Sullivan (Tullylease & Curramore)

A Gaelic family who dropped the 'O' from O'Sullivan and became Sullivan in the early 18th century. They descend from John Sullivan who married in 1714 Mary Herne/Aherne of Hernsbrook, county Limerick and were involved in coal mining in the parish of Killagholehane. One of their grandsons was Major James Sullivan of Chesterfield, near Newcastle West, county Limerick. Other family members held townlands in the parish of Killagholehane, barony of Glenquin, county Limerick at the time of Griffith's Valuation and in the parish of Tullylease, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. In the 1870s John Jeremiah Sullivan of Curranmore owned 1,511 acres in county Limerick while his cousin the Reverend John Sullivan of Tullylease owned 607 acres in county Cork.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Chesterfield	Carrowgar	Grange	Newcastle	Knockaderry 115	Glenquin	Limerick	OSI Ref: R326 354 OS Sheet: 36 Discovery map: 64
Curramore	Knockglass	Killagholehane	Newcastle	Boola 103	Glenquin	Limerick	OSI Ref: R324 199 OS Sheet: 54 Discovery map: 72
Tullylease	Tullylease	Tullylease	Kanturk	Tullylease 176	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: R368 185 OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 72

Archival sources

Irish Tourist Association Survey file for parish of Dromcollogher, barony of Connello Upper, 1944. Limerick West 11; Limerick Studies Department, Dooradoyle
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Milford; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Glenquin, 27 (Carrowgar)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 670 & II, 426 (Chesterfield), 654 (Tullylease)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 105 (Chester-field), 380 (Tullylease)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 135, 154
HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 434
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 268 (Knockglass)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Duhallow Barony, 160 (Tullylease)

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 578
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXVII, 2nd Series (1921), 279-281 (Tullylease)