02 Monday Feb 2015
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26th May, 1820, Selection by William Swanton of James and William Swanton and Charles King as Enumerators to assist him under the Population Act (Census) for the West Division of West Carbury, Co. Cork.
Many local families from the area including Mizen adn Durrus including the Attridges, Bakers, Dukelows, Gallaghers, Kings, Skuses and Swantons were starting to emigrate to new Brunswick. Included were the ancestors of Bing Crosby.
From Dr. Casey collection.
28 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Early settlement of Skibbereen Rural Area, West Cork, Distribution of Ring Forts from Mount Kid, Nowen Hill Cahermore.
Courtesy JCHAS, 1969
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6109534457194271313
26 Friday Dec 2014
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Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, in School folklore Collection 1937 and Folk Museum and West Cork Methodism.
Gortnagrough:
In Mary Driscoll story about her homeplace she says that a couple over 70 then in 1937 have stories in Irish and English, Mr and Mrs. Sam Kingston. They are probably the grand parents of Letia Camier who with her husband Tommy runs the Folk Museum in the same townland.
https://durrushistory.com/2014/10/31/gortnagrough-folk-museum/
https://durrushistory.com/2014/10/31/gortnagrough-folk-museum/
Durrus Folklore Project:
https://durrushistory.com/school-folklore-project-1937-9-durrus-schools/
24 Monday Nov 2014
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Discovery of Primitive Bog Oak Spade beneath 12 foot peat in farm of Mr. W Kingston, near Ballydehob, West Cork 1890s, 7th century King of Connaught assailed by men cutting turf who killed him.
Article by Cork Antiquarian Robert Day, JCHAS, 1894.
https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/irish-words-in-use-1930s/
01 Saturday Nov 2014
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Extract from Bawnakeane (?) No 3, National School. Ballydehob, West Cork, 1867-1909, pupil name, date of entrance, religion, townland.
Courtesy Mrs and Mr. Camier.
30 Thursday Oct 2014
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Rockwood Mixed National School. Ballydehob, West Cork, Roll Book from 1868 with some Parent’s names, addresses, occupations, last school.
Courtesy Mr and Mrs Camier, Gortnagrough Folk Museum, Ballydehob
https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6076113797275058929
Some schools from 1600:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdHUwSW9scF9BNmwtWlJoYXZSdmt2eVE#gid=0
Some Teachers from 1600:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdERWSjBabjd5RjVuV2J1Nnc4OXFoT0E#gid=0
Photo 1955
29 Wednesday Oct 2014
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Lawn Tennis Lining Machine by Robert Day and Sons Cork in Gortnagrough Folk Museum, Ballydehob, Co. Cork.
Mr and Mrs Camier have been collecting items of local interest for the last 60 years. Their museum is located in Gortnagrough to the north of Ballydehob.
The plate on the machine indicates Day and Sons. It may be that it was made by some other firm and that they were the vendors. The firm appears variously as harness makers and fancy leather goods at Bowling Green Street, Cork.
The Cork Antiquarian Robert Day may be connected to the firm.
12 Thursday Jun 2014
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Schull East Church of Ireland Births 1828-1873
Skull/Schull East (Scoil Mhuire), West Cork, Church of Ireland, Baptisms, 1828-1849.
From microfilm National Archives, Church of Ireland Records Box 25 (other Cork records Cove, Fermoy, St. Peters and St. Annes Cork among others).
Catholic records are online irishgenealogy.ie
There are a considerable amount of Methodist Records which may be in Bandon or the Belfast Archives.
In due course this will be updated and transcribed.
It might be noted that pre Famine 1847, the costal area of West Cork and Caheragh had a population density (excluding mountain,lakes and bogs) equalling that of China Haiti and India. The Protestant population was not quite as poor as the Catholic but there are numerous labourers and small holders on a scale not seen in Ireland outside Northern Counties. Looking at the surnames the origins are diverse largely English in origin but with Huguenot, Scottish and native Irish (Gaelic and Norman) all intermixed over the years by marriage. Many of those in the Register later emigrated either as individuals or with their family to the USA or Canada.
General Skibbereen birth:
Schull East Church of Ireland Births 1828-
Schull East Church of Ireladn Births 1828-
Tithe Aplottments 1830:
http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot/skull/tithe.html
Susa Beretta’s Guide:
http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/parishes/skull-1247.html#
18 Tuesday Mar 2014
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Townlands of Kilcoe, Ballydehob and Mizen West Cork.
Kilcoe from the Centenary Publication of the Church of the Most Holy Rosary Kilcoe, 1905-2005.
Mizen is from The Mizen Archaeological and Historical Society 2007, No 13. from B Ó Donnachadha, (Bruno O’Donoghue) from his ‘Parish Histories and Placenames of West Cork, published by the Kerrryman.
Map of Kilcoe from west Cork Genealogy.
12 Thursday Dec 2013
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West Cork History 