This gallery contains 14 photos.
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Woulfe Family of West Cork , 1720-1998, 10 Generations ? Courtesy Clarke family Canada 1999. One…
17 Monday Jun 2019
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This gallery contains 14 photos.
Originally posted on West Cork History:
Woulfe Family of West Cork , 1720-1998, 10 Generations ? Courtesy Clarke family Canada 1999. One…
15 Saturday Jun 2019
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Evidence of Maskelyne Alcock, Esq., Magistrate, Substantial farmer, on Cultivation of Furze for Horses in Bandon 1844.
Alcock Estate:
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=3001
14 Friday Jun 2019
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This gallery contains 3 photos.
Originally posted on West Cork History:
? Carbery Agricultural Show, Skibbereen, 1896/7 Prizewinners with Photo of Past President 1892-7, Aylmer Coghill Somerville DL,…
11 Tuesday Jun 2019
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1823. Cork Magistrates who got Statues. 1890 Rabies in Dunmanway and Schull.
Some of the records of the Chief Secretary’s Office in Dublin Castle for some years have been digitised and are freely accessible online:
http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/index.html
Professor Francis J Crowley’s bequest
Aims of project
The parts of the 1880s adn 1890s are like somethin from the Stasi failed in East Germany, nothing is too small to document. The theft of a goat, burning of a hay rick a seditious sermon preached. Among these indexes are the reference to rabies unfortunately there paper share not available they may have been mis filed or lost.
This information was presumably collected by the RIC of the Resident Magistrate and kept centrally in Dublin Castle.
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Cork Magistrates who got Statutes 1823.
Cork Magistrates:
Cork Magistrates, 10th June 2019.
Most of the magistrates were Protestant Landlords or Church of Ireland Clergymen. Until Disestablishment 1870 this was the Irish State Church and apart from religion performed quite a number of civil functions administered by the Minister, Select Vestry and Churchwardens.
From around this time on more Catholics were appointed Magistrates some had been appointed since the 1790s. This was supplemented by (RMs) Resident Magistrate’s to remedy a widely believed bias among the Magistrates. By the early 20th century probably most of the appointment wee those who were Catholic and Nationalist due to the influence the Irish Parliamentary Party on various British Governments.
Marquess of Thomond
Earl of Shannon
Earl of Bantry
Earl of Mount Cashel
Lord Carbery
Lord Ennismore
Honourable and Rev. James St. Ledger
Honourable and Rev. G.D. Beresford
Sir James L. Cotter
John Hyde
Robert Hedges Eyre
Richard Aldworth
Edward D. Freeman
George Charles Jeffreys
Rev. William Stewart
William Moore? Hodder
Justin McCarthy
William Stawell
John Travers
Rev. John Townsend?
Simon White
Rev. John Townsend
Rev. James Hingston
Rev. George Sealy Baldwin
Rev. Samuel Beamish
Rev. Joseph Jervois
Rev. Joshua B. Ryder
Rev.John Lombard
Rev. Jonathan Bruce
REv. Somers Payne
Rev. Edward H. Kenny
Rev. George Armstrong
David Reid
Thomas Walker
Samuel Swete
John Swete
Thomas Harding
Meade Hobson (Assistant Barrister?)
Crofton Uniacke
Henry Croker
Nathaniel Evanson
Horace Townsend
John Grove White
Clutterbrook Crone
Richard ? Parker
Robert Travers
Treasurer
William Baldwin
Rev. John Ware Edgar
Thomas George French
William H?? Newenham
Rev.Charles Smith
George Purcell
Rev. John Chester
Edward Roche
Rev. John G. Madras
John Meade
Henry Greene Barry
Rev. Newenham
William Cooke Collis
Thomas St. John Grant
Rev. Robert Morrett
Joseph Haines
Robert Courtney
Adam Newman
Lord Doneraile
John Smith Barry
Charles D. O. Jephson
Thomas Burke
Thomas Wallis
Andrew Batwell
Edward Wallis Hoare
Rev. John Orpen
William Wrixon Beecher
Francis Rowland
Thomas Harris
Henry Wallis
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10 Monday Jun 2019
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Danno O’Mahony, World Wrestling Champion from Dreenlomane, Ballydehob, in Skibbereen, West Cork, July 1936
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danno_O’Mahony
Courtesy De La Salle Past Pupils Union, Skibbereen, ‘And Time Stood Still.
He is a Woulfe descendant and appears in the Woulfe Genealogy chart in Tommy and Letetia Camiers Museum at Gortnagrough, Ballydehob.
He died in a traffic accident outside Portlaoise on the 2nd November 1950. The day before was drove his American car to see his cousins the Burkes of Cookkeen, Durrus. He was twice relate to them his grandmother and wife was of Burke stock. He went to see the new stairs which was installed that day in the new house.
08 Saturday Jun 2019
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1841, West Cork density, comparable to China, Haita, India and Rwanda.
1841, population density. 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.
