was meant to house English troops, torched Puxley Manor.

The Dunboy estate
remained abandoned for years.In the
early 2000’s an investment group started building a new luxury hotel on
the site
of the ruined estate.However, in 2008
the worldwide financial crash put the project in a tailspin and it was
abandoned.The O’Sullivan curse had
struck again!

Morty Oge
O'Sullivan Beare

In
the Beara area along the shores of Bantry Bay,
it was said that a thousand traditions hanged on the name of Morty Oge.He was the last of the chiefs of the princely
line of the O'Sullivan Beares and was reputedly as picturesque as the
wild
mountain scenery of his native home.

At
the time of his birth his family had been broken in fortune.So he went abroad, as did many of the “Wild
Geese” at that time.He fought for the
Spanish in the Austrian War of Succession.An official recorded him in
1738 as
“Muirtead Oge O' Sullivan of Eyeries in this country” and he was
presented with
a richly mounted sword for his bravery during the fighting.He was a dark, handsome man with a fine
figure and, according to the local tradition, “the finest man in the
Irish
Brigade.”

Around
1750 he returned to his native Ireland and, with his boat and
the support of a body of some trusted men, engaged in smuggling.Each of his trips to the French coast meant
scores of new recruits for the Irish “Wild Geese” and a return cargo of
smuggled goods. Morty Oge’s activities attracted the attention of a
revenue
agent named John Puxley.At one point
they met and John Puxley was shot and killed.After that Morty Oge was a marked man.

He
escaped to France.Although outlawed he
still managed to make
frequent visits home to