From Recollection of James Stanley Vickery written c 1889 in Australia.
The town of Skibbereen though not large has always been a good business place and has turned out some first rate business men. It was built on a small tidal river not far from the ancient harbour of Baltimore. It was built on low ground and its sanitary arrangements were of the very worst the very home for all kinds of disease. In 1832 the Asiatic Cholera made its appearance in Europe. It spread rapidly and soon reached Ireland. My father went to Cork on business on his return journey he stopped for a night in Bandon with the Edwards family. While there he could only talk only of the dread and then little understood plague. It was in the summer months and he had not been long home when at 11 O’C one night he had to go for the doctor my mother having all the symptoms of Cholera. He was not long returned when he also was attacked and before seven O.C. next morning was pronounced dead. Being one of the earliest of its victims the people of the town became thoroughly frightened and panic struck. The family burying ground was 12 miles away at Bantry but the frightened people insisted that the body should be buried immediately and in the nearest grave yard. Some objected, the result being a riot during which the military had to be called out. They told me that during the confusion some excited individual put a sharp *** spade through the coffin. My mother lingered some little time longer when her remains were buried beside those of my father amongst strangers. It was evidently a terrible time. The late dean MacCartney was at that time minister of the parish and was also attacked with cholera but recovered. I fear there could be no regular service at the burial of my father. The plague lingered for some years in the towns of Skibbereen and Bantry. In the year 1837 grandmother died of it in B. almost the only attendants at her funeral were her sons who took the coffin on their shoulders to the family tomb. Fortunately they had not far to carry it as the place has not far from the house in which she died. In 1846 Paul Kingston, Aunt Ellens husband died of it after a few hours illness. The old church yard where the tomb was situated was a dreary and altogether neglected spot. The tomb or underground room was built by grandfather and his brother Samuel. The family of the latter pretty well filled it. In the course of years Robin Vickery the illegitimate son of my great grandfather died. His family desired that he should be buried in the old tomb. My Uncles and their cousins objected. The roughs of the town took the part of Robins family an unseemly scrabble being the result. My Uncles determined to build one for themselves and their families. They seemed very proud of it and showed me through it when finished as if it had been a mansion.
The loss of their parents could not be understood or felt by the three little ones. I was a little over three years old my sister Mary two years and Ellen six weeks. As a matter of course there was great sympathy for us a sympathy that seemed never to die out. On a visit to Skibbereen during my childhood a poor woman selling apples in the street when she found out who I was took me to her stall and filled my pockets with apples. When a boy going to school in company with an other lad in the town of Bandon a rough and not very reputable woman recognised me in the street and to my horror through her arms around me in the street and kissed me kissed me several times. In fact this sympathy became to me at least *** somewhat painful.
Grandmother Vickery soon came to our help and carried my sisters and myself with her to Moloch. It was a heavy charge to take but she was capable of it and discharged her duties well and nobly till the, to us, the sad day of her death. Ellen was reared with the spoon, a special one on purpose with a lid and small opening easily kept sweet and clean. Every thing about this our new home was frugal, but the food was the very best to make healthy children oatmeal porridge wholemeal bread, potatoes then in their prime, milk and butter the product of healthy animals honey in abundance with the best kind of fresh fish and very little of either beef or mutton or even the staple commodity bacon. Off the wild coast grew some edible seaweeds which made a cheap pleasant and extremely wholesome food. In fact in the form of carrageen moss it has long formed a medical food of great value. Shell fish of various kinds being cheap were largely used crabs especially of large size were very common. Oysters very large and plentiful were not as much in use. Every thing was cheap and plentiful with the exception of that most needful of all money to purchase. I have known the prince of sea fish turbot bought for 2/6 which would in Billingsgate London fetch at least 20/- And yet notwithstanding this profusion the failure of one product the potato brought death and misery to thousands all round the coast. In fact the people though living close to the sea were not strictly speaking nothing like the Cornish folk on the opposite coast of England.
Dr. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan, born Bantry 1845, ordained for the Diocese of Cork 1868. 1892 he was appointed Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. 1901 has Irish.
Dr. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan, born Bantry 1845, Bishop of Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. 1892 presiding in Bantry at the Funeral of his aunt Jane Dillon nee Roycroft, nephew of Charles Roycroft, Magistate and Land Owner, Macroom
Mrs. Jane Dillon funeral Skibbereen Eagle 29th October 1892.
Charles Roycroft (Raycroft), -1900), Gurteenroe House, Macroom, 1892. Sister Mrs (Jane) Thomas Dillon, Bantry funeral 1892 a ‘who’s who’ in West Cork. wife Ellen, 1861 Stamp Distributor, Macroom, C. Raycroft. Uncle of Bishop of Waterford, Rev. Dr. Sheehan. Subscriber to Testimonial to Rev. John McCarthy, Administrator, Coachford. Mentioned as nephew of Charles O’Regan, Esq., Esq, died 1873, Ballydehob, aged 78 and his brother Rev. James O’Regan, Cork. Charles Raycroft was a Justice of the Peace and a director of the Cork and Macroom Direct Railway Company in the 1880s. He lived at Gurteenroe House and in the mid 1870s owned 617 acres in Co. Cork. Probate £7,457
Major Charles William Bowlby (1861-, Dunboy Castle, 1910, related to Puxleys and Whites of Bantry model for Boles in ‘Hungry Hill’. Later lived at Durrus Court, the first car in the area. 1908, Ahakista, Durrus, Son Rev Charles Northans, Marlboro, Sandhurst, Lieutenant Connaught Rangers on m 1885, Fanny S.F.F. White d Captain Edward R. White, Coomhola Lodge, Bantry. First in the area to drive a car, listed 1922. May be related to RM P.E. Bowlby, Mullingar,
Annan Bryce, Garnish, Bantry. Donated Garnish Island to Ireland.
