Harkin Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Harkin Name Origin



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Origin of the Name Harkin



The ancient history of the name Harkin was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Harkin is derived from the Gaelic O'hEarcain sept that was located at Inishowen in County Donegal, in the very north-west of Ireland . This sept name is taken from the Gaelic word 'earc' meaning 'red'.
A sept or clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. Irish septs and clans that are related often belong to even larger groups, sometimes called tribes.
This name has a number of anglicized forms including Harkins, O'Harkin, Harcan and Harkeyn. An early record of the name is found in Bishop Mongomery's diocesan survey of the year 1606 in which Daniel O'Harcan is named as one of many Ulster martyrs. In the 1659 Census the name is recorded as a principal Irish name in the barony of Inishowen. Michael Harkin was the author of 'Inishowen, its History, Traditions and Antiquities' in 1830.
The Harkin coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Harkin descendants.
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