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O'Rahilly of Sliabh Luachra

or O'Rahilly "Fionn", or Rahilly, or "The O'Rahilly", of Sliabh Luachra and Ballylongford and Dublin




The Sliabh Luachra region, E of Killarney, on the Co.Kerry/Co.Cork border.
Shows Raheen, Lisbabe, Barraduff, Meentoges.
River Blackwater is to the E.
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---- O'Rahilly, or Rahilly,
of Scrahanaveal, Co.Kerry,
apparently of a family long established in Co.Kerry,
there are a number of different Rahillys mentioned at the time of the poet in the [Kenmare Manuscripts] so they were not new to Co.Kerry,
mar ---- Egan,
she was poss. of Pallis, Co.Kerry,
she was of the MacEgans, hereditary brehons (judges) to MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond [which family founded Muckross Abbey, Killarney, early 1300s, e.g. see Evelyn MacCarthy Mor, died post-1560, bur Muckross Abbey],
had issue:


  1. Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, one of the last of the Gaelic poets,
    born c.1675, named after his mother's brehon family.


  2. Morgan O'Rahilly of Raheen, Co.Kerry, born est c.1680.
    See entry and descendants in [Hickie family tree].



 

A coat of arms The O'Rahilly did up, stuck on one of his books. See full size.




A family tree exists offline as:
O'Rahilly of Sliabh Luachra
the O'Rahilly "Fionn" tribe of Co.Kerry
"The O'Rahilly" of Dublin
4th edition, July 1991


Miscellaneous Rahillys and O'Rahillys




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