In Durrus Tom Dukelow originally from Clashadoo spent some time in Tyrone. He had sold his Clashadoo farm and on his return in the 1930s bought Sea lodge a house and a few acres across the disused pier built by Lord Bandon at Gearhameen, Durrus on Dunmanus Bay. I was told he was one of the last persons to hold a licence to grow tobacco. He also operated as a merchant. In the long hot summer of 1940 tuna and pilchards returned to Dunmanus Bay. He bought the pilchards from local fishermen and pressed them for their oil. He ran a scoraiochting/rambling house where in the winter all the neighbours gathered. Neither the Parish Priest nor the Minister were happy as they did not like the religions mixing but nonetheless it was always a lively venue.
Mr. Wyndham- In 1900, 1901 and 1902 experiments under the supervision of the Department were undertaken at a number of selected centres in Ireland, the result of which have satisfied the Department that the tobacco plant can be successfully cultivated in that country. In order, however, to determine the possible commercial value to the country of tobacco cultivation, arrangements were made for the growing of the crop on about 20 acres in the vicinity of Navan during the present year…
The Times, 29 June 1905 ~ Tobacco. House of Commons. Irish Tobacco.
The Departments advisory committee on tobacco recommended that the experiment in 1904 should be confined to one centre – namely Navan – and that at least 20 acres should be grown there. Others in the district having declined to offer land for the purpose Colonel Everard undertook to plant the entire 20 acres, and consequently he was the only approved grower entitled to the rebate.
The Times, 9 Oct 1905 ~
At a special meeting of the Irish Industrial Development Association Mr. R.E. Goodbody made an interesting statement about the Irish tobacco crop for 1905. In company with an American expert, he had just visited Randlestown, Navan, where Colonel Everard had ten acres under process of saving. He had never seen so good a yield in any country, and the expert was of the same opinion. The yield of the ten acres was three times as great as that from a twenty plot last year. The tobacco was a little slow in saving but smoked very well. More than 3,000 hands were employed in Irish tobacco factories.
The Times, 9 July 1906 ~
The experiments in tobacco growing in Ireland, which have now been carried out for several years by Colonel Nugent T. Everard, of Randlestown, Navan, County Meath, appear to have been brought to a successful termination and to have emerged from the experimental stage into an actual industry. The following particulars have been forwarded to us: – In 1904 Colonel Everard, grew 20 acres of tobacco, which yielded 9,000 lbs. of cured leaf. It was favourably reported on by experts and sold freely at ½ per lb. above the same class of American tobacco. In 1905 13 ½ acres were grown by Colonel Everard which yielded 15,500 lb… This year Colonel Everard is experimenting upon 25 varieties, including high class cigar wrappers, and judging from the characteristics developed in the tobacco previously grown the experiment is likely to prove a “With our present experience” writes Captain R. W. Everard “the cost of labour on one acre of tobacco is about £20 per acre, about half of which can be earned by women and boys during the winter, when in this country, there is no other employment for them”.
1832 GREAT TITHE MEETING OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF TIMOLEAGUE, KILMALODA, BARRYROE, KILBRITTAN, CLONAKILTY, DISIRT AND THE ADJACENT PARISHES IN BALLYNASCARTY
The Tithes in the 1820s: ‘The year’s tithe due to Mr. Alcock, the Rector Durrus, was nearly collected in one day. The summary collection was effected by the police who act as drivers. In the case referred to the determination to to obtain ‘Tithe Distress’ was so great that I have been informed that the house where the parish priest the Revered Quin was saying Mass was forcibly entered and a bed the only item of value would have been taken but for the suggestion of some Protestant who objected to that mode of insult to a Clergyman. The men from Muintervara (Durrus/Kilcrohane) who have the distinguished honour of being the first Western district to have given the death blow to the Tithe system, proceeded under the conduct of Richard O’Donovan Esq of Tullagh and Timmy O’Donovan Esq at Monster Meeting Mount Gabriel 1832
Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen, Widely Praised for Work on Road and Bridges enabling Sea Sand to be used as Fertilizer in Interior of West Cork. 1832 calls in Gunboat to Clonakilty, 69th Regiment and Police in Attempt to Collect his tithes at Kilmeen and Ballygurteen. Magistrate: Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, 1799, died 1842. Freeman of Kinsale 1797. Subscriber, at Moviddy, James Mullalla, Review of Irish Affairs 1688-1795. Major figure in road building praised by Horatio Townsend for road work enabling sea sand to go through Kilmeen to interior. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. 1822 received £50 for distress in Kilmeen from Lord Lieutenant. 1830 subscriber Robert O’Callaghan Newenham ‘Views of the Antiquities of Ireland’. 1833 tithes. 1831, Ballineen 1835, 1835 Son of Rev. Dr. John Kenny, rector of Kilbrogan which he spent £3. 104 on, his father had married sister of Emmett Archbishop of Tuam. Family based in Bandon area. Subscriber at Kilmeen Glebe where he was rector for 43 years. Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Rector of Durrus for 6 years. Edward Herbert Kenney 1793-1799, a Justice of the Peace 28th May 1799. He was later Rector Rosscarbery and his work in organising relief work (in the famine of 1822) and paying the workers in money or meal was praised by the Parish Priest for his ‘meritorious conduct’. Family buried at Ballymartle. County Freeman Kilmeen of Cork City voting in Cork City Election 1837.
Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen, Widely Praised for Work on Road and Bridges enabling Sea Sand to be used as Fertilizer in Interior of West Cork. 1832 calls in Gunboat to Clonakilty, 69th Regiment and Police in Attempt to Collect his tithes at Kilmeen and Ballygurteen.
It is difficult to reconcile his altruism and industry wiht his tithe collecting attempts. Reading the Chief Secretary Papers the military and Dublin Castle Authorities wee thoroughly sick of him and his high handed antics.
Kilmeen Herbert Gillman, Edward O’Brien. Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny £750 entirely to Rev. Edward Herbert Kenny. Special Vestry chaired by Robert Sealy, William Buttomere (Buttimer), John Bateman, John Collins approved no variation for 21 years rector assented. 1833 For 7 years ending 1821 barrel of wheat £1 18 shillings 8 and a half pence grown in said country
CSO/RP/1832/5791. Letters from EH Kenny, Rector of Kilmeen and magistrate, Clonakilty, [County Cork], to Edward Smith Stanley, [Chief Secretary], stating that his bailiff was assaulted while attempting to distrain livestock in lieu of tithe arrears in his parish and that a party of police was stoned while attempting to restore order; seeking the stationing of a military force in the parish and suggesting that the military commanders be appointed to the commission of the peace.
Also letter from Daniel Conner and NS Shuldham, magistrates, to Stanley, reporting on the incident. CSO/RP/1832/6119. Letter from the [Maj Gen Edward Blakeney, Commander in Chief], Major General Commanding, Royal Hospital, [Dublin], to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], forwarding a report [not extant] from Col Wilson, commanding the 65th Reserve concerning the enforcement of tithes at Kilmeen, [possibly County Cork]. CSO/RP/1832/5562.
File containing police reports of a serious attack on the police and military while attempting to assist Rev Edward H Kenny with the enforcement of his tithes at [Ballingurteen, County Cork] CSO/RP/1832/6335.
Letter from [Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron] Templemore, Military Secretary, Royal Hospital, Dublin, to Sir William Gosset, [Under Secretary], referring to military reports from Maj Gen James Douglas and Capt Patience, 65th Reserve at Clonakilty, [County Cork], concerning an unnecessary request made to Capt Patience by Rev EW Kenny, magistrate. Also copy of letter from Gosset, Dublin Castle, to Kenny, Kilmeen, Clonakilty, informing him that the troops should not have been required to march 18 miles on unnecessary business.
1822, The Troubles of a Struggling Farmer, Mud Cabin, Heavy Taxes, Tithes, Cess, and Rack Rents, Wintry Wind, by Poet Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (1766-1837), Caheragh, (lived later Glanmire), Co. Cork.
Life
1766–1837),poet and scribe; born to the Ó Longáin learned family in Carrignavar, Co. Cork. 1766-1837; b. Carrignavar, Co. Cork; son of Mícheál mac Peadair; orphaned young, his parents dying in 1770 and 1774; employed as cowherd; returned to education, 1784; assisted United Irishmen, 1797-98; wrote for Whiteboys, 1785; ‘Buachaillí Loch Garman [Boys of Wexford]’, 1798; m. 1800; worked as scribe, labourer, and teacher in Co. Cork; settled in north Kerry and East Limerick, 1802-07; wrote on poverty and oppression; employed as a teacher and scribe by Rev. John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, 1814; copied manuscripts, 1817-1820; sons Peadar and Pól, and Seosamh, also became scribes; died. on his son Pól’s 11-acre holding in eleven acres in Knockboy in Carrignavar.
Criticism Breandán Ó Conchúir, Scríobhaithe Chorcaí 1700-1850 (1982)
It is likely that poet JJ Callanan sent quite a while in Caheragh through Bantry Doctor Dr. Thomas Burke in the 1810s who had associations in the area.
From the 18th century to the late 19th century the surname ‘Ó Longáin’ was synonymous with ‘scribes.’ Working as a scribe meant copying stories, poetry, histories and religious texts from manuscripts and printed works for patrons. Working as a scribe also involved translating texts from Irish to English. Frequently their patrons were from Cork merchant families, were Cork scholars themselves such as John Windele or from Cork clergy such as Bishop John Murphy. Working as a scribe had previously been a position of privilege but as the Gaelic order disintegrated following the Flight of the Earls in 1607, scribes found their living situation growing perilous and frequently lived in poverty. Micheál mac Peattair, his son Micheál Óg and his grandson Peadar were based in Carrignavar, Cork. Grandsons Pól and Seosamh were primarily based in Dublin. Seosamh transcribed manuscript facsimiles for publication on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy. The Ó Longáin preserved a tradition and ensured access to countless texts through their scribing endeavours.
