Annals of Beara Vol II pp. 53-55: the O'Sullivan (Keagh, 'Seer') families of Droumbeg and Carrigaphrechane, Ardgroom Inward, with Emma Verling's notes 'START HERE LUKE' and 'Connection LUKE'

--- newspaper: Annals of Beara Volume II (Riobard O'Dwyer) date: unknown page: 53-55 --- Transcribed 2026-09-26 by an Opus agent from Emma Verling's three photographs of 20 Feb 2025 (source-p53.jpg, source-p54.jpg, source-p55.jpg). The agent's full read-out follows. # Emma Verling's three photographs, 20 Feb 2025 ("Sullivan Seer and my O'Leary family") Transcribed 2026-09-26 from the three JPEG attachments (each 3000 x 4000 px), cropped into column segments with PIL, converted to greyscale with autocontrast and read at full resolution. Doubtful words were checked with further zoomed crops. Conventions: - Paragraphs are run together. Line breaks are not kept, except that a word hyphenated at a line break is shown as `Direen-/avogig` (the `/` marks the printed line break). - `[?]` marks an uncertain reading. `[clipped]` marks text cut off by the page edge, the gutter or the photo frame. - Typographic quotes are shown as plain `"`. Spelling, capitals, numbering, asterisks and punctuation follow the print, including inconsistencies (e.g. heading "DENNIS" but text "Denis"; "Cummeendeach" and "Cummen-/deach"). - Handwritten notes (Emma's, by inference) are given separately and marked HANDWRITTEN. - **None of the three pages carries a running header or book title.** Identifying the book as Riobárd Ó Dwyer's *Who Were My Ancestors?* is an **inference** from the layout (numbered children with birth dates, family headings with townland in brackets), not something the images show. --- ## Image 1 — `5764464B-053A-4CC4-93B7-4A609B04CB6A_1_201_a.jpeg` ### (a) What it is A photograph of an open paperback lying on a table. It shows all of **printed page 53** (folio "— 53 —" at the foot of the left column) in two columns, plus a narrow strip of the right-hand column of the facing page (p. 52, by inference from the page sequence) cut off at the left edge. There is **no running header**. Top right is in shadow but legible. Family entries on p. 53: 1. Tail of a Lynch family entry (children (10) Maggie and (11) Lucy); the heading is on the previous page. 2. (C) JOHN LYNCH & MARY O'SULLIVAN (DROUMBEG) 3. (A) DENNIS (GARBH) LYNCH & JULIA O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) 4. (B) MICIL LYNCH & PEIG MINIHANE (DROUMBEG) 5. (C) PADDY LYNCH & ELLEN O'CONNOR (DROUMBEG) 6. O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG): the start of the family account, covering Sean Seer and Paddy Seer, which runs on to p. 54 HANDWRITTEN on this page: - "START HERE LUKE" in **black** ink, above the O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) heading. - In **blue** ink, "Sean Seer" is underlined in the line "known as Sean Seer and Paddy Seer". - Also in **blue** ink, a vertical stroke, broken in the middle, runs down the left margin of the right column. It sits beside the lines from "(O'Driscoll), of Carrigaphrechane. She was" to "in Carrigaphrechane to Margaret O'Shea of Direen-". Note: the print spells the townland **Carrigaphrechane** throughout, not "Carrigaphreachane". The words "Scrahan", "Goirtín", "Leary"/"O'Leary" and "Lyne" do **not** occur on this page. ### (b) Transcription, p. 53 **Left column** brother of Patsy (Mike) Harrington; (10) Maggie (Apr. 21st 1909) married a North Cork man, John Collins, in Chicago; (11) Lucy (Aug. 23rd 1911) married Mike Martin, also in Chicago. (C) JOHN LYNCH & MARY O'SULLIVAN (DROUMBEG) There were 7 children in the family:- (1) Mary Teresa (born Jan. 14th 1935) married Michael Layden in Chicago. (2) Patie (Jan. 21st 1936) lives on the home farm; (3) Jim (Oct. 18th 1937) went to Chicago; (4) John (May 28th 1940) went to Boston, Mass., married Maureen McGrail; (5) Margaret (Nov. 3rd 1943) went to Chicago; (6) Ann (Aug. 1st 1942) married John Noel Courtney in Chicago; (7) Eileen (Jan. 27th 1947) married in Chicago to Denis Mulvihill, Moyvane, Co. Kerry. (A) DENNIS (GARBH) LYNCH & JULIA O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) Denis Garbh Lynch was greatgrandfather of Michael Paddy Lynch (now living in Claondaire). His wife Julia was a sister of Johanna Keagh who was married to his brother Seamus Garbh. We can trace 5 children of Denis & Julia:- (1) \*Micil settled down in the home farm and married Peig Minihane (O'Driscoll), daughter of Donal Minihane and Johanna O'Sullivan, Carrigaphrechane. Peig was an aunt of Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll; (2) Mary (born July 1853) died young; (3) John (Feb. 1853) went to the Calumet Mines, Michigan; (4) Timothy (Apr. 1858) went to the Great Lake District, U.S.A.; (5) Kate (Oct. 1860) went to Butte, Montana and married Jack O'Shea, son of James O'Shea and Margaret O'Shea, Reenavaude. Jack and Kate came back and bought the Droumard farm of Eamonn (an Chnoic) Murphy. Their granddaughter Kitty O'Shea is married in the Droumard farm to Paddy O'Sullivan, from Glencar, Co. Kerry. (B) MICIL LYNCH & PEIG MINIHANE (DROUMBEG) Micil and Peig had 9 children:- (1), (2) & (3) Jim (born Apr. 5th 1876), Denis (Nov. 3rd 1877) and Michael (Nov. 19th 1878) all