The “House of Sorrows” (or Broin Bearg / Broin Dearg) is a legendary ancient Irish hospital said to have been founded around 300 BC by the mythological Irish Sovereignty Goddess and Queen Macha at Navan Fort (Emain Macha) in County Armagh. [1, 2, 3]
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Rooted in early Irish lore and texts like the Seanchus Mór, tradition cites it as the earliest recorded hospital or house of healing in Ireland. [1] Purpose: Built to care for the wounded warriors of the Red Branch Knights. [1, 2] Legacy: The site allegedly served as a royal Ulster residence and sanctuary until its destruction in AD 332. Modern institutions, such as Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, have historically linked their spiritual lineage back to Princess Macha’s foundational myth. [1, 2]
Barry, John Milner (1768–1822), physician, was born in Kilgobbin Castle, Ballinadee, Co. Cork, eldest among two sons and nine daughters of James Barry (d. 1804) and Elizabeth Barry (née Milner), co-heiress of William Milner of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. Educated at a school near Bandon, Co. Cork, he graduated MD (1792) at Edinburgh University and subsequently returned to Cork, where he established a medical practice.
1859-1913, died 1915 Dr. Jerry Cotter MD MCH, QUI, FRCSI 8 Sydney Place, Governor UCC, Board North Infirmary Dr Jerry of Sidney pl, Cork city is one of mine, a New Zealand relation, b 1859, Derryginah Bantry, died 1915 in Clonakilty (his McCarthy wife was from there). Him & a brother in London were the first doctors of the family & inspired others including here in NZ to follow suit, although one of his sons chose law instead. At the 1901 funeral Mrs Cotter is his mother Mary Gallagher 1826 of Summerhill, whose sister Mary 1840 married Patrick Burke. I don’t know about the Scullys, but Jeremiah of Breenymore’s brother was William 1858, rate collector. He married Julia Creedon, g’daughter of James Cotter of Derryginah (uncle of Dr Jerry 1859). When Julia died, he married Mary Cassey. From Bantry mother Scully I see he was b. 18 Jan 1859, mother was Mary Scully. There was a tribe of the Scully family descended from Catherine Anne Gallwey who m. James Scully JP but no issue m. to any Cotter that I can find despite several by the name of Mary. 1891 subscriber North Infirmary. 1901 funeral of Mrs. Cotter, Bantry sons Dr. P. J. Cotter, London, Dr. J. Cotter, Cork, nephew Dr. Patrick Burke, London 1886 Committee member of proposed Graduate Reform Association of Queens College Son 1909, 1911 Francis McCarthy Cotter B.A. Barrister “8, Sydney Place, Cork. 1911 Member Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1912 attending funeral of Rev. Charles Walsh, Rector, Farranferris. Paddy O’Keeffe papers. 1913 car owner. Probate 1915 to widow, Mary, Clonakilty, £10,253
(SR 13/2/1817) – BREWERY – TO BE LET, AND IMMEDIATE POSSESSION GIVEN – THAT Remarkably well Circumstanced BREWERY; Situate at BANTRY, together with the UTENSILS, MALT-HOUSES and CONCERNS thereto Belonging – which have the Advantage of an Uninterrupted supply of Fresh Water, and being in a thickly Inhabited Corn Country, contiguous to the Sea, are worthy of Prompt Attention. – Proposals to be made to Simon White, Esq., Glengarriff, Bantry, or Richard Foott, Attorney, Cork, at whose Office a Plan of the whole may be seen. – Mr. James Cotter of Bantry, will shew the Concerns.
Varian Brush Manufacturers, Rochester, NY, Frank Croston, Finnegans Wake. The Varians of West Cork.
Sometimes a chance phrase in Finnegans Wake can prompt all types of associations. Here the phrases might be Varian the brush manufacturers
Those early Varian brush makers of Cork were of Huguenot extraction, or perhaps Unitarian Presbyterians, passionately concerned with social and political issues and, in time, with the Young Irelanders. Involvement with the latter led to one Isaac Varian spending time in Sunday’s Well gaol and, afterwards, taking off to live in London. He wrote poetry there, and journalism, and all the time went on making brushes.
When he returned to Ireland it was to live in Dublin where, at 91-92 Talbot Street, he set up Varian Brushes in 1856. And there the company grew and flourished, building and employees witness to the changing city and, in 1920, to the death in battle outside their window of Republican leader Sean Treacy.
Varian men, in earlier centuries and old pictures, were invariably white bearded. Patrick Varian’s grandfather was “a colourful character. He met my grandmother on the top of a tram in London. She was German, a violinist in the London Philharmonic.
“They used to go off to Africa for months, to Bahia and other places, to source raw materials for yard brushes. The bristle for paint brushes used come from all over the world; the stuff of twig brushes used come from Mexico. These days we buy the finished article from Mexico.”