The hardness of this bed and the lack of a mantle day or night,
Heavy taxes, tithes, and rack-rent demands,
Have made me troubled, in want, and lamenting.
1828. Petition of Parishioners of the Parish of Caheragh, County Cork, requesting aid be provided to build a parish church. Reverend John Webb, only visits the parish once a year ‘for the purpose of Collecting his tithes’ Numbers of their community have ‘turned to mass and several have been buried without received Protestant burial’ rites.
CSO/RP/1832/4660. Letter from A O’Driscoll, Shepperton, [County Cork], to Maj William Miller, [Inspector General], forwarding threatening and anti tithe notices [extant] posted in Drimoleague [Dromdaleague] and reporting on outrages in his area and recommending the strengthening of the military in the area
1832, Drimoleague, Anti Tithe Notice Posted ‘Dear Nebour Pay No Tythe Money Go According to Pereshners if Not Make Your Will or You be Beheaded Quartered and Gelded’
Captain Alexander O’Driscoll, 1827, Clover Hill, Superseded 1810-30, Restored 1843. Norton Cottage, Skibbereen (two of the same name at time), Ancestor Alexander married daughter of McFineen Dubh O’Sullivan, son of Tim ‘The Gauger’, sister Mrs Freke of Baltimore Castle. 1820 signed Memorial for new road Glengariff to Castletownbere. Married to the daughter of Thomas Attridge, Ballydehob. Correspondence with Chief Secretary appealing dismissal of 1820. Bridge at Bawnlahan 1820. 1822 subscriber as Clover Hill, Church Building Fund Durrus, he held tithes in Kilcrohane with Rector and Rev. Alleyn Evanson. Present at enquiry Skibbereen 1823 into enquiry into fatal affray at Castlehaven caused by Rev. Morritt’s tithe extraction. Grand Jury Presentments attending 12 from 1838-1840 at Norton Cottage. Probably engaged with his crew in marine salvage of Clio out of Crookhaven 1825. 1826 City election voted O’Callaghan conservative. Voted 1835 election as out of town Freeman address Shepperton. Public support for him on dismissal 1835 by fellow Magistrates Lord Bantry, Simon White, John Puxley, Samuel Townsend Senior, Samuel Townsend Junior, Hugh Lawton, Thomas Somerville, Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Richard Townsend Senior. Enquiry attended in Bandon 1841 into suspension arising from conduct with Stipendiary Magistrate J. Gore Jones and Sub-Inspector Andrew Creagh attended Earl of Bandon, Lord Viscount Bernard, on. H. White Hedges, Macroom Castle, Henry Bernard, Castle Barnard, Abraham Morris Dunkettle, Captain Henry Wallis, Drishane Castle, Lieutenant Colonel St. John Clerke, Overton House, William Cooke Wallis Junior, Castlecook, Mathias Hendley, Mountrivers, Henry Leader, Mount Leader, George Browne, Coolcower, St. Ledger Aldworth, Newmarket, Charles Evanson, Carlemont, Cork, Sir Thomas Deane, Thomas Hungerford, The Island, Nicholas Dunscomb, Mount Desert, Richard Henry Hedges Becher, Hollybrook, Skibbereen, John Isaac Heard, Kinsale, John Wheeler, Junior, James Gillman, Retreat, MD, Clonakilty, Thomas Herrick, Coolkerry, Captain R.A. Rogers, Petersfield, Michael Gallway, Gurtnagreena, John Nason, G. Nagle, Ballinamona Castle, Samuel Wallis Goold Adams, Jamesbrook, Jeremiah E. McCarthy, Rathduane, William F. Austen, Greenshela, Thomas R. Sarsfield, Ducloyne, Arthur Pery Aylmer, Castlefreke, Thomas Cuthbert Kearney, Garretstown, Joseph Haynes, Maryland House, Charles Connell, Cloverhill, John Barter, Cooldaniel, Francis G. Woodley, Leeds, Lawrence Corban, Maryville, E. Millett, MD, Cove. 1841 supported Conservative Longfield Longueville, Mallow even though Catholic hosted meeting attending John Ross, Rossford, Thomas Morris, Mahonagh, Thomas Wood, Dereeny, Listed 1838, dead….. with address Mount Music/Bunaulin, Caheragh when daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin Esq., 1845. 1835 Subscriber at Gortnascrena, Skibbereen, Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837. Suspended for a period as J.P. reinstated after altered by a sitting of over 70 Magistrates in Bandon from both political sides. 1828 Bandon Quarter Sessions. His lands managed by Bird. Member Provisional Committee projected Bandon to Bantry Railway 1845, address Norton Cottage. Believed to have been committed to a debtors prison in Cork by his wine merchant where he died. Norton Cottage was lived in once by Dr. O’Donovan, J.P., and bought 1925 by Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and TD,
Re smuggling in the 17th century it is worth recalling the context.
After the end of the English Civil War when Parliament prevailed there was a strong view that the English army should be abolished as they might present a threat to the new dispensation. The compromise was a largely reduced army with a standing garrison of 15,000 to be based in new barracks in Ireland. This was to be a charge on the Irish Exchequer. The building of these barracks gave arise to the Irish Barack towns, many of which only closed in the last 30 or so years.
