LANGAN'S HISTORICAL A-Z, INDEX & DIARY BY George Langan

Tag: MICHEAL OG O’LONGAIN

  • SEAN BAN AERACH O’FLANAGAIN By George Langan.

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    O’Flanagain Sean Ban Aerach, (merry white haired John),….Sean was a poet, versifier and a piper who was a native of Tulla, Co. Clare, spent much of his time around Glin as tutor to the children of the Knight, Thomas Fitzgerald. Buried in the same grave in Kilfergus as that of my ancestor, Tom (Captain Steele)…

  • WILLIAM DANAHER. (Liam O’Danchair) By George Langan.

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    We were left with the following account on the Danaher family from Colm Danaher, son of master William.  ‘In the middle of the 17th century, two brothers Maurice & Philip Danaher left their home in North Tipperary. They were escaping the landlord Brodel’s persecution…a Cromwellion officer who was rounding up hundreds of young people to be dispatched to the West…

  • TOM LANGAN (CAPTAIN STEELE) By George Langan.

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    Tom Langan (Captain Steele) Tom Langan who lived in Glenagragra was one of the best-known men in Munster during the 1798 Rising. He was known locally as ‘Captain Steele’ because he allegedly killed a man of that name during the said Rising in Co. Wexford. Tom, along with Gerald Fitzgerald, brother to John Bateman Fitzgerald, Knight…

  • JEREMIAH JOSEPH MC SWEENEY By George Langan.

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    MARY6 O’LONGÁN(JOSEPH5, MICHEÁL Ó’LONGÁN ( MICHEÁL ÓG4 ), MICHÉAL MAC PEADER3 O’LONGÁN, PEADER2, ANCESTOR1 O’ LONGÁN) was born 13 Mar 1851 in Whitechurch Co. Cork, and was alive up to the 1901 and 1911 Census.  She married JEREMIAH JOSEPH MC SWEENEY.  Children of MARY O’LONGÁN and JEREMIAH JOSEPH MC SWEENEY are:            i.  MORGAN PAT7 MC SWEENEY, b. 17 Apr 1873, at 2 Carolines  Row. Notes for MORGAN PAT…