21 Tuesday Apr 2015
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Lawrence Portrait, 1884 of Chairman, Vice Chairman, Directors, Principal Officers on the 50th Anniversary of National Bank including one of the Founders, the Liberator, Daniel O’Connell, Cork Murough Family. A number of the Murroughs a Cork Stockbroking family are named as managers of various branches.
National Bank:
http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/companies/list/the-national-bank-ltd.html
14 Saturday Feb 2015
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Bantry Area family of Derrynane, Co. Kerry, O’Connell’s, signature of ‘The Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell, his sister Honoria married Daniel O’Sullivan, Reendonegan, Bantry, their son Daniel, Magistrate, Dominica West Indies, his sister married Naval Officer in Tsar’s Navy. areas mentioned Coolagh, Borlin some names include Donovan, Lucy, Galway, O’Hea-Cussen, Cronin, compiled by Basil Morgan O’Connell, of Lakeview Branch, 1946 he Head of CID, Malaysia.
The reference to the O’Hea-Cussen is interesting. John T Collins of Cork in the 1950s compiled a list of newspaper notices rom a collection held by Mr. Cussen Solicitor, Newcastle West. They had originated with the Kearney family Garretstown House near the home place of the O’Heas.
Some early Bantry Lawyers included here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqhnQGE3ANjzdEkxdVM0YVNzbzFHbV8tRGxNM2pmMWc#gid=0
16 Tuesday Dec 2014
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Bank of Ireland, Bank of Ireland Clerkships, Daniel O'Connell, London, Select Committee of House of Commons
Evidence of Daniel O’Connell, Esq., 1st March 1825 to Select Committee of House of Commons, London, on state of Legal Administration, Function of Assistant Barrister in Court, Grand Juries selected from Improper Persons, Low persons Vendors of Spirits and Beer, The Bar in Cork, Mr. Wagget, Recorder of Cork, of Private Means with a small salary which he refuses to to be increased, outside Cork the sessions conducted by Attorneys of low repute the relaxation of Popery Laws has given a better class of Attorney then what existed before., The Mode of Administering the Criminal Law by the Magistrates in Ireland has been very bad, particularly in relation to Tithes, for the last two-an-twenty years Roman Catholic have been eligible to the situation of Directors of the Bank of Ireland but not one elected although an immense deal of Bank Stock belongs to the Catholics, up to 10 Catholics in Bank of Ireland Clerkships.
From Google Books from page 58 others matters are also dealt with.
06 Saturday Dec 2014
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Results 1841 Election, from Booth No 6 including Bantry and Booth No 3 including Carbery, Co. Cork with some voters, names, candidate voted for, abode, property qualifications.
It is not clear if this represents the entire electorate or just disputed votes. The panel also shows who got the votes. Unlike modern times with the demarcation between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael the fault line is religious. It also shows Catholics and their property qualification the vote had been given to them for some time. It was not until Daniel O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation in 1828 that they could sit in Parliament.
Booths 3 Carbery
Durrus:
Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Four-Mile-Water, registered 1834 £50 pound holder
Hungerford Baldwin Evanson, Registered 1835, for Droumrreagh, Clashduff,
Richard Tonson Evanston, Ardogeena a £50 freeholder
registered 1836
Thomas Dukelow, Clashadoo, registered 1829, 10 shilling leaseholder name and address corrupt version (probably married Frances Coughlan who is probably related to the Evansons through the marriage of Jeremy/Jeremiah Coughlan and Susan Evanson 1705), he was a vestry man. Farm now occupied by Johnsons)
James Sullian East Clonee, 10 shilling leaseholder registered 1836 farm now probably Collins. Descendant of Michael Sullivan, Heart Tax Collcctor, Land Owner, one of Hurrigs claimed descent from O’Sullivan Bere and Vickery.
William Vickery, Ballycomane (now O’Sullivans), 20 shilling freeholder Methodist prominent locally.
Bantry
William Vickery freeholder
Theophilus Blennerhasset Syms Waterfall (now Neil Jordan film makers)
James Ferguson Dromreague
James Sanoy (Symms?) Bird, lives Kinsale,
Richard Spenser, Bantry
Wiliam Warner, Reendesert
Samuel Daly, Reendesert, (possibly descended from Dalys of East Galway, MPs etc) family members ran shipping from Bantry to St. Johns, New Brunswick and some members were prominent there in customs and shipping
John Bird, Bantry
James Warner, Dunbittern
John Herbert Orpen, Willow brook, Lisheens,
George Wood, Reeenmore
13 Thursday Nov 2014
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Abraham Morris, Art O'Leary, Article John T Collins, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Daniel O'Connell
Art O’Leary, French Educated, Captain of The Hungarian Hussars, refused offer for his winning horse of £5 under Penal Laws by Abraham Morris, proclaimed an outlay, killing at age of 26, his wife an aunt of Daniel O’Connell ‘Caoineadh Art Uí Laoighre.
Article John T Collins, Cork Historian, 1949.
Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.
One of extended family later became a Magistrate:
From Father Holland’s History of west Cork, 1949:
15 Tuesday May 2012
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Throughout his
diary O Súilleabháin mentions herbs and plants and describes their medicinal uses. For
example, he knew the Irish, English and Latin names for foxglove, its medical uses and
toxicity, and warned against getting it from a ‘quack’
From Diaries of Ireland, an anthology, 1590-1987, Meliosina Lenox-Conyngham, Lippiput 1998.
Ó Súilleabhaín 1790-1837 was a Merchant in Co. Kilkenny, he was from Kerry where his father was a hedge school master as was Amhloiimh for a period. For many years he kept a diary in Irish, this is an extract on the election of Daniel O’Connell.
Tuesday 8th July 1828.
…Every window in town was filled with candles all a-light in honour of Daniel O’Connell who was elected in Clare County to be a member of the London Parliament.
Dr Thomas Butler lived in Bridge Street and trained medical students there. He
1 P.A. Grace, The middle-class of Callan, County Kilkenny, 1825-1845 (M.A. thesis, University of Limerick, 2012).
2 R eport o f the Poor Law Commissioners on m edical charities, Ireland H .C. 1841 [324], xi, 69.
3Amhlaoibh O Suilleabhean hated him and called him Croinin buidhe or yellow Cronyn. Michael McGrath (ed.),
Cinnlae Amhlaoihh Ui Shúileahhdin (4 vols, D ublin, 1936-7), i, pp.309. (Hereafter, referred to as Cinnlae).
had a ferocious row with Callan’s famous diarist, Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, when he
found the latter drinking for the third time with his students, particularly one Thomas
O’Looney. O Súilleabháin got two black eyes for his trouble and had to stay indoors for
two weeks.4
The popular Dr Patrick Keating lived in M ill Lane and sent his children to O
Súilleabháin’s school. He was a trusted doctor and friend to many of his patients.
A fourth physician was Dr Michael Stewart Ryan.
Tony Farmar has observed that experience of sickness much depended on class
with only the ‘better sort’ resorting regularly to doctors. Most people relied on folk
medicine and cures when ill. W hen O Súilleabháin’s son scalded his leg with boiling
water his father did not send for his friend Dr Keating. Instead he put a potato plaster
on it; two days later he applied turpentine and a plaster of boiled bread and milk;
four days later a plaster of beeswax, melted Russian lard and turpentine and finally,
a week later, a plaster of boiled ivy leaves. His son’s leg recovered. Throughout his
diary O Súilleabháin mentions herbs and plants and describes their medicinal uses. For
example, he knew the Irish, English and Latin names for foxglove, its medical uses and
toxicity, and warned against getting it from a ‘quack’.
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