So whenever an old lad in the 1740s had a smathán or smoked his pipe not only was he contributing to the British occupation of Ireland but paying for their garrison.
Clearly when the ‘legal’ price of excitable items excess the market price by a wide margin the opportunities for smuggling are immense.
From Father James Coombes History 1969.
Thanks Pat,
That is interesting reading. It’s all true. Edward was the guy transported leaving his wife and six kids. So we’re others near Skibbereen. The Kilkeran ones brought boats into the local “lake” and stored stuff in the basement, allegedly with an underground tunnel. Family fortunes were hard hit. Family were installed in Bordeaux, Nantes, Oporto etc to look after that end of it. There are de Gallweys in France.
Arthur Hutchins, Landlord and Magistrate, Ardnagashel, Bantry married 1802, Matilda O’Donnell, (Smugglers), Erris, Co.Mayo, descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, West Cork Crowleys, Descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages
1740. a Memorial of Several Gentlemen Residing at or near Berehaven in West Cork, setting forth the necessity of having a Barrack built for one company and half of foot to prevent running of Goods and the Shipping Off of Men to Foreign Service
refers to the inaccessibility of the region around Crookhaven harbour and the persistence of smuggling which is difficult to check due to ‘the numerous creeks and inlets on the coast’; includes letter from Griffith, Skull, to Gregory, acknowledging invitation of the Lord Lieutenant to meet for interview in Dublin but to request the date is deferred to enable his attendance at the assizes of counties Kerry and Cork. izes of counties Kerry and Cork.
In the North it became the practice to put studs into horse shoes.
Studs are small metal projections that screw into the horse’s shoes. They’re used to give him better grip on various types of footing, from firm and slippery to soft and boggy. They’re great if the horse loses his focus in less-than-ideal footing or to give him extra traction when doing road work.
For some reason studs were illegal in the Free State.
The Canon wished to bring some down from one of his northern trips. He took the saddle off his bike and filled the hollow of the frame with studs and replaced the saddle. The bike passed over the border no problem and the Canon and his bike with studs arrived safely in Durrus.
Transferred to Richard Burke, Rathara, Schull, 11/10/1934
Barnett Denis
Brahalish
82
Beamish, R.A.
Ardogeena
89
Burke, Denis
Drishane
94
Baker, John
Rooska
105
Brooks, Edward
Dromreagh
113
Burke, John
Coomkeen
149
Burke, Daniel
Coomkeen
151
Brooke, Herbert
Dromreagh
157
Burke, William
Clashadoo
137
Son in law of Jehr Cronin
Burke, Michael
Brahalish
160
Brooks, Walter
Brahalish
167
Barry?, John
Mureigh
169
Coughlan, Bridget
Coolculaghta
5
Cotter, Rev. Fr Michael
Durrus P.P. 1933
13
Marked zero share later
Cronin ?, John
Rusnacahara
14
Crowley, Robert
Ballycomane
19
Crowley, Patrick
Clashadoo (Ahagouna)
34
Clarke, Goodhand
Glanlough
35
Later Rockmount, Drimoleague
Crowley, Con
Droumreagh
49
Cahalane?, Mrs
Ballycomane
51
Later Durrus village
Coughlan, Burd
Mount Gabriel
57
Later cancelled never subscribed
Cleary, Cornelius
Dunbeacon
66
Connolly, Michael
Colomane
74
Creedon, Daniel
Gurtnalasa, Bantry
110
Cancelled after 1936
Connolly, Thomas
Glenlough
114
Transferred to A.W. Derman, Drimoleague 14/12/1938
Cronin, John
Parkan
126
Coughlan, Daniel
Coolculaghta
135
Cronin, Jehr
Clashadoo
137
Father in law of Wm. Burke
Cleary, James
Ballycomane
132
Later transferred to Rhea, Kilcrohane (son)
Coughlan, John
Dromreagh
140
Crowley, Mrs Irene
Durrus Court
159
Admitted 1958- wife of John staff member
Dukelow, Robert
Dromantanaheen
18
Bantry Road
Dillon, Timothy
Clashadoo
26
Dukelow, Charles
Clashadoo
29
Dukelow, Thomas
Droumatanaheen
32
Transferred to Micjhael Hegarty, Clashadoo 11/10/1933
Dukelow, Peter
Droumreagh
36
Dukelow, John
Crottees
42
Dukelow, John
Rossmore
44
Dukelow, Richard M
Brahalish
46
Deane, Barnabas
Ballycomane
50
Dukelow, Thomas
Clashadoo
81
Donovan, Thomas
