Names in the Elizabethan records. Follow the records, people, objects and places from this period. This is a growing selection from the research.
A pardon names Hugh Ballagh O Mullhallon among followers of O’Neill in County Antrim. Another names Hugh Grome O Mullchallane of Ruske among the McMahons of Monaghan.
Source: Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, reports 16 and 17, appendices, fiants 5573, 5603 and 6145.Fiant 5709 lists people recorded as Mahallon and M’Mahallon, together with Donogh O Mollan and Tirlagh O Mallane. The document gives a view of the wider community of names.
Source: Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, reports 16–18, appendices: fiants 5573, 5603, 5709, 6145, 6629, 6714 and 6735, as relevant.A pardon dated 16 February 1592 names seventeen men recorded as Mahallon or M’Mahallon, alongside O’Neills, M’Gillconells, O’Haghens and others. It also names Donogh O Mollan and Tirlagh O Mallane. The document gives us a group of people in a shared record; it does not identify them as keepers of the bell.
Murtagh Mahallon m’Hugh Mahallon; Arte groome Mahallon; Hugh oge Mahallon; Hugh M’Mahallon; Art M’Mahallon; James Mahallon m’Hugh; Donell m’Cormack Mahallon; Manus dologh Mahallon m’Cormake; Mortagh Mahallon m’Cormake; Patr. moder Mahallone; Owin oge M’Mahallon; Colloe Mahallon; Colloe m’Brien boy Mahallon; Donell m’James Mahallon; Hugh groom Mahallon m’Frior; Cormake Mahallon m’Prior; and Cormake moder Mahallon.
The forms m’Frior and m’Prior invite questions about a possible connection with a prior, but that reading and any identification of their families remain open.
Source: Sixteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, appendix, p. 202, fiant 5709. The conditions and exceptions appear in the printed record.
A County Antrim pardon lists people under forms including O Mulcallen and O Mulcallon, and also names O’Mellans among followers of the O’Neills. The record preserves a group of names beyond the office of keeper.
Source: Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, reports 16 and 17, appendices, fiants 5573, 5603 and 6145.