I am starting this topic in the hope that it may be a home for posts about RIC men from Galway named Sullivan or O'Sullivan.
I have been researching one Thomas Sullivan and now have quite a lot of material. He was born in 1818 in Co. Galway; he was recommended for recruitment to the RIC in 1840 by Walter Laurence JP of Laurencetown, so may have come from that area. He served in Co. Roscommon and the Reserve, and for most of his life in Co. Down; for a time he was part of the Mounted Division. In 1845 he was present as a sub-constable at the Battle of Dolly's Brae, receiving the Inspector-General's commendation for his conduct and being quoted in the House of Lords report on the incident. He ended up as a Head Constable in Co. Meath before retiring on pension in 1875 to Rathfriland where he died in 1894. There is at least one newspaper report of his arrests.
I have little information on his wife (née Eliza Gilmore), and almost none on Sullivan's antecedents or collateral relations. However, others from his family in Galway may well have joined the RIC, and I should be interested in any potentially relevant material. His son took the surname O'Sullivan, so other family members may have used that form of the name as well.
I have been researching one Thomas Sullivan and now have quite a lot of material. He was born in 1818 in Co. Galway; he was recommended for recruitment to the RIC in 1840 by Walter Laurence JP of Laurencetown, so may have come from that area. He served in Co. Roscommon and the Reserve, and for most of his life in Co. Down; for a time he was part of the Mounted Division. In 1845 he was present as a sub-constable at the Battle of Dolly's Brae, receiving the Inspector-General's commendation for his conduct and being quoted in the House of Lords report on the incident. He ended up as a Head Constable in Co. Meath before retiring on pension in 1875 to Rathfriland where he died in 1894. There is at least one newspaper report of his arrests.
I have little information on his wife (née Eliza Gilmore), and almost none on Sullivan's antecedents or collateral relations. However, others from his family in Galway may well have joined the RIC, and I should be interested in any potentially relevant material. His son took the surname O'Sullivan, so other family members may have used that form of the name as well.
