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(HC Jan. 1772) - TO be let from the first day of May next, for the term of three lives renewable for ever, or for a term of years each farm in such divisions as shall be agreed upon, the lands of COOLCLOGH, containing 222A. 2R. 15P., and KNOCKANDRAHAN, containing 337A. 2R. 37P. plantation measure, situate near Kanturk, in the barony of Duhallow. They are capable of great improvement at an easy expense, not having ever been hurt by injudicious tilling or burning, and a sufficiency of culm being on the spot, and lime-stone within two miles. Proposals until the 25th day of March next, to be made to JAMES PURCELL, Esq., Kanturk, near Mallow. Jan. 9

Dromtariff- born Soldiers discharged prior to 1853 - From The National Archives (PRO), London; Doc. Ref. TNA(PRO)

Indexed by surname and place of birth from the National Archives online catalogues.

Name	Served in…/Discharged	Covering Dates
AHERN, DENIS	Born 'Drumtariss.' 70th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 40	1828-1849
HANNAN, WILLIAM	Born Coolclough. 67th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 23	1840-1846
KINGSTON, THOMAS	Born 'Drumgodruft.' - ?Dromtarriff. 16th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 45	1801-1837
MAHONEY, JOHN	Born Coolclough. 14th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 25	1846-1854
MANNIX, DENIS	Born Coolclough. 63rd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 39	1835-1849
O SULLIVAN, DENIS	Born 'Darrinagree.' 35th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 22	1836-1837
PHILPOT, NICHOLAS	Born 'Drumtaif.' 20th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 27	1825-1831
SCANNELL, DENNIS	Born 'Coolcluff.' 98th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35	1824-1841
SULLIVAN, OWEN	Born Coolclough. 41st Foot Regt. Discharged aged 25	1848-1853
WALSH, JOHN	Born 'Drumtarriff.' 84th Foot Regt. Discharged aged 21	1850-1852

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DROMTARIFFE - Lewis' Topographical Dictionary 1837 - DROUMTARIFFE, or DRUMTARIFF, a parish, in the barony of DUHALLOW, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (S.W. by S.) from Kanturk, on the river Blackwater, and on the new government road from Roskeen bridge to Castle Island; contain ing 5296 inhabitants, it comprises 14,971 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £9007. 17. 6 ½ per annum: of which about 3000 acres consist of coarse mountain pasture and bog. The arable land is of middling quality. Since the construction of the new government roads, lime has been extensively used as manure, and the state of agriculture greatly improved. The extensive and valuable collieries of Dromagh and Disert, the property of N. Leader, Esq., afford constant employment to a considerable number of persons. Dromagh colliery has been worked for nearly a century. Within the last fifteen years a large capital has been expended by the late N. P. Leader, Esq., on useful works connected with the collieries, which are now in excellent order, and capable of supplying an extensive demand. Among other improvements, he erected a large boulting-mill, near the new bridge over the river Allua, which, in compliment to him, has been named Leader's bridge. At Clonbanin, Drominagh, and Coolclough are other collieries worked by different proprietors. About forty years since, it was contemplated to open a navigable communication between these collieries and the sea at Youghal, by means of a canal cut through the vale of the Blackwater; and part of the line between this place and Mallow, to the extent of 3 miles, was actually cut, and still remains visible. A railroad in the same direction has also been suggested, but no steps have yet been taken for accomplishing that object. Fairs are held at Dromagh on the 20th of May, Aug., and Nov., for general farming stock. The gentlemen's seats are Nashville, the residence of N. Leader, Esq.; Minchill, of J. C. Wallace, Esq.; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. H. Bevan. Fort Grady, so called from an ancient rath or fort in its vicinity, and formerly the residence of the father of Viscount Guillamore, is now occupied as a farm-house. The parish is in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe; the rectory is impropriate in Lord Lisle; the vicarage was united, in 1760, to those of Cullen and Kijmeen, forming the union of Droumtariffe, in the gift of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £384. 12. 3 ½ , of which £184. 12. 3 ½ is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar: the entire tithes of the benefice amount to £720. The glebe-house is a neat and commodious building, erected in 1825, by aid of a gift of £400 and a loan of £400 from the late Board of First Fruits; the glebe comprises about 24 statute acres. The old church was burnt by Lord Broghill's troops, in 1652; the present church, at Dromagh, is a neat edifice, of hewn stone, with a square pinnacled tower, erected in 1822, by aid of a gift of £300 and a loan of £300 from the same Board. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms the principal part of the district called Coolclough, which also includes parts of the parishes of Cullen and Kilmeen. The chapel, near Dromagh, is a spacious and handsome structure, originally built on a site presented by the late Mr. Leader, who also contributed £150 towards the building; it has been recently rebuilt, in the Gothic style, under the superintendence of the Rev. J. Barry P. P., and has now a handsome front of hewn limestone, with a spire rising 80 feet from the ground. The chapel at Derrinagree is an old building. There are three private schools, in which about 200 children are educated. In the midst of the collieries is the ancient Castle of Dromagh, once the chief residence of the O'Keefes, consisting of a square enclosure flanked by four circular towers: it is now the property of Mr. Leader, by whose father one of the towers has been raised and fitted up, and part of the enclosure converted into offices. The battle fought, in 1652, at Knockbrack, in the vicinity, between the forces of Lord Broghill and those of Lord Muskerry, is described under the head of Clonmeen, and the geological features of the dis trict under that of the county of Cork.

