Harrington in Ireland

   Am I an English or an Irish Harrington? How can I find out? Do you know your early ancestry? Did your ancestors come from: - the Cumbria area of England? - the Connacht (Galway, Donegal, Mayo) area of Ireland? - the Tralee/Dingle area of Ireland? - Cork or Tipperary? Your ancestors' place of origin will identify which Harrington group you belong to. If you do not know your ancestors' place of origin.....  1. If you are a Harrington male and have taken a DNA test at Ancestry, 23&Me, My Heritage, or Living DNA - you can download (take a copy) of your Raw DNA data and upload it (free) at FTDNA (for instructions and information on downloading and uploading raw DNA files  LINK ),  - pay the $19 one off unlock fee to access a range of tools  and  receive a YDNA haplogroup. 2. If you are a Harrington male and have taken a Family Finder test at FTDNA- join the Harrington Surname Project at FTDNA (free). The Admins of the project can assist you to identi...

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON In the  Elizabethan Fiant 3080 of the year 1577   a John O Hengerltye is mentioned in a list of Irishmen who have been granted a pardon by the English Crown on the payment of a fine of one cow.  What is a Fiant? "Fiants were the warrants directed to the Irish Chancery, directing the issue of letters patent under the great seal and cover a wide variety of matters, including the leases and grants of land, appointments to offices, church beneficies, Irish chieftancies, etc commissions to exercise judicial or administrative authority, of the granting of pardons. The originals were lost in the Four Courts Fire of 1922. They had been calendared, indexed and published down to 1603 in the Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland (1875-1890).     Family Search Wiki Fiant 3038 lists the recipient of the Pardon as: John m'Teige O Hengerltye alias Harrengton, of Downebekhane, gent. This tells us that John ...