This is but a drop in the ocean but shows the remarkable range of military service involved.  The concentration is in the upper echelons with many records obtained from deeds, wills, directories.

There is service in the East India Company from some of the most remote townlands in the area.  Of those who emigrated to the USA when conscription commenced in 1917 it started with the number 1. By the end of the War it reached over 4.5 million.  Those men who emigrated from around 1900 would have been liable to conscription as well as  those in Canada and Australia.

 

World War 1 (and some other) 16th April 2019 Deaths and earlier Military service West Cork.

1845. Earl of Bandon, County Lieutenant, enclosing an extract from a letter re Famine Relief of Rev Dr Traill, Schull, which had been translated into Irish and been found useful in the west Cork area.

The National Archive online catalogue have multiple reference to the Earl of Bandon efforts to secure famine Relief.

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RLFC/2/Z17206 Date: 04 Dec 1845

Right Honourable Honourable James 2nd Earl of Bandon, Custos Rotorum,  (1785-1856), Castlebernard, FRANCIS (1st EARL of BANDON) and HARRIET (Boyle) had James (heir and 2nd Earl born 14th June 1785 in Bandon and died 31st October 1856 at Castle Bernard) m 13th March, 1809 in Cashel  Mary Susan Brodrick eldest daughter of Charles, Archbishop of Cashel and sister of Charles, 6th Viscount Midleton. Mary was born 9th October 1787 and died 23rd April 1870, buried in Bandon. Due to rising war related prices land rents estimated 1811 at £30,000. Succeeded to title and estate  after his father’s death in 1830. Subscriber Lewis Richard Dowden papers: 1837. 1842 Subscriber Jacksons County and City Directory. 1844 Printed handbill/notice , ‘Cork Art Union for the promotion of the fine arts in the South of Ireland’, annual subscription appeal. President is Lord Viscount Bernard MP (Lord Bandon). Printed by W Scraggs, 102 Patricks Street. (1p)  Subscriber John Ryan, 1845 ’20 Years of Popish Persecution’. Made huge efforts during the Famine to secure relief. County Grand Master Orange Order. Fellow Royal Society 1845. Member Commission on Magistrates 1838 subscriber, 2 copies,  1861 to Smith’s History of Cork. Bandon 1869.

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1835 Poor Law Report. Liberality of Lord Bandon and the Duke of Devonshire in Provision for Elderly.

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1837. House of Lords The Right Honourable The Earl of Bandon v Henry Becher, Lands in 1737 Mortgage Killeenleagh, Lassanaroe, Cappamore, Cahergall (Kilcrohane), Marriage Settlement 1740 Including Ardenant (Schull), Balteenoughtra, Ballyourane (Caheragh), Barnitonicane (Ballydehob), Caherolickenny, Mauldenny, Derrynalamane (Ballydhob), Dunkelly (Crookhaven), Keelbronhoe (Ballydehob), Lassanaroe, Rathcool, Ratourah (Schull), Letterscanlan. Families Mentioned, Alleyn, Becher, Hedges, Townsend, Wright, Evans, O’Donovan, Hungerford.

Dr. Edward Wetenhall Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, BA, Cambridge,, FRS,  (1636-1713), 1679.  Member Dublin Philosophical Society. Wrote of his cruel suffering at the hands of Irish Papists 1688-1690.  One of seven Church of Ireland Bishops to stay in Ireland 1688-1690. Pamphlet controversy with William Penn.  In 1710 he drew up a memorial to James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, the Lord Lieutenant, urging the need of providing ‘books of religion’ in the Irish language, in accordance with the ideas of John Richardson, D.D. (1664–1747), a clergyman in his diocese

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Records Carbery Estate 1788:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uv6YbkwdBFDxzzJnZhSD8rdtkmIycNA2YXz2uOWlv0g/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

1788 Clonakilty (Cloch na Coillte)

 

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Main Street, North Side

2, Widow Brien

3, John Hungerford

5, William Good

8, John Barry

12, Florence Donohue

13, James Tobin, …, house and garden

14, Widow Galwey, warehouse?

15, Widow Galwey, dwelling house, yard, garden

Front to Fair Green, East Side

18, Daniel Clancy, a cabin

19, Widow Driscoll, a cabin

21, 21, Matthew Higgins, 2 cabins

22, William Hayes, a cabin

Fair Green East Side

23, John Roe, a cabin

24, Dennis Donovan, a cabin

25, Later John Miley, a cabin

26, 27, 28, Timothy Lahy, 3 cabins.