went to Butte, Montana; (4) & (5) Mary (Nov. 3rd 1879) and Joseph (July 22nd 1882[?]) both died young; (6) \*Paddy (Oct. 20th 1883) settled in the home farm and married 18 years old Ellen O'Connor, daughter of Dan (Cain) O'Connor and Kate Hanley, Claondaire; (7) Julia (Nov. 7th 1884) married Con O'Shea, son of Tade O'Shea and Peig Dunne, Claondaire. Julia was mother of Denny (Con) O'Shea; (8) Kate (June 28th 1889) went to Butte, Montana, and married Eugene Dunne, son of Dan Dunne and Mary Twomey, Derriveggil. They went to live in Seattle, Washington State, later; (9) Mary (Oct. 1st 1891) went to New York and married an O'Donnell man. — 53 — (Reading notes: "July 1853" for Mary is clear in the zoomed crop, although John is given as "Feb. 1853"; the year for Joseph is blurred at the gutter and reads 1882 but is not certain.) **Right column** (C) PADDY LYNCH & ELLEN O'CONNOR (DROUMBEG) Paddy (who had been in Butte first) and Ellen had 14 children:- (1) John Michael (June 18th 1912) died young; (2) Chris (Catherine Christina) (Dec. 6th 1913) is a nun, Sr. M. Ellen, in New York; (3) Michael (May 22nd 1915) moved from Droumbeg to his grandfather Dan (Cain) O'Connor's place in Upper Claondaire and married Helen Murphy, daughter of Jeremiah Murphy and Rose Duggan, Ardagh Cross, Bere Island; (4) Patrick (Aug. 10th 1917) died young; (5) Mary (Aug. 21st 1919) is a nun, Sr. M. Rosarie, in New York; (6) Jim (May 5th 1921) married Mary Vaughan in Brooklyn, New York; (7) Jerry (Dec. 13th 1922) went to New York; (8) Denny (Sept. 15th 1924) went to England; (9) Tim (Aug. 18th 1926) married in Brooklyn, New York; (10) Lena (June 11th 1928) went to New York and Married Pat O'Callaghan from Dingle, Co. Kerry; (11) Vera (June 15th 1930) went to New York and married Jerry Collins; (12) Sheila (Oct. 21st 1932) went to New York; (13) Ann (July 17th 1934) went to New York and married Florence O'Sullivan — brother of Paudie O'Sullivan — son of Johnny O'Sullivan and Elizabeth McCarthy, Gortacle, Kilcatherine. Florence and Ann later returned and bought the farm of Jack Murphy, Milleens. (14) Agnes (July 27th 1938) married Michael Buckley in New York. HANDWRITTEN: START HERE LUKE O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) This section of the O'Sullivan (Keagh) family came over from Castlekilty (just to the east of Eskadower, Lauragh, Co. Kerry) and settled originally in Carrigaphrechane, close to Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll's house, around the year 1800. Though they were of the O'Sullivan (Keagh) family, the first two brothers who came to Carrigaphrechane were known as Sean Seer [HANDWRITTEN underline under "Sean Seer"] and Paddy Seer. The "Seer" part came from the Irish word for a tradesman. Sean & Paddy were noted tradesmen and boatbuilders. They also had a sister who married Morty Minihane (O'Driscoll), of Carrigaphrechane. She was grandmother of Dan Mor O'Driscoll. Hence Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, Droumbeg, and Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll, Carrigaphrechane, were 3rd cousins. Sean Seer's brother, Paddy ("Seer") O'Sullivan lived in Carrigaphrechane in what is now Jerry Crowley's house. Paddy "Seer" had three sons;- John (married in Carrigaphrechane to Margaret O'Shea of Direen-/avogig), Seamus, and Paddy (Junior). Seamus married a Peig Moriarty and settled down in the Drombohilly district of Ardea, Co. Kerry. Seamus and Peig had two sons, Flor and Paddy. Flor stayed in Drombohilly but Paddy emigrated to Butte, Montana, and married Kate O'Shea, daughter of Batt O'Shea and Norry O'Shea, Cummeendeach. Paddy and Kate returned and settled down in Kate's farm in Cummen-/deach. They in turn were the parents of Katie O'Sullivan who married Murt (Strock) McCarthy of Glenbeg who came "cliamhain isteach" to the [continues at the top of p. 54] **Facing page (p. 52 by inference), right-hand ends of lines only, all [clipped] at the left photo edge:** …rried / …(4) / …en in / …esser / …reen, / …1952) / …Mrs. / …. 3rd // …f the / …anna / …ivan, / …llace / …hea's / …rder. / …addy / …So it / …— a / …livan / …) and / …imet, / …arbh, / …anna / …hea's / …hea's / …rphy, / …eann) / …died // …ames / …, and / …; (2) / …, and / …(the / …liabh) / …Butte, / …arvan, / …annah / …Butte, / …Brigid / …State, / …from / …1899) / …settled / …llivan, / …Traig / …1900) / …n girl, / …vent to / …ter of / …e; (9) / …arried / …and / …was a (These fragments cannot be read as sentences. "…rphy," may be the end of "Murphy," and "…hea's" the end of "O'Shea's", but that is **inference only**.) ### (c) Names in scope, p. 53 **Murphy** - **Eamonn (an Chnoic) Murphy**: his "Droumard farm" was bought by Jack O'Shea and Kate Lynch (Kate b. Oct. 1860) after they came back from Butte, Montana. No date is given for him. - **Helen Murphy**, daughter of **Jeremiah Murphy** and **Rose Duggan**, Ardagh Cross, Bere Island. She married Michael Lynch (b. May 22nd 1915), who moved to Upper Claondaire. - **Jack Murphy, Milleens**: Florence O'Sullivan and Ann Lynch (b. July 17th 1934) "later returned and bought the farm of Jack Murphy, Milleens". - The facing-page fragment "…rphy," (clipped; possibly "Murphy", inference). - No James