CAHILL HISTORY

O'Cathail Sept (Clan) Cahill (O' Cathail) O'Cahill The Eoghanacht of Ireland Lords of Loch Lein Lords of Ballycahill Ireland, in the beginning, consisted of the following tribes: the Fomorians (The myth: they lived mainly in the sea); the Partholans (died of an epidemic); the Firbolgs (noone knows where they came from; they called their home "Euerio" which would evolve into Erie); the Tuatha De Danaan people (arrived after the Firbolgs and battled with them); the Laigain colony (came from Normandy around 300 B.C.); and the Milesians (see next paragraph).
The Cahills are descended from Milesius, king of Galacia in Spain (which lineage traces to the Gaels of the Russian steppes) through the line of Heber (Eber), his son. Heber became the first Milesian king of Ireland in 1699 B.C., ruling jointly with his brother Heremon (Eremon). Heber died a year later. Eremon ruled for another 14 years. In Irish the name is O'Cathail, i.e. a descendant of Cathal…derived from the Old Irish catu-ualos meaning "powerful in battle."
The following surnames are derived from the Eugenians (Heber):
MacAuliffe-MacCarthy MacCraith(Magrath)-MacDavid MacDonagh- MacElligot-MacEneiry- MacFinneen(MacFinnen)-MacGillicuddy- Mahon-O'Cathail-O'Callaghan O'Collins-O'Connor-O'Cronin- O'Cullen-O'Daley-O'Donahue -O'Donovan-O'Finnegin O'Flannery- O'Fogarty-O'Garvan O'Hehir-O'Keeffe O'Kerwick(Kirby)-O'Kinnealy O'Lechan(Lyons)- O'Mahoney O'Meehan-O'Moriarty-O'Mullane O'Sullivan-OTreacy Etc.

The following "Cathail" surnames are derived from the Heremonians (Eremon):
Cahill,Caine,Cairns, ,Cairnes,Kearns, Kieran,Callan,Carlton,Carleton Charleton,Casey,Kevill,MacCaul, Caulfield,Caldwell,Campbell,Cowell,Campb ell,Covill,Colwell,Coghill,Coyle,Howell, Keane,Etc.
The following surnames are derived from the Cahill sept:
Cahall-Cahill-Cale-Call-Caul- Charles-Corless-Cowell Gall-HallMac Cathmaoil-Mac Caul-Mac Cauley -Mac Caulogh-Mac GallMac Hall-Mc Cahall-Mc Cahill-McCale-McCall-McCaul-McCauley-McC aulogh-McCowell-McKale-O'Cahil-O'Cahill- Cathmaoil- Mac Call
COMPOSITE LINEAGE (PEDIGREE)
Cahill Lineage from Milesius
Cahill Lineage from Eoghan Mor
1. Milesius, king of Galacia in Spain. 1. Felum 52 B.C. King of Munster 2. Heber: son of Milesius. 2. Oilill Olum - called Ailill 3. Heremon: brother to Heber. 3. Eoghan Mor
83.- ? 4. Fiacha Muilleathan
84. Cormac Cass, King of Munster, second son of Oliol Olum.5. Oilill Flann Beag
85. ? 6. Lughaid 87. Fear. 8. Nadfraoich, King of Cashel
88. Aeneas or Aongis Tiread, King of Munster and of Meath.9. Aoebhus, King of Munster-(baptized by St. Patrick)
89. Luggadizs Meann, King of Thomond. 10. Eochid Finn(442 A.D.)
90. - 93. ? 11.Criothann
94. Aodh: son of Cobhtach. 12. Cairbre Crom
95. Bee: son of Aodh, 13. Aodh Flann Cathrach
96. Comuseach: son of Bee. 14.Cathal
97. Conchobhar: son of Comuseach. 15. Cu Gan Mathair
98. Thorp: son of Conchobhar. 16. Finnghuine
99. Cinaoth: son of Thorp. 17. Cathail Mac Finnghuine
100. Bracan: son of Cinaoth. 18. Artir, King of Munster
101. Ogan: son of Bracan. 19. Gorman
102. Conor Mear (O'Connor); relative of Ogan. 20. Fionghuine(Fineen/Finian)
103. Cathal: son of Conor Mear; a quo MacCathail/O'Cathail. 21. Caomh(Keefe)
104. Conor: son of Cathal. 22. Donnchadh (Denis)
105. Donall Dana: son of Conor. 23. Aodh (Hugh)
106. Teige O'Cahill: son of Donall Dana - first to assume this surname. 24. Domhnall (Daniel)
107. Brian Bearnach: son of Teige O'Cahill. 25. Fionghuine
108. Cathal (2): son of Brian Bearnach. 26. Maghnus (Manus)
109. Murtogh: son of Cathal 27. Eoghan Finn O'Keeffe
110. Edmond: son of Murtogh. 28. Conchubhar (Conor)
111. Donall Donn: son of Edmond.
112. Tomhas na Sealbuildhe: son of Donall Donn; means "Thomas of the seals".
113. John: son of Tomhas na Sealbuildhe.
114. Murtogh: son of John.
115. Edmund: son of Murtogh.
116. Teige Ladir: son of Edmund; name derived from Anglo-Norman influence.
117. Tomhas O'Cahill: son of Teige Ladir - died in the early 1700s (A.D.) NOTE: the convergence at #97 (Milesius) and #28 (Eoghan Mor); there is no dispute that all the modern Cahills can trace their lineage to Conchubber (Conor).
The current Cahills are more directly descended from Eogon Mor, the grandson of Mogh Nuadat (Owen the Great), who wrested half of Ireland from Conn of the Hundred battles, the 110th High King of Ireland who ruled during the second century.
The most important and largest Cahill septs were in the province of Munster ("An Mhuma" - the place of the tribe of Mumu) particularly the counties of Cork, Kerry and Tipperary where most of the Cahills still reside.
"Corca Tini the blooming is profitable, About Drumsalech of blue streams, O'Cahill above all others obtained An inheritance at Achaidh Iubhair. O'Flathri who commands our praise, Possesses the land of Finchora, The country of O'Cahil to the east and west Is the smooth plain of the fields of yew."   (O'Heerin)

