Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan ‘Rua’ (c.1748–1784), poet, was born in Meentoges, some 12 km east of Killarney in the parish of Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, one of three or four sons of Parthalón Ó Súilleabháin, tenant farmer, and his wife, whose surname may have been Ní Scannail. Any account…