Early Ordnance Survey Map Showing Site of McCarthy Castle, Scart, Bantry, Silver Mines, Lead Mines on Hutchinson Estate.

c 1620 the McCarthys relocated from Scart to Gearhameen in Durrus. The replacement Castle is wrongly called Cú na Long. Some years ago during reclamation work near the site of Scart Castle (of which there are no remains) a piece of highly ornamented stonework was found. Last year I was unable to locate it in ditches.

Early Ordnance Survey Map Showing Site of McCarthy Castle, Scart, Bantry, Silver Mines, Lead Mines on Hutchinson Estate.

Genealogy of McCarthy (Muclagh/Clann Tadhg Ruaidh-na-Scairte) family of Scart (Durrus/Bantry), West Cork, later Cul-na-long, from 1185 AD including descendants of Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy from Samuel Trant McCarthy, High Sheriff Co.Kerry, Srugrena Abbey 1912 intermarried with O’Learys Incigeela, McCarthys Kilcoe, O’Donovans, O’Mahonys Dunbeacon, McCarthys Dunmanway, Blairs Bantry/Coolculaghta/Blair’s Cove among others, 18th century family members in France.

Death 1634 of Daniel McCarthy (Mucklagh), Scart Castle, Bantry and Coolnalong Castle, Gearhameen, Durrus.  Buried in the Abbey Bantry.

Lead Mine, Gortycloona, Silver Mine Kilvenogue, Old McCarthy Castle, Scart.

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Sale of Durrus/Bantry, West Cork Estate of Arthur Hutchinson Deceased by landed Estate Court, 1854 including to Townlands of Derrivahallow, Killovenogue, Clonee, Ahagoheen, Parkanna, part of Moulivard, Gutheyclona, Middle and West Letterlickey with valuable Lead Deposits with Legal Tenure, Maps, Tenant’s details:

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1837.  Disentailing deed, Hutchinson/Orpen. Deed of Hutchinson Estate Durrus/Bantry.

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Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus, Reendonegan 1843, Durrus, Bantry d 1851, Hutchinson estate in Durrus/Bantry sold by landed Estates Court, no known relations.  1788 map of Carbery Estate indicated owner of lands Hugh Hutchinson who may be father.  1837 disentailing deed of Hutchinson estate Arthur Hutchinson to Henry Orpen, Killowen, Co. Kerry.  1840 Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee,  Magistrate at 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law.  Board of Guardians Bantry 1844.   Presentment sessions Ballydehob 1845. A 1847, landlord and magistrate, no less a personage than Minor Hutchinson, was indicted for assault and battery committed against McCarthy, a tenant, Letterlickey,  who paid the sum of fifty pounds rent. Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.  Avenue at Clonee planted with contemplated house overlooking Bantry Bay never built.  May be distantly related to Ballydehob Swanton family.  May be an 18th century old house in nearby Aughogheen remains of old flowers and field name.  1851 rental £9,000, encumbrances £21,000, arrears £6,300.  Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs.  Estate sold for 28 and a half times rent.  1854 partly planted with trees. 1870 Lord Clinton, 1890 Lord C P P Clinton. 1843 listed as resident Reendonegah House with demesne 23 acres for letting contact Jeremiah O’Connell Esq., Bantry.  Despite his estate being sold with no known relations his nephew William was charged with trying to effect entry into the mines at Kileenvogue property of Captain O’Flaherty in 1858.

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http://www.maplandia.com/ireland/south-west/cork/durrus/

1837.  Disentailing deed Hutchinson/Orpen Deed of Hutchinson Estate Durrus/Bantry.

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Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee, Durrus, Reendonegan 1843, Durrus, Bantry d 1851, Hutchinson estate in Durrus/Bantry sold by landed Estates Court, no known relations. 1788 map of Carbery Estate indicated owner of lands Hugh Hutchinson who may be father.  1840 Arthur Hutchinson, Clonee,  Magistrate at 1840 Great Meeting Bantry re Poor Law.  Board of Guardians Bantry 1844.   Presentment sessions Ballydehob 1845. A 1847, landlord and magistrate, no less a personage than Minor Hutcheson, was indicted for assault and battery committed against McCarthy, a tenant, Letterlickey,  who paid the sum of fifty pounds rent. Attending Famine Relief Meeting Dunmanway 1846.  Avenue at Clonee planted with contemplated house overlooking Bantry Bay never built.  May be distantly related to Ballydehob Swanton family.  May be an 18th century old house in nearby Aughogheen remains of old flowers and field name.  1851 rental £9,000, encumbrances £21,000, arrears £6,300.  Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs.  Estate sold for 28 and a half times rent.  1854 partly planted with trees. 1870 Lord Clinton, 1890 Lord C P P Clinton. 1843 listed as resident Reendonegan House with demesne 23 acres for letting contact Jeremiah O’Connell Esq., Bantry.  Despite his estate being sold with no known relations his nephew William was charged with trying to effect entry into the mines at Kileenvogue property of Captain O’Flaherty in 1858.

