Life
1801-1865 [var. Windle], b. Cork; antiquarian with a particular interest
in Ogham, and collector of MSS bought by RIA [by other accounts of stones].
Author of Cork and Killarney Guides. DNB DIW.
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Notes
Account of him under Windele, in Robert Welch, Irish Poetry (1980)
[see BIBLIO], ed. Bolster’s Cork Magazine [sic]; wrote for
Bagatelle in 1821; contact with Prout, Abraham Abell, William Willes
[W. Wills]; megalithic library of ogam stones; patronised Irish scribes;
Cahir Court (1860), privately printed, written in Irish by Fr.
Mat Horgan, ed. by Windele, with notes, biographies; Contributed to Dublin
Penny Journal, Ulster Journal of Archaelogy, and Kilkenny
Archaeological Journal; worked in sherriff’s office, Cork; suffered
from paralysis; residence at Blair’s Hill, Cork; bur. Fr Mathew Cemetery.
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976; 1984), Sir Bertram Windle [sic], President of Cork College, elected Professor of Archaeology in 1906 and author of a useful book on Romans in Britain (bibl. DNB; and see M. Taylor, Sir Bertram Windle [sic], a Memoir (London 1933).
Dictionary of National Biography, notes that he lived at Cork; Irish
antiquarian, many antiquarian. expeditions in Ireland; Historical and
Descriptive Notes of the City of Cork and its Vicinity [Gougane
Barra, Glengarrif, and Killarney (1839); and other writings; left
antiquarian MSS [presumably his own].
Reference to ‘John Windle of Cork’ [sic] with other ‘private
collectors’ in Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Irish Language and
Literature, 1845-1921’, in W. E. Vaughan, ed., A New History of
Ireland, Vol. VI: Ireland under the Union, II: 18770-1921, p.414.
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