Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept . e only four Lords Bantry. The first,above mentioned, married Lady Margaret Anne Hare,daughter of the first Earl of Listowel; the second wastheir son Richard, who married a daughter of theMarquis of Thomond, and died childless ; the thirdwas a brother of his, named William Henry Hare White ;the fourth was another William Henry Hare White, sonof the foregoing ; he died without issue, and the titlesbecame extinct. The second daughter of the thirdearl, Lady Olivia Charlotte White—married, in February,1871, Arthur Edward, Baron Ardilaun (the famous Dub-li
Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept . e only four Lords Bantry. The first,above mentioned, married Lady Margaret Anne Hare,daughter of the first Earl of Listowel; the second wastheir son Richard, who married a daughter of theMarquis of Thomond, and died childless ; the thirdwas a brother of his, named William Henry Hare White ;the fourth was another William Henry Hare White, sonof the foregoing ; he died without issue, and the titlesbecame extinct. The second daughter of the thirdearl, Lady Olivia Charlotte White—married, in February,1871, Arthur Edward, Baron Ardilaun (the famous Dub-lin brewer). The present possessor of the estates is theHon. Egerton Leigh White, who took on the familyname and arms of White by royal license, in July, female descendant of those Hares-Eyres-Hedges-Whites, married in 1885, Major Charles William Bowlbyof the Connaught Rangers. Their family reside in thenew Dunboy Castle, built—not far from the ruin ofthe old one—by one of the Puxleys, a relative of himwho was shot by Morty BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARY CHESTNUT HILL, MASS. 46 BANTRY, BEREHAVEN AND CHAPTER VIII. IN the great period of grabbing and gambling forIrish lands which followed the Cromwellianconquest, when Ireland came nearer to thecondition of a corpse on the dissecting table thanever she did before or since, a Welsh adventurernamed Puxley acquired a tract of land at the mouth ofBerehaven Harbour, in which were situated the ruinsof Donal OSullivans old Castle of Dunboy. He builthimself a residence in the locality, and for some yearsmanaged to get along tolerably well in his Gaelic environ-ment. On his demise a near relative who had previouslygiven the benefit of his presence to the County Galway,succeeded to his property in Berehaven, and, withencouragement and aid from the Government, sethimself up to be a high exemplar of British law andorder, a propagator of true religion, an apostle of moderncivilisation, a shining light to the benighted
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