The
Ó Súileacháin came down from northern Munster into Beara, driving out the O'Driscolls in the process. They prevailed in the Castletown area, until they in turn were driven out by the English under George Carew at the end of the Nine Years War at the Siege of Dunboy. That siege, and the march of O'Sullivan Beare are famous in Irish history.
The Sullivans are as noted for their agnomina as the Donovans. Genealogical records from around southwest Cork are especially laden with these names. Among the Sullivan names used heavily in southwest Cork were:
- Barnagh, Barnough
- Barrule
- Bogue, Bowen, Bowig
- Comba, Cumba and Cumbah
- Cropane and Crompane
- Keagh
- Looney, Louney, Lowney
- Magrath, McGrath
- McAuliffe
- Okerra, Oukerre, Ukill?
- Preti
- Rocterra
- Rogers
- Seer
- Shearig
- Skully
- Suvane
- Swonish
There are many more. Some of these secondary surnames, such as McAuliffe, might be surnames in their own right in other parts of Ireland. And, some of these secondary names might have been used as secondary names for other primary family names.
Glanny has been seen for Sullivan in Rathbarry.
Looney is a surname in its own right showing up in Cork. It might be written Luna, Lunan, or Lowney, Luany, Louny. It is probably O'Sullivan Looney, rather than Looney migrants from the Isle of Man. It is particularly concentrated in the Castletown district and between Bantry and Skibbereen. In some genealogy records Lowney can be mistaken for Sowney and vice versa because of the resemblance between the written forms of capitals L and S.
Sullivan Preiti is referenced in the 1951 article.
See the Riobard Ó Dwyer books.
Ó Hanrahan, Peadar. Our Dublin Letter. Southern Star. March 17, 1951.
Ó Donovan, Peadar. The O'Sullivans - a Great Clan. Southern Star. August 30, 1986.
Bogue, Bohig, Bowig, and possibly Bohane and Bowen were forms of Sullivan in Cork. The example below is from the townland of Burrane in the parish of Kilmaloda.
Daniel O'Sullivan Caumb ("crooked") kept garrison at Carriganass, near Bantry, during Elizabeth I's reign, but surrendered to English forces during the Tyrone Rebellion. See page 336 of an 1846 Parliamentary Gazetteer.
The example belows shows Comba in the townland of Gortnascreeny in the parish of Caheragh in that parish's Tenure Book (not available online). Gortnascreeny is about 16 miles away by road from the site of the aforementioned Elizabethan-era garrison.
Crah and Corhagh appeared for Sullivan in Kilcaskan. The image is from the Kilcaskan House Book of 1851.
Glann or Glanny was a name for Sullivan around Ardfield and Rathbarry. The example shown here is of Timothy Sullivan Glann of Dunour, Rathbarry, baptized 30 Mar 1871 in Ardfield & Rathbarry and whose birth was registered 27 May 1871 in Rosscarbery.
Sullivan Skully in the 1830 Durrus TAB.
Sullivan-Stouke in Coronea in the 1835 Abbeystrowry TAB.