John Annan Bryce (1844 – 1923/4) and his wife Violet (1863 – 1939) bought the 37 acre (15 hectare) island from the British War Office in 1910. A well-educated man of Scottish extraction, he had been a successful businessman ‘out East’ and was Liberal MP for Inverness Burghs from 1906 to 1918, when the constituency was abolished. She was English, of good family, and very interested in gardening.
Timothy J. Canty, Clonakilty, Director, Deasy’s Brewery.
Timothy Joseph (TJ) Canty, (1844-, 1887, Clonakilty, son of Timothy, ed Endowed School, Clonakilty, Managing Director Deasy’s Brewery, Director railway Companies, member Cork Co. Council. M Ellen d Dr. P. O’Hea, Clonakilty, Officer Clonakilty Agricultural Show 1901. Cork Co. Council 1901, listed 1921, listed 1922, listed 1916. 1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Week ending Feb. 19, 1887. Mr. T.J. CANTY, Square, Clonakilty, has been appointed to the commission of the Peace. Family home originally Ballygurteen later location of O’Sullivan’s pub. He was offered property by the Canty family for £6 provided he stopped selling Lane’s Bandon Porter and instead sold Canty’s ‘Clonakilty Wrestler’. It seems that during the Troubles that when Lord Bandon was kidnapped he asked his captors to go to the pub and buy Clonakilty beer ‘The Clonakilty Wrestler’
The Right Honourable Lord Carbery, Castlefreke
Henry Daniel Conner, KIngs Counsel, Bencher Kings Inns, Manch House, Ballineen
Joseph H. Crowley, Dennis Quay, Kinsale, corn and coal merchant.
J. W. Fairclough, Royal Navy, Castletownbere
Hubert R. Hackett, Market St., Skibbereen
Matthias C. Hickey, spirit grocer, South Main St., Bandon
Charles Mahon Morgan, (1861- , 1912, Bunalun, Skibbereen, Land Agent. 1911 four servants. listed 1913, Car owner 1913. listed 1921
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan, Hollybrook, Skibbereen
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan (1858-1924), DL DSO, 1905/1910, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, listed 1913, listed 14 Grosvenor Place, London, 1921. Captain Anthony Morgan, of Bunalun, Skibbereen, Co. Cork married Eliza Tymons, of Riverstown, Co. Clare and they had a son, Anthony Hickman Morgan, born 1858. He served as a surgeon in the British army. In 1896 he married Mary, daughter of Charles Bagnall, of Clonkennan, Co. Limerick. She has a window of commemoration Abbeystrewry Church, Mary (1864-1950). He was High Sheriff of Co. Cork and Deputy Lieutenant. In the 1870s [Captain] Anthony Morgan of Bunalun owned 1216 acres in Co. Clare and 1133 acres in Co. Cork. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Anthony, Edward and William Morgan held land in the parish of Shanrahan, Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Died Cowes, Isle of Wight
Jeremiah J. O’Callaghan, M.D., Bridgemount, Dunmanway
Francis J. O’Meara, M.D., Curragh View, Skibbereen
Maurice O’Keeffe, Schull, merchant, probably uncle of Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry businessman and historian.
Thomas Shorten, Millfield, Rosscarbery, farmer, Magistrate
Frank V. Travers, Butlerstown, Timoleague, Magistrate
Frank Johnson Travers, 1904, Butlerstown House, Timoleague, listed 1913, Retired civil engineer?, Born Cork City. Car owner 1913. listed 1921
William Vickery, Hotel, Bantry
Countess of Bandon. Through her Shouldham, Dunmanway ancestry she was of McCarthy Stock.
Major Charles William Bowlby, Ahakista, Durrus.
Major Charles William Bowlby (1861-, Dunboy Castle, 1910, related to Puxleys and Whites of Bantry model for Boles in ‘Hungry Hill’. Later lived at Durrus Court, the first car in the area. 1908, Ahakista, Durrus, Son Rev Charles Northans, Marlboro, Sandhurst, Lieutenant Connaught Rangers on m 1885, Fanny S.F.F. White d Captain Edward R. White, Coomhola Lodge, Bantry. First in the area to drive a car, listed 1922. May be related to RM P.E. Bowlby, Mullingar,
Annan Bryce, Garnish, Bantry. Donated Garnish Island to Ireland.
John Annan Bryce (1844 – 1923/4) and his wife Violet (1863 – 1939) bought the 37 acre (15 hectare) island from the British War Office in 1910. A well-educated man of Scottish extraction, he had been a successful businessman ‘out East’ and was Liberal MP for Inverness Burghs from 1906 to 1918, when the constituency was abolished. She was English, of good family, and very interested in gardening.
Timothy J. Canty, Clonakilty, Director, Deasy’s Brewery.
