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Chapter
Four We Meet Kilmartin’s
The first positive indication that the name of
Kilmartin was native to Ireland is found in the 1659 census found
for the County of Fermanagh, in parishes of Devenish, Aghareigh,
and Cleenish, in the Barony of Clanawley. This census was found
in the home of Lord Landsdowne. According to a topographical and
historical map of ancient Ireland, compiled by Phelp MacDermott,
the following were the principal families in Ireland of Irish,
Irish-Norman and Anglo-Irish prigin from the 11th to
the end of the 16th century:
Name
|
County
|
Name
|
County
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Cusdack
|
Clare, Mayo
|
O’Driscoll
|
Cork
|
O’Hagerty
|
Donegal, Kerry
|
MacKilmartin
|
Leitrim
|
McHale
|
Mayo
|
O’Hara
|
Mayo, Sligo
|
McHahon
|
Clare, Monaghan
|
O’Hurley
|
Cork, Limerick
|
Martin
|
Galway
|
O’Looney
|
Cork
|
O’Brien
|
Tipperary, Cork
|
O’Malloy
|
Kings
|
O’Donegan
|
Fermanagh, Tyrone
|
O’Murray
|
Donegal, Cavan
|
Staunton
|
Down, Galway
|
O’Neil
|
Tyrone, Armagh
|
Of course, many other names may be left out.
This source is one of many.
In the County of Tyrone, in the 13th
century, the name of O’Neil was known to be the Chief and
King of Ireland. We are related from the O’Neil as stated
earlier. It was around this time that the Kings of England,
starting with Henry II in 1154 AD, began the migrations to
Ireland. They continued under fifteen kings, with a total of
seventy eight migrations, until the religious atmosphere changed
under King Henry VIII. It continued under Queen Elizabeth,
becoming an anti-Catholic attitude. The direct cause of this
attitude was the battle of Kinsale in 1552.
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