[8]. See “The Stem of the Heffernan Family,” in O’Hart’s Irish Pedigrees. The clan is a very old one in Irish history and has produced many people of note.
[9]. The O’Kellys, from which come the names Kelly and Kelley, were of great eminence in Ireland. An O’Kelly commanded the Connaught division at the battle of Clontarf, A. D. 1014. O’Kellys were princes of Hy-Maine, Ireland, down to the reign of the English Queen Elizabeth. Twelve of the name were distinguished in the Spanish service, between 1718 and 1788, as officers in the Irish regiments of Irlanda, Hibernia, Ultonia, and Limerick.
[10]. In his work on the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland.
[11]. The form O’Dalaighe has been anglicized O’Daley, O’Daly, Daly, Daley, Daily, Dailey, Dayly, etc. The ancestor of the O’Dalys of Meath, Ulster and Connaught was Adam, brother of Fargal, monarch of Ireland. Fargal was killed in battle, A. D. 718. (See Annals of the Four Masters, O’Hart’s Irish Pedigrees, and similar authoritative works.)
[12]. This name also appears in Ireland as Lavery and O’Lavery.
[13]. The greater part of the will was reproduced in the Narragansett Historical Register, James N. Arnold, editor, Providence, April, 1891.
[14]. The names Gerard and Gerrard are found in Ireland. This name Garard, however, may have been Garratt or Garrett, and therefore derived from Garritty or MacGeraghty.
[15]. Dunn,—a typical Irish name; from the Irish O’Duin, and anglicized O’Dunn, Dun, Dunn, Dunne and Doyne. The sept was prominent, in the olden time, in Kildare and Queen’s.
[16]. For interesting mention of the MacCarthys, see Burke’s Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages (London, 1866); O’Hart’s Irish Pedigrees (Dublin, 1881); Burke’s Vicissitudes of Families (London, 1859-60); Lodge’s Peerage of Ireland (Dublin, 1789); Burke’s Landed Gentry (London, 1871); Burke’s General Armory (London, 1884); Washbourne’s Book of Family Crests (London, 1882); the Royal Book of Crests, London, (Macveigh); O’Hart’s Irish Landed Gentry (Dublin, 1877); Howard’s Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica; Nichols’ Topographer and Genealogist (London, 1853); the Complete Peerage (edited by G. E. C.), (London, 1893); the Book of Dignities (London, 1894); Cusack’s History of the City and County of Cork (Dublin and Cork, 1875); Prendergast’s Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution (1660 to 1690), (London, 1887); Amory’s Transfer of Erin (Philadelphia, 1877); John O’Kane Murray’s Prose and Poetry of Ireland (New York, 1882); Douglas Hyde’s Literary History of Ireland (London, 1899); An Historical Pedigree of the McCarthys, by D. McCarthy (Exeter, Eng., 1880); Lower’s Patronymica Britannica (London, 1860).
[17]. The Spencer name is found in Ireland for many generations, and appears under both spellings. Bearers of the name were among the “Forfeiting Proprietors” and other Irish who, during the Cromwellian regime, were ordered to migrate “To Hell or to Connaught.”