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My grand uncle Thomas O'Leary of Killabeg, Ferns, County Wexford. Civil Parish of Clone. Sponsors at his Baptism on 24 Dec 1854 • Monageer Parish, Wexford, Ireland
Samuel Pepper. Mary Pepper.

I am interested if there is any connection between Thomas Carthy / Cartor /Carty , who was my great grandfather and the discussed Higginbotham. In 1901/1911 Census records, Thomas Carty is owner and occupier of the same farm in Coolnastudd mentioned above near Gorey town, also Coolishal House. Farms remained in Carty family ownership until about 2013. Higganbotham Flusk and then Thomas Cartor is listed as Lessor of Coolnastudd and Coolishal House and farm until about 1900.

 I wonder if Cartor is a different spelling of the name Carty, and a relative of Thomas Carty?

On the other hand his wife was called Sarah Burk, daughter of John Burk of Boley, Ballycanew, married in Camolin RC 1869 aged 19. She had a (twin) sister Catherine married in Camolin RC to Patrick McDonald, son of Matthew Tomkyle or Tomcoyle, Ballycanew. 

I have spent year trying to establish origins of Burk family, one of my theories is could they be John Burket's family of Ballydaniel, Camolin who were baptised as adults in Ballyoughter.RC.

Did he also have a house in Brownstown townland:
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246835_00718.pdf

Perhaps James Neville's father was connected to the Wentworth/Fitzwilliam estate in England at that time. As someone else mentioned many Boarders came from large houses/estates. The following is just from wiki to show relevance of the connection to Tinahely area:
"In its heyday, Coolattin House, near the village of Shillelagh, was at the centre of one of the biggest and wealthiest Anglo-Irish estates. The owners, the Earls of Fitzwilliam, owned more than 85,000 acres – one fifth of Co Wicklow – and had thousands of tenants. After the Great Famine and the land clearances, an estimated 2,000 people emigrated from the estate to Canada and tens of thousands of Canadians can today trace their ancestry to Coolattin. By 1948, more than 20 years after Irish independence, Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the eighth Earl Fitzwilliam, still owned Coolattin."

Thank you, this is now complete as the person trying to find A O'Leary have just found a more correct connection in south Wicklow, thank you. I am not related to A O'Leary, I was contacted just because of my last name.