Castletownbere local-history walking-tour pamphlet — the family's market town

Summary

A local-history walking-tour pamphlet for **Castletownbere** (= the principal town of the Beara peninsula, the administrative/market centre for the Murphy parishes of Eyeries and Ardgroom). Numbered points of interest with capsule histories — useful as a granular ground-level reference for any scene set in town. Two named "Famous Faces" of note: - **Timothy Charles Harrington (1851-1910)**: politician/ journalist whose family was evicted from a small-holding near the town; secretary of the Land League and the National League; imprisoned several times; one of Parnell's closest lieutenants; Nationalist MP 1883-1910; Lord Mayor of Dublin 1901-1903; key figure in the 1903 Land Act. - **Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928)**: born in The Glebe, Castletownbere; son of a Protestant rector; author/ journalist/historian; influenced Yeats, Lady Gregory and AE Russell; a formative figure in the Gaelic Revival. Either of these is a candidate footnote-in-passing in the Beara chapters — both grew up in the same town the Murphys went into on market day. Harrington's eviction-and-Land-League trajectory ties directly to the Reynolds/Castletown 1881 clippings cluster.

Also mentioned

• Timothy Charles Harrington · featured_castletownbere_figure

  Castletownbere-evicted-family Land-League secretary, Parnellite MP, Dublin Lord Mayor 1901-1903. Not family; worth crossref with the existing Reynolds/Castletown Land-League clippings.

• Standish James O'Grady · featured_castletownbere_figure

  Castletownbere-born Gaelic Revival author/journalist (1846-1928). Not family.

• Daniel Tallon · mentioned_visitor_1898

  Lord Mayor of Dublin, visited Castletownbere 1898 with secretary James Kennedy (Castletownbere-born) on Mansion House Committee relief work.

Places

• Berehaven (Castletownbere) (primary)
• Beara Peninsula (primary)
• West Cork (context)

Themes

• west_cork
• irish_archaeology
• irish_nationalism

Story threads

• Berehaven Murphys
• The Reynolds case in the Land League press

Tags

• context_setting
• book_chapter_material

Related sources

• 1881-12-09 — Bismarck Tribune, p.2 — Outrageous.
• 1890-11-12 — Kerry Sentinel, p.3 — THE IMPENDING DISTRESS. CASTLETOWNBERE.
• 1916 — O'Halloran, W. — *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork* — W. O'Halloran's 1916 history of West Cork — the standard secondary source for Beara antiquities, Morty Oge/Puxley, and the regional past

Open questions

• Specific publisher / publication date of the pamphlet. Looks like an OPW-style heritage guide or community project; would be findable on castletownbere.ie or in the Beara Tourism Office literature.