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Ulster Clans

Clan McShane (son of John) (MacSeain, Johnson, McSean, Shane, O'Cheyne, MacEoghan, McOwen) A traditional 
Ulster herding/warrior clan descending originally from Niall of the Nine Hostages. Closely linked and blood related to 
The O'Neills Mor, Clanaboy and the Fews. McShanes hereditary title is that of "a Chief of Moy Ith or Mag Itha", 
which is a plain going from the eastern Donegal border to southern Derry through Tyrone.Originally centered in the 
area to the west of the shore of Lough Neagh, between Dungannon and Maghera (Counties Derry and Tyrone). Large 
septs range from Strabane, northern Donegal, Down, Antrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, Monaghan, and Cork. Literary 
references date from the 13th, 16th, 17th centuries, then a regular history unfolds from the 18th century forward. 
Today, the family is represented in 8 separate counties. The head of the clan is Major Jameson Riley Johnson, of the 
Desertmartin McShane line. He can be reached at jrkathleen@juno.com. 

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Clan O’Hagan - Name in Gaelic: O hAgain Motto: Vincere Aut Mori (meaning "Victory or Death") Until the 
destruction of Gaelic order in the 17th Century the O'Hagans were one of the most powerful and influential families in 
Ulster, holding the title Lord of Tullohogue. Chiefs of the Clan Feargusa, they descended from Fergus grandson of 
Niall of the Nine Hostages. King of Ireland from 370 to 406. For over six hundred years the O'Hagans were hereditary 
brehons and inaugurators of O'Neill as King of Ulster. According to tradition, O'Hagan inaugurated O'Neill by putting 
on his slipper hence the shoe always appears in the Coat of Arms. In right of their profession they were granted vast 
Estates in Dungannon Upper Barony in East Tyrone. Before the 1200's branches of the sept were established in 
Monoghan and Armagh and soon spread into neighboring Antrim, Derry and Down. Two places called Ballyagan, 
one in Derry and the other in Antrim attest to the O'Hagans predominance in the region. During the 17th Century 
O'Hagans staunchly opposed English aggression and a number were at the Battle of Kinsale in 1603, suffering great 
losses with the dispossessions that followed. Some were hanged at Carrickfergus County Antrim. Of the many notables, 
the best known is Turlough O'Hagan Chief of the Name who journeyed to Wicklow in 1590 to Hugh O'Donnell to 
Ulster following the latter's dramatic escape from imprisonment in Dublin Castle. Ivor O'Hagan tutor of St Malachy 
(c 1100) was a member of the Armagh Branch. In modern times of interest were John O'Hagan (1822--1890) 
patriot poet and Judge; Thomas O'Hagan (1812--1885) first Catholic Lord Chancellor of Ireland since James II; and 
Mary O'Hagan (1823 -1876) founder and Abbess of the Covenant of the Poor Clares. 

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Mac Sweeney Banagh: Mac Suibhne Boghaineach

The third branch of Clann tSuibhne in Tír Conaill was that of Mac Suibhne Boghaineach, who according to Leabhar 
ChIainne Suibhne, were descended from Dubhghall Mac Suibhne, who was granted the territory of Tír Boghaine by 
his grandfather, Murchadh Mear, who, as we have seen, died about the year 1320. The district of Boghaine comprised 
the modern barony of Banagh in southwest Donegal, as well as a part of Boylagh.

The story of this branch of the Clann, because of a lack of early sources, is less clear than those of the branches in 
Na Tuatha and Fanad. Dubhghall, the founder of the branch according to Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne, was slain in 
1356, although in the Book of Ballymote (ca. 1400) six of his grandsons are said to belong to Mac Suibhne of 
Connacht. The eldest of these, Toirdhealbhach, who is described in A. F. M. as Ard Chonsapal Connacht, or 
High Constable of Connacht, was slain in battle with two of his brothers, Donnchadh and Donn SIéibhe in 1397. 
It is interesting, however, that he is included in the seventeenth century Ó Cléirigh genealogies as being of Boghaine. 
From him descend the later lords of Banagh

The first clear mention of a Mac Suibhne Banagh in the annals is as late as 1496, when Maol Mhuire, "Mac Suibhne 
Thíre Boghaine" died. The following year another lord of Banagh is mentioned as follows: "Mac Suibhne 
Connachtach .i. Mac Suibhne Baghineach (i.e. of Banagh), Eoghan décc". This and other evidence led Father Paul 
Walsh to argue, and to show very clearly, that the Banagh branch were in fact, a late offshoot of the Connacht branch 
whose territory was Cúil Chnámh in the civil parish of Dromard, county Sligo.