Tag: THOMAS F. CULHANE
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SEAN BAN AERACH O’FLANAGAIN By George Langan.
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)…
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SEAN O’LONGAIN By George Langan.
Sean O Longain. Circa 1771, thirty years after Michael Mac Peadair had left Glin, we find his brother Sean acting as agent for the Knight, Thomas Fitzgerald. It appears that sometime after Michael had departed for Cork, Sean left his home in Ballydonoghue and came to live in Glenagragra. He got married to Ellen Culhane…
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JOSEPH O’LONGAIN 1816-1880. By George Langan.
Joseph O’Longain. 1816-1880. The youngest son of Michael Og and reputed to be one of the greatest of all traditional scholars. Another undated letter of ‘Launey’s’ to the Knight of Glin states – it was Joseph who executed for the R.I.A. his famous lithographic facsimiles of the oldest vellum manuscripts extant such as the ‘Book of…