An outline and history of the Donegal {and Glasgow} Don. Fan. McGlynns.
January 2007. Under construction.
This is a site for McGlynn, McGlinn, McGlin, and McLynn; all variants of MagFhloinn.
The history and origin of the Celtic peoples in Ireland and their later life and times is recounted in the first couple of chapters, running up to the present times. The origins of the name and the ancestry derive from the scripts of the the ancient scribes and scholars in their attempts to write down what had previously been an oral tradition. This oral tradition lasted into the 1960s; due to lack of literacy; and the last one I knew was John the Fiddler in Maryhill who could relate cousins and cousin's cousins from Donegal to Glasgow and all parts west. Sadly by the time I was interested; the last time I met him in the First & Last; his memory was extremely suspect.
I have not included any lore that is localised or told to me by one or two people in the same area, but have tried to give the general folk history of the McGlynns of Donegal.
This has been the work of forty years to date and I hope it is a reasonable resource for others wishing to further the knowledge of how our fathers lived. A deal of it is unique and I have no problem with others using it or any of the drawings or maps in place.
Dave McGlynn !!
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The Coat of Arms
of the
McGlynn Family.
The 'coat of arms' is as much a Victorian thing as the tartans of Scotland. As in Scotland, the Anglo-Normans had them but not the indigenous peoples. It is purely a marketing ploy that everyone in Scotland has a tartan and all families in Ireland a Coat of Arms. As a rule they take where the family was most numerous in the tenth/eleventh century and pick a predominant 'coat of arms' for the area, or even adapt one. In some cases I have been unable to find any relevance.
The following is a Coat of Arms for the McGlynn families of Donegal.
Coat of Arms.
(red shield with gold chevron)
Central shield - Anglo-Norman.
motto:
SPES ANCHORA VITAE
Hope is the Anchor of Life.
Surroundings put into an historical Irish setting
with stylised Irish Hounds, patterns, and zoomorphics.
(1969)
This is a coat of arms for the McGlynn of Donegal. Earliest known use was in a series of articles in the Irish Weekly News in the 1930s. These 'Arms' are like the tartans of
It is a different format to book layout, but I hope to space it in such a way that the printed pages, of the web-site, are not split mid-sentence or leave large gaps.
You will have to excuse the size of lettering - this web provider has changed how it works and conversions from Word & Excell appear to take random sizes. Anyone recomend a no frills web-provider.
Links to other sites of interest:
Excellent free genealogy resouces for Donegal in general. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/
Census List and other genealogical resources for Inishkeel Parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/inishkeelproj.htm
Census List and other genealogical resources for Kilteevogue Parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/kilteevogeproj.htm
Map of Donegal magnifying from 1:50.000 O/S map to aerial view with townland borders. Donegal Council. http://www.donegal.ie/gplan_donegalssps/
General Irish Links and links to other sites. http://islandireland.com/Pages/folk.html
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