Murphy, and no Murphy married to an O'Leary, appears on this page. **Leary / O'Leary**: none on p. 53. **Lyne**: none. The page is about **Lynch** of Droumbeg (Denis Garbh, Seamus Garbh, Micil, Paddy, John), which is a different surname. **Shea / O'Shea** - **Jack O'Shea**, son of **James O'Shea** and **Margaret O'Shea**, Reenavaude. He married Kate Lynch (b. Oct. 1860) at Butte, Montana, and they came back and bought the Droumard farm. - **Kitty O'Shea**, their granddaughter, is "married in the Droumard farm to Paddy O'Sullivan, from Glencar, Co. Kerry". - **Con O'Shea**, son of **Tade O'Shea** and **Peig Dunne**, Claondaire, married Julia Lynch (b. Nov. 7th 1884). Their son was **Denny (Con) O'Shea**. - **Margaret O'Shea of Direenavogig** (printed "Direen-/avogig") married John, son of Paddy "Seer" O'Sullivan, in Carrigaphrechane. No date. - **Kate O'Shea**, daughter of **Batt O'Shea** and **Norry O'Shea**, Cummeendeach, married Paddy O'Sullivan (son of Seamus and Peig Moriarty) at Butte, Montana. They returned to Kate's farm in Cummeendeach. - The facing-page fragments "…hea's" (x3; clipped, possibly "O'Shea's", inference). **O'Sullivan (Seer)** - **Sean Seer** and **Paddy Seer**: brothers of the O'Sullivan (Keagh) family who came from Castlekilty (east of Eskadower, Lauragh, Co. Kerry) and settled in Carrigaphrechane "around the year 1800". "Seer" is from the Irish for a tradesman; they were "noted tradesmen and boatbuilders". - Their unnamed **sister** married Morty Minihane (O'Driscoll) of Carrigaphrechane and was grandmother of Dan Mor O'Driscoll. - **Paddy ("Seer") O'Sullivan** lived in Carrigaphrechane "in what is now Jerry Crowley's house". He had three sons: - **John**, who married Margaret O'Shea of Direenavogig in Carrigaphrechane. - **Seamus**, who married Peig Moriarty and settled in the Drombohilly district of Ardea, Co. Kerry. His sons were **Flor** (stayed in Drombohilly) and **Paddy** (went to Butte, married Kate O'Shea, and returned to Cummeendeach). - **Paddy (Junior)**. - **Katie O'Sullivan**, daughter of Paddy and Kate, married Murt (Strock) McCarthy of Glenbeg, who came "cliamhain isteach". - **Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, Droumbeg**, was a 3rd cousin of Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll. - Related Keagh O'Sullivans named on the page (not called "Seer"): **Julia O'Sullivan (Keagh)**, wife of Denis Garbh Lynch; her sister **Johanna Keagh**, wife of Seamus Garbh (Lynch); **Johanna O'Sullivan, Carrigaphrechane**, mother of Peig Minihane. ### (d) Confidence: **HIGH** The whole of p. 53 is sharp and fully legible. Only one year is uncertain ("1882" for Joseph). The p. 52 strip is fragments only (low for that strip). --- ## Image 2 — `6EA88037-3D54-44DE-A52A-290BD65C3149_1_201_a.jpeg` ### (a) What it is A photograph of the same book, showing all of **printed page 54** (folio "— 54 —" at the foot of the left column) in two columns. There is **no running header**. The page tilts slightly and the lower left is shadowed, but everything is legible. p. 54 is the verso of the p. 53 leaf and continues its text directly: p. 53 ends "…to the" and p. 54 begins "Cummeendeach farm." Also visible: - At the right edge, five clipped line-starts of p. 55 ("17t…", "to L…", "O'M…", "Gle…", "hom…"). They match the foot of the p. 55 left column in Image 3 ("17th 1946", "to London", "O'Mahony", "Glengarriff", "home"). - At the far left, a few meaningless letter fragments from another sheet ("ic", "M", "fi", "w", "t", "I"). - A yellow sticky note under the left edge of the book, with no visible writing. Family entries on p. 54: 1. End of the O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) introduction: Paddy "Seer"'s line in Butte, and the statement on the descendants of Sean "Seer". 2. (A) SEAN "SEER" O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) 3. (B) TADHG ("SEER") O'SULLIVAN & MARY O'CONNOR (DROUMBEG). Child (3), **Catherine**, "married Jack O'Leary of Lack who settled in Foromanes". 4. (C) FLOR O'SULLIVAN & JULIA HARRINGTON (DROUMBEG) 5. (D) FLOR O'SULLIVAN & NORA O'SHEA (DROUMBEG), which begins here and continues on p. 55 HANDWRITTEN on this page: - Top margin of the right column: a **blue** star whose tail points down to the word "Catherine" (first line of the right column). - Beside the star, in **black** ink: "Connection / LUKE". - To the right, in **blue** ink, an arrow then "bro. of[?] / my grgrand[m?] / Cath" (three lines, sloping upward). Rotated and zoomed, the reading is "bro." then a looped "of" (it could be read as "g" or "9"), then "my grgrand" followed by a letter that looks most like "m" (but could be "a" or "n"), then "Cath" on its own line. **Inference, not what the page says:** probably "brother of my great-grandmother Cath[erine]". The note does not say whose brother is meant; the arrow sits above "Jack O'Leary of Lack". - A **blue** vertical stroke in the left margin of the left column, beside "Sean "Seer" O'Sullivan (Keagh) were the Flor / O'Sullivans' and Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, / Droumbeg, etc." - A dark pen stroke under the "(3)" that ends the left column. It links "(3)" to "Catherine married Jack O'Leary…" at the top of