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1712 Execution granted to Ann Nettles executrix of Robert Nettles by Richard Browne and Richard Hedges against Popish inhabitants Godfrye and Keadgh Leary (probable ancestor of outlaw and  Captain Hungarian Hussars, Art Ó Laoighre) for £160.

Transcribed 1944 by Dr. Edward McLysaght from bundles of old documents in a chest in the Town Clerk’s Office, Kinsale.  Many of those listed against whom executions (judgements ) were obtained were previously or after of significant wealth.   Included here is Keadagh (Keady) Leary/O’Leary.  Likely the ancestor of Art Ó Laoighre, the family of Raleigh, Macroom, were agents to various estates and significantly well off.  Art’s descendants numbered barristers adn doctors.

The Cork O’Leary families like the Ballydehob, Swantons display an economic acumen.  A noted example is a scion of the Roscarbery branch Michael O’Leary of Ryanair.

1677. Lease from Helen, Elizabeth, Countesses Clancarthy, Donogh McCarthy Earl of Clancarthy to Keadagh O’Leary Probably Ancestor to Art Ó Laoighre, The Outlaw, Claim before the Trustees of Irish Forfeitures, Probate by Cork Consistory Court.

 

24th July 1755, Doctor Edward Barry, College Green, Dublin, Offers fine Oakwood in Lands at Tuigeah, Inchileelagh, Co Cork for Sale Where Old Keadagh Leary Lived Probably Grandfather of Outlaw Art Ó Laoighre.

 

 

1765. Letting of Lands at ‘The Lough’, Cork by Cornelius Leary Father of Art Ó Laoighre, Hungarian Hussar in Employ of Empress of Austria, Outlaw, Raleigh, Macroom, Judicially Murdered, and Callanans Apothecaries.

 

Inscription Kilcrea Graveyard to Art O’Leary, (Outlaw), Died 1771 aged 26 Years Having served The Empress Maria Theresa as Captain of The Hungarian Hussars and Treacherously Shot by Order of the British Government His Sole Crime ‘That He Resisted to Part with a Favourite Horse or The Sum of …’, his son Cornelius O’Leary (1768-1846), Captain of The Guard, French Service, Barrister-at-Law, C.F. Purcell O’Leary, Barrister-at-Law (1815-1846), son of Cornelius.

 

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.

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