JOURNAL 6F THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIET'Y -- THE O'HEGARTYS THEIR ' • lr ,. OF ULSTER AND KINDRED FAMILIES· -bYVE RY .REV. FATHER WALfER HEGARTY, ~ ------- -------- P.P. ~---==- WE are accustomed to regard the A pedigree of twenty-nine generations• O'Hegarty families as clerical· is recorqed on a copy of the O'Hegarty champions of the Faith in Penal timesas, for example, Father O'Hegarty, parish priest of Killygarvan, who was slain by the troops of Colonel Buchanan (sent to capture IBishop O'Gallagher-2nd March, 1734). (1) and· Friar O'Heg.arty, who was treacherously sliain at the Rock w:hfch still bears his name at Buncrana (2). genealogy, now before me. Twenty-one of the entrtes are given in Latin and the remainder, bringing it down to date, are in French. That we may know who, exactly, are the· people concerned we shall first deal with those recorded from tfle 16th to the 2·3rd step of the pedigree. But .a pedligree of a family whlch 16th. Eamonn O hEigcheartaigh left Ireland after the Siege of Limerick, (0'Hegarty, O'Hegerty, <YHeguerty and and branched into several lines" -of O'Hagarty-the last pronounced, I exnobility, shows another side; as is re- pect, like a in the English word hay- . vealed by the very intense researches of are all attempts to put in phonetic form John C. Hegarty of Cohasset, Massachus- the original Irish). Eamonn married ·sets, U.S.A. His wide search for data Joanna, daughter of Dionysius (Denis or has brought to light a vast collection of· Donnchadh) Walsh of Dungavan. I take family papers, including this pedigree, this to b3 Dungiven, and, if so, it is the in continental archives which he Visited. earliest mention, I have found, of the Hts s.tay .in 'Done1ga1: failed to satiate· his name of Walsh in Co. Derry. Eamonn desire to obtain traditions of the is not dated, but working back from a O'Hegarty families, ·still extant, and the fixed date (1622) his marriage took place best way to draw attention to his work about th9 year 1520. Only one s~n. is by appealing to memb€rs and readers Maurice, is given of this marriage and of the Journal of the Donegal Historical we may be · practicaliy certain that he Soeiety fo'I' the.ir hel.p. (3 ) . was not the only child and this may be (1) B'.)urke's "Dr. O'Gallagher's Sermons"- Introduction. Maguire "Hlistory of the Diocese of Raph6e·, Vol. 11, p. 121. Hist. Mss. Comm. Eyre Matcham Mss., Vol. vi., .p 62 (1909). (2) Hegarty "A Fight for the Faith" ("Derry Journal," :oamphiet, 1947). (3) The folfowing came to i'i.ght during the reoent Fisheries' Oase:-"Bishop Hopkin'l v. Irish Society," Chancery Suit•, A.D., 1683/84. "Shane Ballagh Mc Hagert (y) of Armagh, in the Liberties oif Londonderry, yeoman, aged! 83 years or therea.bouts, deposed. .. . That he knows the Lands O!f Cionee . . . that he t:emembers two salmon draughts with'n the mid land.$ of Olonee and Caws at Bumsha.nton, in the time of Bishop Brownweli ... in the yea.r 1641." (Ed.) appliec:l to all the alliances in the earlier steps at the pedigree. At an Inquisition, held in iDerry, September, 1609, we .find on the jury, Edmond oge O'Hagarty, probably called after the older Eamonn. 17th. Mauritius, of Clainsuillagh, Co. Donegal. This place is iater styled Clunsullagh,.....,since named Brookhall. Brookhall is situated on the iFoyle, not two miles north of Derry, and the map shows it in the quarterland of Ballynashallog. It would be interesting to get the names of all who occupied it since 86
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