County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland, British Isles

Altar Burial Chamber [Map]. In summer 1989 Altar Burial Chamber [Map] was excavated by Dr. William O'Brien and Madeline Duggan. Finds included cremated human adult bones, a tooth, worked flint, charcoal, periwinkles, fish bones and limpets. The tomb consists of a trapezoidal orthostatic gallery 3.42m long, 1.9m wide at the west end and 1.25m at the east. A roof-stone 2.7m long, is still above the east end, and a second rests against the westerly stones at either side of the gallery.

On 10th April 1617 David Barry 5th Viscount Buttevant (age 67) died at Barryscourt Castle. His grandson David (age 12) succeeded 6th Viscount Buttevant.

In 1620 William Brouncker 2nd Viscount Brounckner was born to William Brouncker 1st Viscount Brouncker (age 35) in Castlelyons, County Cork.

On 29th September 1642 David Barry 1st Earl Barrymore (age 37) died in Castlelyons, County Cork. He was buried in Youghal, Cork. His son Richard (age 11) succeeded 2nd Earl Barrymore.

On 7th February 1853 Egerton Bushe Coghill 5th Baronet was born to John Cogill 4th Baronet (age 26) and Katherine Frances Plunket Lady Coghill at Castletownshend, County Cork.

In 1251 Gerald Prendergast (age 54) died at Douglas County Cork.

On 17th September 1783 Richard Eyre Cox drowned at his home in Dunmanwy County Cork. During an afternoon boating on a nearby pond. He was accidentally knocked out by an oar and subsequently drowned.

In 1617 William Parr was born in Fermoy.

In 1601, under Lord Mountjoy (age 38), he took part in the recapture of Kinsale from the Spanish invaders. Mountjoy left Caulfeild in charge of a bridge built by him over the River Blackwater, in command of 150 men, where the fort erected for its protection was called Charlemont.

John Evelyn's Diary. 26th October 1690. Kinsale at last surrendered, meantime King James's party burn all the houses they have in their power, and among them that stately palace of Lord Ossory's (age 25), which lately cost, as reported, £40,000. By a disastrous accident, a third-rate ship, the Breda, blew up and destroyed all on board; in it were twenty-five prisoners of war. She was to have sailed for England the next day.

On 28th April 1747 Richard Eliot (age 13) died. He was serving on the "Augusta" under the command of John Hamilton (age 33). While at port in Kinsale, he was taken by a sudden fever. Hamilton shouldered the duty of burying this favorite son of his dear friends before returning to England and the bereaved family.

Labbacallee Wedge Tomb [Map] is the largest Irish wedge tomb and dates from roughly 2300 BC. The tomb has three massive capstones, with the largest weighing 10 tonnes, and three large buttress stones at the back. The burial area consists of a long chamber, divided by a large vertical slab into two areas of unequal length. The eastern or inner end, when covered by the capstone, formed a sealed and self contained burial unit. The main chamber area, to the west, with two large capstones, was also sealed by a large ‘entrance’ stone. Access to both chambers was only possible by the removal of the end capstone. The gallery measures about 7.75 meters long from inside the stone closing its western end to the inner face of the back stone of the Eastern chamber.

Labbacallee Wedge Tomb [Map] was one of the first sites excavated under the new National Monuments Act (1930) by Harold Leask and Liam Price in 1934. The excavations revealed a number of burials, fragments of a late Stone Age decorated pot, and fragments of bone and stone. The west chamber contained parts of an adult male and a child,[8] along with the skull believed to belong to the female skeleton in the east chamber and several sherds of a single late Stone Age decorated pot.

Handbook of Irish Antiquities by Wakeman Chapter 1. Labbacallee Cromlech [Map]. ​This, according to Mr. Borlase, 'the most noted dolmen of extended form in Ireland' lies about one and a half miles south-east of Glanworth on the old road to Fermoy. It consists of a double range of stones, the internal lines forming the supports of the covering stones. The largest of the cap-stones measures 15½ feet by 9 feet, the second being partially buried in earth. The entire measurement is estimated by Mr. Borlase to have been not less than 42 feet. The line of direction is east and west; the width of the inner chamber is 6 feet, and it is now 5 feet high, and sinks towards the lower end.²⁹

Note 29. Dolmens of Ireland, vol. i., p. 8.

In 1766 Catherine Rebecca Gray Lady Manners was born to Francis Gray and Elizabeth Ruddock at Lehena.