Tag: 1809

Ireland's first Female Botanist

Drawings of Seaweeds from Bantry Bay 1808 – 1812

20/08/2015

On Thursday 20th August 2015, an exhibition opened in Bantry House of Ellen Hutchins’ watercolour drawings of seaweeds. This was their first showing in the Republic of Ireland and their home coming. They were drawn by Ellen Hutchins, at Ballylickey, about four miles from Bantry House, on Bantry Bay. Ellen was born at Ballylickey in…
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Botanists at Ballylickey 1809

03/08/2015

A picture of Bantry Bay and the Hutchins household at Ballylickey Ardnagashel broad, Bantry Bay In the summer of 1809, botanists Lewis Dillwyn, Joseph Woods and William Leach travelled to West Cork, and they had with them a letter of introduction from Dr Whitley Stokes of Dublin to Ellen Hutchins at Ballylickey. From Lewis Dillwyn’s diary…
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