The graveyard of St. Senan's Church, Inniscarra reveals more of the family names of the Church of Ireland side of the Lee Valley. Of course with research and oral history work, the individuals can be brought to life. They can become in sense a living human document instead of a fact or figure. Here, the older nineteenth century and early twentieth century names comprise Ellis, Woods, Fitzgibbons (of Inishluinge), Hendersons (of Ardrum), Cummins, Thompsons, Montforts, Turpins, Buckworts (who owned Cloughphilip, Blarney and owned the Foreman's Mills at Merchant's Quay, Cork City) and Kate Edgell who died on 19 November 1929, aged 87 and who taught for nearly 70 years, children of the local region.

Richard Barter was born at Cooldaniel, near Kilmichael, Co. Cork, in 1802. He entered his profession as a dispensary physician at Inniscarra. He was elected Honorary Secretary of the County of Cork Agricultural Society, and contributed materially to improve the husbandry of the south of Ireland. He spent a period in the vicinity of Mallow where he met his future wife. In the year 1836, he returned to set up a practice at St. Ann's Blarney. About the year 1842, Cork was visited by Captain Claridge, an advocate of hydropathy. Dr. Barter had been for some time inclining towards the new system. In a world of widespread cholera and consumption for the poorer classes, he was aware and very interested in the curative properties of water. Through the work of Scottish-born diplomat and politician David Urquhart, Richard Barter brought his knowledge of such hydropathic practices up to speed.

Turkish baths were introduced to the United Kingdom by David Urquhart, diplomat at the British embassy in Constantinople in the 1830s and sometime Member of Parliament for Stafford, who for political and personal reasons wished to popularize Turkish culture. In 1850 he had written The Pillars of Hercules, a book about his travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848, in which he described the system of dry hot-air baths which had been in use there, and in the Ottoman Empire, very little changed from those which had been so popular in Roman times. In 1856 Richard Barter came across The Pillars of Hercules, noting that David Urquhart described the air in the hottest room of the Turkish bath as being 'dry'. In the same year, Richard published his own work, The Turkish Bath, with a View to its introduction into the British Dominions (1856).