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The
O'SULLIVAN Family of C19th Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
Two families originating in
early C19th Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay & Frilane, Scart,
Bantry, Co. Cork.
Only 2 individuals known.
Family
#1:
Mary O'SULLIVAN of
Frilane m. John (Jack) LOWNEY
in period 1860-85.
Frilane is a small village south of Bantry,
shown on the map below.
Family
#2:
The son of above couple, John
(Jack) LOWNEY,
a coachbuilder and carpenter of Clonakilty, Co. Cork, m. Ellen
O'SULLIVAN of Whiddy Island,
Bantry Bay in 1904 (see map above).
LOWNEY is the family of my
wife's mother.
(Please note: This research is
inherited from my late father-in-law only.)
The O'Sullivan Clan hosted a
Clan Gathering in the Grounds of Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere,
Beara, Co. Cork on the 2nd of June 2002. This is the ancestral
home of the O'Sullivans.
Extracted
Historical Notes:
"In Irish
O'Sullivan is O Suileabhain. The derivation of the name is in
dispute among scholars. The root word is suil (eye), but whether
it is to be taken as one-eyed or hawk-eyed must be left an open
question. While not quite as numerous as Murphy and Kelly,
Sullivan, which is by far the commonest surname in Munster, comes
third in the list for all Ireland.
Almost eighty per
cent of the Sullivans (or O'Sullivans) in Ireland today belong to
the counties of Cork and Kerry, the remaining being mostly of Co.
Limerick, or of the city of Dublin, in which, of course, families
from all the four provinces are found. Thus the O'Sullivans, as
is almost always the case with the great Gaelic septs, are still
concentrated in or near their ancient homeland. It was not until
after the Anglo-Norman invasion that the O'Sullivans came to the
fore. Their origin, however, is illustrious: descended from
Eoghan (Owen) Mor, the father of the famous Oilioll Olum, they
were with the O'Callaghans, the MacCarthys and the O'Keefes, one
of the leading families of the Munster Eoghanacht. Some at least
of them were lords of a territory near Cahir prior to the
invasion: from 1200 onwards, however, they are to be found in the
extreme south-west of Munster. There 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.
Though seldom
appearing in any of the Annals before 1400, they were prominent
in the sixteenth century. Outstanding at that period was Donal
O'Sullivan Beare (1560-1618), hero of the siege of Dunboy and
particularly famous for his almost incredibly hazardous march to
Ulster after the disasters of the battle of Kinsale and the
capture of Dunbly. 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. From a junior branch
came Col. John William O'Sullivan (b. 1700), close companion of
"the Young Pretender" in his Rebellion of 1745. Since
his time the name has been made famous by many O'Sullivans and
Sullivans. In the field of literature Owen Roe O'Sullivan
(1748-1784) and Tadgh Gaolach O'Sullivan (d. 1800) were two of
the best of the eighteenth century Gaelic poets: Humphrey
O'Sullivan (1780-1837) kept a most interesting diary in Irish
which has been partially published by the Irish Texts Society;
the brothers A.M. Sullivan (1830-1884), and T.D. Sullivan
(1827-1914), as well as being authors of note, were leading
Nationalist M.P.'s the former being a Young Irelander in 1848.
On the stage
Barry Sullivan (1821-1891), and Charles Sullivan (1848-1887),
were celebrated actors, and Maureen O'Sullivan is famous today in
the same sphere, while Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), of the
Gilbert and Sullivan operas, was of Irish descent. If we add,
from a very different sphere, John L. Sullivan (1858-19187),
perhaps the best known pugilist of all time, we have recorded but
a tithe of the O'Sullivans of note to be found not only in
Ireland itself but also in the Irish Brigades, in the French
Revolution (on both sides) and in the history of the United
States."
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