In 1659 the name was still there. Across the surviving census material and the tax records that followed, families were still being recorded under forms of Ó Maol Phádraig: Mulpatrick, Molpatrick and other attempts to put an Irish surname into…
While working on the recently found Mulpatrick Dominican record, I found myself going back through the much earlier clerical references associated with Ó Maol Phádraig. The Dominican record belongs in another post, but it returned me to a question that…
We have now reached a point in the Ó Maol Phádraig story where the southern records become noticeably fewer and farther between. Through the later sixteenth century the name can still be followed across Cork, Kerry and Limerick, particularly in…
The published history of the Ó Maol Phádraig family has now essentially caught up with my current research. I have worked through the surviving evidence to about 1610, and the backlog of material that allowed me to post so frequently…
When the Old Professions Disappeared: Ó Maolmochéirghe, Ó Maolchonaire and Ó Maol Phádraig after the Gaelic Order By the opening years of the seventeenth century, the world in which Ó Maolmochéirghe, Ó Maolchonaire and Ó Maol Phádraig had developed was…
As this research has grown, I have accumulated an enormous amount of material: fiants, patents, pardons, church lands, placenames, occupations, family associations, witnesses, landlords, tenants, military followers and recurring surnames. I am also now putting the known Ó Maol Phádraig…
This story really began for me in 2011. I had become interested in the Fitzpatrick name and, like most people beginning family research at that time, I started looking online to see what was already known. I found the Fitzpatrick…
I’ve added an interactive map to the Ó Maol Phádraig website. For now, it is very much a work in progress. I still hope to polish the presentation, improve some of the symbols and layers, and eventually add interactive notes…
Where the Research Stands If you have read all of the posts leading up to this one, congratulations. It has not always been easy reading. The period before hereditary surnames is difficult to reconstruct. The evidence is scattered across annals,…
Book of Fenagh “Maelpatraig, son of Maelgenn; from him are the Uí Maelpatraig.” “Maelmocherghi, from whom are Muintir Maelmocherghi.” The history of medieval Ireland often survives in unexpected places. Great battles are remembered in the annals, kings appear in genealogies,…