 Ballineen Bridge
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RC Parish of Enniskeane & Desertserges comprises the Civil Parish of Kinneigh, Ballymoney & Desertserges. Note that part of the Civil Parish of Kinneigh is included in the RC Parish of Murragh (Newcestown), see Murragh (Newcestown), part of the Civil Parish of Ballymoney is included in the RC Parish of Dunmanway, see Dunmanway , and part of the Civil Parish of Desertserges is included in the RC Parish of Bandon.
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(Tuckey's Cork Remembrancer) - AD 1775 - 18 cwt of leaf tobacco was seized by Mr. Potter and his men near Enniskean, when a great mob arose and stoned him and his party in so violent a manner as obliged him in his own defence to fire upon them, by which two of the smugglers were killed and another was dangerously wounded; upon this the smugglers desisted, and the tobacco was brought off and lodged in the custom house of Kinsale.
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1796 SPINNING WHEEL PREMIUMS – BALLYMONY
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Name Brien, Timothy Brineen, Patrick Brun, Dennis Calahan, Daniel Canty, Timothy Carthy, Cornelius Carthy, Dennis Carthy, Francis Coleman, Richard Collins, Catherine Collins, Edward Collins, John Collins, Patrick Cooul, Timothy Coveney, John Crowley, Andrew Crowley, Catherine Crowley, Darby Crowley, Dennis Crowley, Jeremiah Crowley, John Crowley, John Crowley, Timothy Crowly, Jeremiah Cullinane, Patrick Donovan, Cornelius Donovan, Daniel Donovan, Darby Donovan, John Donovan, John Donovan, Joseph Donovan, Mary Donovan, Rick Donovan, Timothy Donovan, Timothy Donovan,Mary Driscole, Dennis Driscole, Jeremiah |
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Name Duggin, Charles Duggin, Cornelius Dulea, Daniel Dulea, Dennis Dulea, Dennis Dwyer, Dennis Dwyer, John Good, Joseph Good, Thomas Hayes, Michael Heas, Cornelius Heas, Honorah Heas, Peter Heas, Thomas Hease, Cornelius Hease, Daniel Hease, Dennis Hennesy, Arthur Hennesy, Daniel Hennesy, Edmund Hennesy, John Hennesy, John Hennesy, John Hurley, Dennis Hurley, Dennis Hurley, James Hurly, Daniel Hurly, Dennis Hurly, John Hurly, John Hurly, John Hurly, John Hurly, Mary Keary, Daniel Keary, John Keeffe, John Keeffe, Timothy Kehelly, Timothy |
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Name Lane, Catherine Leary, Daniel Leary, Darby Line, William Long, Timothy Lynch, Dennis M’Carthy, Owen Mahony, Honora Mahony, John Mahony, John Mahony, William Murrihy, Jeremiah Murrihy, Timothy Neehane, Thomas Nehane, David Nehane, Thomas Nehane, William Nihane, James Nihane, John Patterson, Joseph Reagan, Cornelius Reagan, Timothy Riordan, Patrick Riordane, Daniel Riordane, Timothy Santry, William Sheehane, David Sheehane, John Shillery, Mary Shine, Timothy Stanley, David Sullivan, Cornelius Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan, John Sullivan, John Sullivan, Owen Wolfe, James |
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1796 SPINNING WHEEL PREMIUMS – DESERTSERGES
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Name Barret, Peter Barrett, Daniel Barrett, James Barrett, John Barrett, Julian Barrett, Mary Bateman, Thomas Beamish, John Brian, Mary Brien, Daniel Brien, John Brien, John Brien, William Brien, William Canty, Anthony Canty, Anthony Carthy, Darby Carthy, Mary Carthy, Timothy Coghlan, Catherine Coghlan, Darby Coghlan, Eleanor Cohane, Timothy Collins, Darby Collins, Mathew Connolly, Daniel Cotter, Richard Coughlan, Daniel Crimmeen, Owen Crone, Daniel Crowly, Daniel |
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Name Crowly, Darby Crowly, Darby Crowly, Nicholas Cullnane, Jeremiah Dawly, Darby Dawly, John Deasy, Patrick Dempsey, Joanna Donohan, Jeremiah Donovan, Cornelius Donovan, Eleanor Donovan, Ellen Donovan, Mary Donovan, Timothy Dooling, Julian Driscole, Dennis Fitzgerald, Patrick Ford, Samuel Gabriel, John Good (?), John Hart, Cornelius Herickane, John Hourahane, Joan Hurly, John Kekelly, Dennis Keohane, Catherine Keohane, Laurence Kerukane, Catherine Kingston, Anne Kingston, Thomas Leary, Daniel |
