Hello - I also have family connections to O Driscoll, our G G Grandmother was Ellen ( Nell ) Driscoll, born c 1804, who married Cian O Mahoney in Schull West in 1827. The witnesses at their wedding were Jehr ( Dermot ) Mahony and Denis Driscoll, who was, I think, Ellen's father. The first four of their children were also born in Schull West, now Goleen, and the rest of their children born in Schull East after 1843. Their last born, Denis, named after the second born son, Denis had died as a child, and our G Grandfather, was born in Ballycomaine, near Durrus in the parish of Muintervara.
Other baptismal sponsors in Schull West and East; Michael Driscoll & Margaret Mahony, John Mahony & Ellen Carty, Mick Murphy & Julia Magra ( ?? ), Bat & Joan Driscoll, Michael Brown & Narry Driscoll, Jerh Mahony & Ellen Driscoll, Cornelius Mahony & Ellen Driscoll. According to the children's naming pattern, Ellen, Cornelius, Denis, Jane / Johanna. Also next a Jeremiah. So will make a stab at guessing that Cian's parents were Cornelius and Jane / Johanna, and Ellen's Denis and Ellen.
In the Tithe applotment lists made for this region from 1825 - 1833, there was a Denis Driscoll sharing acreage with a Timothy Casey and a Jeremiah Mahony, in Dineenaluenane which is close to Dunbeacon, where there was another Denis Driscoll, and another in Dunmanus. The Mahony family were living either in Dineenaluenane or on the western slopes of Mount Gabriel. I find the Mahony / O Driscoll connections rather funny as I was always told that these two families had traditionally been fierce enemies .......
Do any of these names ring any bells??
Bridie
