1863, Military Discharge Papers of John Patrick Jagoe, Dunmanway, formerly Farmer, Private 39th Regiment of Foot, Enrolled 1845 over 16 years Service including Gibraltar, Crimea, Canada.
JAMES (2nd EARL of BANDON) and MARY SUSAN (Brodrick) had
(1) Francis (heir), born 3rd January, 1810 Grosvenor Street, London, died 17th February 1877 at Castle Bernard aged 67 (heir and 3rd Earl) m 16th August 1832 in Brighton Catherine Mary Whitmore (born 17th June, 1811 and died 13th December 1873), eldest daughter of Thomas Whitmore of Apley Park in Shropshire who was High Sheriff of Shropshire, MP, JP, DL by his wife Catherine Thomason. Catherine, wife of Francis, was born 1812 and died on 15th December 1873 at Castle Bernard, (2) Charles Brodrick, 2nd son, born 4th January 1811 and died 31st January1890, rectory and prebendary of Kilbrogan, Bishop of Tuam m 25th July1843 the Hon Jane Grace Dorothea Evans Freke,sister of 7th Lord Carbery and daughter of Percy Evans-Freke. She died on 56th June 1892. They had the following children, Captain Percy Brodrick of Castle Hackett, Tuam, Co Galway, Royal Munster Fusiliesr, RA, JP, DL who was born on 17th September 1844 and died on 18th July 1912 having married (1) 11th April 1872 Isabel Emma Beatrice Lane, daughter of John Newton Lane, Esq of Bromley Manor, Staffs, JP, DL, son of John Lane and Sarah Amler (nee Lloyd) by John Lane’s wife the Hon Agnes Bagot, daughter of 2nd Baron Bagot and Lady Louisa Legge. She died on 1st May 1876. He married (2) on 6th February 1880 Mary Lissey Kirwan, daughter and heiress of Denis Kirwan, esq of Castle Hacket, High Sheriff of Co Galway, JP, DL by his wife Margaret Macan. She was born 1850 and died on 1st August 1898. Percy and Mary Kirwan had Frances Mary Bernard who married (1) 1900 George Arthur Paley, son of John Paley of Langcliffe Yorkshire and Ampton, Suffolk by his wife Hon Clara Emily Strutt, only daughter of 2nd Lord Raleigh. George Arthur Paley and Frances Bernard’s marriage was dissolved in 1916 2ndly Major Henry Hastings Brooke. Percy Brodrick Bernard married (3) on 2nd June 1900 as her first husband Evangeline Hoare, daughter of Henry Hoare Esq of Iden Park, Staplehurst, Kent, partner in Hoares Bank by his wife Beatrice Anne Paley. She died on 17th February 1950. (3) Henry Boyle, 3rd Son, born 6th Febru
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Lord Bandon:
JAMES ( 4th EARL of BANDON) and GEORGIANA (Evans Freke) had no issue The title passed to a cousin. James, 4th Earl was an only son so the grandson of his father, Francis’s brother, Rev Charles Brodrick Bernard who married Jane Grace Evans Freke inherited Castle Bernard. (Both his father’s brother, Rev Charles Brodrick and the son of Charles, Percy had died before the death of James, hence his grandson inherited the title). Rev Charles had Percy Brodrick Bernard, born 17th September 1844 and died 18th July 1912. Percy married (1) Isabel Emma Lane on 11th April 1872 (2) Mary Lissey Kirwan on 6th February 1880 and (3) Evangeline Hoare on 2nd June 1900.
Arthur Hutchins, Landlord and Magistrate, Ardnagashel, Bantry married 1802, Matilda O’Donnell, Erris, Co.Mayo, descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, West Cork Crowley, Descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages
This branch of the O’Donnells moved from Donegal to North Mayo. By mid 18th century they were affluent due to smuggling. At that stage they purchased a landed estate in North West Mayo and converted to the Church of Ireland. A number of the sons were officers in the Mayo Militia and served in the Bantry area after the attempted French Invasion of Bantry Bay 1796.