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(CE 14/4/1843) O CONNELL TRIBUTE 1842 - THE TREASURER of the O CONNELL TRIBUTE acknowledges the Receipt of £10.5.0 from the Parish of DROUMTARIFF, through the Rev. JOHN TWOMEY, PP, Millstreet, including the following:-

Name Bride, Benjamin Buckley, Mrs. Buckley, Mrs. Buckley, William Burke, Thomas Callaghan, Simon Connell, John Cunningham, James Daly, Eugene Driscoll, Timothy Fitzpatrick, Jeremiah Foley, Daniel Gninea, Michael Hartnett, Daniel Keeffe, Con. Keeffe, John Keeffe, Michael Keeffe, Michael, Jun. Keeffe, Mrs. Keeffe, Thomas Keeffe, Thomas, Jun. Keleher, Pat Lyne, Mat. M'Carthy, Counsellor Eugene, Esq., Rathroe M'Carthy, Denis, Esq., Rathroe M'Carthy, Peter M'Carthy, Rev. Florence M'Carthy, Tim. Mahony, Maurice Morgan, Tom Murphy, James O Brien, Michael O Callaghan, Jeremiah O Callaghan, John O Connell, John Pigott, John Pigott, Pat. Quinlan, Very Rev. Dr. Reardon, James Reardon, Mat. Reardon, Michael Sheehan, Daniel Sheehan, John Twomey, Rev. John, PP Wallis, Denis

Amount 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.0 0.1.0 0.5.0 0.1.0 0.1.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.1.0 0.2.6 0.1.0 0.1.0 0.2.0 0.2.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.1.0 0.1.0 1.1.0 1.1.0 0.1.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.1.0 0.1.0 0.1.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.0.6 0.5.0 0.3.6 0.1.6 1.0.0 0.2.6

(CE 2/2/1844) - O CONNELL TRIBUTE FOR 1843 - PARISH OF DROUMTARIFF - £19.5.6

Name Archdeacon, M. Archdeacon, Matt. N. Bourke, Thos. Bryde, Benjamin Buckley, Pat. Callaghan, T. Clifford, Dan. Coleman, M. Cunnigham, J. Daly, Charles Drew, Corns. Driscoll, Dan. Driscoll, Pat. Driscoll, T. Fitzpatrick, J. Goggin, Philip M'Carthy, Denis, Esq., Rathroe M'Carthy, Eugene, Esq., Bar. at Law M'Carthy, Rev. F. M'Carthy, T. Malony, M. Morgan, John Murphy, C. O Callaghan, J. O Callaghan, J. O Connell, John O Connor, Menus O Keeffe, John O Keeffe, M. O Keeffe, T. Piggott, Pat. Pigott, John Quinlan, Pat. Reardon, J. Riordan, James Sheehan, John Shehan, Daniel Singleton, James Smith, Geo. Smith, John Tuohig, Messrs. D. Tuomy, Rev. J., PP Twohig, Edm. Wallis, Denis

