The last O'Sullivan Mor* died at Tomies in 1762. He left an illegitimate son, whose grandson is a fisherman at Killarney. This grandson told me that when a gossoon [boy] some thirty years ago, he went to see his grandfather lying dead at Tomies. He saw not only his departed ancestor, but also a great pile of old papers, "maybe three feet high, mostly written on skins in Latin and Irish; and faith I was in dread they might fall into the hands of the Mahonys or some other new people in the country, and they might get more of the old O'Sullivan estates, so I burned them all myself!--[R. O'C]**
--In The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade [1892] by Mrs Morgan John O'Connell, p. 53
* The clan chieftain of the elder branch of the O'Sullivan sept, a great Irish family related to the MacCarthys of Kerry
**Ross O'Connell
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