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tribe of the Luigne are noted
here in the 8th century. The Book of Ballymote mentions the Glasraighe
in Luigne of Meath, in the midland region of Ireland.
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Located in the barony is the parish of Munterconnaght, named from Cu Connaght
Ua Raghallaigh (O'Reilly).
- St.
Carthage founded his monastery of Rahan about 590, and soon had hundred of
disciples. At length, Blathmaic, a Meathian prince, instigated by the neighbouring
monks, ordered St. Carthage to leave Rahan. Journeying by Saigher, Roscrea, Cashel,
and Ardfinnan, St. Carthage at length came to the banks of the River Blackwater,
where he was given a foundation by the Prince of the Decies,
and thus sprang up the episcopal city of Lios-mor, or Lismore, County Waterford.
The diocese of Ossory, "Ireland's
oldest bishopric", was probably co-terminus with the ancient kingdom
of Ossory. Its present boundaries were set at the synod of Rathbreasail. It
includes most of the county of Kilkenny
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- A tribe of the Gaileanga
are noted here in the 8th century. Located in western Co. Cavan and northern Co.
Meath. The Mugdorna occupied this territory
prior to 800 AD, when they were pushed out of Meath and into Monaghan
and replaced by the Gailenga. The
Gailenga Mora left their name in the barony of Morgallion (Machaire Gailenga,
"the plain of the Gailenga") in County Meath. The O'Lohan or O'Loughan (Ui Leochaín)
sept were lords of the Gailenga Mor before being driven across the
Shannon after the arrival of the Normans. The Ua
hAonghusa (O'Hennessy) sept of Gailenga
Becc was located on the Co. Dublin/Meath border. The Gaileanga have an early genealogy
tradition back to Ailella Auluimm (Oilill Olum).
- It is named from the Clan Chaoch, a branch of the Uí
Raghallaigh (O'Reilly) family.
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- The descendants of Thomas O'Reilly, chief of East
Breifne, were Lords of Clanmahon (Chloinne
Mathghamhna) in the 15th century. Both
Breffnys anciently formed part of Connaught, but the new county was incorporated
with Ulster. Their territory extended deep into the modern counties of Meath and
Westmeath. Cavan is partly in the diocese
of Meath, and partly in that of Ardagh, but chiefly in that of Kilmore, and
wholly in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. It is divided into the eight
baronies of Castleraghan, Clonmahon, Clonkee, Upper Loughtee, Lower Loughtee,
Tullaghvarvey or Tullygarvey, Tullagnonoho, or Tullyhonco, and Tullaghagh or Tullyhaw.
- The O'Sheridans are
cited here serving under the Breffny O'Reillys.
- Brian
Boru, a member of the Dal Cais tribe,
he was the brother of Mahon, who became King of Munster. The
Eugenians
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(O'Farrelly) and Mac Gaghrans were
the hereditary Coarbs and Erenachs of Drumlane Abbey and St. Mogue, located near
here. In a vigorous campaigning career Muircertach won victories over the invaders
at sea on Strangford Lough in 926, took and burned Dublin in 939, ravaged the
Norse settlements in the Scottish Isles with an Ulster fleet in 941 and died in
combat in 943. Complete Viking towers can still be seen at Devenish and Antrim
in Ulster, and Glendalough in Leinster, with others in various states of decay
at Drumbo, Nendrum, Clones, Armoy, Drumlane,
Tory Island and many other places. Malachy of Armagh, aged 29, would be appointed
Bishop of Down and Connor in the North East. The Balckwater
through Cavan has its source in a lake at Bailieborough Castle, and flows
on by Virginia into Lough Ramor, whence it enters the county of Meath, and becomes
a tributary to the Boyne. The origin of his cognomen Brian
Boru (Tributes) is believed to relate to a crossing point on the river Shannon.
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Mac Gilduff is cited as a chief of Teallach Gairbheith (Tullygarvey).
- The O'Reilly clan held sway here and in much of the county.
- The MacTullys
are given as chiefs in the parish of Drung. The territory of the Uí
Tuitre was also said to have included an area west of Lough
Neagh (in modern co. Tyrone),
as well as northwest of the great Lough in the modern barony of Loughinsholin,
co, Derry. Loughinsholin itself is said to derive from the "lough of the island
of the O'Lynns", i.e. the O'Flynn, chiefs of Uí Tuirtre. Groups of the
Uí Tuitre were apparently driven east across the river Bann by the rise
of the O'Cahans about the 12th century, and are later recorded in the central
baronies of Co. Antrim, i.e. Toome and Antrim.
