Our
Logans, may have been from Scotland, travelled across The Irish Sea, or a small channel
therein, to Ireland in the 1600s or 1700s, most likely during the
"Plantation Period."
England forcibly drove the native Irish from their lands in Ulster and
replaced them with hundreds of Scots who were living a very hard life in
Scotland, persecuted for being Presbyterian, suffering under harsh landlords,
and killed by Charles II during the "killing times." They fled to
Ulster in hopes of a better life. There are still many Logans living in County
Antrim, especially in the town of Ahoghill, where almost all of the shops and
businesses are owned by Logans.
On a clear day one can see Scotland from Larne, County Antrim.
Our Logans settled in County Monaghan and County Antrim. Jane McCully (most
likely a Catholic) married our earliest confirmed ancestor, John Logan. Jane
hailed from Ballylig, County Antrim & John from the townland of Monaghan,
Registrar's District of Ballymena, County Antrim.. According to the Latter Day Saints they were married in County Antrim,
before coming to America on the Brig Nancy. It sailed from Newry, County Down,
arriving in Philadelphia in May of 1816. According to the Allegheny County
History, they arrived in Western Pennsylvania in 1818.
I believe Jane's father and one brother preceded them. Another brother James
McCully accompanied them on the trip to America. James must have gone back
because he arrived again in 1830 with two Frew sisters who were his cousins.
The name Logan was adopted by a group of unrelated families. The ancient O'Leoghain
chieftains were Lords of Morgallion in County Meath. There were de Logans who
came with the Normans in 1190. And then, of course, the Scottish Logans most of
whom moved to Ireland in the 1600s, represent the third group. Then in Scotland
there were two groups: the lowland Scots who were Protestants and the Highland
Scots who were Catholic.
There are many famous Logans, including Maurice O'Loughan, Bishop of
Kilmacduagh, 1254 - 1283; James Logan of Antrim who was Secretary to William
Penn; Cornelius Logan (1806-53) an actor and dramatist; Johnny Logan who won the
Eurovision song contest from Ireland; Al Logan who sounds like Bing
Crosby; Kid Curry Logan, a famous outlaw, et al.
Other spellings of the name are Loghan, O'Loghlen, O'Loughlin, Logue, Lohan,
Londrigan. (Dictionary of Irish Names by Ida Grehan)
See The Scotch Irish - A Social History, by James G. Leyburn. He notes
that the Scots who settled in Ulster are properly called Ulster Irish.
Gaelic Name:
Motto:
Badge:
Lands:
Origin of Name: |
Loganaich
or MacGill’innein
Hoc majorum virtus (This is the valou of my ancestors)
Furze
Lothian, Berwickshire, Easter Ross
Placename, Lothians |
The Logan name is found to have been used by two distinct families, one in
the Highlands and one in the Lowlands. Translated into Gaelic and back
again the “Logans of the North” became “Siol Ghill’'nnein” which
becomes MacClennan.
The full text for
Clan Logan is available on The Clans & Tartans of Scotland CD Rom.
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information.
FROM
THE LOGANS OF OLD NINETY SIX AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
compiled by Lida E. Logan and edited by Richard K. Logan:
"The word
logan is Gaelic and denotes a little hollow, meadow or low-lying place
surrounded by rising ground. It is still a common place name in Scotland.
Variant spellings of this word used as a surname are Logen,
Loggan, Logyn, and Logins. In about the 11th or 12th centuries surnames were
first adopted by commoners and two separate groups of Scots, who do not claim
kinship, took the name Logan as a surname. The highland clan of Logan lived
along the western coast of Scotland and are of Celtic origin...The group living
on the eastern coast of Scotland had been under English rule several times so
were already a mixture of CELTS and Anglo-Saxons before they took the name
Logan... Both groups of Logans spoke Gaelic, the language of most
Scots, until 1745....
"It was the
lowland Scots, from near Edinburg, who were "transplanted to northern
Ireland, the family of Logan going there in 1608 except for the branch that had
received land from Sir Robert Logan that was located in Ayr, and they, because
of religious persecution, moved to Ireland about 1670. David Logan, father
of Gen. Benjamin Logan, of Kentucky fame, is reported by historians to be
from the Logans in Ayreshire, Scotland.
"The surname
Logan was later restored to Sir Robert Logan's descendants (after the
Gowrie Conspiracy), but not the title of Laird, so his descendants
are not entitled to use the family crest. The Ayreshire Logans continued to use
the surname "de Logan" for they remained in Scotland until 1670. The
other Logan kin removed to N. Ireland in 1608.
"The records
of all Ireland before the separation in 1921 were lost when a government
building in Dublin burned in 1922. For those persons who were not members
of the Society of Friends (Quakers), only a few items of information about the
Logans in Ireland are extant, and these are not enough to establish lineage.
These records show Logan families scattered across the eastern part of
Ulster."
