1937 Dunbeacon, Parish of Schull,  Mary Joe Moynihan, School Folklore Project. Names: Collins, Connell, Croston, Driscoll,  Finn, Levis, Lucy, Maguire, McCarthy, Moynihan, O’Brien, Nugent, Pyburn, O’Sullivan, Roycroft, Scofield, Lucky Days for Marriage Thursday and Saturday, Flax Meitheals, Harvest of the Geese, Holy Wells, Penal Laws,Old Cures, Deaths at Dereenlomane Barytes Mines, Wreck of Memphis, Foghmar na nGeídhna, hard and quick days after Harvest.

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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,

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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.

1836 Evidence of Father John Kelleher, Early Statistician, to Poor Laws (Ireland), Enquiry, Muintir Bháire There are in these parishes about 50 and at least that number of individuals who endeavour to make out a livelihood by buying eggs here and taking them to Cork where they are bought for the English market.  These individuals are generally young women of blameless morals and great industry the distance they have to travel barefooted with such a load as 300 eggs in a basket on their backs is to many no less than 50 miles.  Some will take so many as 350 of these eggs others not more than 200 they generally bring as heavy a load back from the city. And make ten or a dozen such journeys each year.  The time devoted to such a journey is generally a week, their profits are inconsiderable perhaps about £3 in the year.

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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.

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Mizen Magic 6: Schull to Castlepoint

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The Mizen is the Peninsula we live on, and of course we think it’s the most beautiful part of West Cork, and of Ireland. In previous Mizen Magic posts I’ve been exploring different aspects and areas, such as the Northside, or Brow Head, or our excellent beaches. This time I’m concentrating on the stretch from Schull to Castlepoint. The map below shows the area, with the village of Schull, our starting point, on The top right. The photograph above was taken from the top of Sailor’s Hill.

A winter view of Long Island Sound – Coney Island, Long Island,  the Calves, Cape Clear and Sherkin, with the entrance to Croagh Bay in the foreground

It’s only a few kilometres, and it would take you about ten minutes to drive straight to Castlepoint from Schull. But where’s the fun in that? No- let’s start by driving (or walking if…

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

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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.

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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

 

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Burials at Durrus East (Moulivard) Graveyard, West Cork.

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Burials at Durrus East (Moulivard) Graveyard, West Cork.

This graveyard is probably one of the most ancient in West Cork and still used on the odd occasion.  The ruined church may date from the 15th century and the walls are still in good condition with the exception of one which was buttressed by a Fás scheme i the 1980s.

In Durrus nowadays Catholics are buried in the graveyard attaching to the Church build in 1900s and members of the Church of Ireland and Methodists in St.James which dates from 1793.  That churchyard became so congested in the 1850s that lord bandon gave additional land for an extension.  The ground being rocks had to be lowered by quarrymen and soil obtained from the buffs near the pier about 500 metres away.   There are a number of Church of Ireland families buried in Moulivard, The Shannon family from Moulamill (Glanlough, lower…

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Samuel Vickery (1832-1912) Reminiscences to his Daughter Martha Ellen, Evansville, Indiana, USA, Childhood in Rooska, Parish of Durrus and Reendonegan, Bantry, West Cork, Family Fishery, Girls Hired to Spin Twine for Nets, Catching Sparrows in Thatch of House, Hens Fed Sour Milk and Potatoes, Punished at School at Four Mile Water (Clashadoo, Durrus) For Dipping Spider in Black Ink , Emigration 1850 to New Orleans Upriver to Indiana

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Samuel Vickery (1832-1912) Reminiscences to his Daughter Martha Ellen, Evansville, Indiana, USA, Childhood in Rooska, Parish…

1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland, From 1835, Begging, Impotence Through Old Age, Sick Poor, Able Bodies Out of work, Vagrancy, Evidence taken at Ballydehob, West Cork, from Rev. James Barry, Parish priest, Rev. John Barry, Curate, Rev. John Triphook, Protestant Minister, John Brooks, Farmer, £1 rent, Alexander English Churchwarden, James Levis, farmer, Rent £33, Cornelius Mahony, Labourer, Patrick Mahony, Farmer, £10, James Mahony, JOhn Murphy, Daniel Sullivan all labourers and Quarrymen, Thomas Swanton, James Swanton, Merchant, Sweetnam, Dispensary Surgeon, Richard Salter Farmer, Farmer Rent £14. Begging starts St. Patrick’s Day, Destitution of Bandon Weavers, Maimed Children, Absentee Landlords Take £6,000 a Year From Parish Subscribe £3 to Dispensary, Sick lie on Knotted Ferns.

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1st Report From His Majesty’s Commission For Inquiring Into the Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland

From 1835, Begging, Impotence Through Old Age, Sick Poor, Able Bodies Out of work, Vagrancy, Evidence taken at Ballydehob, West Cork, from Rev. James Barry, Parish Priest, Rev. John Barry, Curate, Rev. John Triphook, Protestant Minister, John Brooks, Farmer, £1 rent, Alexander English Churchwarden, James Levis, farmer, Rent £33, Cornelius Mahony, Labourer, Patrick Mahony, Farmer, £10, James Mahony, John Murphy, Daniel Sullivan all labourers and Quarrymen, Thomas Swanton, James Swanton, Merchant, Sweetnam, Dispensary Surgeon, Richard Salter Farmer, Farmer Rent £14. Begging starts St. Patrick’s Day, Destitution of Bandon Weavers, Maimed Children, Absentee Landlords Take £6,000 a Year From Parish Subscribe £3 to Dispensary, Sick lie on Knotted Ferns.

Begging:
Questionaire:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246819
Pages 682-686.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246690

Impotence Through Old Age p 266-267:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246275

Sick Poor p 339-340:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246347

Able Bodied out of Work p…

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