His father, Ian Varian (his mother was Sheila), ran the company during the second World War. “There were lots of brush makers in Dublin then,” he points out, “around Capel Street and Christchurch. Getting raw materials into the country was difficult but my father used send food to England and get goods in return which he would then distribute to the other brush makers. At the end of the war the Irish Brush Manufacturers Organisation formally thanked him for his help. I have the letter still.”
There was a Varian brush manufacturing plant in Rochester New York in the 1850s. Frank Croston from a poor Protestant family from Ahakista, Durrus emigrated with his family c 1850s. He and his brother worked as teenagers in the Varian factory.
The were close links with the poor Protestant of West Cork who suffered severe distress in the 1820s with the collapse of the textile industry. Many emigrated to Rochester.
Emigration from West Cork, Rochester, NY, The Croston’s of Bradford and Haverhill Massachusetts
The Durrus Dukelows part of an emigration of Durrus and Schull Protestants to Rochester, New York. Through the Republican Party they created a political machine known as the ‘99 cousins’ which dominated city government in the mid and late 19th century, a replica of the Irish Catholic machines in other US cities. The Catholic branch of the family descended from John Dukelow emigrated to East London and with Durrus Swantons and Hurleys were active as Fenians in the 1860s. Later one of the extended family provided accommodation in a lodging house to Michael Collins when he went to London to work as a Post Office clerk.
Frank Croston 1852-1921, Probably born Reenaccapall. Parish of Kilcrohane, West Cork, Major Real Estate Developer of High Quality Commercial and Residential Property, Rochester, New York, Republican Party Activist. Varian Brush Making Family Possible Origin, Rooska, Bantry.
1741. Deed John Vickery the elder and John Vickery the younger, transfer one third of West Roosak to Richard Varian (spelled Veren) in consideration of marriage and a marriage portion and in deed and he transfers in 1774 half of his portion to his son Richard Varian the young and the remainder on his death. Witnesses Thomas Baker upwards of 60, Gortalassa (Kilcrohane) in 1774 and John Ferguson, farmer, Four Mile Water (Durrus). Registered 1791.
17th February 1775, St. Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork Richard Varian, Grace Ferguson, Farmer, Rooska, she Four Mile Water possibly Clashadoo Richard Varen (Varian) the Elder John Ferguson, farmer. Bantry Estate lease 1812 names James Ferguson aged 24 son of John farmer, Four Mile Water, James Edward Sullivan aged 7, son William, Park Place, Bantry, George Varian about 15 son of Richard Varian, Rooska, Richard Varian appears in tithe Applotments in 1830 for Rooska Deeds of 1751 involving the Vickeries John the elder and Younger refers to contemplated marriage. MLB
1800, deed (registered 1813). Thomas Attridge agrees to pay Richard Varian of Rooska an annual rent of £5.13. 9 for 40 years and out of one third part of Rooska excluding three small meadows at the north side of Varian house and half field called Parkeen. Witness, Rev. Daniel McCarthy, (Former Parish Priest Durrus then local clerk Lord Bantry), and George Chinnery, attorney, Bandon who knows Daniel McCarthy.
1807 Extract from deed: Stephen Hutchinson, Clonee, heir and eldest son of Hugh, Clonee, died 1804, landlords of Clonee to Michael Sullivan, farmer, (married Mary Vickery, Whiddy 1777), KIlvenogue for a rent of £39 lands part of Kilvenogue labounded on west by Sullivan’s holding, south by Clashadoo, on the east by George Bakers (Rooska) and Richard Varian holding by the high road to Bantry through KIvenogue for the lives of Michael Sullivan, John Vickery son of James Vickery of Rooska, aged about 9, John Vickery son of John Vickery Ballycomane, witness Rev. Daniel McCarthy, Bantry (former Parish Priest of Durrus likely clerk to Lord Bantry), John? O’Sullivan, Gent, formerly of Ballinale now (1807) of Carrigbui (Durrus)
1894 William Martin Murphy’s son Denis died in Davos, Switzerland, skiing accident he had been assisting his father on building of the Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway.
Cutting now road entrance to Skibbereen from Baltimore
The Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway was an 13 km. extension of the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR) in West Cork, opened on May 2, 1893. It served as a vital, albeit temporary, rail link for the port of Baltimore, closing along with the rest of the West Cork lines in March 1961.