FROM
THE STORY OF LEITH, CHAPTER V. THE LOGANS, BY J.S. ARTHUR,ESQ, LEITH, SCOTLAND:
Page
57. "According to the popular story Sir John de Lestalric
who fought by Robert the Bruce's side at Bannockburn, was the last of the male
line of the De Lestalrics, and his daughter and heiress married the Sir Robert
Logan sho accompanied the Good Lord James on his expedition to the Holy Land
with the heart of Robert Bruce. For this service, the Logans bear a man's heart
in their coat-of-arms, both Sir Robert and his brother Walter having been slain
along with their heroic leader, as Barbour tells us in his noble and
inspiring poem. It was, however, the grandson of this Sir Robert Logan who
founded the family of Logans at Restalrig. This grandson, another Robert,
married Katherine, the only daughter of Sir John de Lestalric, who died in 1382,
and who was the last of the male line. By this marriage the barony of
Restalrig...was
established."
FROM THE MACLENNAN CLAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA USA, INC.
The MacLennans are of ancient Celtic origin from Ireland, and in
the mist of antiquity we find Lide MacLennan and his Clan of twelve hundred men
in Ossianic poetry. The MacGillafinnens, or MacLennans, were titled Lords of
Loch Erne, Tairg, and Muintir Peodachain. In Scotland they were appanaged land
in Lorne, Mull, Tiree, and Iona. St. Adamans recorded they were occupying
Glenshiel at an early date and were in residence at Eilean Donnan Castle before
1263. They spread to Strathearn in Perthshire, Kirkcudbright, Dumbarton and
Galloway. In Kintail, they lived with their kin, the MacRuairis, who were
granted ten davochs of Kintail by David II in 1342.
After raiding Tain and Chanonry in 1372 the Clan was defeated by the Frasers
and MacRaes of Aird at Drumderfit, Black Isle. The sept name Lobban originated
from this battle. A further reverse at Lagabraad Conon in 1481 of Chief Duncan
and his Clan terminated the MacDonald association. The name Logan is from the
Gaelic word Laggan, meaning low lying ground, and this sept provided the Knights
Sir Robert and Sir Walter Logan who escorted King Robert the BruceŐs heart to
the Holy Land. Both died with Sir James Douglas fighting the Moors in Spain in
1329.
At an early date they held lands in
Strathearn, Galloway, Ulster and later
were Barons occupying Restalrig and Fast Castles. Geoffrey, son of Knight Logan
c1150 took the name of his estate GASK from whom those of the name Gass descend.
Duncan MacLennan of Strathearn, who is mentioned in the charter of Alexander II
in 1217, became Laird of Bombie. This spelling over a period of time became
MacLellan and there were no fewer than 14 Knights in Galloway at the beginning
of the 15th Century.
The religious strife in Scotland and Ireland brought the Clan together. Chief
Ruairidh Ban, Son of John MacGillafinnen, was in Holland around 1630 in
connection with the flight of the Earls from Ireland. At the Battle of Auldearn
in 1645, the Clan (Scottish, Irish and Logans) failed to receive the order to
retreat; were isolated and cut down by the Duke GordonŐs Cavalry; eighteen
Captains of the Clan were killed; and brothers of the Chief (Donald and Duncan
MacIan) died defending the Standard. In recognition of the outstanding bravery
of gigantic red-haired Chief Rory Ban, he was offered an honourable surrender;
however, he declined and was shot. As Bothwell observed, the MacRaes married the
widows and became a considerable Clan. A hundred years later at the Battle of
Culloden, only twelve of the Clan took part, including Roderick (grandson of
Chief Rory), so the great losses at Auldearn were still obvious.
Emigration to seek betterment in places throughout the world saw further
disbandment of the Clan. However, the embers of pride in our heritage still glow
as Chief Ruairidh Donald George MacLennan of MacLennan, the 35th Hereditary
Chief of Clan MacLennan, enthusiastically leads the Clan, and along with his
sisters Kirsteen and Lorna, ensures the continuation and grace of our evergreen
line.
Castle: Eilean Donan
Colors: green and gold
Crest: a demi piper
Motto: Dum Spiro Spero Ń While I Breathe I Hope
Plant: Whin, also known as Gorse or Furze
Slogan: Druim na Deur Ń The Ridge of Tears
Tartans: modern, ancient, and weathered (anciently recorded as
predominatly blue)
Pipe Tunes:
Muir of Ord (March)
Loch Maree (March)
Major John MacLennan (March)
MacLennans Return to Kintail (Pibroch)
Cairns of Drumderfit (Retreat Air)
Loch Duich (Retreat Air)
ource: GC-Monaghan Ireland Queries
URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Ireland/Monagahan?read=740
Subject: The Surname Monaghan versus the prominent surnames of Co. Monaghan
Surname: Monaghan, Monahan, Monk, McMahon, McKenna, MacMahon, Smyth, Wood,
MacEnhill, O'Hanly, Hughes, McCabe, McEnhill, Kelly, Maguire, Murray, Woods,
O'Connolly, Duffy, Leslie, Hamilton, Shirley, Monk, Monks, Traynor, Treanor,
Trainor, Hoey
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1. SURNAME MONAGHAN: Is also the name of an Irish county but there is no
connection between the two, per "Irish Roots" periodical. The surname Monaghan
is chiefly to be found in the counties of Galway, Mayo and Fermanagh, all
of which are not far from the original home of the O'Monaghans in Co. Roscommon.
