That was really interesting, Bill, I hope we can read the following week's lecture. Leesa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gawne" <gawne@cesmail.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: [BEARA] Evictions in Kilmacowen and Goulane (1907) > Dear friends of Beara, > > I was snooping around online this afternoon, looking for references to > my Beara ancestors, when I chanced across this article in Emara News. > > http://www.emara.org/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1033 > > It reads, in part: > "THE latest lecture in the present series organised by the Beara > Historical Society was given recently by Mr. Michael Murphy in > Twomey?s Lounge Bar, Castletownbere. One of the largest attendances > ever was given a most interesting talk which covered a period of > evictions in Kilmacowen and Goulane in the Eyeries parish in 1907. > What made the talk more interesting was that the speaker?s immediate > family was one of those evicted." > > [There's an awful lot more, I recommend you go read it by clicking on > that link if you're interested and have the time.] > > The part that I found especially interesting was this mention of the > Holland family, my own ancestors: > > "The story of the Hollands in Kilmacowen is an interesting one. Around > 1800 a Harrington man (O hUrdail) owned a major part of the land in > Kilmacowen, (Harrington was and is the most common surname in the > townland). Stephen Holland came to the area as a hedge school master > from Coomhola near Bantry. He married Harrington?s daughter. Her > wedding dress was said to have been made of 18 yards of velvet. For > her dowry the daughter received 16 seanafachs ? in-calf heifers as a > dowry. Harrington later gave them a 300 acre farm. One schoolmaster > who did well for himself! The farm was later divided among their three > sons. There were three Holland households in Kilmacowen until 1950s. > None there now? The teaching gene was still in the family. Con > Holland?s older stepbrother was first a teacher, then a schools? > inspector and finally a Commissioner of Education." > > Stephen Holland was my g-g-g-grandfather, and I can say with > confidence that the "teaching gene" still survives. > > -- Bill > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Leesa, carrignua <carrignua@comcast.net> writes: > That was really interesting, Bill, > I hope we can read the following week's lecture. I can't locate it online. That article appears to have been published on Saturday, 1 Dec 2007. I can't find a followup to it. When I check the index of Emera for "Cork and Coastal" articles in January and February of 2008 there's nothing. I gather the website is updated monthly with the articles from the monthly news magazine. -- Bill