Families that came from County Cork, Ireland.

Irish Family History and Genealogy

with curious news and notes from Ireland.

From Michael O’Laughlin at www.Irishroots.com

Todays we will talk about :

1) Cork Genealogy books

2) Top 19th century family names

3) Top families on the Map of the Four Masters

4) Who left from Cork ?

5) Queenstown, Cobh or Cove

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They came from Cork

These words are common. Many families recall only that

someone said ‘they came from County Cork’. While this may

be true, it does not mean that they lived in County Cork.

1) They may have lived in a nearby county, coming to Cork

to depart from the busy port of Cobh or Queenstown.

( Cobh and Queenstown are one in the same. This is an

example of a place name changing over time. )

2) They may have left from Liverpool and stopped briefly in

Cork while immigrating to North America. Then departed

from Cork to the new world.

Holding such a busy port, County Cork has a distinct flavor of its

own. Today we will look at the major families of Co. Cork

in two time periods. First he 19th century birth records,

and then the Map of the 4 Masters which shows prominent

families of several origins. (found in the mid 1800’s in the

Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters, Connellan translation).

Before we look at those, here are some books of interest to those

looking for family history in County Cork, Ireland:

Books of the Month:

1) Families of County Cork, Ireland

http://www.irishroots.com/id4357.htm

2) County Cork, Ireland, genealogy and family history notes

http://www.irishroots.com/id4748.htm

3) Family Names of County Cork by O’Murchadha

4) Castles of County Cork by Healy

Birth Records

Now lets look at the birth records and my comments

from the book 'County Cork, Ireland, genealogy and

family history notes' :

“The 19th century birth index of Ireland finds the following

families most numerous in the county :

Sullivan; Murphy; McCarthy; Mahoney; Donovan; Walsh;

O'Brien; Callaghan (Callahan) ; Leary; Crowley; Collins;

Driscoll; Connell; Barry; Cronin; Buckley; Daly (Daily) ;

Sheehan; Riordan; Kelleher (Kelliher) ; O'Connor (O'Conner);

Hurley; Regan (Reagan); O'Keefe; Harrington; Fitzgerald;

O'Neill (O'Neale), etc..

Other Family Names

There are of course, hundreds of families not noted above,

and many more ways of spelling each name shown. Several

thousand families are given in our larger, hardbound work

"Families of Co. Cork, Ireland', which you may want to consult

for further research.

Most of the old Irish names can have the Mac or 'O' before

the name dropped and added at will. Additionally many old

Irish names were translated or 'mistranslated' into English

from the original gaelic. Hence many English sounding names

may actually be found in old Irish families! “

Below we find a resource which gives families from earlier periods,

including the Norman invasions of the 12th century.

Families on the

Map of the Four Masters:

http://www.irishroots.com/id4772.htm

L = Lord; P= Prince, E = Earl, B = Baron, C = Chief, v=Viscount

Barnwall

Barrett, Lord

Barry, Baron

Barry, Earl

Barry, Lord

Barry, Oge

deCapel

deCarew

deCogan

deCogan, L.

Condon, B.

Coppinger

deCourcy, E.

Fitzgerald, E.

Fitzgerald, L.

Fitzgerald(Fitzgibbon) the White Knight

Fitzgibbon(Fitzgerald) the White Knight

Galwey

Gould

MacAuliffe, Chief

MacCarthy, King

MacCarthy, P.

MacCarthy Reagh, P.

MacClancy, C.

MacDonough, L.

Nagle

OAhern (Ahearn)

O'Bradley

O'Brien, C.

O'Brigan

O'Callaghan, L.

O'Callanan

O'Casey

O'Claisin

O'Coleman

MacSheehy, C.

MacSherry

MacSweeney, C.

O'Cowley, C.

O'Creagh

O'Crowley, C.

O'Crowly

O'Cullen

O'Cullenan, C.

O'Curry

O'Daly

O'Danaher

O'Dea, C.

O'Deasy

O'Dennery

O'Dinane

O'Dineen

O'Donovan, L.

O'Donovan

O'Driscoll, L.

O'Dugan, C.

O'Falvey

O'Fihelly

O'Flynn, C.

O'Flynn

O'Griffin

O'Halahan

O'Hartigan

O'Hea, C.

O'Healy

O'Hennigan

O'Herlihy

O'Heyne

O'Hoollaghan

O'Horgan

O'Hurley

O'Kearny

O'Keefe, L.

O'Kelleher

O'Leary, L.

O'Lehan (Lyons) L.

O'Lomasey

O'Looney

O'Lynch

O'Mahony, L.

O'Morony

O'Murphy

O'Noonan, C.

O'Regan

O'Riordan, C.

O'Ronayne

O'Scannell

O'Shea

O'Sullivan Beare, P.

O'Sullivan, P.

O'Tuohy

O'Tuomey

Roche, V.

Sarsfield

Skiddy

Supple

Walsh

Irish, Norman, Viking and more

You will note that these names include both the native Irish

and those who settled in Ireland over time. Most came to be

regarded as Irish as time passed. In fact, it was said over

time that some of these families ‘became more Irish than the

Irish themselves”.

Top 100 Families

As it is very trendy to list the Top 10 or Top 100 for anything,

You can make a Top 100 list of your own from these

names that are documented in County Cork, and you might

just add your own, if it has gone missing !

....So end my notes for today.

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