The real heroes of public health in Ireland in the 19th century were the dispensary doctors. Vastly overworked, poorly paid they waged a campaign against ignorance and indifference. The local papers are full of their concerns about dung heaps contaminating water, poor public health.

1822, Dr William Folliott, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, making case for increase of vaccination against small pox in District Edward Hunt, Kinsale, 1822, observes that many Magistrates are uneducated men ‘who in many instances are Tythe Proctors and in most instances are as Middlemen the cruelest and most unrelenting oppressors of the unfortunate tenantry under them’

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1832. Cholera Outbreak. Response Parish Boards of Health, West Cork.

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1832 Cholera in Bantry, 1838 Address of Subscribers to John Symms Bird, on Retiring as Treasurer of Bantry Dispensary.

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1871 Western Tenantry Entertained by Lord Bandon on coming of age of Lord Bernard, at Durrus Court (Gearhameen). Dinner provided by James Philips of Durrus and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Cork. 1871, Meeting Courthouse, Durrus, Patrick’s Day re Alarming Spread of Smallpox

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Doctor Barry, 1800, on ‘Shinach’ (Small Pox) and practice in Cork of inoculation with Cow Pox 50 years before Dr Jenner’s vaccination and late 18th century inoculations by Mr. Goodwin, Bantry, West Cork.

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Pococke visit to Bantry 1758, smallpox, leprosy A Bandon doctor, John Milner Barry had noted in 1800 that exposure to cowpox gave immunity to smallpox; this was known in West Cork as ‘shinach’ from ‘sine’ the Irish word for teat.

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1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835, Begging, Impotence Through Old Age, Sick Poor, Able Bodies Out of work, Vagrancy, Evidence taken at Ballydehob, West Cork, from Rev. James Barry, Parish priest, Rev. John Barry, Curate, Rev. John Triphook, Protestant Minister, John Brooks, Farmer, £1 rent, Alexander English Churchwarden, James Levis, farmer, Rent £33, Cornelius Mahony, Labourer, Patrick Mahony, Farmer, £10, James Mahony, John Murphy, Daniel Sullivan all labourers and Quarrymen, Thomas Swanton, James Swanton, Merchant, Sweetnam, Dispensary Surgeon, Richard Salter Farmer, Farmer Rent £14. Begging starts St. Patrick’s Day, Destitution of Bandon Weavers, Maimed Children, Absentee Landlords Take £6,000 a Year From Parish Subscribe £3 to Dispensary, Sick lie on Knotted Ferns.

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Famine Diary of Doctor O’Donovan, Dispensary Doctor, Skibbereen, West Cork, Bodies Buried Coffinless in the Dead of Night in Dunmanus Weighed Down By Stones, to Prevent Starving Dogs From Getting At The Bodies, The Funeral Cry No Longer heard.

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1935. You Would Never Take Him For An Archaeologist. Gerard Costigan, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.I. Bantry Born, Lecturer Cairo.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vOP6XpcRtATDw60bfSf8wvceE3xcPEW3Vvg7FwTp65s/edit

Honey

Still Going strong:

It was said that there were three things that Aristotle did not understand:

Teach agus imeacht na taoide,

Obair na mbeach 

Agus intinn na mbann

As Bearla

The coming and going of the tides

The work of the bees

And the mind of a woman

Bees and Honey.

In Stanley Vickery’s memoir of growing up with his grandparents in the 1830s in Mullogh he refers to metheglin and to the country as being ideal for honey production.  A number of people in the area kept bees, Johnny Shannon, Ahagouna, farmer and sextant to St. James from the 1920s to the 1950s.  Nelius Scully in Lower Gearhameen in the 1930s.  He and his brother occupied one of the houses on land owned by Dick Tobin of Kilcrohane.  

The Bohane family once farmed  extensively at the Cummer Farm on the border of Clashadoo and Brahalish.  They, like many before, were defeated at trying to work this difficult land.  They relocated to a small farm in Upper Brahanlish and had extensive hives.

The hives used were made of straw, an example is at Letetia and the late Tommy Camier’s museum at Gortnagrough, Ballydehob made by in 1875 by George Copithorn of Kilbarry, Dunmanway.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1inOdrVh8hkcvKka0cm25j2pxVDeC5tGneXgl5PcNzQs/edit

1843-1954 West Cork Agricultural Societies and Shows.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoNjmDNQKT_pk3nvlCsT72YWYoDENcs–uaJxh2ber8/edit

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Sheepshead Folks with ties to the Bantry Bay North Side Muintervara Peninsula, Gerahies,  emigrated to Joliet, Illinois, America. Visit of Bantry Born MP, Tim Healy 1881, Hotbed of Fenians, Hibernian Activity, Pro Boer Meeting Attended by Many Irish.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmBSJ1kkac69uGZlqs7ccbtKiGg5fWb-63u5MxGoxUk/edit

Sheepshead Folks with ties to the Bantry Bay North Side Muintervara Peninsula, Gerahies,  emigrated to Joliet, Illinois, America.

