SEER comes from the Gaelic for a tradesman, especially in Beara in the line of a carpenter or a boatbuilder. The Gaelic origin is SAOR. There are many specific types that come under the heading of SEER: Saor baid, a boatwright. Saor cairte, a cartwright. Saor brici, a bricklayer. Saor loinge, a ship's carpenter or shipwright. Saor rotha, a wheelwright. Saor adhmaid, a carpenter. Saor muilinn, millwright. Saor cloiche, a stone mason. One marvels at the brilliant work of the stone masone of old who built the small bridges when what were crossing them at the time were mostly horse, pony and donkey carts. Some of those bridges are still in existence, now bearing the huge (for them) weight of big, fully-laden container trucks and oil lorries. They were built with a certain type of arched pointing so that when the weight came down on them, the stones wedged solidly into one another to better bear the brunt. ROCHTIRRE/ROUGHTIRE/ROCHTERY means a land steward. They were land stewards for the O'Sullivan Bere chieftains. COHU means a provider. They were providers or, in more modern terms, quartermasters for O'Sullivan Bere's army. UKERY/UKERRY is a tucker or fuller of cloth, a process of thickening cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing it. TAILOR speaks for itself, and so does SAILOR. O' Sullivan MASTER goes back about 270 years to schoolmasters who lived in the Tuosist Parish, just across the border in County Kerry, and spread out with that profession into parts of Co. Cork, including later down to the Parish of Castletownbere. Another very interesting, if rare, Beara Sullivan/O'Sullivan branch name is RIDER. Their job, somewhat like the original "Pony Express" in America was to carry the mail on horseback from Bantry to Castletownbere. To be continued. ----- Riobard.