The Miners of Beara and Butte.(Irish emigration to Montana)

Father Sarsfield O Sullivan is a retired priest who still lives in Butte, Montana. He remembers hearing from his father Sean who emigrated to Butte from Bere Island that one year he had two cousins living in Butte, and the next he counted 42 cousins from County Cork.

More than 55 percent of the Irish who settled Butte, Montana came from County Cork's four parishes. By 1900, Butte had 12,000 residents of Irish descent in a population of 47,635. One quarter of the population was Irish, a higher percentage than any other American city at the turn of the last century, including Boston. ...

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