Some Early Bantry Lawyers

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Some Early Bantry Lawyers

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BantryDistrict Inspector area RIC
1819Old Manor Pound referred toMemorial 528228
Manor CourtJohn Jagoe’s evidence to Parliamentary Enquiry very poor reputation, Senescal a tanner, salary c £60-£80 per annum Probably arising from Lord Bantry as Lord of Manaor he directly appoints Seneschal.Manor of Altham, Beara, Granted by Charles 2 to the then Earl of Anglesea, later controlled by the White/Lord Bantry.Manor of Bantry: Patent 1679. Earl of Bantry.Manor of Donemark: Under Earl of KenmareReference is made to the 1679 report of the Lieutenant General of Ireland, the Earl of
Ormond, proposing the creation of two manors in favour of Anglesea. The manors are granted by king’s
chancery roll of 6 February 1679, creating the Manor of Bantry and the manor of Altham. The present deed
confirms that and grants demenses in each manor to Anglesea…

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

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

John Hely Hutchinson was the son of John Hely, the Hutchinson was added to enable an inheritance of his wife to come good. He was a man of humble origin from Donoghmore, Co. Cork but amazing ability.  At some stage the family converted to the Church of Ireland.  Later provost of Trinity College, Dublin against the wishes of the Fellows. A Placeman of the British interest but grasping.  Said of him ‘if you gave John, Ireland, England and Wales, he would come back and look for the Isle of Man for a Potato garden’

Donoughmore:

 

Tim Healy, Bantry born, M.P., Barrister, Governor General of the Irish  Free State was the grandson of a teacher Healy from Donoughmore.  Probably the same line they share certain trains ultimate pragmatism. barristers, an instinct for the winning prize.

 

 

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West Cork Freemen:

 

West Cork Freemen of Cork

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1859. Landed Estates Court Sale of Estate (567 acres) of Thomas Hungerford at Inchafune (Keelnareliga, Gutteeetown,The Commons, Monanearig Bog), East Carbery, 3 Miles East Dunmanway, West Cork, Maps, Among Names, Bryan, Butler, Carroll, Crowley, Cullinan, Donegan, Driscoll, Dullet, Gillman, Holmes, Jagoe, O’Callaghan, McCarthy, Dr. Morrison, Murphy, Santry, Swanton. Possible connection between Judge Robert Swanton, New York and Cork Dunscomb family.

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https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Inchafune,+Co.+Cork/@51.7017328,-9.0696352,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4844ffc5372a9713:0x7361980699f9d56a!8m2!3d51.7017295!4d-9.0521204 1859. Landed Estates Court Sale of Estate (567 acres) of Thomas Hungerford at Inchafune (Keelnareliga,…

1847. Listed Voters of Kinsale.

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1847. Listed Voters of Kinsale.

 

 

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Records of Catholic Population, Kinsale at Carmelite Friary 1843-1874

1688, Jurors, Inquisition, Ballinspittle, Kinsale. Initiated by Mary de Courcy, Lady Kinsale, Widow of Patrick,  to Recover, Dower, Jurors: John Cloghlan (Couglan?), John How, Thomas Dodgin, Arminger Marsh, John Burrows, Edmund Kenny, Tomas Hewett, William Sweete, Benjamin Bellew, Edward Rashly, Dominic Brown, John Fepps

From 1594, Presentments, Corporation Records, Deeds of Kinsale Naming Inhabitants and Addresses.

1795-1824.  Electorate of Co.Cork, Freemen, 40 shillings, £20, £50, Householders, Rentchargers, Bandon Bridge, Kinsale, Manor of Mallow.

 

1788 Kinsale Heart Tax Returns with Exemptions. Loss of Window Tax Returns and Irish Tax Revenue 1818-8. Applications to Reopen Closed Hearths on Advice of Physicians for Those with Fever.

 

1749. Opening of Kinsale Charter School by The Incorporated Society in Dublin For Promoting English Protestant Schools. 20 Boys Admitted making Nets. Corporation and Local Subscriptions of £78 a Year.

 

1859. Military Enquiry into Activities of Co. Antrim Militia into Alleged Orange Riots Pre 12th July at Kinsale Co. Cork. 1,077 Panes of Glass Broken, Houses of 20 Protestants and 700 Catholics Attacked, 100 Militia Men Brandishing Bayonets, Father Carton Attacked, Counterattack, Ballad of Kinsale or the Defeat of the Antrim Orangemen.

 

Creation of Baron of Kinsale, Co. Cork Originally by Tenure by Writ of Summons and By Patent in 1397, 20th Richard 2nd. Baron Carbery Created 1715.

 

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April 1921, Burning by IRA of The College, Rosscarbery, Co.Cork, reputedly the lineal successor of a Famous School Established in the Sixth century by Saint Fachtna and Derry House Rosscarbery, House of Alexander Sullivan, Kings Counsel and Last Serjeant-at-Law Only Barrister Who Could Be Obtained to Defend Sir Roger Casement 1916

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April 1921, Burning by IRA of The College, Rosscarbery, Co.Cork, reputedly the lineal successor of a famous school established in the sixth century by Saint Fachtna and Derry House Rosscarbery, House of Alexander Sullivan, Kings Counsel and Last Serjeant-at-Law Only Barrister Who Could Be Obtained to Defend Sir Roger Casement 1916

From James S. Donnelly, Junior, Big House Burnings, Co. Cork.