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Name Leary, John Leary, John Leary, Mary Linane, Ellen M’Carthy, Daniel M’Carthy, John Mahony, Joanna Murane, Cornelius Murane, Margaret Murnane, Julian Murphy, Catherine Murphy, Honor Murphy, Joanna Murphy, Peter Neill, John Neill, Peter O Brien, Margaret Reagan, Daniel Reagan, John Regan, Andrew Reilly, John Riordan, John Sheehan, Francis Slattery, John Slotney, Matthew Smith, Henry Smith, Thomas Sullivan, James Warner, Elizabeth Welsh, David |
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1796 SPINNING WHEEL PREMIUMS – KEINEAGH
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Name Barry, David Callinane, Jeremiah Crowly, Cornelius |
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Name Donovan, Cornelius Driscole, Timothy Farsy, Peter |
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Name Feheen, John Hawkes, John Sullivan, Catherine Woods, Patrick |
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| Ballymoney – see also Ballinamona - Mourneabbey Grenagh. Desertserges- see Desert - CLONAKILTY |
| Enniskeane-born Soldiers discharged prior to1853 - From The National Archives (PRO), London; Doc. Ref. TNA(PRO) |
| Indexed by surname and place of birth from the National Archives online catalogues. |
| Place of birth Enniskeane, Ballymoney or Kinneigh |
| Name | Served in…/Discharged | Covering Dates |
| BARRY, WILLIAM | Or Berry. Born ‘Ballimana.’ - ?Ballymoney. Scots Brigade before 1803; 6th Dragoons. Discharged aged 54 after 23 years service | 1802 |
| BRANSFIELD, MAURICE | Born ‘Ballamamona.’ - ?Ballymoney. 46th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 19 | 1842-1844 |
| CALLAGHAN, JOHN | Born Kinneigh. 84th Foot Regt.; 3rd Garrison Battalion. Discharged aged 34 | 1812-1816 |
| CONNELL, JOHN | Born Ballymoney. 11th Foot Regt.; 4th Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 30 | 1808-1814 |
| COUGHLAN, BARTHOLOMEW | Born ‘Inniskane.’ - ?Enniskeane. 16th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 36 | 1801-1823 |
| COUGHLAN, JAMES | Born ‘Kinnes.’ - ?Kinneigh. 16th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 34 | 1816-1822 |
| CROWLEY, JEREMIAH | Born ‘Kinneaugh.’ - ?Kinneigh. 60th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 26 | 1828-1837 |
| CROWLEY, JOHN | Born Ballymoney. 97th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 25 | 1831-1837 |
| DALY, JOHN | Born ‘Kenny.’ - ?Kinneigh. 77th Foot Regt.; 1st Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 28 | 1815-1826 |
| DAMERY, GEORGE | Born ‘Ballimoney.’ - ?Ballymoney. 31st Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 30 | 1807-1815 |
| FALLASSY, PETER | Or Fallessy. Born Kinneigh. 2nd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35 | 1839-1852 |
| FORD, FRANCIS | Born ‘Ballymoody.’ - ?Ballymoney. 57th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 31 | 1812-1823 |
| FORSYTHE, JOSEPH | Born ‘Ballymony.’ 68th Foot Regt.; Cork Militia. Discharged aged 46 | 1800-1828 |
| GALLIVAN, JAMES | Or Gallavin. Born ‘Keneagh.’ - ?Kinneigh. 3rd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 40 | 1826-1847 |
| GAMBLE, RICHARD | Born ‘Kinnage.’ - ?Kinneigh. 3rd Dragoon Guards; 3rd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 21 | 1847-1849 |
| HAYES, PATRICK | Born Ballymoney. 95th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 42 | 1823-1846 |
| HENNECY, DAVID | Born ‘Ballimona.’ - ?Ballymoney. 88th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 25 | 1811-1819 |
| HICKEY, MAURICE | Born Kinneigh. 52nd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 25 | 1830-1838 |
| HURLEY, JAMES | Born ‘Kennah.’ - ?Kinneigh. 63rd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 24 | 1847-1848 |
| LEONARD, CORNELIUS | Born ‘Ballemony.’ - ?Ballymoney. 63rd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 41 | 1809-1820 |
| MC CARTY, DANIEL | Born ‘Enniskea.’ - ?Enniskeane. 41st Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 26 | 1827-1839 |
