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1807 4th Royal Veteran Battalion 1808 1st Garrison Battalion 1807. 1808, 1813 1814 34th Regiment 1808 3rd Garrison Battalion 1812 Tipperary or Munster Regiment 1815 2nd Garrison 1816 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade 1824 19th Infantry 1826 9th Battalion of Artillery 1808 3rd Ga, 70th Regiment 1788 2nd Regiment 1789 24th Regiment 1789 1st or Royal Regiment 1789 51st Regiment of Foot 1790 41st Regiment o Foot 190 Royal Veterans Battalion of Foot 1800 Royal Artillery 1805 many y, castletown bere bere island puxley allihies allihies copper mines cornish miners royal navy

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The records were transcribed my Margaret Griffith, Assistant Keeper in teh Public Records Office, Dublin 1961 from papers deposited by the Rector.

Apart from local families there are many references to personnel in the Royal Navy, British Army and Allihies Mines, many of whose personnel came from Cornwall. The Puxley family who owned the mines and who are the model for Daphne du Maurier’s book ‘Hungry Hill’ are frequently mentioned

Down Survey 1665-68

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Beara+%26+Bantry&c=Cork&indexOfObjectValue=-1&indexOfObjectValueSubstring=-1&p=Killaghaninagh+Killcalierin+and+Killmannagh

Cole:

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/batch3/cole_cropped.pdfMilitary Units Mentioned

Royal Navy throughout

70th Regiment 1788

2nd Regiment 1789

24th Regiment 1789

1st or Royal Regiment 1789

51st Regiment of Foot 1790

41st Regiment o Foot 190

Royal Veterans Battalion of Foot 1800 Royal Artillery 1805 many years to 1826