The KIRWAN Family

of County Galway, Ireland

Excerps from:

IRISH PEDIGREES
or, THE ORIGIN AND STEM of THE IRISH NATION

By JOHN O'HART

Two Volumes; Fifth Edition, Originally Published Dublin, 1892;
Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1976, 1989.

Volume I

p. 101

LYNCH (*)

(*) [Abstracted] : John Lynch, D.D., Archdeacon of Tuam, was born in Galway circa 1600, of a family which claimed descent form Hugh de Lacy. He was ordained priest in France about 1622. He returned to Galway and taught school..... On the surrender of Galway in 1652 he fled to Europe, where he published Cambrensis Eversus in 1662, under the name "Gratianus Lucius." About the same period appeared his Alithonologia. In 1669, he published a life of his uncle, Francis KIRWAN, Bishop of Killala.

p. 512

KIRWAN. (No. 1)
Of Galway

Arms : Ar. a chev. sa. betw. three three Cornish choughs ppr.

ANDREW KIROVANE, of Galway, gent., had :
2. Peter (or Patrick) who had :
3. Robert (his fourth son), of Galway, gent., who died 23rd December, 1636. He m. Maria, dau. of Nicholas Martin, of Galway, gent., and had four sons and three daughters :
I. Nicholas.
II. John.
III. Richard.
IV. Robuck.
I. Joan.
II. Agnes.
III. Margaret.
4. Nicholas Kirwan : son of Robert.

KIRWAN. (No. 2.)
Of Galway.

Arms : Same as those of "Kirwan" (No. 1).

Thomas Keogh (or Caoch) KIRWAN, of Galway, had :
2. Thomas Oge, Alderman, who had :
3. Andrew, Alderman, who had :
4. Patrick, Alderman, who had :
5. Andrew, of Galway, Alderman, who d. 11th January, 1639. He m. Margaret, dau. of Edmund French, of Galway, Alderman, and had three sons and three daughters :
I. Patrick. (*)
II. Martin.
III. William.
I. Giles.
II. Mary.
III. Katherine.

(*) Patrick : Patrick KIRWAN was (in 1646) a member of the "Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation," whose son Martin married into the Bodkin family, and was the father of Captain Patrick Kirwan, of Lord Bofin's Infantry, in the service of King James II. Captain Kirwan married in 1703 Mary, daughter of Richard Martin, of Dangan, and on the death of his father in 1705, succeeded to the Cregg estates. He had two sons by that lady : 1. Martin, who succeeded him, and 2. Richard (died 1779), who was an officer in Dillon's regiment of the Irish Brigade. Martin married Mary, daughter Hyacinth French of Cloughballymore, Co. Galway, and had four sons : 1. Patrick, who was killed in a duel, s.p.; 2. Richard, LL.D., the celebrated Chemist and Geologist (mentioned in p. 227 of Webb's Compencium of Irish Biography), and President of the Royal Irish Academy; he died in Dublin, on the 22nd of june, 1812; 3. Andrew; 3. Hyacinth.

p. 854

ANCIENT KINGDOM OF CONNAUGHT.
2. ROSCOMMON and GALWAY.
(b) The New Settlers in Galway.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries several new families settled in the town of Galway, and other parts of that county; the principal of whom were Athy, Bermingham, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Blundel, Deane, Dillon, Darcy, French, DeJorse, KIRWAN, Lynch, Lawless, Morris, Martin, White, etc.The DeJorses came form Wales to Galway in the reign of Edward the First, and having formed an alliance with the O'Flahertys, chiefs of West Connaught, got large possessions in Connemara in the Barony of Ross; and towards the borders of Mayo a territory which is called "Joyces' Country." These DeJorses changed their name to "Joyce."

Volume II

p. 20

III. THE MOST IMPORTANT FAMILIES in IRELAND
at the BEGINNING of the 17th CENTURY.

O'KIRWAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COUNTY GALWAY

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ANGLO-IRISH and OTHER GENEALOGIES

p. 75

BROWNE, of Kilskeagh, County Galway:

18. Dominick, of Barna, Mayor of Galway in 1575; m. a daughter of Sir Morogh O'Flaherty, by whom he had a daughter Jane (the wife of Alderman Patrick KIRWANS of Cregg and Brawnmore), and seven sons; he died in 1596, and was buried in the family vault at the Franciscan Abbey, Galway.

p. 272

KIRWAN (No. 3) of Castlehacket,
County Galway.

Arms : Ar. a chev. gu. betw. three Cornish choughs sa.
Crest : A Cornish chough as in the Arms.
Motto : J'aime mon Dieu, mon roi, et mon pays.

THOMAS OGE, (*) (see p. 512, Vol. I.) is No. 2 on the "KIRWAN" (No. 2) pedigree, and who was Alderman of Galway in 1542, had two sons:
I. Andrew, Alderman, who was the ancestor of "Kirwan," of Cregg; d. 1578.
II. Stephen, of whom presently.
3. Stephen Kirwan : second son of Thomas Oge; had issue.
4. Richard : son of Stephen; had issue :
5. Stephen : son of Richard; had issue :
6. Sir John Kirwan, Knight : son of Stephen; was Mayor of Galway in 1686, and an M.P. Had issue.
7. Simon : son of Sir John; had issue.
8. John, of Castlehacket : son of Simon; d. 1781. He married Miss Daly, of Dalystown, Co. Galway, and had issue.
I. John, of whom presently.
II. Denis.
III. James.
9. John (d. 1821), of Castlehacket; eldest son of John; m. Mary, dau. of Henry Boyle Carter, Esq., of Castlemartin, County Kildare, and left two sons and a daughter :
I. John, of whom presently.
II. Henry, who m. Miss Bingham, and had issue.
10. John, of Castlehacket (born 1780, d. 1842) : eldest son of John; m. in 1806 Penelope (died 1842), eldest daughter of John Hardimen Burke, Esq., of St. Cleran's, and had issue, two sons and one dau. :
I. Denis, of whom presently.
II. John, b. 1807, d. 1827.
I. Elizabeth, who on the 17th Sept., 1839, m. the Hon. Edward Lawless, third Lord Cloncurry (d. 1869), and had issue.
11. Denis Kirwan, of Castlehacket, J.P. and D.L.; son of John; b. 1808, d. 1872, was High Sheriff in 1844. He m. 11th April, 1844, Anne-Margaret, only child of Major Thomas Macan, of Greenmount, County Louth, and had issue one son and one daughter :
I. John-Thomas-Macan Kirwan, of whom presently.
I. Mary-Lissey.
12. John-Thomas-Macan Kirwan, of Castlehacket : son of Denis; a Lieutenant in the 7th Royal Fusiliers; b. 1852, and d. 23rd June, 1875, when he was succeeded in Castlehacket by his sister Mary-Lissey Kirwan.

(*) Oge : This Thomas Oge was the son of Thomas Caoch ("caoch" : Irish, blind, dim- sighted or squint- eyed), who d. in 1545. Thomas Caoch had a brother Patrick, who was Warden of Galway; they were sons of William Kirwan, who settled in the town of Galway in 1488, and died in 1499. The epithet "caoch" applied to Thomas Oge Kirwan's father, is by some writers incorrectly rendered Keagh, and by others Reagh; but those two words are corruptions of the Irish epithet caoch (pr. "Keeagh").

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10. -- FAMILIES in IRELAND at the CLOSE of the 17TH CENTURY.

KIRAWAN.

p. 773

HOUSE OF COMMONS

"Names of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses returned to the Parliament beginning the 7th may, 1689."

Town of Galway --- OLIVER MARTIN, and JOHN KIRWAN.

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