Kadder - Mac Kavanagh
Kadder -
Mac Kaig, See Mac Keague
O Kalladie. Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla da Crioch Cenel Rochada Fernmag (Fer Fermaighe / Farney Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Farney in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster and Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster in the kingdom of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel. Especially see O Kelledy.
Kalshander.
See Alexander.
O Kanavaghan or O Canavan
- Irish / Ua Connmhachain. Heberian Cianachta Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province who were kinsmen to the O Haras, which see. Now corrupted to O Conway and O Convey. Ancestors: 87.Cormac Gailsang, 86.Teague / Tadhg mac Cian, 85.Cian (Cianachta), 84.Ailill Oluimm the 1st King of Munster.
O Kane or O Kain or O Cain. Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Ui Mheic Uais Ui Mheic Cairthinn (Cenel Mheic Carthaind) Clann Conghail (Mheic Giola Michill) Sept / Family branch, who had their territory near Loch Foyle at Turkeeran in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province. Especially see O Keen.
O Kane
or O Cain or O Cahan or O Keane - Irish / Ua Cathain / cath (battle). Important Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Clan Drugan Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in the east of Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province, in Co. Derry in the north - east of Ulster and Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster. They were also to be Princes / Tanaistes in Co. Derry and Kings and Chiefs eventually in the Routes in Co. Antrim in the kingdom of the Heremonian Dal Riada in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and had their castle there later on at Dunseverick / The Fort of Sobairce, which is only a ruin now. They eventually also became the Chiefs in the kingdom of Keenaught / Cianacht and they built an Augustinian monastery at Dungiven and had their stronghold at Limavady in Co. Derry overlooking the River Roe south of the town. Their original territory was at Laggan in the east of Co. Donegal where they settled in the Coleraine / Derry area. They were a leading Sept in Ulster up until the confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories by the English in the early 17th Century AD and the non - Catholic plantations there. All of the Irish Septs there were then driven off above the 600' level to starve to death and just like so many of the other Irish Families they only survived as a Gaelic Milesian Sept until the 17th Century AD under the continuing English ethnic and religious oppression. The last of their Chiefs was to die in the Tower of London in 1628 AD. The Mac Closkeys and Mac Avinneys are 2 of the Ui Cathain Septs.They also had the right, along with the O Hagans (Cenel Fergusa) to inaugurate the "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Kings on their Sacred Inauguration Mound at the Rath of Tullyhogue in the Ulster Province. Originally they had their territory at Coleraine in Co. Derry in the north - east of Ulster, but by the 11th Century AD they had their fort at Tullyhogue, which later remained the O Hagans main seat well after the "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Eogain's main Septs / O Nialls / O - Mac Loughlans was to transfer to Dungannon in Co. Tyrone in the 13th Century AD. The burial place for all of the O Hagans was at Donaghrisk across the road from the fort, which was also the site of the Stone of the King / Leac na Ri were the "northern" Ui Niaill Kings swore to uphold the Brehon Law after a Mass was said by the Primate. As the main Ui Niaill sub - Chiefs the O Cains / O Kanes threw a golden sandal over the head of the proposed Cenel Eogain King, and the O Hagans who were the hereditary guardians placed the shoe on his foot while St. Patrick’s bell was rung. The last of the "northern" Ui Niaill Kings to be inaugurated at Tullyhogue was 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Neill in 1595 AD who had previously been the English appointed Earl of Dungannon and Earl of Tyrone who eventually saw the light and rallied to the cause.
In 1602 AD Elizabeth's 1st's Lord Deputy, Mountjoy carrying out Eliabeth1st's "Slash & Burn" policies in Ireland destroyed the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill's Cenel nEogain Sacred Inauguration Stone and over the next few years the English also took out Attainders (Off with their Heads) against the main "northern" Ui Niaill Ulster Chieftains who had been the last Gaelic Irish Chiefs to survive independently in Ireland. The English then confiscated a further 3,500,000 acres of the "northern" Ui Niaill territories for foreign non - Catholic plantations and drove the remaining members of each of the individual "northern" Ui Niaill Families and the other Irish Septs up above the 600' level to starve to death, who were then also denied any rights under English Common Law. They then put in non - Catholic English settlers along the rivers, and the Presbyterian Lowland Scots in behind them, but the "northern" Ui Niaill Septs nevertheless migrated back to their original Family regions as the English had taken so much territory that their Undertakers could not get enough labor to work all of the land they had confiscated. The Undertakers then had to put in the Irish as tenants pretending to those in control in England that they did not really exist as such. From 1534 AD until 1869 AD no Catholic Irish man or Irish woman legally existed under English Law in Ireland even though they were still the majority.