Arthur Hutchins, Ardnagashel. Visited by reformer Sir Francis Burdett 1817. Listed 1823. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Notified as Magistrate of Catholic meeting in Bantry re loyalty to King 1825. Litigation. Signed public declaration to Alexander O’Driscoll on his removal as Magistrate 1835 with Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Thomas Baldwin, Samuel Townsend Junior and Senior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Richard Townsend Senior, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Timothy O’Donovan, Richard Townsend, Lyttleton Lyster. 1824. Letter from Anthony (probably Arthur) Hutchins, magistrate, Ardnagashel, near Bantry, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, Westminster, London, offering observations on causes of instability in Irish society. Concludes the upper classes have failed in their responsibilities to the lower orders, providing neither a fair measure of justice nor general employment; in such circumstances there is ‘still the strongest necessity for continuing the Insurrection Act’. Traces much of social disquiet to factors such as corrupt use of public money in grand jury presentments and to an unfair administration of the law in tithe cases; advocates that legal consideration of tithe cases be conducted by assistant barristers at general sessions rather than by local magistrates. Observes should modification be made to the tithe or to status of church property ‘it will probably tend to the decline of the Protestant Religion in Ireland’. Offers assistance to the government on necessary measures to bring stability to Irish society.
Two letters from Dr George A Borthwick, Forres Street, Edinburgh [Scotland], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], and William Gregory, [Under Secretary, Dublin Castle], complaining about the inadequacy of Irish law and detailing his suit against Mr Arthur Hutchins, magistrate, Adnagashel, County Cork over land from Borthwick’s grandmother Mrs Alleyn, providing copy letter from his solicitor John Drew Atkin, Dublin, affidavit by James Lomasney, [bailiff], which further mentions Borthwick’s co-plaintiff Anthony Pack, [bailiffs] John McCarthy and John White, [Hutchins’s employee] John Peddle, Mr Ashe and Henry Milward, magistrates, showing that a writ of outlawry to Hutchins was violently prevented from being served. Also includes letter from [William] Kemmis, [crown solicitor], Kildare Street, [Dublin], confirming the details of the case, and an annotation by Richard W Greene, [legal advisor, Dublin], advising on further procedure.
Crowleys:
They are a branch of the Roscommon McDermotts, i the early fiant of the English Queen Elizabeth they are often referred to as McDemot wiht Crua Laoich (tough warrior0 used as nicknmae after a period the McSermot is dropped.
Harvard Professor Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him
Two men at the center of the controversy are linked by their Irish heritage.
July 28, 2009— — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.
He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring.
Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means “hardy warrior,” is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages.
So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common Irish lineage — one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has sparked worldwide headlines.
Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker.
On the PBS series, Gates visits Trinity College to find his roots, and says to the genealogist, “Do I look like an Irishman to you? I’m here to find my roots. I’ve been looking all over Africa and I couldn’t find anybody, so I ended up here.
“I’m descended from a white man, he says. “A white man who slept with a black slave. And we know from the analysis of my DNA that … goes back to Ireland. So maybe you can help me.”
When the genealogist tells him he does indeed have Irish links, Gates says, “I find this oddly moving. It is astonishing,” he says, “that I have a kinship with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century A.D.”
Irish American Descendants
Millions of Irish Americans, especially those in New York, may be directly descended, like Gates, from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific warrior in Irish history.
A team of geneticists at Trinity College led by professor Dan Bradley have discovered that as many as 3 million men worldwide may be descendents of the Irish warlord, who was the Irish “High King” at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.
The story of Niall of the Nine Hostages is already the stuff of legend, which has been passed on to countless Irish schoolchildren over the years.
The supposedly fearless leader battled the English, the Scots, the French and even the Romans, and struck fear into the heart of his enemies. His dynasty lasted for centuries, continuing up until the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland at the end of the 16th century.
Legend has it that it was Niall of the Nine Hostages who, on a raid in Wales, captured a young slave and brought him to Ireland. That slave would later escape, and go to become Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick.
But one story not told to most Irish elementary schoolchildren was of Niall’s prolificacy.
When it came to the bedroom, it seems that Niall of the Nine Hostages was even more fearless and energetic than he was on the battlefield.
This warlord was responsible for the very common Irish surname “O’Neill” — which means “descendant son of Niall.” It is also the name of Irish pubs all over the world.
The researchers also found that as many as one in 12 men in Ireland have the same DNA as the Irish king — and in Ireland’s northwest, that figure rises to one in five.
An old sign at one end of the Quay in the Irish Translation suggested that the Quay is called after the Pope in Rome. The other Irish version has the corrects signage insofar as it is called after the Merchant family.
