JOURNAL •OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Derry. To form some idea of their numbers I give some extract.s from the Hearth Tax lists of ·Inish .Eoghain. In , every case the name is written O Hagerty:- of O'Uoghertys. The O'Hegartys, how- .ever, were in occupation there for many years previously, as the name Gortegarty shows. -Researches to date have not reMOVILUE vealed when the Q'Hegartys. settled at Baile na Crin, in South Derry. We Cuiley-Roory QI Hagerty. found Nicholas there, as rector, in 1458 Bellilane-;Maurice 0 Hagerty, Gorry and Eugene in 1469. Reeves's Colton O Hagerty, Mulmurry O Hagerty. tells that Patrick O'Hegarty, a farmer Carrowkeale -. !Bryan 0 Hagerty, in that locality, was plundered of his (Edmund?) O Hagerty. cows in 1461. Strangely enough, there FAHAN are none of the name there, listed in Carrowlen~ William 0 Hagerty. the Hearth Money·Rblls of 1663. Mr. John C. Hagerty of Cohasset, Mass., Tullidish-Torlogh O Hagerty. who has bravely assumed the mantle of Trelig-James QI Hagerty. , Loden~Cahell 0 Hagerty. family historian, is very interested in this branch, and will be grateful for TEMPILEMORE any information - tradition, prov1~rb, Derriane-Tfrlogh boy 0 Hagerty. tombstone or manuscript record passed Carnemoile--Oeorge O Hagerty. on to him. The Coats of Arms of the Ardmor~Connor 0 Hagerty. various families recorded on the Pedigree Ardacrin-Shane QI Ha,gerty, Donnagh are available and could be made the o Hagerty, James QI Hagerty. ·subject of an interesting article if any msmTEGNY of our members, familiar with heraldry, would undertake this ·arduous task. Tondu:tr~Hugh !QI Hagerty. It is more than likely that there were others whose houses did not come up to the standard of, or whose means did not afford the luxury of paying the Hearth Tax.x A complete list Of· all the families in County Donega] at· this · or any other period would be a valuable aid in tra<Cing the ramHlcation of the name. In the Poll Tax for Tirkeeran Barony, Co. Derry, 1659 census records of the principal Irish families are given, e.g., O'Dogherty 38; McLap.ghlin 19, O'\Heggerty 12; O'Quigley 6; O'Cahan 6. It is evident that the years previous to this witnessed a serious displacement of f amilies,Y as ls shown by the numbers 92 x.-There a.re m1anv Doine~J.l families conspicuous by their absence f·rom th:'.s list. I belie¥e tha.t many of them were then living in shielings with the~r Creagihs, fi1or example: Where were the Castlefin and Ufford O'Donnells in the dooade 1660-1670? 'Ihe final selttlement in C:ounty Mayo was not the clean-Cut brea.k with Tkconail that their h:istorii:ans would have us believe. but raJther a series of transitional stages via leaseholds, et~c., in Leitrim and S~igo up to the closing years. of of the 17th century.-Ed. v.-In 1659 there were 40 O'Galliagihers in · the barO'Iliy of Leyney, co. Sligo-far outnumbering the ancient family names. and in the pardons Qf · 1603 there is oo mention of an O'Gallagher in that liocality.
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