Timothy Joseph (TJ) Canty, (1844-, 1887, Clonakilty, son of Timothy, ed Endowed School, Clonakilty, Managing Director Deasy’s Brewery, Director railway Companies, member Cork Co. Council. M Ellen d Dr. P. O’Hea, Clonakilty, Officer Clonakilty Agricultural Show 1901. Cork Co. Council 1901, listed 1921, listed 1922, listed 1916. 1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Week ending Feb. 19, 1887. Mr. T.J. CANTY, Square, Clonakilty, has been appointed to the commission of the Peace. Family home originally Ballygurteen later location of O’Sullivan’s pub. He was offered property by the Canty family for £6 provided he stopped selling Lane’s Bandon Porter and instead sold Canty’s ‘Clonakilty Wrestler’. It seems that during the Troubles that when Lord Bandon was kidnapped he asked his captors to go to the pub and buy Clonakilty beer ‘The Clonakilty Wrestler’
The Right Honourable Lord Carbery, Castlefreke
Henry Daniel Conner, KIngs Counsel, Bencher Kings Inns, Manch House, Ballineen
Joseph H. Crowley, Dennis Quay, Kinsale, corn and coal merchant.
J. W. Fairclough, Royal Navy, Castletownbere
Hubert R. Hackett, Market St., Skibbereen
Matthias C. Hickey, spirit grocer, South Main St., Bandon
Charles Mahon Morgan, (1861- , 1912, Bunalun, Skibbereen, Land Agent. 1911 four servants. listed 1913, Car owner 1913. listed 1921
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan, Hollybrook, Skibbereen
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan (1858-1924), DL DSO, 1905/1910, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, listed 1913, listed 14 Grosvenor Place, London, 1921. Captain Anthony Morgan, of Bunalun, Skibbereen, Co. Cork married Eliza Tymons, of Riverstown, Co. Clare and they had a son, Anthony Hickman Morgan, born 1858. He served as a surgeon in the British army. In 1896 he married Mary, daughter of Charles Bagnall, of Clonkennan, Co. Limerick. She has a window of commemoration Abbeystrewry Church, Mary (1864-1950). He was High Sheriff of Co. Cork and Deputy Lieutenant. In the 1870s [Captain] Anthony Morgan of Bunalun owned 1216 acres in Co. Clare and 1133 acres in Co. Cork. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Anthony, Edward and William Morgan held land in the parish of Shanrahan, Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Died Cowes, Isle of Wight
Jeremiah J. O’Callaghan, M.D., Bridgemount, Dunmanway
Francis J. O’Meara, M.D., Curragh View, Skibbereen
Maurice O’Keeffe, Schull, merchant, probably uncle of Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry businessman and historian.
Thomas Shorten, Millfield, Rosscarbery, farmer, Magistrate
Frank V. Travers, Butlerstown, Timoleague, Magistrate
Frank Johnson Travers, 1904, Butlerstown House, Timoleague, listed 1913, Retired civil engineer?, Born Cork City. Car owner 1913. listed 1921
William Vickery, Hotel, Bantry
John J. Welply, M.D., Bridge St., Bandon
John J. Welply, M.D., Bridge St., Bandon
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Countess of Bandon. Through her Shouldham, Dunmanway ancestry she was of McCarthy Stock.
Major Charles William Bowlby, Ahakista, Durrus.
Major Charles William Bowlby (1861-, Dunboy Castle, 1910, related to Puxleys and Whites of Bantry model for Boles in ‘Hungry Hill’. Later lived at Durrus Court, the first car in the area. 1908, Ahakista, Durrus, Son Rev Charles Northans, Marlboro, Sandhurst, Lieutenant Connaught Rangers on m 1885, Fanny S.F.F. White d Captain Edward R. White, Coomhola Lodge, Bantry. First in the area to drive a car, listed 1922. May be related to RM P.E. Bowlby, Mullingar,
Annan Bryce, Garnish, Bantry. Donated Garnish Island to Ireland.
John Annan Bryce (1844 – 1923/4) and his wife Violet (1863 – 1939) bought the 37 acre (15 hectare) island from the British War Office in 1910. A well-educated man of Scottish extraction, he had been a successful businessman ‘out East’ and was Liberal MP for Inverness Burghs from 1906 to 1918, when the constituency was abolished. She was English, of good family, and very interested in gardening.
Timothy J. Canty, Clonakilty, Director, Deasy’s Brewery.
Timothy Joseph (TJ) Canty, (1844-, 1887, Clonakilty, son of Timothy, ed Endowed School, Clonakilty, Managing Director Deasy’s Brewery, Director railway Companies, member Cork Co. Council. M Ellen d Dr. P. O’Hea, Clonakilty, Officer Clonakilty Agricultural Show 1901. Cork Co. Council 1901, listed 1921, listed 1922, listed 1916. 1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Week ending Feb. 19, 1887. Mr. T.J. CANTY, Square, Clonakilty, has been appointed to the commission of the Peace. Family home originally Ballygurteen later location of O’Sullivan’s pub. He was offered property by the Canty family for £6 provided he stopped selling Lane’s Bandon Porter and instead sold Canty’s ‘Clonakilty Wrestler’. It seems that during the Troubles that when Lord Bandon was kidnapped he asked his captors to go to the pub and buy Clonakilty beer ‘The Clonakilty Wrestler’
The Right Honourable Lord Carbery, Castlefreke
Henry Daniel Conner, KIngs Counsel, Bencher Kings Inns, Manch House, Ballineen
Joseph H. Crowley, Dennis Quay, Kinsale, corn and coal merchant.