| MURRAY, JOHN | Born ‘Kenagh.’ - ?Kinneigh. 18th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 27 after 9 years service | 1801 |
| NAGLE, ISAAC | Born ‘Ballymaney.’ - ?Ballymoney. Royal Staff Corps; Royal Sappers & Miners. Discharged aged 41 | 1810-1828 |
| NUGENT, JOHN | Born ‘Kennock.’ - ?Kinneigh. 28th Foot Regt.; 52nd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 36 | 1801 |
| PHILLIPS, WILLIAM | Born ‘Ballymone.’ - ?Ballymoney. 54th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 48 | 1825-1849 |
| UNCLES, CHARLES | Born Ballymoney. 50th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 22 after 2 years 8 months service. Covering dates year of enlistment to year of discharge | 1806 |
| UNCLES, RICHARD | Born ‘Ballinmona.’ - ?Ballymoney. 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion; 31st Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 41. Covering date year of discharge | 1825 |
| WEYRE, WILLIAM | Born ‘Kennagh.’ - ?Kinneigh. 57th Foot Regt.; 97th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 29 | 1817-1824 |
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(CC 7/3/1826) – SMUGGLING – On the 17th ult., MR. GEORGE O GRADY, officer of Excise, accompanied by MR. NORCOTT of the Customs department, and a party of the 11th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant GARDINER proceeded on information to the parish of Kenagh, where they detected at work three extensive Distilleries, and seized one copper still, head and boiler, three worms, 80 gallons of Spirits, sixteen thousand gallons of pot-ale, forty barrels of malt, a quantity of singlings, and two prisoners. The pot-ale, singlings, malt and vessels, were with much difficulty effectually destroyed, and the spirits, stills, &c., and prisoners were brought into Clonakilty. The party in this service, which will be of such utility to the Revenue and fair dealer, marched thirty-two miles in the course of fifteen hours, through bad road and places, that were almost inaccessible.
(CC 6/5/1826) – SMUGGLING - On the 3d inst. MR. O GRADY, Excise Officer, accompanied by MR. TOWNS, Supervisor of Skibbereen, and a party of the 11th Foot, commanded by Lieutenant GARDINER, proceeded by information from Clonakilty to the Parish of Kenah, and detected at work Five extensive Distilleries, seized forty gallons of spirits, a horse load of malt, and two prisoners – the people having a knowledge of the approach of the party removed the stills and the other apparatus before their arrival. For the want of assistance or any possible means of breaking the vessels, they were obliged to commit to the flames those of the Distilleries, with all the utensils; the spirits, malt and prisoners, were brought to Clonakilty, by the party, who deserve much credit for their exertions, having performed a journey of forty miles in fourteen hours.
(CC 3/6/1826) – LESSEE OF DENNIS against JOHN MURPHY – TO BE LET – FOR Three Lives, or 31 Years, (subject to redemption during the first Six Months.) That part of the Lands of LISSAROURKE, containing 92 Acres 2 Roods 37 Perches English Statute Measure, or thereabouts, formerly in the possession of MARGARET GALVAN, Widow, her Undertenants, or Assigns. These Lands are situate in the Parish of Kenneigh, and Barony of East Carbery. Proposals in writing (post paid) to be made to Josias Dunn, Esq., No. 8 Kildare-Street, Dublin, and to Geo. Newman, Esq., Kinsale. – June 3, 1826
(CC 19/9/1826) – CO. OF CORK, WEST RIDING, TO WIT – AT a General Sessions of the Peace holden at BANDON, in and for the said Cork County West Riding, on Friday, the Twentieth day of October, 1826. The Persons undernamed being householders, residing in the principal Market Towns, within the said County were nominated and appointed by JOHN MACAN, Esq., Assistant Barrister for the said Cork County, West Riding, to be Officers for the service of Civil Bill Processes, within the Cork County West Riding aforesaid, pursuant to the 7th George the Fourth, chap. 36.
