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XXXIII Dunmanway, County Cork, 1746–9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Douglas G. Lockhart
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Irish newspapers are a valuable source of information for studies of the development of textile industries and their impact on the growth of towns and villages during the first half of the eighteenth century. A search has revealed two advertisements relating to the village of Dunmanway, situated in an isolated location near the source of the River Bandon in County Cork, which in the mid-eighteenth century was an important centre of textile manufacturing. Contemporary descriptions of Dunmanway include the reports of inspectors to the Linen Board, correspondence between Sir Richard Cox, the village landowner, and Thomas Prior, a founder member of the Dublin Society and an essay by Prior which described the characteristics of the Irish linen industry.

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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 78 , September 1976 , pp. 170 - 175
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1976

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(page no 170 note 1) ‘Irish newspapers prior to 1750 in Dublin libraries’ (University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1950, 23 reels).

(page no 170 note 2) Stephenson, Robert, Journal of a tour of inspection in the southern provinces, June to September, 1755 (Dublin, 1757)Google Scholar; Reports and observations, 1760–61 and 1762–3 (Dublin, 1762, N.D.).

(3) A letter from Sir Richard Cox, hart, to Thomas Prior, Esq. showing from experience a sure method to establish the linen manufacturing… (Dublin, 1749). The history of Dunmanway is continued to 1759 in : A letter from Sir Richard Cox, bart. to the high-sheriff of the county of Cork… (Dublin, 1759), pp 17–43.

(4) Prior, Thomas, An essay to encourage and extend the linen-manufacture in Ireland . . (Dublin, 1749).Google Scholar

(5) Cox, A letter . . to Thomas Prior.

(6) Stephenson, , Journal of a tour. , pp 145, 10, 183, 193.Google ScholarPubMed

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(9) Gardenstone to Davidson: Edinburgh, 14 March 1789 (University of Edinburgh, Laing MSS, division II 177.2); Copy settlement and codicils by Lord Gardenstone . dated 14 July 1788, 3 December 1790 and 20 May 1793… (NLS, Fraser MSS, MS 90, f.16).

(10) Cox, A letter to Thomas Prior…, p. 5.

(11) Ibid., pp 5, 15–20, 37.

(12) Ibid., p. 20.

(13) Ibid., pp 21–2.

(14) Ibid., pp 23–5.

(15) Lockhart, D.G., ‘The advertising of towns and villages in the Belfast News Letter, 1738–1825’ in Ulster Folklife, 22 (1976), pp 91–3.Google Scholar This paper includes extracts from advertisements and a list of notices which appeared in the News Letter.

(16) Cox, A letter… to Thomas Prior… , pp 37–8.

(17) Stephenson, , Reports and observations, 1760–61, p. 35.Google Scholar

(18) Ibid., 1762–3, p. 48.

(19) Gill, Conrad, The rise of the Irish linen industry (Oxford, 1925), p. 130.Google Scholar

(20) Burke, John, A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire (3rd ed., London, 1829), p. 183.Google Scholar

(21) Gill, op. cit., pp 123–6.

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(page no 173 note 1) ‘Irish newspapers prior to 1750 in Dublin libraries’, reel 22.

(page no 174 note 2) Ibid., reel 17,