Glenlough W
87
Dukelow, Robert
Coomkeen
90
Dukelow, Bert
Blair’s Cove
93
Dungan, Herbert
Ballydehob
108
Later Ballymodan Bandon
Driscoll, James
Dunbeacon
54
Transferred form Patrick J. Barry
Dukelow, Richard
Crottees
118
Transferred to daughter Mable? Salter, Castlehaven, 1975
Donovan, Daniel
Ballycomane
120
Dukelow, John
Coolculaghta
128
Draper, John
Scart
33
Dukelow, John
Droumateenaheen
81
Deane, Thomas
Ballycomane
14
Dinan? A W
Post Office, Drimoleague
114
Of Drimoleague PO should read Donnan
Donovan, Timothy
Kealties
131
Originally Timothy Sullivan, Clonee
Dukelow, Ernest H
Droumatinaheen
165
O’Donovan, Jeremiah
Kealties
172
Transferred from Kilrohane 16/6/1977
Evans, Mrs Kathleen
Moreagh
45
Transferred from pat Hurley, Ballycomane
Flynn, John
Parkana
64
Transferred to Colomane 28/5/1957
Fitzgerald, James
Letterlicky
103
Transferred from John Hegarty 1956
Gay, Richard
Dromreagh
55
Hayes, Daniel
Dunbeacon
1
Hegarty, George M
Rossmore
43
Hurley, Patrick
Ballycomane
45
Harnedy, Tim
Droumreagh
52
Hayes, Daniel
Dunbeacon
62
Hayes, Thomas
Dunbeacon
62
Harrington, John
Brahalish
86
Hegarty, Michael
Clashadoo
32
Hurst, Edwin
Beach, Bantry
111
Transferred to Bantry 1937
Hurley, Mrs Dora
Ballycomane
115
Hurley, Joseph
Ballycomane
123
Holland, Timothy
Dunbeacon
136
Transferred to Timothy Donovan, Kealties (nephew)
Hosford, William John
Brahalish
6
Harrington, Daniel
Kealties
150
Later Blackrock Road, Bantry.
Hegarty, James
Letterlickey
103
See 103 above
Hurley, Daniel
Ballycomane
152Back Row, left to right. Teacher/Trainee? Teacher Mrs Annie Sweetnam, Dunbeacon, not qualified not sure if it was because she had no Irish. Good teacher for writing, hymns, sent her two daughters to Ballydehob. School closed mid 1940s. Some pupils went to St. James Durrus Some to Dunbeacon Catholic. Lack of Irish meant that pupils used to go to St. James probably to Líam Blennerhassett from Kerry he had excellent Irish. No. 2 Richard (Sonny) Pyburn, b 1919, all Pyburns Dunbeacon, farmer. May have spent some months in St. James, Durrus. Front: No. 2 Victor Sweetnam, Lahern, brother to Nan Sweetnam, farmer, never married. No 3. Nan Levis, Cashelane, lived with her single brother neither married, farmers. No. 4. Georgina Pyburn, Dunbeacon, married George Bower (He is buried St. James, Durrus), Co. Louth, he was a horticulturalist with Guinness at Birr. 2 boys, Raymond, Bert, 1 girl. No. 5. Susan Pyburn, married Charlie Gilliard, mechanic, London, 1 boy 1 girl. No. 7 Vera Pyburn, m Ernie Splaine, Riverstick, KInsale,, Son Robert (Show jumping champion) Freida, Jean 3 small boys don’t know names possibly one a Phillips from Dunbeacon or William Levis no family married into farm.
Transferred to Patrick Moynihan, 152 and 155
Hill, Michael A
Blair’s Cove
162
Admitted 11/10/1962
Hickey, Francis
Durrus Village
170
Admitted 19/2/1973
Johnson, Frank M
Fahane, Gortalasa, Bantry
101
Transferred to Thomas Johnson, Clashadoo 12/8/1958
Keohane, Daniel
Clonee
17
Transferred to Daniel Sullivan 18/10/1955
Kelly, Timothy
Ballycomane
127
Kingston, Samuel J
Kealties
166
Admitted 19/11/1968
Lynch, Con
Clashadoo
28
Transferred to John O’Sullivan, (son-in-law) 23/2/1971
Levis, George M
Shountellig
61
Now Gurteenakille
Levis, Samuel
Kealties
161
Transferred from Kilcrohane 19/5/1960
Minihane, John
Parkana
22
Transferred from Mrs Mary Neill 1943
Moynihan, Patrick
Coomkeen
155
Transferred to John Draper, Scart, 11/3/1936
Mahony, Daniel
Ahagowna
33
Mahony, John
Coolculaghta
20
Murnane, Patrick Joseph
Coolculaghta
23
Later Ballydehob
Murphy, Gerry
Airhill, Schull (Drouogh)
53
Murnane, Daniel M
Letterlickey East
63
Transferred to Colomane 1941
Moynihan, John
Shauntullig
67
Marked zero shares after 1933
Murnane, Patrick P
Letteralickey
76
Transferred to Colomane 1940
Murnane, Michael
Letterlickey
98
Transferred to Colomane 1940
Mehigan, Mark
Drishane
116
Transferred to Lowertown
Mahony, John
Brahalish
121
transferred to Julia Teresa Connolly (niece-in-law) 1965
Mahony Daniel
Letterlickey
78
Transferred to Colomane 1941
Moynihan, Patrick
Ballycomane
152
See 155 above
McManaway, Rev T.J.
