Re Sullivans from Gortnaskeigh, Kilgarvan
My great-grandfather was Daniel O'Sullivan, born in Kilgarvan in 1836, the son of Florence and Julia Sullivan. He married Honora Dinneen and my grandmother, Catherine, was born in 1872. Daniel was killed in 1873. Honora Dinneen Sullivan subsequently married Jeremiah Donovan and had several more children. In 1884, the family, including Catherine, emigrated to Chicago, Illinois. My aunt, Delores Boyle, said that Daniel O'Sullivan was the parish clerk and died trying to defend the parish priest from a mob angered by the priest's support of a Protestant. The mob started throwing stones and my grandfather, Daniel, was struck and died. I would like to be able to document this history. Does anyone know if there was a local newspaper or record of some sort that I might investigate? Also, I have been able to determine from various online records that my Sullivan ancestors lived at Gortnaskeigh. The 1911 census showed that there were still Sullivans living at Gortnaskeigh. Are there Sullivans living there now? I would be grateful for any information. By the way, Catherine later went on to marry Thomas Boyle from Fedamore, County Limerick and have 13 children, living in Chicago. I am the daughter of her second youngest child, Emmet Jeremiah Boyle.