In early medieval times the most important sept of O'Cahill was that located in County Galway near the Clare border, the head of which was the Chief of Kineala (Aughty), but by the middle of the thirteenth century, their former position as the leading family in Kilmacduagh had been taken over by the O'Shaughnessys.

The Desmond War "For four hundred years, the English attempted to plant the feudal system in Ireland. Under Elizabeth, the fierce methods increased. She stated that the lives of priests were to be forfeited. They were to be hanged, cut down when half dead, disemboweled and burnt, and their heads impaled in a public place. Munster was the fairest province in Ireland and the Geraldines were the strongest house in Irish History.The English seized Gerald, Earl of Desmond, and sent him and his brother to the Tower of London. Gerald's cousin, James Fitzmaurice was joined by the McCarthys, the O'Sullivans, the Cahills, the Noonans and other Irish chiefs who attacked the Queen's army and defeated them. The Desmond war lasted 5 years. When it ended, the English had 'left neither corn, nor horn, nor house unburnt' in Munster. The Queen had Fitzmaurice beheaded. 800 Spaniards who came to the aid of the Irish surrendered under a flag of truce and were given honorable terms, however, soon after they were slaughtered by English troops. The slaughter of the Irish continued after the war had ended - 'those whom the sword could not reach were deliberately given as prey to famine'. Spencer, the English poet, said that 'English rule can never be secure till the Irish race is exterminated.MacManus)
The 9 years War (1592-1601) "The same events, as in the Desmond War, continued in all other provinces. Throughout Ireland, women, boys and old men were put to the sword. When the English found a mother and child, they would hang them both, the child in the mother's long hair. The English considered the Irish to be '… a race of savages who were a disgrace to human nature itself.' Some were burned before a slow fire, others were put on the rack and tortured to death, while others, like Ambrose Cahill and James O'Reilly, were not only slain with the greatest cruelty, but their bodies were torn into fragments, and scattered before the wind. The Scottish Protestant leader, Dr. Smiles, sums up English works in Ireland: 'men, women and children wherever found were put indiscriminately to death. The soldiers were mad for blood. Priests were murdered at the altar, children at their mother's breast. The beauty of women, the venerableness of age, the innocence of youth was no protection against those sanguinary demons in human form.
                             (Mac Manus)
Cromwell "Cromwell landed in Dublin in August, 1640 with 17,000 troops, foot, horse and dragoons, the flower of the Puritan Army. Oliver Cromwell spent 8 months in Ireland, and his Puritan troops spurred on by Puritan ministers hand picked for their hatred of the Irish, delivered more butchery to Ireland than all other butchers whom Ireland had seen in 7 centuries of English rule. Because the greater part of the Irish who were able to bear arms had been killed off, many of the few remaining children were shipped off to slavery in the West Indies. Five-sixths of her people had perished. Ireland lay void as a wilderness.
