came in first place, followed by La Traviata and Urania . However, Camilla lost out to La Traviata on corrected times (Neblett 2009). Camilla returned to America in August 1861 and possibly voyaged between the southern states and West Indies before her blockade-running was curtailed when she was trapped by Union Gunboats seventy miles up the St John River, Florida in 1862 and secretly scuttled. Her location was discovered by Union forces and she was salvaged and restored in March 1862 and named America again. She was armed with a 12-pounder rifle and two 24-pounder smooth-bores and became a successful blockade vessel with the Federal Blockade Fleet off Charleston, South Carolina. She was retired to Newport, Rhode Island on 1 May 1863 after one year on the Blockade, becoming a US Navy training ship and participating with cadets in th e 1870 America’s Cup Races.
Blackwater and Bride
( Citizen, Old Head. Perfect, Rob Roy )
The Blackwater is tidal up to Cappoquin and provided access to Lismore via the Lismore Canal while the Bride is tidal up to Tallow and had three berths downriver from Tallow (Section 4: Figs. 17 and 35). Late nineteenth-century schooner trade continued to ports, including Killahalla, on these rivers until the early twentieth century, when fixed bridges obstructed their passage. The Visscher map (Section 4: Fig. 17) clearly emphasizes the importance of rivers for inland trade in early times. Trade to these ports on the Blackwater was fouled by hazards created by fishing weirs during the nineteenth century and limited to lighters, as fishing became favoured over trade. This continued until the 1870s, when regulation allowed obstructions to be removed.
Breach of Contract
( Amaranth )
Anne Sutton (b.1857) was awarded £350 in a breach of marriage contract legal case against William Nolan of Limerick in 1879, which she was unable to collect due to devious legal manoeuvres (protective trusts) by the Nolans and perhaps also due to the influence of William Nolan who was High Sheriff of Limerick at that time. She was subsequently married to Denis O’Driscoll ( Hannah, Kaloolah , Sutcliffe ). Her mother Maryanne (Sexton) Sutton ran a grocery store and spirit dealership (Section 3), died in 1898 and was buried in the family plot of Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty) at St Joseph’s cemetery in Cork.
Bridport
( Adelaide )
Bridport is located in Dorset and has ready access to the sea. Renowned for ropemaking and fishing nets, its streets were made extra wide to accommodate rope manufacture. Ropes for g allows were also made in the town, leading to a popular phrase: ‘stabbed with a Bridport dagger’, being used to describe a hanging.
Butter Trade
( Lauriston )
‘By the nineteenth century the butt er market in Cork (the largest in the world) had become the centre of a huge network for marketing Irish butter on the international market. Cork continued to dominate the Irish trade in butter throughout the nineteenth century’ (Bielenberg 1991).
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