Mar
05
2013
Catherine O Mullane, Mother of Daniel O Connell the Liberator. The O Mullane’s were significant Catholic landowners in Brittas townland in the parish which is about 2 miles from the graveyard. They lost most of their holding in the Cromwellian confiscations and moved to Whitechurch where Catherine was born in 1752. The Lombards got some of this land but returned their share to the O Mullanes during the next generation. Her father, John, was born in Brittas and for some unknown reason Catherine was buried in the family tomb in Kilshannig when she died in 1817.