Camden Quay is named after Lord Camden who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and visited Cork in 1795. Pope’s Quay is named after the widow of Thomas Pope who lived in Cork in the early eighteenth century. The Council Book of the Corporation of Cork records that ‘In November 1718 permission was granted to the Widow Pope to build a quay between Alderman Brown’s Quay and Mr Farren’s Quay’.
Ireland was on e of the first countries in Europe to largely eradicate smallpox due to the dedication of Dispensary Doctors, a poorly paid and over worked profession.
1871, Meeting Courthouse, Durrus, Patrick’s Day re Alarming Spread of Smallpox
Chaired by Father O’Flynn, P.P., Durrus.
Michael Hungerford Morris, Eq., J.P. Friendly Cove
William Morris, Esq.,
Dr. Thomas Henry Sandiford, M.D., Dispensary Doctor
John Vickery, Poor Law, Guardian, Ballycomane
Charles Dukelow, Poor Law Guardian
George Rollins, Rossmore, Slate Quarry Owner
John Moss, Contractor
James Philips, Owner Bandon Arms Hotel, Durrus
W. Dukelow
W. Mills
Richard Tobin, Businessman, probably grandson ‘King’ Tobin, Kilcrohane
John Sullivan, probably shop owner
Pat Heffernan
Jeremiah O’Brien
Cornelius Donovan
etc
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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.
Among those present
Earl of Bantry
Captain Whitman
Colonel Aldworth
Rev. John Triphook, Schull
Rev. W. Fisher, Teampall na mBochht, Goleen
William S. Tisdall
William Morris
Michael Hungerford Morris, J.P., Evanson descendant, Friendly Cove.
Rev. W. Dulea, later Parish Priest Durrus.
Rev. R. Noble
Rev Hicks
Rev. Pratt, Durrus
Dr. Thomas Henry Sandiford, M.D., Dispensary Doctor
Captain Thomas, Mine Owner
Mr. Andrews
Lady Mary Aldworth nee Bernard, Bandon
Lady Elizabeth white
Lady Ina White
Lady Jane White
Lady Adelaide and Cathleen Bernard, Bandon
Miss whitmore
Mrs Fisher
Mrs. Noble
Mrs. Pratt, nee Murphy, Newtown, Bantry
Mrs Payne, probably wife of Somers Payne agent Lord Bantry
Mrs Tisdall, may be nee Murphy Newtown, Bantry
Mrs M. Morris
Miss Bessy Morris
Mrs. Sandiford
Mrs. Hicks
Toasts to :’Her Majesty the Queen’, ‘The Prince and Princes of Wales’, and the Royal Family
‘The Lord Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland’, ‘Army Navy and Reserve Forces’
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, Wes
Clais na Bolainghe (Clashnabullagee), Small Pox Trench/Pit, containing remains of those who died of Small Pox, identified in 1842 Ordnance Survey Orthography, 1842, Townland of Rooska adjoining Bantry Bay.
Ross Cathedral Records: included are details of the three young Griffith girls who died by small pox in 1717.
1748, Thomas Trendle (Trender?), Skibbereen escaped Convict en route to Cork Gaol, Marked with Small Pox, Wig, Description of Clothing, Reward £5 from William Hull, Skibbereen, Ship Masters Notified.
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’
1835, The Cow-Pock Institution, Inoculation in Clonakilty 1822, Rooska, Bantry, Pit with Small Pox Victims, Old Practice of Shinnack, 50 Years before Jenner.
The disease inspired particular dread in Ireland where smallpox and its ugly sisters, cholera, typhoid and dysentery made themselves at home for hundreds of years and exploited extreme poverty and ignorance to devastating effect. The symptoms of the disease were high fever, headache, pain in the back and muscles. Children might also experience vomiting and convulsions.
If you didn’t die of smallpox in 18th and 19th century Ireland you probably went blind. The next time you hear the music of the great harpist Turlough O’Carolan from Nobber in County Meath think of smallpox. It blinded him at the age of eighteen in 1688 making him virtually useless for any occupation until he developed a talent as a harpist and a facility for musical composition. Many other itinerant harpists had been similarly afflicted.
The disease, which was highly contagious and infectious, is believed to have caused about one fifth of all deaths in the city of Dublin between 1661 and 1746. About a third of all child deaths were probably caused by smallpox. Although it mainly afflicted the poor it was no respecter of rank. The children of the rich could die of the disease just as quickly as those closer to the breadline.
