The History of the County and City of Cork, Ireland

VOLUME I

 

Table of Contents

I. — The Mac Carthys and O'Briens 1

II. — The Conquest of Cork— The Distribution of the Kingdom among the Anglo-Norman Knights 13

III. - The Earls of Desmond — Irish Literature and Laws 44

IV. — Thomas of Drogheda - Irish Poets and Poor Scholars 74

V. — State of Society — Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck — City Charters 84

VI. — The Normans — The Commoners — The Army — The Church 99

VII. — The Earls of Desmond, Ormond and Kildare 113

VIII. — The Old Countess of Desmond — The Court Page 124

IX. — Sir John of Desmond — The Court Page — James Fitz-John, the Pretended Earl 130

X. — The Pretended Earl — The Court Page — Lord Leonard Gray — Sir Anthony St Leger 151

XI.- Edward VI. — Mary and Philip — The Earl of Desmond 168

XII. — Garrett styled the Great Earl of Desmond 183

XIII. — Irish Rulers — Lord President of Munster — Lord Deputy - Manners and Customs — Dress 211

XIV. — The Landing at Smerwick — Lord Grey — Spenser — Raleigh — Lord Roche— The Death of the Earl of Desmond 234

XV. — A Parliament — The Undertakers — Florence Mac Carthy — O'Neill and O'Donnell 269

XVI. — The Poet Spenser 296

XVII. - Che Earl of Essex — Death of Sir Thomas Norris— Warham St. Leger and Hugh Maguire Slain — Sir George Carew and James Fitz-Thomas 316

XVIII. — Florence Mac Carthy— John Annias — Sir George Carew 337

XIX. — The Spaniards at Kinsale 364

XX. — Don Joan in Cork 375

XXI. — The Siege of Dunboy Castle 384

XXII. — Blarney Castle and Connac Mac Dermot Mac Carthy 403



 

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VOLUME II

 

Table of Contents

I. — The Rebellion in the City 1

II. — Richard Boyle, First Lord Cock 18

III. - Civil War in the County Cork 52

IV. — Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth 90

V. — Restoration of Charles II. — Lord Broghill — Catholic Petitioners William Pena 124

VI. - James II. — William III. 138

VII. - Marlborough at Kinsale - Sir James Cotter — Sir Richard Cex Sir Richard Nagle 168

VIII. — The City and the Corporation 176

IX. — Armed Societies — Wolfe Tone and the Bantry Bay Expedition — The Rebellion of 179 8— The Two Sheares 231

X. — Disfranchisement of County Boronghs — The Irish Parliament — The Sale of Irish Boroughs — The Legislative Union 256

XII. — Whiteboys — Sir John Pursell — Election Contests — List of Members 287

XIII. - The Island City and the South Suburbs 304

XIV. — Saint Finn Barrs 340

XV. — Queen's College — Agricultural Farm — Goals — The Northern Suburbs of Sunday's - Well and Glanmire 362

XVI. — Government of Cork — List of Mayors and Sheriffs - Statement of Accounts — Harbour Board — Customs 384

XVII. — The River Lee — Blackrock and Ursuline Convent— Passage — Giant's Staire — Ronayne's Grove — Moukstown Castle— Rinnaskiddy — Rocky — Haulbowline — Water Club — Queenstown — Charles Wolfe's Grave — The Great Island — Belvelly Castle 403

XYIII. — Spike Island — Convict Prisons — Fortifications of Cork Harbour — Carrigaline River — Cork-beg — Trabolgan — Manufacture of Flax — Whitegate — Aghada — Farsid — Rostellan 422

XIX. — Cromlechs— Castle Mary — Cloyne Cathedral — Round Tower — Bishop Berkeley — Town of Cloyne — Margaret Corker — William Penn — Ballycotton 439

XX. — Carrigtohill — James II. at Ballinsperrig — Barry's Court — Midleton — Mogeely — Castlemartyr — Leper House— Killeagh — Aghadoe — Youghal — Blackwater 449

XXI . — Fermoy - Castle-Hyde — Kilworth — Glanworth — Mitchelstown — Ballyhooly — Convamore — Bridgetown Abbey — Carrigacunna Castle - Killavullen — Mallow — Doneraile — Buttevant — Liscarrol — Charleville 464

XXII. — Drumneen — Ballyclough — Lohort Castle — Kanturk — New-market — Dromagh — Millstreet — King- William's-town — Macroom — Ballyvourney — Kilcrea Abbey — Ballincollig — Ovens — Blarney — St. Anne's 477

XXIII. Reformatory at Upton — Bandon — Inishannon — Kinsale Kilbritain Castle — Timoleague — Dunworly Beads — Clonakilty Dunmanway and Sir Richard Cox — Castle-Freke — Roescarbery — Glandore — Bawnlehan and the O'Donovans — Castle-Townsend — Skibbereen — Baltimore and the O'DriscoUs— Turks — Fisheries Bantry— Western Coast— O'Sullivan and Puxley — Mines 494

XXIY. Population — Houses - Labour - Market — Emigration — Baronies and Parishes 528

 

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The province of Munster had been, from an early period, possessed by the Eugenians, or Mac Carthys of Cork, and the Dalcassians, or O'Briens of Limerick. The king of the whole of Munster — for this province had a king paramount — was chosen alternately from these two great families. This arrangement was finally interrupted on the accession of Brian Boru to the throne of Limerick, or Thomond, whose brother, Mahon, had been treacherously and barbarously murdered by Molloy, the ancestor of the O'Mahonys of Cork, and Donovan, or O'Donovan, who lived at Bruree, now in the county of Limerick, then in the kingdom of Cork. The murder is thus recorded in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen.