West Cork History

1778. Page 109 dinner with Celebrated Father O’Leary, born Acres, Dunmanway, West Cork, His Father a Scholar.   Salmon, Lamb, Braised Hare, Poteen, Gooseberry Wine. The Mad Parson, Poet Rev. De La Cour.

Dunmanway, Acres Townland (276 acres) Na hAcrai, Acres. Townland  in which the fields  were divided into acres. Here was born Fr Arthur O’Leary Capuchin, in 1729. He died in London in 1802

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