Hope emerged towards the beginning of the 18th century when the efficacy of inoculation started to become apparent. Inoculating people with small doses of the virus had apparently been practiced in China since the 10th century but didn’t really begin to make inroads in Europe for almost another eight hundred years. In Ireland the technique was first tried on a number of, presumably unwilling, prisoners in Cork Jail in 1721. Four years later the experiment was extended to five children in Dublin.
As the effectiveness became clear the better off began to use inoculation to protect themselves and their children. During periodic epidemics in the mid to late 18th centuries the survival rate among the wealthy families who had engaged in the practice encouraged its more widespread use. The South Infirmary in Cork even initiated a programme to inoculate the poor.
Naturally where there was money to be made there were charlatans. Travelling inoculators with a very basic grasp, if any, of what they were doing, competed for trade. In Donegal in 1781 all but one child of a group of fifty-two died when one unqualified practitioner purported to inoculate them.
Whatever inroads were being made in Ireland against the disease came to virtually nothing with the onset of the Great Famine of the 1840s when smallpox returned with a grim vengeance. Even for sufferers who survived the recovery period of the disease ensured that many were pauperised and died anyway with breadwinners unable to work.
It was only from the 1880s onwards that the disease began to be more rapidly eradicated in Ireland. In the 1870s more than seven and a half thousand people died of smallpox. By the first decade of the 20th century that figure was down to sixty-five. Between 1901 and 1910 almost a million Irish people were vaccinated against the disease.
The Hutchinson family were c 1700 extensive landowners in the greater Bantry area. The house at Blackrock is the nucleus of the present Bantry House. Their immediate Bantry estate was acquired over a period by Richard White in the early 18th century and was the basis for the Bantry/White Estate. They were left with residual townlands in the Durrus/Bantry area.
Nowadays there is virtually no local knowledge of the families existence.However given that there were large families there are probably many in Ireland and worldwide who may be able to trace their descent to the Hutchinsons.
The family is not to be confused with the Hutchins who are in various locations around Bantry Bay. Sometimes both families appear in deeds but they are not related.
The drop in fortunes seems to have commenced with the disposal of Richard White and culminated with the seal of the estate with large debts in the encumbered Estates Court in 1854. The sale was described as resulting in the death of Arthur Hutchinson with no known heirs. This is not true. His brother William was living in Bantry and was involved some time later in an altercation with Captain O’Flaherty, the owner of the mining lease of former family lands.
As late as 1804 when Hugh Hutchinson made his will he appeared to have £7,000 to leave to his extensive family. There were minerals discovered at various locations on the estate and while great hope was projected the mines came to nothing.
The first Ordnance Survey Map shows Clonee, Durrus an area associated with the family. Various wooded areas show it is possible that part of the planting was done in contemplation on the building of a house.
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Some Townlands Durrus/Bantry area included in Hutchinson Estate:
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It is likely in the 18th century that the family had a substantial house and building after Blackrock was sold to the Whites but location unknown. Perhaps when some of the 8 million Land Commission records stored in a warehouse see the light of day the picture may become clearer.
Enclosed below are extracts from various deeds, many of which have been transcribed by Ron Price.
Keady O’Donovan, Gent., Rosnacaheagh, Ahakista and Pilchard Point, Bantry, deeds of 1805 of Skibbereen town property, 1811 Skahanagh (Mealagh Valley), Bantry. Will 1829.
The people who appears in the deeds such as the Shannons of Durrus are affluent, contractors and in the 1790s advancing money to local impecunious landlords.
The Bantry Birds adre long established fish merchant suggesting wiht the address Pilchard Point some marine involvment as seen as the 1802 store in Skibbereen.
Only a small fraction of the
The transcription of memorials is starting to throw up people of significance in the late 18th and early 19th century in West Cork who up to now have been hidden
Registry of Deeds Project, search by surname:
Interestingly here Keady O’Donovan is described as Gent., with various addresses. It is possibly that the Richard O’Donovan who died in 1795 at Pilchard Point, Bantry is his father.
Keady O’Donovan, Gent.
Other addresses are Rosnacaheragh the home of Richard O’Donovan, who build the house a O’Donovan Cove and whose three sons Timothy, Richard and Doctor Daniel were all landlords and magistrates. It is possibly they were cousins of Keady. They look like they have a common place of origins at Ballaghadown, Caheragh/Drimoleague. Perhaps earlier around Clonakilty.
