Revised: Genealogy of Limrick family os Schull, West Cork from 1720 with their relations Benjamin Sullivan, (O’Sullivan Mór), Cork, Lawyers, East India Men, MPs

Paul Limrick, attorney, Cork, Pembroke St., 1840s was a younger brother of John Limrick Justice of the Peace of Union Hall and Schull (sons of Col. Wm. Somerville Limrick) and also brother of Dr William. Limrick of Union Hall. John Limrick JP, magistrate, crops up often in newspaper reports, esp. in relation to the great famine but also in his confrontation with O’Donovan Rossa in 1863 in Union Hall.

It is believed that the Limericks of Goleen were descendants of Robert Limrick – the son of Rev Paul Limrick of Schull – who married a Catholic and obviously forfeited any inheritance from the family (and was thus poor). The Limericks of Goleen and Schull have now disappeared from the Mizen peninsula – some went to South…