William Martin Murphy (1845-1919), MP, 1884, The Square, Bantry, and Dartry Hall, Rathmines, Dublin, b Castletownbere, child of Denis Murphy, building contractor, and Ann Marie Martin. Ed. Belvedere College, Dublin. 1869 built Barryroe Church, Clonakilty. Moved to Dublin 1875, railways, tramways, newspapers, Clerys Department Store, M.P. 1885, M Mary Julia Lombard d James F. Electrified Dublin Trams 1896. 1890 Skibbereen Quarter Sessions sitting with Circuit Court Judge Ferguson on Schull licensing appeal cases. Magistrates, John Edward 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. Donor £40 second largest after Lord Ardilaun £500 in 5 instalments on behalf of the Bantry Estate 1894 son Denis died in Davos, Switzerland skiing accident he had been assisting his father on building of the Skibbereen to Baltimore Railway. 1895 to the Bantry Foreshore Reclamation Fund. Closely associated with Tim Healy. 1918 largest donor Gearhies Fishing Disaster. 1916 meets Lloyd George to oppose partition. listed 1913. Buried Glasnevin Cemetery. Features in James Joyce, ‘Ulysses’, ‘How’s that for Martin Murphy, the Bantry jobber?’ (12.237)
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1890, Will of Denis Murphy, Builder, Bantry, Builder of Bantry Pier, Father of William Martin Murphy. 1919, William Martin Murphy, Derrymihan, Beara and Dublin, businessman. Estate £250,000. He left a range of businesses with a substantial asset value, including Dublin’s tramway system, hotels in Dublin and Glengariff, Cleary’s Department store, a range of railway shares and various properties including a builders yard in Bantry (which is still in business). He had also invested heavily in the Dublin newspaper industry.
Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.
1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
1899, Bantry, Funeral of Miss O’Connor, Wreaths From William Martin Murphy and Family, Buyer of Cleary and Co, Dublin, Attendance, Magistrates, John Daly, Barry O’Leary, John Cullinane, James Gilhooley Member of Westminster Parliament, James Manders (Butter Merchant), Doctor Thomas Popham, William Warner (Merchant), Thomas R. Hurst (Publican).
Most but not all of the Beara Peninsula is in Co. Cork with a section in Co. Kerry. The Barony referred to was notorious as it was in effect ruled by the Whites of Bantry (later Lord Bantry) and various Septs of the O’Sullivans mostly but not all Catholic. In theory they lost everything but in fact retained effective control allied closely to the Whites of Bantry and also Lord Kenmare. Most of their tenants who they rackrented would have been far better off under Protestant Landlords
There is a significant amount of correspondence in the Cork Archive in the Paddy O’Keeffe (Bantry businessman and historian ) papers with Lyne. Ranging on genealogy and history.
Courtesy Irish Times
Gerard Lyne was keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland (NLI) and a noted scholar of 19th-century agrarian Ireland. Born in 1944, he was brought up on the Kerry side of the Cork/Kerry border on the Beara peninsula where, near Ardgroom, in the 17th century, his first known direct ancestor, Dr Dermot Lyne, took a lease of lands. In 1698, Dr Lyne extended his holdings to Kerry, a small portion of which remains in Lyne’s family.
From this link derived his interest in Irish social history which lead to contributions to learned journals, notably, the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. He was co-founder, with Canon Thomas Looney, of Éigse Sheáin Úi Shúilleabháin (UCD folklorist) and regularly wrote for his parish’s award-winning Tuosist Newsletter . In 2005 he received the annual Kerry Heritage award.
A kinsman also to Daniel O’Connell, his history studies at UCD led him to a master’s on O’Connell and the Catholic Association and an assignment as assistant editor of the Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell.
Much of this work was carried out in the National Library of Ireland, where he became a permanent staff member in 1973 following a period teaching in Dublin, a stay in London and a time as a sub-editor in The Irish Times. He remained in the NLI until his retirement in 2009.
While, occasionally, wistfully saying that he would like to have been a journalist, he developed and retained a deep love for the NLI where he held various positions in Periodicals, the Genealogical Office, becoming surveyor of manuscripts and later keeper of manuscripts.
It was in this role as keeper of manuscripts that he came into his own. Operating, initially, in a period of tight financial restraint where, frequently, bidding on the open market for important items had to be foregone; happily, his tenure of office saw the pendulum swing allowing for many important acquisitions. Inter alia, whether through donation or purchase, papers of James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Edna O’Brien and IQA (Ireland’s LGBT Society) were acquired.
Attending auctions, he was always cautious with the public purse. His convivial disposition ensured that he was on good terms with booksellers and literary figures; thus, he frequently got “the nod” when items were coming on stream which might, otherwise, have been missed. And his natural rapport with writers and accessibility are attested to in his many acknowledgements in contemporary publications.
During this period of financial largesse he oversaw the cataloguing of neglected estate papers which became the domain of specially employed archival students, thus ensuring a rich vein of native material for future scholars. He had an unerring eye for recruitment and loved seeing staff develop under his tutelage. Scholarly and knowledgeable, his helpfulness befitted his sense of the library’s serving learning and scholarship.
Becoming secretary of the almost defunct NLI Society, he revived its fortunes through his enthusiasm and a programme of stimulating lectures.
