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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Friday 14 June 24 10:21 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Miggs191 on Thursday 13 June 24 20:21 BST (UK)
Hi,
I’m in Skibbereen at the moment.
I’ve an appointment to check some research linking my Hegarty family to William O’Driscoll and Anne Attridge.
I think I need to up date my paper version of my family tree. I find it much easier to work on paper !
I use the main genealogy sites for research which I then begin to check with Ireland ie.
It gets complicated when the Christian names repeat but in some ways that’s a help. eg if Cornelius turns up I know it’s not likely to be one of mine !
I’m pretty certain that we are linked . My great grandmother was McCarthy and the other O’Driscoll so that’s a good start !
I’ve found  lots of links in  the town newspaper. Death reports often give those that attended the burial starting with the immediate relatives and working down to friends.
I bring my paperwork genealogy over with me from England. We come on the ferry so I have about four bag fulls.
Today I’ve spent checking through some old research. I’ve not looked at my Irish bits since last summer. That’s due to the fact that I have inherited my late Dad and late Aunt’s English research some of which goes back to 1946 ! There’s a room full of it ! Before we came over I had the local history office conservation guy look at it as I don’t want it to disintegrate !
If I find any thing new while here I’ll try and get back to you.😃

Please let me know if you find out anything interesting. My late father was very into genealogy and I likewise have inherited this body of work that he did as none of my siblings seem to have much of an interest!

I have a story for you to investigate if you have any access to the newspaper archives or the famine collection. On the other side of Skibbereen, on the road to Tragumna, there are a series of stone walls that were constructed as part of famine relief schemes. Of course the geniuses in London at that time determined that starving Irish rural poor should and could work hard labour for extremely low wages that wouldn't even cover bread. Anyway, there was a young man called 'Bohan' from Castleheaven who died on this work scheme which I guarantee is another relative of ours.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Friday 14 June 24 10:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: proteanz on Thursday 13 June 24 22:22 BST (UK)
Greetings,  I am a sort of caretaker of Makaraka Cemetery. Itg is a closed cemetery  - since 1916. In a way this cemetery has been abused,  too much for me to go into herel  There were 88 headstones buried in a trench and some 600 are still missing. It took us 13 years to get them up and to do  so we formed a Trust and managed to get those headstones out  of the ground and placed on respective graves.   We are doing stories of the people buried there and have  done two books so far and third almost ready  to go to print - all with relatives input.  We would like this sort of thing to add to our third book.    I do not have direct family here, just a distant cousin'a in-laws.   This has made my life very interesting. but am now 83 so this will by my  last effort.

Cheers, Dot McCulloch, Friends of Makaraka Cemetery Ttrust.

It certainly sounds like you've done some incredible work. Thank you very much for your dedication and diligence in getting these stories out.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Thursday 13 June 24 17:44 BST (UK)  »
I think it is for certain that we are related and it could be by two ways;

My great grandmother was from Castlehaven in Cork. She was born in 1888 and her name was Honoria Bohane. She married my great grandfather from Mohanagh, Jack McCarthy in 1922 and they lived in Mohanagh near Skibbereen until their deaths in 1978 (Jack) and 1980 (Honoria).

Her father was John Bohane who was born in about 1851 and I have just discovered that his father is Jeremiah Bohane from Killaderry, Castlehaven, Co. Cork.

I think we're related from there, there is another Peter 'Buhin' farming in the townland. Probably not a coincidence.

There is also another connection to the Bohanes. My great great great uncle, Eoghan McCarthy was married to a Biddy Bohane at some point in the 1865s. I wonder if this is another connection.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Tuesday 11 July 23 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Miggs191 on Monday 10 July 23 23:01 BST (UK)
Hi Lamahorse,
Very interested in your post.
I’ll need to look through my research but I’ll get back to you.
If you think your family are from the South West around Skibbereen, have you used The Skibbereen Heritage Centre ?
Every year I “ go home”. I wasn’t born in Ireland but my Mother was. I have more family there than in the UK. I research during the year and then make appointments with the Heritage Centre to see if my research is possibly correct.
I know they are in touch by e Mail also.
I’ll get back to you. Thank you for contacting . Miggs

Hi Miggs,

I live in Dublin. My grandfather (McCarthy) was born in Mohonagh which is about 2 miles from Skibbereen. We're probably related as my great grandmother was a Bohane from Castlehaven.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne
« on: Monday 10 July 23 10:24 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Miggs191 on Saturday 08 July 23 17:00 BST (UK)
Hi,hope someone might read this even though it’s nearly ten years since the last posting.
I’m also related to those in Mahounagh (sp?)
My great aunt Mary Anne Bohane born about 1862 married and moved there. It’s across the River Ilen in Skibbereen near where she was born. There are reports of the Civil War and War for Independence in the Dublin Records including reference to the burning of the house. It’s dreadful to read the memory of Kitty Driscoll who talks about having to hide their furniture and clothing up in the hills to avoid them being destroyed.🤬
I’m linked to the McCarthys and O’Driscolls….somehow !
Just returned from Ireland with new bits of info. The more I find the more complicated a web             I weave !