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Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.

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1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s , MP, Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board and Non Attending Board Member 90 Year old Earl of Mount Cashel.

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1931 Funeral of Tim Healy, Bantry Born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of Irish Free State. Genealogy (by John T. Collins 1944) of O’Healys/Healys/Hely from 5th Century, Patron Saint of Family St. Lachtin died 622 AD.

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1914, Diocesan Board of Education, Church of Ireland, Annual Examination  Results, West Cork.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11kQksgrVhoXQOCABSmbeKM2CtJhr5jpxXb2QUvBgb28/edit

1828. Catechetical Examination of Children in the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork and Ross in Dunmanway 214, Clonakilty 204, Schull and Ballydehob 153, Durrus 103, Bantry 99, Aughadown 82, , Aughadown 82, Skibbereen and other 1,340. 364 Communicants in Schull at Christmas.

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Such an interesting piece, showing the tenor of the times. I think the Rathclaren church is different from the one in Timoleague (The Ascension, in your heading). I think the one referred to in this article is called Holy Trinity and is this one: https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20912325/holy-trinity-rathclaren-church-of-ireland-church-farranagark-cork It does indeed have an interesting old graveyard and a holy well nearby.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufp40C-NhuuMKN_2H53wWlvq_yi-VQxy_hRJI6AAa3U/edit#

Timoleague Church of Ireland Graveyard

LOCATION	Timoleague, County Cork, Ireland  Show Map
MEMORIALS	243 added (3% photographed)

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Further Report Conveyed to His Grace Lord Primate of the Church of Ireland in Dublin 17th December 1731 on the State of Popery including, Aughadown, Ballinadee, Caheragh, a small shed and cabin, Drimoleague, an altar moved from place to place, Fanlobbus (Dunmanway), three small huts open at one end, Drinagh one small hut open at one end, Kilbrittain, Kinsale, Desertserges, Innishannon, Ross, in a field under a hedge, Rathclarin, Schull and Kilmoe three Mass houses three thatched cabins Priests mostly Friars daily moving to and from France and other Popish Countries from Crookhaven, in the Parish of Kilmoe

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Richard Hayward (1892-1964), rambles in West Cork 1964, with illustrations by Raymond Piper (1923-2007), Kinsale, Courtmacsherry, Timoleague Friary, Rathclarin Church, Donn Byrne, Bandon where the Pigs are Protestants, Rosscarbery where they buried the Elephant, Skibbereen where they ate the Donkey, Coppinger’s Court, Edward Fahy Drombeg Stone Circle, Irish Splurge Glandore, Purple Sea Urchin at Loch Ine, Sherkin Island, Gougán Barra grave of Tadhg Ó Buachalla and Ansty, Pass of Keimaneaigh, Kilruane Pillar Stone Bantry, Glengariff and the Cahas, Saxifraga Geum, Dursey Island birthplace of Don Philip O’Sullivan author of ‘The Catholic History of Ireland in the Elizabethan Period’ in Latin

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A Taste of What is To Come Pre 1700 Deeds Barony of Carbery, from 11 Million Records of The Irish Land

AMONG the 11 million documents in the Irish Land Commission Records.  Thankfully now agreed in principle they are to be opened up.

Pre 1700 Carbery Deeds:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO4HOAoFXAiLJ8K85Y2RHwXu7O29xjBGDrk_DJfMMvMpO3IZ33domO53c0n59YNgA?key=MkxyazJ4Nk1BOHl1NzA2emk0MXpoQ1l4UmU0R2d3

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jRxmcDwvT5moD1u_pXHaI1qTjlaqLBPe1oc29DeirmY/edit

1827 Select Vestries, West Cork, Church of Ireland,  Dioceses of Cork and Ross (p.25), Church Wardens, Sextons, Sextoness, Some Teachers, Numbers of Foundlings

https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10167/pages/224755

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1893, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1904, 1907 Easter Vestries, Church of Ireland, West Cork. Early Church Wardens, 1699, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1. 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, 1851, 1861 Visitations, 9th January 2022

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March 1798.  Rosscarbery, Drimoleague, Castletownbere, Select Vestries meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in  Militia and to Levy Seven  and a Half Pence Per Gneeve.  Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery. Cost of Levy for Cork City and County.

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Townlands and Placenames, 1794 Principal Inhabitants Thanks to Government, 1870 Registered Vestrymen, Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinor

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Late 18th early 19th Century Interplay of the Select Vestries of the Church of Ireland (State Church) in Local Administration, Barony of Carbery, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Durrus, Cess Payer Representatives Named

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Kilmeen, Church of Ireland, Dioceses of Ross, Burials 1864-70, Vestry Books 1853-70, Preacher/Reader Books, School Rolls 1850s 60s.

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Meeting of Select Vestry, Skibbereen, West Cork, 10th May 1832, to appoint Officers of Health under Statute of the 59th year of His Late Majesty, King George 3

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