His ability with English was first endorsed when, in 1963, while a student at Cistercian College, Roscrea he won first prize in an all-Ireland schools’ essay competition. But despite being advised that it was cramping his imagination, he chose history rather than English for further studies.
His unique insight into the mindset of the dispossessed Gaelic aristocracy and the Catholic middleman within the new social hierarchy of a planted Munster underpin his books: The Lansdowne Estate in Kerry under WS Trench 1849-72 (2001) and Murtaí Óg (2017). The. (2017). The former was awarded the biennial NUI Irish historical research prize inspiring the RTÉ documentary Land is Gold.
The writer Eugene McCabe noted the “other-worldly aura of his personality” and his valuing “of a folk ballad full of awkward rhymes and unscanned lines as much as great lyrics by Yeats.” McCabe wrote of his ability “to spot the nugget of gold where others see only dross and fix it in that phenomenal memory of his.”
Being himself able to hold a note and deliver expressive renditions of folk song and ballad, Lyne’s liked nothing more, whether in Kerry or Dublin, than to visit a hostelry where a sing-song might ensue before evening’s end.
He passed away on June 5th, 2019 and is survived by his brother, Vincent , sister, Annette, sister-in-law, Elizabeth; nephews, Joseph and John; nieces, Anne Marie, Deirdre and Fionnuala. Suaimhneas síoraí dó.
When my mother was about to be confined she went to Bandon to be under the care of an old friend and relative who lived an a small house in Castle St. close to the river. Here on the morning of the lst May 1829 at 6 O’C am I was ushered into this world to undergo a training for eternity. The term of that training time has been a little more than the psalmist’s reckoning and on the whole I ought not to complain. My most painful time was during my childhood, the very times which should be the easiest if not the happiest portion of the training time. My grandfather was very old with an old mans ideas when I came under his care. I was naturaly dull and nervous and if I could lot learn as others I must be made to if possible no matter at what cost of pain or misery to the poor dullard. When about five years of age the old people came to live in the town of Bantry. Then I was sent to the usual infant school where I presume I learnt something as when about eight a more advanced school was chosen. Unfortunately there was no great choice, the national school then newly established or a private one conducted by a man named Healy. The Irish protestants from the very first were prejudiced against the national system of schools describing them “poor schools”. The result being they were almost from the commencement under the wing of the R.C. priests. Healy the teacher of the small private school was a self taught man attaining as many self-taught men do a fair knowledge of mathematics but seemingly holding in contempt all other branches of learning. He was a little man essentially a tyrant cruel to a degree whose great delight was to make the unfortunate little come trembling and sobbing into his presence. In certain aspects of his character he exceeded any thing depicted by the pen of Dickens. The treatment I received thus early in my life at this man’s hands must have had an ill effect on me throughout life. He was a Roman Catholic but my grandfather insisted that I should learn so many verses of the bible every day. In the repeating of these and other lessons the rod was continually shaking over us and that rod was usually a well seasoned holly one with the sharp points adhering. I had to endure it all silently having no one to complain to. As an instance of his treatment I may relate the following. The school room was a rough one with an open roof, over one of the rafters one day he threw a small rope tied under my arms and then hoisted me up swinging me too and fro at the same time letting me feel the holly rod greatly to the amusement of the other boys. His wife happened to see him at this, to his pleasant, occupation when she rushed in and released me at the same time giving him some of her mind. He was eventually had up before the Magistrates and fined for cruelly treating some other scholars whose friends became aware of the fact. On our parents death there was some understanding that Robt Edwards of Bandon and our father’s brother James should be our guardians. The one who really took an active interest, at least in life history was Mrs Edwards as good a hearted woman as could be met with but most unwise in all her dealings with young people especially boys. She seemingly could not resist any appeal from her own sons, their father taking little interest in them, so that the sons without exception were a burden instead of a help to their parents. A young couple with whom she was acquainted decided to establish a private school in Bandon and it was thought well that I should be put under their care. When I was ten years of age I together with my cousin George son of adult Bess- came to reside as borders with Mr and Mrs Thomas Robinson.
1886 Address from Some of Bantry Inhabitant to the Earl of Bantry, on His return from Abroad. 1885, House of Commons, London, A Lash of Tim Healy’s , MP, Tongue, The Earl of Bantry Off Chasing Kangaroos in Australia instead of Sitting on Cork Lunacy Board
1909 Bantry Feis. Patrons include Canon (Church of Ireland) O’Grady, James Gilhooley, M.P., Tim Healy King’s Counsel,M.P., Maurice Healy, M.P., The Earl of Kenmare, Magistrates, Dr. O’Mahony, Benjamin O’Connor, M. O’Driscoll, William Martin Murphy, Alexander Martin Sullivan, King’s Counsel, Dr. M. J. McCarthy, Patrick (Rocky Mountain) O’Brien, Dromore. Prizewinners, Industrial Section.
