1750, Incorporated Society for the Promotion of English Protestant Working Schools in Ireland, School at Kinsale Projected Dunmawany, Innishannon, Lists of Subscribers, Kinsale, Innishannon.
22 Friday Jun 2018
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1750, Incorporated Society for the Promotion of English Protestant Working Schools in Ireland, School at Kinsale Projected Dunmawany, Innishannon, Lists of Subscribers, Kinsale, Innishannon.
19 Tuesday Jun 2018
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Maurice O’Fihelly, (Maurizio Hibernice; Maurice the Irishman). Baltimore c 1466-1516, Franciscan Friar, Chair of Scotist philosophy at Padua University between 1494 and 1513., Flora Mundai (Flower of the World).

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Courtesy Southern Star:
http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/gaels/stories/rossbrin.htm
Donall O’Fihelly is alleged to have compiled his Annals of Ireland at Rossbrin Castle. The annals tell us that Donall and Maurice O’Fihelly received tuition in advanced Latin by Finghinn O Mathuna. The O’Fihellys were scions of the O’Driscoll race who hailed from Tuatha Ui Fitcheallaigh which embraces the parish of Ardfeild near Clonakilty.
In their early religious lives, both Donall and Maurice O’Fihelly belonged to the Franciscan friary community on Sherkin Island. Donall went to Merton College in Oxford University, and may have returned to be a part of the Franciscan community in Timoleague Friary. Maurice entered the school of Franciscan Studies in Milan in the latter 1480s. He became the head of Franciscan studies in the early 1490s. He held the chair of Scotist philosophy at Padua University between 1494 and 1513. The eloquence of Maurice in Latin earned him the title of ‘Flos Mundi’, a title that was formally conferred on him by Doge Lorendano of Venice. In Italy, Maurice O’Fihelly wrote under the name of Maurizio Hibernice; Maurice the Irishman.
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19 Tuesday Jun 2018
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1774 Marriage Settlement of Bernards of Bandon of Townlands in West Carbery Title Perfected by Enrolment of Chancery Deed 1837.
Reeves were a Dublin firm of attorneys with strong Cork connections who piloted many such bills through the parliament of the then United Kingdom to perfect title to property.

16 Saturday Jun 2018
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1656. Petition of The Following, ‘That Daniell O’Donovand als O’Donovane of Curraghnylickey, Most Knew Him before 1641 Rebellion, as a Civil Honest, and Quite Gentleman’, Samuell Browne, Edward Renys, Edward Clerke, Francis Barnett (Mark) Mathew Perrott, Amos Bennets, Robert Osborne, Dermod O’Mahowby, Samuel Skinner, William Holcombe, Thomas Attridge, Barnabe Witcherly, Der. Coughlan, Will Corlless, Thomas Recraft (Roycroft), Mathew Sweethman (Sweetnam), Geyles Smith (Mark), Timothy Coughlane, Ja? Base, Abel Marshall, John Vallyes (mark), Ralph Fuller, Teig Has (O’Hea?), Phippip Ottrrydge (Attridge), John Baily, John Abbott, Philip Madoxe, Rowland Neild, William Ottrydge (Attridge), Thomas Hungerford, Samuel Poole, James Dyer, Richard Nobbs, John Chamberlen (Mark), Bart Philpot, Richard Skines (Skuse?) (Mark), Henry Abbott (Mark), Richard Chambers (Mark), Thomas Duggen.
Curraghnylickey, in Drinagh
There is a further certificate dated 1661 from Henrie Becher testifying that Daniel O’Donovan was civil to all English of the Chief Gentry. At his burial he was poor, there was…
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04 Monday Jun 2018
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Some Trinity College Dublin and Other College West Cork Entries from 1593 to 1860.
This is an early stage of a project that will take time. Many of the records were abstracted by Dr. Albert Casey’s (of Birmingham, Alabama) researchers, possibly in conjunction with Basil O’Connell (Retired head of CID, Burma in the 1950s) in compiling the O’Connell tracts. This tracks all known descendants of Daniel O’Connell.
Because for a large part of the period no Catholic could enter Trinity College around 80% of the population was excluded from the only University on the Island. This must have been a major factor in Ireland’s chronic economic underdevelopment. Modern economics stresses the importance of the development of human capital.
Bandon entries:
http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/trinity_college_dublin_bandon.htm
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XqqotR2saKPgEoty6
Alumini Trinity College, Dublin from Co Cork and Kerry, 1593-1860
29 Tuesday May 2018
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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)
Looking at the wording there may have been two Samuel Dohertys
These wills were copied by Welply. They may be of the Bandon Doherty Legal and estate management family associated with Wheelers. They ended up de facto owning the Bandon (Bernard) Estate by late 19th century by mortgage. The Estate records were acquired from the family by Cork Librarian Padraig Ó Máidin (Paddy Madden) c 1970 and are now in the Cork Archives.