 

 

https://books.google.ie/books?id=sNG5V5KPY_4C&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Richard+Newman+Perry,+Ballinadee,&source=bl&ots=xqjdro9UH9&sig=GaZkfFel7sDiQ5ho8w8VEPR4yrE&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMpKjNrr7YAhWHDMAKHeoPDxYQ6AEINTAH#v=onepage&q=cork&f=false

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Letterlickey

Lot 492 Donagh McDermod and Daniell McDermody 9 gneeves 348 acres common mountaain? parts. Probably now forested abbutting Ballycomane. 492 A, Tymine McOwen part of above gneeves 156 acres arable and psture. Lot 492 b Charles McCarthy and Donogh, part of earlier ploughlands 214 acres. This townland all three parts ended up as the Hutchinson Estate which was sold in the Landed estates Court in the 1850s. Leases fro the 1820s were listed including very substantial farms of the McCarthys and Murnanes. Both families active as voters from the 1820s

Ricahrd Earlsman, 27 Irish.

McCarthy Muclagh Scart, later Gearhameen. Mortgage 1685 Walter Gallway

Norman influence, tithes belonged to latterly the Cathedral of St. Finbarrs Cork and are listed in their ledger of 1780. Effective control f tithes obtaineearly 17th century by Robert Boyle Earl of Cork. Part of Letterlickey parish of Kilmacomogue 1830 tithe aplottments Rev. Sadlier, Bantry adn Alexander O’Driscoll. Parish of Durrus Nathaniel Evanson

1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

In the Hutchinson esatte sale 1850s substantial 1820s lease to Murnanes quoted. 1880, Timothy Murnane, Letterlickey Land Improvement Charge to Commissioners of Public Works

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs

Letterlickey East

May account for Letterlickey appearing in books of St.Finbarrs cathedral properties Cork: The charter of Our Lady’s College of Youghal (1464) included the livings of the parishes of Schull (Skull/An Scoil) and Kilmoe (Kilmolagga) – Kilmoe parish is Toormore, Goleen, and Crookhaven, a trinity of little settlements west of the town and parish of Schull. Kilmoe continued as a college benefice until the 1600s when Sir Richard Boyle (later to become first earl of Cork) bought the college grant from Sir Walter Raleigh.

1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

Lease 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson to Murnanes extensive lands

John O’Connell

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs

Letterlickey Middle

1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

Arthur Hutchinson

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs

Letterlickey West

Lease 1807 from Stephen Hutchinson 525 a £40 to Owen Sullivan lives of Hon. Richard White, william Hutchinson, Willaim Stanley, 1855 Landed Esate sale tenant William O’Sullivan probbably Carriganass Castle, Kealkil, much criticised toward conduct of him and son a barrister to tenants

1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

Lease 1807 from Stephen Hutchinson to Owen Sullivan extensive lands. The name Owen Sullivan appeas in the TA for Brahalish large farmer.

Nathaniel Evanson, William O’Sullivan Esq., occupier for bottom.

Arthur Hutchinson

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs

Parkana

McCarthy Muclagh Scart, later Gearhameen. 1830 tithe aplottments Edward Orpen Esq holding 190 acres, rent £60 may be related to Emanuel Hutchinson mid 18th century

1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

Rev. Henry Sadlier and Alexander O’Driscoll Esq.

Arthur Hutchinson

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs

 

 

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Gortycloona

Inquisition Charles 3

McCarthy Muclagh Scart, later Gearhameen

1835 Arthur Hutchinson, Reendonegan House, Bantry. 1854, Landed Estate Sale of Arthur Hutchinson decd, intestate with no known heirs listing of tenants. Earlier leases 1808 from Stephen Hutchinson quoted.

Nathaniel Evanson and Rev. Henry Sadlier and Alexander O’Driscoll Esq.

Sale 1854 Landed Estates Court of Estate of late Arthur Hutchinson died intestate and without heirs. Lead mine working.

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Re the Sullivans of Tedagh, Vickerys, Sweetnams, Dukelows etc .

