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An Armstrong & A Heffernan
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 Abt 1810 - Deceased
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| | 1. Mary LONERGAN, b. 1846, Ballylanders, Limerick, Munster, Ireland  , d. Aft 1910, , , , Ireland (Age 65 years) |
| | 2. Ellen LONERGAN, b. Abt 1855, Ballylanders, Limerick, Munster, Ireland , d. Deceased |
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| Notes |
- (Research):O'LONERGAN.
In pre-Norman times the O'Lonergans inhabited north-east Thurmond, i.e. that part of Tipperary which lies on the east side of Lough Derg, but the pressure exerted by the Anglo-Norman Butlers forced them southwards to the country around Cashel and Cahir, where they have remained in considerable numbers up to the present day. The name, in Irish Ó Longargain, is usually anglecized Lonergan, without the prefix O, but sometimes takes the form Londrigan. The chief of the sept resided near Cahir, but little is heard of them in the stormy military and political history of Ireland. Their claim to fame lies in the number of leading ecclesiastics they gave to the Church from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, no less than six of these being archbishops or bishops, two of Killaloe and three of Cashel, i.e. in the two homelands of the sept. The most distinguished of these was Donnell (not Donat as sometimes stated) O'Longargan or O'Lonergan, Archbishop of Cashel, who took a prominent part in the council of Kells in 1152. Mention should be made, too, of the family of O'Lonergan which supplied harpers to the O'Kellys of Ui Máine. They possessed a small patrimony at Ballynabanaby in the parish of Kilgerril (south-east Galway) at the time that the Book of Lecan was compiled, i.e. at the beginning of the fifteenth century. In modern times the only Lonergans of any note were Thomas S. Lonergan (b. 1861), Irish born American poet and politician, and Anne Lonergan, the Irish nun who was imprisoned during the French Revolution.
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