O'Carroll

O'Carroll

O' Carroll is an Irish family name, deriving from the Gaelic Ó Cearbhail.

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O' Carroll name and territorial extent

Notable is the history of the Clan Ó Cearbhail whose territory, known as Ely O' Carroll in Éile, consisted of the pasture lands of Ballycrinass, Rosscullenagh and Drumcan, extending to the Lake of Leghagh, commonly Laghaghirisallive and bounded on the west by the lands called Laghenagarken and on the east adjoining or near to Glencrokin. This was always known as Ely O' Carroll. The mountain land extended from the Laghanagerah (Lochan na gCaorach) to Polle Dowa (Poll Dubh in Roscomroe) and then in a south easterly direction to the Slieve Bloom Mountains, which are the limits between Ely O' Carroll and Upper Ossary meeting at a village called Garryvoe or Scully's land[1].

The Ely O' Carroll sept was the most powerful and most famous,but there were at least four other septs, O' Carrolls of Oriel in the Dundalk area, O' Carrolls of Ossory in the Carlow/Kilkenny area and two septs in the Kerry area.[1] The prefix "O'" is very often dropped in the case of this surname, giving simply Carroll, occasionally replaced with "Mac".


DNA Testing

Some DNA testing has been done on a Kilkenny O'Carroll (Ossory) The initial test revealed the following ;


It is planned proceed with a full sequence testing. The results will be posted here.

Locus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
DYS # 393 390 19* 391 385a 385b 426 388 439 389-1 392 389-2
Alleles 13 24 14 11 11 14 12 12 13 13 13 29

Ely O'Carroll

The Ely Carrolls come from counties Offaly and Tipperary in Ireland. The sept is also known as Eile and Clan Cian. One descendant, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), was a wealthy landowner in Maryland and a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. His cousin, Dan Carroll, was a signer of the Consitution. The Y-chromosome DNA of Ely Carroll descendants is haplotype R1b1a2 with marker 492=11 (66th of 67 markers). All who have been tested for the L21 SNP have it. Historic Ely Carroll surnames are: Carroll, Bohan/Bowen, Dooley, Meagher/Maher, Kelly/Kealy, Flanagan, Corcoran, Healy, Nevin, O'Connor.

Clan Cian

The O' Carrolls trace their origins to the so called Cianachta "tribe". The Cianachta or Clan Cian, in English, were the "Race of Cian". It is claimed by some members of the O' Carroll Clan that the Cianachta or Clan Cian, is one of the ancient to modern, recognized Clans in Ireland. Dating from the 3rd century C.E. However, this is disputed by other Irish Clans and scholars who argue that apart from sharing a common origin no such Clan Cian ever evolved.

The Cian in question was the youngest son of Olioll Ollum King of Munster, and grandson of King Eoghan Mor 1st (known as) Mogh Nuadath de Leith Mogha (Mogha’s Half) of southern Ireland of the Milesian race of Heber, who contested for supremacy of all Ireland in the second century of the Christian Era.

The Cianachta were led well over 1500 years by an officially recognized King or High Chief, Prince or Ruling Lord (Irish "Ard Tiarna") chosen from members of the Carroll-O’Carroll, Rival Houses of the noble Sept of Eile O’Carroll.

Anciently in Ormond. Counties Tipperary, Waterford. And Eile O’Carroll, extending into Offaly, Leix, Kilkenny. In the fifth century the Cianacht Chief, Eile Righ Derg (Eile the Red King) ruled the territory known as Eile O’Carroll to distinguish the sept from other O’Carroll Septs.

Cearbhaill (Carroll) Son, of Aeodh, Chief of the Cianachta (Clan Cian), King of Eile. This Prince Cearbhaill led the Eilians at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 with King Brian Boru. The Cianachta or Clan Cian by Charter of Re-Formation 1982-1983 again has been active, largely in the USA, with participation in Activities and Promotion of its former Irish Culture, and representation with the Council of Irish Chiefs, Chieftains.

