Pedigree Tables: Original Stock, Thomond & O'Hurly Branches (p. 109)

This page presents, side by side, the article's two parallel pedigree tables: the senior Thomond/O'Brien line running down through Brian Boru, and the O'Hurly branch descending from the same shared ancestor Blod through Urthuile, the family's actual namesake, down thirty generations in all to Donnell O'Hurly, living around 1660–70. The whole pedigree closes with a formal certification by Owen Connellan, Irish Historiographer, dated 1836.

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Original Stock of the Thomond and O'Hurly Families

Oilioll Olum, King of Munster, A.D. 226, died A.D. 234
Cormac Cas, King of Munster
Mogha Corb, King of Munster
Fear Corb, reigned 11 years monarch of Ireland
Aongus Tireach, Prince of Munster
Luighdeach Meand, Prince of Munster
Conall Eachluath, Conall of the swift steeds, King of Munster about the middle of the 5th century
Cas
Blod

Blod's four sons: Cairthean Fionn (ancestor of the O'Briens) · Cairthean Dubh · Eacho · Brenann Bán (ancestor of the O'Hurlys)

Branch of the Thomond Family & Branch of the O'Hurly Family

Thomond Branch

Gaelic Name	English / Notes (as printed, where given)
Cairtheann Fionn (Carthenn Fionn)	King of Munster when St. Patrick came to Ireland, per the Psalter of Cashel as cited in the Book of Leacan. His son was baptized by St. Patrick, per the Book of Armagh.
Eachaidh Daill Dearg	—
Conall Clain	—
Aodh (Hugh)	—
Cathal (Cahal)	—
Tairdealbhach (Turlough)	—
Mathghamhan (Mahon)	—
Anluan	—
Corc	—
Lachtna	—
Lorcán	—
Céinnéidigh (Kennedy)	Father of Brian Boru.
Brian Bóroimhe (Brian Boru)	Monarch of Ireland, slain in the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014.
Tadhg (Teige)	—
Tairdealbhach (Turlough)	—
Diarmuid (Dermot)	—
Tairdealbhach (Turlough)	—
Domhnall Mór (Donal Mor)	King of Munster, A.D. 1175.
Conchubhar Cairbreach (Conor Cairbreach)	—
Tadhg (Teige)	—
Tairdealbhach (Turlough)	A.D. 1367.
Muircheartach (Murtagh)	—
Mathghamhan (Mahon)	—
Brian Chatha an Aonaigh	—
Tadhg (Teige)	—
Tairdealbhach (Turlough)	Died A.D. 1528. His brother Mortagh was first Earl of Thomond, ancestor of the Barons of Inchiquin.
Conchubhar (Conor)	Died 1539.

O'Hurly Branch

Gaelic Name	English / Notes
Breannán Bán	Brenann the Fair.
Dongaile	Dangal.
Eachaidh	Eohee.
Congaile	Congal.
Ionchlorach	Iorclosagh.
Flann	Flann.
Urthuile	Hurly — the progenitor of the O'Hurly family, from whom it took its name.
Mathghamhan	Mahon, son of Hurly. His brother was Prior of Aghaboe, Queen's Co.
Muircheartach	Murtagh, the first who assumed the "O," signifying grandson or descendant.
Maoileachlainn	Malachy O'Hurly.
Eoghan	Eugene O'Hurly.
Tadhg	Teige O'Hurly.
Diarmuid na Darach	Dermot O'Hurly of the Oaks.
Donnchadh an Chálaidh	Donough of the Port.
Domhnall Óg	Donnell oge.
Muircheartach Mór	Murtach Mor O'Hurly.
Seaán Mór	John the Great O'Hurly.
Conchubhar an Locha	Conor O'Hurly of the Lake.
Tomás	Thomas O'Hurly.
Raghnall	Ranall O'Hurly.
Pilib	Philip O'Hurly.
Muirior	Maurice O'Hurly.
Uilliam	William O'Hurly.
Éibhir	Eber (or Heber) O'Hurly.
Urthuile	Hurly O'Hurly.
Tadhg	Teige O'Hurly.
Donnchadh Amnemnigh	Donagh Teigue O'Hurly of the dreaded swords.
Cormac	Cormac O'Hurly.
Tadhg	Teige O'Hurly.
Uilliam Geanach	William O'Hurly the good humoured.
Cormac	Cormac O'Hurly.
Domhnall	Donnell O'Hurly, who lived about A.D. 1660 and 1670.

"The foregoing statements of facts, as far as I have power to test them by strict examination and research, appear to me to be correct in every particular, and in proof of my opinion I affix my signature hereunto."
— Owen Connellan, Irish Historiographer to His Majesty. Dated 7th March, 1836, Royal Irish Academy.