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Bandon Dohertys Lawyers:
| 1807,1816, 1818, 1824, 1825, 1828, 1839, 1851 | Edward Doherty | Attorney and Solicitor in the Four Courts and Master extra in Chancery and Town Clerk, Commissioner of Affadavits 1835 CH. Seneschal of Castlemahon/Castlebernard | South Main St. Other names Treselian Balinadee Robert will of 1787, Thomas Biggs the younger, John Sloan may have been a writing clerk. 1851 sale of ware estate. Committee member Bandon Navigation Scheme 1842. Managing Committee Bandon Brunswick Constitutional Club 1828. | Memorial 483753, married Christchurch to Sarah 3rd daughter of John Wheeler Esq., Bandon, deceased. | May be in Kings Inns admissions 1805, 3rd son James Cork, merchant, decd. Mary Gillman, over 16 ed Cork, Attorney Exchequer 1811. | Slater Directory 1824, 1835 Pettigrew and Oulart Directory | |
| 1831 | Edward James Doherty | Kings Inns | 1st son Edward, Dublin, Sarah Wheeler, over 16 ed Bandon affadavit father | ||||
| 1876 | J.Doherty | Solicitor | Subscriber Dr. Daniel Donovan ‘History of Carbery, 1876. | ||||
| 1818-1883, 1835 | Richard Wheeler Doherty | Kings Inns, Solicitor 1842, Law Agent. for Conservatives, Bandon. Magistrate. Business agent. Land Agent Earl of Bandon and Bishop of Tuam (Bernard connection) | 2nd son Edward, attorney, Bandon, Sarah Wheeler, ed Bandon affadavit father | Richard Wheeler Doherty (1818-1883), Oak Villa, Bandon, son Edward, solicitor, Sarah Wheeler, m Martha Wheeler, Innishannon d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive. | Will £8,170,. 1883 | ||
| Post 1870 | Richard Wheeler Doherty | Solicitor | Oak Villa, Bandon, father Richard solicitor, m Martha Wheeler, d Richard, Merchant, agent Bandon, Bishop of Tuam and other estates, solicitor, firms papers now in Cork Archive. M 1881 Elizabeth Maria Ann Biggs, he died 1922 Penzance, Cornwall | 1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner |
Small Pox:
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 Reverend John Richardson, Rector of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, author of ‘The Great Folly, Superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, Especially of that to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, together With an Account of the Loss that the public Sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially Represented his account at Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, 1727 of 13th century wooden statue of St. Gobnait (Patroness of Bee Keepers) as an antidote to small pox being kept by the O’Herlihys.
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’
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.
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.
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, West Cork.
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28 Monday May 2018
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Methodist Baptismal Register, Bantry, West Cork including Durrus, Glengariff and Drimoleague 1883-1933.
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26 Saturday May 2018
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Wills, 1615, William Hill, Bristol/Cork other Hills Bandon, 1616 Richard Dowe, Carrigrohane, 1619, Philip Perry, Bandon, 1624, Barbara Neale, Kinsale, 1635, William Wiseman, Bandon, Edward Turner, Ballygoban (Bantry), 1642, John Draper, Ballymodan, Bandon, 1642, Edward Watkins, Bandon, 1651, Thomas Adderly, Innishannon, 1652, Hugh Pecival, Kinsale, 1673, Ralph Fenwick lands at Carbery, 1676 William Roycroft, Bandon, 1708, Tomas Becher, Sherkin, 1709 John Coughlan Bandon, 1712, Theophilus Lankford, Kinsale, 1715, Rev. Thomas Holmes, Dromfinchin, Bantry, 1718 Anthony Butler (Witness George Wood, Caheragh), probably Drimoleague area, 1719 Cornelius Conner, Bandon, 1722 Roger Houghton, Kinsale, 1724 David Meade, Kinsale, 1726, 1728 Christopher Dowden, Bandon, William Hull, Lemcon, Schull, 1737 Daniel Conner, Bandon, 1738 Henry Jones, Drounbeg, East Carbery, 1739, Jonathan Tanner, Bandon, 1743, 1743, Henry Baldwin, Mossgrove, John Fair, Kinsale, 1765, Edward Herrick, Shippool, 1775 James Chaney, Barryroe. 1778 Lord Baron James Tracton, Kinsale. 1779, Joseph Dowden, Bandon, 1782, Mrs. Jane Busteed, Bandon, 1786, Samuel Jervois, Cork. 1789, David Mellefont, Grafton St., Dublin (Mellefonts appear in Convert Rolls, Donemark, Bantry and Dunmanway), 1799 Morgan Deasy, Doctor of Physic, Clonakilty, 1801 Richard Roycroft, Clonee, Durrus.
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Some Cork Wills (1528-1859), destroyed in 1922 copied by William Henry Welply of Balineen, West Cork.
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From Welply Collection Roycroft (Bandon Roycrofts probably ancestors of Schull/Durrus/Bantry Roycrofts):

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Some Durrus/Bantry Deeds:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AAa_hTrtStGp4LT3SrBIiUmgpvOqlvRo6Vg1V5Tw4Ts/edit.

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Mellefonts appear in Convert Rolls, Donemark, Bantry and Dunmanway.