Durrus
11
Transferred to Dunmanway (17)
McCarthy, Florence
Letterlickey Middle
15
McCarthy, Charles
Coolculaghta
21
McCarthy, Denis
Droumreagh
40
McCarthy, Jeremiah
Droumreagh
41
McCarthy, John
Scart Bawn
75
Transferred to Colomane
McCarthy, Mrs
Parkana
79
McCarthy, Denis
Ardhra
88
Transferred to Colomane
McCarthy, John
Blair’s Cove
99
Later Ardogeena
McSweeney, Ellen
Murreagh
104
Transferred to son Mortimer, Friendly Cove 1971
McCarthy, Timothy
Ardra
124
Transferred to Colomane
McCarthy, Jerome M
Brahalish
133
McCarthy, Michael
Coolculaghta
154
McCarthy, Charles
Glanlough
156
McCarthy, Timothy
Ballycomane
163
Admitted 1963
McCarthy, Patrick
Tullig, Durrus
173
Transferred from Kilcrohane 1977
Neill, Mary
Ballycomane
22
Transferred to John Minihane, Parkana, 1943
Neill, James
Ballycomane
47
Nugent, Jeremiah
Derryfunchion, Dunbeacon
100
Neill, John
Friendly Cove
139
Transferred to Annie Regan, Friendly Cove, 1946
Newman, Jeremiah
Scart
65
Transferred from Denis Sweeney 1936
O’Driscoll, Jehr
Shantullig
100
Transferred to Jehr Nugent, Dunbeacon, 16/8/1935
O’Driscoll, James
Dunbeacon
117
O’Brien, Daniel
Durrus
146
Transferred from Bantry
O’Regan, Mrs Annie
Blair’s Cove
139
Transferred from John Neill, Friendly Cove, 1946
O’Sullivan, Timothy
Ballybrack
77
Transferred from John Miller, Coolculaghta, 1950
O’Sullivan, Stephen T.
Gloun, Schull
89
Transferred from RA Beamish, Ardogeena, 1952
O’Sullivan, Denis J
Durrus
87
O’Sullivan, Daniel
Clonee
17
Transferred from Daniel Keohane 18/10/1955
Pyburn, John M
Dunbeacon
48
Pyburn James
Dunbeacon/Coomkeen
109
Pyburn, William
Dunbeacon
119
Transferred to Lowertown
Roycroft, James
Mount Gabriel
59
Marked zero shares after 1934
Sullivan, William M
Ballycomane
148
Transferred to Mary and Donal Hayes 1994
Shannon, David
Ardogeena
153
Later Dromreagh
Sullivan, Denis
Durrus
24
1948
Shannon, Miss Usher M
Brahalish
84
Transferred from David Shannon 1951
Slater, Owen
Ardoguna
158
Admitted 1955
O’Sullivan, John
Clashadoo
28
Transferred from Con Lynch (father-in-law)
O’Sullivan, Cornelius
Ballycomane
171
Admitted 1974
Shanahan, John
Dunbeacon
2
Marked zero shares 1933
Shannon, Robert M
Brahalish
3
Sullivan, William
Morreagh
4
Sullivan, John
Ardogoena
6
Transferred to William Hosford Brahalish 1943
Shannon, William M
Brahalish
7
Shannon, James
Rossmore
8
Shannon, Robert
Brahalish
9
Sullivan, Patrick
Coomkeen
12
Swanton, James
Ahagoheen
16
Shannon, John
Glanlough
24
Shannon, Robert
Dunbeacon
25
Sweetnam, William
Dunbeacon
31
Shannon, William
Rossmore
27
Sullivan, Denis
Geerahameen
38
Marked zero shares 1947
Shannon, john
Cashelane
56
Transferred to Lowertown 1956
Spillane, Tom
Moulward
58
Sweetnam, John
Lahern
60
Sweeney, Denis
Moulivard
65
Transferred to Bantry 1943
Sweetnam, William
Mount Gabriel
68
Sweetnam. Sam
Raheen
69
Sweetnam, John
Dunbeacon
73
Shannon, Thomas
Clashadoo
83
Shannon, David
Brahalish
84
Shannon, Thomas
Brahalish
85
Swanton, Sam
Clonee
91
Swanton, George
Aughagoheen
92
Spillane, Timothy
Ballycomane
95
Shannon, Mrs Maria
Maulnamill
97
Shannon, John J
Brahalish
102
Marked ‘in England’ 1968
Swanton, James
Mullagh
106
Transferred to Bantry 1939
Sullivan, James
Upper Tedagh
107
Transferred to Bantry 1940
Sullivan, Daniel
Droumacousane
112
Transferred to Bantry 1943
Sweeney, Mrs Kate
Moulavard
130
Swanton, Benjamin
Clonee
134
Sullivan, Jer
Clonee
131
Transferred to Timothy Donovan Kealties 1955
Sullivan, Eugene
Crottees
141
Shannon, Tomas
(Clashadoo), Brahalish
144
Shannon, William
Clashadoo
145
Lissamarig, Skibbereen, transferred to Skibbereen 14/5/76
Samuel Jervois, Brade, Skibbereen. Samuel Jervois , 1769, Brade, Skibbereen, in 1777 chasing Banditti in Murdering Glen outside Bantry with Richard and John Townsend and Daniel Callaghan. Member at Bandon Hanover Association meeting Cork 1791 re Whiteboys. 1792 as Provost of Bandon convened a meeting on foot of a requisition of 200 where it was resolved to support the Protestant Ascendancy. 1799 Supporter of the Act of Union Between Ireland and Great Britain. Maybe the father of Samuel who married Lucinda Allen. Purchased 1770 Shandon Castle Cork (now Irish Ballet Company). Elizabeth Murphy, widow of John Murphy of Newtown, is the sister of Samuel Jervois of Brade. In this deed Samuel Jervois is creating an indenture of 14 hundred pounds on the mortgage of Castledonovan to provide a dowry for his niece Martha (Elizabeth’s daughter), on her marriage to Dr Henry Baldwin Evanson in 1828. Among a number of Magistrate who at a meeting in 1812 in Skibbereen offered substantial monies towards the apprehension of those responsible for the murders of Ellen and Simon Loardan whose bodies were discovered in a lake at Bawnlahan and Glandore Harbour.