Main Street, North Side

29, Widow Hurley, cabin

30, James Hamilton, cabin

31, Daniel Driscoll, cabin

32, Daniel Harrington, cabin

33, Bart. Brien, cabin

34, Daniel Dillon, cabin

35, John Donohe, cabin

36, Reverend? O’Brien, cabin

29-35, gardens undivided.

37, Sylvester Hurley, house

38, Timothy Collins,house

37-38, garden undivided

39, Patrick Lovejoy, potato garden north side road to Castle Freke

40, Several cabins, rocky waste, held in common, north side road to Castle Freke

41, Richard Smith, the Paddock, south side road to Castle Freke

42, Timothy Dillon, the marsh, south side road to Castle Freke

43, The Pound, Fair Green

Northside Road to Skibbereen

Main Street, South Side

1, Richard Smith, dwelling house, office, yard, …

2, Sylvester Hurley, cabin

3, Darby Coghlan, cabin

4, Daniel Keefe?, cabin

5-31 undivided garden

5, John Driscoll, cabin

7, Mary?, O’Brien, cabin

8, Patrick Lovejoy, cabin

9, James Collins, cabin

10, Owen Harrington, cabin

11, William Driscoll, cabin

12, Edward Scanlan or Donohue in ruins

13, John Hamilton, cabin

14, Darby Canty, cabin

15, John McNeal, cabin

16, Dennis Regan, cabin

17, James Brooke, cabin

18, Daniel Hamilton, cabin

19, Jeremiah Donovan, cabin

20, Widow Galwey, cabin

21, Daniel Brien, cabin

22, James Mahony and Denis Donovan

23, Denis Herlahy, cabin

24, Edward Fitzgerald, cabin

25, Cornelius Collins, cabin

26, Widow Galwey, cabin

27, Peter Hurley, cabin

28, Denis, Donovan, cabin

29, Daniel Mahony, house

30, Richard Long, house

31, Jeremiah Shanahane, house

Market Place

1-12

Barrack Lane, East Side

13, formerly Denis Harrington, waste

14, Darby Spillane, cabin

15, Denis Spillane, cabin

16, John O’Brien, cabin

17, Thomas Bennett, 4 cabins, and gardens

18, Edward Pursell?, four cabins and yad

19, several cabins

Tanyard Lane, South Side

20, Malachi, cabin

21, Denis Mahony, cabin

22, Widow Collins, cabin

23, Widow Sullivan, cabin

24, Denis Mannich?, cabin

20-24 garden undivided

25, John Galwey (Late), field, .., malt house

26, John Hungerford, orchard

27, Formerly? John Galwey, field

28, Rough pasture in common

Tan Yard lane, South Side

29, Late John Galwey, tan yard

30, Darby Carthy, house and bleach green

31, Stephen Galwey, field

32, Maurice Coosheen, cabin and yard

33, Charles Collins, cabin and yard

32-33 garden undivided

34, Daniel Donovan or Blackstaff

35, Waste

36, John Donovan, cabin

37, Darby Donovan

38, Michael Carthy

Market Place

33, Charles Dempsey?, house

40, Widow Lane, house

41, Widow Dillon, house

42, Widow Long, house

43, Stephen Galwey, slated house, yard and garden

44, Peter Carthy, house, back house and garden

45, Waste

46, John Carthy, cabin

47, Catherine Sullivan, cabin

48, John Scanlon, cabin

49, John Collins, cabin

51, Timothy Harrington, cabin

52, Owen Harrington, cabin

51-52, undivided gardens

Church Lane, North Side

1, Widow Smith, new slated house and garden

2, William Kelly, house

3, Richard Coveney, house

4, Michael Regan, from T. Hayes, house

5, Widow Regan, slate house

6, John Hayes

7, Cornelius Burke, cabin

1-7 gardens undivided

8, Martin Regan, cabin

9, James Feeherty, cabin

10, John Collins, cabin

8-10 garden undivided

Church Lane, South Side

11, 12, Darby Dawley, two cabins

13, Darby Dempsey, house and back house

14, Henry Deneen (Dineen?), house

15, John Brien or Mungan, house and garden formerly slop yard

16, Daniel Hayes, house and garden

17, Widow Munroe, cabin and garden

18, John Legoe (Jagoe?), house and orchard

18, John Legoe, field and pasture

 

1819 Clonakilty Survey

Courtesy Late Michael J. Collins.

