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Chapter Four

We Meet Kilmartin’s

The first positive indication that the name of Kilmartin was native to Ireland is found in the 1659 census found for the County of Fermanagh, in parishes of Devenish, Aghareigh, and Cleenish, in the Barony of Clanawley. This census was found in the home of Lord Landsdowne. According to a topographical and historical map of ancient Ireland, compiled by Phelp MacDermott, the following were the principal families in Ireland of Irish, Irish-Norman and Anglo-Irish prigin from the 11th to the end of the 16th century:

 

Name

County

Name

County

Cusdack

Clare, Mayo

O’Driscoll

Cork

O’Hagerty

Donegal, Kerry

MacKilmartin

Leitrim

McHale

Mayo

O’Hara

Mayo, Sligo

McHahon

Clare, Monaghan

O’Hurley

Cork, Limerick

Martin

Galway

O’Looney

Cork

O’Brien

Tipperary, Cork

O’Malloy

Kings

O’Donegan

Fermanagh, Tyrone

O’Murray

Donegal, Cavan

Staunton

Down, Galway

O’Neil

Tyrone, Armagh

Of course, many other names may be left out. This source is one of many.

In the County of Tyrone, in the 13th century, the name of O’Neil was known to be the Chief and King of Ireland. We are related from the O’Neil as stated earlier. It was around this time that the Kings of England, starting with Henry II in 1154 AD, began the migrations to Ireland. They continued under fifteen kings, with a total of seventy eight migrations, until the religious atmosphere changed under King Henry VIII. It continued under Queen Elizabeth, becoming an anti-Catholic attitude. The direct cause of this attitude was the battle of Kinsale in 1552.

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