| Names of Persons appointed | Residing in the Market Towns of |
| Robert Thompson | Enniskean |
| Patrick Connor | Enniskean |
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BALLYMONEY – Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – BALLYMONEY, a parish, in the Eastern Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 10 miles (W. by S.) from Bandon; containing 3802 inhabitants. This parish, which is intersected by the river Bandon, and skirted on the north by the mail coach road from Bandon to Dunmanway, comprises 7056 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act and valued at £4017 per annum. The land is of good quality; about two-thirds of the parish are under cultivation, and the remainder is chiefly mountain and bog. The old heavy wooden plough is generally in use, and, except on the lands of the resident gentry; agriculture as a system is unknown. The opening of a new line of road through the parish to Clonakilty; whence sea manure is obtained in abundance, has afforded the means of bring ing much poor land into cultivation. Great quantities of fuel are raised from the bogs, which supply turf and bog wood for the neighbourhood to the south. Near Ballyneen is Phale House, the residence of E. H. Good Esq.: a mile to the west is Kilcascan, the seat of W. J. O’Neill Daunt. Esq., a handsome castellated mansion embosomed in young and thriving plantations; and at Ballincarrig is the neat residence of J. Hea zle, Esq. A domestic manufacture of coarse linen is carried on for home consumption. At Ballincarrig are Rockcastle mills, the property of Mr. Heazle, capable of grinding 5000 bags of wheat annually, and affording constant employment to 20 persons; and at Ballyneen a few persons are engaged in weaving cotton cord, but the principal pursuit is agriculture. Ballyneen is a constabulary police station, and petty sessions are held there every alternate Monday. The living is a rectory, in the dio cese of Cork, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £785. The church is an old but a very neat edifice. The glebe-house, pleasantly situated in the centre of some extensive improvements, was built by aid of a gift of from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1789: the glebe comprises 43 acres. In the R. C. divisions, one-half of the parish is included in the union or district of Dunmanway, and the other half in that of Kinneigh or Enniskean: the chapel at Ballincarrig, belonging to the former, is a small neat edifice recently erected. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists at Ballyneen. The parochial male and female school is aided by annual donations from the rector and his lady; and another school is supported by the rector. These schools afford instruction to about 60 boys and 40 girls; and there are also three hedge schools, in which are about 150 children, and a Sunday school. There are some remains of Ballincarrig castle, originally built to command a very important pass in the valley; it is a lofty square pile of building, 96 feet high, the walls of which are 6 feet in thickness; a spiral stone staircase, still in tolerable preservation, leads to the battlements; the platform and one of the gables are entire, but the roof has been long destroyed. The upper apartment is lighted by circular arched windows in the Norman style, with mouldings enriched with curious devices, and various scriptural emblems, among which is Our Saviour on the cross between the two thieves, and on two sides of the room are seats: there are also the initials R. M. - C. C., and the date 1585, above which is an angel with expanded wings. This inscription is supposed to commemorate the founder, Randal McCarty, and his wife Catherine Collins. Below this apartment is a lofty vaulted hail, which, from the brackets and small windows still remaining, is supposed to have been originally divided into three different stories. At a short distance to the south-east is a circular keep or watch tower; to the south is a lake; and to the north is a bog of considerable extent terminated by a low ridge of rugged rocks. Though the date of the casde is supposed to be 1585, the original tower is evidently of much greater antiquit and probably of the 12th or 13th century Near the castle have been found several sil ver coins.
BALLINEEN - Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – BALLYNEEN, a village, in the parish of BALLYMONEY, Eastern Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and wvmce of MUNSTER, 10 miles (WS.W) from Bandon; containing 691 inhabitants. This village is situated on the mail coach road from 3andon to Dunmanway, and on the north bank of the river Bandon, w which is a spacious bridge of ten arches: it consists of one principal street, with a shorter street branching from it towards the bridge, and in 1831 contained 121 houses, the greater number of which are tolerably well built. A few of the inhabitants are employed in the weav of coarse linens for home consumption, and in the manufacture of cotton cord; but the greater number are engaged in agriculture. A constabulary police force has been stationed here; and district petty sessions are held in a court-house generally every alternate Monday. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists; also a dispensary, which annually affords medical relief to more than 5000 patients of the sur rounding neighbourhood. — See BALLYMONEY.
Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – CASTLETOWN, a village, in the parish of KINNEIGH, Western uvision of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER; and containing 314 inhabitants. It is situated the heart of a wild mountainous district, and for some time after the English settlement in the reign of Jas. I. was a flourishing town, but being sacked in the war of 1641 it never revived. It now contains 57 small cabins indifferently built, and has fairs for cattle, sheep, and pigs on Jan. 1st, Easter-Tuesday, May 12th, and Sept. 4th. Here is a R. C. chapel. —See KINNEIGH.
