UPDATED: The Two Harrington Families of Templederry
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There were two Harrington families in the Templederry area of Tipperary.....
Were these two Harrington families related?
Were they related to Hingerty/Ingerton families?
Did the ancestor of the first Harrington family in the Templederry area arrive from south west Cork with The Great March of the O'Sullivans in January 1603??
Let's begin with a bit of geography....
Where is Templederry?
Where were these two Harrington families located in relation to each other?
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| Location of Templederry in Ireland |
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| Location of Templederry in Tipperary |
Family 1:
Family 1 was discussed in a previous post in July 2023 Link to previous post
Descendants of Family 1 still live and farm in the Cloghinch area. Their family oral history has them arriving in the Templederry area from south west Cork with the Great March of the O'Sullivans in 1603.
They believe that they, along with a larger group of men, women and children were purposely left behind in the mountainous forests of this area to keep them safe during the time of the March.
A number of other, non-Harrington families in the area hold this same oral history.
Templederry lies along the route taken by the Great March of the O'Sullivans.
It is a mountainous area (in relation to the rest of Tipperary). Locals can point to a field high up the hill called "Harrington's Field" claiming that Harringtons cleared that land and were the first to farm it.
However, there are no Harringtons listed in the in the Hearth Tax list of 1665-7 nor in the Religious Census of 1766.
Other family surnames who are still in the Templederry area (e.g Ryan) are listed in the Hearth Tax list for this area. Why are there no Harringtons listed?
If the family arrived in January 1603 as part of the Great March, one would expect the surname to be in one or both of these lists- unless they were just good at avoiding the tax man.....
The Cloghinch Harrington family tree lists the following early ancestors:
William Harrington born about 1757 (150 years after the Great March)
William Harrington born about 1796
Edmund Harrington born about 1830
There is documentary evidence of Family 1 living at Cloghinch/Clohinch in:
- the Tithe Applotment Lists (1830s- William and Michael),
- the Griffiths Valuation (1850s- two Williams and a Mary),
- one Baptism entry in church records (1830- William son of Michael)
- and the 1901 Census (Edward born 1830- the same man as Edmund born 1830? and his children including eldest son Thomas).
All of these entries relate to the same land where the family still lives and farms today.
Family 2:
There is documentary evidence of a second Harrington family living and working in the Templederry area in the 1800s.
Are they related to the Cloghinch Harringtons?
In the Tithe Applotment lists for 1825 an Abey Harrington has leased land at Shanballyard, a townland within the parish of Templederry.
In the same lists in 1830 an Abraham Harrington has leased land in Templederry parish. However, there are no details as to the exact location of this land.
Same plot of land? Same man or father and son?
In the Griffiths Valuations (1850s) three Harrington men, Abraham, John and James leased plots of land from the same landlady in the townlands of Falleeny and Shamballyard.
These townlands are located within the parish of Templederry and adjoin each other. The land records give no indication of the relationships between these three men.
Looking at the maps that accompany the Valuations, it becomes clear that the plots of land in Falleeny and the plots in Shanballyard are adjoining. Therefore, the 3 men (brothers? father and sons?) farmed one continuous plot of land leased from the one landlady that just happened to straddle two townland borders.
An Abraham Harrington and his wife Bridget (nee Hingerty) arrived in Melbourne in 1848 aboard the ship "Adelaide".
According to their shipping records Abraham was 24 years old and Bridget was 22 years old. Both reported that they were from Templederry. Abraham was listed as a farm labourer and Bridget as a dairywoman.
In later records they were said to have been married in 1846.
No Irish marriage record has been found for them, however this is not unusual as church records are inconsistent for this time period in Ireland.
Abraham and Bridget eventually settled in the Omeo district of Victoria and had a family of 10 children. They have many descendants alive in Australia today.
So, where in the parish of Templederry was Abraham from? ... and where was Bridget from before she married Abraham?
What is this Abraham's relationship to the Harringtons of Family 2 who leased land in the Falleeny/Shanballyard/Templederry area?
There are no other records for any other Harringtons living in the Templederry area.
Oral family tradition has John and James as brothers of Abraham who emigrated to Australia. If they did emigrate, it must have been later than Abraham as they were still leasing land in Templederry in the 1850s. Further research is needed to verify this tradition.
Current Cloghinch Harringtons have related that their oral tradition is that the 3 Harrington plots of land at Shanballyard were taken over by the Kennedy family. What was the time period for this land hand over? Were James ad John in Australia or did they die without family? They are not listed in the 1901 census as living in the Templederry area.
Further research is required.
Hingerty Connection?
Only one early church entry for the surname Hingerty has been found to date in the parish of Templederry.
Catherine Hingerty married Jeremiah Wixted/Worsted in Templederry parish in 1849. They went on to have at least two children.
Was this Catherine related to Bridget? Were they sisters?
Who and where were Bridget and Catherine's wider family?
Another Connection:
There is a later connection between the two Templederry Harrington families.
In the mid 1800s (Baptism record for child born in 1846) Margaret Harrington of Shanballyard married Michael Kennedy.
Their great grand daughter Margaret Kennedy (1918-2006) married Patrick Harrington (1906-1969) of Cloghinch. These are the parents of the Cloghinch YDNA tester.
However, in this blog post we are exploring the possibility of the two families being related along their direct male line back to the 1600s and the time of the Great March.
Our research question is: do both families descend from a single direct male ancestor who arrived around the time of The Great March?
YDNA Testing:
A direct male descendant of the immigrant Abraham Harrington and a direct male descendant of the Cloghinch Harrington family have both taken BigY700 YDNA tests.
The two testers match each other with an estimated Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) of around 1650 which would have been one or two generations after the Great March and 170-200 years before the first available documentary evidence.
These results would indicate that it is very likely that the two Harrington families of Templederry descend from a single direct male ancestor who arrived in Tipperary around the time of the Great March.
Connection to Hingerty/Ingerton Testers?
Both Templederry Harrington testers match Hingerty/Ingerton testers with an estimated Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor of 950 CE.
This result would indicate that while the Hingerty and Templederry Harrington testers do share a common direct male ancestor, this connection was back in Cork and not in Tipperary at the time of, or after, the Great March.
Summary:
As is often the case with our Irish family research:
- the documentary evidence is patchy and inconclusive.
- the YDNA results to date show a connection between the two Templederry Harringtons within the timeframe of The Great March which supports the theory that both lines descend from a single direct male who arrived in Tipperary from Cork with the Great March in January 1603.
- The YDNA results show a connection between the Hingerty/Ingerton testers and the Harringtons of Templederry in a timeframe well before the Great March. Their connection is therefore back in Cork and not in Tipperary.
Future Action:
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