The Cork Archives contains the records of Bantry Workhouse
http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/BG43web.pdf
It contains the following resolution…..’14 Aug 1850 Resolved, that the auxiliary workhouse at Fourmileswater be given up, the girls returned to the main house, and the services of the officers in that house (chaplain, physician, matron, and porter) dispensed with’. Around the same period there was one relieving officer for the Durrus/Kilcrohane area.
A photo of the mill appears on Flickr
This is probably the old Grain Store which fronts onto Dunmanus Bay opposite Durrus Pier. This was built by the Evanson family c 1790s and put up for sale in the 1820s.
Grain Warehouse
This was probably built by the shore of the Bay opposite the present pier around the end of the 18th Century when during the Napoleonic Wars there was extensive grain growing. John Crowley recalls the older people telling him that they were told that up to half the corn grown had to be given to the landlord and delivered to the grain store. One wet year the grain was wet and swelled in the warehouse. The Landlord called out the tenants who had to shovel the sprouting grain into the Bay where it turned the water white. In 1800 the Dublin writer Isaac Weld said of Beara ‘agriculture has been much promoted throughout this country by the Cork Merchants; who have built store houses in suitable positions along the coast, where clerks are stationed to purchase corn, whenever farmers of the adjacent districts find it convenient to bring it for sale, to the labour and uncertainty of carrying it to a distant market. The low grounds are devoted to tillage and on the hills are fed numerous herds of cows, from whose produce butter of the best quality is made which is all sent to Cork’. The store was advertised in 1829 with a kiln in a good corn growing country at the head of Dunmanus Bay, good facility of shipping and lying of vessels of 60 tons at the store by J Evanson, Ardgeena. The other grain store at Sea Lodge may also have been owned by the Evansons who had a house at Sea Lodge. In 1800 a Captain Evans was an overseer at the grain store; he lived in a house between the former Priest’s House (Durrus Court) and Sea Lodge. Corn was taken from these stores by luggers, small sailing craft to Cork where it was trans shipped to larger vessels.
The records also contain the following ….28 Nov 1848 Total inmates: 2131. Out door relief: 5013 persons. The district included the Durrus/Kilcrohane area, Kealkil and Glengariff
You may be interested to know that Richard Daly (RIP 1883) the grandfather of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (President of Ireland 1974 to 1976) was baptised in Muintervara in 1832
His baptism record states
:
Area – CORK & ROSS (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation – MUINTERVARA
Baptism of RICHARD DALY of
ROSNACAHARACH on 10 June 1832
Date of Birth not recorded
Father: Daniel Daly
Mother: Catherine Barry
Sponsors Julia McCarty, J. Keheler (sic)
Where is Rosnacatharach?
Are there any other descendents of Daniel Daly and Catherine Barry still in Muintervara?
Family lore has it that Richard ran away aged 13. He certainly joined the British Army in Cork at the age of 20, served in India and Burma.and was discharged in 1857 following a minor injury to his hand. His son Ricard O’Daly (RIP 1920) was father to Cearbhall .