Amount 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.0 0.2.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 2.0.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.6 0.4.0 0.2.6 0.2.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.5.0 0.2.0 0.2.6 0.5.0 0.2.0 0.3.0 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.2.6 0.10.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.2.6

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DROMTARIFFE FAMINE RELIEF FUND 1847

(CE 8/2/1847) THE DROMTARRIFFE RELIEF COMMITTEE BEG to acknowledge the following Contributions towards the Relief of the POOR of their District:

Name Ahern, Jeremiah, Ballymacquirk Archdeacon Minors, Knuckanerue Barrett, William, Dromagh Bolster, John, Dromagh Brosnan, John, Dromagh Callaghan, John, Currarage Callaghan, Mrs., Knuckanerve Colbert, Michael, Gurteen Colthurst, George, Sir, Bart. Connell, Patrick, Kippagh Daly, Charles, Coolclogh Daly, Eugene, Coolclogh Driscoll, Patrick, Killinane Duane, John, Dromagh Egmont, Earl of Fitzpatrick, Jeremiah, Dromahon Hart, C.M., Castleview Healy, Michael, Lisnacon Kearney, Mrs., Dublin Kearney, Robert, Dromagh Keeffe, Patrick, Dysert Keeffe, Thomas, Killetera Latouche, P.D., Esq., Dublin Leader, N.P., Esq., Dromagh Castle Leader, Wm., Esq., Rosnalee Lindsey, Henry, Coolclogh Longfield, Richard, Esq., Longuville Love, Ralph, Dysert M'Cabe, Daniel, Ballymacquirk M'Carthy, Daniel, Kippagh M'Carthy, Eugne, Esq., Rathroe M'Carthy, F., Rev., RCC M'Carthy, Jerh. E., Esq., Rathduane Moloney, Maurice, Islandshill Murphy, Cornelius, Dromahoue Murphy, Cornelius, Dromskebe Murphy, Denis, Dromtarriff Murphy, James, Killinlea Murphy, John, Gurteen Murphy, Maurice, Boulimore Murphy, Michael, Dromtarriff Newman, Mrs., Killaney Noonan, Thomas, Dromagh O Brien, Cornelius, Dromagh O Callaghan, Denis, Esq., Cadogan O Callaghan, Richard, Killinlea O Keeffe, John, Killetera O Leary, Cornelius, Demimona O Leary, Thomas, Dernieuona Piggott, John, Minekill Piggott, Patrick, Minekill Smith, George, Knuckardtahan Smith, John, Castletownroche Smith, John, Knuckardrahan Sullivan, Thomas, Kilcolman Tierney, Edward, Sir, Bart Twohig, David, Currarage Twohig, Denis, Currarage Twomy, John, Rev., PP

Amount 0.15.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 2.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 0.5.0 10.0.0 0.10.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 20.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 3.0.0 1.0.0 0.5.0 0.5.0 5.0.0 50.0.0 30.0.0 1.0.0 20.0.0 0.5.0 2.0.0 0.5.0 5.0.0 3.0.0 5.0.0 2.0.0 0.5.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 0.10.0 0.5.0 1.10.0 0.10.0 10.0.0 0.5.0 0.10.0 5.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 0.10.0 1.6.6 1.0.0 1.0.0 1.10.0 1.10.0 0.10.0 5.0.0 1.0.0 1.0.0 10.0.0

Total of £220.11.6 - CHARLES M. HART, Secretary

(CE 27/10/1847) - PROGRESS OF LANDLORDISM - MORE EVICTIONS - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER - October 24^th, 1847 - SIR - Enclosed I send you a list of the names of persons who have been evicted since March last from the townlands of Rathcoole and Bolomore, situate in the barony of Duhallow, county Cork, the property of Sir George Colthurst.

In requesting your publication of the grievances of those now poor and destitute people, I do so that the public, and particularly the English public, may form an estimate of the dire necessity which exists for some alteration in the law as now existing in Ireland between landlord and tenant. - No cause can be alleged for this sweeping act of extermination, save a desire of removing the poor at any rate, and feeding upon that land sheep and oxen which God and Nature intended for the support of its indigenous inhabitants. - Of the many names in the long list, there are two or three worthy of particular notice.

