Mulligan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Mulligan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Mulligan

The Mulligan family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Molohan, Milligan, Milliken, and Mulqueen. The sept of O'Mulligan is O'Maolagain in Gaelic. They are of distinguished origin, their chiefs being lords of a territory called Tir McCarthain in the baronies of Boylagh and Raphoe, County Donegal. They were dispossessed in the Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century. In modern times the Mulligans are chiefly located in Counties Mayo and Monaghan. In 1659 the Mulligans were found in considerable numbers in Monaghan and in Fermanagh, and also in the Longford-Westmeath area. In Donegal their name was sometimes changed to Molyneux, but this is rare there now. Of this sept was Charles J. Mulligan, 1866-1916, the American sculptor, who was born in County Tyrone. John O'Mulligan, who was Bishop of Leighlin and died in 1431, is also said to be of this line. The names Milligan and Milliken are variants of Mulligan and are almost entirely confined to north-east Ulster .