The original Gaelic form of Kennaugh was Mac Cionaoith. He died about 1616 in his home at Tully Lough near Emyvale. The MacKennas of Truagh 2d ed. Rentals and Reports of The Kane Estate, Errigal Truagh, - Jstor Though almost always written MacKenna, in the spoken language Kenna is quite common and in some places, notably Clare and Kerry, the emphasis is on the final A, with the result that This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Ulster, ancient Ulaid, one of the ancient provinces of Ireland and subsequently the northernmost of Ireland's four traditional provinces (the others being Leinster, Munster, and Connaught [Connacht]). The last of the principal line of this family I suppose to have been Shane or John, who was killed 'in open and actual rebellion at Glaslough, on the 13th of March, 1689. Home - McKenna Clann It is most popular in the Co Monaghan area of Ireland and Galloway in Scotland. Their estates, however, were small, seldom exceeding a townland or two in extent; and of this number three were Protestants. However, a rebellion by the 9th Earl's heir Silken Thomas in 1535 led on to a less sympathetic system of rule by mainly English-born administrators. in 1878. His account of the journey provides invaluable eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy that many emigrants had to face en route to their new lives in Canada and America. At the present In the County of Monaghan "The Green Woods of Truagh," now alas, no more, gave their name to an Irish air: there is also the saying"The whole world and the half of Truagh," which is a localised form of the Gaelic saying "Munster a province and the . [1] Arms: Vert. The end of this rebellion and Henry VIII's seizure of the Irish monasteries around 1540 led on to his plan to create a new kingdom based on the existing parliament. Then come to my home, 'tis the home of a friend, In the green woods of Truagh thou art safe from thy foes: Six sons of Mckenna thy steps shall attend, And their six sheathless skeans shall protect thy repose. It was a papal fief, granted to the Plantagenet kings of England by the Holy See, via Laudabiliter. On the haunch of a deer shall McKenna regale ? Portinaghy being one of the townlands granted by Queen Elizabeth to Patrick MacKenna, Chief of his name in 1591, I conclude that Neal was his descendant, and was probably his grandson and the representative of the family. They were frequently at war with ONeills to the north and with the McMahons to the south, often helping the one against the other, and even occasionally at war among themselves as different branches of the family vied for over-lordship. He died about 1616 in his home at Tully Lough near Emyvale. A great portion of these migrants arrived on the eastern shores of the North American continent. [D G C Dm] Chords for Daoiri Farrell - The Shady Woods of Truagh with Key, BPM, and easy-to-follow letter notes in sheet. [9] These were abolished in 2014 under the Local Government Reform Act 2014. The Papal power to grant also fell within the remit of Dictatus papae (10751087). The authority of the Lordship of Ireland's government was seldom extended throughout the island of Ireland at any time during its existence but was restricted to the Pale around Dublin, and some provincial towns, including Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford and their hinterlands.