1590-1940, Listing of Individuals in Petitions, Subscriptions, Funerals Etc, West Cork.

 

Only  a drop in the ocean.

 

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JCiy6SrfhgWPMBSwm2r180BcGBOqwiecajz7EHKl9Js/edit

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.6307916,-9.3275355,12z?hl=en

The Spread of Trade, Fairs in West Cork, Aughadown, 1661, Ballydehob, 1620, Ballygobane alias Oldtown, Bantry, 1679, Bantry 1700,  Bawnlahan and Rahine and Drimoleague 1615 (O’Donovan of Castledonovan),  Clonakilty 1620, Drimoleague, 1768, Enniskeane 1620, Kilbrrah, Ballyhallow, (Dunmanway), 1615, New Stapletown (Skibbereen), 1675, Bridgetown (Alias Cornea) Skibbereen, 1676,

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1840.  Ballygurteen Fair, Dunmanway

1616.  Surrender and Regrant.  Patent of James 1 of England, Court of Pie Powder Reserved to Donnell O’Donovan for Fairs, Ascension Thursday and Townlands Listed from Castledonovan to Castlehaven, Caheragh, Glandore, Squince, Brahalish in Durrus. Manor of Castledonovan Power to Hold Court of Leet and Baron,  Friday Market at Rahine, Tuesday market at Drimoleague.

1858.  Sale of Lordship of Manor of Dunmanway (Town Charter 1693), The Purchaser will be Entitled as Lord of the Manor, To Hold  a Court of Pie Powder, To Adjudicate at Disputes Arising From Fairs.

1616. Ancient Bawnlahan, Leap, Fair Day, Ascension Thursday

1740.  Fairs Ballydehob,Bantry, Newtown (Probably Bantry), Skibereen and Bridgestone, Drimoleague, Dunmanway, Macroom and Inchigeela, Clonakilty, Timoleague

From ‘Harvey’s Jocular Medley’, ‘The Annual Fair will be held on the 13th May 1738 at Donovan’s Leap, (West Cork) now called Tonson’s Leap in West Carbery. Affords a place where vast numbers of cattle may be exposed fro sale. Free of customs and Tolls for three years. Having a glass of Whisky in a Tent at Balagurteen Fair (near Dumnanway), 1828 prior to emigrating to Canada.

Patent in Latin for Tolls and Fairs at Bridgetown (Skibbereen) held from King James 2nd of England, Markets Monday and Wednesday, Fairs 4th May, 2nd August, 12th October, 23rd December, Patent 1696 from King Charles 2nd of England Skibbereen, 2 Fairs, Markets Wednesday Saturday, together with Levies from Toll Board. Respectable Farmers had to Mix Sand and Gravel with Their Corn to Counterbalance Deduction for Beamage Evidence of Richard Becher, Justice of the Peace 1852. Stones and Inferior Butter Put into Firkins, 10 ton a week sold.

Tolls and Frequency of Fairs in Baronies of Bantry and Bere and West Carbery, 9 Fairs Skull, Bantry 1843, 4 Fairs from a Grant by Duke of Devonshire, Dunmanway, 4 Fairs Ballygurteen, Clonakilty, 6 Fairs Goleen, 12 Fairs and a Weekly Market at Ballydehob, Lord Belhaven’s patent at Castletownbere. No Disturbances in Collecting Tolls Except at Bantry Once.

1916 Swearing in of Daniel O’Leary MP for West Cork to House of Commons.  1918 his Question to Whether Local Magistrates Consulted  before West Cork Proclaimed and Prohibition of Fairs and Markets in Bantry and Castletownbere.

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Scart:  No remains of Castle

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Scart,+Co.+Cork/@51.6496387,-9.4642476,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48450a85336cd145:0xda23c2ee01dc3896!8m2!3d51.6496279!4d-9.4554949?hl=en

Gearhameen, Castle substantially intact:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.6225813,-9.5500584,15z?hl=en

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

CART IE, Daniell Teige, of Belamoyre, co. Cork, gent., 4th son of Teige, of same, mar. Honora, dr. of Cormuck Cartie, of Kilco, in sd. co. Issue, 2 sons and 2 drs., viz., John, s. and h., mar. Joan, dr. of Fyning MeOwen Carty, of Gortneclohy, sd. co.; 2nd, Teige, mar. Lisagh 0 Lery, of Inchineneafea, in sd. co. Katherin, mar. to Teige MeCormuck Cartie, of Scartie, in sd. co., which T. MeC. and K. died, leaving issue, 1 dr. 2 dr. mar. George 0 Lery, son of Lysagh 0 Lery afsd. The sd. Daniel died·at Balamore afsd., – March, 1634, and was interred in the Abbey of Bantry. Testified by Daniel Donovane, of Castle Donovane, co. Cork, Gent. Recorded in Ulster Office,

From Richard Caulfield, Annals of Kinsale. 1879.

p.342,

Click to access kinsale_council_book_reduced_cropped.pdf

APPENDIX C. FUNERAL CERTIFICATES IN IRELAND. MS. British Museum, Adel. 4820. PARTS RELATING TO CO. AND CITY OF CORK. Presented by Rev. R. Pocock, D.D.

