Ó Fearghail
The Ó Fearghail are an Irish family of County Longford, who were the Princes of Annaly for 6 centuries. The patronym means "descendant of Fearghail", whose name means "man of valour". Fearghail was a great-grandson of Angaile, a 10th-century King of Fortúatha who conquered and gave his name to Annaly. His Ó Fearghail descendants were the Princes of Annaly, and the Ó Fearghail produced 7 Bishops of Ardagh. Anglicised forms of the surname include O'Farrell, O'Ferrall, Ferrell and Farrell. Early history According to the historian C. Thomas Cairney, the Ó Fearghail were part of the Conmaicne Rein tribe in Ireland who came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland from about 500 and 100 BC. The Ó Fearghail chieftain historically sat at the Ó Fearghail stronghold of Longford (Irish orthography: '' Longphort Uí Fhearghail''), with another Ó Fearghail seat at Moatfarrell (Irish orthography: ''Móta Uí Fhearghail'') in the eastern ...
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Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ...
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