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1601. Reputed Ambush and Massacre of O’Sullivan Bere Troops at Bishopsland Bridge, Caheragh, West Cork, by O’Mahonys, returning from The Battle of Kinsale. This is in local tradition.  After the battle local people tended to the survivors some married in locally adn are the origin of some of the Caheragh O’Sullivans.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kinsale

Letter from Sir George Carew to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, from camp at the Abbey, Bantry, 1602.

 

Monastery pre 1650 at Moulivard Church (Durrus East), Co. Cork

 

Possible alternative Journey of O’Sullivan Bere to Battle of Kinsale through Ballydehob Postulated by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Antiquarian

 

Possible alternative Journey of O’Sullivan Bere to Battle of Kinsale through Ballydehob Postulated by Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry Antiquarian

 

Plan of the Siege and Battle of Kinsale (Ceann Sáile) 1601, Petition to the Pope in 1484 requesting that no more clergy be sent from Bath to St. Multose and that only native clergy be appointed as English clergy could not administer sacraments in Irish, Prosperity in the 18th century, Shipping News in ‘A Short History of Kinsale’