Collins of Bunalun, Skibbereen Genealogy

Jeremiah Collins of Adrigool, a brother of my 2g-grandfather Daniel, died on May 4, 1903. Their baptisms did not survive and I am not certain if they had the same mother. (yDNA evidence is conclu...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2021/06/herlihys-of-cloonkeen.html

Back to the obituary of Johanna Collins Donovan (1826 - 1917), a sister of Daniel Collins (1814 - 1894), my grandmother's grandfather; of Jeremiah Collins of Adrigool (1821 - 1903); of John Colli...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2021/05/daniel-sullivan-and-margaret-keohane-of.html

CORNELIUS COLLINS AND ANNIE COLLINS OF DERRYLUGGA  I've been researching this family for a while, because (I believe) one of the children of Cornelius Collins and his wife Annie Collins was a f...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2021/04/cornelius-collins-and-annie-collins-of.html

In a previous post I described the family of Denis Donovan of Lissalohorig and Catherine Collins, who was from Lower Lissane . That post suggested that Catherine was the daughter of Humphrey Coll...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2020/06/followup-on-donovan-women-from.html

Captain Francis O'Neill, the famous Irish musician and Chicago policeman, was from Trawlebane in Caheragh parish. There is an organization devoted to preserving his memory , including the memoria...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-mahony-ancestors-of-captain-francis.html

John Sweeney married Ellen Hurley on February 22, 1846 in Skibbereen. Witnesses were Michael Hurley and Daniel Hurley. It is believed Michael and Daniel were Ellen's brothers. The extended fami...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-sweeneys-of-lakelands.html

Thomas Sullivan certainly looks like a son of Daniel Sullivan and Margaret Keohane . Thomas died 19 Apr 1918, aged 84. That puts his birth year back to about 1834, predating the availability of C...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2017/12/thomas-sullivan-and-catherine-coakley.html

A 17 Nov 1917 obituary of my great-great-grandfather's sister, Johanna Collins Donovan of Ardagh East, Ross, mentions numerous cousins. Among them were 1. Mrs. Pat Nyhane of Rosscarbery; 2. Miss ...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2017/08/notes-on-daniel-sullivan-and-margaret.html

Daniel and Ellen (Nellie) Brien Hurley lived in Coolnagarrane in 1901. He was a dairyman according to that year's census . Was this Daniel related to my ancestral Hurleys in Coolnagarrane? Whil...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2017/04/notes-on-daniel-hurley-and-ellen-nellie.html

There's nothing like a good news clipping to push the genealogy research in a different, hopefully more constructive direction. Such is the case of Michael Mahony of Toughbawn. The Southern Star ...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2016/01/michael-mahony-of-toughbaun-drinagh.html

I am offering Y-DNA testing scholarships for men named Driscoll or Collins with paternal ancestry from Cork. The eligibile tester must KNOW *UNEQUIVOCALLY* the townland of origin. West Cork men n...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2015/11/dna-testing-scholarships-for-cork-men.html

Patrick and Catherine both came from Collins families outside Drimoleague, one of the *many* Collins families I am investigating in the area. I think Catherine was the daughter of Michael Coll...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2015/08/patrick-collins-and-catherine-collins.html

CATHERINE COLLINS married DENIS DONOVAN 01 Mar 1851 in Caheragh R.C. Parish. Her residence recorded on that marriage record was Lower Lissane. Witnesses to the wedding were Humphrey Collins and ...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2015/07/catherine-collins-donovan-of.html

Derby Connolly (likely a Jeremiah) was probably a brother or other close relative of my 3g-grandmother, Ellen Connolly McCarthy Knuck of Garryglass. Notably, his wife Susanna Fuller showed up as ...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2015/07/derby-connolly-and-susanna-fuller-of.html

My aunt passed away on February 19, 2015. She was 91 years old. I think of Aunt Peg as "Miss Skibbereen." Her memory was sharp and clear to the end. She had so many stories to tell - of her bro...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2015/02/rip-margaret-collins-obrien-1923-2015.html

I administer a DNA project that includes the names Hourihane, Hor(ri)gan, Han(d)rahan, Horan, and their many variations! In conjunction with a DNA test sale ongoing at FTDNA through December 3...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2014/12/y-dna-test-scholarships-for-hourihane.html

I think I have identified in the baptism records better candidates for the James Collins who married Catherine Driscoll and lived in Russagh, south of Skibbereen. The details of this couple ar...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2014/10/collinses-of-baunnahow-lower-lissane.html

Four years ago I wrote about my (now 91 year old) aunt remembering playing with two children at her grandfather's home in Cullomane East . They were her size, and they were nicknamed "Roggie" and...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2014/09/accidental-breakthrough-on-roggie-and.html

After a lot of research, I discovered that Pat Driscoll (bap. 1820), the person I believe is my gg-grandmother's older brother, preceded his brothers Florence and James out to Androscoggin County...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2014/07/yet-another-seismic-shift-in-driscolls.html

Below is a link to my book publishing my research of my Driscoll family from Caheragh parish.  The research includes Maguires of Garrane, Cadogans of Skibbereen, McCarthy Crimeens of Dromore, Co...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2014/01/driscoll-research-update-2014.html

A list of the purchasers in the Townsend Estate sale, around Skibbereen. Townsend Estate Sale Skibbgirl

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2013/10/townsend-estate-sale-1898.html

NEW PUBLICATIONS! TITHE APPLOTMENT TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR BRIDGETOWN AND KILCUMMER (IN FERMOY UNION) AND CLONMEL (BY COBH). Cork Gen Tithes KANTURK DISTRICT PAGE:  Kanturk CHURCH OF IRELAND T...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2013/10/tithe-applotment-transcriptions-for.html

My 3g-grandfather Larr Collins lived, by his own words, in Adrigole starting about 1803. If he wasn't pulling the leg of the loan officer to whom he made that statement in 1853, he would have bee...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2013/10/collinses-in-rearahinagh.html

In a previous post I described the family of Michael Hurley and Bridget Cahalane of Coolnagarrane, outside of Skibbereen. Their oldest son, John, was my gg-grandfather. Michael and Bridget marri...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2013/07/hurleys-and-cahalanes-part-2.html

I think I have found another daughter of Larr Collins (1783-1867) of Adrigole, though I have substantially less confidence in this child than I have in the others. The records of Fanny Collins (1...

https://skibgene.blogspot.com/2013/07/fanny-collins-and-denis-crowley-of.html