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1916, Coolcelure House, home of Shouldhams, Dunmanyway, West Cork

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Lifting the Bonnet, The McCarthy Blood in the Shouldhams of Coolkelure, Dunmanway and Lord Carbery of Castlefreke, other West Cork landlord Families lineage.

Midsummer Athletic Sports , Coolkellure, Dunmanway, West Cork, 1877 under the Patronage of Colonel Shouldham including Throwing a Weight, Throwing Cricket Ball.

1852. Marriage Baron Carbery and Harriet Shuldham (Dunmanway). Deed of Settlement made between George Evans, 7th Baron Carbery, Castle Freke, Co. Cork, and Harriet Maria Catherine, Baroness Carbery (his wife) in the 1st part, Edmund William Shuldham (her father and Lieutenant General in the East India Company’s service), Dunmanway, Co. Cork, in the 2nd part, and Fenton John Evans Freke (Captain in her Majesty’s Second Regiment of Life Guards), William John Freke (Solicitor), city of Dublin, and Edmund Anderson Shuldham, Dunmanway, Co. Cork, in the 3rd part, listing the trusts and agreements involved in the marriage between Baron Carbery and Harriet Shuldham in August 1852.

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

1700. Claims Entered of Lands Forfeit by Rebellion, in Baronies of Bere and Bantry and Carbery, West Cork with Chichester House, Dublin.

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Revised Birth, Marriage and Death Records of Durrus, Barony of West Carbery, West Division, Mainly Church of Ireland, Methodist some old Catholic.

This is an attempt to try and reconstruct old records, many of the then written records were destroyed in the Public Records in Dublin in 1922 when they were unfortunately sent for safekeeping.

The bulk of the Catholic records are online free to access at irishgenealogy.ie. Included in these records are many Protestant who may be sponsors or witnesses.  There are also many names originally Protestant who converted at some stage.  If searching there are multiple spelling variations of names and townlands.

The bulk of Durrus Protestant population was located on the former Evanson/Lord Bandon Estates. It is likely in the early 18th century the lands were cleared of the local population who either became labourers or were moved to the less fertile uplands. Until the early 20th century there are very few marked gravestones of Catholics from these townlands unlike other townlands such as Ballycomane (Carbery Estate), Letterlickey (Hutchinson Estate).

IN the 1740s Sir Richard Cox ws advertising in Ulster fro Protestant artisans weavers, those with knowledge of the lines.flax business to settle in Dunmanway. On the Becher Estate in Skibbereen, Ballydehob,Schull the Marmion originally Norman from Dundalk to manage the Becher Estates.  A Similar Process may have been involved.

In Durrus the Evasions were aligned in the early 18th century wit Jeremiah Coughlan, originally from Carrigmanus.  He was an attorney and manager with Andrew Crotty of the Devonshire West Waterford Estates.  He was renting a number of ploughlands in Durrus what is brother in law Nathaniel Evanson from the Bandon Estate that time Bernard.

It is likely that the Evanson brought in weaving families from Armagh, Allen, Ferguson, Lannin, Love, Miller, Williamson, Shannon, Johnson, Levis, Huguenot from Bandon/Innishannon, Dukelow, Camier, Connell (Quesnel).  From Bandon, Acton, Attridge, Bateman, Bradfield, Croston?, Draper, Evans, Forbes, Hosford, Kingston, Jagoe, Lamb, Newman, Phillips,  Roycroft, Salter, Varian, Webb, Whitley, Woulfe, Wright. Possibly Scots Forbes, Swanton there are conflicting versions of the Swanton’s origin. There are families probably in the area from the early 17th century perhaps with fishing Warner, Vickery, Baker.  From East Donegal, Brooks,. In the record there are quite a few names with a Gaelic background, Coughlan, Daly, O’Driscoll, O’Sullivan, Maguire,  McCarthy, Hegarty (probably originally down with Battle of Kinsale 1601), Hurley, Kelly,  probably reflecting significant intermarriage in the late 18th and early 19th century.  This patterns reflecting the DNA results of those word wide from the Muintervara Peninsula and surrounding districts.

It is likely that those arriving in the 18th century apart from religion quickly assimilated the local culture. The 1901 census for the older Protestants and this is also reflected in the Mizen show many of the old Protestant to be bilingual, In 19th century census record for Canada and the USA many Protestant from the general district self report their first language as Irish, it is not possible to say if this is Irish/Gaelic or the variety of English spoken in Ireland.

Of those emigrating, some in particular to Rochester New York borough with them a high degree of political consciousness, developed local in the late 1820s with the successful anti tithe campaign. The Durrus Protestants were described by Lord Bandon’s agent  Wheeler Doherty, a Bandon Solicitor as ‘animals ‘as they joined the rent strike of the 1880s. during the Land War.