Hi, Miggs191.

I'm a direct descendent from the McCarthy's of Mohonagh. My great grandfather Jack McCarthy had his house burned down by the Auxiliaries during the war of Independence and 'went on the run'. This might be the incident that you are referencing.

My great grandmother (Jack's wife, Honoria) was also a Bohane and Jack's mother was a Driscoll. There is also a Bohane connection in an earlier generation as the neighbouring farmer (an Owen McCarthy) in the time of the Griffith's Valuation was also married to a Bridget Bohane and although I have no evidence about Owen McCarthy's relation to my ggg grandfather Michael McCarthy (born 1807 or something) other than a murder trial from the 1865s where both are witnesses and the newspaper article says that they are brothers and related to the accused (a Driscoll).

Why I was asking about this family here, is that Richard McCarthy below is my great great uncle and he left for Australia where he apparently was successful in the Gold Rush. Later he moved and settled down in New Zealand. I know he had a daughter and a son (the young death of whom is something I wonder about) but there is another event related to the burning of the house.

The War of independence in Cork was rather bitter at times. There was an alleged incident where a man called Lynch shot dead a Driscoll when the Mohonagh Division of the IRA by accident. This was all hushed up and Lynch immediately fled the country for New Zealand, apparently to go out to his relative; Richard McCarthy. The Driscoll is buried in the old Abbey graveyard with a huge IRA volunteer headstone. I believe when this happened, he was buried in secret and when the treaty was signed; he was buried in great fanfare. Tom Barry talks about this incident in his book about the war of independence.

If you want to discuss this, we should go elsewhere. I can message you directly with my email address

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Cork / Re: McCarthy nicknames near Skibbereen - oh my!
« on: Sunday 17 April 16 16:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maggie, that John McCarthy is my father.

Interesting that you say the Tragumna road. There is an inquest into a Denis? Bohane who died on the work scheme on that road during the famine. I believe the Famine Relief papers and Dippam have the information.

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Cork / Re: McCarthy nicknames near Skibbereen - oh my!
« on: Saturday 16 April 16 23:26 BST (UK)  »
miggs 191 > You should read up on Pat Driscoll (Mohonagh). He was a major figure in the IRA in Skibbereen and he's got a huge monument in the Old Abbeystrowy graveyard in Skibbereen. He was a first cousin of my g grandmother, Norah Bohane (1888-1980). My g grandfather Jack McCarthy of Mohonagh was also a first cousin of this Pat Driscoll. She was from Kiladerry.

Ursula > Have you tried Irish Church Records on the Irish genealogy website ? They have Cork Catholic Baptisms going back to around 1820.

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Cork / Re: McCarthy nicknames near Skibbereen -Killaderry
« on: Friday 28 November 14 20:19 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: miggs 191 on Friday 28 November 14 09:31 GMT (UK)
I think I've already posted but just to be up to date for your info my late mother always said we were really Sullivans and my grandfather's entrance in 1864 in the Castlehaven register is Peter Sullivan. Sullivan is crossed through and Bohane written above. All my research going back to 1820 for Killaderry (bounding The Lis Ard Estate owned by The O'Donovan but they did not own Killaderry ) shows that most were Bohane and still are ! I am trying to work out how we are all linked as the family story goes that one Bohane arrived and as  time  went by the land was split.However,I'm sure all families have these stories but think they must be based on a grain of truth.By any chance do you know anything about Killaderry? The place you refer to I think is where my great grandmother lived at one time with her daughter.I met a wonderful man John when in Skib in the summer and Bohanes are linked through marriage.They also are linked to the Bohanes of Skib itself.It appears all from Killadery.
Hope this may be of help to you.    :)

My great grandmother Norah Bohane was from Kilderry. She was a Sullivan 'Bán' so I suppose that's how I know about that too. Even more interesting is that my ggg-grandfather's possible brother Owen McCarthy (not sure if it's the Nagehy Owen as he's there earlier) married Biddy Bohane who has her name written as Sullivan for some of their children with the same address.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Castlehaven_North/Kilderry/1156784/

I imagine all these Bohanes are related. Five families in the same townland!

Appears we are related.

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Cork / Re: McCarthy nicknames near Skibbereen - oh my!
« on: Thursday 27 November 14 11:00 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry for the thread necromancy but I discovered a McCarthy 'Nagehy' from Mohonagh, just two or three miles from Skibbereen for the Tithes (1829).

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Cork&parish=Aghadown&townland=Middle%20Moghna&search=Search

Owen McCarthy Alias 'Nagehy'.

Mysterious!

And yes, according to the church records; an Owen McCarthy married a Biddy Bohane. They had a few children and sometimes she's listed as Biddy Sullivan. My grandaunt once said that Bohane is Sullivan Bán.

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