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Timoney and McCloskey Families

Kilteevoge Civil Parish

Occupier Last Name	Occupier First Name	Lessor Last Name	Lessor First Name	County	Parish	Townland
TIMONY	FRANCIS	STYLE	WILLIAM.H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	ALTATRAGHT
TIMONY	PENLOPE	STYLE	WILLIAM.H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	ALTATRAGHT
TIMONY	PATRICK	STYLE	WILLIAM.H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	ALTATRAGHT
TIMONY	WILLIAM	STYLE	WILLIAM H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	BOULTYPATRICK
TIMONY	PETER	STYLE	WILLIAM H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	CRONADUN
TIMONY	PETER	STYLE	WILLIAM H.M.	DONEGAL	KILTEEVOGE	LETTERBRICK

This parish, located next to Inishkeel Civil Parish, also contained a cluster of Timony families. ‘Timony’ is the only surname variation found in this part of Ireland.

2 - Altatraght

13 - Boutlypatrick

25 - Cronadun

43 - Letterbrick

Donegal Civil Parish

Occupier Last Name	Occupier First Name	Lessor Last Name	Lessor First Name	County	Parish	Townland
TIMONEY	EDWARD	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	CORNAVEAGH
TIMONEY	JAMES	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	CORNAVEAGH
TIMONEY	DANIEL	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	CORNAVEAGH
TIMONEY	JOHN	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	CORRACRAMPH
TIMONEY	PATRICK	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	GARVAGH
TIMONEY	PATRICK	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	GOLADOO
TIMONEY	JOHN	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	GOLADOO
TIMONEY	JOHN	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	GOLADOO
TIMONEY	EDWARD	COMMISSIONERS OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS		DONEGAL	DONEGAL	GOLADOO

In Donegal Civil Parish one finds a cluster of Timoney families living near Lough Eske. This lake is bordered by Donegal

Civil Parish and Killymard Civil Parish. The Griffith Valuation Survey finds Timoney families living in the following townlands:

20 Cornaveagh

21 Corracramph

44 Garvagh

46 Goladoo

Drumhome Civil Parish

Occupier Last Name	Occupier First Name	Lessor Last Name	Lessor First Name	County	Parish	Townland
TIMMONY	BRYAN	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	MULLANASOLE
TIMMONY	DENIS	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	MULLANASOLE
TIMONEY	EDWARD	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	OUGHTNADRIN
TIMONY	EDWARD	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	ROSSILLY
TIMONY	FRANCIS	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	ROSSILLY
TIMONY	JAMES	CONOLLY	THOMAS	DONEGAL	DRUMHOME	ROSSILLY

This parish contains families with three different variations of this name: Timoney, Timmony and Timony. They were located in the following townlands:

69 – Mullanasole

75 - Oughtnadrin

87 – Rossilly

The McClosky/ McCloskey / McClusky / McCluskey Families

Spelling variations include Keane, Kane, Kane, Kearney, Kenny, Keynes, O’Hare, O’Keefe, O’Hagan, Chan, Keen, O’Quinn, McCloskey, McCluskey, McCaskey and many more. The name was first found in Derry. The family motto is ‘Felis demuleta mitis’, and translated means ‘a stroked cat is gentle’. It would be interesting to determine how this motto originated.

The following information comes from ‘Clans and Families of Ireland’ by John Grenham: “Kane and O’Kane are the most anglicized version of the Irish O’Cathain, from a diminutive of cath, meaning ‘battle’. Kane and O’Kane are the most frequent in Ulster, where O’Cathain arose as a surname in the Laggan district of east Donegal, as part of the Cineal Eoghain, the large group of families descended from Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fifth-century monarch who founded the Ui Neill dynasty and was supposedly responsible for the kidnapping of St. Patrick to Ireland. In the twelfth century these Ulster O Catharine conquered a large territory to the east of their original homeland around Colerain and Weeknight in what is now County Derry, and remained powerful and important in that area down to the wars in the seventeenth century. Their last chief died in the Tower of London in 1628. Two other common surnames McClosky and McAvinney, are offshoots of O Cathain. Kane remains particularly common in the Coleraine district of County Derry, and in the adjoining county of Antrim.”