Parish
of
KINNEIGH
Genealogy & History
The Civil Parish of Kinneigh is partly in the RC Parish of Enniskeane & Desertserges (see Ballymoney.htm), and partly in the RC Parish of Murragh (Newcestown), see Murragh (Newcestown)
See also
West Cork
Kinneigh at Corkgen.org
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(CJ 25/2/1760) – TO be let from the 25th of March next, O. S., during the minority of Edmond Schuldham, Esq; the half plowland of East Sheehey, and the four kneeves of West Shehey from the 1st of May O. S. which are good mountain farms, on each of which is a good farm house. Proposals to be received by Mrs. Judith Schuldham, and Henry Wallis, Esq., in Dublin, and by Mr. Michael Gallwey, of Inniskean. Said farms lye three miles North of Dunmanway.
(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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(HC 20/3/1794) – The ADDRESS of the INHABITANTS of the Parish of KINNEIGH – To ROGER O CONNOR, Esq. ..[Arranged Alphabetically]
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Ahern, John Barry, John Bennett, Thomas Bottimer, Francis Brennan, John Conner, Roger Connolly, T. Crowley, John Crowly, J. Cue, Richard Cue, Robert Daunt, William Donovan, B. Donovan, C. Donovan, George Duke, John |
Duke, M. Ford, George Ford, Samuel Gallwey, D.T. Gallwey, Daniel Gamble, William Gay, Robert Gillman, Edward Good, John Good, Peter Good, Richard Haggertie, George Hawks, James Hawks, John Hawks, William Holland, Daniel |
Hosford, Benjamin Hosford, John Hosford, John Hosford, John, jun. Hosford, Jos. Hosford, Ralph Hosford, Thomas Hurley, Daniel Lovekin, Richard M’Carthy, F. M’Carthy, Francis M’Carthy, T. M’Namara, Francis M’Namara, John Morgan, William Nevill, John |
Nicholls, M. Fox Nicolls, A. Nicolls, Alexander Nicolls, Alexander, jun. Nicolls, H., Cork Nugent, James, Coadjutor Nugent, Richard, PP* Nugent, Thomas Pattison, Joseph Paul, John Sebright, Thomas Shorten, B. Shorten, B., jun. Shorten, James Shorten, John Shorten, John, jun. |
Shorten, Richard Shorten, S. Shorten, William Stanley, George Stanley, George, jun. Stanley, James Stanley, John Stanley, William Stephens, James Swan, ..ingham Tyner, Thomas Warren, T. Wood, Christopher Wood, Edward Wood, George |
* for himself and 783 Parishioners
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1796 SPINNING WHEEL PREMIUMS – KEINEAGH
| Name | Wheels | Name | Wheels | Name | Wheels |
| Barry, David | 1 | Donovan, Cornelius | 1 | Feheen, John | 1 |
| Callinane, Jeremiah | 1 | Driscole, Timothy | 1 | Hawkes, John | 1 |
| Crowly, Cornelius | 1 | Farsy, Peter | 1 | Sullivan, Catherine | 1 |
| Woods, Patrick | 1 |
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| Kinneigh-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 The National Archives (PRO) online catalogues at:- http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ |
| Place of birth Kinneigh or Enniskeane |
| Name | Served in…/Discharged | Covering Dates |
| Callaghan, John | Born Kinneigh. 84th Foot Regt.; 3rd Garrison Battalion. Discharged aged 34 | 1812-1816 |
| 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 |
| Daly, John | Born ‘Kenny.’ - ?Kinneigh. 77th Foot Regt.; 1st Royal Veteran Battalion. Discharged aged 28 | 1815-1826 |
| Fallassy, Peter | Or Fallessy. Born Kinneigh. 2nd Foot Regt. Discharged aged 35 | 1839-1852 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nugent, John | Born ‘Kennock.’ - ?Kinneigh. 28th Foot Regt.; 52nd Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 36 | 1801 |
| Weyre, William | Born ‘Kennagh.’ - ?Kinneigh. 57th Foot Regt.; 97th Foot Regt.; Discharged aged 29 | 1817-1824 |
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(CMC 13/8/1802) GAME CERTIFICATES (Selections)
Burke, Cornelius, Cloonreague, Kinneagh
Speere, Samuel, Killineer, Murragh
(CMC 20/4/1803) – MILLS, LANDS AND HOUSES – AT ENNISKEAN – TO BE SET OR SOLD, for a Lease of Three Young Lives, the MILLS, LANDS, and HOUSES, lately in the Possession of P. and W. HALYBURTON, Bankrupts. These Mills are in complete Working Order, have a great Supply of Water, capable of manufacturing 8000 Barrels yearly, and has Storage for 5000. There is about 70 Acres of LAND in right good heart and a great many HOUSES, with a large Portion of BUILDING GROUND in the front Street of Enniskean. There would be not better Situation in Ireland for a Brewery or Distillery. – Proposals to S. DONOVAN and J. SAVAGE, Assignees, till 12th May. – Mr. Halyburton will shew the Premises.