Emigration from Gearhies, Muintervara, to Joliet, Illinois, America. Visit of Bantry Born MP, Tim Healy 1881, Hotbed of Fenians, Hibernian Activity, Pro Boer Meeting Attended by Many Irish.
Bantry Gang: Healy Brothers, Thomas, Solicitor, M.P., Timothy, M.P. , Queen’s Counsel, Governor General Irish Free State, Tim, Sullivan Brothers, Alexander Martin, Owner ‘The Nation’, Founder Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P. Queen’s Counsel, Timothy Daniel, M.P. Composer ‘God Save Ireland”, Donal, Secretary Irish Parliamentary Party, M.P, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Harrington Brothers, Tim, Teacher, Journalist, Author of The Plan of Campaign, M.P., Barrister, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ned, Organiser, M.P., William Martin Murphy, International Businessman, Railway Contractor, owner Irish Independent, Dublin United Tramways, M.P., James Gilhooley, Fenian, M.P.
Genealogy of O’Healy/Healy Family of Donoughmore, Co. Cork ancestors of Tim Healy, Bantry, Governor General and John Hely-Hutchinson/Earls of Donoughmore and 1850 census of St. Anne’s Parish, Shandon, Cork.
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
Meeting of Select Vestry, Skibbereen, West Cork, 10th May 1832, to appoint Officers of Health under Statute of the 59th year of His Late Majesty, King George 3, p. 31
Early Church Wardens, 1699, Bishop Mann Visitation of Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork. Ref D121.1. 1827 Parliamentary Return of Vestries, 1851, 1861 Visitations, p. 31
1824. Cover letter and memorial from the church wardens of the parish of Fanlobbus, Dunmanway, County Cork, concerning prosecution of Sabbath profaners, p. 32
West Cork Select Vestries. 1885-1890, p. 32
March 1798. Rosscarbery, Drimoleague, Castletownbere, Select Vestries meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in Militia and to Levy Seven and a Half Pence Per Gneeve. Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery. Cost of Levy for Cork City and County, p. 32
Late 18th early 19th Century Interplay of the Select Vestries of the Church of Ireland (State Church) in Local Administration, Barony of Carbery, Castlehaven, Drimoleague, Durrus, Cess Payer Representatives Named, p. 32
1851 Visitation Book West Cork, Church of Ireland parishes, Population 1834 and 1851, Schools, Parish Clerks, Church Wardens.p. 32
1830 keeping the Sabbath in Clonakilty, p. 32
Townlands and Placenames, 1794 Principal Inhabitants Thanks to Government, 1870 Registered Vestrymen, Kilmeen Parish History, 1975 Dan O’Leary, Funded by Jerry Beechinorp. 32
1793-1803. Cork Grand Jury Returns including provision for Militia from 1795., p. 32
The Military Levy was raised through parishes by the Churchwardens, the parishes were subject to a levy or a bounty to be paid in lieu. The surviving records of Drimoleague and Castlehaven Select Vestries confirm this., p. 33
1757 Castlehaven, (Skibbereen), Select Vestry Records, shows interaction of parishes in road building: Cullane, Daniel, app. Director of the High Way in CTend 37. VM 4 OCT 1757., p. 33
March 1798. Rosscarbery Select Vestry meeting to Levy a Rate to provide Four Men to Serve in Militia and to Levy Seven and a Half Pence Per Gneeve. Further meeting August 1803 to levy £1-6-o per ploughland to raise 5 men for Militia and £5-13-9 on town of Rosscarbery, p. 33
Cork Grand Jury (Civil Jurisdiction) To 1899, p.33
593.5: “Have sea east to Osseania:” HCE to Oceania! On the one hand, Oceania, the eastern sea, being about as distant as possible from Ireland, supports the claim to world-wide coverage. On the other hand, Ireland (the land of Ossian) represents the opposite. Contraries converging, or maybe just plain overweening provincialism: The Skibbereen Eagle once warned the Czar of Russia that it had its eyes on him. Compare Stephen’s sardonic “(European and Asiatic papers please copy” (P 251).
EXACTLY 125 years ago this year, in September 1898, The Skibbereen Eagle instilled fear into the Russian Tsar, a butterfly effect not replicated until the West Cork fishermen saw off the Russian navy last year.
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The eye of The Skibbereen Eagle focused on the Tsar’s success in securing an ice-free warm-water base for the Russian Navy on China’s Yellow Sea.
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But only two weeks earlier, in something akin to modern day political sports-washing, Tsar Nicolas II sent an unexpected invitation to every government accredited to his Imperial Court.
The Tsar’s rescript invited these governments to a conference ‘to occupy themselves with the grave problem of excessive armaments.’
In truth it disclosed his military vulnerability dressed up as his pursuit of world peace.
