JOURNAL OF' . THE CbtJNfY :t>ONEGAL. 11ISTORICAL SOCIETY it got its modem n,ame. In ·,1777 we time, was !Father Patrick .Q':Heg~rty·. The find Wray, iEsq., on Taylor and Skinner's Marquis of Antrim, disgusted with the Maps and, later on, the Hills and . the treaty of peace of 1646, retired into the Beresfords are~ associated with it; and . Highlands of Scotland. When ·wiser . now Commander 01.lliland. Clunsullagh counsels prevailed "Owen R.uadh the would me~n the Meadow of the Willows. Pope's Nuncio, and clergy party, sen't one In 1609 G1llachrist O'iHegartty was in possession of the half quarter of Clonemon, Patrick 0 Haggerty, a priest pw,:,osely, but. this place, at Derry, has not been with notice thereof to the said :Marquis, identified. · (Note that, as of old, this who, thereupon·, immediately returned area is giv,en in !Donegal). Maurice into Ireland and joined with the said married Rosa, da:ughter of Niall O'Quinn, Nuncio and Owen lRoe" (Charge against in the County Donegal. ;r should like- the Marquis. 1665-Hlll's Mac Donnells p. 331). Dents married Catherine: to be able to localise the exact habitat daughter of Denis Mac· Guire, Sieur de of the O'Quinn family in days gone by. Clossagh, Co. Fermanagh. The Closach Tir Eleghain in theiT day extended from · · the Finn Valley.to Drumquin and there is in Tir. Eoghan, not Fermanagh.. is a tradition that the Urney ,:fishery.· was Originally in iMaguire's country, it passed into the.hands of O'Neill, put there wer e ~~:e.in the hands of a family of that many Maguires living there, where this 18th. Daniel (.DomhnalD is men- Denis Maguire had some land. tioned in the Pardons of Innishowen in 21st. Daniel or Uomhnall. He tnar1602. So he lived in the time of the ried Grisella or Grace, daughter of Niall occupation of iDerry by iDowcra. We· O'Mulvany of the Route, a gentleman of have the following names in order in the the house of the ancient lords of Bally~ pardon list:-Murtagh o Hegertie, Mulvany. As the Christian · name t>onell O Hegertie, me Morris, Gillechrist Grisella or Grace occurs a number .of O Heagertie, Shane o Heagertie. Domh- times in th.e Pedigree, it is as well to· nall married Rosa, daughter of Terentius state thiat the original is Graine. 0 Caban "whose ·brother was amongst the Nowadays, through the pet-nam?, Gracey, leading lords of Co. Derry." r have not it ·has changed to Theresa and Inis identified this Toirdealbhach o Cathain, Eoghan ls full of Theresas called after but that Christian name ran in the their great grandmothers, . Graine, by family. We have, for example, Tiriough name. According to Dr. Seamus o Cealoge O Cahan, "who was at the affair at laigh, the one authority we hiave on the Portna in 1642.'' Cineal Binnigh (the descendants of Eoqhy 19th. Hugh. He ·married Honora Binnech, son of Eoghan) ·and other "fiUa Nigell magni O Duvin" i.e., Niall important divisions of our people, the Mor 0 Duibhin. I have ·not traced Ntall O'Mulvanys were lords of Ui iMaoilmMor, but in IDcinaghedy (Domhnach heana, and.moved across from Derry ir.to Chaoidi) Parish, Co. Tyrone, the Antrim. Bally-Mulvany is, '1-t present, O'Duibhin family were, and are, plentiful. unlocated. A sketch of Domhnall Lisdivin and Cuaille Muintir · Duibhin O hEigcheartaig's career is given in the (now the Coaley) are evidence of ancient Pedigree : ~"D.aniel joined the forces of ownership. Previous to this date the . Clan Aodh Buidh, faithful to :King James O'Hegartys haq. been there as priests. II, as Captain in the regiment of Colonel - Salamone (Solamh) O'Hegarty was ap.:. Cormac O'Neill of :Kilmacevet. In 1688 pointed vicar there in 1459 and Ms he raised, formed and armed, at his successor wa_s W1lliam O'Hegarty. In the own expense, a company of 100 foot Hearth Tax and Poll Tax lists, around soldiers which he offered to the Viceroy, the year 1690, we .find only two of the Talbot, Duke of Tyrconnell. · Later, a name, Owen and Robert, and both in Major in the Regiment of Talbot (forserVice to the stranger in cumon merly O'Neill's) and Aide-Major General townland. Count Louzon, of the French Army in · 20th. . Denis O'il:Iegerty "Sieur de Ireland, he followed ·iKirig James tC' Clunsullagh (nornme depuis Brookhall, :France in 1691, after the capitulation of Comte, Donegal'') was born in Ireland- Limerick. His first establishment was died 26th !May, 1692, at [)!nan, Brefagne. in Lorraine. On the 15th M:ay, 1720, It is a pity that no details are given o'f while in 'Nancy he purchased the lordhls career as he lived in an important ship a~d the lands of La Neuvelotte and epoch. The only one of the name, I La Grange of Baron de Beauffremont have found, ·making a :figure, at that and un the 18th July in that same year a 87
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