J. W. Fairclough, Royal Navy, Castletownbere
Hubert R. Hackett, Market St., Skibbereen
Matthias C. Hickey, spirit grocer, South Main St., Bandon
Charles Mahon Morgan, (1861- , 1912, Bunalun, Skibbereen, Land Agent. 1911 four servants. listed 1913, Car owner 1913. listed 1921
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan, Hollybrook, Skibbereen
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Hickman Morgan (1858-1924), DL DSO, 1905/1910, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, listed 1913, listed 14 Grosvenor Place, London, 1921. Captain Anthony Morgan, of Bunalun, Skibbereen, Co. Cork married Eliza Tymons, of Riverstown, Co. Clare and they had a son, Anthony Hickman Morgan, born 1858. He served as a surgeon in the British army. In 1896 he married Mary, daughter of Charles Bagnall, of Clonkennan, Co. Limerick. She has a window of commemoration Abbeystrewry Church, Mary (1864-1950). He was High Sheriff of Co. Cork and Deputy Lieutenant. In the 1870s [Captain] Anthony Morgan of Bunalun owned 1216 acres in Co. Clare and 1133 acres in Co. Cork. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Anthony, Edward and William Morgan held land in the parish of Shanrahan, Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Died Cowes, Isle of Wight
Jeremiah J. O’Callaghan, M.D., Bridgemount, Dunmanway
Francis J. O’Meara, M.D., Curragh View, Skibbereen
Maurice O’Keeffe, Schull, merchant, probably uncle of Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry businessman and historian.
Thomas Shorten, Millfield, Rosscarbery, farmer, Magistrate
Frank V. Travers, Butlerstown, Timoleague, Magistrate
Frank Johnson Travers, 1904, Butlerstown House, Timoleague, listed 1913, Retired civil engineer?, Born Cork City. Car owner 1913. listed 1921
It is possible that Andrew Beazley was a cooper associated with the pilchard trade. Winispeares at that time living in Rossmore, Durrus and engaged in marine matters as they had in Banty area since aroun 1630.
Petition from John Winspeare, c 1648, Shipwright, living near Bantry Bay, West Cork, Timber for Staves, Propositions for Felling, and Deed of 1724 Robert Winispeare probably Durrus
1727. Deed Francis Bernard of Castlemahon, Bandon to Charles Evanson, Nathaniel Evanson, Jeremy Coughlan (of Carrigmanus, attorney, brother-in law of Nathaniel Evanson) three half ploughlands of Coolnahorna (north Clashadoo) ploughland of Clashadoo, 31 years form May 1728 rent of £72 a year witnesses Andrew Beazley, Gent, (possibly coopers in pilchard industry), Robert Winispeare aged 45, Arthur(?) Evanson, Richard Coppinger, Gent., all Four Mile Water (Durrus) later Elizabeth Evanson, widow executrix of Charles Evanson. Son Thomas, daughter Ann married to William Attridge, granddaughter Catherine Beazley, Witnesses Edward Allin, Gent., Four Mile Water, married to Evansons, Mentioned Daniel Carthy, Benjamin Raddy, they were is Scart.
Banjamin Raddy a good friend in will:
1717, deed reciting will of 1702 of Thomas Raddy/Ruddy, Gent., Scart, Bantry wherein he left three ploughlands at Scart to his sons Benjamin, John, Thomas and where by in 1717 John, Gent., attained the age of 21 he sells his ploughland or £150 to John Townsend, Cashill.
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Short title: Raddy v Murphy.Document type: Bill only.Plaintiffs: Benjamin Raddy, mariner late of St Mary le Strand, Westminster, Middlesex but now a victualler of St John Wapping, Middlesex.Defendants: Timothy Murphy, William Archer and Joanna Archer his wife.Date of bill (or first document): 1749
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The naming of a party does not imply that he or she will appear in all the documents in this cause (after the bill)
Marriage Settlements were common in 18th and 19th century Ireland for affluent Catholic and Protestant families. Typically properties were held by trustees pending the satisfacoy outcome of the marriage. They provide a valuable clue to family relationships often unexpected.
Whenever the 8.5 million former Land Commission documents stored in a warehouse in Portloise are made public it is likely that many more will emerge.
Thanks to Ron Price for transcribing memorial:
Memorial 1844 184404 172 184404172
1844, Marriage Settlement, Marianne Fitzgerald, bride, daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq., Cork, to Richard O’Donovan the Younger, groom, eldest son of Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Trustees Alexander O’Driscoll Esq., Skibbereen, Maurice O’Connell, Esq., M.P., Derrynane Abbey Co. Kerry, Richard O’Donovan, the Elder, Esq., Fort Lodge, Durrus, Co. Cork., Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq., The Younger, Cork. witnesses Michael Mccarthy, Barrister, Cork, Bryan Gallwey, Solicitor, Cork, Michael Donovan, writing clerk to Bryan Gallwey.
Maurice O’Connell, M.P.
Maurice O’Connell, born 27th June 1803, Repeal MP for Co.Clare 1831-2, fought duel 30th Nov 1832 with Arthur Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy, no one hurt, won election as MP for Tralee in general election, 14th Dec 1832 against Sir Edward Denny, 4th Baronet, retained his seat in general election of 1835 against William Denny, of Strand St, Tralee, O’Connell stood against enforced tithes to the Church of Ireland from Catholics, Denny was defending the continued existence of such tithes, Liberal / Repeal MP for Tralee 1832-53,
July, 1824 Meeting to Collect ‘Catholic Rent’ (Financial Aid for Catholic Emancipation), Bantry, West Cork, Included Morgan Connell of Daniel O’Connell family, Timothy Sullivan, Daniel OP. O’Sullivan, Jeremiah Donovan, Charles O’Regan, John Pidell, Jeremiah O’Donovan some of the O’Donovan are probably connected with the O’Donovans Landlords of O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Alexander O’Donovan, Michael O’Connor probably connected by marriage to John Jago who married Esther Jago their son John a Barrister friend of Daniel O’Connell, John Young probably of the extended fishing merchant family John Jago’s other was a Young, Daniel Lyne a branch of the Bears O’Sullivans.