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Births:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit#gid=0

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19lFrIjj963WnhRSoGkbwNi8dPPNgvLQRxmm6R-hHvSs/edit#gid=0

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Deaths:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MBTBrhs4DGE3MLaTgdKh3bGN61n_xDnYTOL-zztRKcM/edit#gid=0

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

From Eppi project:

 

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/9819/page/214964

 

 

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April 1689. Selection of MPs for Borough of Baltimore.  Cornelius O’Donovan, Morrogh O’Donovan, Cornelius O’Donovan of Kilmacabea, Daniel O’Donovan of Kilgliny, Daniel Regane, Daniel O’Donovan of Gortnaskehy, Tymothy Regan, Daniel O’Donovan of Fournaught (Castlehaven), Thady Regan of Ballinacloghy (Leap), Cornelius O’Donovan of Ballynacala, Keadagh O’Donovan als O’Donovane, all Burgesses of Baltimore have chosen Daniel O’Donovan and Jeremie Donovan Esq. as Member.

 

1832 Election. Open Voting Location of Polling Booths By Barony in Co. Cork.

1783, Listing of Voters in Cork City Election.

 

1841. County Cork Election, Daniel O’Connell and Roche elected, Leader and Longfield Defeated, contested Votes in Baronies of West Carbery and Bere, Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers On Ireland.

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From 1581.  British Army, Local Militia and Regiments and Navy, West Cork from Church Registers and Other Sources.

 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQrKsTDoupxktWQ41Wx5P4GFliNUT4Z2uyTdwyi0xjU/edit#gid=0

 

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Dunbeacon+Church,+Dunbeacon,+Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.5856586,-9.5768567,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48459e862a4fe651:0x123eb86290363674!8m2!3d51.5856586!4d-9.574668?hl=en

 

 

1937 Dunbeacon, Parish of Schull,  Mary Joe Moynihan, School Folklore Project. Names: Collins, Connell, Driscoll,  Finn, Levis, Lucy, Maguire, McCarthy, Moynihan, O’Brien, Nugent, Pyburn, O’Sullivan, Roycroft, Scofield, Lucky Days for Marriage Thursday and Saturday, Flax Meitheals, Old Cures, Deaths at Dereenlomane Barytes Mines, Wreck of Memphis,

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPwl_rY3_96gLFQckL5R6ENIzdYSB-015bd3PdYnv0D6bvocnacCyCTYVFcgULzdQ?key=WVZGQ18tTTZLcld2SEJ6UTcweXF5U3NHeTQwMHRB

Thanks to Brendan O’Dwyer.

 

1937, Dunbeacon School Folklore Project, Mary Joe Moynihan

 

Bramáir draim, scutch grass

Buacalánn na neascann,blots out mark of sore

Cleas na Peíste,cure for animals.

Feamaánac, cure for rheumatism

Fionnán cupóg, long coarse white grass.

Foghmar na nGeídhna, hard and quick days after harvest.

Noínín, daisy herb

Riouán, flour.

 

Irish words in Durrus, Dunbeacon etc:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLSWVUsYRVa2ViKqOHyj5sl6Plz-tzLLVgpQgU3gvQM/edit

 

 

 

Taking a ‘Greas’ at the Butter being Churned before the Days of the Creamery, from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork.

1938 School Folklore Project, Sarah Dukelow, Clashadoo, Durrus, Co. Cork.

The End of Gaeltacht an Aird, Clonakilty, West Cork, School Folklore Collection, Water from a Foot Bath, The Magic of May Day, Voyage to Ring, The Curse of Castlefreke Wood, Lament for Father Power.

 

Spinning and Weaving John and Isaac Johnson and John Croston Weavers of Old from 1938 School Folklore Collection, Carrigboy National School, Durrus, West Cork. From Breda McCarthy, Coolcuaghta.

Some Fanlobbus, (Dunmanway), West Cork,  Marriages from 1682.

 

 

Dunmanway (Fanlobbus) Marriages from 1688

The same strain of women was the backbone of Irish America insisting against the odds that their children got an eduction.

Father Kelleher’s evidence and career.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yPxBLWem_8IC8wCoWgYB4I5_he97WeyiwgE8cJoUMGM/edit#heading=h.3caqboovy42q

 

 

 

The Co. Antrim Rolls give an idea of the scale of the catastrophe inflicted on the Irish People in 1922.

Click to access hearth_rolls_of_county_antrim.pdf

 

1743.  Command from Custom House, Dublin re Hearth Tax Collection.

From Diary of Mayor Pembrock, Cork.

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/Mayoral%20Book%20of%20Thomas%20Pembrock/files/assets/basic-html/page-445.html

As the vast bulk of heart tax records (which listed most households in the 18th century) were blown up in 1922 it is unusual to come across records.

 

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

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.

 

1737. Fragment Heart Tax Roll. Hearth Tax Rolls for Co. Antrim.

 

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

 

 

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Died 12th April 1668. George Waters or Walters, Whiddy Island, Bantry, Transporter of West Cork Deportees for Cromwell and an agent for the transport of soldiers to the King of Spain.

In his will he was possessed of 70 plough lands in Bantry and Bere and an agent for the transport of soldiers to the King of Spain.

Account of the Will, land claims and debts of George Walters, Whiddy Island, in the Beara Peninsula. Includes a copy of his Will made in 1668 at Backland, Devon. Geoffrey Shelswell-White, of Bantry House, put the information together from various sources including additions from Hutchins (or possibly Hutchinsons earlier owners of what is now Bantry House) Note Book