Francis Guy’s County and City of Cork Directory

For the years 1875-1876

BALLYNEEN OR BALLINEEN

Sub post, money-order and telegraph office, 30 miles from Cork and 10 from Bandon (head office). Ballineen, at which is a station of the West Cork Ry, is a healthy and pretty little town, overhanging the Bandon river, in the parish of Ballymoney. It consists of one street runnign east and west, and of another street starting from its centre, and running due south to the Bandon river.

It contains a market-house, court-house, one or two good inns, a Wesleyan chapel a new gothic Protestant church, etc.; the R. C. church of the district lies between Ballineen and Enniskeane. A farmers’ club, presided over by the Earl of Bandon, hold their meetings here on monthly fair days. Three trains daily between this and Cork: fares – single, 5/9, 4/3, 2/8; return, 8/9, 7/-, 4/5

Fairs and Flax Market 2^nd Wednesday of every month; horse fair on 4 Aug.

Mail Car from Bandon to Bantry, vid Ballineen, 5:45 a.m.; returning at 4:45 p.m.

Postal: Mails arrive at 5:35am and 5:10pm; despatched at 7:15pm daily and 6:30pm on Sundays.

Postmistress: Mrs. Stanley

Official

Parishes: Ballymoney, Kinneigh

Poor Law Union: Dunmanway

Registrar Births, Deaths, and Marriges: Dr. Andrew Hamilton Bryan

Poor Rate Collector: Timothy Coakley, Manch

Petty Sessions District: Ballineen, every second Monday; clerk: Edward Connor

Quarter Sessions: Bandon

Resident Magistrate: George R. Cronin

Sub-Inspector Constabulary: Jas O’Donel

Constable: John Phelen

Schools

Ballineen – pupils, rolls 156, average 81 males; rolls 138, average 73 females; teachers: Cornelius and Margaret O’Driscoll

Ballinacarriga National – Patron, P.P. Dunmanway; teacher, Mr. O’Connor

Ballymoney (mixed) Parochial—pupils, 30 males, 33 females; teachers, Margaret J. Connor and Margaret J. Peyton

Cappeen – pupils, rolls 92, average 50 males; rolls 113, average 67 females; teachers, Denis and Johanna O’Leary

Connagh (mixed) – pupil, rolls 122, average 55; teacher, Daniel Sheehan

Church Education – pupils, 30; teacher, Mrs. Howell

Justices of the Peace

Connor, Daniel, Manch house

Connor, Daniel, jun., Manch house

Lamb, William A., Kilcoleman park, Bandon

Townsend, Hume Edward, Coolnaconarthy house, Clonakilty

Clergy and Gentry

Fleming, Rev. Horace T., rector, Ballymoney

Bryan, Andrew Hamilton, M. D., dispensary medical officer

Collins, Rev. John, R. C. C.

Daunt, William O’Neill, Kilcaskan castle (author of "Saints and Sinners," "Ireland and her Agitators,": "Hugh Talbot," "Wife Hunter,"&c.)

Daunt, William, Derrigra

Holmes, Walter, Carrigmore

Traders, Shopkeepers, etc.

Brown, Thomas, hotel keeper

Crowley, John, Ballynacarriga, vintner

Donovan, Patrick, vintner

Enright, Daniel, vintner

Fehelly, Patrick, shopkeeper

Fenwick, Thomas, Ballynacarriga miller

Good, James vintner

Good, Jane shopkeeper

Godsill, William, shopkeeper

Hayes, John, Ballynacarriga, vintner

Lannin, William, shopkeeper

Morgan, Eliza, shopkeeper

McCarthy, James, Derrigra, vintner

Murray Jeremiah, draper

O’Neill, John, vintner

Peyton, Isaac, shopkeeper

Ryan, William, shopkeeper

Shorten, James, shopkeeper

Skuse, Maryanne, draper

Sullivan, Owen, Manch, miller

Principal Landholders

Ahern, John, Buddrimeen

Ahern, Thomas, Buddrimeen

Barrett, Cornelius, Fortrobert

Barrett, John, Currabeg

Birch, Edward, Ballynacarrigra

Brien, Cornelius, Girlough

Brien Patrick, Kilvinane

Brown, Thomas, Ballineen

Carey, Daniel, Currycrowley

Coakley, Timothy, Manch

Collins, D. M., Edincurra

Crowley, Cornelius, Kilcaskan

Crowley, Daniel, Manch west

Crowley, James, Girlough

Crowley, James, Phale upper

Crowley, John, Ballynacarriga

Crowley, Timothy, Manch west

Daunt, William, Derrigra

Donovan, Daniel, Currycrowley

Donovan, Daniel, Manch

Donovan, Denis Derrigra west

Donovan, John James, Manch

Driscoll, Cornelius, Liscroneen

Driscoll, Cornelius, Kilvurragh

Driscoll, Cornelius, Phale lower

Fitzgerald, Daniel, Manch

Foley, Patrick, Ballyvelone

Godsil, John, Cappeen east

Good, James, Ballineen

Good, John, Phale

Good, Joseph, Kilvurragh

Good, Osmond, Cappeen east

Good, William, jun., Kilvurragh

Hayes, Nathaniel, Derrigra

Hosford, Joseph, Shanavagh

Hosford, William, Fortrobert

Hurley, Daniel, Currycrowley

Jagoe, Robert, Inchifune

Kearney, James, Shanavah

Kearney, John, Girlough

Kearney, Timothy, Kilvinane

Kearney, Timothy, Manch

Lannin, William, Ballineen

Lordon, Patrick, Liscroneen

Mangin, John, Shanavah

McCarthy, Daniel, Carrigeen

McCullough, Mary, Manch

Patterson, Richard, Buddrimeen

Peyton, Isaac, Ballineen

Regan, John, Derrygra

Scholfield, Benjamin, Knockaneady

Scholfield, Robert, Currycrowley

Stanley, William, Currycrowley

Shorten, James, Ballineen

Tanner, Jonathan, Ballineen

Tanner, Walter, Ballineen