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Hi Kevin,
The only time I've ever heard of the Island been used as a place name in Clonakilty always referred to  Inchydoney as far as I'm aware, in all my time living here I've never heard anywhere else been referred to as the island so your probably right with the Keohane family you've found on the census records in your research. The island itself had few inhabitants as can be seen from the census records and many of these would have been tenant farmers up to a certain time.
Regards
Brendan

Hi John,the Gazette can be very frustrating at times to find anything.If a mention is known to be in there then someone should persevere with it and will get there in the end.I had a quick look and did see the mention for 1916 but nothing else.The M.I.D was a delayed notification if you like in that the mention would only be published when a commander in chief of a theatre of war would submit a dispatch of events to the war office and in that dispatch would be the names of people who were nominated to be named for special mention.Each dispatch could be many months old before being published and a previous dispatch to the war office could be many months older again before that so there was often large gaps in notification.Taking a notification for a military medal for an example,the mention in the Gazette may not appear for up to three months after the award was given.Looking at the Gazette the war office issued that dispatch on the 30th of November 1915,Andy died in May so there is seven and a half months since his death before that dispatch was sent.If he was mentioned a second time it means it's to be found before his his death and possibly on the New Years list of 1915 maybe so might be worth looking there for it.As for the info on the Munsters for that date then again it's the war diary for the 2nd Munsters you need which will give a detailed report on the days events,nine times out of ten you won't find a mention of other rank soldiers names in it but would give a clearer picture of what happened that day,each diary varies with the amount of content but the 2nd Munsters are well documented.Here is an online book giving some details of that day,I hope this link works.
Best regards
Brendan
http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofmunstersa00rick#page/32/mode/2up

Sorry Jack ,I haven't been able to find anything further.The SWB could indeed be the South Wales Borders if it is characterised this way with the number.A place where you may find help would be here in the Victorian Wars forum http://www.victorianwars.com/index.php

Regards
Brendan

Hi John,yes that's right.The medal card lists the regiment that the soldier landed overseas with first at the top and any subsequent regiment there after follows.Also a soldier may of been with a previous regiment before going overseas and this will not appear on the MIC only on service and pension records,sadly it appears there is none for Michael Raftery.The medal index card for Michael Raftery serving with the 7th battalion is the nearest match based on the Munster connection.MIC's were not destroyed like the service records so they should be complete.This Michael Raftery most likely went on and served in France after Gallipoli before transferring to the Connaught's.Checking the medal rolls based on the page numbers listed on the MIC would confirm which battalion he served with with the Connaught Rangers enabling a person to find out what battles the soldier fought in,to go further one could look for battalion diaries to really build a bigger picture.
Regards
Brendan

There is only one Michael Raftery matching service to the Munsters seeing action in the Balkans.His service number was 361 attached to the 7th Battalion who was then transferred at some stage to the Connaught Rangers with his number changing to 18321.This soldier saw action from the 5th of August 1915 and was transferred to Class Z Reserve on the 29th of January 1919,He was awarded the 1914/15 Star,War and Victory medal trio.No further service  info available on this one I'm afraid.