1714.  Agatha of Amsterdam Probably Saved at Baltimore, Church Plate Presented to Parish of Tullagh by Captain Keissbergh, A Dutch Man, Commander of the Ship Agatha.

 

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1699 Rent Roll of Diocese of Cork, including, Bantry, Calve Islands, Crookhaven, Dunmanway (Nedineaghbeg in 1788 in possession of Cork Bankers Hoares), Innishannon, Kilbrogan, Kinneagh, Priest Leap with Obligation to Serve in Manor Court of Aughadown.

FRom REv. Doctor Charles webster, Diocese of Cork

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1657, Inventory of Lands of The See of Cork (Dioceses of Church of Ireland) in Barony of Carbery East and West (Including Dunmanway, Kilcrohane, Schull, Ballydehob) With Conflicting Claims to Land.

1657, Inventory of Lands of The See of Cork (Dioceses of Church of Ireland) in Barony of Carbery East and West (Including Dunmanway, Kilcrohane, Schull, Ballydehob) With Conflicting Claims to Land.

Possible Norman Connection:

Outer reach of Norman Conquest in West Cork, Caheragh in ownership pre 1317 of John de Cogan, cluster of Norman surnames in area Burke, Barrett, Goggin, devolution of Townlands to Monasteries of Youghal and Waterford.

Outer reach of Norman Conquest in West Cork, Caheragh in ownership pre 1317 of John de Cogan, cluster of Norman surnames in area Burke, Barrett, Goggin, devolution of Townlands to Monasteries of Youghal and Waterford

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Thanks to Bill Fahy:

Courtesy: Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinor.

Jerry Beechinor was pioneering agriculturalist and prominent businessman.  Probably native to the local area,  he was Chairman of Cork Marts, International Meat Packers.

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Kilmeen

14th March 1794, Cork Evening Post

On the eve of the  Assizes The Minister, Churchwardens, and the Principal Inhabitants of Kilmeen thank the Government for their aid when their property was attacked by a deluded mob.

Isaac Watson, Minister

James Hegartie and Sam Bateman, churchwardens

Francis Bennett, Letter

John Wright

Benjamin Wright

William Norwood

John Wallis

Jeffry Wallis

Thomas Northridge

Adam Hegartie

John Wolfe

George Fuller

Daniel Chambers

Pat Murrahin

Pat Boohane

Dan Boohane

Owen Noonan

Robert Birchinell (Burchill)

Jeremiah Donovan

Cornelius Dwyer

Cornelius Cahalane

Daniel Cahalane

 

Likely all people of some substance.   

 

Courtesy: Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechin

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Edward Townsend Esq., Commissioner Bombay Presidency of The Honourable East India Company, 1810-1882, Cuilnaconarha, Kilmeen, Clonakilty.

1762, Will of Samuel Doherty, Coolnaconnaght, Parish of Kilmeen, Clonakilty, Executor Samuel Doherty could not sign having been blinded by Smallpox.  Other Doherty Wills. Shinnach (Smallpox)

 

1832. Lord John Carbery (Evans-Freke) 6th Baron Carbery (1765-1845), 1821, Castle Freke, Rosscarbery. Pamphlet urging Reform of Cork Grand Jury Places mentioned Parishes of Kilmeen, Kilmacabea, Parish of Rosscarbery, Bohanagh, Ardagh, Mealmoreen, Carrigluskey. Ploughlands, Gneeves Cuasses

 

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

 

https://durrushistory.com/2014/09/02/burial-register-parish-of-kilmeen-church-of-ireladn-dioceses-of-ross-from-1843-2/

 

1744 Denis O’Cullane (variation of Collins) aged 24, Drimoleague, Pedigree to Ancient Family Properties in East Carbery.

 

 

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1659 Census (Probably from Hearth Money Tax Rolls) 1659.

 

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In relation to the O’Hurley forfeitures it has been suggested that the Protestant Hurley family of Kilmeen, Schoolteachers later Doctors are the direct descendant of the O’Hurleys of Ballinacarriga Castle, the name Randal runs in the family.

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Registered Vestrymen of Christ Church, Kilmeen, 1870.