DESERTSERGES - Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – DESERTSERGES, a parish, partly in the barony of KINALMEAKY, but chiefly in the East Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 6 miles (S.W. by W) from Bandon, on the old road from Cork to Dunmanway; con taining 6629 inhabitants. It is situated on the south side of the river Bandon, and comprises 15,355 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £9781 per annum. A great part consists of rough pasture and bog; the remainder is under tillage. The land is generally. cold, but in some places moderately fertile; an inconsiderable tract, called Cashelmore, is common mountain. Quarries of good slate are extensively worked at Bracna. There is a large flour-mill on the river Bandon, erected in 1835, by Arthur B. Bernard, of Palace Anne, Esq.; and not far distant a paper-mill. Fairs are held at Mount Beamish on June 26th, Aug. 1st, Sept. 29th, and Dec. 16th, chiefly for cattle and pigs. The gentlemen’s seats are Kilcoleman, the resi dence of Adderly Beamish, Esq., beautifully situated on the banks of the river Bandon, and surrounded by fine plantations; Cashel, of J. Beamish, Esq.; Mount Beamish, of John Beamish, Esq., M. D.; Kil rush, of A. Poole, Esq.; Kilcoleman-Beg, of W. Lamb, Esq.; Sun Lodge, of W McCarty Esq.; Church-Hill, of the Rev. Mountiford Longfield; and Kiel, of John Wren, Esq.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, and in the patron age of the Bishop; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of St. Finbarr, Cork. The tithes of Desertserges amount to £1045, of which £315 is payable to the appropriators, and £730 to the vicar; the latter also receives the entire tithes of Garryvoe (a merged parish, to which Lord Kingsale presents), amounting to £3 15. There is an old glebe-house, with a glebe of 73a. ir. 20p. The church is a good edifice, with a square tower, erected in 1802. The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, except a small portion of the eastern district, which belongs to Bandon: the chapel, at Agheohil, is a large modern edifice. There are three Protestant parochial schools, in which are some R. C. children; one at Kilrush, supported principally by Capt. Poole, and the clergyman, and two by the Hon. and Rev. Chas. Bernard, the curate; one of these, at Moulnarogue, a handsome building, was erected by him in 1835; 180 boys and girls are instructed in these schools. There are also some pay schools, in connection with the R. C. chapel. Numerous forts are scat tered over this parish; one, which is the most extensive and in the best preservation, surrounded by earthworks and fosses, stands on the lands of Kilmiran. In the north-eastern part of the parish are traces of the old church of Garryvoe. The remains of Derry castle form an inter esting ruin; and several upright stones, called Golanes, seem to have been set up either to commemorate some important event, or to indi cate the burial-place of some warrior. At Corron is a very powerful chalybeate spring, the waters of which contain large quantities of sulphur and iron, held in solution by carbonic acid gas.
Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – GARRYNOE, or GARRYVOE, a parish, in the Eastern Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 53/4 miles (S.W. by W) from Bandon; the population is returned with the parish of Desertserges, into which Garrynoe is considered to have merged. It is situated on the river Bandon, and comprises 8027 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £3365 per annum. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of Lord Kinsale: the tithes amount to £315.
ENNISKEANE - Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – INNISKEEN, or ENNISKEEN, a village, in the parish of KINNEIGH, Western Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 8 miles (W) from Bandon, on the road to Dunmanway; the population is returned with the parish. This village, which is situated on the River Bandon, in the southern part of the parish, and is also called Inniskean, is said to have derived its name from Kean Mac Moile More, ancestor of the Mahony family of Castle Mahon, now Castle Bernard. In the war of 1641 it was sacked by the insurgents; and in 1690 was threatened by Mac Fineen, one of the leaders of the army of Jas. II., who, finding it strongly garrisoned, retired without striking a blow. On the 21st of April in the following year, it was attacked by 1500 of the Irish, who set fire to it, and every house was destroyed except that occupied by the garrison, consisting of 44 men, who resolutely held out till assistance arrived from Bandon, when the insurgents were taken by sur prise, put to flight, and 72 of them slain in the pursuit. In the same year the place was fortified by order of Governor Cox, who placed in it a garrison of militia. A paper-mill affords employment to about 30 persons, and about the same number are employed in the slate quar ries near the place. The village has a penny post to Bandon, and fairs on April 5th, June 22nd, Aug. 12th, and Oct. 2nd, chiefly for live stock and pedlery; they are toll free and well attended. It also contains a small R. C. chapel.
