Ballycrovane
Part of: Beara Peninsula / West Cork / County Cork / Ireland
Also: Ballycrovane, Ballyrovane, Ballyrovane Bay, Coomatloukane
Modern Irish: Baile Uí Chróbháin. Townland on the north shore of Coulagh Bay, parish of Kilcatherine, immediately west of Eyeries. Site of the Ballycrovane / Coomatloukane ogham stone — the tallest known ogham monument in Ireland (~5.3 m), recorded in the 1873 Archaeologia Cambrensis correspondence as standing "17 feet 6 inches above ground" with the inscription commencing MACUI DECCEDDA. The 19th-century English spelling "Ballyrovane" (used in the 1873 letter) is the antiquarian-press variant; the modern Irish-language / Ordnance Survey form is "Ballycrovane". Birthplace of Jeremith J. Lynch per the 1922 Butte St. Patrick's Day banquet roll.
Sources at this place (19)
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume II (Norelene O'Dwyer's printed copy; a different setting from the repository's screenshot copy)Annals of Beara Vol II, MURPHY (BALLYCROVANE): the whole (A)-(C) opening in Norelene O'Dwyer's copy, adding the thirteenth child of Jim and Julia, Julia (Sept. 25th 1909)
The same three sections as the repository's screenshot copy (_annals-of-beara-vol-ii-p270-section-a-patrick-murphy-ballycrovane), here photographed as one print…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.270: 11-children family + Jer Harrington & Katie Murphy + PADDY (TAILOR) O'SULLIVAN & KATE MURPHY (Ardgroom Village)
Three-family page. The load-bearing third entry confirms the **Paddy (Tailor) O'Sullivan + Kate Murphy** household at Ardgroom Village — the family central to t…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.270 sections (A)-(C): Patrick Murphy of Ballycrovane → Seamus Mór Murphy + Peig Uonhi → Jim Murphy + Julia O'Sullivan (Seer)
Three-section family entry covering three generations of Murphys at Ballycrovane: **(A) PATRICK MURPHY** had three children: (1) Michael, m. Margaret McCarthy …
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.412: JOHNNY O'DWYER & ELLEN LYNCH (CAOLRUA) — 14 children incl. Robert (1918 Pointe Ranna drowning victim, IRA Ballycrovane Co. captain) + the 1921 Black-and-Tans house-burning during the War of Independence
Dwyer family genealogy page. The O'Dwyers of Caolrua are cousin-adjacent to our Murphy line — the 1918 Pointe Ranna fishing-boat drowning that killed Robert O'D…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.413: Caolrua O'Dwyer family continued — Pat O'Dwyer Butte mining career 1923-1930 + Mike O'Dwyer US Army WWII + (C) JOHN O'DWYER & KATHLEEN MCCARTHY next generation
Continuation of p.412 entry. Continues Johnny O'Dwyer + Ellen Lynch's children list from child (6) Pat onwards, then picks up section (C) for the next generatio…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, ~p.275: PADDY MOR MURPHY & MARGARET MURPHY (BANK) — Paddy Mor as brother of Seamus Mor; both sons of an older Patrick Murphy of Ballycrovane
Key cross-reference page. Establishes that Paddy Mor Murphy (of Bank townland) was **a brother of Seamus Mor Murphy** who married Peig Uonhi — i.e., they were b…
- 1850-04-07 — Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland, Eyeries (Diocese of Kerry), Microfilm 04286 / 05Baptism of Patrick Murphy, 7 April 1850, Ballycruane: son of James Murphy and Margaret Uonhi
The Eyeries baptism register for 7 April 1850, the first entry of the month: "Pat. Murphy" in the margin, and in the entry "P.", lawful son of "Jacobi Murphy et…
- 1864-05-28 — irishgenealogy.ie church records (Kerry RC, Eyeries), transcription index pageBaptism of Michael Murphy of Ballycrovane, 28 May 1864, father 'James NR', mother Margaret Harrington: Seamus Mór's youngest child in the register
Index transcription of the Eyeries register: "Baptism of MICHAEL MURPHY of BALLYCROVANE on 28 May 1864"; father "JAMES NR" (surname not recorded in the transcri…
- 1873-07-01 — Archaeologia Cambrensis, p.286INSCRIBED STONES OF WALES.
