Hegarty Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Hegarty Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Hegarty

The Hegarty family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Haggarty and Heggarty. Even though this name is associated principally with County Cork , the Hegarty's of Munster are in fact a branch of the main O'Hegarty sept of the Cinel Eoghan which was located on the borders of the present Counties of Donegal and Derry. In the fourteenth century the barony of Loughinsholin, Derry, was their principal habitat. In the seventeenth century they were more numerous in Tirkeeran in Derry and Inishowen in Donegal in the Ulster , and in the baronies of Barrymore and Carbery West in Cork . As is usually the case the present representatives of the sept are to be found in their traditional homeland and are today most numerous in Counties Cork , Donegal and Derry. The 1691 attainders of O'Hegartys relate to those of Ulster . The records of persecuted priests in the seventeenth century also indicate the Ulster character of the sept up until modern times.