O'Halloran 1916, Chapter XIX — 'Puxley and the Famous Morty Oge'

Summary

The Puxley/Morty Oge O'Sullivan chapter from W. O'Halloran's 1916 West Cork history, held as a distinct citable extract alongside the full book. Opens: "A Welsh adventurer named Puxley acquired at the time we are dealing with the seat of the O'Sullivans..." The standard secondary-source narrative of the Beara legend. Pair with the 1907 Fall River Globe clipping (Beara-diaspora popular-press version) and the inbox T.D. Sullivan Bantry/Berehaven book for a triangulated source-set on the same legend.

Also mentioned

• W. O'Halloran

  See the parent O'Halloran 1916 record for biographical notes.

Places

• Beara Peninsula (primary)
• Berehaven (Castletownbere) (primary)
• West Cork (context)

Themes

• west_cork
• irish_language_and_culture

Story threads

• Berehaven Murphys

Tags

• context_setting
• book_chapter_material

Related sources

• 1916 — O'Halloran, W. — *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork* — W. O'Halloran's 1916 history of West Cork — the standard secondary source for Beara antiquities, Morty Oge/Puxley, and the regional past
• 1907-11-26 — Fall River Globe, p.8 — "MORTY OGE" AND JOHN PUXLEY.
• undated — T. D. Sullivan — *Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept* — T. D. Sullivan's Bantry/Berehaven/O'Sullivan Sept — the 19th-c. Bantry-nationalist history of the family's region