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1819 Clonakilty, September, Map surveyed and drawn by Henry McLenchlan?
119	Richard Deasy	Possibly brewing family
120	John Townsend
121	Winispeare Toy	Winispeares in Bantry mid 17th century Durrus, Rossmore, 1720s
122	Clonakilty School
123	Winispeare Toy
124	Richard Pine?
125	Winispeare Toy
126	Francis Hanglin
127	Poor Boys School
128	Ground out of Lease
129	Thomas Callanan
130	Winispeare Toy
131	William Hegarty
132	Jeremiah Hanglin
133	Richard Hungerford
134	Daniel Sweeney
135	James Spiller
136	Thomas Collins
137	Rev. William Stewart	Magistrate, Minister Church of Ireland
138	John Williamson
139	Bridewell
140	Daniel McNamara
141	Henry Williamson
142	Winispeare Toy
143	Peter McCarthy
144	Out of Lease, in lanes, street, passage to River Feale	136 statute acres

1788 Baltimore

 

 

1, The Castle, rock and waste.

2, Denis Driscoll, cabins and garden

3, Charles Davis

4, James Meld?

5, Four cabins and waste

6, vacant

7, vacant

8, Archibald Molloy?

9, James Freke, field pasture

10, Florence and Mary Driscoll, cabin and garden

11, Richard Baker, cabin and garden

12, Thomas Bryan?

13, Thomas Bush, cabin and rarden

14, James Freke, house, office and garden

14, Darby Fowler?, garden

16, James Freke, garden

17, John Crowley, garden

18, Jeremiah Lynch, cabin and garden

19, Widow Ahern, cabin and garden

20, Richard Bush, cabin and garden

21, Henry Bush, cabin and garden

22, Daniel harrington, cabin and garden

23, Daniel Harrington, cabin and garden

24. Coney Island, Richard Bush

25, harbour Mouth, Henry Bush, John and Thomas Byers?, and Widow Aherne

26, Hill of Baltimore, Thomas Roche and Richard Bush, large holding

27, Jeremiah Lynch

28, John Neale

29, Widow Baker

30, James Freke,

31, Lahernor of Cloghboaley, james Freke

32, Gerynare, Richard Bush, Francis Bush and partners

Bantry Manor Courts, Seneschals, 1831 Census, Petty Session Court Clerks.

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Bantry Manor Courts, Senescals, 1831 Census, Petty Session Court Clerks.

Seneschal:

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/32882

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/28726

Census:

1809 West Cork Census: Population, Religious Breakdown, Land, Estate Rental, Schools, by Thomas Newenham, Coolmore, Carrigaline, Relying on Catholic Bishop of Cork’s Diocesan Returns. Rents trebling Everywhere including Durrus between 1782 and 1809 on Evanson Estates.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/27861

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More Mellifont, (Kinsale, Donemark, Bantry, Dunmanway) from Arthur V. Mellefont, Australia

  Courtesy David Coffey.

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David Mellifont, 1794.  Donemark house of Carrignarontha, Bantry.  May have freedom of Cork 1761 as Esq. Appears in frequent deeds as witness 1761-1775 including soe in Bandon area. 1779 Lieutenant Bantry Volunteers, Superseded 1810-30, Middleman on Lord Kenmare estate. Game Cert 1802.  1804, Loss of Nabby, En Route from Liverpool to Bandon on South Shore of Bantry Bay. Contents Pillaged by Two Hundred Men and Women. Crew Sheltered by Richard Donovan, Esq.,  David Mellifont, Esq., Magistrate, Donemark, Bantry, with Captain Scott adn Lieutenant Griffin and 40 Soldiers went to Bantry to Search for Stolen Property, assisted by Jonas Baldwin, Esq  1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengarriff to Castletownbere. 1822 his house and those of Pattison, Doyle, McCormack, Kingston attacked by over 400 Whiteboys searching for arms. William O’Sullivan, Esq., Carriganass Castle, native Ahill purchased Carriganass from David Mellifont, Donemark in 1817 for £250 and £50 rent.  O’Sullivan prominent in anti tithe, repeal. Married 1804, Sophia Grey, Wexford, address given Mardyke, Co. Cork probably Skibbereen. Sophia Mellifont Nee Gray wife of David Mellifont had a brother called Nicholas Gray he was secretary to the Wexford Insurgents 1798.  Gray went to America and was involved in the 1812 War, he was Inspector General of the American Army. The Grays were from Whitfort House Wexford and Jamestown Co Wexford. Mellifont died Donemark 1835, significant debts, estate in Chancery and litigation.

