Recorder of Kinsale

[5] In addition to presiding at criminal trials, it seems likely that he held a weekly court of Petty session to deal with routine judicial business, as his colleague the recorder of Clonakilty did.

Henry Bathurst, in the 1650s, was much occupied with curbing the supposed threat to public order posed by the large Quakers community in County Cork, and was accused, perhaps unfairly, of being a "great persecutor" of that religious denomination.

[6] Due to the size of the town, the recorder's duties were not especially onerous: the salary was a modest 15 shillings a year.

Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, was also Recorder of Clonakilty from 1675: he later went on to hold high judicial office, notably as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

William Rowley, who was the elder brother of Admiral Sir Josias Rowley, and who was Recorder from 1796 to 1812, combined that position with the office of Commissioner of Customs for Kinsale, and also sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Kinsale.