As an example of new documentary sources become available I recently got a message from a descendant of Michael Sullivan and Mary Vickery m 1785 found he could fill in a few gaps in the biography of Thomas Swanton of Cranliath, enthusiastic proponent of the Irish language, the arts in general and all round compassionate gentleman.

His wife was from the  Sullivan/O’Sullivan Tedagh, family, Parish of Durrus but on the Bantry side of the Parish. Through the 1884 will of her sister Maria, (http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/wr/007604243_00329.pdf).  Now that the Registry of Deeds memorials are online and this has provided further details about Thomas Swanton.

Thomas married Jane Sullivan in 1835 (Marriage Licence Bonds); Jane was a daughter of John Sullivan, oldest son of Michael Sullivan and Mary Vickery (of Whiddy Island) at Tedagh, they married 1785. An 1839 deed describes Thomas, then living at Ballybay, Parish of Skull, as the second son of Job Swanton, formerly of Ballybay, but then of Bawnaknockane, also parish of Skull.

By August 1841 a land deed shows that Thomas had moved to Cranliath, and several subsequent deeds confirm that “Cranliath” was in, or part of, the townland of Sparrograda. The family lived there for perhaps 20 years, but in March 1860 a deed refers to Thomas Swanton of Ballydehob village, lately of “Croumleagh”. It is impossible to say why the family had left Cranliath, but it is possible that Thomas’ compassionate nature during such harsh times had led the family into reduced financial circumstances. The Freeman’s Journal record of the death at Bantry on 20th July 1861 of Thomas Swanton Esq of Ballydehob, is therefore almost certainly Thomas formerly of Cranliath.

An 1869 deed gives widow Jane Swanton’s children as Robert and Jane, then adults, and John, Hannah and Fanny aged under 21. The family were not blessed with good health – three children had died during the 1850s, and son John died later the same year as the deed in which he was named. Their other son Robert lived until at least 1891, when he was described as a Bank Accountant of Bandon when named as executor of his Aunt Maria Sullivan’s will. His fate after that date is unknown.

On Thomas Swanton, In referring to his move from Cranliath to Ballydehob village indicated in an 1860 deed, I should really have mentioned that that deed was a court judgement regarding a £300 owed by Thomas to Robert Shannon, a farmer of Rooska,  of which £150 was still due. This confirms that his financial circumstances had indeed been reduced

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https://durrushistory.com/2016/10/25/7-jul-1844-circular-letter-from-thomas-swanton-ballidahob-ballydehob-near-skibbereen-regarding-formation-of-society-the-cork-and-kerry-irish-poetry-and-music/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/07/08/thomas-swanton-ballydehob-co-cork-irish-scholar-antiquarian-and-landlord-1810-1866-and-nephew-of-judge-robert-swanton-of-new-york-maritime-court-and-united-irishman/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/10/9672/

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

https://durrushistory.com/2015/02/03/advertisement-1842-in-irish-with-roman-script-by-thomas-swanton-for-ballydehob-fair-every-thursday-for-pigs-sheep-potatoes-butter-fish-free-of-tolls-together-with-original-handwriting-on-etym/

https://durrushistory.com/2013/12/12/letter-6th-march-1837-thomas-swanton-crannliath-ballydehob-re-distress-east-schull-and-irish-independence-and-correspondence-with-son-of-sean-o-coileain-poet/

Hurrigs:

https://durrushistory.com/2016/01/17/a-good-sheltry-farm-gone-to-forestry-upper-tedagh-durrusbantryhomeplace-of-sullivanosullivan-family-hurrigs-some-claim-descent-from-osullivan-bere-from-1777-marriage-of-michael-sullivan-wi-2/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/09/05/robert-sullivanosullivan-esq-tedagh-parish-of-durrus-bantry-to-new-orleans-1845/

https://durrushistory.com/2017/07/11/1812-cork-rates-of-tax-on-hearts-and-windows-greyhounds-at-1-per-annum-miscellaneous-dogs-hounds-pointers-setting-dog-spaniel-lurcher-terrier-at-10-shillings-male-servants-lo/

1822 . West Cork Subscribers to An Inquiry Concerning the Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland – Thomas WOOD (M.D.)

 

(https://books.google.ie/books?id=NBJhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8&dq=Dr+Thomas+Wood%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Primitive+Inhabitants+of+Ireland.&source=bl&ots=QMlTLPeDph&sig=CK-_o1S81bpEy-bpZMX4RtDotsI&hl=ga&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjazs7l-KLYAhWICsAKHVyIDM0Q6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q=Dr%20Thomas%20Wood%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Primitive%20Inhabitants%20of%20Ireland.&f=false)

 

West Cork Subscribers at start of book, mostly Cork or with Cork Connections.

