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  • Customs Report 1821-2 (and Miscellaneous Petitions to Government 1820-5) and some Earlier Customs Data, including staffing, salaries, duties including, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Baltimore, with mention of Bantry, Crookhaven, Glandore, Berehaven, Castletownsend, Enniskeane, Passage, Crosshaven, Cove, Clonakilty, Cortmacsherry.
  • Eoghan O’Keeffe 1656-1723, Glenville, Co. Cork later Parish Priest, Doneralie 1723 Lament in old Irish
  • Historic maps from Cork City and County from 1600
  • Horsehair, animal blood an early 18th century Stone House in West Cork and Castles.
  • Interesting Links
  • Jack Dukelow, 1866-1953 Wit and Historian, Rossmore, Durrus, West Cork. Charlie Dennis, Batt The Fiddler.
  • Kilcoe Church, West Cork, built by Father Jimmy O’Sullivan, 1905 with glass by Sarah Purser, A. E. Childs (An Túr Gloine) and Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
  • Late 18th/Early 19th century house, Ahagouna (Áth Gamhna: Crossing Place of the Calves/Spriplings) Clashadoo, Durrus, West Cork, Ireland
  • Letter from Lord Carbery, 1826 re Destitution and Emigration in West Cork and Eddy Letters, Tradesmen going to the USA and Labourers to New Brunswick
  • Marriage early 1700s of Cormac McCarthy son of Florence McCarthy Mór, to Dela Welply (family originally from Wales) where he took the name Welply from whom many West Cork Welplys descend.
  • Online Archive New Brunswick, Canada, many Cork connections
  • Origin Dukelow family, including Coughlan, Baker, Kingston and Williamson ancestors
  • Return of Yeomanry, Co. Cork, 1817
  • Richard Townsend, Durrus, 1829-1912, Ireland’s oldest Magistrate and Timothy O’Donovan, Catholic Magistrate from 1818 as were his two brothers Dr. Daniel and Richard, Rev Arminger Sealy, Bandon, Magistrate died Bandon aged 95, 1855
  • School Folklore Project 1937-8, Durrus, Co. Cork, Schools Church of Ireland, Catholic.
  • Sean Nós Tradition re emerges in Lidl and Aldi
  • Some Cork and Kerry families such as Galwey, Roches, Atkins, O’Connells, McCarthys, St. Ledgers, Orpen, Skiddy, in John Burkes 1833 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland:
  • Statement of Ted (Ríoch) O’Sullivan (1899-1971), Barytes Miner at Derriganocht, Lough Bofinne with Ned Cotter, later Fianna Fáil T.D. Later Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Gortycloona, Bantry, Co. Cork, to Bureau of Military History, Alleged Torture by Hammer and Rifle at Castletownbere by Free State Forces, Denied by William T Cosgrave who Alleged ‘He Tried to Escape’.
  • The Rabbit trade in the 1950s before Myxomatosis in the 1950s snaring, ferrets.

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Cyclists Touring Club

17 Sunday Jan 2016


Once these signs were popular to denote accommodation approved for members.

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https://web.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/328c.htm

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Pre 1828 Blackrock Castle Cork

12 Tuesday Jan 2016


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Map Co.Cork

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Bandon History available from Amazon

14 Monday Dec 2015


Catherine FitzMaurice runs an excellent site:

 

http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/

 

 

 

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Tombstone Richard Tobin Durrus son of ‘King’ Tobin Kilcrohane

04 Sunday Oct 2015

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https://durrushistory.com/2015/07/20/kilcrohane-church-muintervara-inscriptions-and-stained-glass-to-members-of-mccarthy-omahony-tobin-odonovan-and-murphy-families/

https://durrushistory.com/2015/06/08/distribution-of-tobin-families-in-kilcrohane-townlands-west-cork-1831/
https://durrushistory.com/2015/06/05/the-tobins-of-kilcrohane-west-cork-the-seven-sisters-of-gloun-early-19th-century-and-john-f-kennedy-connection-1740s-lease-of-donmark-mills-1820s-lease-of-part-of-whiddy-island-king-tobon-and/

Census Return 1901, unusually his daughter is an Art Student, his wife is probably of the McCarthy Letterlickey family, substantial farmers:

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He features in the Bandon Estate records for Durrus as a substantial tenant and also paying royalties for landing sea sand (At the Sand Quay opposite the ‘Good Times Cafe’:

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Old Roadsign Bantry Durrus, formerly at Ahakista Bridge, Glengariff Road.

04 Sunday Oct 2015


https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Durrus,+Co.+Cork/@51.6078232,-9.6086739,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fe7ccd270df:0x231e3744ac95441a

Ahakista Bridge possibly from 1950s

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Chief Francis O’Neill (1848-1936), Festival Bantry 2015, Chicago and Trawlebane, Pattern at Trawlebane Bridge, Commemorative Wall

02 Friday Oct 2015


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The music still lives on, John Spillane, Cork Songwriter’s mother is a few miles from the Chief:

https://durrushistory.com/2015/07/24/chief-oneill-christy-moore-and-music-in-west-cork-and-a-mystery-beamish-contribution-to-the-chiefs-collection/

Subscriber to Durrus Church Building 190:

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Irish language in Cork 1815.

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Irish Jaunting Car 1764

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