the right column. The words "Murphy", "Lyne", "Scrahan" and "Goirtín" do **not** occur on p. 54. ### (b) Transcription, p. 54 **Left column** Cummeendeach farm. Seamus O'Sullivan's brother Paddy later sold that portion of the family place in Carrigaphrechane to Jerry Crowley's grandfather and emigrated to Butte. This Paddy who went to Butte had a son Paddy who married in Butte to Mary O'Driscoll (his 2nd & 3rd cousin), sister of Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll, Carrigaphrechane. Paddy & Mary had a son Paddy who married in Butte to Gertie O'Shea, sister of Teresa O'Shea (Mrs. Dan O'Dwyer) of Pulleen, Ardgroom. The descendants of the original [HANDWRITTEN blue margin stroke begins] Sean "Seer" O'Sullivan (Keagh) were the Flor O'Sullivans' and Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, Droumbeg, etc. [margin stroke ends] (A) SEAN "SEER" O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (DROUMBEG) Sean married a Sheehan girl from the Pulleen side of Carrigaphrechane. They had 5 sons:- (1) Tadhg, known as Tadhg "Seer", married a Mary Connor (known as Mary Martin) of Carrigaphrechane. Mary's father was a first cousin of Jack O'Connor (great-/grandfather of the present John O'Connor, Carrigaphrechane). Tadhg "Seer" was grandfather of Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan and Flor O'Sullivan, Droumbeg; (2) Jack was married in Carrigaphre-/chane to Nora O'Shea, Reenavaude. Nora was a sister of James O'Shea, and an aunt of both Jim Shea who settled in Reenavaude and of "Black" Jack O'Shea who settled in Droumard. Jack O'Sullivan and Nora O'Shea were parents of Mag Jack (mother of Quin Mag Jack O'Sullivan of Canfie) and of Flor Jack (father of Paddy Flor Jack O'Sullivan, The Bridge, Ardgroom Village, and of Flor O'Sullivan (shoemaker), Ardgroom Village); (3) Mick, known as Mick Keagh, married Nance Seana Sheain in Carrigaphrechane. Their daughter Maire was mother of Jer O'Connor, Carrigaphrechane; (4) Padraig married Mary Lehane, Reenavaude, and settled down in Traig an Ime, Direenavogig. They were grandparents of Sean (Traig an Ime) O'Sullivan; (5) Flor settled down near Jer O'Neill's place, Direen-/avogig — a little to the west of Jer Neill's house — and married Maire (Stokes) O'Shea, Claondaire — an aunt of Tadhg (Stokes) O'Shea. The following people were 2nd cousins Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan etc. Droumbeg; Quin Mag Jack O'Sullivan, Canfie; Jer Connor, Carrigaphrechane; Sean (Traig an Ime) O'Sullivan, etc. (B) TADHG ("SEER") O'SULLIVAN & MARY O'CONNOR (DROUMBEG) Tadhg and Mary were living first in Lacariach, Reenavaude North. Their son Flor was 7 years old when they settled down later in Droumbeg. Mary O'Connor's mother was an aunt of Maire Uonhi (wife of Jack O'Dwyer, Caolrua). Tadhg "Seer" O'Sullivan and Mary O'Connor had 8 children:- (1) \*Flor settled in a part of the Droumbeg farm and married Julia Harrington of Buaile, Dirrivore, Kilcatherine. She was a sister of Daniel Harrington, Jer Harrington etc. of Buaile; (2) Mary (born Oct 1843) died young; (3) [HANDWRITTEN pen stroke under "(3)"] — 54 — **Right column** [HANDWRITTEN, top margin: blue star pointing to "Catherine"; black ink "Connection / LUKE"; blue ink "→ bro. of[?] / my grgrand[m?] / Cath"] Catherine married Jack O'Leary of Lack who settled in Foromanes; (4) Peig (Nov. 1845) married her 3rd cousin Sean Harrington (Duve), son of Donal Harrington (Duve) and Eileen Lowney, Carrigaphre-/chane; (5) Brigid (June 1852) married Jack O'Neill, son of John O'Neill and Mary O'Neill, The Road, Coulagh; (6) John (June 1854) went mining to Calumet, Michigan, U.S.A.; (7) Mary — the second Mary (Feb. 1856), married Jer (Flor) Harrington, son of Flor Harrington and Margaret O'Neill, Cealinches (now called Inches also); (8) \*Jimmy (May 1858), known as Jimmy Thaidhg Seer, settled down in the other part of the Droumbeg farm and married his 3rd cousin Mary O'Shea, daughter of Cornelius O'Shea and Siobhan O'Sullivan (Shearhig), Claondaire. Mary O'Shea was a sister of Tady O'Shea and an aunt of Peter O'Shea, Claondaire, so as a result of all these marriages, the following people were 1st cousins: Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, Droumbeg; Flor O'Sullivan, Droumbeg (father of Mrs. Joe McCarthy, Ardgroom Village etc.); Dan O'Neill, The Road, Coulagh; Jim O'Leary, Foromanes; Jack (Flor) Harrington, Caolinches (or Inches as it is now called); and Mrs. Batt D. O'Sullivan (mother of Den Batt O'Sullivan), Gorth, Urhan. (C) FLOR O'SULLIVAN & JULIA HARRINGTON (DROUMBEG) They were living in Carrigaphrechane for a short while after getting married. Their first child Mary was born in Carrigaphrechane. Julia Harrington's parents were Tadhg (Cebagh) Harrington and Mary O'Sullivan, Buaile, Dirrivore. Flor and Julia had 8 children:- (1) Mary (Apr. 1868) went first to Butte, Montana. Later returned and married Jerry Holland, son of Daniel Holland and Margaret O'Sullivan, Kilmacowen; (2) Michael (July 1870) lived for some time in the home farm and later went to Lower Droumbeg to live with his sister Kate — Mrs. Michael O'Reilly; (3) James (Mar. 1872) went to Butte, Montana, and married Brigid Sheehan, daughter of Dan