The two columns above were printed in a specialized Gaelic typeface (Cló Gaelach) in the original, which does not survive OCR or casual transcription reliably — hence the original need for the reconstructions above, now superseded by direct verification against a clean scan. No cells in either column remain flagged as uncertain as of this pass. Unlike the O'Hurly column, the printed Thomond column gave an English gloss for only a few entries — mostly dates and notes, reproduced above; where none was printed, the cell is left as a dash, as in the original.

Historical Note — What Was a Clan?

Before reading these tables, it helps to know what a document like this is actually claiming. A Gaelic "clan" or sept was not simply an extended family in the modern sense — it was a political and territorial unit, typically all claiming descent from one named ancestor (hence "Ó [name]," meaning "grandson/descendant of," or "Mac [name]," "son of"), holding a defined tribal territory (a tuath), and led by a chief chosen from within a small circle of eligible senior kinsmen rather than by strict eldest-son inheritance. Each significant clan of any standing retained its own hereditary specialists: a bardic poet-historian to record and recite its genealogy and deeds, and often a Brehon family (see the glossary in Section 3) to administer law. Genealogy was not incidental to this system — it was the legal and political basis of land claims, chiefly succession, and status, which is exactly why families like the O'Hurlys paid scholars such as Owen Connellan to formally "make out and authenticate" a pedigree: a certified genealogy was itself a kind of title document. It's also why the deepest layers of these pedigrees, reaching back through kings of Munster to Milesius, function partly as history and partly as a claim to standing — a distinction Section 2's note on the "Milesian origin" discussed in more detail.

Historical Note — Urthuile, the Family's Namesake

Urthuile is the figure the O'Hurly surname itself comes from: Ó hUrthuile, "descendant of Urthuile." This isn't only the 1905 article's claim — it's independently confirmed by Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames (1923), still a standard scholarly reference for Irish surname etymology, which describes the O'Hurlys as "a Dalcassian family in Thomond, akin to those of O'Moloney and O'Kearney," with "an important branch... settled at Knocklong, in the east of Co. Limerick, where the remains of their castle is still a conspicuous object on the Hill of Knocklong, and commands a magnificent view of the Galtee mountains and the plain of Co. Limerick." Beyond being a namesake, almost nothing else is independently recorded about Urthuile as an individual — which is typical for a figure this deep in a bardic pedigree, where the name may originally have functioned more as a genealogical marker for the sept's founding moment than as a remembered historical person.

A Note on Brenann Bán — a Pedigree with Two Shapes

Brenann Bán ("Brenann the Fair"), named here as one of Blod's four sons and the ancestor from whom the O'Hurlys descend, is also independently attested outside this 1905 article — but not in quite the same shape. John O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees (1892) gives the line as "Urthailé Árd, son of Heber (of the race of Brenan Ban), son of Blad, son of Cas," which treats Brenann Bán more as an ancestral "race" marker than as Blod's direct son with Urthuile several further generations down, the way this article presents it. Both versions agree on the same core cast — Cas, Blod, Brenann Bán, Urthuile — but disagree on exactly how the generations between them fit together. This is normal for pedigrees transmitted through multiple manuscript traditions rather than a single continuous record, and it's worth taking as a reminder that "the" O'Hurly pedigree, at this depth, was never a single fixed document even to the antiquarians who compiled it — it was reconciled, generation by generation, from several partially agreeing sources. (O'Hart's compilation is a useful cross-reference but has its own reputation among genealogists for occasionally presenting reconstructed lines more confidently than the underlying manuscripts support, so it should be read as corroborating rather than as a tie-breaking authority.)

Historical Note — Brian Boru

Brian Bóroimhe (Brian Boru), appearing here in the Thomond column as the shared ancestor's most famous descendant, is the best-documented figure on either table: High King of Ireland from 1002, and the Dalcassian chief whose reign broke the political dominance of the Uí Néill dynasties that had held the high kingship for centuries. He was killed, already elderly, at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in a battle usually remembered as ending large-scale Viking political power in Ireland, though Brian's own forces suffered heavy losses too. His father Céinnéidigh (Kennedy), listed just above him here, gives his name to the modern surname Kennedy. Brian's descendants took the surname Uí Bhriain (O'Brien) directly from him, becoming the Earls of Thomond — the "senior" branch this table sets the O'Hurlys' descent against.

Glossary

Tuath: A petty kingdom or tribal territory, the basic political unit of early medieval Ireland; Ireland at various points is estimated to have contained well over a hundred of them, each with its own king or chief, layered under larger overkingships such as Munster or Thomond.
Cló Gaelach: The distinctive Gaelic typeface, based on medieval Irish manuscript letterforms, used for printing Irish-language text from the 16th century onward and still common in Irish-language printing well into the 20th century. Its letterforms differ enough from standard Roman type that unfamiliarity with it, rather than any flaw in the printing, is usually what defeats casual transcription or OCR.