from William Cubbon Secretary of the Manx Museum Isle of Man -- Made for Mack D. Looney, Oak Park, Illinois
Taken from the LIBER MONASTER, 1579 to 1654, in the registry of deeds, Isle of Man, and printed in the MEMORIAL ROLLS OF 1511 - 1515
The names of the Tenants which give yearly rentals: William McCollyes (Quilleash); Gilbert McAllen; John Scillicorne; Patricke Careyn; Patrick Lowney uxor. John Lowney and Thomas McPatricke; Thomas McKucall; Phillip Lowney; Phillip Fargher in behalf of Anne Fargher; Donald McLowney, (cottage) John McLowney, (cottage) Petr. McLowney; Patr. McLowney; Donald McLowney.
LANDS OF BANGAR AND SABAL IN KIRK PATRICK (15 tenants) � � � James McLowney; Jo McLowney
1667-Thomas Looney for part of Ballamore; and also for Abbey Cottage.
1779-Donald McLowney; 1703-Donald Lowney and Phil Callister.
1657-Donald Lowney, Seargeant there, for not appearing in Court to doe his duty as sergeant, whereby none of the tenants came to doe service as they should in fyne 5 s.
There were Corkhill owners in the Parish in 1867. John in Ballajora and Ballasaige. John in Ballagorrymore and the Ards in the Corrony with Daniel and William, in Ballagorybeg. In 1511, the Corkhills owned Lewaige, Pollein, Ballagilley, Ballafayle, Ballajora. SKINSCOE MEANS: "Bright or shining rift", referring to the rocks being brightly colored. LOONEY MEANS: "The Lord's Servant", from the Manx Gaelic: "Sons of Giolla Dohomhnaigh".
"There is a very curious feature about the McLowney family, which no other family can record. The feature is that ALL its members, at the earliest dates, say 1579, are tenants of Ecclesiastical lands before 1579; there is no record that they were ever tenants of the King. They were mainly holders of the land of the monastary, -- 9 at Skinscoe in Kirk Lonan, 1 on the very land of the monastary at Rushen, at Ballasalle, and 2 held farms on the land called Bangor and Saul (Sabal), 9 in Kirk Lonan, and 1 in Kirk Malow, 2 in Kirk Patrick; a dozen in all, widely separated. One can only come to the conclusion that the members of the McLowney family must have originally been closely connected with the Celtic Church in primitive times. Copied from a clipping sent in 1955-
IRISH PEDIGREES . . . VOL. II:
QUARTERLAND OF BALLACREGGAN
1867-Ewan Looney, 9 acres
1867-Joseph Looney, 11 acres. Also part of Crowcreen.
It will be noted that annual rents were low, but each tenant had to give the monastary "other live and dead goods". They had to give between them:
Nov. 17, 1558 - Queen Mary died and Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen. Henry VIII had granted heriditary lands of Tyrone to Con. O'Neill, and his son, Shane O'Neille -- surrounded himself with a Scotch bodyguard. He was the Earl of Tyrone, O'Neal of Tyrone, and Lord of the North of Ireland and Captain of Tyrone. After a stormy career old Tyrlough Luinagh was elected "O'Neill at the death of . . . . (that was all the clipping gave). The name Tyrlough Luinagh was the important part of the clipping - EWS. N. B. The Luinagh may be the original family spelling. It is the oldest we have of the Irish inhabitants, but not the oldest in the Isle of Man, where O'Looney and Looney are found as early as 1050. Of course, Ireland is presumed to be older than the Isle of Man. Mr. William Cubbon, Secretary of Manx Museum, Isle of Man, did special research for Mack D. Looney, Oak Park, Illinois. Mack was of the John - Elizabeth Looney line, in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Mack's father was Houston Looney, son of John and Elizabeth, and went to Bolivar and Sedalia, Missouri when a young man. He never came back to Hawkins County to live.
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