Mor Sheehan and Nell Harrington, The Road, Cahirkeem — a grandaunt to the present John Joe Sheehan; (4) Margaret (Dec. 6th 1873) went to Butte, Montana; (5) Kate (Oct. 15th 1875) married Michael O'Reilly, son of Batt Rahilly and Ellen O'Shea, Upper Pallace (This was also down as Carrigaphrechane in the old records). Kate was mother of Dan O'Reilly (postman) etc.; (6) \*Flor (July 19th 1877) married in the home farm to Nora O'Shea, daughter of Batt O'Shea and Norry O'Shea, Cumeendeach, Ardgroom; (7) Jack (June 14th 1879) went to Butte, Montana, and married an O'Neill (Barry) girl from Filane, Castletownbere; (8) Julia (Apr. 12th 1882) died young. (D) FLOR O'SULLIVAN & NORA O'SHEA (DROUMBEG) Flor and Nora had 9 children:- (1) Jim (Dec. 9th 1905) went to Boston, Mass., and married his 2nd cousin Mary Lynch, daughter of Johnny Lynch and Maggie Harrington, Eyeriesbeg; (2) John (Nov. 10th [continues at the top of p. 55] (Reading notes: these printed spellings were checked in zoomed crops and are as printed: "Maire Uonhi", "Shearhig", "Cealinches" and then "Caolinches", "Cumeendeach" (one m here, "Cummeendeach" at the top of the page), "Jim Shea" (no O'), "Batt Rahilly" as father of "Michael O'Reilly", "(born Oct 1843)" with no full stop after Oct, and the double space in "Paddy later sold".) ### (c) Names in scope, p. 54 **Murphy**: none on p. 54. **Leary / O'Leary** - **Jack O'Leary of Lack**, "who settled in Foromanes", married **Catherine**, child (3) of Tadhg ("Seer") O'Sullivan and Mary O'Connor of Droumbeg. No birth date is printed for Catherine. Her siblings' dates run from Mary (Oct 1843) and Peig (Nov. 1845) to Jimmy (May 1858), so Catherine was probably born about 1844 (**inference** from birth order, not printed). - **Jim O'Leary, Foromanes**, is named among the "1st cousins" produced by "all these marriages". **Inference:** he is presumably a son of Catherine and Jack O'Leary, since he is listed alongside the children of her siblings (Flor, Brigid, Mary, Jimmy). - Emma's handwritten note next to "Catherine married Jack O'Leary of Lack" reads "Connection LUKE" and "→ bro. of[?] my grgrand[m?] Cath" (see (a)). - **No Murphy married to an O'Leary appears on this page, and there is no James Murphy or Mary O'Leary.** **Lyne**: none. There is a **Lynch**: Mary Lynch, daughter of Johnny Lynch and Maggie Harrington, Eyeriesbeg, married Jim O'Sullivan (b. Dec. 9th 1905) in Boston. **Shea / O'Shea** - **Gertie O'Shea**, sister of **Teresa O'Shea (Mrs. Dan O'Dwyer) of Pulleen, Ardgroom**, married Paddy O'Sullivan (grandson of the Paddy who emigrated) in Butte. - **Nora O'Shea, Reenavaude**, married Jack O'Sullivan (son (2) of Sean "Seer") in Carrigaphrechane. She was a sister of **James O'Shea** and an aunt of **Jim Shea** (settled in Reenavaude) and of **"Black" Jack O'Shea** (settled in Droumard). - **Maire (Stokes) O'Shea, Claondaire**, an aunt of **Tadhg (Stokes) O'Shea**, married Flor (son (5) of Sean "Seer"), who settled near Jer O'Neill's place, Direenavogig. - **Mary O'Shea**, daughter of **Cornelius O'Shea** and Siobhan O'Sullivan (Shearhig), Claondaire, married Jimmy Thaidhg Seer (b. May 1858), her 3rd cousin. She was a sister of **Tady O'Shea** and an aunt of **Peter O'Shea, Claondaire**. - **Ellen O'Shea**, Upper Pallace, wife of Batt Rahilly and mother of Michael O'Reilly (who married Kate O'Sullivan, b. Oct. 15th 1875). - **Nora O'Shea**, daughter of **Batt O'Shea** and **Norry O'Shea, Cumeendeach, Ardgroom**, married Flor O'Sullivan (b. July 19th 1877) "in the home farm" (Droumbeg). **O'Sullivan (Seer)** - **Paddy** ("Seer"'s son; the text says "Seamus O'Sullivan's brother Paddy") sold the family's Carrigaphrechane portion to Jerry Crowley's grandfather and emigrated to Butte. - His son **Paddy** married Mary O'Driscoll (sister of Paddy (Dan Mor) O'Driscoll) in Butte. - Their son **Paddy** married Gertie O'Shea in Butte. - **Sean "Seer" O'Sullivan (Keagh)**, the original. His descendants were "the Flor O'Sullivans' and Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan, Droumbeg". He married "a Sheehan girl from the Pulleen side of Carrigaphrechane" and had 5 sons: 1. **Tadhg "Seer"**, who married Mary Connor/O'Connor ("Mary Martin") of Carrigaphrechane. They lived first at Lacariach, Reenavaude North, then in Droumbeg. 2. **Jack**, who married Nora O'Shea. His children were **Mag Jack** and **Flor Jack**. 3. **Mick Keagh**, who married Nance Seana Sheain. 4. **Padraig**, who married Mary Lehane and lived at Traig an Ime, Direenavogig. 5. **Flor**, who married Maire (Stokes) O'Shea. - The children of **Tadhg "Seer"** and Mary O'Connor: 1. **Flor**, who married Julia Harrington of Buaile. 2. **Mary**, born Oct 1843, died young. 3. **Catherine**, who married Jack O'Leary of Lack, Foromanes. 4. **Peig**, born Nov. 1845, who married Sean Harrington (Duve). 5. **Brigid**, born June 1852, who married Jack O'Neill of The Road, Coulagh. 6. **John**, born June 1854, who went to Calumet, Michigan. 7. **Mary**, born Feb. 1856, who married Jer (Flor) Harrington of Cealinches. 