After the Puritan fury had expended itself, and the native Irish were everywhere mysteriously springing up again - out of the bowels of the earth it seemed, we have interesting testimony of the rapid recovery of the race, and revival of its religion, from the French traveler Janvin de Rochefort, who visited Ireland in 1668. He found, even in Dublin, more than 20 houses where Mass was said secretly, and in about a thousand places, subterranean vaults and retired spots in the woods. Spending a summer in Drogheda he was told he could hear Mass 2 miles outside the city. He was astonished at the numbers he saw flocking though the woods and across the mountains to attend.
      (Prendergast)
In 1653, Daniel O'Cahill, brother of "Bogh" O'Cahill, chief of the clan in Ballycahill, forfeited, under the Cromwellian Settlement, his castle and lands, which were granted to Edward Annesley. The O'Cahills moved to Ballyglass, County Mayo.
Other forfeited property owned by Cahills: Tipperary: Daniell O'Cahell's farm in Bollycahell. Limerick: The farms of: Conner Cahill; Ellen Oge Ny Cahill; Ellyn Ny Cahill; Joan Ny Cahill; More Ny Cahill; Philip Cahill; Dermot O'Cahill ; Ellen O' Cahill; and Mortagh O'Cahill.

The most important Cahill "septs", in America, currently reside in Brooklyn, New York and San Ramon, California.
Some Famous Cahills:
Dr. Kevin Cahill, Director General of the American Irish Historical Society

From: News and Views | City Beat | Tuesday, December 14, 1999
"St. Pat's Parade Marshal Named Dr. Kevin Cahill, a longtime Irishleader who held key health posts at both the city and state levels, was selected yesterday to be grand marshal of the 239th St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 17.
The St. Patrick's Day Parade committee also named its 10 top grand marshals of the century. Heading the list was Cardinal O'Connor. Others included former Gov. Hugh Carey, Rep. Pete King (R-Nassu), former Rep. Tom Manton (D-Queens) and Albert Reynolds, former president of Ireland.
Last year's grand marshal was actress Maureen 0'Hara.
Owen Moritz
Edward P. Cahill, banker & bon vivant, San Francisco
Flann O'Cahill - martyred in 938
John Cahill, Pitcher, St. Louis
Kevin R. Cahill, Retired Police Officer,Brooklyn, NY
Mabel E. Cahill, US Tennis Champion
Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America, 1921
Reverend Daniel Cahill, Priest &lecturer - died in 1864, Boston
Susan (?) Cahill, Producer-Saturday Night Live.
Thaddeus Cahill, developer ofthe electric typewriter, 1901
Thomas Cahill, Chief of Police-San Francisco
Thomas Cahill, NY Times Best-selling author
Tom Cahill, baseball player, Louisville AA
Cahill, U.S. Marshall (portrayed by John Wayne in the movie) Etc.

The Names of Ireland
By the Irish, Greeks & Romans:
Ireland - from Ir, the son of Milesius of Spain Ierne, Ierna, Iernis,Iris,Irin Eire - Queen of the Tuatha DeDanan, Ivernia, Ibernia, Hibernia,Juvernia Inis Fail - the Island of Destiny,Verna, Insula Sacra, Ogy-giaInis Ealga-the Noble Isle Fiodh Inis - the Woody Isle
By the Danes: Crioch Fuinidh - the Remote Country Irlandi IrarMuig inis - the Island of Mist
By the Anglo-Saxons:
By the Anglo-Normans:
Eire-land-Irelande
Compiled by: Edward P. Cahill,

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