Probable descendant he in turn ancestor of Anglican Archbishop of Calcutta:

Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy (1758-1828), ’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.

Hereditary Ecclesiastics, Daniel McCarthy (1758-c1828) Parish Priest of Durrus, West Cork, Minister Church of Ireland and his grandson Welbore McCarthy (1840-1925), Anglican Archbishop of Calcutta, India.

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Sale of Former Swanton Estates Tenant Listings Townlands at Dunmanus (Situated on the Celebrated Bay, Magnificent Location for Erecting Villas, 3 Miles from Crookhaven Proposed Transatlantic Port of Call, Projected Railway to Bantry), Faunmore, Mulessa, Stouke, Toureen, at Ballydehob, Sparadgrada, Gurteenakilla, Dereenaclough, Moynees, Part raising from Lease from Richard Tonson to William Swanton 1768, Probably Placing Swanton Arriving Ballydehob 1700-1730.

The Rev. Dives Downes, C of I Bishop of Cork. in his visitation 1700 makes no reference to Swantons. It is likely they arrived some time after 1700.  If William Swanton was taking a lease in 1760 he was probably at least 40 years old suggesting the family wee in Ballydehob around 1702.  Th jury is out on the origin of the family, a Minister in the 1799 referred to their Scots ancestry, most accounts suggest Norfolk.

 

The 1760s lease from Lord Riversdale one of the extended Hull/Tonson family aligned to the Boyles/Lord Shannon/Burlington Estate.  Parts of the Burlington Estate in the 1730s in the area were sold off due to pressure from their London Mortgagees.   The Durrus Evansons were one such purchser.

The Swantons exhibit a strong sense business acumen and entrepreneurial flair. This is evident also in Catholic branches and in descendants who have a Swanton ancestor to this day.

 

 

 

 

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1820.  Memorial to Lord Lieutenant by William Swanton, Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, West Cork. High Constable (Rate and Tax Collector), Barony of West Carbery For Relief on Losses Caused to Him in Banking Collapse when He had transmitted Due Amount to County Treasurer, Leslies, Stephen and Roches Bank, Supported by Lord Bantry and Magistrates Timothy O’Donovan (Durrus), William Hull (Schull), Richard Townsend (Skibbereen), Rev. Edward Jones Alcock (Durrus), Nathaniel Evanson (Durrus), Robert Kenny (Bantry). 1823 Application for Loan to Relieve Poor in Ballydehob, Which He founded.

 

Methodist Minister, Rev. Adam Averill, 1799, on possible Scottish Origin, of West Cork, Swanton family and reputed Scottish Plantation, Castlehaven/Skibbereen c 1690s, Andersons, Hamiltons.

 

Under the Radar: Roads are discovered to yield a more profitable crop than farming, 1809 Cork Grand Jury 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 of Dunbeacon, Vickeries of Ballycomane, Fitzgeralds of Baltimore.

 

1731 Sales in Barony of West Carbery, West Cork, by Earl of Cork and Burlington 1730 to John Harper of Castlelean now Cashelfean, 1730 to Robert Longfield Callerous, Croagh, Coulla, Caherlustery, Long Island, 1732 to Richard Tonson Lissacaha East and West, 1732 to Daniel Connor (of Bandon/Manch) Carrymacgullycaha now Coolcaha, Ardglasa now Greenmount (Probably later Long/Swanton)

 

 

1837.  Map of West Cork and some Earlier Maps.

Tudor Map of The Barony of Carbery Showing Location of Families, Prior to Confiscations, Forfeitures and Plantations.

1871. Linguistic Map Ireland. Majority Irish Speaking, Parts of Ballydehob, Beara, Caheagh, Clonakilty, Garretstown, Muskerry, West Cork

1811 Grand Jury Map, Goleen, Schull, Ballydehob, Durrus, Kilcrohane, West Cork.

Early Map of Baltimore, West Cork (Between 1605-1640), showing English Settlement, Dunasead Castle, Sherkin Island, Loo Rocks, Storehouse for Preserved Fish, 12 Fishing Boats, Seine Pilchards, 5 Possible Royal Navy Boats.

Map Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway c1900

A Projection as to how Cork Plantation Towns, Bandon, Clonakilty and Projected Baltimore, Newcestown might have looked Ironmongers and Vintners Companies, London, Houses At Bellaghy, Co. Derry Maps by Tomas Raven, 1625, of Londonderry plantation undertaken a order of Sir Thomas Phillips.

1750 Map of Baronies of Carbery and Bantry, Co. Cork

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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:

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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.