Clan Cian Dispute

A few of the other families which resided within the kingdom of the Carrolls were the O'Meaghers/O'Meachair (Maher), O'Caseys, O'Haras, and O'Garas. All of these family surnames, and related septs, also trace their origins to Cian, or Cianachts but many dispute the notion of an overarching Clan Cian. In MacLysaght’s definitive work Irish Families there are over 200 Irish surnames listed and while recognising that there are many more Irish names it is now considered that these names constitute the main name bearing Irish septs. Many of these septs developed out of larger groups or clans which pre-dated the development of surnames as in the case of O’Brien in relation to the Dal Cás or O’Higgins in relation to the Cenél Fiachach or in this case O'Carroll in relation to the Cianachta. However, these larger groupings seldom gave rise to surnames in themselves.

Specifically in the case of Munster The Great book of Irish Genealogies compiled between 1645 – 66 by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and edited more recently by Nollaig Ó Muraíle (2003), in Vol. II the following pre-surname population groups are listed:

Eoghanacht pp 549–599 Dál Cais pp 599–633 Dealbhna pp 633–645 Clanna Céin p. 645 = Clan Cian Clann Tadch Meic Céin pp 647–661 = Clan Tadch son of Cian Síol Luighdheach meic Íochta pp 661–683

While some septs who descended from these population groups have voluntarily decided to affiliate themselves with each other (i.e. Dalcassians) Clans of Ireland, the independent authority established for the registration of Irish Clans, does not accept in its Register of Irish Clans the larger group as they do not meet the criteria of a surname sept. Consequently, “Clan Cian” is not recognised on the Register of the Clans of Ireland.

Sir William Betham's History of O'Carroll

The following is quoted from the Ordnance survey letters to King's County (Offaly) 1838 cit. Sir William Betham's Irish Antiquarian Researches. Part I, Pg.95. Sir William Betham (1779–1853) was the Ulster King of Arms and can be considered a fairly reliable source as such.

The family of O'Carroll, according to the Irish antiquaries, are descended from Kean, the third son of Olioll Olum, King of Munster. Teige, the eldest son of this Kean, was a distinguished warrior, who by killing in battle his three rivals, procured for Cormac Mac Art, King of Ulster, the Monarchy of Ireland. Cormac rewarded him with a grant of land in Connaught called Lurgny Gallen and Culavin, he paying to the King of Connaught and his successors, 150 milch cows in May; 100 beeves and 100 barrels of mead or Metheglin at Alhallontide yearly, forever.

He had two sons, Conla and Cormac Galeng; to the latter he gave the lands of Lurgny Gallen, now called the Barony of Gallen in the County of Mayo and Culavin, which were possessed by his descendants, the O'Haras and O'Garas.

Conla, the eldest son, possessed the lands afterwards called Duthec Eile, i.e., the Estate of Eile, from Eile Ridheargs, of which his descendants were styled Kings, there being no other title of honour in use in Ireland before the coming of the English.

Cearbhuill, the twelfth according to some, and the 16th in descent according to other authorities, from the above Eile, gave name to the Sept of the O'Carrolls, i.e., the descendants of Cearbhuill. The tenth in descent from him was Teige or Thatheus O'Cearbhuill Boy, King of Eile, who caused the Box of Dimma to be gilt, died about the middle of the 12th century and was succeeded by his son.

Maolroona O'Carroll or O'Cearbhuill, King of Eile, was succeeded by his brother.

Donald O'Carroll, who was King of Ely at the coming of the English under Strongbow and from him are descended the Principal houses of this family.

Maolroona O'Carroll, whose daughter Grace, or Grania, was married to Ulick Burke, Lord of Clanrickard, and was mother of Rickard Sassanagh Burke, the first earl, joined with O'Brien and others against the English Government and gave them much trouble. He died A.D. 1532.

His son Fergonamuin or Ferdinando O'Carroll, who succeeded his father as O'Carroll, concluded a treaty with Leonard, Lord Gray, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 12 June 1538, by which he consented for himself and his successors, the O'Carrolls, Capitanci de Ely O'Carroll, to pay the King 12d. for every carucate of land in Ely O'Carroll, one hundred and twenty marks on the nomination of the chief, and on general hostings to supply the Chief Governor of Ireland with twelve horsemen and twenty four foot men, all well equipped for war with provisions for forty days at the expense of O'Carroll; that on all journeys to those parts, they should supply the Lord Deputy and suite with provisions for three days; that the Lord Deputy should be supplied with provisions by O'Carroll for eighty gallowglasses for three months every year and be permitted to make a road or roads through Ely O'Carroll at his pleasure.

