1602 Map Cork, 1797 Map of Precinct  of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral. Cork one of House named Dromaleague.

 

This was before the building of the present magnificent cathedral was built

Ending 1,200 Years of Burials, Order in Council of Irish Privy Council 1870, Closing The Graveyard of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork Excepting Those Listed Families On Schedule.

 

The Worlds Only Female Freemason: In Pious Memory of THE HONOURABLE ELIZABETH ALDWORTH wife of Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork, Esq. Daughter of Arthur First Viscount Doneraile, Her Remains Lie Close To This Spot (St. Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork), Born 1685 Died 1775. Initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge No. 44 at Doneraile Court, In This County A.D. 1712.

 

Bishops of Cork 630 AD to 1807 AD from Records of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork.

 

St. Finbarr’s Cathedral Cork, 1790 List of Properties, Tenants, Cork City and County, List of Cork Bishops 600 ad-1790 a.d. List of Clergy’s Livings

 

Original Tithe Ledgers 1770-1780 of South Liberties of Cork belonging to St. Finbarrs Cathedral, listing land holders and valuations held in RCB Library, Dublin. Includes listing of small holders names local to areas Catholic and Protestant, very legible.

 

1866, Death of Appirator, Dick Neal (1799-1866) and Bellows Blower, for 54 years to Cathedral of St. Finbarrs, Cork, Remembered the Graves of the Young Man who fell from the old Steeple Putting up the Cock, Mr. Voster the Arithmatician, West Digges The Comedian, O’Brien The Irish Giant Interred in Two Graves To Escape the Doctors Who Eventually Got At Him.

 

W Cowley and James White sitting with Jury in Cork February 1541 Deputies of the King’s Commission for Co. Cork forfeiting Monasteries, Abbey of the Cave of St. Finbarr or Gill Abbey (including lands at Kilcrohane and Bantry, West Cork), Benedctine Priory of Rosscarbery with Church and Buttery, Carmelite House, Kinsale.

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1868, Photograph, Gougane Barra

Notice this was taken before forestry plantation.

https://durrushistory.com/2015/09/27/callanan-j-j-cork-city-at-lisbon-on-the-evening-of-the-19th-of-september-1829-mr-j-j-callanan-he-was-a-native-of-this-city-and-had-distinguished-himself-by-his-poetical-compositions-whic/n Barra

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Thomas Crofton Croker FSA Esq., (1789-1854), at Gougan Barra (Guagán Barra: Barry’s Rock), 23rd June 1813, Lighting Fires on the Eve of St. John, Cudgels, Prayers, Rebellious Songs, from his Researches in the South of Ireland

Devotions to Father Bernane, Moulivard, Durrus, 28th June, Holy Well Visitation at Kil-na-Comoge, Kealkil, Lady’s Day 15th August, Pilgrimage to St. Finbarr, Gougán Barra, West Cork, 25th September.

The Bishop of Cork , John Murphy, wrote on the 9th June 1817, to the parish priest of Inchigeela, Macroom, the Reverend. Jeremiah Holland. He imposed the penalty of excommunication on those who attended the Pattern at Gougán.

 

Jeremiah Joseph (JJ) Callanan, 1786-1829, Some poems From Irish, Dirge of O’Sullivan Bere, The lament of O’Gnieve, The Outlay of Loch Lene, The Convict of Clonmel. Original English Gougaune Barra (I too shall be gone;- but my name shall be spoken When Erin awakes, and her fetters are broken), Oh Say, my ‘Brown Drimin’, On Cleada’s Hill (Mountain range between Millstreet and Killarney) the Moon is Bright, Poetry Hot Spots 1810s 1820s Carbery, Caheragh, Drinagh and Castlehaven. Extended Cork Callanan Medical/Apothecary Family. Patron Dr. Burke, Bantry 1820s.

 

 

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1905, Norma Borthwick, Primer for Children in Irish with Cartoons

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vRBVzGCRJbuboTKZ7

 

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

1729.  Daniel O’Donovan, (The O’Donovan) Bawnlahan, Leap, Skibbereen, Renounced Popery.  Late 1844 Sir Richard de Burgo.   Recanted at Castletownroche probably in connection with marriage.

From 1590 West Cork experienced very substantial inward migration marking it out as different then most parts of Ireland excepting Dublin, Cork and some of the Northern Counties. Allied to that at 1840 it had one of the world’s largest rural population density. Massive emigration from the 1810 means that many worldwide have connections. DNA testing is now showing that a person’s religion or surname only partly explains their complex genetic inheritance.

There was traffic also in the other direction. In the late 1830s the Rev. Fisher of Toormore/Altar said that formerly a large area of Crookhaven was known as ‘Protestant Hill’ but they had gone over to the Church of Rome and had become what he said were ‘Bitter Romanists’

Cork Convert Rolls:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12-TQFfRKt_p6AGtxLaHODge_ReszztDcE-NFF1626_c/edit#gid=0
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Castletownroche records transcribed 1909 by Colonel Grove White.

Note by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Historian.

Son of Richard and daughter of the Knight of Kerry. ‘The O’Donovan’ the head of the Clan married firstly Miss Anne Kearney, Garretstown, for the second time who in his 60s Jane Beecher aged 15/16 and had a second large family. He renamed the Bawnlahan Estate Castle Jane.

Renunciation after first marriage and The Kearneys of Garretstown House also renounced relations the Franks, Rochfords. 49 years before his death.

His son Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan, married Miss Powell from Wales, they had no children the estate passed to her nephew. The title of Chieftain ‘The O’Donovan’ passed to the Montpelier (Douglas) Cork branch.

Lieutenant General Richard O’Donovan, on his death line passed to Rev. Morgan O’Donovan line.  1840s correspondence between Dr. John O’Donovan and Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate, Durrus suggested rightful Chief may  be a ploughman in Castlehaven or cobbler in Waterford.

Lands to let 1769:

To be let for 31 years part of Estate of Daniel O’Donovan, Esq., Kilglinny 760 acres. Keahagh in harbour of Castlehaven 121 acres.  Apply Daniel O’Donovan, Baunlahan or William Heard, Attorney, Cork.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit

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Recantations:

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/7484  Recantations (Public Conversions to the Church of Ireland), St. Nicholas Church, Cork, 1765-1774, Robert Meakings, Ann Crowley, Stephen Walsh, Walter Reilly, Thomas Byon, James McCarthy of Dunmanway, Catherine Barker, Coleman Walsh (Possibly Drimoleague) and Juli(?) Murphy.

Miss Mary Twomey from Schull near Skibbereen reads her Recantation from The Errors of The Church of Rome and Embraced the Protestant Religion at St. Nicholas Church, Cork.

1718. Will of James O’Hea, (Copied by Welply Prior to 1922 Destruction) Killkeirane, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, be be Buried in Ancestral Tomb, Timoleague, O’Heas in Convert Rolls.

Public renunciations against Popery and Conversions in Clonakilty, Inniscarra, Kilnagross and Caherconlish, Co. Cork, 1769-70 from John T Collins, Newspaper Abstracts.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?s=popery&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=0&paged=1&action2=-1

https://durrushistory.com/2015/09/29/format-of-converts-affidavits-in-relation-to-conversion-from-the-errors-of-papacy-deponent-swears-that-he-did-not-convert-for-any-temporal-advantage-but-solely-from-conscientious-conviction-an-to/
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1835. Suggested Rail and Sea Link Ireland to St. John’s Newfoundland.

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From, at the end there is a searchable index :

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10920/page/244269

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