The only thing I’m not sure about is whether the lands at Castledonovan came into Samuel Jervois’s hands through his marriage to Lucinda Alleyn, or if they were Jervois lands all along, or perhaps even both families had interests in them. They are mentioned as “family lands” in his post-marriage settlement to Lucinda in 1818, but it’s not clear which family is meant, so Samuel may have already swapped whatever lands Lucinda originally brought into her marriage for the lands at Castledonovan. There is an earlier mortgage linking the Jervoises to Castledonovan (don’t know the date off-hand), but they may have been one of many families who acquired some portion from Daniel O’Donovan or when Lieut. Nathaniel Evanson mortgaged Castledonovan and moved to Four Mile Water. I suspect these lands were passed back & forth many times, probably each time someone married! Members of the Jervois family held over 450 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. In October 1855 and January 1856 over 100 acres of their property in the parish of Nohaval, barony of Kinalea, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The original lease, dating from 1710, was between the Busteed and Hodder families. In 1853 Samuel Jervois was among the principal lessors in the parish of Dromdaleague, barony of West Carbery. Townsend notes the discovery of copper on the estate of Samuel Jervois, at Leap, before 1810. Family history sources suggest that an earlier Samuel Jervois had come to Ireland with the Cromwellian forces in the mid seventeenth century. He had been granted land around Glandore. Will dated 1803 described as of Bandon extracted 1806.
Paul DUELOS, A.M., vicar of Ballymodan. He died in 1717 or 1719.
French Prisoners, Freemasons, Bandon 1746-1747, p. 177
David la Touche Colthurst (1828 – 19 January 1907)[1] was an Irish Home Rule League politician. He was elected Home Rule Member of Parliament (MP) for County Cork at the 1879, p. 178
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From the mid 17th to early 18th century something around 5,000 Huguenots moved to Ireland from religious persecution in France. The bulk arrived after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Dr. Alicia St. Ledger the historian of the Cork Huguenot community puts the number in Cork mid 18th century at around 300. In Cork City where many settled they had a French speaking church and minister. This group tended to be well educated, affluent, and involved as merchants, apothecaries, surgeons and as property developers reclaiming the Cork City marshes. Over time they became English speaking and drifted into the mainstream Church of Ireland and gradually into the wider Catholic community.
No one knows for definite when the various Huguenot families arrived in the Mizen/Durrus areas. In the main they were unlike their co religionists in Cork as they were artisans, small to medium farmers or labourers and coopers. Oral tradition has it that they arrived by boat to Dunmanus Bay. They arrived perhaps c 1750s co incident with various attempts throughout West Cork by Landlords to develop weaving, linen and flax. The old village of Carrigbui (Durrus) was sometimes described as a weaver’s colony.
About 1750 around 60 Huguenots arrived in Cork on board the galley ‘Redhead’ destined for Innishannon with their pastor Rev. Peter Cortes.
They may have been being involved in Thomas Addisons failed silk enterprises in Innishannon and left Kilmacsimon Quay for Dunmanus Bay.
The obituary of the Rev. Charles ~Donovan in the Skibbereen Eagle in 1893 is most unusual insofar as it included a very detailed genealogy. Maybe the Rev. Charles or one of the family wrote it; it looks like it relies on family papers. His career is ironic as a rabid Proselytiser preying on the starving Catholics of the Mizen Peninsula; you would not imagine his genealogy. His ancestor Daniel O’Donovan, head of Clan Cahill fought with his O’Donovan Regiment for King James in the battle of the Boyne in which four of his sons dyed. HIs grandfather Richard O’Donovan on his marriage to an English woman had to change his name to Donovan, he may have been a Catholic as he had to post a bond for £1,00 to the Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork. HIs son Charesl was a senior civil servant in Bengal and a Magistrate. His Indian born grandson Dr.Charles Donovan was a world renowned medical scientist. In a sense it shown family survival consequential on the Penal laws and adaptation.