In 1548 Teige Caoch O'Carroll, son of Ferdinando, called by Sir James Ware, petty King of Ely, routed the English out of his country, but afterwards submitted and was created Baron of Ely in 1532 (I have not been able to find the record of this patent) which he did not long enjoy, having been slain by his own Sept headed by his own kinsman and competitor Cahir O'Carroll, who was afterwards slain by William Adhar O'Carroll, younger brother of Teige, who was knighted 30 March 1567 and made Governor of Ely and Captain of his Nation by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Justice of Ireland. Sir William died 28 April 1579. His natural son Sir Cahir or Charles O'Carroll, was knighted by Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy in 1584.

Sir Mulrooney O'Carroll, son of Sir William, was knighted by Sir George Carew, L. D. of Ireland, at Dublin Castle, St. James's Day, 1 March 1603, being the day of the Coronation of King James I.

Roger O'Carroll, son and heir of Sir Mulrooney, was ousted out of his Estates by Cromwell, he having attached himself to the King's party under the Duke of Ormond, but his eldest son and heir, Charles O'Carroll, was in great favour with Kings Charles II and James the I, who were not able to restore him to his paternal estate; the latter made him grants of large tracts of land on the Monoccasy River in the Province of Maryland in the North America, which was divided into three manors of 20,000 acres (81 km2) each and called after the possession he had lost in Ireland, viz., Ely O'Carroll and Doughoregan. The third was called Carrolston.

This gentleman was also made Attorney General of the Province and his Estates are still in the possession of his grandson, Charles O'Carroll of Carrolston, Esq. aged 90 years, whose father and himself have been members of the Senate of that State.

Mary, the daughter of the last mentioned Charles, was married to Richard Caton Esq., of the State of Maryland, by whom she was mother to her Excellency Marianne, the present Marchioness of Wellesley and three other daughters Elizabeth, Louisa-Catharine (Lady Harvey) and Emily.

Sir James Carroll, who was Mayor of Dublin, was knighted by Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy at Loghroer, the 30th of Sept. 1609. His father, Thomas O'Carroll, being oppressed by the chief of his family, came to live in Dublin.

Sir James Carroll had a grant of the Abbey of Baltinglass and was ancestor to the present High Sheriff of the County of Wicklow, Henry Griffiths (Carroll) of Ballymore Esq.

Donagh, or Denis O'Carroll, descended from Donogh O'Carroll, brother to Mulrooney O'Carroll, Chief of his name, who died in 1532, was possessed of the estates of Modereeny and Buolybrack in Tipperary and was ousted by Cromwell. He married O'Kennedy's daughter and had thirty sons, who he formed into a troop of horse and presented to Duke of Ormond for the service of King Charles I. On the Restoration, John, his son, had a grant of his lands at Killury in the Co. of Galway, where he married the daughter of O'Crean by Margarett, the daughter of Lord Athenry. His eldest son James Carroll, was ancestor to the family at Killury; Daniel, his second son, entered into the military service of the King of Spain and was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Iago. He was afterwards, through the interest of the Duke of Ormond, made a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Service by Queen Anne, in which he rose to the rank of Lt. General, obtained permission to bear the Insignia of the Order of St. Iago in England, had also the style of Sir Daniel and was Colonel of a Regiment of Horse. His grandson, John Whitley O'Carroll, was British resident at Saxe Weimar in 1804.

Three other O'Carrolls, John, Donagh and Kedagh, obtained grants of land in Connaught from King Charles II in compensation for their losses in Leinster.

From them are descended the families of Springhill, Tirlogh, Ardagh, Carragh and Dunmore in the Co. of Galway; Forthill in the County of Mayo and Doraville in the Co. of Clare. The other principal families now existing are those of Emmell in the King's County; Thurles, Ballingarry, Nenagh, Littlefield and Annemead in Tipperary; Rockfield in the Co. of Wicklow and Coolroe in the Co. of Carlow.