KINNEIGH - Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 – KINNEIGH, a parish, in the western division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 8 miles (N.W) from Bandon, on the mail-car road to Dunmanway; contain ing 5708 inhabitants. This parish, which is said to have been anciently the head of a bishoprick founded by St. Mocolmoge, is bounded on the south by the river Bandon, and comprises 13,575 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £8204 per annum. About 10,000 acres are arable, 1300 pasture, 150 woodland, and 2000 waste and bog: the land, except towards the south, is cold, wet, and stony, and the system of agriculture, except on the farms of resident propri etors, is in a very unimproved state. The waste land is chiefly mountainous, but under a better system of husbandry a great proportion of it might be reclaimed and brought into profitable cultivation. The sub stratum is of the schistus formation, passing abruptly in the northern parts into every variety of transition rock; and towards the south is found slate of good colour and very durable. Near the village of Inniskeen are two quarries, in which more than 30 men are constantly employed. The principal seats are Palace Anne, the residence of A. B. Bernard, Esq., a stately mansion beautifully situated in the midst of extensive improvements, and near the junction of a romantic glen and the vale of Bandon; Fort Robert, of Mrs. O’Connor, a handsome res idence on an eminence above the vale of Bandon, at the eastern extremity of the parish; Gardeville, of the Rev. W. Hall; Enniskean Cottage, of the Rev. W. Sherrard; Killyneas, of the Rev. I. Murphy; and Connorville, the deserted and dilapidated family mansion of the O’Connors. Here is a constabulary police station, and fairs are held in the villages of Inniskeen and Castletown which see. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is partly appropriate to the vicars choral, and partly forms the union of Carrigrohane and the corps of the precentorship of the cathedral of Cork. The tithes amount to £900, of which £225 is payable to the vicars choral, £225 to the precentor, and £450 to the vicar. The glebe-house is an old building; the glebe comprises 47 ½ acres. The church, a small handsome edifice with a low tower and spire, was erected in 1791, by a gift of £500 from the late Board of First Fruits, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £274 for its repair. In the R. C. divisions the parish is united to one-half of the parish of Ballymoney; there are two chapels, situated respectively at Inniskeen and Castletown. About 80 children are taught in two parochial schools of which one at Castletown was built by Lord Bandon, who endowed it with two acres of land; the other at Inniskeen has a house and garden given by the Duke of Devonshire; to each the vicar contributes £5 per annum. There are also five private schools, in which are about 250 children, and a Sunday school. On an isolated rock of clay-slate, a few yards to the south-west of the church, is an ancient round tower, 75 feet high and 65 in circumference at the base, from which, for about 16 feet high its form is hexagonal, and thence to the summit circular: it was damaged by lightning a few years since, and towards the south is a fissure from which several stones have fallen. About half a mile south of the church is an ancient fort, in the centre of which is a large flag-stone erect, and there are several of smaller size scattered over the parish.
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(CC 1/1/1846) – WANTED – A SCHOOL-MISTRESS for the Parish of Ballymoney. A Person duly qualified for the Situation, and well recommended, will meet with encouragement. Salary £20 a year. – Application to the Rev. Robt. Meade, Ballymoney.
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EVICTIONS IN KENNEIGH & BALLYMONEY 1847
OPEN LETTER TO THE EARL OF BANDON
(CE 26/2/1847) LANDLORD AND TENANT - To The Right Hon. The Earl of Bandon - My Lord – I some time ago addressed your Lordship a letter, in which I ventured, most respectfully, to advise you about the poor Catholics who live on that portion of your estate, which is situated in the contiguous parish of Kenneigh and Ballymoney. A rumour that you were about to disposses the farmers of Munigane, a ploughland a little before come into your Lordship’s possession, was the cause of that letter. The more than partial verification of that rumour, is the cause of this. You, my Lord, are an extensive landed propiertor in this locality, and as you, consequently, are capable of doing incalculable good – courtesy will no allow me to say – evil, - you cannot be offended, that those who possess christian feelings, and who have the welfare of the poor at heart, should advise you – nay remonstrate with you, betimes. In my last letter I informed your Lordship that I knew your Kenneigh and Ballymoney tenantry well! – would to God! that you, their landlord, knew them half so well; then would your undoubted good nature make you retain, endear to you, not cast from your poor Catholics, whose only fault is their strong, steady, unflinching attachment to the religion of their forefathers. ‘God help the poor’ is often said nowadays. I particularize the phrase, and say – ‘God help the poor Catholics of Munigane! – what will the Murphys, the Crowlys, the Hurlys, the Sullivans and Nyhan that your Agents dispossed the other day, of lands and dwellings, that they and their fathers have occupied longer than your Lordship’s Castle Bernard, do now? The fllors upon which they were reared from their infancy, they must now bid a sad farewell to – the hearths’ around which they had been accustomed to sit in social, joyous circle, they must now abandon – the locality that was their natale solm, and to which all their affections were bound, they must now know no more of – in a word, and more than all, the little comforts they, up to the present moment possessed, they must now exchange – and for what? – alas! Poverty, inevitable poverty!! Yes! Would! You knew your tenantry here, as well as I do! And, oh would you could witness the utter destitution of numbers here, who were once independent, nay, comparatively speaking, rich. My station in life makes me amongst the people, and I often say, that if your Lordship saw, as I do, the present deplorable condition of numbers of the poor wretches formerly expelled from the five ploughlands of Castletown, you would not only not dispossess others, but you would make the unhappy sufferers reparation. You are not aware, my Lord, because you are not made understant, how helpless is the poor farmer, rendered, who is deprived of his ‘bit of land’.