 

Subscribers:

 

Right Honourable Lord Audley, Glandore?

 

Rev. George Armstrong,  Rosscarbery

 

Julius F. Armstrong, Rosscarbery

 

Philip Armstrong, Rosscarbery, probably later Doctor, Castletownbere, Timothy Collins, Attorney Cork may be related:  Killingley (Ballygarvan) father Timothy Margaret O’Leary both decd, affidavit of brother-in-law George Armstrong, wife Mary Armstrong, son 2nd Thomas King’s Inns B. 1821.  National Library has book on Cork 1783 election, published by Bennett, Cork c 1820,  with his name. Wife Charlotte Louise d 1904 aged 80.  Attending Great Meeting re Poor Law in 1840, Bantry.  Mentioned at  protest meeting Cork 1842 re Medical Charities Bill and effect on fever hospital. Son George William Frederick Armstrong MD, d 1893.  Brother for a while 1842 Dispensary Doctor.

 

The Right Honourable The Earl of  Bantry, (8 copies)

 

Viscount Berehaven

 

Rev. Dr. Sealy Baldwin, Cork of Bandon family

 

Rev. Henry Beamish, KInsale

 

Dr. John Beamish, M.D., Kinsale

 

George Beamish, Kinsale

 

Rev. Dr. Beauford, M.R.I.A., possibly of Meath Scientific family

 

Rev. W. L. Beauford, Innishannon

 

1. N. Bird, Bantry, extended family long tie fish merchants

 

Richard Lewis Blair, Blair’s Cove, Durrus

 

Lord Carbery (Evans Freke), Castlefreke, Rosscarbery, (2 copies)

 

Patrick Coffee, Dunmanway

 

Henry Cox, Manor House, Dunmanway, descendant Sir Richard Cox founder Dunmanway

 

Rev. D. Crowley, P.P., Carrigaline

 

Mrs Daunt, Snugmore, Kinsale

 

George Digby Daunt, Kinsale

 

Captain W. Flemyng (Fleming?), Captain Honourable East India Company’s Artillery

 

John Freke, Baltimore, Skibbereen, may be Excise Collector.

 

John Galwey, Fort Richard, Kinsale

 

1. Harnett, Oysterhaven, Kinsale

 

Rev. H. Harris, Castletownbere

 

William Hull, Leamcon, Schull

 

Edward McCarthy, Bandon

 

Rev J. Meade, Ballintubber, Kinsale

 

Michael and John Murphy Newtown, Bantry, milling family , middlemen on Kenmare Estate, Bantry

 

John Nason, KInsale

 

Rev. H. T. Newman, KIlbrogan, Bandon

 

John Spiller Newman, Kinsale

 

John Prior Rosscarbery

 

1. Rochford, Garrettstown , Kinsale descendant of Kearneys

 

Right Honourable The Earl of Shannon, (2 copies) estates Bandon, Clonakilty.  Descendant Richard Boyle, Great Earl of Cork

 

Jonas Stawell, KIlbrittain, Kinsale

 

Rev .Dr. Stewart, Clonakilty

 

John Teulon, Blackrock, of Huguenot ancestry later wealthy Bandon family

 

John Teulon, Junior, KInsale

 

1. C. Townsend, Rosscarbery

 

Thomas Toye, Clonakilty

 

John Travers, Garrycloyne of Timoleague origin

 

Rev. Thoms Tuckey, Dunmanway

 

Rev. Thomas Walker, Kilmaloda, Bandon

 

Counsellor White, Dublin may have Banry connections

 

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1799, Act of Union, West Cork Supporters with Some Background Information. We are fully persuaded that the Union would add to the welfare, the credit and immediate prosperity of Ireland.

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Belfast Newsletter, 30th July 1799

We are fully persuaded that the Union would add to the welfare, the credit and immediate prosperity of Ireland.

1799, Act of Union, Cork Supporters

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Recommended, another excellent book from Catherine Fitzmaurice (Bandon Genealogy), following her books on North Main St, Bandon and the Tresilian family. This book apart from the particular families, excellent on woollen/textile business West Cork. 18th century exports to Portugal, Brazil. Incidentally people can purchase the book either on amazon or in Bandon Books in Bandon.

 

Catherine Fitzmaurice (Bandon Genealogy)

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/

 

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