Mahoneys of Ballycomaine

Hi,

There still are O'Mahony's and Hurleys in the Ballycomane area, not sure if they are the same ones as your family. I see you have done a lot of research already and it is possible that O'Mahonys came to the Hurleys during this time to escape the worst affects of the famine which was at its worst then. Have you looked at the durrruswordpress.com website, I am sure you will find information on the Duklows there and they certainly still live and own land in the Clashadoo area.

Danny 

Hello Danny,

 

thank you for your reply to my message, I have been a couple of times to Durrus and the surrounding area and have met both O Mahonys and Hurleys.  The trouble is that our member of this family left for London in the late 1860s - he married in London in January 1871 and appears later in the 1871 census, but of course the link was broken, and because there are no late 19th century census existing, I have found it very difficult to reconnect this family, although I have found some possibilities from the 1901 census and from directories.  It would help if there were any death records .....

And it would of course explain a lot that they went to join the Hurleys during the famine time.  Perhaps I will have to rebook another session in Cork looking up the death entries.

Have had more success with our Kerry family, but similar problems further east in Cork with my father's family  -  and we knew exactly where they were from - only they nearly all left the area.

And the Dukelow information was very interesting, our great uncle, Francie Dukelow, was baptised C of I, and converted to Catholicism to marry my great aunt in Wexford.  So I'm not sure how the remaining Dukelows would think of him now, not that that matters really, the poor man being long dead.

Mary