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As one of the half-dozen most powerful and known for being one of the most close knit of all the Scottish Clans, the Grants have held land in the largest valley in the Highlands since 1316. The Grant Clan has evolved and flourished in often very difficult circumstances and, in recent centuries, has spread out across the globe as an important part of the great emigration from the Highlands, which h.....
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Heraldry Database: (tipperary)
(Tipperary)
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Surname: (Tipperary)
Branch: O'Cahill (Tipperary)
Origins: Irish
More Info: Ireland
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 Arms: A whale spouting in the sea ppr. Crest: An anchor erect, cable twined around the stock all ppr. View the Heraldry Dictionary for help.
In early medieval times the most important sept of O'Cahill was that located in Co. Galway near the Clare border, the head of which was Chief of Kinelea (Aughty), but by the middle of the thirteenth century their former position as the leading family in Kilmacduagh had been taken by the O'Shaughnessys. The name is uncommon there now, but is found in Co. Clare where a branch of the sept was also established. There were quite distinct septs of O'Cahill: one of these was located near Lough Leane in Kerry and another in Co. Tipperary between Thurles and Templemore. There are no less than three townlands called Ballycahill in Co. Tipperary which perpetuate the original habitat of that sept. Two other Ballycahills, one in Co. Galway, between Portumna and Killimor, the other in Co. Clare near Ballyvaughan, also indicate the location of those septs. To-day the great majority of Cahills are to be found in the three Munster counties of Tipperary, Cork and Kerry. In Irish the name is O Cathail, I.e. descendant of Cathal, a Christian name which, Dr. M. A. O'Brien informs me, is derived from the Old Irish catu-ualos meaning powerful in battle. Cahill is one of those surnames seldom if ever found in modern times with its proper prefix O. O'Cahill is one of the earliest surnames on record: Flann O'Cahill was martyred in 938. The most notable man of the name was that versatile priest Father Daniel William Cahill (1796-1864), schoolmaster, newspaper editor and prolific lecturer in the U.S.A. and elsewhere on behalf of Catholic institutions.
Name Variations: O'Cahill, Cahill, Kahill, Cawhill, Cahille, Cahil, Cahaly, Cahell, Cahel, Caughel, Kahil, Kahel, Caill, Cail.
References:One or more of the following publications has been referenced for this article.The General Armory; Sir Bernard Burke - 1842.
A Handbook of Mottoes; C.N. Elvin - 1860.
Irish Families, Their Names, Arms & Origins; Edward MacLysaght - 1957.
The Surnames of Ireland; Edward MacLynsaght - 1957.
The Book of Irish Families Great and Small.
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