Extended O’Donovan family:
That O’Donovan family was sufficiently affluent to enable Richard to attend the University of Toulouse in France in the 1750s. Later Daniel O’Donovan in about 1820 qualified as a physician in Edinburgh.
O’Donovan Wills
1766, Denis Donovan, Cahergall, Kilcrohane, 1766.
1829, Keady O’Donovan, Ross Kearagh (Rosnacaheragh), Kilcrohane.
1795, Richard O’Donovan, Gent., Pilchard’s Point (O’Donovan’s Cove? Or Bantry), 1795.
1826, Richard O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.
1752, Timothy (O’) Donovan, Ballyhadown (Caheragh) ancestor of Cove/Fort Lodge family, not clear if one or two in grants.
1843, Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane.
1844, Timothy O’Donovan, Ardahill, Kilcrohane.
Keady O’Donovan, Ross Kearagh (Rosnacaheragh) d 1829, Prerogative Court.
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Type of deed
Date of current deed
27 May 1802
Vol
Page
Memorial
Rent Charge
Date of earlier deed
550
303
364897
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
REYCROFT[ROYCROFT]
Francis
of
Breenymoor [Breeny More, Bantry], Co Cork
Esq
B
P1
REYCROFT[ROYCROFT]
Francis
of
Breenymoor [Breeny More, Bantry], Co Cork
Esq
C
P2
O’DONOVAN
Keady[?]
of
[illegible], Co Cork
A
D
WD
MCCARTHY
Daniel
of
Beach [Bantry], Co Cork
Rev; Clerke
E
WD WM
MCCARTHY
Jeremiah
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Gent
A
F
WM
MCENERY
Gerald
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Gent
A
Abstract
A & B granted B, a rent charge out of the lands of [illegible], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork.
MS
Date registered
13 Nov 1802
Date abstract added
20190913
Memorial faded:
Type of deed
Date of current deed
29 Jan 1811
Vol
Page
Memorial
Sale
Date of earlier deed
627
467
434141
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P2, P1
P1
SULLIVAN
Jeremiah
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Shopkeeper
B
P2
BILKS
John
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Glazier
A
C
P1
DONOVAN
Keady
of
Pit..?..ers[Pilchard?] Point, Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork
Gent
D
O prev
CLAYTON
James
of
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Mason; theretofore tenanted a hous in Skibbereen, Co Cork
E
P2
COLLINS
Daniel
of
farmer; had been granted a lease of a house in Skibbereen, Co Cork
F
WD WM
HUMPHREY
John
of
Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork
Writing Clark
A
G
WD WM
MAHONY
James
of
Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork
Gent
A
H
WD
LEARY
Henry
of
Derrigrea [Derrigra, Ballineen], Co Cork
farmer
Abstract
A sold to B, a lease of property in Skibbereen, Co Cork
MS
Date registered
6 Feb 1811
Date abstract added
20200203
Type of deed
Date of current deed
21 Feb 1811
Vol
Page
Memorial
Sale
Date of earlier deed
631
430
434955
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
COPINGER/COPPINGER
James
of
skibbereen, Co Cork
B
P2
O’DONOVAN
Keady
of
Roscreagh [Rossnacaheragh], Parish of Kilborohane[Kilcrohane], Barony of W Carbery, Co Cork
Gent
A
C
O adj
CONNOLLY
Michael
of
had a house in Skibbereen, Co Cork
B
P2 O’DONOVAN Keady of Roscreagh [Rossnacaheragh], Parish of Kilborohane[Kilcrohane], Barony of W Carbery, Co Cork Gent C
O adj CONNOLLY Michael of
had a house in Skibbereen, Co Cork D
O COLLINS Timothy of
had a house & storehouses on the quay in Skibbereen, Co Cork E
WD WM MAHONY James of Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork Gent F
WD WM HENESY[HENNESSY] John of Bridgetown [Skibbereen], Co Cork Writing Clerk
In this 1811 deed the Roycrofts of Brennybeg, Kealkil are referred to. They may be related to the Roycrotfs of Clonee, Durrus. They are partners with the Drimolague O’Reagans as middlemen on the townland of Kealties adjoining Roscacaheragh
Type of deed
Date of current deed
27 May 1811
Vol
Page
Memorial
Assignment
Date of earlier deed
625
425
438561
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
P1
O’DONOVAN
Keady
of
Rossecragh [Rossnacaheragh?], Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD, Co Cork
Gent
A
P2
O’DONOVAN
Henry
of
Skehonough [Skahanagh, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Barony of Bear & Bantry, Co Cork
Gent
P1
O’SULLIVAN
Jeremiah
of
formerly granted a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
P2
ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT]
Thomas
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
E
life
ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT
Richard
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
F
life
FIELD[?]