Unsigned letter to the editor of Archaeologia Cambrensis (the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association) by an Irish antiquarian, replying to and again…
- 1918-12-14 — The Butte Independent, p.1Irish Fishing Village Is Shrouded in Gloom of Sad Drowning Fatality.
The Butte Irish weekly's report of the drowning at Eyeries in November 1918, printed four days after the Butte dailies. It introduces a letter to James J. McCar…
- 1922-03-17 — The Anaconda Standard, p.8Those Who Attended.
Roll-call from the banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Thornton hotel, Butte, on the eve of St. Patrick's Day (Thursday 16 March 1922; reported i…
- 1967 — Murphy family papersMurphy Family Tree, 1967: 'Patrick Murphy, Balykrewan, County Cork, Ireland'; Ellen Lyne (1859-1935)
A hand-lettered chart of the ancestors of the children of James J. Murphy Jr. and Marie A. Schueller, made in 1967, the year of Terese Murphy's letter of 9 Apri…
- 1967-04-09 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Dan, 9 April 1967: 'Dad was born in Balykrewan ... about the year 1854'; her mother's two fathers
Patrick and Ellen's daughter Terese answers family-history questions from "young Dan": Dan Murphy (born 1954), then twelve or thirteen, who had a school family-…
- 1971-09-20 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Imelda, 20 Sept 1971: her father's sister married 'Tailor Sullivan'; his father 'left for America some months before he was born'
Terese writes to her niece Imelda, who is about to fly to Ireland, and tells her what she learned on her own trip of 1938. On her brother James: he spent his e…
- 1999 — 'Stories as told by Riobard O'Dwyer', on the IRL-KERRY pages at RootsWeb; first sent by him to the IRL-KERRY mailing listRiobard O Dwyer, 'The Dream': his uncle Robert and the four men drowned with him off Pointe Ranna, 12 Nov 1918
Riobard O Dwyer's own telling of the seine-boat drowning of 12 November 1918 and of what his family believed followed from it. In my own words; his text is his …
- 2018 — Norelene O'Dwyer, 'The Ballycrovane Seine Fishing Tragedy, 1918', centenary article in the annual Christmas newsletter (Ardgroom/Eyeries), 2018Norelene O'Dwyer's 2018 centenary article on the Ballycrovane seine-fishing tragedy: the five dead with ages, and the survivor Patie Healy, 19
A local historian's centenary account (she is Robert O'Dwyer's niece) of the loss of the follower off Pointe Reanna, Kilcatherine, on 12 Nov 1918. The dead as p…
- 2025-01-10 — Emma Verling's English translation of Martin's "Gort Broc" (Badger's Field), story 102, "The Sinking of the Béal a' Chrobháin Follower"The seanchaí's account of the Ballycrovane follower lost in November 1918, in Emma Verling's translation from 'Gort Broc'
A first-hand storyteller's account ("That happened during my lifetime"), from the Irish-language book "Gort Broc", of the loss of the follower of the Béal a' Ch…
- 2026-04-19 — Joe Murphy's family research, April 2026 (emails to Dan and Luke Murphy: 'Re: can you see this? - Patrick murphy analysis', 'Part #3-Patrick's life story', 'Patrick's Life Story-Part #4')Joe Murphy's five irishgenealogy.ie printouts (April 2026): what they actually show against what the emails said
Joe Murphy's emails of 16-20 Apr 2026 built a case that Patrick Murphy was the Patrick baptised 7 Apr 1850 at Ballycrovane, son of James Murphy and Margaret Har…
- 2026-05-11 — Email correspondence — Oliver Murphy (Beara-side researcher) to Luke Murphy (user)Oliver Murphy (Beara) → Luke Murphy email: full Ballycrovane Murphy genealogy back to John Murphy b.1720; confirms PJM = Patrick 'Paddy' Murphy son of Seamus Mor
Extraordinary email correspondence from **Oliver Murphy of Beara/Cork** (a distant cousin) to the user **Luke Murphy**, laying out the deep Ballycrovane Murphy …