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Alette Hunter
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Alette | Report | 4 Apr 2003 16:59 |
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Mulvenna is Gaelic, O'Maoil Mheana, meaning decendant from a devotee of the River Maine,(probably named after the goddess Meana) (Located just outside Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and flows into Lough Neagh at Randalstown, and before the destruction of the Gaelic order of the 17th century, the sept of O'Mulvenna was located in O'Cahan (O'Kane) in County of Doire (Derry). They were heriditary ollans of o'Cahan. The first historical mention of the O'Maoil Mheana name was in the Annals of Ulster. 1164 of someone who was 14th decendant from Niall of the nine hostages. By 1659 when Pender's census showed O'Mulvenna as the spelling. They were no longer to be found in any great extent in their traditional homeland, but were numerous in the adjacent County of Antrim, in the Barony of Glenarm. This was a part of the county least affected by the upheavals of the 17th century. |
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