Clan Cian Research

Research Source Materials

Court records, survey records, reformation records, plantation records, clan/rival clan records, military records, and church records are all significant starting points. Books, thesis, essays, and studies should be researched and investigated with all the acknowledgments, references, and footnotes should probably be cross referenced to ensure some accuracy, if possible.

We suggest for those of us concerned about it...we endevour to rely on what has been documented and substanciated through independantly recognized historical source vs propaganda. The following source materials have been reviewed and considered viable for research, it must be understood that many of these publications are known to have errors but were considered accurate in the time of publication. Literally hundreds of publications have been reviewed. Our current source materials list follows:

1. Medieval Record Sources (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History) By: Philomena Connolly

2. Historical Maps of Ireland By: Michael Swift

3. Irish Battles: A Military History of Ireland By: G.A.Hayes-McCoy

4. Tipperary : History and Society By: W.Nolan and T.G. McGrath

5. Offaly : History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County; Chapter 9; The Changing Borders of the Ely O'Carroll Lordship (Rolf Loeber) By: Geography Publications

6. Assorted letters of: O'Donovan, O'Dugan, and O'Kennan on the extent of Ely O'Carroll.

7. On the Cantreds of Ely O'Carroll- O'Heerin's Topographical Poem

8. History of the Ely O'Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond - Rev. John Gleeson (with and without updates)

9. Early Irish History and Mythology By: T.F. O'Rahilly

10. A History of Ireland by: Edmund Curtis

11. The Peoples of Ireland: From Prehistory to Modern Times By: Laim De Paor

12. Ireland Before the Normans By: Donnchadh O Corrain

13. North Munster Studies By: Etienne Rynne (ed.)

14. Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Later Middle Ages by: K.W. Nicholls

15. The Munster Plantation 1580-1641 by: Michael MacCarthy Morrogh

16. The Plantation of Ely O'Carroll 1619 -1693 by: N.D. Atkinson (1958 Thesis)

17. Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland by: Peter Berresford Ellis (2002 edition)

18. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 by Ronald Hoffman (2001)

19. The Last Lords of Ormond - Cromwellian Plantation, prelude and aftermath in the 'Countie of the Three O'Kennedies'; (No.4 of Regional Studies in Political and Administrative History) by: Dermot F. Gleeson -a new edition w/revisions by Donal A. Murphy

20. Calender of the Ormond Deeds, Edmund Curtis ed, six vol. (Dublin 1932-41).

21. The Anglo Norman Advance into the SW Midlands of Ireland 1185 -1221, By: George Cunningham

22. The Septs. Publication from the Irish Genealogical Society, International (Various issue volumes.)

23. The Magnificent Castle of Culzean and the Kennedy Family by Michael Moss

24. Tipperary Historical Journal(s) : Irisleabhar Staire Thiobraid Arann (various issue volumes)

25. The History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Year 1245. With a Brief Essay on the Native Annalists, and other sources for Illustrating Ireland and Full Statistical and Historical Notices of the Barony of Boyle: By: John D’Alton, esq. Dublin 1845

26. The Description of Ireland and the State Thereof as it is at Present. (InAnno 1598) By: Edmund Hogan

27. Some Historical Notes of the O’Meagher of Ikerrin; By: Joseph Casimir O’Meagher, 1890 N.Y.

28. Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (1855-56). By Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A. , Dublin 1861

29. Transactions of the Kilkenny Archeological Society for 1849 and 1852 (Vol1 Part III) By John O’Daly

30. The Journal of the Kilkenny & South-East of Ireland Archeological Society Vol V. 1864-66 Various Authors.

31. Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts 1515-1574, Edited by J.S. Brewer / William Bullen, London 1867

32. A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography: Physical, Social, Historical and Biographical. By: John H. Greene, Cincinnati; 1859

33. Pacata Hibernia or A History of The Wars In Ireland During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Standish O’Grady Vol I, London 1896

34. Ogygia or A Chronological Account of Irish Events; By: Roderic O’Flaherty, Esq. translated by Rev. James Hely A.B. , Dublin 1793