8. **Jimmy Thaidhg Seer**, born May 1858, who married Mary O'Shea of Claondaire. - The children of **Flor and Julia Harrington**: Mary (Apr. 1868), Michael (July 1870), James (Mar. 1872), Margaret (Dec. 6th 1873), Kate (Oct. 15th 1875), Flor (July 19th 1877), Jack (June 14th 1879) and Julia (Apr. 12th 1882). - The children of **Flor and Nora O'Shea**: Jim (Dec. 9th 1905), then John (Nov. 10th …), continuing on p. 55. ### (d) Confidence: **HIGH** for the printed text of p. 54; **MEDIUM-LOW** for Emma's blue handwritten note The whole page is sharp. In the note, "of" and the last letter of "grgrand?" are uncertain, and "Cath" is clear. --- ## Image 3 — `1C5D9522-2D0C-4F26-BDF0-651F8A334495_1_201_a.jpeg` ### (a) What it is A photograph of the same open book on a terracotta-tiled surface. It shows all of **printed page 55** (folio "— 55 —" centred at the foot) in two columns. There is **no running header**. The top of the page is shadowed by the photographer, and the page is tilted by about 2–3°, so deskewed crops were used to fix the line order. Also visible: - At the left edge, a clipped strip of the right column of p. 54. It repeats text from Image 2 ("Lack who settled", "married her 3rd", "(8) \*Jimmy", "aidhg Seer, settled", "nanes; Jack (Flor)", "(D)… AN & NORA O'SHEA", "(2) John (Nov. 10th"…). - Emma's blue note on p. 54, seen from another angle: "grgrand m / Cath". - The yellow sticky note under the book (top left). - At the right edge, the fore-edges of several lower leaves, fanned out and tattered. Family entries on p. 55: 1. Tail of (D) FLOR O'SULLIVAN & NORA O'SHEA (DROUMBEG), children (2)–(9). 2. (C1) JIMMY (THAIDHG "SEER") O'SULLIVAN & MARY O'SHEA (DROUMBEG). This entry names **four Murphy marriages or descendants**. 3. (D) PATIE (JIMMY) O'SULLIVAN & JULIA DOWNING (DROUMBEG) 4. O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (PULLEEN): Flor O'Sullivan & Nora O'Driscoll. Their daughter Kate was "marred first in Pulleen to a Timothy O'Leary". 5. (B) MORT O'SULLIVAN & ABBEY O'SULLIVAN (PULLEEN), children (1)–(5). It continues on p. 56, which was not photographed. HANDWRITTEN, not on p. 55 itself. Two notes are on the outer margin of a leaf (or loose slip) lying **under** p. 55. They are visible only where that leaf sticks out beyond p. 55's fore-edge. A pixel profile shows each ink trace starting exactly at the edge of p. 55, so the first letters of every word are hidden: - **Red ink**, level with the Nora/Con/Kate lines: "…ack / …ery / …(" [clipped]. **Inference only:** possibly "[J]ack / [O'L]eary". - **Blue ink**, lower down: "…ister / of / [star] / …atg[a?] / …ynd[?]." [clipped]. The first line may be "[S]ister". The last two words are unreadable (**inference only**: the last might end "[L]ynch", but this is very uncertain). The page this leaf belongs to cannot be identified. The words "Scrahan", "Goirtín" and "Lyne" do **not** occur on p. 55. "Gorteen, Ardgroom" does occur (see (c)). James Murphy and Mary O'Leary do not occur. ### (b) Transcription, p. 55 **Left column** 1907) went to Boston, Mass. and married Helen Quirke who hailed from the Midleton area, Co. Cork; (3) Mary (Jan. 30th 1909) went to Boston, Mass., returned to live in Ardgroom Village in May 1974; (4) Joe (July 16th 1911) went to Boston, Mass.; (5) Florence (Mar. 11th 1914) went first to London. The second World War broke out and he was conscripted. In 1940 he and the Infantry Battalion in which he served were captured by the German Army at Boulogne, about 50 miles south-west of Dunkirk in France. He was a prisoner of war in a camp near Berlin until 1945. During the Allied siege of Berlin towards the end of the war, many parts of shot-down aeroplanes fell into the prisoner of war camp. A few years after the war was over, Florence emigrated to Boston, Mass.; (6) Maggie (Oct. 17th 1916) went to Boston, Mass. and later to Los Angeles and San Francisco; (7) Nora (Sept. 28th 1918) married Joe McCarthy, son of Patsy McCarthy and Brigid Crowley, Ardgroom Village; (8) Kathleen (Feb. 6th 1923) married John Cahill in Braintree, Mass (Boston area); (9) Tim (Aug. 10th 1925) married Anna Eiler in Brighton, Mass, U.S.A. (C1) JIMMY (THAIDHG "SEER") O'SULLIVAN & MARY O'SHEA (DROUMBEG) Jimmy and Mary had 13 children:- (1) & (2) Mike (Sept. 18th 1885) and Flor (Jan. 26th 1887) both went to Butte, Montana; (3) Mary (Oct. 20th 1888) went to Butte, Montana, U.S.A. and married Jerry Egan, a Co. Limerick man; (4) Margaret (Oct. 21st 1890) went to Butte, Montana, and married Jerry Murphy of Knockura, Castletownbere. They had three sons Doctors; (5) Brigid (Jan. 14th 1893) married in Seattle, Washington State, to Mike Murphy, son of Paddy (Cait) Murphy and Nora Harrington, Ahabrock. Brigid and Mike have a son Dr. Vincent Murphy. (6) Kate (May 25th 1894) went to Butte, Montana; (7) & (8) were twins, John & Nora (June 1st 1896). John died at home at 23 years of age, and Nora died a baby; (9) & (10) were twins, a baby boy (who died) and Johanna (Oct. 25th 1898). Johanna went to Butte, Montana, and married Dan (tailor) O'Sullivan, son of Dan (tailor) O'Sullivan and Mary O'Sullivan, Reenavaude North. (11) \*Patie (Mar. 1st 1904) settled down in the home farm and married Julia Downing, daughter of Jer Downing and Julia O'Connell, Gorth, Urhan; (12) Noin — the second Nora — married Mike (John D.) O'Sullivan, son of John D. O'Sullivan and Margaret O'Driscoll, Gorteen, Ardgroom; (13) Nellie (July 27th 1908[?]) went to Butte, Montana. Later returned to live in Ardgroom Village. (D) PATIE (JIMMY) O'SULLIVAN & JULIA DOWNING (DROUMBEG) Patie and Julia had 8 children:- (1) James (Feb. 17th 1946[?]) died young; (2) Mary (Apr. 21st 1947) went to London. Married Christy O'Mahony, son of Joseph O'Mahony and Mary McCarthy, Ardnathrush, Glengarriff; (3) Michael (Aug. 16th 1948) lives at home; (4) Patrick (Aug. 20th 1949) died a baby; (5) — 55 — (Reading notes: the last digits of "1908" (Nellie) and "1946" (James) are blurred and could be 6 or 8. 