The Annals of the Four Masters record O'Monaghan as Lord of the Three Tuathas
of Roscommon in 1287, about the time they were displaced from the lordship
by the O'Hanlys. The surname derives from a famous Connacht warrior of
the ninth century, Manachain, which also denotes a monk and the name is
often translated as Monk or Monks. A Dick Monk (?county) was one of the
1798 rebels and was also known as Richard Monaghan.
2. PRINCIPAL SURNAMES OF CO. MONAGHAN: Although top surname experts do
not always agree, per "Irish Roots" genealogy periodical published in Co.
Cork: As to be expected, there is a great variety of family names in Co.
Monaghan, mainly of native Ulster origin although in the Ulster Plantation
many Scots and English settlers arrived in the county.
Prominent Co. Monaghan names include:
1. McKenna - Numerous Co. Monaghan name (Mac Cionaoith) a Meath sept who
came into Ulster as swordsmen for the Fir Leamtha of Clogher. Refusing
to pay rents on their lands after 1606, the McKennas were dispossessed
and several branches moved north and east to Cos. Derry and Down. Some
McKennas became known as McKinney, but in Ulster most McKinneys are descended
from Scottish settlers.
2. Hughes - Most bearers of this name are from the Ulster sept O hAodha
("descendants of Hugh"), mainly concentrated in north Tyrone and Donegal
and also found in Co. Monaghan with a closely-related variant Hoey. Hughes
was also a common surname from England and Wales and many settled in 17th
century Ireland.
3. McCabe - Descended from Scottish gallowglasses who fought for the O'Reillys
and O'Rourkes of Breffney, later becoming a prominent family around Monaghan
town in the service of the MacMahons.
4. Smith - Smith with its variant Smyth can be Scottish, English or Irish
in origin, though in Co. Cavan, and to some extent in Co. Monaghan, certain
members were anglicized from McGowan.
5. Kelly - Ulster Kellys descended from Rochadh, son of Collada-Crioch,
4th century king of Ulster and first king of Oriel.
6. Maguire
7. Murray
8. Woods - English surname Wood from plantation of Ulster with an "s" added
over the centuries, but also in Ulster many are anglicized versions of
native Irish stock including such surnames as MacEnhill, a sept located
near Omagh, Co. Tyrone.
9. Connolly/O'Connolly - Numerous in Co. Monaghan, derived from the O'Conghaile
sept driven north into Ulster by the Normans who came into prominence in
the 15th century; area associated with this name is mainly between Monaghan
town and Clones and commemorated in Drumconnolly and Mullaghconnolly. Many
Co. Monaghan Connollys played a leading part in the 1641 Rising, though
one of them, Owen Connolly, famously betrayed the rebels' plans. James
Connolly, socialist writer and co-leader of the 1916 Dublin Rising was
born into a Co. Monaghan family in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1868.
10. Duffy/O'Duffy (O'Dubhthaigh) - Monaghan Duffys are famed in the ecclesiastical
history of Clogher diocese, contributing many priests during the penal
times, centered around Clontibret. Eoin O'Duffy led the Blueshirt movement
in the 1930s, the Blueshirts eventually joined with other bodies to form
the Fine Gael party.
11. Leslie
12. Shirley
13. Hamilton - Name almost wholly from Scotland, many Hamiltons settling
in Cos. Monaghan, Cavan, Armagh and Tyrone.
14. Treanor and Traynor - Often found in the northern part of the county
from Gaelic (MacThreinfhir) meaning strong man; in some instances holders
of the native Ulster name were anglicized to Armstrong, and some Trainors
in Ulster are of English descent dating from the Plantation period.
15. Kelly (O'Kelly) - From a number of different septs, Ulster Kellys are
descended from Rochadh, son of Colla-Crioich, a fourth century king of
Ulster and first king of Oriel.
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Logans from Scotland to Ireland
Here is what one book says " O Locain-O Loghane-O Loughane-Loghan Loughan-Lohan-
Chaff, a variation of O Leocain,qv; in use in Galway,angl.Chaff by translation
O Leocain- O loughane-O Lochan Loughan Duck also variously written as O Lacain O Locain O Loccain O Logain O Leogain &c; It says - The name of
a famous family in ancient Meath who were chiefs of Gailenga Mora and Luighene ,now
the baronies Morgallion and Lune in Co. Meath dispossessed during Norman
Invasion disperesed through Leinster Ulster and Connacht. This name was ricdiculously
translated to Duck on the erroneous supposition that it was derived from Lacha,a duck"
