O'Callaghan

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O'Callaghan
PronunciationUK: /əˈkæləhən, -ɡən, -hæn/
US: /oʊˈkæləhən, -hæn/
LanguageEnglish
Origin
LanguageIrish
Word/nameÓ Ceallacháin
Derivationceallach
Meaning'contention'
Other names
Variant formsO'Callahan, Callahan, Calligan, O'Kelaghan, Kelaghan, Kealahan
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O'Callaghan or simply Callaghan without the prefix (anglicized from two separate surnames and clans, Ó Ceallacháin, Munster Clan. Ó Ceileacháin, Oriel Clan) is an Irish surname.

Origin and meaning

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Munster

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See also: Viscount Lismore

The surname means descendant of Ceallachán who was the Eóganachta King of Munster from AD 935 until 954. The personal name Cellach means 'bright-headed'. The principal Munster sept of the name Callaghan were lords of Cineál Aodha in South Cork originally. This area is west of Mallow along the Blackwater river valley. The family were dispossessed of their ancestral home and 9,700 ha (24,000 acres; 97 km2) by the Cromwellian Plantation and settled in East Clare.[4]

The O'Callaghan land near Mallow, forfeited by Donough O'Callaghan after the Irish rebellion of 1641, came into the hands of a family called Longfield or Longueville, who built a 20-bedroom Georgian mansion there.[citation needed] In a twist of history, 202 ha (500 acres; 2 km2) of the ancient O'Callaghan land returned to O'Callaghan hands in the twentieth century, when Longueville House was bought by a descendant of Donough O'Callaghan. The ancestral estate of the O'Callaghans, now a luxury hotel, is owned by William O'Callaghan.[5]

Oriel

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An entirely different sept, Ó Ceileacháin in Irish, is to be found in the counties Armagh, Louth, Meath and Monaghan. It has been anglicised as Callaghan, Kelaghan, Keelaghan, Kealahan and other variants. In County Meath, where it is widespread but has been found mainly in the parishes of Kells, Trim and Athboy, it is mainly anglicised as Callahan, Callaghan or O'Callaghan (with local spelling variants). In County Westmeath it is found in the form Kellaghan and Kelleghan. In County Monaghan it is often found as Keelan.[6]

Members of the Ó Ceileacháin family were mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters as being lords of Uí Breasail, a district on the southern shore of Lough Neagh, and priors of Armagh in the 11th century.[7]

People

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Callaghan

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Main article: Callaghan

O'Callaghan

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Places

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See also

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Other Munster families

References

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  7. ^ Annála Rioghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland

Further reading

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  • Bugge, Alexander (ed. and tr.), Caithreim Cellachain Caisil: The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel Christiania: J. Chr. Gundersens Bogtrykkeri. 1905.
  • Curley, Walter J.P., Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and their Families. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2004.
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  • O'Hart, John, Irish Pedigrees. Dublin. 5th edition, 1892.
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