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Colla da Chrioch was the first King of Ulster after its conquest by The Three Collas in the 4th century. He was the founder of the Kingdom of Orgiall. The Clan Colla ruled over that Kingdom, and were styled "Kings of Orgiall," down to the twelfth century. Oriel territory takes in the modern Counties Monaghan, Armagh and part of Louth.
The following are among the families of Ulster and Hy-Maine descended from Colla da Chrioch:
Boylan, Carbery, Cassidy, Corrigan, Corry, Cosgrave, Davin, Davine, Devin, Devine, Devers, Divers, Donegan, Donnelly, Eagan, Enright, Fogarty (of Ulster), Garvey, Gilchreest, Goff, Gough, Hart, Harte, Hartt, Hartte, Higgins, Holland, Holligan, Hoolahan, Hort, Keenan, Kelly, Kennedy, Keogh, Lally, Lannin, Larkin, Laury, Lavan, Lalor, Lawlor, Leahy, Loftus, Loingsy (Lynch), Looney, MacArdle, MacBrock, MacCabe, MacCann, MacCoskar, MacCusker, MacDaniel, MacDonnell (of Clan Kelly), MacEgan, MacGeough, MacGough, MacHugh, MacKenna (of Truagh, Co. Monaghan,),
MacMahon (of Ulster), MacManus, MacNeny, MacTague (anglicized Montague),
MacTernan, MacTully, Madden, Magrath, Maguire, Malone, MacIvir, MacIvor, Meldon,
Mitchell, Mooney, Muldoon, Mullally, Muregan, Naghten, Nawn, Neillan, Norton,
O'Brassil, O'Callaghan (of Orgiall), O'Carroll of Oriel (or Louth), O'Connor of Orgiall, O'Duffy, O'Dwyer, O'Flanagan, O'Hanlon, O'Hanratty, O'Hart, O'Kelly, O'Loghnan, O'Loghanan, O'Neny, Oulahan, Rogan, Ronan, Ronayne, Slevine, Tully, etc."
Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Dublin 1892, ISBN 0-8063-0737/4 Set Number, ISBN 0-8063-1259-9 Volume 1, Pg. 669-670
Ulster
See a portion of a map with names of the period 1300-1600. Note below that some of these county names did not exist until the early 1500's.
from Irish Pedigrees, Vol. 2, Pg. 680., The old counties of the Ulster province were; Louth, Down, and Antrim. The new counties created in 1584; Monaghan, Tyrone, Armagh, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh, Cavan.
The Monaghan Baronies map with civil parishes.
"The Barony of Cremorne in Monaghan," writes Dr. Joyce, "preserves the name of the ancient district of CriochMughdhorn or Cree-Mourne, i.e., the country (crioch) of the people called Mughdorna, who were descended and named from Mughdorn (or Mourne), the son of Colla Meann."
MUGHDORNA: Colla Meann was father of MUGHDORN or Cree-Mourne, i.e. the (crioch or) country of the people called Mughdorna. The name of the ancient district is preserved in the word Cremorne, the name of a barony in Co. Monaghan.
Monaghan Estates map of the mid-ninteenth century.
A list of church registers (all denominations) and dates in County Monaghan.
1837 descriptions of some of the towns within County Monaghan and books on the subject, mostly unavailable!
There is a search engine online for Irish county townlands. Some townland names show up on maps and in lists, others do not. Placename search for all the island is available from the Irish Times.
McGeough — the name . . .