Family tree - O'Sullivan - Philip O'Sullivan, of Meentoges |
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Philip O'Sullivan, born est c.1740,
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he died during a cholera
epidemic, before his death he had expressed a wish of being buried inside the church at Ballylongford, suspecting (correctly) that the cholera epidemic would cause a problem with this, a group of Ballylongford people buried him at night, 2 am, morning of Fri 29 June, inside Ballylongford church, a Catholic magistrate from the Ballylongford area ordered his body disinterred, morning of Sat 30 June, and buried in the church grounds [Chute's Western Herald, 5th July 1832, [NLI]], huge controversy caused by this, an anonymous letter was printed in the [Tralee Mercury, 4th July 1832, [NLI]], attacking the unnamed magistrate, says there were protests, but to no avail, and the body was exhumed and re-buried "amidst the execrations and yells of hundreds, who certainly, had it not been for the presence of the Police, never would have allowed the remains of their Priest to have been treated with such indignity", the letter describes this as the magistrate's "whim", and is outraged that the police supported him, in [Chute's Western Herald, 14th July 1832, [NLI]] they print a letter from Francis Crosbie, JP, Protestant gentleman, magistrate for Co.Kerry, replying to the anonymous letter and defending the Catholic magistrate, he says the re-burial was necessary "to prevent contagion at this critical period", he says the 2 am burial was conducted by "a few of the most notoriously disorderly persons of the town", he says that Fr. Dan had in fact directed prior to his death that if there were objections to his being buried in Ballylongford church that he should be buried in Killarney (his homeland), |
Aodogán had his will, dated 1832,
must be now with
[Aodogán's papers, UCD],
he left everything to his nephew Daniel O'Sullivan,
"including the new gallery in the chapel of Ballylongford"
(very unusual that he, rather than the Church, could own this
- was this perhaps like leaving the rights to private pews?),
"except one house, and the lands around it", which he left
"to my niece Margaret Rahilly",
it was frowned on that a priest could amass a modest fortune.
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