Is this the Hingerty Homeland?
Is this the Hingerty Homeland?
Place names in Ireland often reflect the clans and families who previously occupied the land.
While researching early references to the O'hlongadail name, I came across "Family Names of County Cork" by Diarmuid O Murchadha. He mentions the townland of Kippaghingerghill in the Bantry area of Cork.
This is what it looks like if we zoom in a bit closer.
Overlaying the "South West Ireland 12th Century Clan Map" with Google Maps, it looks like Kippaghingerghill is in the same area as the clan map locates the O'Hingerdill.
For further information re pronunciation, meaning and references to this townland, see Irish department of Heritage and Culture for this location.
The website townlands.ie has this boundary map and details
So, is this the Hingerty Homeland?
The map lines up, the names lines up.... and
it does line up with the evidence from an analysis of the match list of a Hingerty YDNA tester designed to locate a genetic homeland for a group of male testers which will be the topic of a future post...
Update June 2023:
We found Kippaghingergill!
If you want to drive to 'our' townland.....
(we used Google maps putting in the name Kippaghingergill)
Starting from Glengarriff, head East on N71, travel 4.9 km and turn left off the N71 towards Coomhola Bridge, after 3.5 km drive over the little bridge and immediately turn left, drive a further 3.3 km and turn right into what looks like a driveway but is actually a small local road.
The road curves in a semicircle past a farmhouse on your left and then takes a sharp left hand turn.
Just as the road takes this sharp turn you will see on your right hand side the stone townland boundary marker sitting under a tree.
You can drive further up the road to see fields etc but the road eventually stops and doesn't go through to anywhere. You will need to retrace your tracks to get back to your starting point.
Kippaghingergill also boasts a quarry. It can't be accessed via the road with the townland sign. To get to the quarry head back to the Coomhola Bridge and turn sharp left onto a series of unnamed local roads. Probably best to simply put Flynn Brothers Stonemasons Ltd Kippaghingergill into Google maps and follow the directions!
Maybe you too could have a stone floor featuring Kippaghingergill stone in your sunroom just like SH has in his Cork home!
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