How are our Fitzpatrick ancestors related to the Breifne Fitzpatricks?
There are five Fitzpatrick clans registered with the Clans of Ireland. Fitzpatrick Clans
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O Maol Phadraig Breifne - O'Mulpatrick of Breifne and some Mac Giollla Phadraig
Mac Giolla Phadrai Ulaidh - Mac Gilpatrick of Ulster - an older form of Fitzpatrick found in Ulster.
Mac Giolla Phadraig Laighin - Mac Gilpatrick of Leinster, associated with O'Carroll.
Mac Giolla Phadraig Dai gCais - Mac Gilpatrick of Cas, associated with O'Brien and O'Kennedy in south-west Ireland, Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.
The Breifne clan is associated with families in County Cavan. The Fitzpatrick One Name Study includes John Fitzpatrick 1786-1838 as part of this group. Shearman has John Fitzpatrick's military service with the 3rd Buffs, but he is not included in the UK National Archives records. His military record was with the 88th Regiment. Captain John Fitzpatrick
His ancestors, according to the Shearman family tree were from "Ballogh" a townland in Rathdowney Parish, Queen's County Laois. These ancestors are also recorded in the Fitzpatrick One Name Study. Fitzpatrick One Name Study.
The Shearman family tree links the Fitzpatricks of Ballogh [Ballagh] to Thady Fitzpatrick and the Fitzpatricks of Ballyboden. The link through Thady's son John is challenged in an article about The Will of Thady Fitzpatrick.
A more intriguing link to the land of Ballagh is Geoffrey Fitzpatrick, of Ballyraghan [Ballagharahin] who married Mary O'Farrell and who died on 13 August 1638.
In 1622, Geoffrey erected a cross in the neighbouring townland of Errill. This was in memory of his parents, Florence Fitzpatrick and Katherine Moore, Lord and Lady Upper Ossory. Florence was a younger son of Brian Oge (Barnaby) Mac Gilla Patraic, who submitted to King Henry VIII in 1537.
In 2022, the Fitzpatrick Clan Society held a 400th centenary commemoration at the Fitzpatrick Wayside Cross. It was Geoffrey's older brother Edmond of Castle Fleming, whose son Andrew's sons (Edward d.1696 and Richard, first Baron Gowran) were made heirs of John of Castletown in 1693. Thereby, Richard became the great-grandfather of John Wilson Fitzpatrick (b.1809, 1st Baron Castletown) who was the lessor of Ballagharahin townland, occupied by Joseph Fitzpatrick, his father Charles and grandfather John (d. 1784, buried at Errill). Thady died in Dublin so was buried in St James' churchyard. His will requested if he died in Ossory, he be buried at Errill, in his parents' grave.
It is clear that the Ballagh and Errill townlands had long association with the Fitzpatrick family.
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