The first Ordnance suvey Map 1837 shows Timohty O’Donovan’s demesne wooded, with glasshouses and kennels and that of his brother Richard at Fort Lodge. Timothy’s house was bought by the Cronn family of Kealkil c 1885 and they demolished it and used the stones to build their neaby famhouse and farmyard. All that remain are gates and walls. The last of the family Barry died a few years ago. Fort Lodge is a ruin but potentially capable of reconstruction.
Another brother (all Landlords and Magistates) was Dr. Daniel he lived between nearby Ahakista Cottage near Graham Norton’s house and Norton Cottage, Skibbereen later home of Jasper Woufe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor for West Cork and Independent TD West Cork.
Barrister, may be of Tadgh a’ Dunna, Dunmanway line related to the O’Donovans 1824, 1825, 1840 Michael McCarthy Barrister, 1824 33 Georges St., 98 George’s Quay, 1845 1830 Finny Almanac, does terms in Dublin. Subscriber Cork Library 1820. Pigot 1824. Instructed 1825 by Reynolds. 1840 petition on Catholic Equality. May be the Police Magistrate in Cork 1848 felt by Cork Loyalists to be too lenient on Young Irelanders. Father of celebrated journalist in London Justin McCarrthy. Possibly the witness to 1840 Swanton, Ballydehob deed. Aldwell’s Directory 1845
Bryan Gallwey: 1829, 1839, 1848, 1847, 1850, 1878, 1884 Bryan Galway Solicitor and Borough Coroner, 1845 23 South Mall, 76 South Mall. Crown Solicitor West riding 1848. Probably the Bryan Gallway, Kilkerran, Clonakilty, King’s Inns 1823, 5th son of Michael and Eliza Donovan, over 16, Ed Rosscarbery, affadavit father. Daughter Mary married Alexander McCarthy, Solicitor and Town Clerk 1874, son William, King’s Inns, aged 20, 1863 his affadavit 1838 West Riding, Bryan Galway, Crown Prosecutor, Report on 1850 dinner for Sir Robert Kane, President Queens College. 5. Anastasia Galwey, m. 10 Feb 1800 William O’Donoghue of Cork, wine merchant and had issue inter alia: a Catherine O’Donoghue, m. her cousin Bryan Gallwey, Crown Solicitor Cork. Subscriber of £2,000 Railway stock 1840s. Aldwell’s Directory 1845. Bryan, b. 1809, Sessional Crown Solicitor and Coroner, Cork, m. 2 Jan 1841 his first cousin Kate [also called Catherine -TJG], dau of William O’Donoghue and Anastasia Gallwey {supra). He d. 28 Dec 1886, having had issue: (1) William Bryan, b. 1843, admitted King’s Inns 1863, sub-Sheriff, Cork, m. 27 Jan 1876 Mary, dau of Hatton Conron, JP of Grange, Co Cork, and relict of Neil Arthur Galwey (see ‘Galwey of Cork and Bordeaux’ supra). He dsvp1) Margaret Elizabeth, bapt 24 Jan 1851. (2) Mary, m. 15 Oct 1874 Alexander McCarthy of Cork, solicitor, JP, Co Cork,Law Agent and Town Clerk, Cork, had issue: a Florence William McCarthy, heir to his grandfather Bryan Gallwey. (3) Frances [according to Lt Col HD Gallwey – TJG] Will shares in Cork River Steam Co.,Munster and L einster Bank,Cork Victoria Dock Co.Cork National Bank. 1880 probate to Alexander McCarthy guardian of donee £2,140.
There area nmber of lexander O’Driscolls in Skibbereen prominent adn i Cork at the period this is the msot likely: Captain Alexander O’Driscoll, 1827, Clover Hill, Superseded 1810-30, Restored 1843. Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of the same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengariff to Castletownbere. Married to the daughter of Thomas Attridge, Ballydehob. Correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Bridge at Bawnlahan 1820. 1822 supporting new road Skibbereen to Bantry. 1822 subscriber as Clover Hill, Church Building Fund Durrus, he held tithes in Kilcrohane with Rector and Rev. Alleyn Evanson. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Grand Jury Presentments attending 12 from 1838-1840 at Norton Cottage. Probably engaged with his crew in marine salvage of Clio out of Crookhaven 1825. 1826 City election voted O’Callaghan conservative. Voted 1835 election as out of town Freeman address Shepperton. Public support for him on dismissal 1835 by fellow Magistrates Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Samuel Townsend Senior, Samuel Townsend Junior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend Senior. Enquiry
Captain Alexander O’Driscoll, 1827, Clover Hill, Superseded 1810-30, Restored 1843. Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of the same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengariff to Castletownbere. Married to the daughter of Thomas Attridge, Ballydehob. Correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Bridge at Bawnlahan 1820. 1822 supporting new road Skibbereen to Bantry. 1822 subscriber as Clover Hill, Church Building Fund Durrus, he held tithes in Kilcrohane with Rector and Rev. Alleyn Evanson. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Grand Jury Presentments attending 12 from 1838-1840 at Norton Cottage. Probably engaged with his crew in marine salvage of Clio out of Crookhaven 1825. 1826 City election voted O’Callaghan conservative. Voted 1835 election as out of town Freeman address Shepperton. Public support for him on dismissal 1835 by fellow Magistrates Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Samuel Townsend Senior, Samuel Townsend Junior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend Senior. Enquiry
