from Franciscan friars.
1398.McCarthy killed O'Sullivan the Bold and
two sons of
O'Sullivan.
1404.War between McCarthy
and Sullivan.Sullivan
drowned.
1485.Donal O'Sullivan Beare
died.1549. Dermot O'Sullivan, a kind and friendly man to his friends,
was
burned by gunpowder in his own castle

Dunboy Castle and the O'Sullivan Curse

Dunboy
castle was built on the Beara peninsula in
county Cork in the 15th century and shortly afterwards became the
primary
residence of the O’Sullivan Beare.Its positionenabled the
clan to control the sea fisheries off the Irish coast and to collect
sizeable
taxes from Irish and Continental fishing vessels sheltering in the
haven.

In
1549 the chief of the clan accidentally blew himself up with gunpowder
there.True to humorous form, the Irish
memorialized him with the nickname Diarmuid
a Phudair, or “Dermot of the Powder.”

After the O’Sullivan defeat at
Kinsale in 1601, the English laid siege to Dunboy castle.It fell after a bloody battle.The 58 survivors ofthe
two-week siege were executed in the nearby market square. The
English then destroyed all of the remaining standing walls of the
castle with
gunpowder.

In the 1700’s the English Government granted the
O’Sullivan lands at Dunboy to the Puxley family. The O’Sullivans
were
outraged and foretold misery and bad luck to the interlopers. The
legend of the
O’Sullivan curse was born.

The Puxley family
brought copper mining to the area and became quite wealthy as a
result. The manor grew along with every Puxley generation until
the copper
dried up and tragedy stuck the Puxley family. Henry Puxley was orchestrating a new addition to the
Puxley
mansion when his wife died in childbirth. He was so distraught by
her
death that he packed his bags and left Ireland forever. The house was
unfinished and left in the hands of caretakers.Then in 1921 the IRA, convinced that the
house