John
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
G
WD
DONOVAN
Richard
of
Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork
Type of deed
Date of current deed
27 May 1811
Vol
Page
Memorial
Assignment
Date of earlier deed
625
425
438561
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
O’DONOVAN
Keady
of
Rossecragh [Rossnacaheragh?], Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD, Co Cork
Gent
A
B
P2
O’DONOVAN
Henry
of
Skehonough [Skahanagh, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Barony of Bear & Bantry, Co Cork
Gent
C
P1
O’SULLIVAN
Jeremiah
of
formerly granted a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
D
P2
ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT]
Thomas
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
E
life
ROYCRAFT[ROYCROFT
Richard
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
F
life
FIELD[?]
John
of
formerly held a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork
G
WD
DONOVAN
Richard
of
Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork
H
WD
MCCARTHY
Jeremiah
of
Rossceragh [Rossnacaheragh, Parish of Kilcrohane, Barony of W Carbery WD], Co Cork
Teacher
I
WD WM
O’DONOVAN
Daniel
of
Roskenagh [Rosskerrig?, Parish of Kilcrohane], Co Cork
farmer
A
J
WM
MCAULIFFE
Michael
of
City of Cork
Writing Clerk
A
Abstract
A assigned to B, a lease of Skahanagh, [Bantry], Co Cork, for the lives of E & F plus 39 years.
MS
Date registered
25 July 1811
Date abstract added
20200203
Abstract made by: RonPrice
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Skehanagh is in the Mealagh Valley to the southwest of Kealkill straddling the road from
Skehanagh is in the Mealagh Valley to the southwest of Kealkill straddling the road from Donemark leading into the Mealagh Valley. It’s about a mile from Breenymore.
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Type of deed
Date of current deed
3 Jun 1815
Vol
Page
Memorial
Sale or Release
Date of earlier deed
715
411
489346
No
Role(s) in earlier deed(s)
Role in current deed(s)
Family name
Forename
Place
Occ or title
A
A
P1
BARRY
Catharine[Catherine]
of
Droumadoonen [Dromdoneen, Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork
Spinster
B
P2
SHANNON
John
of
Brahalish, Parish of Durrus, Co Cork
C
P2
SHANNON
Robert
of
Dromersy[?], Parish of Durrus, Co Cork
D
P3
DONOVAN
Henry
of
Cappanaboul [Bantry], Parish of Kilmocomogue, Co Cork
The Skuce family of Coosane, Ballydehob, emigrated to Canada in 1850, and settled in Mount Horeb, near Omemee, Ontario, Canada, they took apple seeds with them, so they could plant them when they settled. They had a special way of storing the apples through the cold winters in special straw lined pits and apparently they were delicious. This was all mentioned in a family write up. In another area where another branch of the Skuce’s settled, near Bark Lake, in a more remote part of Ontario, there are some the old farmsteads that have been left derelict, at one of these we discovered someone had gone out with a quad bike to collect fruit from the very old apple trees, that are were abandoned close to these homesteads, the crop looked amazing, and I do wonder if these were grown from seeds that were brought out by the new settlers, including the Skuce’s, when they first emigrated back in the mid-1830s or so. Bark Lake is where some of the Skuce family who had left Clashadoo/Bantry settled.
1484, World’s First Common Law Woman Lawyer? Rose Bron, Dublin, Apprentice to Justice Philip Bermingham.
Sergeant Alexander Martin Sullivan, defending Roger Casement, on his grave in Glasnevin he is ‘The last Sergeant of The Kingdom of Ireland’. Celebrated Painting Shows Charles Gavan Duffy, Instructing Solicitors, female Relation Attend Court by Special Permission, A First on Attorneys Bench. Constitutional Conundrum does The Kingdom of Ireland Still Exist?
1893, Obituary of Judge John FitzHenry Townshend, Castletownshend and Dublin, Oldest Judge in the then United Kingdom. A Fine Specimen of an Old Irish Gentleman and Old Irish Judge.
Courtesy Colonel John Townsend. This family history is fact based and apart from the Townsend/Townshend family it is valuable record of the times.
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