jptJRNAL OF 1'HE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Q'Luinigh f,amily or Muinntear, 14th. John O'Hegarty, born circa Luinigh, were, like The O'DuH):.. 1422, married !Rosa, daughter of John hins of the Cineal Moain, a Mac Ginnis, in County Down. The branch of Eoghain. Their territorf Olann Aongusa became lords of Iveagh centred in Badoney, and there, too, this in the twelfth century. An interesting O Duibhin lived. We have already link between this 'and the next matridescribed ~he usual location of the monial alliance is given under the year family. 142·4 in the Annals of the Four Masters. 9th. Cornelius (Conhcobhar or Con- There was a contest between Mac nor) O'Hegarty married Brigid, daughter Ginnis, aided by the Irish of the Provof !Niall O'Dogherty of Cashel. Cashel ince, and (against) the invaders from is a common place-name, but on look- the Pale under Ormond, aided by Macing up the Primary Valuation lists I I-Neill Buidhe and others. Mac Ginnis found that there were only two quarter- was defeated and he was driven cut, lands of Inis Eoghan so named; one in after his castle of Loch Bricrenn was Gleneely parish; the other of Glen- demolished. togher, in Donagh parish. 15th. Maurice O'Hegarty ma.rrfod lOth. Murtagh (Muircheartach) Unitas (Una or modern Winifred), married Finoella,. daughter of John daughter Qf Sean Ruadh O'Neill of O'Kelly of Ballyshenny, now Baileshan- Brickland. This is the Loch iBricrenn non. The Kellys there are a well- mentioned above and, as there is no known family. Some of them, as late other reference known to me of tbis as the eighteenth century, were burned Sean Ruadh, this entry tells that the out of Baileshenny and found a new Clann Aodha Buidhe settled down in home in Domhnach More. the home of Mc Ginnis. llth. Patrick O'Hegarty, circa 1322, This concludes the first part of the married Grisena, daughter of Roget Genealogy. McCormick, County .Antrim. In 1635 · John C. Hegarty is inclined to link ([nquisition No. 100 iA.ntrim) we :find up our !Hegartys of Ulster with Mum;ter the Earl of Antrim gave a grant of land septs of the · name, but one might as to Hugh og McCormuck of Dunmackel- well try to form a pyramid of all ':he ter, in the parish of Culfeightrin, and O Ceallaigh or O Murchadha families barony of GaJ:"Y. The McCormicks are ln Ireland with one Ceallaigh or a Murstill in the locality. chadha as its eponym. Our surnames 12th. James Q'.H)egarty. His wife's come from Christian names, .and they name is not recorded. We may take are not confined to any particular stem. it for granted when his name alone is In the Annals, at 10!50, we find the death preserved that 1t is correct. recorded of Maelduin 0 hEligeartaig, 13th. Dionysius O'!Ilegarty (!Donn- airchinneach of Lorha, in Co. Tipperary. chadh or Denis) of O'Neill's regiment. He was a. contemporary of the Arassus If it had said O'Neill's army it would and he belonged to an hereditary church synthesise better. He married Eleanor, family and this, we believe, was all that daughter of Ph111p Mc Donagh of they had in common. Another tendency Brockagh. A supplementary list 0f is revealed by Pedigrees such as that John c. Hagarty gives these MacDonaghs ~ just described, namely, that those who as Lords of Coranne in County Sligo; went abroad were the heads of the but if we search in County Derry, where family. Such an assertion cannot be the other MacDonagh alliance was accepted as a generalisation and will not made, we find the name Philip in a stand the test of scientific research. ·Rent Roll of the Grocers' Estate in Those who remained to face the Penal 1670:- Code have maintained their anci~nt Gortnared Brockagh Ballygroll Philip Qt Donaghy !Brian O Quigley Shane o [)onaghy Phelemy Donaghy Dermond O Hegarty all these places are in the Muff Gl'en in Lower Cumber. name with a courage and a fortitude which is as honourable as the bravery and splendour which became a characteristic of those who shed their blood. ''On far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Bl~lgrade." Up to the middle of the l 7th century the O'!Hegartys of Ulster x.-I haw neve>r oome across the Ohr'.stian appear to have remained concentrated name Philip in that fa.milY'.-Etl. in County Donegal and County· 91
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