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For other areas scroll around page 220:
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/21220/page/591138


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06 Thursday Jun 2019
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Some Genealogical Notes on the Fergusons of Durrus and Bantry.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK8TrEzZ4QXgH2n-6V4hMQbGePYYH2YTYr9f1jLRxug/edit
Bandon Estate Records for Durrus post 1854, Ferguson/Skuse:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LVgcai4i4QWpyLFvKhEgQAMjtdhjI6VhRrBr2XMWC2U/edit#gid=0
28 Tuesday May 2019
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28 Tuesday May 2019
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CSO/RP/1821/36. File of papers relating to problems in County Cork with arrangements for 1821 census to be carried out, under terms of the population act. Includes printed letter from William Shaw Mason, secretary of Records Commission, Records Tower, Dublin Castle, to the magistrates of County Cork, concerning ill-preparedness of some of the baronies of County Cork to carry out the census. ‘It is, indeed, a matter of much regret and surprise, that the concerns of a County, the most extensive, populous and respectable in Ireland, should be so deficient in arrangement, as not to afford the means of carrying this measure into effect with equal ease as in all other places, and that, out of upwards of 200 resident and acting Magistrates, so very few indeed were to be found to undertake the duty entrusted to them by the Legislature, of selecting efficient Enumerators, and superintending their proceedings’, 1 May 1821.
Selected fragments from Lost Census of 1821, Parishes of Kilbrogan, Bandon, Murragh, Kinneigh, Townlands: West Bangour, Raheen, Lisaraurk, Farrabmareen.
1821 Census was taken over a period from 28 May 1821. destroyed in 1922 but survives for parts of the following counties: Cavan, Fermanagh, Galway, Offaly and Meath. The census recorded the following information on each member of the household: Name, Age, Occupation, Townland, Parish.
Welply:
Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/10226
Census:
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27861
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/35160
Census of Ireland 1851 : Fanlobbus (Dunmanway)
Parishes:
Kilbrogan

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22 Wednesday May 2019
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1824 Barony of Carbery, in West Cork, which has good roads, corn stores and regular shipping to Cork, Dublin and even Portugal.
The Kerry Orpen family are related by marriage to the Hutchinsons landlord family of Clonee, Durrus, Swantons of Ballydehob, O’Sullivans of Ballighadown, Drimoleague/Caheragh. The artist William Orpen is of the family he spent his honeymoon early 1900s in Kealkil where a relation was the dispensary doctor.
http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1883
Burke describes the Orpen family as claiming great antiquity. They settled in Ireland after the Cromwellian wars and married into some of the other influential families in Co. Kerry including the Herberts.
Richard Orpen was agent for Sir William Petty on his Co. Kerry estates. Over 4000 acres of the estate of Richard Becher Opren in the barony of Glanarought were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in November 1852. The petitioner was John B. Warren, who later acquired parts of the Orpen lands in this area. Over 10,000 acres of the estate of Adrian Taylor, in which members of the Orpen and Warren families had an interest, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in May 1855. Richard J.T. Orpen was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kenmare and Kilgarvan at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. In the 1870s the estate of the late Sir Richard Orpen amounted to over 12,000 acres in Co. Kerry as well as 300 acres in Co. Cork. The representatives of F.H. Orpen were the proprietors of 800 acres in county Kerry at the same time.
Bantry/Durrus Hutchinsons:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ce2v219hccdaJWm3mLL7gz-ocnDFxNTD_bWJEV1RAL0/edit
CSO/RP/1824/1466 TITLE: Letter from Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen, Dublin, concerning commercial development needs of County Kerry SCOPE & CONTENT: Letter from Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen, attorney, 50 Exchequer Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering detailed observation on impediments to progress of commercial development of southern County Kerry. Comments on backward state of district from Dingle bay to Kenmare, and seeks a good road from district of Killarney to the harbour of Sneem; such a development would facilitate creation of a broader infrastructure for local commerce and export trade. Remarks on poverty of people and quotes from earlier letter the greater part of the tenantry on estate of Marquis Lansdowne [Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice] ‘actually make his Lordship’s rent by begging’. Points to example of Carbery, in County Cork, which has good roads, corn stores and regular shipping to Cork, Dublin and even Portugal. Urges parliamentary assistance for public works in Ireland, for fishing and manufacturing, and extension of bounties for flax production. Alludes also to applications from principal landowners in region for laying of new roads in order to improve travel and enhance access.
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NAI REFERENCE:
CSO/RP/1824/1466
TITLE:
Letter from Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen, Dublin, concerning commercial development needs of County Kerry
SCOPE & CONTENT:
Letter from Emanuel Hutchinson Orpen, attorney, 50 Exchequer Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering detailed observation on impediments to progress of commercial development of southern County Kerry. Comments on backward state of district from Dingle bay to Kenmare, and seeks a good road from district of Killarney to the harbour of Sneem; such a development would facilitate creation of a broader infrastructure for local commerce and export trade. Remarks on poverty of people and quotes from earlier letter the greater part of the tenantry on estate of Marquis Lansdowne [Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice] ‘actually make his Lordship’s rent by begging’. Points to example of Carbery, in County Cork, which has good roads, corn stores and regular shipping to Cork, Dublin and even Portugal. Urges parliamentary assistance for public works in Ireland, for fishing and manufacturing, and extension of bounties for flax production. Alludes also to applications from principal landowners in region for laying of new roads in order to improve travel and enhance access.
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