Timothy O’Donovan (1790-1874), 1818, O’Donovan’s Cove, in ruins 1875, Durrus, listed 1823, son of Richard Esq. and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. 1820. Memorial to Lord Lieutenant by William Swanton, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork. High Constable (Rate and Tax Collector), Barony of West Carbery For Relief on Losses Caused to Him in Banking Collapse when He had transmitted Due Amount to Co. Treasurer, Leslies, Stephen and Roches Bank, Supported by Lord Bantry and Magistrates Timothy O’Donovan (Durrus), William Hull (Schull), Richard Townsend (Skibbereen), Rev. Edward Jones Alcock (Durrus), Nathaniel Evanson (Durrus), Robert Kenny (Bantry). In 1823 he applied for relief of the poor of Ballydehob, which he had founded. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Correspondent with Antiquarian Dr. John O’Donovan re O’Donovans of Carbery. Brother of Dr O’Donovan and Richard O’Donovan J.P. and uncle of Richard O’Donovan J.P.. His son’s wife is the granddaughter of Daniel O’Connell, the mother of his wife was Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water Park in the Co. of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch. The grandson the present (1860) Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere. Signed public declaration in Skibbereen to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Arthur Hutchins, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1835 Subscriber Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. In 1838 in the Liberal interest where at Bantry voter registration 15 were registered as opposed to 6 ‘Orangemen’ the tenants of Timothy O’Donovan J.P. were chiefly among those who registered. Among these were probably McCarthys of Tulig later prominent in Nationalist politics of whom John McCarthy (1859-1931) became a leading politician in Nebraska and wrote a poem in praise of Timothy O’Donovan. Attended Great Meeting in Bantry 1840 re Poor Laws. Chaired 1846 distress meeting Bantry on the proposition of Father Michael Barry PP Bantry. Landlord and political organiser. Member Election Committee, Rickard Deasy, Clonakilty (later Attorney General) 1855 Member election committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen. Juror Cork Spring Assizes 1863. Land record, 1870, Kate O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, 1,940 acres and Reps Timothy O’Donovan 1,940 acres. 1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818 Probate to daughter Mrs Anne Barry, widow, effects £2,000, attended 8, Grand Jury Presentments
Richard O’Donovan 1818, Fort Lodge, Durrus listed 1838, son Richard Esq. O’Donovan Cove, and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. Father of Richard O’Donovan J.P. History Brother of Timothy and Dr. Daniel O’Donovan J.P. He married Maria O’Sullivan on the 15th October 1833, her father was Murty Og, of Ceimatringane House, Castletownbere. She died at Fort Lodge, aged 52, voted 1850 for Denis Galwey as High Constable for Ibane and Ballyroe (Clonakilty). Lease Richard O’Donovan, Magistrate, of Glanlough, Cork Esq. and Francis Lisabe of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, civil engineer, of a slate and a flag quarry, and 2 acres of land near the slate quarry in Gouladoo in the parish of Kilcrohane, West Cork, 6th Feb. 1854, Solicitor Desmond, Son-in-Law of John Jagoe, Fishery Commissioner and father of Mother Beninga Townsville, Australia. Land record, in Chancery as ‘Donovan’ 1870, 205 acres. Land record, Carrigboy,1870, 193 acres. Member election at Ahakista committee McCarthy Downing, Skibbereen, 1868. 1879 bequest in will of Rickard Donovan, Clerk of the Peace and Crown, Co. Cork, to Mary O’Donovan, of Blackrock near Cork daughter of the late Rickard O’Donovan, of Fort Lodge near Bantry.
The recent illness of my eldest son in London has prevented me, from replying to your recent communication, and to thank you for sending the book containing the account of the funeral of my old friend Jerry na Duna, I am
The Carbery O’Donovan I regret to say are wearing
he is at present abroad and is now fourteen. His father has been in Germany for 3 years and was very reckless and extravagant but his property fortunately was strictly entailed the land is secured to his family.
His wife is grand daughter to Daniel O’Connell, the mother of my wife was a Miss Lavellan, Co. Limerick, a daughter of Philip Lavellin of Water Park in the County of Cork. Her sister was married to Mr. Puxley of Dunboy Branch. The grandson the present Mr. Puxley is a man of immense wealth the principal owner of the famous Allihies Mines in the Barony of Bere
Son of Timothy O’Donovan and letters to Scholar from Timothy to scholar Dr. John O’Donovan.
Richard, Junior, eldest or not or ill in 1850 or 1860. he may the Richard Esq of O’Donovan’s Cove described a Flag Lieutenant at a Naval Dinner in Cobh in 1844. Married Anne Fitzgerald daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, Merchant, Cork by Catherine McCarthy daughter of McCarthy of Woodview and niece of Daniel O’Connell M.P., he had one son Timothy. This may be the son and heir born at maternal grandfather’s house Sydney Place Cork 26th August 1844 father then living at Drombroe Cottage (near Bantry). He may be the son who wrongfully claimed the title ‘The O’Donovan’ at a public meeting in Cork he was challenged and abandoned the claim. In correspondence with Dr. John O’Donovan, Timothy O’Donovan refers to his son’s extravagance and luckily the land is entailed, he is estranged and living in Germany. His grandson is in school in France and his grandfather hopes he may go to the Queen’s College in Cork. In his will his grandson is dead.
Penal Enactments on Papists, 1712-1772, p. 10, 475.
Hearth Tax Collection, 1662-1793, p. 12.
Reform from 1814, p. 13.
Military magistrates, 1789-1836, p. 14.
Appointment of British Army Officers, 1821, p. 15.
