Ronan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Ronan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Ronan

The Ronan family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include O'Ronan and Ronayne. This name in Irish is O'Ronain and the latter variants are the anglicized forms of this. This sept came from County Cork . A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. There where several small septs of this name but by the sixteenth century there was only one left. They were of the Ui Fiachrach. In County Dublin they were erenaghs of Clondalkin. They were landholders in that area up to the end of the thirteenth century. The head of the midland sept was a Chieftain in the Barony of Granard until dispossessed by the O'Farrells in the thirteenth century. In modern times the name is numerous in its original habitat of Counties Cork and Waterford.