35. Early History of the Town of Birr or Parsonstown… By: Thomas Lolar Cooke, Dublin. 1875 / 1990, Esker Press w/New Introduction by Margaret Hogan, Tullamore

36. Cashel of the Kings by: Rev. John Gleeson, Pub. Edmund Burke, Dublin 2001

37. Book of Rights by Leabhar na g-ceart with translation and notes, by John O'Donovan, Esq., Dublin for the Celtic Society 1847

38. Signifying Place: Semiotic Realisation of Place in Irish Product Marketing; by Sheila Gaffey, Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2004

39. Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the Gael, A.D. 500-1750; by: C. Thomas Cairney, Ph.D., Heritage Books, 2006

40. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire; By: Sir John Bernard Burke, LL.D., Ulster King of Arms. London 1866.

41. Report: A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland; By: Moore, Cape, Simms & Bradley, Pub. By Smurfit Institute of Genetics and School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity Collage, Dublin- The American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol 78, Feb 2006

42. A Short History of the Irish People; From the Earliset Time to 1920; By: Mary Hayden and George Moonan, London 1922

43. A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Union with Great Britian; By:Charles Walpole ,M.A., London 1885

44. An Introduction to and An History of Ireland, Vol. III; By: S.O'Halloran, Dublin 1803

45. A Historical Memoir of the O'Briens w/ notes, Appendix, & A Generalogical Table of Their Several Branches; By: John O'Donoghue A.M. Dublin, 1860

46. Irish Pedigrees or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, By: John O'Hart, Dublin, 1876

47. Annals of Ireland; Translated from the Origin Irish of the Four Masters, By: Owen Connellan, Dublin, MDCCCXLV

48. The Description of Ireland & The State Thereof as it is at This Present in ANNO 1598; By: Edmund Hogan, Dublin, 1878

49. The History of Ireland Commencing with Its Earliest Period to the Great Expedition Against Scotland in 1545, By: Thomas Moore, Philidelphia, 1843

50. Keating's General History of Ireland Two Vol.s in One; By: Jeoffry Keating D.D.
     1.) translated by Dermod O'Conner, Dublin, 1841
     2.) translated by: John O'Mahony, New York, 1868
     3.) translated by: Rev. Patrick Dinneen, London, 1908

51. This History of Ireland; Ancient and Modern, By: Martin Haverty, Dublin, 1867

52. The Midland Septs and the Pale, By: Fr. Montgomery Hitchcock M.A., Dublin 1908

53. The Irish Before the Conquest: From the Mythical Period to the Invasion Under Strongbow, By: Lady Ferguson, Dublin 1903

54. Topographical Poems by: O'Dubhagain and O'Huidhrin; translated by: John O'Donovan, LL.D. M.R.I.A., Dublin, 1862

55. Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh ((Triumphs) Wars of Turlough)) By: John MacRory MacGrath - translated by: Standish Hays O'Grady ; www.ucc.ie/celt ,

56. Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society ( Works #51), MDCCCLXIL, Dublin

Other resources should also be utilized- those such as Heritage Centres, Historical Societies, Family Associations, and websites are informative and helpful, however, all leads should again be investigated and or verified by more than one unrelated source.

Though, multiple internet web pages have been referenced within the realm of research and review, all information compiled for use is or has attempted to be verified. Permissions have been requested where usage has been such that might be copyrighted, following verification of source Material(s).

We would request that if anyone has information contrary to that posted , or has information that refutes that posted to this site....Please, forward title, author, publisher(date) and ISBN if known; that the source materials might be compared, referenced and or cross referenced to attempt to varify said information.

It should be noted that all of the comments, interpretations, and conclusions posted to this website are the collective opinions of the researchers involved in this project. While source materials are cited and in some cases quoted, the references are copyrighted by the authors, publishers, editors, compilers, etc. and are used here only as source materials for the purpose of research and or explanation of materials used for the purpose of providing for and or enhancing a public awareness of our histories, cultures and traditions. This collective group of researchers are a NOT FOR PROFIT group.

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