. JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY research work, and we trust that .his Eoghan? Dr. seamus O'Ceallaigh ingratifying account of the O'Hegartys of formed me that there was an Eigcearthe Irish Brigade will recall to light the tacht in· the Cineal Binnigh; 1but he..is careers of other Donegal men in that not given as an eponymic ancestor. We very interesting period of !Irish History. hope that Dr. O'Ceallaigh may yet locate The Irish abroad, during the Penal them in this stem which has provided Days, cleric and lay, in the midst of all some fatt:iilY names in Riaphoe. Baiopy their trials, had to prove their noble as w~ll as many in Derry County. We origin if they were to make good.x We may accept, as genuine, the tradition may remember the case of Father Daniel which placed the·iflrst step on the.Pedigree Phillips, who . died rector of . Clann at Machairbeg. This .is in the· parish of Diarmada. When at Salamanca it was ·Raith Mothaich (iRaymochey). .John C. noted on his report--He has not proved Hagerty picked up one ·very valuable his nobility. A letter from a friendly item during his stay in County [)lonegal, bishop, or some important personage, an i.e., that St. Fionan was the ,patron of O'Neill or an O'Donnell, might suffi.ce the family and we know that St. for a mere student, but for a family Fionan's Church .was Raymochey. If we seeking for social status in the :anks connect them directly with the saint, as of the nobility a Pedigree was essential. we connect St. Maelrubha . with the So we find the above-mentioned Domi- O Brolchain family, we go back into the nique ,filing a pedigree at Dublin Oastle eighth century. Someone, perhaps has in 1744 and a similar proceeding by h1s still the story of the connection. . · son, Daniel Edward at Dublin in 1754 St.. iFi'onan, in legend, is connected and in the College of Heralds, London, with St. Columba, but, presuming the in 1W5. About 17.50 the "O'Heguerty accuracy of his pedigree, he belongs to Pedigree, with coloured arms of the four generations later. He is 1Fionan m wives were submitted by Pierre Andre Piopain ·m Afnhalghadha m :Ouaich m O'Heguerty to King Stanislaus, Duke of Fearghosa m Ninncadha m ;F'eargosa m Lorraine and Bar." The original still Conaill-gulbain. This would leave him survives. a contemporary of 1St. Adamnan (Eunan). What was this pedigree based on? lst. The first step in the IPe,digree It is hard to say since it does not appear brings us no further back than the times to be the work of a professional Irish of !Brian IBoru, to Arassus O'Hegarty of genealogist. The sources were probably Machairebeag. This place is· on the family documents and tradition; the banks of the S'willy, near Manorcunningformer (!being copies and drawn by more ham. r tried to get some Irish equivalent than one scrivener) accounts for the of Arassus and was told that it was some various transformations of the original ordinary Donegal Christian name, corname. We do know that it was much rupted in transcription. Aonghus would easier in the past to collect information fit this description. He is said to have relating to marriage connections. We married Maria, daughter of James also do not think it strange that John O''.Dogherty of Rasany. There are two O'Donovan in his Letters was able to objections to this.· Qne is, that it was extend the line of some of our ancestors centuries later before the name James back to 1600. iA collector, nowadays, appeared in [rish genealogies or annals. could hardly do it. The other is, that Rashany 1appears to Like all the Hegarty families, [ know, be Rasheny, in the parish of Cluain the Pedigree claims Tir Enna, in the Maine (Clonmany). It is quite poS.sible, barony of Raphoe, as the original domi- however, that there may have been an cile. Some, like the Hegartys of Kilrea, O'Doherty there long before they settle.d who went there from Gortegarty at down as lords of Inis Eoghain. Their Eglinton, would have it that the descent original home was in Tir !Enna. . is from Erma, himself: but others, as 2nd. James O'Hegarty, born circa, the French family (and those who adopt 1022, married Joanna, daughter of Daniel their view, like Bi.shop Reeves) hold that [)ermond of Glanavar. This is Siubllan, the descenf is··· from · Enna's brother, daughter of Domhnall O Duibhdhiarma. Eoghan. iBut from which son of This family prov1ded lords of Bredagh xFor those who apparently did not succeed (roughly Moville and Culdaff parishes) in doing so see :qr. Richard Ha.yeis's I~ish from the twelfth century onwards. The Men and Women m the French Revolution. usual pronunciation is Diarma. but , (Ed.) 89
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