John Carroll of Stephen's Green, Esq., late M.P. for New Ross is the representative of this last family. Owen Carroll represented the King's Co. in King James's Parliament in 1689.


Kingdom of Ely

   * Domhnall O'Carroll, King of Éile (Ely)
   * Dónal Dhearg (the Red) O'Carroll
   * Willaim Álainn (the Handsome) O'Carroll
   * Donogh O'Carroll
   * Teige O'Carroll
   * Donough O'Carroll
   * Anthony O'Carroll
   * Daniel O'Carroll of Litterluna (1629-1688)
         o Charles Carroll the Settler (1661-1720)
               + Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702-1782)
                     # Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832)
                           * Charles Carroll of Homewood (1775-1825)
                                 o Charles Carroll V (1801-1862)
                                       + John Lee Carroll (1830-1911)
         o Kean Carroll (1663-1701?), brother of Charles Carroll the Settler
               + Daniel Carroll I (1696-1751)
                     # Daniel Carroll II (1730-1796)
  • Maol Ruanaidh Cam Ó Cearbhaill (d. 1329). Musician.
  • Owen Carroll. Represented the King's County in King James's Parliament in 1689.
  • Brigadier Daniel O'Carroll (d-1713). In army of English King James II.
  • Rev. Anthony Carroll S.J. (1722–1794). Robbed & murdered in London.
  • Daniel Carroll (1730–1796). U.S. politician. Signatory of both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
  • Most Rev. John Carroll (1735–1851). First Catholic Bishop in USA.
  • Charles Carroll (1723–1783). Barrister.
  • William Carroll (1788–1844). Governor of Tennessee.
  • General William Henry Carroll (1810–1868). Confederate Army General.
  • William Carroll (1872–1936). Australian Senator.
  • Julian Carroll (b 1931). Kentucky Senator.
  • Dr. Warren H. Carroll Ph D. Catholic Historian & Author.
  • Mella Carroll (b 1934). High Court Judge. First female appointed to superior court in Ireland.
  • Katharine Bulbulia née O'Carroll (b 1943). Irish Senator.
  • Patrick P O’Carroll, JR. Inspector General, Social Security Administration, USA
  • Bill Carroll (broadcaster) (b 1959). Radio personality, USA.
  • William Allan Carroll (b 1959). Professional Ice Hockey player.
  • Professor Sean B. Carroll (b 1960).
  • Dr. Sean M. Carroll Ph D (b 1966).
  • Will Carroll (b 1970). Sports writer, USA.
  • Bruce Carroll-Musician (Present)
  • Jason Michael Carroll-singer/artist-Present
  • Lady Mary Carroll-Bower, Founder of Adopt a Family of Natural Disaster and Crisis
  • Gracy O'Carroll-Head of Clan Cian-Present.
  • Wayne Carroll of Texas,-d.2011, baseball, boxer, fisherman, sports writer

Sources

  • Chief Herald of Ireland
  • O'Hart's Irish Pedegrees
  • Burke's General Armorial
  • Armorial General Rietstap
  • Eile, Genealogy of the Kings and Chiefs of Eile (Ely) O'Carroll
  • Life and Correspondence of Charles Carroll by Kate Mason Rolland
  • Burkes Irish Family Records
  • Burkes Landed Gentry of Ireland
  • The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, Brian Lawlor. 2003. Gill & McMillon. 1 7171 3000 2.
  • Web Page, extract from Maclysaght. [2]

See also

Further reading

  1. "The General History of Ireland" by Geoffrey Keating (also spelt Jeoffry) , D.D. Published in 1809.
  2. "Historic Kilkenny" by Joseph C. O'Carroll, booklet, first published by "The Kilkenny People" in 1978. Reprinted in 1980,'83, '89 & '94.
  3. Mayor John Hogan's "Kilkenny". Printed and published by P.M. Egan, in Kilkenny, in 1884.
  4. Rev. William Carrigan, "The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory", 4 vols (1905), and Index by Helen Litton (2005)
  5. The Deeds of Ormonde.

Footnotes

  1. ^ IRISH FAMILIES, Edward MacLysaght, 1972

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