Ancestors: 105.Conn Cionntach O Cahan who was the first to use their name and the ancestor also of the Magintys / Maginnitys, 104.Dermod, 103.Cathusach, 102.Cahan ancestor of the O Caines, 101.Dungan, 100.Gruagan the ancestor of the O Grogans, 99.Conor / Conchobar the Cenel nEogain Prince of Limvardy and ancestor of the O Connors of Moy Ith in Co. Donegal, *98.Fergal the 17th King of Ailech and 156th King of Tara / Ireland, 97.Mael Duin the 10th King of Ailech, 96.Mael Fithrich the 8th King of Ailech, *95. Aed Uardidnach the 8th King of Ailech and 143rd King of Tara / Ireland, *94.Donnell / Domhnall Ilchegach the 4th King of Ailech and 162nd King of Tara / Ireland, *93.Murtough / Muirchertach mac Ercae the 3rd King of Ailech and 131st King of Tara / Ireland, 92.Murray / Muiredach the 2nd King of Ailech, 91.Eogan the 1st King of Ailech ancestor of the Cenel nEogain and a brother to 91.Fergus the ancestor of the Cenel Fergusa and 91.Conall Gulban the ancestor of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill, 91.Cairbre (Cenel Cairbre), 91.Conal Cremthainne (Cenel Cholmainj) 91.Fiacha (Cenel Fiachach), 91.Laoghaire 158 King of Ireland (Cenel Laoghaire), 91.Maine of Tehbae (Cenel Maine), 91Angus, 91.Aultheag, 91.Fergus Ailtleathan, *90.Niall - of the Nine Hostages the 126th King of Tara / Ireland father of 12 sons who is the ancestor of all of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs.
Mac Kane or
Mac Kain. Used as variants for the Scottish name, Mac Kean. Not connected to the Mac Keanes in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.
Mac Kangley or Mac Cangley or Mac Tighe, which see - Irish / Mheic Ceanglaigh. Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster.
Karney See Carney.
Kavanagh or Cavanagh
- Irish / Caomhanach / caomh (gentle). Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in the north of Co. Wexford and Co. Carlow in the south - east of Southern Leinste. were they were a leading Sept of the Mac Murroughs, which see, Tuath / Family region who are descended from *92.Enda / Enna Cennsalach / Cinsella / Kinsella the 2nd King of Leinster who was the direct ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig Sept in the 5th Century AD. They are one of the few Irish Families without an "O" or a "Mac" prefixing their name due to their immediate direct ancestor, 112.Donnell Caomhanach who was fostered by a successor to St. Caomhain took up his name instead as he was the illegitimate son of the infamous 113.Dermott Mac Murrough na nGall - of the Foreigners the 59th King of Leinster prior to the Anglo - Norman Invasion who was also responsible for bringing them into Ireland in the first place in the late 12th Century AD. (Art Mac Murrough Cathanagh / Kavanagh was a King of Leinster who died in 1418 AD.) Like most of the other Irish Gaelic Septs they only survived as such until the start of the 17th Century AD when their territories too were also confiscated and planted with foreign non - Catholics by the English. Their last inaugurated Chief was Brian Kavanagh / The Mac Murrough, while The Mac Murrough Kavanagh was William Butler Kavanagh. They are also kinsmen to the Cinsellas / Kinsellas whose surname is derived from the Ui Cheinnselaig Family name. Their ancestor 92.Enda / Enna Cennsalach the 2nd King of Leinster was also the direct ancestor of the following early Heremonian Cu Corb Septs, the Ui Felmedha, the Fir Thulach Mide and the Siol nEladaig as he was descended from 86.Cu Corb the direct ancestor of all the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb Kings of Leinster. Their line of descent passed through his son, 87.Niadh Corb, the direct ancestor of the Dal Niad Cuirp Septs, 88.Corbmac Gelta Gaeth, 89.Felim / Feidlimid Fer Aurglas, *90.Cahir / Cathair Mor the 109th King of Tara / Ireland in the early 2nd Century AD. Then through his son, 91.Fiachu Ba hAiccid - the Lame, 92.Bressal Belach the 1st King of Leinster, his son, 93.Labraid Laidech who became the father of 94.Enna Cennsalach the 2nd King of Leinster ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig Septs. The Ui Cheinnselaig Septs are kinsmen also to the following Cu Corb Septs in the Leinster Province, the Ui Mail, the Ui Theig, the Ui Chellaig Cualann, the Dal Cormaic, the Dal Cairpre, the Dal Messin Corb, the Ui Garrchon, the Ui Failge, the Ui Bairrche, the Ui Crimthainn, the Ui Enechglais, the Ui Buide, the Crich na Cetach, the Ui Briuin Cuallan and the Ui Drona. Initially descended in Ireland from *37.Eremon the ancestor of theHeremonians their line descends through *59.Ugaine Mor - the Great the 66th Heremonian King of Tara / Ireland who ruled for 40 years until he was killed in 593 BC. (He was a contemporary of Alexander the Great and was married to Ceasair the daughter of the Celtic King of the Gauls.
Mac Kavanagh or Mac Cavana. Used as a variant for Mac Cavana, which see, in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province. See also Keaveney and Keevan. Not connected to the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Ui Cheinnselaig Mac Murrough Kavanaghs in Co. Wexford and Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster. Patrick Kavanagh (1904 - 1967) the writer was born at Inishkeen / Inis Caoin / Pleasant Island in Co. Monaghan in the south of the Ulster Province.