The first is Samuel Morgan. He has been blessed with a patriarchal age. He has seen nearly one hundred autumns! Never, during his long life, was there even the shadow of crime alleged against him. The stranger and the distressed were sure always to find a residence in his house; but now, in his old age, forsooth, because his lease terminated in March last, he, and his aged wife and numerous family, must abandon that home endeared to them by a thousand recollections.

The next is John Lucy. He, too, during his time in Rathcoole, a period of 36 years, has been a most improving farmer. He paid his rents most satisfactorily; but now he, with his respectable family (all of whom, with one exception, are unprovided for) must seek for shelter where he would not allow his servants to dwell heretofore.

Lastly, Jeremiah Murphy and Widow Cronin. These held their farm by a joint lease. The former being unable, from the badness of the past seasons, and other particular calamities, to pay his rent, was served forthwith with an ejectment process. His crops and cattle were sold, and he himself and family left to live on the charity of those who once knew his own kind and charitable disposition. The widow Cronin made an offer of her portion of rent, on condition of her being continued in her land - but in vain, 'the law should take its' course.' Her crops too, should be auctioned off - but in the following peculiar manner:-

On the day advertised for the sale of her's and Murphy's property, many buyers assembled, each anxious to give the full value for each article, in the hope that thus the demand of the landlord might be paid. The self-constituted auctioneer (who is wise in his own way) immediately saw this, and accordingly adjourned the sale of the widow Cronin's property until a day to be after named. That day was named to her, but with the humane suggestion ' that by allowing him (the auctioneer) to buy the Corn for a sum not exceeding twenty pounds' - whereas it was worth from £40 to £50 - 'he would give her back the Corn in three days after, on her giving him the Cant price for it.' She foolishly consented to this compact. She came to his place on the third day after the sale, but he was not to be found, and refused the day after to give the corn. The poor unfortunate woman was so mortified at seeing herself thus deprived of her only means of subsistence in this life, that she lost the use of her reason, ran through the country in a state of nature, and continues still in a very unsettled state of mind.

The sympathetic reader will naturally enquire, what has since become of those poor souls? It is difficult to answer his question. Some have already fallen victims to this strange policy, and left this life with an anathema on their lips against the cause of their sufferings, others have sought for an asylum in your city; others in fine do still adhere, with a desperate tenacity, to the place of their birth. They have constructed huts on the sides of the roads and ditches, in view of their former dwelling places, which serve now only as a momento of Landlord devastation in the year 1847.

How long is such a course of things to continue? The Times, perhaps is enabled to tell? I have the honour to be, your obedient humble servant, - PHILANTHROPIST

Names of persons evicted from the Townlands of Rathcoole and Bolomore since March last, with the number of the family of each:-

Brien, Pat Brien, Widow Buckley, Tim Buckley, Timothy Byrns, John Callaghan, Tim Connell, Widow Connor, Con Connor, John Connor, Timothy Connor, Tom Creedon, John Cronin, John Cronin, Widow Deane, William Desmond, Mary, Widow Dineen, John Flynn, Simon Flynn, William Hennessy, Con Hennessy, James Hennessy, Ned Hennessy, Widow Houlihen, Patrick Keleher, Bat Keleher, Con	4 8 6 7 4 6 4 7 3 5 8 7 5 7 5 4 6 6 3 4 4 2 5 4 6 6	Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole	Keleher, John Keleher, Widow Lenihan, Con Lucy, Dan Darby Lucy, John Lucy, John Lucy, John Lucy, John D. Lucy, Margaret, Widow M'Auliff, Cornelius Mahony, Widow Morgan, Samuel Moynihan, Con Lucy Mulcahy, Batt Murphy, Jeremiah Murphy, John Murphy, Michael Reardon, Patrick Riordan, Denis Riordan, John Riordan, Mary Riordan, Mary Riordan, Mary, Widow Riordan, Mathew Sheehan, John Smyth, Patrick Spillane, Pat	8 5 4 4 9 5 3 7 4 7 3 4 2 7 9 8 7 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 8 3 3	Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Bolomore Rathcoole Rathcoole
Total 253 Heads of Families, 269 Souls

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