04 Monday Feb 2013
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This map is taken from The Atlas of the Irish Famine, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy, Cork University Press 2012. The population density of the populated areas is calculated by excluding mountain, lake and bog. The result is a density comparable to China, India and Haiti.
04 Monday Feb 2013
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The great collector of Irish music and Chief of Police in Chicago, Francis O’Neill (1848-1936), was born in the townland of Tralibane a mile or so off the Bantry Drimoleague road. In the same area is the townland of Gortatagort, Colomane. In this townland was born the mother of John Spillane the Cork songwriter. Christy Moore covers the song and it on You Tube ‘Christy Moore, John Spillane Gortatagort’.
In the nearby parish of Durrus there is a family photograph in the bicentenary book published for St. James Church.c 1910 of the Dukelow family Coomkeen in which Tina Dukelow b. c 1890 is shown with a fiddle, a neighbour Nell Burke bc 1910 played the melodeon. The music seemed to disappear over the years.
O’Neill collected a few tunes from a Beamish man from Caheragh/Drimoleague, there is no sign of him in the recent dictionary of Irish music a mystery to be solved.
“The Píobaire Bán”, written by Tim O’Riordan- about the piper Peter Hagerty of Caheragh parish.
04 Monday Feb 2013
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In William J. Smyth’s book, ‘Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory, A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c.1530-1750’, he produces a map of the Irish Colleges in Europe and Irish writing in Latin c 1550-c1700. He mentions that 1,000 Irish soldiers served in Spanish Flanders between 1585 and 1630.
02 Saturday Feb 2013
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Today’s (2nd February 2013) Irish Times has an interesting piece about the location of the Napoleonic signal towers, with a short article and map part of which is shown below.
01 Friday Feb 2013
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In William J. Smyth’s book, ‘Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory, A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c.1530-1750’, he produces a map of the progress of Robert Lythes surveys in Ireland (1567-71) and the enclose a map is taken from this.
Lythe was a military engineer who was commissioned by Sir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) who was Secretary of State in England in 1550 and became Elizabeth 1 trusted minister. He worked with Sir William Sidney in mapping Ireland for military and strategic purposes.
Lythe’s survey of west Cork was conducted from the pinnacle of a warship, giving the importance of the fisheries off its coast.
01 Friday Feb 2013
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In William J. Smyth’s book, ‘Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory, A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c.1530-1750’, he produces a map of the Protestant percentage of the Irish population in 1732 . This is based on a manuscript MS.1742 in the Lambeth Palace Library, London. The map here is based on Smyth’s map.
29 Tuesday Jan 2013
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In Thomas Maier’s book on the Kennedys he refers to visits by JFK to Mulligans. In 1945 Kennedy was a Hearst columnist and paid a visit to Dublin and frequented the pub. He was back in Dublin in 1947 as part of a Congressional trip during which he met De Valera and also paid a visit to Mulligans.
Mulligans was also the watering hole of choice for the late great writer and newspaper savant Con Houlihan.
John F. Kennedy’s visits to Mulligan’s Pub, Poolbeg Street, Dublin, 1945 1947.
The Kilcrohane Tobins are related by marriage to the Baltimore Fitzgeralds. This is the same family of whom JFK’s mother was descended.
13 Tuesday Nov 2012
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Number Emigrants
CORK DISTRICT
26. Patrick St 400 15
27. French Church, &c. 54 2
28. Queenstown, &c. 30 4
29. Bandon 164 4
30. Dunmanway 77 –
31. Clonakilty 221 2
32. Skibbereen 294 1
33. Bantry 133 3
34. Youghal 69 4
35. Mallow & Fermoy 33 1
36. Kinsale 45 1
37. Tralee 108 3
38. Killarney, &c 30 –
From Irish emigration database http://ied.dippam.com/
25 Thursday Oct 2012
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Tim Healy had a sardonic sense of humour as witnessed by his census return ‘religon’.
Surname Forename Townland/Street DED County Age Sex Birthplace Occupation Religion Literacy Irish Language Relation to Head of Household Marital Status Specified Illnesses
Healy Timothy Michael Mountjoy Square North Rotunda Dublin 45 M Co Cork Barrister Idolator Read and write Irish and English
23 Tuesday Oct 2012
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West Cork History 