Richard o callaghan biography graphic organizer

Our post in april on the Sheehan coat of arms proved a great success with lots of feedback and questions so here we go again with another excellent piece on the Irish Surnames kindly provided by Eddie from Araltas again.

O Callaghan

In direct line from Ceallachan, King of Munster from 935 until his death in 954, comes the widespread family of O Callaghan.

Ceallachan was also Chief of the Eoghanact tribe which included the most powerful families in Munster, including the MacCarthys. Ceallachan became a folk hero and is the ancestor of many of the families which are still in the County Cork area.

Even further back than Ceallachan’s time, there is a manuscript in Dublin’s Genealogical Office showing the tree of posterity of Milo, circa 1400 bc, which includes the progenitors of the O Callaghans and continues up to AD 1614!

There is also a manuscript that records a pedigree of the O Callaghan chiefs and t