Muircheartach Óg Ó Súilleabháin Explained

Muircheartach Óg Ó Súilleabháin
Birth Date:	1710
Death Date:	1754
Unit:	Clare's Dragoons

Muircheartach Óg Ó Súilleabháin (– 1754), was a soldier and smuggler.

Ó Súilleabháin was a native of the Beara Peninsula. He was serving as a soldier in Spain by 1739, and fought with the Clare's Dragoons at Fontenoy in 1745. He was a popular figure in local tradition down to recent times.

References

• "Mort Oge O’Sullivan, Captain of the Wild Geese", John O’Mahony, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1892.
• "Muircheartach Óg Ó Súilleabháin: Stair, Traidisiúin agus Marbhnaí", Pádraig A. Breatnach, Teamaí Taighde Nua-Ghaeilge, 1997
• "An Plaintéir agus an Gael díshealbhaithe", Roibeárd Ó hÚrdail, Saoi na hÉigse..., 2000

External links

• http://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1466