Rev. Charles Donovan (1812-1893), p.1
Funeral and genealogy, p. 3
Among the funeral attendance, p. 14
Proselytiser, 16
1847 Plea for the preservation of the poor in Schull.p. 14
1849 Protection Meeting Ballydehob, p. 16
1849 Opening of Rev. Spring Protestant Church, Cape Clear, p. 18
1856 attending funeral of James 2nd Earl of Bandon, p. 19
1889 funeral of Archdeacon of Ross, Rev. Dr. Woodroffe, p. 20
Charles Donovan, JP., Bengal, died 1915 aged 74. His son known in Ballinadee as Judge Donovan, p. 21
1905 Judge Donovan, Courtmacsherry Regatta, p. 23
Grandson Colonel Doctor Charles Donovan, (1863-1951), p. 24
His ancestor Daniel O’Donovan, head of Clan Cahill fought with his O’Donovan Regiment for King James in the battle of the Boyne in which four of his sons died., p. 28
His grandfather Dr. Richard O’Donovan surgeon of Nohoval, p. 30
Canon William Waller O’Grady, 42 years, Rector of Bantry, died 1921 aged 76. POK page 7 grave 123
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His brother: Carew O’Grady (1840-1919), 1875, Carrigmanus House, Goleen, farmer, Resident, £59, son of Rev. Thomas and Susan Dowe born Berehaven, m 1884, Florence, 5th d James Hingston, Aglish, Macroom?, 4 surviving children. Magistrate from 1875, 1881. 1890 Skibbereen Quarter Sessions sitting with Circuit Court Judge Ferguson on Schull licensing appeal cases. Magistrates, John K?. Barrett, William Murphy, M.P., George Robinson, Somers. H. Payne, W.S.Payne, Henry R.Marmion, Samuel Jagoe, O’Donovan, John R. H. Becher, William Norwood, Carew O’Grady. Skibbereen Eagle 14th August 1892. 1893 Unionist meeting Skibbereen. 1883 letting Carrigmanus House with a farm of 143 acres. Re a contested burial. 1894 Patron Schull Regatta. 1901 patron Crookhaven Regatta with Marconi. Co. Grand Juror, listed 1913. Brother of celebrated author and Celtic scholar Standish O’Grady and Canon O’Grady, Bantry. Probably a bee keeper. Probate to daughter Susan Maria spinster.
Probably
Somers (Henry) Payne (1854-1920), BL, 1885, Carrigmahon, Monkstown, major business figure Cork. 1892 attending funeral of Jane Dillon nee Roycroft (1843-1892). Executor James W. Payne. Barrister, Businessman, Land Agent. Somers Payne B.L. (1853-, 1885, Carrigmahon, Monkstown, son John Warren Payne, BL. Land Agent, Beech House, Bantry, he ran against James Gilhooley in election and was defeated, Bantry, ed. Rossall, Irish Bar 1875-1883, Director Munster and Leinster Bank, Bandon Railway, m 1879 Edith d John Leslie, Lee Carrow, Passage, Paynes originate Upton, Bandon, Land Agents to Bantry and other Estates, listed 1913. Somers Henry Payne, James Gilhooly MP alleged he was sitting in Durrus Petty Sessions 1887 outside his district. 1890 Skibbereen Quarter Sessions sitting with Circuit Court Judge Ferguson on Schull licensing appeal cases. Magistrates, John K?. Barrett, William Murphy, M.P., George Robinson, Somers. H. Payne, W.S.Payne, Henry R.Marmion, Samuel Jagoe, O’Donovan, John R. H. Becher, William Norwood, Carew O’Grady. Attending Cork Grand Jury 16 times 1887-1889. Irish Bar 1875, Munster bar, 115 Upper Leeson St.
Probates in Ireland are an absolute disaster zone, mostly all that survived post 1922 destruction of the Public Records Office in Dublin is a 1 line name sometime and address or occupation. This is an attempt to add to some of these listed from other sources or give information on the family.
Prerogative Wills
Prerogative and diocesan copies of some wills and indexes to others, 1596 – 1858
Before a will can take effect, a grant of probate must be made by a court. If someone dies without having made a will, the court can grant letters of administration for the disposal of the estate. Since 1858, grants of probate and administration have been made in the Principal and District Registries of the Probate Court (before 1877) or the High Court (after 1877). They are indexed in the calendars of wills and administrations (available on this website for 1858 – 1922).
Before 1858, grants of probate and administration were made by the courts of the Church of Ireland (the Prerogative Court and the Diocesan or Consistorial Courts). Almost all of the original records were destroyed in the Public Record Office in 1922. Most of what appears on this site are indexes to the original wills.
For the pre-1858 ecclesiastical courts, will books containing copies of the originals survive for the Prerogative Court (1664-1684, 1706-1708, 1726-1728, 1728-1729, 1777, 1813 and 1834) and some Diocesan Courts – Connor (1818-1820 and 1853-1858) and Down (1850-1858). The will books for Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry are in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
The records can be searched by name, date, residence and district or diocese.
West Cork History 