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MacNamara or McNamara (Irish: Mac Con Mara) is an Irish surname of a family of County Clare in Ireland. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the MacNamaras were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC. [1]
County Clare (Irish: Contae an Chláir) is a county in the province of Munster in the Southern part of Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority .
Map all coordinates using ... List of towns in the Republic of Ireland; By county: Carlow; Cavan; Clare; Cork; ... Pages in category "Towns and villages in County Clare"
According to Frost, Mahone 'a quo MacMahon' died in 1129, leaving two sons Murtagh and Dermot, [5] with Murtagh being the ancestor of the main line of McMahons in Clare. The McMahons seized the Corcabaskin territory in the south of what is now County Clare in the 12th century about the same time as they adopted the fixed surname.
Within the 1669 Census of Ireland, the surnames Gormon and Gorman are listed as principal names for two baronies within County Clare: 9 Gormons are recorded in the Islands barony which consisted of 1651 people; [11] and 6 Gormans are recorded in the barony of Moyferta, which consisted of 1024 people. [12]
Placenames Database of Ireland; Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Kilmacduane". County Clare: A History and Topography "Map of Kilmacduane Parish showing Townlands". Clare County Library; Westropp, Thomas Johnson. "Antiquities Near Miltown Malbay: Kilmacduan Church". Clare County Library
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
The North Liberties, detached between the city and county Clare, remained a separate barony, although the Ordnance Survey and census did not at first record it. [97] Clare (Scattery Island) 1840 1854 Moyarta: Made by the 1840 Act from the portion of the County of the City of Limerick outside the borough of Limerick and adjacent to County Clare.