorder; Alden. Atkins,Farren, Hulcatt, Owgan, W estrop, Wintrop, Travers.

Father Philip mother Elizabeth Irwin a Presbeterian, Parish of St Paul. Benjamin Sullivan Senior Esq., eminent Atttorney died London 1767, May have been Recorder of Cork 1765. son Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Kt, Judge Supreme Court Madras, the Right Hon John Sullivan of Richings Park, Co. Bucks, Privy Councillor, MP Old Sarum, Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan Captain RN and MP for Seaford Baronet UK 1804. Forbes, Gordon, Captain, 34th Regt, to Miss Peggy Sullivan, dau Benjamin, Esq., late of this City, at Christ Church – (HC 17/9/1770). 1746 WD WM SULLIVAN Denis of Shanagh, KER Farmer E WD DUGAN Mallaky of Clarogh, COR Dairyman F WM SULLIVAN Benjamin of Cork City Gent. Maziere Brady recounts Bishop Dive Downes tour of Schull/KIlmoe 1700 he notes land owners Limrick Mr. O’Sullivan, a Protestant. p.172 http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/batch2/bradyvol1/#/244/zoome

Protest against him being appointed Freeman as he allegedly did not serve 7 years as an apprentice, 1742, Memorial 77771. May be related to Laurence Sullivan speculation the Laurence was an illegetimate elder brother, d so Lawrence may be variation of Lábhrás a name common among tthe O’Sullivan Beres, Chairman of East India Company. Parlimentary biography gives his address as Dromeragh. (Dromreagh Durrus?). SULLIVAN, BENJAMIN – (5/11/1770) – To be let from the 25th of March next, several lots of ground in Fair-lane and Peacock lane in the North suburbs of this city. Proposals will be received for Benjamin Sullivan, Esq; by Mrs. Sullivan on the Mall. http://www2.ul.ie/pdf/943693677.pdf. 14 July 1747 Affidavit of serving order to pay the money levied on the execution to the defendant John Armstrong sworn by Cornelius Sullivan in front of Benjamin Sullivan. 6 June, 1767. That William Jones, gent., having served Anthony Lane, Esq. ; Benjamin Sullivan, Esq., eldest son of Benjamin S., Esq., dec.; Be admitted freemen

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Deathsmarriages2.htm Forbes, Gordon, Captain, 34th Regt, to Miss Peggy Sullivan, dau Benjamin, Esq., late of this City, at Christ Church – (HC 17/9/1770). MARTIN, DANIEL, Wines & Porter, lived in Mallow Lane, now removed to the house wherein Ben. Sullivan Esq. Formerly lived at the corner of the Fishambles near the Exchange, (CJ 4/10/1756) ; 1767 Richard Martin, gent., having served Benj. Sullivan, Esq., and Mr. Wm. Snowe; admitted freemen at large. Present–Mr. Mayor, Sher. French

Oldest son Benjamin, 2nd son John,Memorial 1764, 161080, Thomas Lloyd Councellor mentioned with John Lloyd Victualler, deed of 1750 mentioned wit George Dunscomb and Nicholas Weekes, Councillor Cork

145. 7 July 1767 Deed of assignment of judgement against Francis Strange by Bridget and Benjamin Sullivan, Cork, (executors of will of Benjamin Sullivan St. James Square, London), to Adam Newman, Cork, for £116-19s-2d. Witnessed by Margaret Sullivan and Elizabeth Sullivan.

1735-, 1783

Sir Benjamin Sullivan

Barrister 1770, Puisne Judge Supreme Court, Madras

Eldest son of Benjamin, Clerk of the Crown for Co Cork , Recorder of Cork, Ó Sullivan Mór, Bridget Limrick Goleen.Cork election Hely Hutchinson papers 1783, listed as East Indies, item 626

Admission Middle Temple Register 1in 1764, 1661-1781, Vol 1, Linen Hall Library Belfast, 1735. Dublin Almanac 1798.

As Benjamin Junior. Subscriber of 1766 ‘The History of the Irish Rebellon’, Cork, 1766

6 June, 1767. That William Jones, gent., having served Anthony Lane, Esq. ; Benjamin Sullivan, Esq., eldest son of Benjamin S., Esq., dec.; Be admitted freemen

The Beamish Book has an entry for Alice Beamish born 17th December, Acres, Drimoleague, married William G. Cotter b 13th November 1793, Derishel, Caheragh, died 11th March 1900, Clarkson, Monroe Co., County, New York.

http://beamishbook3.tripod.com/newbeamishbook/searchfl.htm

The assistance of Mary Dukelow, Brahalish, Durrus is acknowledged.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdFRIZDNndWpFbzV4d3pUeFl0LV8xYmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Townlands:
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6&action=edit

 

Gortnagrough:

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gortnagrough,+Co.+Cork/@51.5943296,-9.4603759,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4845a1cc4b46bbdd:0x3f23013d1fd67148

 

 

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1815 – 1891, son of William Swanton, Ballydehob and Hanna Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus.  Her father, Hugh Hutchinson, landlord and Margaret O’Sullivan, Ballagahadown between Caheragh and Drimoleague. She is probably sister to Eugene O’Sullivan, Gent, middleman on a number of estates including Dunmanway Shouldham Estate.  He is a church warden, Drimoleague c 1790. The Hutchinson major property owners in Bantry since at least mid 17th century. Not to be confused with Bantry Hutchins family. Slowly lands including Blackrock House now Bantry House acquired by Richard White (Ancestor of Lord Bantry).  Estate sold Landed Estates Court 1850s.

 

Magistrate:

James Hutchinson Swanton, Rineen Skibbereen, resident, April 1857, £143. Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. Prominent Methodist. From 1875 Carrisbrook House, Pembroke Ballsbridge.  Businessman, miller. landowner, sitting Skibbereen 1861,

House at Rineen, in the 1901 census the house was occupied by Fr James Kearney and was categorised as a ‘First Class’ with 20 rooms and 16 windows in the front of the house. It was also occupied by a house-keeper, parlour maid and coachman.

Built around 1850 by James Hutchinson Swanton who was a Justice of the Peace, a man of considerable substance in the area and a major partner in the adjacent mill (now disused).  Later he lived at Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, Dublin:

 

From Adrian Healy’s postcard collection Mill at Rineen:

Rineen Mill