Accustomed to little comforts, such as the milk of a cow, and comparatively speaking, at least, a roomly dwelling, he, when he is deprived of his holding, however, small, or large it may be, becomes the worst possible labourer. When he is turned out, first he is scared, because he neither knows where to turn his face, nor how to gain a livelihood for, in general, a numerous family. If he immediately even (which is not often the case) find a shed, it must, assuredly, be some exceedingly wretched habitation; and there he settles down, not to work, but to despond. Two, or three years pass, before the poor wretch can reconcile himself to his fate! Poverty! Hideous Poverty! Is, in consequence being accumulated – sickness accrues, and death comes at last ( better it had come at first) to put a heart rendering termination to woes unutterable. How often! Oh! How often! Have I not to cry over death beds generated by this slow, lingering process! Even this very day, I saw what, I pray God, I may never witness more. Business, my Lord, took me to the house of a tenant of yours, John Costello, of Cappeen, in the Parish of Kenneigh. John is the son of Maurice Costello, whose tragic history, though it might not be known to your Lordship, is known, I believe, throughout the entire Carberies. He was one of the farmers ejected at the time of the Castletown affair. He occupied about two hundred acres of the plougland of Cappeen, and a year or two previous to the expiration of his lease, had built a most excellent slate dwelling, and commodious out-houses for his numerous cows and horses. He built them, people imagine, in order, as the country people say, to have a hold of the place by making imprivements: that he was deprived not only of them, but the land; and unable to endure seeing them pass into the hands of a stranger, brought from a distance, he died of a broken heart within a fortnight after his expulsion, in a miserable hovel, that he had while he was in his affluent circumstances, used as a potatoe house. His wife, in a few weeks after followed of the same disease, both leaving with the eldest son John, who was then married and who had three children of his own, eight young helpless daughters, two infant sons, and an old decrepit woman, the mother of poor broken hearted Maurice. As I said, I this day visited poor John, who, in order to support such an immense family, was through the interest, it is said, of the kind hearted Mr. Swete, your lordship’s former agent, allowed to retain somewhat about forty-five acres of the most wasteful barren part of his father’s farm, at eight shillings (I think it is) an acre, found the wretched man sitting upon the peak of a rick outside his miserable dwelling. ‘John,’ said I, ‘ how is your sick family? The poor fellow raised his stooped head, and after gazing at me for a moment, he, without uttering a word, burst into tears! – ‘Good God! Says I, ‘are any of them dead? It was some time before he answered, - ‘no’ said he at length, ‘ but some of them soon will – the crying was heard last night! ‘The crying’ I repeated, ‘what crying? ‘The Banshee! the poor fellow answered ‘ the Banshee that preceeded all my family – my father, my mother, my grandmother, all! all! I tried to combat John’s melancholy superstition, but in vain and in order to vary the long conversation I had with him upon the subject, I asked him how many of his family were down with the fever. ‘My brother,’ said he,’ who brought it amongst us first, is now well, but there are three of my sisters sick at present, and a young son of mine. I suppose we will all get it in our turn, as I have no out-house now to put the sick into, and, indeed, no means to afford them nourishment. My heart was too full at this moment to allow me to console John, what I did then was to leave him, and visit his sick family. In order to secure the entire family as well as he could, from the horrid contagion, John had closed up the door that led from the upper to the lower part of his house, (in fact the only sleeping apartment of the entire family) and instead had broken a hole from the rest of the house into the sick chamber. It was by this, I, with great difficulty, entered, and within, sure enough, were John’s three sisters and son, all stretched on one miserable pallet. The eldest sister, a beautiful girl about nineteen years of age, was just entering that stage of the disease, called the crisis, and appeared to me very unlikely to go through: the next in age was the next in danger; the third sister was very weak also; and the boy, a child of about seven years of age, once