Beare

Beare was a Gaelic lordship of the O'Sullivan Beare on the Beara Peninsula, centred on Dunboy Castle. Its chiefs held the territory as vassals of the MacCarthys.

During the Nine Years' War, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare fought at Kinsale in 1601. In 1602 the English slaughtered his people on Dursey Island and took Dunboy, hanging its garrison. With his lands lost, he led about a thousand followers on a winter march of nearly three hundred miles to Leitrim.