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The
SULLIVAN / O'SULLIVAN (Beare) Families of SW County Cork, Ireland
Almost eighty
per cent of the SULLIVANs / O'SULLIVANS in Ireland today belong
to the counties of Cork and Kerry, They became very numerous and
powerful, dividing into a number of branch septs of which
O'Sullivan Mor and O'Sullivan Beare were the most important. The
former had his principal castle at Dunkerron on the shore of
Kenmare Bay, the latter was lord of the modern baronies of Beare
and Bantry.
Donal O'Sullivan
Beare (1560-1618), hero of the siege of Dunboy was famous for his
hazardous march to Ulster after the disasters of the Battle of
Kinsale and the capture of Dunbly (see also LOWNEY).
His nephew, Philip O'Sullivan Beare (1590-1660), was a soldier in
the Spanish army, but is better known as a historian: his
Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium recounts the events of
the Elizabethan wars as told to him by his uncle and other
participants.
1.
The SULLIVAN / O'SULLIVAN (Beare) Family of Felane,
Castletownbere
Head of the family is
John
SULLIVAN
(1806-70, possibly s/o Michael
SULLIVAN)
& Mary
SHEEHAN
(1810-1878, possibly d/o Timothy
SHEEHAN)
of Ballusky & Ardnasciach / Ardnaskeagh in Felane West, a
township east of Castletownbere, who married in January 1834.
Their known children:
Hanora
SULLIVAN
(1835);
Mary
SULLIVAN (1837)
= John
(Jack) LOWNEY
of Ardnasciach in 1860 Castletownbere (my wife’s 2xGGPs).
In 1901 & 1911 the family is recorded as being resident in
the Scart, Curryglass, just east of Felane;
Catherine
SULLIVAN
(1840-1914) = Timothy
SULLIVAN
(1840-1905, s/o Daniel SULLIVAN & Catherine LEARY) in 1865.
The family were also in Curryglass in 1901 and in 1911
(Derreeny);
Michael
SULLIVAN (1843-1925)
= Mary
CARTY
(1843) of Clonakilty in 1864 Clonakilty:
1865-1876
baptisms for early children not found;
Mark
SULLIVAN
(abt 1876) = Bridget
TWOMEY
in 1901 Castletownbere and inherits the property at Felane
East. Children:
Michael
Bernard SULLIVAN
(1903);
Mary
Ann Elizabeth SULLIVAN
(1904);
Anthony
Patrick SULLIVAN
(1906-1960 Queens, New York);
Mark
SULLIVAN
(1907);
Catherine
SULLIVAN
(1908);
Martha
Mary SULLIVAN
(1910);
Cornelius
SULLIVAN
(1878) of Felane East;
Richard
SULLIVAN
(1880);
Teresa
SULLIVAN
(1883);
Margaret
SULLIVAN
(1846-1913) = John
MURPHY
(c1830-bef1911) of Fuhur in 1871 Castletownbere. Couple raised
their family and died at Fuhur;
Cornelius
SULLIVAN
(1850-1915) – no marriage found;
2.
The SULLIVAN / O'SULLIVAN Family of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay
The son of above
couple, John
(Jack) LOWNEY,
a coachbuilder and carpenter of Clonakilty, Co. Cork, m. Ellen
SULLIVAN
(1862-1934 d/o Daniel
SULLIVAN)
of Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay in 1890. Her mother’s name is
not given on her marriage record and baptismal records are
inconclusive. Despite numerous SULLIVANs in the 1901 Irish census
on Whiddy Island there is no matching Daniel (who witnessed the
marriage in 1890 and presumably deceased).
There
are few specific references to SULLIVANs on Whiddy Island in
Bantry records – only 4 marriages, no baptisms:
Kate
SULLIVAN
of Whiddy (d/o John SULLIVAN) = Daniel SHANAHAN of Whiddy in
1877;
John
SULLIVAN
of Whiddy (s/o Daniel SULLIVAN) = Anna DRISCOLL of Whiddy in
1876;
Margaret
SULLIVAN
of Whiddy (d/o John SULLIVAN) = Denis LEARY of Whiddy in 1875;
Anne
SULLIVAN
of Whiddy (d/o Denis SULLIVAN) = Floren BURKE in 1879;
3.
The SULLIVAN / O'SULLIVAN Family of Ardfield & Rathbarry /
Rosscarbery, County Cork
Abigail
SULLIVAN
(bef 1791) = Daniel
BRIEN
sometime before 1809 in Cork, Ireland:
Their
only known child Johanna
BRIEN
(1809 Ardfield & Rathbarry) = Jeremiah
FITZPATRICK
in
1833 Ardfield.
Her possible sister Catherine
BRIEN (based
on family stories) = Daniel
FITZPATRICK
in
1842 Ardfield.
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