Land, war and the families. Follow the records, people, objects and places from this period. This is a growing selection from the research.
Fiant 6629 records people under O Mulchallen, O Mullchallen and O Mellane forms. Other 1602 records name Patr. O Mulchalen in County Armagh and O Mellan men in County Tyrone.
Source: Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, reports 16–18, appendices: fiants 5573, 5603, 5709, 6145, 6629, 6714 and 6735, as relevant.The Ulster inquisitions record a yearly rent of two marks and a cosherie from the termon land of Ballyneclage. They also describe the herenagh’s share of the cost of maintaining the parish church. The corbe is not named; the return does not identify a keeper of the bell.
Source: Ulster Inquisitions, Repertorium, vol. II, appendix, County Tyrone; also George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster (1877), p. 163.
A printed inquisition records leases made by Neal Oge O’Neill to people named O’Mulhallon and O’Mullchallen in County Antrim. Their names, dates and lands offer a fuller picture of the family in this period.
Explore the names and the record →Witness statements collected during and after the wars name people in several communities. In 1642 Hugh Cuningham listed “Coll mother o Mulhallon” of Killelagh. In 1653 Captain Bryan Mulhallen described killings at Ballymartin; another witness, Donell McGillmurtin, named him in an account of the same events.
Statements also name Patrick O’Mallan and Fardorragh O’Mallon in Tyrone. The records include more than one captain named Patrick O’Mallan; their identities should not be merged without further evidence. These statements record witnesses’ accounts and allegations, and do not mention the bell.
Sources: Trinity College Dublin, 1641 Depositions, MSS 836 fol. 80r, 838 fols. 181r and 139r, and 836 fol. 42r. Search by manuscript and folio; access may require a CAPTCHA.
The Franciscan Tarlach Ó Mealláin kept an account of the wars of the 1640s. His journal offers another way into the period and the people associated with the O’Mellan name.
Source: Tarlach Ó Mealláin, journal, 1642–1647; edition and page to be added.O’Laverty records Daniel O’Mulhollan’s ordination at Kilkenny in 1687 and his later registration as parish priest in County Antrim.
Source: James O’Laverty, An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, vol. III (1884), pp. 321–325.