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                                                    Ithian Corca Loigde - Laoidhe - Luighe Family Septs of Southern Munster

            Descended from *35.Ith - Ithe - Ioth and his son, *36.Lewy - Lughaidh the uncle and cousin of 36.Mil the Celtic Gaelic Hero of Spain and 3rd King of Castle & Portugal the father of 37.Heber, 37.Heremon & 37.Ir.                    

            The Corca Loigde Septs where originally based on a pre- Milesian race and Lewy - Lughaidh was a common name among their early aristocratic Gaelic Milesian Chiefs. One of them 58.Lewy - Lughaidh mac Con became their one and only 112th King of Tara - Ireland. Their territory extended from Beann Finn westward to Tragumina and Loch Ine and from Beal Atha Buidhe to Teragh Claen at the rock in Co. Cork in Southern Munster. Each of their Tuaths - Family regions - had a Taoiseach - leader - Oglaigh and beneath him were their hereditary leaders. O Fehilly & O Dunlea merged in Clonakilty and became the Taoiseacha - leaders there. The O Driscolls came to be their main ruling Sept - Family branch in more modern times and all of these Families were to be gradually pushed further south of the River Bandon by the Heberian Eoghanachta under the O Mahonys & O Donoghues.

Uterini / Uterni / Iberni / Iberi / Juerni - Celts who were also originally in Co. Cork in Southern Munster were there territory was the southern part of the region known as Des Muma - Desmond - Southern Munster and they were of Spanish Iberian origins.

Velabri / Vellibori - Celts who had their territory also in Co. Kerry in South West Munster descended from the Iberi in Spain.

Vodiae - Vodii - Celts who had their territory in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, along with the Uterni and the Coriondi, who had their territory in the eastern part of the region along the coast.

                                                                      *35.Ith - *86.O Driscoll   - Click on to view aristocratic Ithian Family Genealogy.

O Anglin.

O Cagney, O Coffey, O Collins, O Connor, O Cowhig, O Cronan - O Cronin, O Cullinane - Cullinan.

O Deady, O Dineen, O Doheny - Downey, O Doorley, O Doughan, O Downey, *O Driscoll, O Duggan, O Dulea, O Dunlea, O Dwayne - Divane -  Downes, O Devane - Duane.

O Eady.

O Fehilly - Feeley - Field, O Flattery, O Flynn.

O Hea - Hayes, O Hennessy, O Hills - Muintir hIllig, O Hogan, O Hourigan.

O Keady, O Kennedy.

O Lahiffe, O Leahy, O Leary.

O Macken, O Manahan - Manihan - Mannix, O Moloney, O Murray.

O Nolan.

O Shally - Shalvey - Shalloo - Shallow - Shelley, O Shinnick.

O Torpey.

O Whooley - Wholey - (O Driscoll Sept

 

                                                                          

 Situated on the western bank of the Hunter River, midway between Muswellbrook & Denman the doorway to the Heart of Australia's "Horse Capital" in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales., Australia.  

                                                                                   John & Sue Markham  

                                              RAINBOW FARMS  603 Roxburgh Road., Muswellbrook., 2333.

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