 

Francis, Earl of Bandon, Castle Bernard, Bandon

Edward Hume Townsend, Coolnaconartha

Horace Webb Townsend, Coolnaconartha

Edward Smyth, Knocks House

Abraham Buttimer, Geragh and Derrivereen

William Pattison, Geagh

Daniel Hurley, Derrivereen

David John Gillman, Doctor of Divinity and  Deacon, Geragh

John Harwick, Kilmeen Rectory Lodge

John Hawkins, Geragh (left parish)

John Sullivan, Coolnaconartha

Joseph Roper, Ballygurteen (went to London)

James Garvey, Ballygurteen (left the Parish)

Samuel Bateman, Liscubba

William H. Northridge, Liscubba

Henry Burchell Liscubba, (left the parish)

Charles Robinson, Kilmeen Cottage (left the parish)

Jonathan Wolfe, Coolnacocartha (left the parish)

John Bateman, Coolnaconartha

Jonathan Bateman, Kildee

Charles Northridge, Liscubba

William Wolfe, Dereen

Thomas Beamish, Killmod

Sampson Beamish, Kilmalooda

Samuel Northridge, Millenagun

Thomas Northridge, Millenagun, (let the parish)

John Northridge, Millengun, (left the parish)

Benjamin Northridge, Millenagun, (went to America)

Thomas Damery, Liscubba

Samuel Bateman, Coolnaconartha and Rossmore

Bennett M. Gillman, ‘The Retreat’, Clonakilty

Thomas Beamish, Cahermore

Henry Northridge, Junior, Liscubba

Joseph Woods, Millengun (left the parish)

Samuel Ford Junior, Knockea

Robert Buttimer, Knockawaddra, (left the parish)

William Hobbs, Millenagun

William Thornton, Dundanion, Co. Cork

Thomas Bryan, Caherkirky

George Ross, Knockawaddra

John Ross, Knockwaddra

Benjamin Shorten, Knockawaddra

William Buttimer, Ballinvard

William Buttimer, Junior, Ballinvard

Charles Payne, Lissnabrinna

John Hornibrook, Clouncarigeen

Thomas Nash, Oak Mount, (left the parish)

John Gabriel, Coolnanonartha (left the parish)

Anthony Kilroy, Ballygurteen, (left the parish)

James Greer, Geagh School House, (left the parish)

 

Courtesy: Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinor.

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1805 Return by Commissioners Appointed under Act 40, George 111, cap.34, King of England Compensation for Abolition of Pocket and Rotten Boroughs.  Baltimore, Sir Richard Freke, Bart., £15,000/£17.3 Million, Richard Boyle Townsend, Dingle, £15,000/£17.3 Million, Rathcormac, Francis Earl of Bandon, Sampson Stawell (Kinsale) Viscount Doneraile, Trustees in will of of Lord Riversdale, 1787,  (Hull,  Schull family), £15,000/£17.3 Million, Clonakilty, Richard Earl of Shannon (Great Earl of Cork descendant), £15,000/£17.3 Million.

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http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/8412/eppi_pages/196908

To get an idea of the value of £15,000 in 1805, the salary offered to new teachers in the National Education System around 1828 was £28 a year a multiple of 535.  The starting pay for a teacher in Ireland is now €36,000.  A multiple of that is €19.26 million or £17.3 million sterling.

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Re Townsend see site of Colonel John Townsend re family:

 

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/home.php

 

Baltimore

Sir John Freke, 1766, Castle Freke, Committed to the county Gaol,  By Sir John Freke, Bart., CORNELIUS HAYES, JEREMIAH DEMPSEY, PETER CAIN, and DANIEL HURLEY, charged with riotously assembling with several others and committing several acts of outrage in the town of Ross, and with being concerned in assaulting and wounding Isaac Hewit, and Parker Roche.  Map of estate by Thomas Sherrard 1787.  John and Elizabeth Gore had issue:-  Sir John Freke, Bart, 6th Baron Carbery, born 11th November 1765 who represented the borough of Donegal in the Irish Parliament and on 25th January, 1783 he married his cousin Catherine Charlotte Saunders, third daughter of his uncle, the Earl of Arran.  Address: Saunders Court, Co Wexford. Catherine Charlotte was born Sept 1766 and died 23rd February 1852.

John was grandmaster of the Freemasons of Munster.  He died 12th May 1844 aged 80. Of Castle Freke, Laxton Hall in Northamptonshire and of Belgrave Square in London.  He sat as Sir John Freke in the Irish House of Commons. 1805 Return by Commissioners Appointed under Act 40, George 111, cap.34, King of England Compensation for Abolition of Pocket and Rotten Boroughs.  Baltimore, Sir Richard Freke, Bart., £15,000/£17.3 Million. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Gore and succeeded to the title of Baronet on the death of his father on 20th March 1777.  In 1807 on the death of his cousin John, fifth Lord Carbery, he succeeded to the peerage. He was one of the largest landed proprietors in Ireland and constantly resided on his estates.

Left estate valued at £90,000 (c €100 million 2018 equivalent). Left rental of estates for life to his wife.  On his death he directed that the principal family seat and residence should be Castle and that his inheritor should reside there at least four months in the year.  If the inheritor was to become Catholic, the interest in the estate would cease and go to the next in line provided such party was Protestant.

Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon (1755-1830), 1772, Castle Bernard, Bandon, only son James Bernard and Esther Smith d Percy Smith.  M Lady Catherine Henrietta Boyle d Richard, 2nd Earl of Shannon. MP Ennis 1778-83, Delegate 1783 to Irish Volunteer convention.  Requested to be president of Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828 donated £50. Bandonbridge in Irish Parliament to 1790.  Lady Charlotte Bernard, 2nd daughter married 3rd Viscount Doneraile. Freeman of Cork 1777. 1805 Return by Commissioners Appointed under Act 40, George 111, cap.34, King of England Compensation for Abolition of Pocket and Rotten Boroughs.  Rathcormac, Francis Earl of Bandon, Sampson Stawell (Kinsale) Viscount Doneraile, Trustees in will of of Lord Riversdale, 1787,  (Hull, Schull family), £15,000/£17.3 Million.

Lord Riversdale Hull line, later William Baron Riversdale (Tonson), Lisnegar, Rathcormac.  Pre 1830. Deputy Lieutenant 1832, listed 1838 Presumable ancestor

 

Mrs. Mary O’Leary, Borlin, Bantry, Born Whiddy Island, Died 1958 aged 100.  Her Uncle Reached Age of 111, Lived in Three Centuries (1792-1903)

Cork Mercantile Chronicle:  4th May 1808. Death of Mrs Mary Duke, relict of the late Edward Duke of Bandon, aged 105 years, she enjoyed the happiness of seeing 177 of her children, grand children and great grand children and was perfect in her intellect to the last moment. 

 

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Rev. Robert Traill, Rector Schull, died 1847, Grandfather  of Writer and Playwright, John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

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The Belfast Monthly Magazine Vol. 10, No. 55 (Feb. 28, 1813), pp. 120-121.

The assertion may be correct right up to the 1860s there were strenuous efforts by some Landlords and their Agents to promote productive agriculture but with scant results. The Land tenure at the time did not generally help.

This may have been on either the Kenmare (Brown) or Bantry (White) Estate.

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Aiten Alive With Fleas (Dreancaid in Irish) Until DDT Came Along.

Hard to believe now but for those in their 70s upwards a house even prosperous ones was often shared with fleas. As you went down the social scale the more acute the problem.  Children would dread going to school exposing their necks with multiple flea bites. The miraculously appearance in the 1950s of DDT and a few puffs on the beds fleas gone.  The use of turf for the fire was supposed to exacerbate the problem of infestation.

From the early 1950s DDT was used extensively with miraculous results prior to it being questioned for its long term potential toxic qualities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

John Philpot Curran, Cork born poor scholar, teacher, journalist, barrister, judge, father of Sarah Curran betrothed of executed patriot, Robert Emmett. Eaten alive by fleas while on circuit in Carlow, wrote ‘An Ode to Fleas’

James Joyce in Ulysses refers to Philpot and the flea.

 

 

Dineen’s Irish Dictionary:

 

 

 

 

 

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Patriotic verse by John Philpot Curran, (1750-1817), Lawyer, Wit, MP. Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor, father of Sarah Curran, Newmarket, Co Cork, ‘Let us be Merry before we go’, ‘The Monks of the Screw’, ‘Cushla Ma Chree’

1818, 10 Day Cork Election, Electors Names, addresses including County Freemen. Some Speeches by Voters.

 

Elections pre secret ballot were held with voters announcing their vote on each day of voting.

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mWstfbhokaR33Tou5

 

1827 Election, John Hely Hutchinson, Esq., Gerard Callaghan, Esq., List of Voters including West Cork Freemen of Cork.

 

1783, Listing of Voters in Cork City Election.

 

April 1689. Selection of MPs for Borough of Baltimore.  Cornelius O’Donovan, Morrogh O’Donovan, Cornelius O’Donovan of Kilmacabea, Daniel O’Donovan of Kilgliny, Daniel Regane, Daniel O’Donovan of Gortnaskehy, Tymothy Regan, Daniel O’Donovan of Fournaught (Castlehaven), Thady Regan of Ballinacloghy (Leap), Cornelius O’Donovan of Ballynacala, Keadagh O’Donovan als O’Donovane, all Burgesses of Baltimore have chosen Daniel O’Donovan and Jeremie Donovan Esq. as Member.

 

1853, Meat, Drink and Entertainment Provided for Electors for Cork Election (Bread and Circuses).

 

 

1841 Cork election, Contested Box, Names Addresses of electors, Property Qualifications, Bantry, Beara, Bandon, Clonakilty.

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