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