a rosy hearty fellow, was exceedingly hot and hectic. John, as he said, had no out-house now into which to remove his sick orphan sisters, and the want I much fear, will be the poor fellows utter ruin. Oh! If he now possessed those houses built by his most respectable father, how easily might he not shun contact with the horrid contagion; and if he had his father’s independence, how easily could he not afford his poor sister’s nourishment in their present deplorable state? This sickness has come upon John’s house, most inoppurtune, for, being a most industrious young man, he was hitherto doing pretty well, as your Lordship must be aware, from the very punctual manner in which he paid his rent. And to leave so heart-rending a subject I would most recpetfully put to your Lordship a simple question, with which John’s industry inspires me, ‘What is the reason you dispossessed William Costello of Cappeen, and other such Catholic farmers in Kenneigh; nay what is the reason you still dispossess them? Not to mention your Shannavah Catholic tenants, whom you of late dispossessed sp frequently, and who, notwithstanding such frightful discouragement, pay their rents most punctually, are not the few Catholics who hold under your Lordship, in this parish, far the most industrious tenants you have? Not to mince matters, what Protestant tenant under you, in punctuality in paying their rents, can compete with Charles Noonan, of the two Gnives, James M’Carthy of Ballachanuir, John Swanton of Cappoquin, and indeed up to the present, with John Costello of the same ploughland. It if was to assist proselytism that is being attempted here at present, in a most singular manner, I say your Lordship’s good nature is much abused by designing men, and to disabuse your Lordship I shall disclose to you the futility of this same proselytism here; but it must be in another letter. Meantime I beg most respectfully, to subscribe myself. - Your Lordship’s very humble and obedient servant, AN OBSERVER - Kenneigh, Feb. 1845
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See - West Cork 1840s - Dunmanway Union Landlords 1848 - (CC 29/2/1848) – RESOLVED – That the following Statement of the Number and Names of the Paupers on the Lands of CURRICROWLY, be published, to prove to Col. FRENCH that the statement published by the Dunmanway Committee is correct, and at the same time the Committee feel satisfied Colonel FRENCH would never have contradicted the statement if he had not been misinformed, or if he had been in the habit of visiting the Lands, which proves the good effects likely to arise from the Advertisement, as Landlords who, like Mr. FRENCH, supposed they had no Paupers on their Properties, will now, when they find their mistake, be induced to come forward and find reproductive employment.
The following is the Returns of Names of Paupers resident on Curricrowly, and alluded to in the published list, several of whom are now employed in the Relief Works carried on by Mr. DAUNT; others of them at present inmates of the Dunmanway Workhouse, and on the Out-door Relief List. Rev. Mr. SHERRARD has kindly given employment to several, but it is generally felt that unless some employment on a large scale be provided, THE WHOLE of them must eventually be fed in idleness.
| Names Bryan, William Buckly, Cath. Buckly, Denis Buckly, Jno. Carthy, Denis Carthy, Denis Coghlan, Danl. Coombs, Richard Coveny, Daniel Crimmeen, Mary Crowly, Cath. Crowly, Cors. Crowly, Cors. Crowly, James Crowly, Jno. Crowly, Johanna Donovan, Timy. Downy, James Driscol, William Dwyer, Michl. Hayes, Thos. Hurly, Abby Hurly, Jno. Hurly, Thomas Kearney, Francis Kearney, William Kochane, James Kochane, Timy. Leary, Danl. Mahony, Timy. McNamara, Mary Murphy, Honora Murphy, Thomas Neil, James Poell, Michl. Shannon, Mary Sullivan, Patrick Symms, William |
On whose farm Daniel Hurly Jno. Kearney William Stanley William Stanley Jno. Schofield Daniel Hurly Geo. Stanley Jno. Schofield William Stanley Daniel Hurly Daniel Hurly Jno. Schofield Jno. Schofield Danl. Carey William Stanley William Stanley Daniel Donovan Esq. Jno. Schofield Danl. Carey Jno. Schofield Jno. Schofield Daniel Hurly Geo. Stanley William Stanley Jno. Kearney Jno. Kearney Daniel Donovan Esq. Geo. Stanley Daniel Donovan Esq. Jno. Schofield Jno. Schofield Jno. Schofield Daniel Donovan Esq. Daniel Hayes Jno. Schofield Jno. Schofield Daniel Hurly Danl. Carey |
No. in Family 7 1 6 2 7 3 4 7 6 6 1 2 5 4 3 1 6 6 8 5 4 1 3 4 5 6 3 4 5 7 6 6 5 2 7 1 6 6 |
Committee Room, Dunmanway, February 26th, 1848
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