1946 fits the birth order, since Mary is Apr. 1947. "Noin", "Midleton", "Eiler", "Ahabrock" and "Knockura" are as printed.) **Right column** Margaret (June 27th 1951) went to London; (6) Robert (July 25th 1953) lives at home; (7) Brigid (Feb. 1st 1955) went to London; (8) Julia (Mar. 23rd 1956) lives at home. O'SULLIVAN (KEAGH) (PULLEEN) These were the great-grandparents of the present John (Morty) O'Sullivan, Pulleen. Nora O'Driscoll — an aunt of Dan Mor O'Driscoll — was daughter of Morty Minihane, Carrigaphrechane (and previously Pulleen). Six children of Flor and Nora are traced: (1) \*Mort settled down in the home farm and married Abbey (Curney) O'Sullivan, daughter of Curney (or Cornelius) O'Sullivan and Mary Houlihan, Pulleen; (2) Tim (born June 1843) went to the U.S.A.; (3) Nora was the second wife of Murt (Philib) O'Sullivan, son of Philip O'Sullivan, Pulleen; (4) Con (Apr. 1847) was living in Ardgroom Village (in the house where Mrs. Coughlan was later) and was married to Johanna O'Sullivan from Allihies, a cousin of Jack and Mag (Mhickie) Harrington, Urhan; (5) Kate, one of the eldest, was marred first in Pulleen to a Timothy O'Leary. They had two children: (a) Mary (Mar. 1860) and (b) Michael (Sept. 1866). Timothy O'Leary died and Kate later married in the place to John Godder; (6) Another son of Flor O'Sullivan and Nora O'Driscoll was drowned going across the Kenmare Bay to Sneem, Co. Kerry, with a boatload of sheep. The boat overturned. Also drowned with him were the O'Sullivan (Cohu) woman's husband, Michael Lynch of Droumbeg and his son. Jackessy Crowley of Carrigaphrechane (and later Ardgroom Village) survived and also saved his sister Mary (Mrs. Cain O'Connor of Pallace and later Claondaire). (B) MORT O'SULLIVAN & ABBEY O'SULLIVAN (PULLEEN) Mort and Abbey had 10 children:- (1) John (Feb. 22nd 1873) went first to the Calumet Mines, Michigan, U.S.A. and married Margaret O'Sullivan of Colleros, Lauragh — a sister of Jack Owen. John and Margaret came back to live in Pulleen and had three children there: (a) Flor (Feb. 16th 1904) (b) Mary (Mar. 25th 1905) and (c) John (Nov. 8th 1908). Flor later married in Butte, Montana, to Catherine O'Neill of Adrigole and settled in Derrimihin, Castletownbere. His daughter Rose married Jerry Harrington of Buaile, Dirrivore. Margaret O'Sullivan died in Pulleen and John and the children returned to the U.S.A. (2) Mary (Aug. 9th 1875) went to Calumet, Michigan, U.S.A. and married Pete O'Connell — brother of Bill O'Connell — son of William O'Connell and Abbey O'Connell, Curragh (near Droumard); (3) Kate (Mar. 15th 1877) married Michael Murphy, son of John Murphy and Frances Healy, Reenavaude, and was mother of John and Tim Murphy etc.; (4) Flor (June 15th 1879) went to the Calumet Mines, Michigan, and married Hannah Murphy, daughter of Curly Murphy and Brigid Harrington, Gortnabulliga. (5) Mike (Sept. 15th 1884) went first to the Calumet Mines. Later [continues on p. 56, not photographed] (Reading notes: "marred" is a misprint in the book and is kept. There is no "(A)" heading before "These were the great-grandparents…", as printed. The line order in the lower right column was confirmed in deskewed crops.) ### (c) Names in scope, p. 55 **Murphy** - **Jerry Murphy of Knockura, Castletownbere**, married **Margaret O'Sullivan** (b. Oct. 21st 1890), daughter of Jimmy (Thaidhg "Seer") O'Sullivan and Mary O'Shea, Droumbeg. She "went to Butte, Montana, and married" him. "They had three sons Doctors." - **Mike Murphy**, son of **Paddy (Cait) Murphy** and **Nora Harrington, Ahabrock**, married **Brigid O'Sullivan** (b. Jan. 14th 1893, Jimmy Seer's daughter) in Seattle, Washington State. Their son was **Dr. Vincent Murphy**. - **Michael Murphy**, son of **John Murphy** and **Frances Healy, Reenavaude**, married **Kate O'Sullivan** (b. Mar. 15th 1877), daughter of Mort and Abbey O'Sullivan, Pulleen. Kate "was mother of **John and Tim Murphy** etc." No place of marriage is given. - **Hannah Murphy**, daughter of **Curly Murphy** and **Brigid Harrington, Gortnabulliga**, married **Flor O'Sullivan** (b. June 15th 1879, son of Mort and Abbey), who "went to the Calumet Mines, Michigan". The place of marriage is not stated explicitly. - No James Murphy, and no Murphy married to an O'Leary, appears on p. 55. **Leary / O'Leary** - **Timothy O'Leary** married **Kate** O'Sullivan (Keagh) of Pulleen, "one of the eldest" children of Flor O'Sullivan and Nora O'Driscoll, in Pulleen. There is no date for the marriage. - Their children were **(a) Mary (Mar. 1860)** and **(b) Michael (Sept. 1866)**. The page does not print "O'Leary" after