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- The Mac Tiernan's were chiefs in the barony of Tullyhunco. The Inishowen
Peninsula of Co. Donegal was originally part of the Kingdom of Tirowen (Tyrone)
and ruled by Cenél Eoghain septs. A sept in Co. Leitrim closely related
to the O'Rourkes, Lords of Breffny, also assumed the suname MacLochlainn from
an ancestor named Lochlan. This sept appears in the State Papers of 1591 as one
of the chief fighting forces of the O'Rourke chieftains who "shared the lands
of Ylaugh and Cleanlough in Co. Leitrim as their inheritance" with the MacMorrices
and the MacTiernans of Clann Tiernan. Names of the five baronies in O'Rourke's
country, viz., in Mynterolles, two baronies called Leitrim and Moyghell. Some
believe all of the MacTiernans
were descended from the MacTiernan of Tellach Dunchadha sept in Cavan County.
In the Linea Antiqua these families are clearly labeled "MacTiernan." Then the
MacTiernans of Leitrim were probably the line labeled MacTiernan Naban in the
Linea Antiqua: Mac Tigearnain
- (1) a branch of the O'Connors in co. Roscommon, who are descended from Tigearnan,
grandson of Turlogh Mor O'Connor,
King of Ireland. (2) of a Breifney family, of the same stock as the O'Rourkes,
who were formerly chiefs of Tellach Dhunchadha, now the barony of Tullyhunco,
in the west of Co. Cavan (3) of a Fermanagh family, of the same stock as the Maguires,
who were formerly chiefs of Clann Fearghaile.
- Drumahaire
line
- In 1470, the Annals speak of Tullyhunco [Teallach Donnchadha]
as MacTiernan's country. A section of
Connacht and Ulster was known as the Kingdom of Bréifne which covers both
Co Leitrim and Co Cavan. West Bréifne
covers all of Co Leitrim and the two baronies in Co Cavan, Tullyhunco and Tullyhaw.
- The Teallach Dhunchadha
(Household of Dunchadh) or MacTernans (Mac
Tighearain), also known as Tierans or MacKierans (Mac Thighearnain) descend
from Dunchadh ( of Waterford,
Thomond and Fermanagh),
eighth-century ancestor of the O’Rourkes.
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(Mac Govern) were chiefs in the barony of Tullaghagh (Tullyhaw) Armagh.
Their territory was known as Teallach Eachdhach and they were chiefs there from
the 12th to the 16th century. The Dál
nDruithne are described in the Book of Uí Maine as a branch
of the Catraighe (an ancient tribal group) who were centered by the river Suca
(Suck) in Hy Maine. It is also referred to as Druithnia, a quo Dál nDruithni
in Connacht. O'Hart cites O'Docomlain, chiefs of Eidhnigh; and O'Gabhrain
or O'Gauran, chiefs of Dal Druithne, districts about Loughrea.
- According
to Ptolemy, this tract, Cavan, with the districts included in the adjacent counties
of Leitrim and Fermanagh, was occupied
by the Erdini, traces of which name are yet preserved in that of Lough Erne and
the river Erne, upon which and their tributaries these districts border. When
the county was partitioned into its seven baronies, five went to members of the
O'Reilly sept, and the other two, more remotely situated in the mountains and
on the border of O'Rorke's country (Leitrim), were possessed by the septs of Mac
Kernon and Mac Gauran.
- The homeland of the O'Droma (Drum) family
is cited near here in the parish of Kinawley, a parish which extends into southern
Co. Fermanagh. O'Gairbh (Maghnus), chieftain
of Feara-Droma.
- Teallach Eachdhach
O'Dugan cites Mag Samhradhain (Magauran) over Teallach Eachdhach, now the barony
of Tullyhaw in co. Cavan. Their genealogy is said to derive from Uí Briuin
lineage. The Teallach Eachach or MacGoverns
(Mag Shamhradhain, also known as Magaurans, descend from Eochaidh, son of Maonach
(Maonach was a brother of the Dunchadh). Dunchadha
wasn't an ancestor of the Ruarc
- a quo O'Rourke - but of the teallach Dunnchadha or Mac Thighearnain line.
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