Mooney Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Mooney Name Origin
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Mooney Family Crest
Origin of the Name Mooney
The Mooney family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Mooney is derived from the Gaelic O'Maonaigh sept name that is taken from the Gaelic word 'maonach' meaning 'wealthy'.
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.
These families are descended from Monach, son of Ailioll Mor of Ulster . Variants of this name include Money, Mony, Meeny, Meeney, Meany, Meaney and Mainey. There were several septs of this name in Ireland . The O'Mooney sept of Ulster were erenaghs of Shanaghan whose townland was called Ballymooney. Another sept was located at Tireragh in County Sligo. In that area there are four townlands called Ballymeeny. A notable bearer of the name was Father Donagh Mooney, who was a guardian of the young Earls of Tyrconnell and Tyrone at Louvian in 1626. Thomas Mooney (1815-1888) was editor of the Fenian newspaper in San Francisco and was a controversial figure in London.
The Mooney 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 Mooney descendants.
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| This Months 'Meaning of Symbols' on Family Crests: COLORS | |||||
OR (Gold) = Generosity |
Argent (Silver/White) = Sincerity, Peace |
Gules (Red) = Warrior, Martyr, Military Strength |
Azure (Blue) = Strength, Loyalty |
Vert (Green) = Hope, loyalty in love |
Sable (Black) = Constancy, Grief |
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