Kirwan (No. 3.) family genealogy

Of Castlehacket, County Galway

Arms: Ar. a chev. gu. betw. three Cornish choughs sa. Crest: A Cornish chough as in the Arms. Motto: J’aime mon Dieu, mon roi, et mon pays.

Thomas Oge,[1] who (see p. 512, Vol. I.) is No. 2 on the “Kirwan” (No. 2) pedigree, and who was Alderman of Galway in 1542, had two sons:

1. Andrew, Alderman, who was the ancestor of “Kirwan,” of Cregg; d. 1578.
2. Stephen, of whom presently.

3. Stephen Kirwan: second son of Thomas Oge; had issue.

4. Richard: son of Stephen; had issue.

5. Stephen: son of Richard; had issue:

6. Sir John Kirwan, Knight: son of Stephen; was Mayor of Galway in 1686,and an M.P. Had issue.

7. Simon: son of Sir John; had issue.

8. John, of Castlehacket: son of Simon; d. 1781. He married Miss Daly, of Dalystown, co. Galway, and had issue:

1. John, of whom presently.
2. Denis.
3. James.

9. John (d. 1821), of Castlehacket: eldest son of John; m. Mary, dau. of Henry Boyle Carter, Esq., of Castlemartin, county Kildare, and left two sons and a daughter:

1. John, of whom presently.
2. Henry, who m. Miss Bingham, and had issue.

10. John, of Castlehacket (born 1780, d. 1842): eldest son of John; m. in 1806 Penelope (died 1842), eldest daughter of John Hardiman Burke, Esq., of St. Cleran’s, and had issue two sons and one dau.:

1. Denis, of whom presently.
2. John, b. 1807, d. 1827.
1. Elizabeth, who on the 17th Sept., 1839, m. the Hon. Edward Lawless, third Lord Cloncurry (d. 1869), and had issue.

11. Denis Kirwan, of Castlehacket, J.P. and D.L.; son of John; b. 1808, d. 1872; was High Sheriff in 1844. He m. 11th April, 1844, Anne-Margaret, only child of Major Thomas Macan, of Greenmount, county Louth, and had issue one son and one daughter:

1. John-Thomas-Macan, of whom presently.
1. Mary-Lissey.

12. John-Thomas-Macan Kirwan, of Castlehacket: son of Denis; a Lieutenant in the 7th Royal Fusiliers; b. 1851, and d. 23rd June, 1875, when he was succeeded in Castlehacket by his sister Mary-Lissey Kirwan.

Notes

[1] Oge: This Thomas Oge was son of Thomas Caoch (“caoch;” Irish, blind, dim-sighted, or squint-eyed), who d. in 1545. Thomas Caoch had a brother Patrick, who was Warden of Galway; they were sons of William Kirwan, who settled in the town of Galway in 1488, and died in 1499. The epithet “caoch,” applied to Thomas Oge Kirwan’s father, is by some writers incorrectly rendered Keagh, and by others Reagh; but these two words are corruptions of the Irish epithet caoch (pr. “Keeagh”).