1821 Census. P. 15.
1821, Dismissal of Catholic and Liberal Protestant Magistrates, p. 16.
1827, Justice for Sale, p. 16.
1827, Petty Session Courts, p. 17.
Tithe Agitation, p. 18.
1831 Return of Magistrates. P. 19.
RIC Recruitment, p. 20.
Daniel O’Connell criticism, p. 20.
Enforcement of Sabbath, p. 21.
Friendly Societies, p. 22.
1884, Protest Against Removal of Lord Rossmore, Grand Master Monaghan Orange Order, p. 23.
RIC Inspectors sitting on Magistrates Bench, p. 24.
1893, Davitt Magistrates, p. 25.
Irish Speaking Magistrates, p. 26.
References in James Joyce Ulysses, p. 27.
War of Independence, Killings, Kidnappings, Big House Burnings, p. 27
Women Magistrates, p. 33.
Post 1922, p. 33.
Listing of Magistrates by surname, p. 33.
Sources, p. 460.
Finances/Probate, p. 463.
Books used 1730s, p. 474.
1884. Listing of Cork Magistrates signing petition against removal of Lord Rossmore, p. 485.
Additional insertion on previous paper.
Official papers in Ireland are replete with the violence caused by Orange Order associated sectarian violence. Primarily in the north counties in the early 19th century also in Bandon, Clonakilty and Dunmanway. The refusal of local Magistrates to convict those charges gave rise to an official enquiry by Dublin Castle. There was further Orange violence in Kinsale wehn a Regiment based locally from the Northern Counties paraded on the 12th July playing party tunes outside the local Catholic Church instigating widespread violence and property damage.
The Lord Chancellor in 1857 declared against Magistrates being in the Orange Order. Lord Chancellor Brady protested in 1864 against the Orange Order.
Lord Rossmore was dismissed by a Magistrate because of association of incitement to sectarian violence.
Magistrates from all over the Country rallied to his defence. In Cork around 147 Magistrates signed a petition, most of not all Protestant. The backdrop is against heightened tensions the Land War was ongoing, the Nationalist Parliament Party was on the rise. There is a listing of those Magistrates at the end of this document.
Quite a number of the Cork Magistrates also 1881 associated with Association for Prevention of Intemperance. Many had service in the British Military. Some did not appear on earlier lists and have English addresses of the other quite a number also have English addresses and it is likely that most of their time was spent there. There are a few Irish speakers.
J. Warren Payne, Stood as Conservative in West Cork Constituency General Election 1885 got 373 (9%) of the votes his opponent James Gilhooly, Irish Parliamentary Party got 3,920 votes (91%).
It is difficult to say how many Magistrates were in Cork in 1884. In 1831 there were 340 of whom 49 were Church of Ireland clergymen. The Clerk of the Crown and Peace James Chatterton was unable to give a definitive figure as the Clerk of the Hanaper in the Four Court no longer alerted him of new appointments by the Lord Chancellor. In Guys Directory of 1907 around 580 are listed with a new category 34 Local Government Magistrates. It is likely that by the 1890s there was a significant addition to accommodate appointments sought by the Irish Parliamentary Party.
A detailed look at those who signed the petition suggest that behind the apparent affluence those whose estates were probated were very often of very modest means. Their genealogies where available somewhat surprisingly show a significant descent from old Gelic and Norman families. This is not immediately apparent as the Magistrates are mostly Potestant and the name disguised maternal and further antecedents.
In some way this petition was one of the last horays of the old regime. By 1825 it is likely the economic power in Cork had passed to the Catholics. As the century progressed the expansion of the franchise and electoral reform meant that most of the Southern Counties local administration and Parliamentary Representation was controlled by nationalists.
The last bastion, the Grand Jury was nominally controlled by the Jurors selected from the ranks of Landlords and Magistrates However in reality it has an efficient administration which passed seamlessly to the new County Council in 1899. From then on the elected County and City Councillors replaced the role of the Grand Jury.
In England Magistrates administer the Law based and community consensus. During the War of Independence in Ireland the Magistrates were told to resign their Commission by Dáil Eireann. For those that continued they were perceived as the henchmen of an alien administration and subjected to killings, kidnapping, violence and house burnings.
Robert Travers Atkin, (1841-1871), born in Fernhill, Clonakilty, the son of William Francis Atkin and his wife Alice Hungerford (née Stewart). In 1863, he emigrated to Queensland, Journalist Member Queensland Assembly. Father of Lord Atkin, Judge 1932 in Landmark Case on Law of Negligence Donoghue v Stevenson. Died of T.B. A monument was erected to his memory by the members of the Hibernian Society of Queensland, of which he was vice-pres. Relative of Thomas Davis. The Wright Brothers of Fernhill, Clonakilty, Lawyers and some Landowners.
Robert Travers Atkin, (1841-1871), he was born in Fernhill, County Cork, Ireland, the son of William Francis Atkin and his wife Alice Hungerford (née Stewart).[1] In 1863, he emigrated to Queensland, He was a well-known journalist and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, was born at Fernhill, Cork, Ireland, on Nov. 29th, 1841, and died at Sandgate, Qd., on May 25th, 1872. He was a relative of the late Thomas Davis, whose biography has recently been written by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. He was buried at Sandgate, where a monument was erected to his memory by the members of the Hibernian Society of Queensland, of which he was vice-president.
