Hingerty One Name Study

  Created by CH and ChatGPT Having discovered that our surname links us to an ancient Irish clan, I have often wondered what our clan chief would have looked like? I suppose in my mind he would have looked like the image here to the left...... but how accurate is this image???? I know very little about the origins of our clan. What little I do know I shared in a previous blog  Link to previous post The first clan chief to be mentioned in a document (to my current knowledge) is Thady O Hingerdell "called O Hingerdell" i.e. he is the clan chief. He is found in a list of other clan leaders from the Cork area in a government decree called a Fiant (Fiant 3038) for 1577. They had been granted a pardon from the Crown with the payment of a fine of one cow. I do not know Thady's age in 1577, but the next mention of a chief for our clan is in relation to The Great March of the O'Sullivans on New Years Eve 1602. Is Thady still the clan chief? To find out more about the Great Mar...

  The O'hlongadail Atlas 1603-1901, Tipperary for the surnames Harrington, Hingerty, Hingerton and Ingerton. An "O'hlongardail Atlas" was created using Google Maps in December 2023 (find link below) to explore the research question: Are the modern day surnames Harrington, Hingerty, Hingerton and Ingerton  linked by location and/or naming patterns in Tipperary after 1603? Background:  All 4 surnames, when found in Tipperary records, are believed: - to be variations/Anglicisations of the earlier clan name of O'hlongadail. -to have arrived in County Tipperary from the Bantry Bay/Beara Peninsular area of south west Cork as a result of the Great March of the O'Sullivans January 1603. The exact relationship between individual families using these 4 surnames is unknown and undocumented. Surname Variants: When using the Atlas, you will note the use of a variety of spellings for our 4 target surnames and a change in these variations across time. The most prevalent surn...