I live in the south side of Dublin an exile from Cork!. Interested in history, genealogy, economics, legal and business history, archives and memoirs. Have an interest in Irish commercial history from early 20th century, Cork post war. Particular interested in the Muintervara/Durrus area in the late 18th and 19th century on the lookout for articles references to the area in the period not helped by the destruction of records in the Public Records Office in 1922. You could write a book about that, the Protestant Churches sent their records to Dublin for safe keeping. In the early 19th century there were numerous complaints about the poor storage of the records in Dublin Castle oh! if they were only left there. However the internet and digitalisation may make up some of the ground in time. Surprises at how much the online British Parliamentary records contains reports, commissions etc.
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Hi, just had a look at your blog,very interesting. Looks like we have have a lot of the same interests.
Hi,
I see that the Belfast Telegraph on its web site has a section on old Irish post cards.
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Great Blog, very interesting!!!
Hello,
You have a wonderful website here. I want to link to it off of corkgen.org, I just need to put up a history page.
I have been wanting to poke around Durrus and have just acquired the images of the TA books for Durrus and for Kilcrohane and hope to transcribe them and publish the transcriptions, hopefully this year. (There are at least 2 parishes ahead of them in the queue!) I just retired from my job and so Cork genealogy is becoming my semi-fulltime job/hobby now. We plan to move to Salt Lake City this spring. Once that move is a done deal, and I can work on transcriptions again.
As far as I can tell, my grandmother had Daly first cousins back in the 1870′s. They lived in Rossmore and were baptized in Muintervara parish. I don’t know if any of their descendants remained.
Cheers,
Susan
Hello, Michael Daley here. A group of us are connected through paperwork and male Y-DNA to Dalys on the Sheepshead Peninsula, as well as across Cork and Kerry. We share and maintain an interest in helping others develop their own lines.
Thanks for this site! Great, great grandmother, Margaret Mahony from Durrus, but don’t know which family she was from there.
Hi I am really interested in the Dealy/Daly connection to Durrus. Think I must be related to them going off your research?
please contact me mdaley@albany.edu
Thank you so much for all the information you have posted here – it is a treasure trove!My great, great, great grandfather was TImothy Dillon of Clashadoo who worked as a tailor, his son Thomas, my great great grandfather worked in the Durrus copper mines.To be able to find so many references to them and information about the type of life they had in Durrus during his era is fascinating.
I love your web site , I am searching for the parents of Nathaniel Godson born in Cork. All I have on him was that he was born around 1795 in Ireland. Then married a girl named Mary Ann and moved to England (Whitechapel) and died in 1840 . If you have any tips on where I can find more family history with this line it would be greatly appreciated . Thank you Melanie
I and my siblings can trace quite a lot of relations and connections to different families in Muintervara especially at the western end of the parish ( kilcrohane and ahakista)
I just discovered your extremely well done site. You are successfully tying together the information, until now so scattered, about our West Cork ancestors. My paternal great grandfathers were James Lannin from Schull and John Skuse from Glengariff. Many of the names I see throughout your site are scattered all over my family tree. The 99 cousins of Rochester were cousins of my ancestors.
By the way, I am the Administrator of The Lannin DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com. If any male Lannins read this comment, they would be most welcome to join my Y-DNA project.
Keep up your wonderful work. I am listing you as a resource on HeritageSleuth.com.