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The following is from Our Dublin Letter, Peadar O'Hanrahan's column in the Southern Star, from November 29, 1947. It mentions the turning over of Driscoll holdings in Creagh and Tullagh parishes to The O'Donovan and his relatives.
There were so many of the O'Driscoll clan in West Cork still that the following which is evidently taken from the Celtic Miscellany edited by the great scholar, John O'Donovan, LL.D., should interest them.
It has been sent in by a Skibbereen correspondent and is only one of many bits of news he has sent me.
The following persons of the name of O'Driscoll are mentioned in the family documents of the O'Donovan of Mount Pelier in the Co. f COrk, who writes - "December 5, 1850 - I have the fee of three ploughlands in Creagh and Tullagh parishes which were once part of the O'Driscoll territory in Carbery, and appear by the many deeds which I have dating from 1629 to 1677 to have passed from them to my ancestor Teige (Tadhg), his brother and executor Morrogh, and Teige's surviving son Morrogh.
The names of the lands are: Lick, Bunlick, Gortshanecrone, Knockvalleytaggart, Ardagh, two ploughlands; and Ballinard the third.
Many will be puzzled to find how the three ploughlands first mentioned have so many names, but I imagine the first four named were looked on as one ploughland, and that its name was Lick.
The first seem to have belonged to one family, and I select at foot such names from the deeds as occur, and do the like by the second. You have every O'Driscoll name in them that appear in my family documents...."
I have rescrutinized the above townland names, and now suggest the following reading of them: Lick, Bunlick, Gortshanecrone, Knockvallytaggart, Ardagh - two ploughlands; and Ballindard, the third. The first four are as already stated, one townland, and both Gortshanecrone and Knockataggart (not now known as Knock-bhaile-an-taggart) are still well known divisions of that land. John Croston or Dick Roycroft or one of the Collins family, who lived around there can show the boundary lines. Dick Croston and Donal O'Riogain knew every sod of both divisions - the last-named lived, I think, in Knockatagart.
Now for the names as they appeared in the deeds: -
1. Teige Mac Moriartagh O'Driscoll of Gortshanecorn (marksman), to Teige O'Donovane of Drishane. 16/10/1632. (Marksman meaining signing by mark.)
2. Daniel MacDermodie O'Driscoll of Ardagh (Marksman), to Teighe O'Donovane of Drishane. 16/10/1632.
3. Teige MacMurturtagh O'Drisoll of Gortshanecrone, to Teige O'Donovane of Rahine, 2nd November, 1632.
4. Diarmuid Mac Fynyne (Finghin) to Teige O'Donovan of Drishane. 6th June 1633.
5. Florence O'Driscoll of Bally Island to Teige O'Donovane of Drishane. 17 June, 1633.
6. Daniel Mac Dermodie Mac Donagh O'Driscoll of Ardaghmaggeine, to Morrogh O'Donovane of Curragarruffe (Ceathru Garbh, is docha.). 3rd October 1643.
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