In loving memory of
DAN O SULLIVAN
Who died 15th. July 2006
His infant son CHARLES
1st. April 1970
His father CORNELIUS
Died 14th. May 1951
His mother JOHANNA
Died 29th. June 1956
Rest in Peace
O' SULLIVAN
O SULLIVAN GRAVES.
It was the tradition in the family that there were 9 graves in total ( viz. 3 attaching to each of the Headstones 10, 11 & 12 ) and that any one of the extended family could be buried in any of the 9 graves depending on which was most suitable at the time of burial.
GRAVES NOS. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 28 are those of various members of the O SULLIVAN family.
TIM MURPHY who is buried in Grave No. 51 was married to HANNAH O SULLIVAN.
DARBY SULLIVAN, who is buried in Grave No. 65, may have been the father of the JEREMIAH in Grave No. 11 as there was a family tradition that the earlier generations of the O SULLIVANS were buried closer to the road and nearer the then entrance.
The O SULLIVAN family were dispersed in several places viz.
_ REAROUR
_ RAHEEN
_ CROWHILL
_ BALLYMOUNTAIN
_ KNOCKATREENANE
_ BALLINCOURNEENIG
_ BALLYSHONEEN
_ MAGLIN
_ BALLYMAH
_ BALLINORA
_ RIVERSDALE, KILBRITTAIN
_ KNOPPOGE
_ KILSHINIHAN
_ DROMKEEN
_ POULADUFF & Environs
_ BALLYHEADA
_ Kinsale Area
_ Marlboro Street, Cork
_ NEW JERSEY
_ ST. PAUL, U. S. A.
This Headstone replaced another headstone erected to DANs parents CORNELIUS and JOAN O SULLIVAN. That headstone, in turn, may have replaced a much earlier headstone.
Other family members buried here include
1. MORTIMER (MURTY) O SULLIVAN ( CORNELIUS 's father ) of KNOPPOGE and KILSHINIHAN who died on 8 / 4 / 1940.
2. MURTY 's wife JOHANNA (nee CROWLEY , Cashelmore ) who died on 15/ 3/ 1949.
3. CORNELIUS ( CURLY ) O SULLIVAN ( MURTY 's father ) of KNOPPOGE and formerly of RIVERSDALE, Kilbrittain and BALLYSHONEEN, Waterfall. CURLY died about 1860.
4. ANTHONY O SULLIVAN (infant son of JEREMIAH & EILEEN O SULLIVAN of Kilshinihan, Timoleague) and grandson of MURTY O SULLIVAN. Anthony died on 13 /6 / 1951.