What is the evidence for dismissing John Fitzpatrick as the link between Thady and Joseph Fitzpatrick? Are the occupiers of Ballagharahin townland - Charles and Joseph Fitzpatrick - related to the head lessor - John William Fitzpatrick, Baron Castletown - and to the constructor of the Errill Wayside Cross - Geoffrey Fitzpatrick?
This relationship chart outlines two ancestral lines from Daisy Grace Goodfellow and from John William Fitzpatrick, back to Brian Og Fitzpatrick. This follows the Shearman family tree, now contested by authors in the Fitzpatrick Clan Society.
In an article in 2023, Mike Fitzpatrick suggests that “the Fitzpatricks of Ballogh are not with certainty related to the Fitzpatricks of Ballyboodan”. The Will of Thady Fitzpatrick (M. Fitzpatrick, 'The Carrigan Manuscripts: the will of Thady Fitzpatrick, MD, 1674'. The Journal of the Fitzpatrick Clan Society S1, pp.1-10.)
There are two contested links within the Shearman Fitzpatrick family tree: the first, that Joseph, heir to his brother Thomas, was the son of John, son of Thady (d.1674). Instead, a suggested link is rather to the Fitzpatricks of Rathdowney through Thady's brother Florence, Thady's nephew John, townlands of Kilcoran and Coolkerry and Teige Mac Fynen of Offerlane.
The second correction in the 2023 article, is that Thady's ancestor Teige Og Mac Teige was not the son of John Mac Brian of Ballygihen and Joan ni Carroll. The reason given was that in 1566, Teige lived in Mondrehid in the Parish of Offerlane (north of Borris-in-Ossory), whereas John Mac Brian was from Ballygeehan (west of Abbeyleix). The Mondrehid Fitzpatricks came from a Mac Giolla Padraig group - Mac Fynen - originating from Fynen (d.1469) in Offerlane, grandfather of the brother of the first Baron. This lineage is not clear from the Shearman family tree.
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.
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