The Tsar told the world that he was keen to ensure to all people ‘the benefits of a real and durable peace, and above all of putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments.’
With his Chinese warm water naval port now secured, Tsar Nicholas II set out to achieve this worthy ambition ‘by means of international discussion’ at his peace conference.
And it met with great success, for within only a few months the Tsar’s peace conference created the Permanent Court of Arbitration where the arbitration and peaceable resolution of (some) disputes between nations continues down to this day.
The peace conference also developed ‘Rules of War’ for the treatment of prisoners of war. It even banned, for the next five years at least, the discharge of projectiles and deleterious gases from balloons.
Under Bismarck, the plethora of small German states had coalesced as the increasingly powerful German Empire, with the dynamo of its Prussian siege engine massed on its border with Russia.
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Acutely conscious that his guns could never match those of his neighbour, Tsar Nicholas II set out to prioritise peace over his inevitable defeat.
Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist who built 80 libraries across Ireland also funded the construction of the Tsar’s dream home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.
The list of signatories to this Peace Convention today reads as an eerie who’s who of hubris and history – powerful people whose memory is neither remembered nor honoured.
It included the Prince of Montenegro and the Prince of Bulgaria and the long-forgotten Kings of Bohemia, Hungary, the Hellenes, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Siam.
Imperial majesties, such as the Shah of Persia and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India also signed, as did the Emperors of Of course, the ‘Emperor of all the Russias’ also signed up.
In the same month as the Tsar’s call to action in 1898, the son of a Corkman – claiming a connection to Daniel O’Connell – enrolled at Cardinal Newman’s University on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin from where he graduated in 1902. While it seems to scholars that young James Joyce was possessed of a stunning awareness and broad knowledge, much of his texts are derived from or informed by the newspapers of his time.
For the impecunious Joyce, local, national and international newspapers were readily and freely available to read in public libraries.
Today, these same public libraries act as ‘warm banks’ – places to visit to stay warm in the face of impossible domestic energy bills caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But Joyce was not the only one reading English language newspapers.
They were being read in Moscow and St Petersburg as well.
We know this from the Tsar’s father, Nicholas I, who boasted during the Crimean War (1853-1856) that he had no need of spies.
He was learning everything he needed to know by reading Dubliner William Howard Russell’s account of the Crimean War published by the Times of London and read by embassies everywhere.
Joyce was nothing if not up-to-date when he weaved the Tsar’s Rescript and notions of world peace and international arbitration into Stephen Dedalus’ conversations with his fellow students at Newman House on St Stephen’s Green where they gathered around the Tsar’s portrait collecting signatures.
They were preparing to send the Tsar a testimonial of gratitude for his pursuit of world peace and the arbitration of disputes among nations. They had every reason to believe that a Tsar name-checked by The Skibbereen Eagle would read the praise of their Testimonial.
Joyce was clearly impacted by the Tsar’s Rescript and The Skibbereen Eagle as he threads the debate about world peace and international arbitration from Stephen Hero, begun in 1903 just after his graduation, to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man published before World War I and again, after the horrors of that war, to Ulysses, published in 1922.
Clearly, the watchful eye of The Skibbereen Eagle had spawned an imitator in Joyce and a reader in the Tsar.
Perhaps, it is time now for The Skibbereen Eagle to re-send its impactful historic note to the current Tsar.
National and international papers, please copy!
Joycean Brendan Kilty, above, has examined the links between Joyce’s Ulysses and the Skibbereen Eagle’s references to Tsar Nicholas II.
• Brendan Kilty SC is a senior counsel, arbitrator and Joycean.
His human rights book ‘101 Reasons Not to Execute Someone’ is due to be released in 2023.
Dick Adams:
B 1843-1908 Richard (Dick) Adams Journalist, Barrister Inns 1873, Judge County Court Limerick 1892, Down Born Castletownbere, eldest son Brian Port Surveyor, Customs and Excise mother Frances (Fanny) O’Donovan sister of Doctor O’Donovan, Skibbereen. First cousin of Skibbereen O’Donovan family, Doctor Daniel adn his 2 Doctor sons, they are of ‘Isladn’ branch and once owned town of Ross. 1880 Munster Bar, 20 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. Born Castletownbere, eldest son Brian Port Surveyor, Customs and Excise mother Frances (Fanny) O’Donovan sister of Doctor O’Donovan, Skibbereen. First cousin of Skibbereen O’Donovan family, Doctor Daniel Famine Doctor his 2 Doctor sons, they are of ‘Island’ branch and once owned the town of Ross. 1880 Munster Bar, 20 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. “Journalist Cork and Freemans Journal, Defended James Fitzharris in Phoenix Park Murders, noted wit. From James Joyce ‘Ulysses’, ‘Dick Adams (Castletownbere born), the besthearted bloody Corkman the Lord ever put the breath of life in’ Journalist, Barrister, Defender of Parnell, Later County Court Judge Limerick
Ulysses: 7.679-80″ Buried St. Marys, Kensal Rise, London “Courtesy Ruth Cannon: from the Cork Examiner, 6 April 1908, this loving tribute to one of the Irish Bar’s most famous humorists, Limerick County Court Judge Richard Adams (b-l). Adams got much mileage out of his resemblance to King Edward VII (b-r), who he alleged once messaged him in the spa resort of Homburg requesting they dress differently to avoid confusion.
