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Art O’Leary, French Educated, Captain of The Hungarian Hussars, refused offer for his winning horse of £5 under Penal Laws by Abraham Morris, proclaimed an outlay, killing at age of 26, his wife an aunt of Daniel O’Connell ‘Caoineadh Art Uí Laoighre.

Article John T Collins, Cork Historian, 1949.

Courtesy Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

 

One of extended family later became a Magistrate:

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From Father Holland’s History of west Cork, 1949:

St Martin's Summer: late November on the Sheep's Head