(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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1827 Kinneigh Tithe Applotment Index – 20th October 1827, Michael Wren & George Sealy, Commissioners
Townland of ‘Moneygave East & West,’ with the date 1834, indexed seperately, below
Name, Townland, Townland, Townland, Townland, Townland
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Ahern, Thomas, Connagh Baldwin, Mary, Mrs., Teadies Bandon, Lord, Gurteenroe, Daragra Barrett, Corls., Gurthaleen Barrett, John, Knocknastoka Barry, John, Connerville Barry, Margt., Teadies Bernard, A., Esqr., Castleland Bernard, A.B, Esqr., Connerville, Teadies Brady, Henry, Cappeen East Brady, Robert, Rushfield Bride, James, Mr., Rushfield Brien, Denis, Anaherlick Brown?, John, Mallow Buckley, Honora, Ballihinure Buckley, John, Connagh Burchill, Arthur, Keelnacranagh Burk, Catherine, Aughilanane Burke, Denis, Mr., Clonerique Burke, Rickd., Caher Buttomer, Maurice, Farnmarreen Callaghan, David, Ballihinure Callaghan, Humy., Lisarourk Carthy Rabah, Jery., Kinneigh Carthy Rabah, Timy., Kinneigh Carthy, Danl., Droumfee Carthy, Dens., Castletown Carthy, Florence, Castletown Carthy, James, Castletown Carthy, Jery., Ballin Cloane East Carthy, John, Castletown, Daragra Chambers, William, Teadies Collins, Danl., Teadies Connel, Cors., Kinneigh Connolly, John, Caher, Connerville Connolly, Patt, Castletown Connor, Timy., Teadies Costolla, Mauce., Cappeen East Coughlan, Jery., Keeniegh Coughlan, John, Keeniegh Coughlan, Js., Keeniegh Coughlan, Richd., Keeniegh Coughlan, Richd., Senr., Keeniegh Croneen, Denis, Castletown, Farnmarreen Croneen, Jery., Keelnacranagh Crowley Bawne, Timy., Cappeen East Crowley Bue, Danl., Castletown Crowley, Corls., Castletown, Ballin Cloane East, Paddock (Big) Crowley, Curly, Aughilanane, Aughilard Crowley, Danl., Clonerique, Coolbawn, Daragra Crowley, Danl. – Guardland, Castletown Crowley, David, Paddock (Big) Crowley, Edwd., Ardkilleen Crowley, Floce., Ballyviloaune West Crowley, James, Castletown Crowley, James - Dimence, Castletown Crowley, Jery., Caher, Castletown, Droumfee Crowley, John, Aughilanane, Castletown Crowley, Patt, Kinneigh, Paddock (Big) Crowley, Timy., Aughilanane Cue, Robt., Daragra, Teadies Culnane, Chars., Caher Culnane, Jery., Caher Culnane, John, Farnmarreen Cummins, Corls., Castletown Daunt, Geo., Mr., Castleland, Gurteenroe Daunt, Wm., Mr., Castleland, Daragra, Gurteenroe, Teadies Dennis, Mr., Lisarourk Desmond, Timy., Castletown Devonshire, Duke, Keelnacranagh Donovan, James, Teadies Donovan, Jery., Lisarourk Donovan, John, Connagh Donovan, John Good*, Castleland Donovan, Michl., Droumfee Driscoll, Corls., Lauravollig Driscoll, Curly, Lauravollig, Lissacurreen Driscoll, Danl., Lissacurreen Driscoll, Floce., Lissacurreen Driscoll, John, Daragra Driscoll, Js., Clash Driscoll, Margt., Clash Driscoll, Patt, Ballyviloaune West Duggan, Michl., Fort Robert, Kinneigh Duke, John, Farnmarreen Ferris, Robt., Liscroneen Forbes, Edwd., Caher Forbes, Jerh., Caher Forbes, John, Caher Forbes, Joseph, Kinneigh Fuller, Mrs., Fort Robert Gallavan, Mattw., Connagh Gallavane, Edwd., Kinneigh Gallavin, Edwd., Castletown Gallavin, Maurice, Keelnacranagh