“Those who knew the late Judge Adams well will find it hardest to believe that he is dead. For with his personality, they associate all that was brightest and most vivifying in life.
That said, the future judge does not appear to have greatly distinguished himself in his early days. His first professional calling was that of a bank clerk in the National Bank in Cork. He was entrusted with the duty of opening letters containing bank notes in separate halves, a favourite way of sending money in those days, and then gumming the two halves together. But his lack of acumen for bank business was such that he frequently gummed the wrong halves together – a terrible misadventure in any well-organized bank.
Having regard to this, and a general unsuitability for bank life, Richard Adams decided that he had mistaken his vocation. Accordingly, he subsequently got called to the Bar in Hilary term of 1873. In actions for breach of promise of marriage his services were particularly sought, and it was one of the treats of the Four Courts to hear a speech on that congenial topic from one who was a master of humorous exposition. His admission to the Inner Bar was soon followed by his elevation to the Bench as County Court Judge of Limerick.
While not a profound lawyer, he did not himself at all mind jesting on the subject of his legal knowledge, and would tell how once he came into one of the Dublin Courts after the luncheon interval and heard a well-known solicitor proclaiming from the solicitors’ table to a cluster of minor lights ‘Adams! Oh, he has a fine nisi prius prescendi, but he knows absolutely no law,’ whereupon Adams himself put his genial countenance over the side barrier and said, ‘Look here, that’s slander of me in my business trade and profession, and it is actionable without proof of special damage, so look out for a writ.’ This was of course said with glorious good humour.
Judge Adams loved to go to health resorts on the continent. These sojourns were rendered doubly enjoyable by reason of his resemblance to the present King. ‘When in Homburg,’ he said, ‘the King’s Equerry came up to me and said ‘Mr. Adams, the King commands me to ask you as a personal favour not to be going about in a tall hat and frock coat. It is very embarrassing for his Majesty to be so often whacked on the back, and to be shouted at by gentlemen in Dublin accents, ‘Hello Dick, old man, how are all the boys in Dublin…’’
Title: The O Heas of southwest Cork Author: Collins, John T. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1946, Vol. 51, No. 174, page(s) 97107 Published by the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Digital file created: July 16, 2015
Chancery Rolls, 1624, Bantry Pilchards, c 1600 Landing Spanish Soldiers in Kinsale, Unbought Wine Left Behind, c 1600 Donnogh O’Leary, Kilbarry, Dunmanway or Muskerry, 1628 O’Driscoll, Baltimore/McCarthy, Kilbrittain, James Gallway, Ibane (Clonakilty), O’Sullivan/Coppinger/O’Driscoll, Baltimore, c 1600 Whitcomb, Merchant, Kinsale, Daniel and Dominic Roche v William and Dorothy Gage, lands at Crookhaven, Kinsale, 1625 Morrogh O’Hea
1656. Petition of The Following, ‘That Daniell O’Donovand als O’Donovane of Curraghnylickey (Drinagh), Most Knew Him before 1641 Rebellion, as a Civil Honest, and Quite Gentleman’, Samuell Browne, Edward Renys, Edward Clerke, Francis Barnett (Mark) Mathew Perrott, Amos Bennets, Robert Osborne, Dermod O’Mahowby, Samuel Skinner, William Holcombe, Thomas Attridge, Barnabe Witcherly, Der. Coughlan, Will Corlless, Thomas Recraft (Roycroft), Mathew Sweethman (Sweetnam), Geyles Smith (Mark), Timothy Coughlane, Ja? Base, Abel Marshall, John Vallyes (mark), Ralph Fuller, Teig Has (O’Hea?), Phillip Otrrydge (Attridge), John Baily, John Abbott, Philip Madoxe, Rowland Neild, William Ottrydge (Attridge), Thomas Hungerford, Samuel Poole, James Dyer, Richard Nobbs, John Chamberlen (Mark), Bart Philpot, Richard Skines (Skuse?) (Mark), Henry Abbott (Mark), Richard Chambers (Mark), Thomas Duggen.
1718. Will of James O’Hea, Killkeirane, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, be be Buried in Ancestral Tomb, Timoleague, O’Heas in Convert Rolls.
