MacSweeney (No.4) family genealogy
Of Castlemore, Moviddy, County Cork
Arms: The Armorial Bearings of MacSweeney-na-Doe family, according to Caesar Otway who wrote in 1839, were a salmon, a lion pass. and a bloody hand.
TIRLOCH, a younger brother of Donoch who is No. 115 on the (No. 2) "MacSweeney" Na Tuaighe (or Na Doe) genealogy, was the ancestor of this branch of that family:
115. Tirloch: son of Maolmuire.
116. Dubhdara: his son.
117. Eoghan: his son.
118. Donall: his son.
119. Eoghan an Locha: his son.
120. Brian: his son.
121. Eoghan: his son.
122. Maolmuire: his son.
123. Murcadh: his son; had:
I. Maolmuire.
II. Eoghan.
III. Eileen.
IV. Murcadh.
124. Maolmuire: son of Murcadh; m. Kathleen O'Mahony, of Kilmurry, and had:
I. Murcadh Beag.
II. Tirlogh.
125. Murcadh Beag: son of Maolmuire; born in Castlemore, Moviddy, and removed thence to Macroom; m. Mary, dau. of Bryan O'Sullivan, of Castleisland, county Kerry, and had:
I. Murcadh.
II. Maolmuire.
III. Kathleen.
IV. Eoghan.
V. Eileen.
VI. Shane.
VII. Mary.
126. Murcadh (Patrick Morgan): son of Murcadh Beag; m. Margaret, dau. of Michael O'Donovan (whose son, Very Rev. Jeremiah O'Donovan, D.D., was the author of Rome Ancient and Modern, and the Translator of the Catechism of the Council of Trent, &c.), and had surviving issue: I. Diarmaid, II. Grania; living in 1886.
127. Diarmaid (Jeremiah) of Dublin: son of Murcadh; living in 1887; m. Maria, eldest dau. of Joseph O'Longan, of the Royal Irish Academy, and has had:
I. Murcadh.
II. Diarmaid (Jeremiah Myles).
III. Eoghan (Eugene).
IV. Michael.
V. Mary.
VI. Margaret.
VII. Grania (Grace).
VIII. Eugene-Joseph.
128. Murcadh (or Patrick Morgan) MacSweeney: son of Diarmaid (or Jeremiah), of Dublin; living in 1887.