Egan (No. 4.) family genealogy

Arms: Same as “Egan,” No. 1.

Donoch Mór, who (see p. 439, Vol. I.) is No. 108 on the “Egan” (No. 1) pedigree, had two brothers: 1. Saorbhreathach (or Justin); 2. Dermod.[1]

108. Saorbhreathach (or Justin), son of Murtach; was the first of this Connaught family that settled in Munster, and from some of whose descendants the townland of “Ballymac Egan,”[2] in the co. Tipperary, derives it name. This Saorbhreathach had three sons:

1. Giolla-na-Naomh, of whom presently.
2. Gilbert, who had Dunsleibhe, who had Gilbert, who had Connor, who had Gilbert, who had Hugh.
3. Maoliosa Dhun, for whose descendants, see “Egan” (No. 6.)

109. Giolla-na-Naomh: son of Saorbhreathach.

110. Justin: son of Giolla-na-Naomh; had a younger brother Dunsleibhe.[3]

111. Flann: son of Justin.

112. Thomas: his son.

113. Thomas (2): his son.

114. Connor: his son.

115. Cairbry MacEgan: his son; was Professor of Law, or Judge, to MacCarthy in Desmond.

Notes

[1] Dermod: This Dermod had Justin, who had Maoliosa Dhunn, who had Justin, who had Justin Oge, who had Donoch Dubh, who had Brian Carrach, who had Carbery, who had Hugh, who had Donal, who had Cormac, who had four sons—1. John, 2. James, 3. Melaghlin, and 4. Cormac Oge.

[2] Ballymac Egan: The Armorial Bearings of “Egan” of Tipperary, temp. Charles I., were:

Arms: Gu. a tower ar. supported by two men in armour, their exterior hands resting on their hips, in each of the others a halbert all ppr. in chief a snake or.

[3] Dunsleibhe: This Dunsleibhe had two sons:

1. Giolla-na-Naomh MacEgan, who had Connor MacEgan, who had Giolla-na-Naomh MacEgan, who had:—I. Hugh, 2. Giolla-na-Naomh, 3. Donal, 4. Donogh.
2. Connor MacEgan, who had Giolla-na-Naomh Mór, who had Giolla-na-Naomh Oge, who had Giolla-na-Naomh (3), who had Donal, who had Cusnamha, who had Carbry.