On the forfeiture of O’Hea lands due to rebellion some held in trust by Townsend family on their behalf. later substantial lot of townlands let on favourable terms
James O’Hea, 1795, Greenfield. Son of James O’Hea, Kilkerran will dated 1720. Brother James, a Barrister, other brother John, officer North Cork Militia served in Wexford 1798. 1791 Meeting as ‘James Hea’, at the Kings Arms Tavern Cork of Members of Hanover Association (Landowners/Magistrates) re Whiteboys.
John O’Hea Esq, -1847), listed 1838, Shannon Square, Clonakilty. 1828 seeking reform of the House of Commons. Honoria Deasy who was a Daughter of Rickard Deasy married John O’Hea (Magistrate from 1838-1843) in 1826 and they had 10 children, the youngest Alfred who was born in 1847 just a few months before the death of his father. Attending an 1843 meeting in Clonakilty of Cork, Kinsale, Skibbereen Turnpike Trust. Resigned 1843 over dismissal of Magistrates for attending Repeal Meetings. Following a report to the Lord Chancellor regarding the activity of Magistrates sympathetic or attending a dinner in honour of Daniel O’Connell and Roche a number were superseded or resigned. Testimonial of John O’Hea, Esq., 1847 distribution for Clonakilty of New England Relief Committee Famine Relief. Died Clonakilty, Co. Cork, 1847. Included Thomas Allen, J.P., Allin and Co Shannonvale, James Redmond Barry Fishery Commissioner, J.P. Glandore, W. J. F. Barry son of Redmond Glandore, Rev. J. Beamish, Kilmalooda, Francis Bennett, Clonakilty, William Bennett Clonakilty, John Callaghan Clonakilty, Daniel Clanchy, J.P., Charleville, John Coghlan Clonakilty, James Comyn Cobh, C. Connell and Co Ballinascarthy, J. Nelson Crofts, Clonakilty, Eyre Croke Croker, Ballyra, Thomas Deasy, Clonakilty, Patrick Desmond Clonakilty, Richard Dennehy, John Donovan, Clonakilty, Jeremiah Donovan brother of Rickard, Midleton, Rickard Donovan, Clerk of Crown (State Solicitor) Cork, Joseph Dugan, Clonakilty, William Ffolliott, M.D. Clonakilty, Henry Franks Clonakilty (Probably of extended Kearney Garretstown House family), Alexander Grant Clonakilty, P. B. Grifin, G. F.Hardy Cork, Miss Anne Gallwey, Kilkerran, Charles Gallwey Kilcoleman, Michael Gallwey J.P. KIlkieran House, Henry Gallwey, Greenfield, William Gallwey, Kilcoleman, Major Hill Late 54th Regiment Clonakilty, Daniel Kelly Clonakilty, M. Irwin Clonakilty, J.E Lucas, Ring, Clonakilty, Dr. Lucas, Richsfordstown, O.H. Marmion, Skibbereen, Nicholas Daniel Murphy, Cork, Major J.H.O. Moore, 35th Regiment Jersey, Daniel McCarthy Skibbereen, John McCarthy Clonakilty, T. McCarthy Downing Solicitor, Skibbereen, Richard Boyle Norcott, Skibbereen, F.J. Power, Bank Manager, Clonakilty, Rev. J. Quarry, Clonakilty, Patrick Scott, Dublin, William Scott, Mamore House, Rev. Henry Stewart, Rathbarry, James Sweeny, Clonakilty, Daniel Sullivan, Clonakilty, James Toohig, Clonakilty, Winispeare Toye, Clonakilty, Thomas Richard Wright, Solicitor Clonakilty. Michael O’Hea, (1866-, 1895, Rock Cottage, Timoleague, listed 1913. Farmer, has Irish. 1896 donor Rosscarbery Church organ fund. 1901 Subscriber Clonakilty Agricultural Society. 1901 Officer Clonakilty Agricultural Show. Attending 1898, enormous funeral of Dan O’Leary, JP, aged 71, Clonakilty, probably draper. Contributor the indemnity fund 1899 for the election petition of John Walsh. Butlerstown, Vice Chairman, 1904 Timoleague Athletic Sports. 1910 member Courtmacsherry Regatta Committee. March 1916 Courtmacsherry recruitment drive. In the early years of World War 1 there was strong support from all classes regardless of religion or politics in Ireland towards recruitment to assist the British. There was hardly a townland in the country that did not have recruits. Additionally the farmers prospered due to high food prices. However at least in nationalist Ireland from mid 1916 and into 1917 when conscription was suggested the mood changed. Perhaps around 50,000 Irish born men perished for nothing, an epic disaster for young Irish men. Ireland was a colony, in contrast to another small Northern European State, Denmark was independent and neutral. It is thought that about 800 Danes died in the conflict.
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Joycean Brendan Kilty, above, has examined the links between Joyce’s Ulysses and the Skibbereen Eagle’s references to Tsar Nicholas II.
West Cork History 