them; the surname is inferred from their father. - Timothy died, and Kate "later married in the place to John Godder". - Emma's red note on the underlying leaf, "…ack / …ery", may read "[J]ack [O'L]eary" (**inference**). - The p. 54 strip at the left edge shows "Lack who settled", from "Jack O'Leary of Lack who settled in Foromanes" (duplicates Image 2). **Lyne**: none. **Lynch**: "Michael Lynch of Droumbeg and his son" drowned crossing Kenmare Bay to Sneem. **Shea / O'Shea** - **Mary O'Shea**, wife of Jimmy (Thaidhg "Seer") O'Sullivan (heading (C1)). - **Nora O'Shea**, wife of Flor O'Sullivan (heading (D), carried over from p. 54). - The p. 54 strip fragments ("'Shea, daughter of", "ster of Tady O'Shea", "AN & NORA O'SHEA") duplicate Image 2. **O'Sullivan (Seer)** - **Jimmy (Thaidhg "Seer") O'Sullivan** and **Mary O'Shea**, Droumbeg, had 13 children: 1. **Mike** (Sept. 18th 1885), went to Butte. 2. **Flor** (Jan. 26th 1887), went to Butte. 3. **Mary** (Oct. 20th 1888), went to Butte and married Jerry Egan. 4. **Margaret** (Oct. 21st 1890), went to Butte and married Jerry Murphy. 5. **Brigid** (Jan. 14th 1893), married Mike Murphy in Seattle. 6. **Kate** (May 25th 1894), went to Butte. 7. **John** (June 1st 1896, a twin), died at home at 23. 8. **Nora** (June 1st 1896, a twin), died a baby. 9. **A baby boy** (a twin), died. 10. **Johanna** (Oct. 25th 1898, a twin), went to Butte and married Dan (tailor) O'Sullivan of Reenavaude North. 11. **Patie** (Mar. 1st 1904), home farm; married Julia Downing of Gorth, Urhan. 12. **Noin**, "the second Nora", married Mike (John D.) O'Sullivan, son of John D. O'Sullivan and Margaret O'Driscoll, **Gorteen, Ardgroom**. Gorteen is the usual anglicised form of Goirtín, but that link is an **inference**. 13. **Nellie** (July 27th 1908[?]), went to Butte and later returned to Ardgroom Village. - **Patie (Jimmy) O'Sullivan** and **Julia Downing** had 8 children, born 1946[?]–1956 (James, Mary, Michael, Patrick, Margaret, Robert, Brigid, Julia). - The **children of Flor O'Sullivan and Nora O'Shea** (Tadhg "Seer"'s grandson's family) continue here from p. 54: - (2) John (Nov. 10th 1907), Boston, married Helen Quirke. - (3) Mary (Jan. 30th 1909). - (4) Joe (July 16th 1911). - (5) Florence (Mar. 11th 1914), prisoner of war 1940–45, then Boston. - (6) Maggie (Oct. 17th 1916). - (7) Nora (Sept. 28th 1918), married Joe McCarthy. - (8) Kathleen (Feb. 6th 1923), married John Cahill. - (9) Tim (Aug. 10th 1925), married Anna Eiler. - The **Pulleen O'Sullivans (Keagh)** are **not** called "Seer" on the page: Flor O'Sullivan and Nora O'Driscoll; Mort and Abbey (Curney) O'Sullivan; and their children. ### (d) Confidence: **HIGH** for printed p. 55; **LOW** for the red and blue notes on the underlying leaf On p. 55, only two year-final digits (6 or 8) are uncertain. The notes on the underlying leaf are clipped and their page is unknown. --- ## Summary across the three images - The three photos are **consecutive printed pages 53, 54 and 55** of one book: p. 53 runs straight on to p. 54, and p. 54 to p. 55. None has a running header or title. Attributing them to Ó Dwyer's *Who Were My Ancestors?* is an inference from the format. - They cover the **O'Sullivan (Keagh) family known as "Seer"**: - Sean Seer and Paddy Seer came from Castlekilty to **Carrigaphrechane** "around the year 1800". - Sean's son **Tadhg "Seer"** lived in Lacariach, Reenavaude North, then Droumbeg. - Tadhg's sons were **Flor** and **Jimmy (Thaidhg Seer)**. - Also covered are the Lynches of Droumbeg (p. 53) and the Keagh O'Sullivans of Pulleen (p. 55). - **None of the requested terms "Scrahan", "Goirtín" or "Lyne" appears.** "Gorteen, Ardgroom" appears once (p. 55). - **No James Murphy appears. No Mary O'Leary married to a Murphy appears. No marriage of about 1834 appears.** No O'Leary on these pages is married to a Murphy. - O'Leary marriages on these pages: - **Catherine** (child (3) of Tadhg "Seer" and Mary O'Connor; undated, perhaps born about 1844 by birth order, which is an inference) "married Jack O'Leary of Lack who settled in Foromanes" (p. 54). Emma starred this line and wrote "Connection LUKE" beside it. - **Jim O'Leary, Foromanes**, appears in the 1st-cousin list (p. 54). - **Kate O'Sullivan of Pulleen** "was marred first in Pulleen to a Timothy O'Leary", with children Mary (Mar. 1860) and Michael (Sept. 1866) (p. 55). - Murphy sentences: - p. 53: Eamonn (an Chnoic) Murphy's Droumard farm; Helen Murphy, daughter of Jeremiah Murphy and Rose Duggan, Ardagh Cross, Bere Island; Jack Murphy, Milleens. - p. 55: Margaret O'Sullivan (Oct. 21st 1890) married **Jerry Murphy of Knockura, Castletownbere, in Butte**; Brigid (Jan. 14th 1893) married Mike Murphy (son of Paddy (Cait) Murphy and Nora Harrington, Ahabrock) in Seattle; Kate (Mar. 15th 1877) married Michael Murphy (son of John Murphy and Frances Healy, Reenavaude); Flor (June 15th 1879) married Hannah Murphy (daughter of Curly Murphy and Brigid Harrington, Gortnabulliga). - Emma's handwritten notes: - p. 53: "START HERE LUKE". - p. 54: "Connection / LUKE" and "→ bro. of[?] / my grgrand[m?] / Cath". **Inference:** "brother of my great-grandmother Cath[erine]". Whose brother is meant is not written.