1. 'unknown' SULLIVAN.

I feel sure that this Sullivan family from the townland of Caheraveelane (near the village of Nad or Nadd) in Co. Cork is related in some way to our Caheraveelane Sullivans, but I just can't make a definite link.

It's possible that the first name of 'unknown' above was Daniel.

Note on Caheraveelane: the townland comprises 234 acres of mostly mountainy land and, as evidenced by summaries from the 1841 to 1891 censuses of Ireland, it was very sparsely populated in those years. Details - from www.eppi.ac.uk, the EPPI (Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922) website - are as follows:

Year  Inhabited   Population
          Houses
1841       2         15
1851       3         16
1861       2         15 (8 male, 7 female)
1871       2         10 (7 male, 3 female)              
1881       2         14 (10 male, 4 female)  
1891       3         23 (17 male, 6 female)

The increase in population between 1881 and 1891 can most likely be attributed to the births of several children in that decade to two members of the Sullivan family who were possibly sons of 'unknown' above, Thomas Sullivan and Daniel Sullivan.  

No details from the above households are available as the census returns from these years no longer exist.

'unknown' married Johanna 'UNKNOWN'. Johanna was born about 1814.

It's believed Johanna was widowed at a young age.

Griffiths Valuation, carried out in 1852 for the Kilshannig area, shows that the only Sullivan occupier of land in Caheraveelane at the time was a Johanna Sullivan who rented 234 acres - which is the entire area of Caheraveelane - along with a "turbary" (bog or right to dig turf). It's possible that this Johanna is Johanna 'Unknown' above and that she was widowed by this time. The Tithe Applotment records for Kilshannig (1834) show the only entries for Caheraveelane to be for a Thomas Sullivan of Caherivallain (sic) who had 16 acres of land and 229 acres of mountain, which must be the same parcel of land later occupied by Johanna. Could Thomas have been Johanna's husband, or her father-in-law? And could Johanna or Thomas have been connectd to Séamus Sullivan, a member of another Sullivan family from Caheraveelane?

Note: The Sullivans from Caheraveelane were known as the "Cahera" (pronounced "kawra") or "Caher" Sullivans, presumably to distinguish them from the other Sullivan families in the Kilshannig area.