Harrington in Ireland

O hArrachtain, OhOireachtaigh, OhLongadail, HARRINGTON   Do Irish Harringtons have a family coat of arms or banner? This question has a number of problems. 1. Coats of arms are granted to an individual named person . Therefore, arms are not related to, nor belong to, a surname- even though there are many suppliers of family arms paraphernalia on the internet who would have you believe otherwise. 2. Coats of arms were initially a very English affair. They developed as a system of identification- for seals, shields and the surcoats of men in armour from about the 12th century. The College of Arms was established in England in 1484. The Ireland Register of Arms was founded by King Edward VI of England in 1552. Heraldry came to Ireland with the nobles and military forces of the English. 3. Coats of arms for native Irish noblemen became popular after the Battle of Kinsale at a time when Irish families needed to prove their loyalty to the English Crown. In the early 1600s many noble Iri...

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON  Harrington and Hingerty at Leuven University, Belgium In the European Summer of 2005, my husband and I received scholarships to attend a Summer School at the Catholic University of Leuven. It was a wonderful experience which we will never forget. Little did we know, however, that I was not the first Hingerty/Harrington to attend this university..... While trawling through journal articles looking for references to Hingerdill, I found that Leuven University had hosted two previous Hingerty/Harrington students in the years from 1760 to 1782! According to Jeroen Nilis  Irish Students at Leuven University 1548-1797  Irish students started attending Leuven University from 1548 onwards. Many were studying theology, with some studying medicine and a few studying law.  Latin was a pre requisite.  Some students attended pre university courses to prepare them for entrance to the formal university degree courses if they ...

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON What happened to the O'Hingurdils after they arrived at the end of their dramatic  14 day march north with O'Sullivan in December 1602? Further research by MH, a Hingerty researcher in the USA, has uncovered the next chapter of the story. (To read the full article go to:  O'Sullivan Beare in Spain: Some Unpublished Documents by M K Walsh  ) From Ireland to Spain When the Nine Years' War came to an end in 1603, many Irish lords were pardoned and re-instated by King James. However, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare was refused a pardon. His estates were confiscated, he was refused freedom of movement and lived in constant fear of imprisonment and death. O'Sullivan and his followers were forced to remain hidden in the mountains.  In 1604 O'Sullivan and "18 Irish gentlemen" made their escape from Ireland by sea. They landed in France and spent a short time in Bordeaux and then moved on to La Caruna and so...

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON Martin Hingerty or Harrington? Martin Hingerty was baptised 16 September 1846.  His parents were Ned Hingerty and Judith Tierney. Their residence was Castletown, Tipperary. Martin Hingerty of Crimler was charged with being drunk on the streets of Roscrea town on 25th April 1876. Martin  Hingerty  married Catherine Hogan in June 1890 in the Roscrea registration district. Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a daughter, Johanna Hingerty in 1891 (Roscrea).  Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a daughter, Norah Hingerty in 1893 (Roscrea). Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a son, Edward Hingerty in 1895 (Roscrea). 1901 and 1911 Census Martin Harrington, wife Catherine Harrington , daughters Johanna and Nora Harrington and son Edward Harrington  were listed in the 1901 and 1911 Census, living in Lisduff, Tipperary. Martin Hingerty of Lisduff registered his various dogs in 1915, ...

O'Longadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON  O' Hingurdils- Irish Refugees in Spain When we last left the story of the OHingurdils in Spain, we knew that Dionisio was fighting in the Galician army, but we didn't know what happened to the others in his clan. Further research has placed the arrival of O'Sullivan Beare and his supporters in La Caruna into a bit more context and might offer an explanation of their fate. Between 1602 and 1608 it is estimated that at least 10,000 people from Ireland fled to the north west of Spain (Galicia). They gathered in the harbour city of La Caruna where the Governor of Galicia, who supported their cause, resided.  Irish refugees were flooding in at such a rate that a new position was created 'Protector of the Irish' to try to bring some sort of order to the situation. Between 1604 - 1606 (when payments ceased) payments were made by the Spanish Court to at least 5,000 of these Irish refugees. The boats kept arriving, the a...

  o hLongardail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON Created by CH and ChatGPT Having discovered that the Harrington and Hingerty surnames in SW Cork and Tipperary link to an ancient Irish clan O hLongardail, I have often wondered what the clan chief would have looked like? I suppose in my mind he would have looked like the image here to the left...... but how accurate is this image???? What I  know of the origins of this clan, I shared in a previous blog  Link to previous post The first clan chief to be mentioned in a document (to my current knowledge) is Thady O Hingerdell "called O Hingerdell" i.e. he is the clan chief. He is found in a list of other clan leaders from the Cork area in a government decree called a Fiant (Fiant 3038) for 1577. They had been granted a pardon from the Crown with the payment of a fine of one cow. I do not know Thady's age in 1577, but the next mention of a possible chief for our clan is seven years later on 3 June 1584 in Fiant 4415 when T...

OhArrachtain, OhLongadail,  hOireachtaigh, HARRINGTON If you need assistance with your Gaelic pronunciation of the original version of your Harrington surname, go to  abair.ie LINK Select English so you can read the instructions, type in the clan name e.g. O'hlongardail Press "Say it" I wish you luck in trying to reproduce the pronunciation.  At least you will know how it it is supposed to sound! Leave a Comment or send me an Email telling me how you got on with your pronunciation. hingerty@one-name.org

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON A map of the clans of South West Ireland in the 12th century presented on the  County Kerry Website   ( from MacLysaght More Irish Families p 236) shows O'Hingerdill (Harrington) occupying lands close to those of the O'Sullivans in County Cork (look just under the letter C in CORK). In 1577 John MacTeige O'Hingerltye of Dunbeacon, County Cork is granted a pardon on payment of a fine of one cow. When the Hearth Tax lists of 1667 are compiled in County Tipperary, there are Hingurtie, Hingortye, Hingirdill, Hingerville and Hingortye listed. How and why did the O'Hingerdell/Harringtons move from Cork to Tipperary between 1577 and 1667? One likely explanation is that they were allies of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare and fled north with him after the defeats and massacres in Cork at the end of the Nine Years War. Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare fled north with a group of 1000 soldiers, supporters and family in the bitter ...