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Though their initial plan for a full-scale assault against the Rosscarbery police barracks was derailed, members of the West Cork Brigade mounted another and this time successful effort at the end ofMarch 1921. Bombs and fire destroyed the ground-floor rooms of the barracks before its defenders surrendered with heavy casualties two dead and nine more wounded. Adjacent to the barracks, and almost in the centre of the town, stood that venerable and Protestant institution called “The College” (figure 3), which was directed byMrs. Zoe Louise Becher, wife…

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1890, Return of Rents fixed by Irish Land Commission on some West Cork Estates (Bantry, Dunmanway, Kealkil, Kilcrohane, Whiddy, Schull),  Lord Bandon, Barrett, Bird, Clinton, Kenmare, Swanton, Lord Bantry, Shouldham, Hull, Becher, Tobin, O’Sullivan, Tenants, Townlands.

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1890, Return of Rents fixed by Irish Land Commission on some West Cork Estates (Bantry, Dunmanway, Kealkil, Kilcrohane, Whiddy, Schull),  Lord Bandon, Barrett, Bird, Clinton, Kenmare, Swanton, Lord Bantry, Shouldham, Hull, Becher, Tobin, O’Sullivan, Tenants, Townlands.

 

These records are stored in a warehouse in Portlaoise no public access.

 

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/18651/page/498880, p. 34, 66, 82.

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1884, P. 30.

 

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Wonder if this is Thomas Gosnell?

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P. 122, 1887.

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Genealogy Cork Cotters, Norway, Hebridees, Cork.

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Genealogy Cork Cotters, Norway, Hebridees, Cork.

Courtesy Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1908, 1937

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Oileán ‘sea Cléire, Memories of Tráigh Chiaráin, A Cape Clear Sailorman, Lamentation for my Mother, The Fastnet, The Dance, Dánta de Pat the Poet Cotter (John K. Cotter) as ‘An Logainmníocht in Óileán Cléire

The Cotters Of Inchigeela, Co. Cork.

Thomas Young Cotter 1805-1882, Bantry born First Colonial Surgeon 1835, South Australia. Related to Bantry Young Family, Fish Merchants.

1655, Will of James Sarsfield Cork naming Edmund and James Cotter Overseers. Cotter, Galwey, Meade, Sarsfield Magistrates.

Recollections of Colonel George Cotter, at Lake Erie Canada, of Fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, Joined 69th Regiment in 1804, Given Freedom of Cork 1818, Son of Rev. George Cotter, Castlemartyr, Grandson of Sir James Cotter Bart, Died Western Canada (Probably Dunnville, Ontario) 1867.

1807, Failure of Cork Bank, Cotter and Kellets, with Liabilities of £420,000

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.

 

 

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Rev. Paul Limrick legal Action c 1725 re Glebe of Crookhaven, In the court case concerning the glebe in Crookhaven, Paul wrote “Crookhaven is eight miles of barbarous road from Skull, and in winter, though I take horse before day, I can scarce reach Crookhaven by 12 o’clock. I am obliged immediately, without refreshing myself, to take horse and ride in the night to get home, for there is not in the whole parish a bed a man can lie on, or a morsel to be eaten…” People mentioned: Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan, ordained in Cork 1618, fled to England in Rising 1641 and died there, Thadeus Coghlan son to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan husband to Sarah, Richard Coghlan, Mrs. Sarah Coghlan, 80, married to Thadeus son to Rev. Demetrius, Mary Coghlan granddaughter by her mother to Mary Coghlan alias Spain whose grandfather was the proprietor of 8 Gneeves at Crookhaven, Donagh McWilliam Coghlan, Proctor to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan. Jeremy/Jeremiah Coghlan, great grandson to Rev. Demetrius O’Coghlan, probably Attorney, Seneschal of Dungarvan Manager with Andrew Crotty of Devonshire Estate Waterford, married Miss Evanson Durrus. Brigid Limrick daughter of Rev. Paul married Benjamin Sullivan, self styled Ó Sullivan Mór, Attorney Cork and Clerk of Crown Cork and Waterford mother of Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Judge of Supreme Court, Madras, India, Colonel Henry Becher grandfather of Henry Becher built a fish palace c 1650 east of Crookhaven Church in opposition to Richard Hull. Darby Mahony 62, son of Teige Mahony, agent, driver to Sir Richard Hull, Gibson moved to a farm on favourable terms by Hull suggestion he was illegitimate son (that it was a pig of his own sow), John Cullane, Mason c 1650.

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Rev.Paul Limrick legal Action c 1725 re Glebe of Crookhaven,

In the court case concerning the glebe in Crookhaven, Paul wrote “Crookhaven is eight miles of barbarous road from Skull, and in winter, though I take horse before day, I can scarce reach Crookhaven by 12 o’clock. I am obliged immediately, without refreshing myself, to take horse and ride in the night to get home, for there is not in the whole parish a bed a man can lie on, or a morsel to be eaten…”

Later road built:

1824 Sir Richard Griffith, Road Engineer, Progress Report, Skibbereen to Crookhaven, Wheeled Carts now Appear, where heretofore Loads were carried on the Backs of Horses, New Entrance to Town Of Bandon, Road From Courtmacsherry to Timoleague, Road from Clonakilty to New Fishery Pier At Ring, New Road Skibbereen to Bantry, Macroom to Killarney, with a Note on The System of…

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Report of James O’Sullivan, Berehaven on French Invasion, Bantry Bay, 2nd January 1797.

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Report of James O’Sullivan, Berehaven on French Invasion, Bantry Bay, 2nd January 1797.

Imagined Landing of the French in Bantry Bay 1796 from the London Printing and Publishing Company

Cartoon from Bond Street, London January 1797 on Destruction of French Armada at Bantry Bay.

Notes on the Movement of the French Fleet in Bantry Bay and Panic in Bantry on Friday the 23rd December 1796, the women seek asylum in Bandon or Cork or to the Kerry Hills from a contemporaneous note by Edward Morgan.

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