A monument was erected to his memory by the members of the Hibernian Society of Queensland, of which he was vice-president The inscription on the monument says:
Erected by members of the Hibernian Society of Queensland in memory of their late Vice-president, Robert Travers Atkin, born at Fern Hill, County Cork, Ireland, November 29th, 1841. Died at Sandgate, Queensland, May 25th, 1872. His days were few but his labours and attainments bore the stamp of a wise maturity
This broken column symbolises the irreparable loss of a man who well represented some of the finest characteristics of the Celtic race — its rich humour and subtle wit, its fervid passion and genial warmth of heart. Distinguished alike in the press and parliament of Queensland by large and elevated views, remarkable powers of organization and unswerving advocacy of the popular cause. His rare abilities were especially devoted to the promotion of a patriotic union amongst his countrymen irrespective of class or creed combined with a loyal allegiance to the land of their adoption.
His son Lord Atkin, inscription to him at Fern House Hotel, Clonakilty.
Judge in Landmark case on the Law of Negligence 1932 Donoghue V Stevenson. Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100 was a landmark court decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords. It laid the foundation of the modern law of negligence, establishing general principles of the duty of care.
Wright Brothers Fernhill, Clonakilty:
Maurice Healy in is book the Old Munster Circuit speaks fondly of the Wrights.
The family probably partly descedn from the Protestant Sullivan family of Dunmanway landlowers. Perhaps through tht line they may have come inot possession of lands at Cashelane, Schull.
Their involvment in lands at Coolculagta, Durrus may have been the result of a purchse from the Landed Estates Court.
1855- ,1876, 1911 George Wright Barrister, 1911 County Court Judge, Co. Louth “Dublin, Lower Baggot St., Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876.
” 1871, 1876, 1884 Henry Wright Solicitor, Fern Hill Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 187
1850-, 1901 Henry Thomas Wright Crown Solicitor “Fern Hill, 1901 Clonakilty Agricultural Show. ” 1888 application to Dublin Castle for special duty claim. 1850-, 1865 Henry Thomas Wright Kings Inns 1865, Solicitor, Clerk of Crown and Peace for East Riding, Registrar of Cork Local Bankruptcy and Admiralty 3rd son Thomas henry under 17 affadavit father. Fern Hill (now probably Hotel), Clonakilty and Mardyke, Cork. Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, m Ethel second d of Henry James Hungerford, Cahirmore, Rosscarbery, 2 son 3 daughters Pike Biograph, 1909 Week ending Nov. 26, 1887. Mr. J.C. BLAKE’s resignation of the Sessional Crown Solicitorship of CORK, is one of the strongest rebuffs which the Irish Executive has received since Mr. BALFOUR took the business of Government into his own hand. Mr. Henry T. WRIGHT, CLONAKILTY, has been appointed Sessional Crown Prosecutor for the City of CORK, in the place of Mr. BLAKE.
1901 Richard Wright Waterford District Probate Registrar, Barrister Born Co. Cork, 57 “1843, 1844, 1845, 1847, 1858, 1860, 1865 Thomas Richard Wright Solicitor Fern Hill sons Henry Thomas 1850, Thomas Willam 1859, Solicitor. Signed Testimonial to Resident Magistrate, John Gore Jones, Bantry, 1844. Assistant 1879 Michael David Kennedy. Also agents for Durrus Estates. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty, 1847. Probate 1880 to widow eliza £12,000. Standard Life Agent 1844
“1866 Richard Wright TCD Kings Inns 1866, Barrister dublin 1890 Fernhill. 1st son Thomas Richard, under 24, affadavit father. Exector mother £1,092, Mary Wright, Ballineen, barrister, Glenageary, Dublin 1890. Related to Dunmanway Wrights and Sullivans by marriage. Through this may have come into lands at Cashelane in Durrus. 1843, 1844, 1845, 1847, 1858, 1860, 1865 Thomas Richard Wright Solicitor Fern Hill sons Henry Thomas 1850, Thomas Willam 1859, Solicitor. Signed Testimonial to Resident Magistrate, John Gore Jones, Bantry, 1844. Assistant 1879 Michael David Kennedy. Also agents for Durrus Estates. Subscriber memorial John O’Hea JP, Clonakilty, 1847. Probate 1880 to widow eliza £12,000. Thomas Richard Wright of Fern Hill, died 1880 he mentions hi
1859-, 1881, 1884, 1914 Thomas William Wright MA Solicitor, Registrar for his brother Hon Justice Wright, King’s Bench, Dublin, 1914 The Square Shannon Square and Fern Hill Clonakilty, apprenticed to father later partner with brother Henry T. Educated Portrora Enniskillen TCD, MA,
1905 Wright Solicitor, Clerk of the Crown and peace (State Solicitor) Landowner Landlord Coolculaghta Durrus slated by Father O’Leary PP Durrus 1905 Comission on Congestion for his treatment of tenants.
1921, 1940 Thomas R. Wright Solicitor Attending Special Injury Claims Clonakilty Quarter Sessions June 1921 “Diarmuid Kingston, RIC in West Cork during War of Independence, 2013.
Some time ago the TG4 programme Gearra Glas hasa feature of Peadar Ó Riada making a somewhat similar beehive. He got the straw in a bog and plaited it. As a child he was taught by an old local man Mr. Creed.
Skeps are thought to have been used by St. Gobnait Baile Bhúirne, meaning “Town of the Beloved”, in what is now the West Muskerry Gaeltacht. There is a strong tradition in that area of bee keeping.
Courtesy: Janes Bees see site for excellent content.
The late Jehr McCarthy had a small farm in Kilcrohane village. He kept hives and made them in a traditional manner. He collected strong briars in the summer and seasoned them in the chimney over the winter. It is hoped shortly to have photographs and a more elaborate description.
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