Gamble, Catherine, Teadies Gamble, Widow, Daragra Gash, Benjm., Revd., Lisarourk Gillman, Herbert, Esqr., Belrose, Castleland, Daragra, Droumfee, Mallow Good, Peter, Lisarourk Good, see Donovan, Castleland Griffith, Rick., Caher Halliburton, Wm., Mr., Castleland Haly, Wm., Clonemara Harrington, John, Castletown, Slinouge Haurahane, Timy., Teadies Hawkes, Willm., Belrose Hennessy, James, Ardkilleen Hennessy, Jery., Coolbawn Hodnett, David, Clonemara, Gurteenroe Hodnett, James, Belrose Hodnett, John, Belrose, Clonemara Hodnett, Robt., Belrose, Gurthaleen Holland, John, Castletown Holland, Patt, Rushfield Holland, Willm., Belrose Horrogan, James, Belrose Horrogan, Jerry, Caher Hosford, B., Mr., Teadies |
Hosford, John, Farnmarreen Hosford, Joseph., Farnmarreen Hosford, Willm., Farnmarreen, Lisarourk House, John, Lisarourk Huckley, William, Cappeen East Hurley, Dens., Lauravollig, Teadies Hurley, Dl., Ardkilleen, Paddock (Little) Hurley, James, Ardkilleen, Cappeen West, Clonerique Hurley, James (Lad), Castletown Hurley, Jery., Belrose, Cappeen West, Paddock (Little), Teadies Hurley, John, Ardkilleen, Droumfee Hurley, Julian, Cappeen West Hurley, Patt, Clonerique Hurley, Richd., Belrose, Buccaries Hurley, William, Buccaries, Paddock (Little) Karroll, Richd., Mallow Keeffe, Danl., Lisarourk Keeffe, David, Ballihinure Kelly, Dens., Farnmarreen Kihilly, Danl., Lissacurreen Kihilly, Denis, Ardkilleen Kihilly, John, Lissacurreen Kihilly, Timy., Lissacurreen Leary, Cappeen East Leary, Cors., Cappeen East Leary, Danl., Knocknastoka Leary, Denis, Cappeen East Leary, Patt, Cappeen East Leary, Timy., Lissacurreen Loardan, Dens., Lauravollig Loardan, Jery., Keelnacranagh Loardan, Timy., Lisarourk Loardans, Lauravollig Lynch, Lauravollig Mahony, Cors., Ballyviloaune West Mahony, Curly, Droumfee Mahony, Danl., Ardkilleen, Daragra Mahony, James, Droumfee Mahony, Jery., Ardkilleen Mahony, Johanna, Ballyviloaune West Mahony, John, Caher, Cappeen West Mahony, Mary, Lisarourk Mahony, Mary, Wd., Lisarourk Mahony, Timy., Ballin Cloane East Mahony, Wd., Farnmarreen McCarthy, Dens., Keelnacranagh McCarthy, Frans., Mr., Connerville McCarthy, Jery., Junr., Keelnacranagh McCarthy, Jery., Senr., Keelnacranagh McCarthy, Mary, Keelnacranagh Murnane, Jery., Lisarourk Murphy, James, Belrose, Gurthaleen Murphy, John, Lisarourk Murphy, John, Revd., Keelnacranagh Murphy, Patt, Cappeen East, Castletown Murphy, Thos., Castletown Murray, John, Acres of [Hinauque?], Anaherlick, Ballyviloaune West Murray, Thos., Ballyviloaune West, Droumfee, Slinouge Murray, Timy., Ballyviloaune West Murray, Wm., Ballin Cloane East Nehane, John, Kinneigh Nehane, Timy., Kinneigh Neil, Felix, Liscroneen Neil, James, Fort Robert Neil, John, Liscroneen Neill, James, Liscroneen Nicolls, Anne, Daragra Noonan, Corls., Castletown Noonan, Corls., Castletown Noonan, Timothy, Anaherlick O Connor, A., Esqr., Fort Robert O Sullivan, J., Revd., Daragra, Teadies Pine, John, Connagh Powell, Thos., Lisarourk Quinlan, Cors., Daragra Quinlan, John, Teadies Reardan, Danl., Lackashanah Reardan, Timy., Aughilanane Regan, Jery., Farnmarreen Regan, John, Belrose Riordan, Denis, Droumfee Riordan, Michl., Ballyviloaune West