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24 Thursday May 2018
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1846. Subscribers to Projected Railway (Probably to Skibbereen), Francis Roycroft, Accountant, €2,500, John Shannon, Accountant, £2,500, Thomas Attridge, £3,250, Dealer all Ballydehob, Daniel Donovan, M.D., Skibbereen, £2,500.
The mechanics to build railway was by depositing a draft Act of Parliament adn then having it passed. The background papers woud have financial projections, maps and listing of subscribers who if the project was approved would be called on to invest. If approved the Company would have powers of Compulsory Purchase.
The list give an indication of the scale of wealth in West Cork contrary to common belief.
The large west Co.Cork town of Skibbereen was first served by rail when the Illen Valley Railway constructed a line from Drimoleague to here in July 1877. The Cork Bandon & South Coast Railway took over the IVR and extended the line south from Skibbereen to reach Baltimore in May 1893, and after which the route was effectively worked as branch from the main line at Drimoleague. In September 1886, the Schull & Skibbereen Tramway built a 3ft gauge line west from here to connect with Schull. The S&ST was the first to close in January 1947, with the Baltimore branch closing along with the rest of the west Cork lines in March 1961.
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| 1822, 1840, 1859 | Dr. Daniel Donovan Senior MD | Doctor, Dispensary Officer 1840. Magistrate, Donovan Daniel, sen, North street | Skibbereen 1847 distress meeting. Seeking equality of endowment in Catholic education 1859. Born at Ross of ‘island’ branch who formerly owned Ross town. Son Henry Solicitor died 1873. 1810, 1831, 1840, 1846 Dr. Thomas Burke 1824, Surgeon, HP, Blackrock-road (NGC). Possible The Square, 1810 Thomas Burke Half Pay Surgeon married Margaret McCarthy, (1784-1831), posssibly through her he acquired lands at Caheragh, she was likely of the Muclaghs (Clann Tighe Roe Scartaigh) and the lands from McCarthy Gurtnascreena. “May be from Caheragh the person that poet JJ Callanan stayed with for around 2 years when he wrote Gougan Barra and Lamesnt to Morty Oge. memorial to Father Walsh PP leaving Bantry. Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry, gave a speech promoting reeclamation of waste, mine development, employment rather than charity. 1846 distress meeting Bantry. Railway subscriber, 1846, £2,500. | 1822 subscribed Durrus Church Building Funds as Dr. O’Donovan, Glenlough. Famine Diary of Doctor O’Donovan, Dispensary Doctor, Skibbereen, West Cork, Bodies Buried Coffinless in the Dead of Night in Dunmanus Weighed Down By Stones, to Prevent Starving Dogs From Getting At The Bodies, The Funeral Cry No Longer heard. | Daniel O’Donovan MD has land in Knockeens, Glanroon in Griffiths. He was married to a sister of Rickard Deasy of the Clonakilty brewing family, MP and Attorney General for Ireland and later Judge. | 1840 testimonial to Captain Lyttelton Lyster Esq. Union Hall, Rosscarbery, Subscriber Lewis Topographical Praised on leaving Union Hall 1840 for managing dispensary Loan Funds established by the Countess of Kingston, and given plate by Richard Townsend JP, Point House, Major Allen, Stoneville, Richard Townsend Junior, Clontaff, JP, Philip Somerville, Union Hall, Rev. Edward P. Thompson, Henry Townsend JP, Castletownsend, Thomas Somerville JP, Drishane, Rev James E. Somerville, DD, Union Hall, Richard Adams, Glandore Lodge, John Fitzhenry Townsend, J.R. Barry, JP, Glandore House, Lionel J Fleming, New Court, Father James Mulcahy, Myross, William Baldwin, Baltnathona |
Probably the same a Magistrate:
Dr. Daniel O’Donovan 1818, Norton Cottage, Skibbereen, listed 1838, son Richard Esq. O’Donovan Cove, and Jane d Alexander O’Donovan, Squince. Fond of dogs. Brother of Timothy and Richard O’Donovan J.P. and uncle of Richard O’Donovan J.P.. Daniel O’Donovan MD has land in Knockeens, Glanroon in Griffiths. Rented Ahakista Cottage from Charles Evanson. On the 14th August 1846, at Lee View, Cork, the residence of the Lady’s father William Harrington, Druggist, Daniel O’Donovan, M.D., J.P. Ahakista, Agnes, eldest daughter of William. Subscriber at Woodview, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. 1850 his boat involved in rescue of Mountaineer at Dunmanus Bay at O’Donovan’s Point. Buried in Harrington tomb...
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Shannons, Durrus probably same line:
1804, rent charge granted by Richard Blair, Esq., Blair’s Cove of £17 for 5 years over Cannanaacaha part of Coolculaghta to John Shannon, Gent., Brahalish, Richard Shannon, Gent., Brahalish, tenanted by John Stanley and his undertenants, witness Robert Shannon, Capanaloha, farmer.
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23 Wednesday May 2018
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This gallery contains 6 photos.
Originally posted on West Cork History:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Caheragh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6325476,-9.3152706,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4845a797cbacb2a1:0xa00c7a99731ea90!8m2!3d51.6325484!4d-9.3065158?hl=en Pre famine Caheragh had one of the highest rural population densities in the world. The…