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Ardmore village : graphic.
Photograph shows Main street, Ardmore village,with boy on bicycle and donkey and cart. In the background -TÔoibÔin's shop, the Protestant church and the round tower. Digital image created by Davison and Associates, Dublin. Image number D40T9012-. -
Ardsallagh with scotts pine : graphic.
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Army Chaplain and four ladies : graphic.
Group portrait of four women and an army Chaplain. Digital image created by Davison & Associates, Dublin. Image number 170709-250. -
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Astna Square Clonakilty
This postcard depicts Astna Square.. The statue in the middle of the square was erected in 1898 to commemorate the Battle of the Big Cross, which took place during the 1798 Rebellion. The statue is of local leader, Tadhg an Astna. -
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Ath Trasna : a history of Newmarket, County Cork [digital format]
PDF file of the book of the same name. -
Aughadown
The following is the Irish Tourist Association and General Survey for Aughadown. -
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Backyard of the Horgan's cinema, Youghal : graphic.
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Ballinacarriga, Near Dunmanway : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 03, no. 01 : graphic
Transcript of text: - Page 01. BALLINACARRIGA. Near Dunmanway. - Smith. Vol,I. p.261. Built by Randal Oge Hurley at a noted pass, deemed very strong, was garrisoned by the English in 1641. - Lewis. Vol.I. p.151. A lofty pile, 96 ft high, with a 12th or 13th Century tower. The upper room has arched windows in the Norman style, with mouldings enriched with curious devices. The letters R.M. C.C. 1585 are said to be Randal McCarthy and Catherine Collins, his wife. The lofty vaulted hall was divided into many storeys. Cromwell's soldiers were at Ballinacarriga. P.612. A short distance to the S.E. is a circular Keep or watch tower. In the castle a spiral stone stairs, in fair preservation, leads to the battlements. - Cork Journal. 1905. p.105. The O'Hurleys were a very ancient family who came from Limerick. They had a castle called Knocklong. McCarthy Glas says that there were 8 Randal Oges in succession, from 1530 to 1730. Cronelly (p.353) gives an account of this family. Hurley was sometimes written Murrily. At one time they owned Derry, Monteen, and Ballinvoher. Dermot O'Hurley is said to have owned them in James II's time. Fiants show that there were Hurleys in Cork before 1585. They intermarried with the de Courceys. A daughter of Randal Oge, who built the castle, married Dermot McCarthy of Ballinvoher (alias Mac Crimin). There are pardons to O'Hurleys of Bealnacarriga in 1585, 1601, and in 1641 Randal O'Hurley and his father were attainted. Catherine Collins or Cullinane was the daughter of McCarthy Reagh's physician. - Cork Journal. 1906. p.27. Photo. This castle and Ballinward were built by the Hurleys or O'Murrilys. - - Page 02. BALLINACARRIGA. - Cork Journal. 1906. p.27. In 1517 there was a John O'Murrily, Abbot of the parish of Myross. In 1490 an O'Hurily was Sub-Prior of the Franciscan Convent in Youghal. The Hurleys intermarried with the De Courceys and the Fitzgeralds. P.76. The name means "the mouth of the rock". An old residence of the family was said to be at -
Ballinacarriga, Near Dunmanway : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 06, no. 03 : graphic
Transcript of text: - Smith says "built by Randal Oge Hurley at a noted pass. Lewis calls it a lofty pile 96 ft. high. There is a good spiral stone stairs. There are some curious carving mostly religious around the window of an upper room. High above the doorway to the right, is a grotesque carved figure. The O'Hurleys were powerful from about 1530. The name is also spelt Murrilly. Cork Jour. 1905, 1906. - Download size (PDF): 114 KB. Image no Vol_06-03. -
Ballinacurra, Midleton : graphic.
Photograph shows six schooners and one small steamboat at the quayside. Digital image created by Davison & Associates, Dublin. Image number 170709-395. -
Ballinacurra, Midleton : graphic.
Photograph of Ballinacurra port with five schooners in the background and people on the quayside. Digital image created by Davison & Associates, Dublin. Image number D40T8899-. -
Ballinacurra, Midleton : graphic.
Photograph of Ballinacurra port with ships docked and three men on the quayside. Digital image created by Davison & Associates, Dublin. Image number D40T8900-. -
Ballinaroher, Near Clonakilty : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 03, no. 02 : graphic
Transcript of text: - Page 01. BALLINAROHER. Near Clonakilty. - Smith . Vol.I. p.37. A sept of the McCarthys called Mac Crimin had their seat here. It was antiently on of the best castles in this county. Mac Crimin justly forfeited this castle, together with his life, for a barbarous murder committed by him in 1641. This is stated in the Carbriae Notitia. 1691. - Lewis. Vol.II. p.614. The extensive ruins of Ballinaroher castle are situated on the south bank of the river, it appears to have been erected to protect the old Ford here which was the only pass between Bandon and the entire S.W. part of the county. Here was formerly a good residence of the Mc Carthys. - Cork Journal. 1906. p.29. A daughter of Randal Oge Hurley of Ballinacarriga (who died in 1631) married Dermot Mac Daniel Mac Carthy, alias Mac Crimin of Ballinvoher. In the same article is mentioned Ballinvoher, built in 1631 by the Mac Carthys. - Cork Journal. 1915. p.110. Edmund Hodnet of Courtmacsherry, seized the house and goods of Burrowes, who was afterwards hanged at Killivary wood by Mac Carthy of Ballinvoher. - Cork Journal. 1924. p. 47. In Bennett's "Bandon" there is a statement that Derry, Mounteen and Ballinrohur castles were owned by Dermod O'Hurley surnamed Lightfooted, in the 17th Century, in James II's time. - 1937. This castle is a large rather low ivy-covered building, it is on the road side, at some distance from the Arigideen river. It is in an extremely dilapidated state, being right beside a farmyard, and is used as a store and shelter for cattle. On the slope between it and the river are the remains of an old desmesne, garden orchard etc. - Download size (PDF): 172 KB. Image no Vol_03-02.