Sealy, Geo., Mr., Ballin Cloane East, Clash Shorten, Ben, Keelnacranagh, Teadies Shorten, Benjm. (Wm.), Keelnacranagh Shorten, Eliza, Keelnacranagh Shorten, James, Castletown, Keelnacranagh Shorten, John, Belrose, Keelnacranagh, Teadies Shorten, John (John), Keelnacranagh Shorten, John (Wm.), Keelnacranagh Shorten, Richd., Daragra, Keelnacranagh, Teadies Shorten, Richd., Teadies Shorten, Wd. Paul, Keelnacranagh Sline, Catherine, Keelnacranagh Sline, Robt., Keelnacranagh Smithwick, Mr., Connerville Stanley, John, Castleland Stanley, Wm., Castleland, Teadies Sullivan, Danl., Anaherlick, Lauravollig Sullivan, Hanora, Anaherlick Sullivan, Humy., Lauravollig Sullivan, Jerry, Belrose, Lauravollig Sullivan, John, Anaherlick Sullivan, Margaret, Anaherlick Sullivan, Thos., Clonemara Sullivan, Timy., Belrose Sweeny, Edmd., Castleland, Daragra Sweeny, Felix, Teadies Tanner, Jontn., Mr., Teadies Taylor, Barthw., Keelnacranagh, Teadies Tiner, [Michl.?], Lackashanah Tiner, Margt., Lackashanah Tiner, Michl., Cappeen West Tiner, Richd., Cappeen West Walsh, Richd., Castletown Welpley, Willm., Rushfield Wholey, Ds., Caher Wholey, John, Caher Wood, Wm., Mr., Castleland, Gurteenroe |
*written as ‘John Good Donovan’ – might also be John Good [and] Donovan
Townlands of Moneygave East & West Tithe Applotment Index – dated 27th October 1834 – George Sealy, Michael Wren, Commissioners
Name, Townland(s)
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Buttomer, Fras., Moneygave West Buttomer, Morris, Moneygave West , Corls., Moneygave West Crowley, John, Moneygave West Crowley, Ml., Moneygave East Forde, Denis, Moneygave East Griffin, Denis, Moneygave West, Moneygave East Haly?, Ml., Moneygave East Hurley, D., Moneygave West Hurley, Ellen, Moneygave West Hurley, J., Moneygave West Hurley, Jerh., Moneygave East Hurley, L?, Moneygave West Leary, Peter, Moneygave East Lucy, Ellen, Moneygave East Mahony, Jerh., Moneygave East Mahony, Timy., Moneygave East Murphy, Moneygave West Nehane, Denis, Moneygave West Quinlan, D., Moneygave West Sullivan, John, Moneygave West Sullivan, Timy., Moneygave West |
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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.
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.
TOWNLANDS
Taken from 'General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland,' 1851, all in the barony of East Carbery West Division
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Aghalinane Anaharlick Ardkilleen Ballaghanure Ballyvelone E. Ballyvelone W. Belrose Lr. Belrose Up. Buckree Caher Cappeen E. Cappeen W. Castlelands |
Castletown Castletown T. Clash Clonomara Cloonareague Connagh Coolabaun Derrigra Dromfeagh Dromidiclogh Dromidiclogh W. Enniskeen T. |
Farranmareen Garland Gortaleen Gurteenroe Kilnacranagh E. Kilnacranagh W. Kinneigh Lackanashinnagh Laravoolta Lissacroneen Lissarourke Lissicorrane |
Mallow Moneygaff E. Moneygaff W. Moneynacroha Paddock Palaceanne Rushfield Shanaclogh Sleenoge Teadies Lr. Teadies Up. Teenah |
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EVICTIONS IN KENNEIGH 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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