 

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Richard Mellefont, 1766, Downemart (Donemark), Bantry.  Probably son of Gilbert. Kenmare Estate renewed lease of Donemark for three lives, his own, Christopher Earbery, Shandaragh and Mathias Hendley son of Roger of Downing, Co. Cork.  Lord Kenmare comments ‘The tenant is a very genteel and worthy man’.  Mellifont family of Norman origin, Kinsale converted.  1758 Lease of 31 years from Kenmare Estate to Richard Mellifont as trustee for Patrick Galwey in occupation his ‘near relation’.  1763 to let a large mountain farm at Shanacrane near Dunmanway apply Richard Mellifont near Bantry.

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The Mellifonts: Will of David Mellefont, 61 Grafton St., Dublin, Tories 17th Century Ballingeary, Melefont family member attained as rapparee in Balingeary (Kinsale) area 1690, 1731 Convert Roll Gilbert Mellifont, Dunmanway, Magistrates, Lawyers, Middlemen Later, Bantry, Dunmanway.

1760s, Lease renewal to Richard Mellefont, Esq., by Kenmare Estate of Donemark, Bantry, West Cork for Three Lives Mellefonts Father had Vastly Improved and Enclosed Fields of a Proper Size with Well Planted Ditches and Had Fish Palaces Redundant Due to Flight of Pilchards.

 

Mellifonts of Donemark, Bantry, West Cork.

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1849.  Commencement of Cork Bandon Railway with The Bandon-Ballinhassig stretch of commenced operation with two engines, Rith Tinneadh (Speeding Fire) and Sighe Goithe (Whirlwind)

Courtesy:

Dundaniel Castle.

Proposed Bandon Bantry Railway, Parliamentary Bill, (London) with Affected Townlands Listed, November 1844

1845, Projected Bandon to Bantry Railway with Provisional Committee, Magistrates, Landowners, Businessmen., Traffic Projections, Anticipated Packet Station, Railway eventually built by William Martin Murphy in the 1880s.

Subscribers to 1844 Cork to Bandon and Dublin Cork Railways

Meeting of Directors of West Cork Railway (Henry Winthrop O’Donovan (The O’Donovan), JP Chairman, James Hutchinson Swanton, JP, DL. McCarthy Downing, Solicitor) with Robert Peel re bringing Railway to Skibbereen, November 1861, Guarantees sought from major Landowners.

New Book on West Cork Railway System Including Colour Photographs of Some of the Last Journeys Pre 1962.

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Finances of Cork Magistrates.

 

A snapshot of  financial information. Some probables, marriage settlements, rent rolls.  It is difficult to give old probate information due to the destruction of the Public Records Office in 1922. It is probable that among the 8 million documents of the Land Commission Records in a warehouse in Portlaoise that the public are not allowed see would throw more light on this subject.

 

In West Cork some of the smaller landlords we virtually destitute from the 1790s and frequently raised mortgages and rent charges from wealthy local Catholic and Protestant merchants and  large tenant farmers. Some of these transactions can be tracked at the Registry of Deeds Projects:

https://irishdeedsindex.net/deeds_index/name_index.php

For the general Durrus/Schull/Bantry area search by Evanson, Blair, Hutchinson. From the 1790s the Beecher Estate once around 40,000 aces in Skibbereen/Mizen was sorting out its financial difficulty by giving families such as the Swantons of Ballydehob and  Jagoes of Dunmanway long leaseds for a once off fixed capital sum.  By 1850s the Estate was only receiving a quarter of the market rent.  Even the larger Estates such as White of Bantry were about to appoint receivers in the 1830s. The Bandon Estate was in effect owned by the 1890s by its agents the Wheeler Dohertys of Bandon solicitors and land agents through a series of mortgages.

 

Financial:

 

Cork Magistrates Finances

 

 

Cork Magistrates, often in the earlier periods landlords:

Cork Magistrates Finances

 

 

1806- , Some West Cork Members of the Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion.  1821 Some West Cork Schools Cathedical Examinations.  West Cork schools Aided

 

 

 

https://books.google.ie/books?id=F3W687vhXYsC&pg=RA1-PP24&lpg=RA1-PP24&dq=rev.+benjamin+swete+1822&source=bl&ots=DC3hHOvCDB&sig=ACfU3U3a_p3k__2WNkw5l9TfxjdGKztzuQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis-9ahx

 

1806- , Some West Cork Members of the Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion.

 

West Cork Schools Cathedical Examinations

1821 Some West Cork Schools Cathedical Exminations Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion.

 

One of the prize books wa of the Cottage Dialogues of the Irish Peasantry by Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) highly praised.

https://www.libraryireland.com/CIL/Leadbeater.php

 

West Cork schools Aided:

_1821 Some West Cork schools Aided Members of the Association Incorporated for Discontinuancy Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practise of The Christian Religion.