Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy, ’An tAthair Tadgh Na Muclagh’, Formerly Parish Priest Durrus, West Cork 1790, Marriage to Sarah Blair, of Blair’s Cove, Durrus, and His Petitions to Dublin Castle, Genealogies.

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Rev Dan McCarthy (Apostatised and married his ward Ms.Sarah Blair) P.P. 1790. He was one of the McCarthy Muclaghs and was known as ‘An t-Athair Tadgh Na Muclagh’. His father used to dispute the claim of the McCarthys of Carrignavar the right to the Chieftainship of the McCarthys. He was influenced by the radical teachings of Voltaire and Rosseau as a student in France.’ He was a classical scholar and acted as interpreter in Bantry between General Dalrymple and the French Officer Prosseau in 1796. His daughter married John Westropp Carey who lived in Glenlough Cottage on the Northside of the Muintervara Peninsula. Carey was formerly of the Peninsular…

1822.   Local Fishery Committees, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Glandore, Baltimore, Crookhaven For Bantry Timothy O’Donovan JP, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, Michael O’Sullivan, Rev. Edward Jones Alcock, Rector Durrus, John Jagoe later Fishery Commissioner, Michael Murphy, Newtown, Bantry, Rev. M McChean, Bantry, John Sandys Bird.

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Background to Members

Mostly Magistrates

Clonakilty

John Leslie, 1835, Sovereign, Clonakilty, probably Courtmacsherry,1835 commenting on good conduct of military in 1835 elections.  1822 local fishery committee. The Leslies of Cork were a branch of the Leslie family of Kincraigie, County Donegal, descended from the Lairds of Kincraigie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Reverend Matthew Leslie, rector of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal in the early 18th century and son of Reverend John Leslie of Kincraigie, Co. Donegal, had four sons including Charles Leslie, medical doctor, of Cork. Charles married Anne Lawton. They had a number of sons including Charles Henry Leslie and John Leslie, bankers, of Cork. Charles H. Leslie also…

1822 Distress,  Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Schull, Crookhaven, Durrus, Bantry, subsisting on Nettle and Weeds which are picked up in Cornfields, Cows have Starved Carcasses Eagerly Sought After by Poor Starving People, Fever Victims Stretched on Pallets of Straw, Cork Branch of London Relief Society.

At the time the coast of West Cork was one of the most densely populated rural areas in the world.

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Death 1983 in Cobh, Co. Cork of Miss Mary Swanton of an old Ballydehob Family, WW1 service, founder with her brothers of bus company serving Cork/Fermoy/Bandon/Macroom/Blarney/ Little Island, a Model of Efficiency before being taken over by CIE, her father Richard Swanton a member of the ‘Bantry Band’ with Tim Healy, Sullivans, Cullinanes  later resigned in protest against British policies as a Justice of the Peace, her mother Helene Genis of Paris related  to Nano Nagle and Edmund Burke and her family a line of Swanton Political Activists

Obituary by R.C. Thompson in Southern Star, Skibbereen,  5th November 1983 courtesy Ginnie Swanton, Seattle, USA.

The article touches on a tradition of politics with some of the Swantons.  Most of the family were Protestant either Methodist or Church of Ireland.  A Kilcrohane branch descends from a Ballydehob Mining Captain who married locally and the descendants are Catholic as are a number of…

Roads are discovered to yield a more profitable crop than farming, 1809 Presentments John Arundel, William and John Swanton, Ballydehob, Alexander O’Driscoll, Skibbereen, John and William Warner, Bantry, Samuel Townsend Henry Ryan, Skibbereen, Later, Birds and Tobins of Kilcrohane, Moss and Nicholas Families Durrus, Shanahans Dunbeacon, Vickeries Ballycomane, Fitzgeralds Baltimore.

The latter families many intermarried and with McCarthys, O’Sullivans, Murnanes of  Letterlickey, Catholic Shannons of Brahalish.

The Fitzgerald are probably the ancestors of JFK’s mother.

Later c 1830s records show the Tobins securing contracts with the Birds of Bantry (Birds and Tobins local agents Lord Bantry) for areas quite distant from home place almost like Irish ‘subbies’ in England.

In 1739 (13 Geo. II, 20 c. 10) Grand Juries were given the power of acquiring any land, other than built-up areas or private gardens, avenues and orchards, that was needed for new roads, and though damages were payable it was…