Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Galway, Roscommon, and Sligo, County Mayo<\/b> is part of the province of Connacht. The county's boundaries, which were formed in 1585, reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time. The history of County Mayo <\/span>is long, with evidence of occupation going back to Mesolithic communities around 4500B. The county has experienced perhaps the highest emigration out of Ireland. From the 1840’s to 1880’s emigrants left the rural townlands of the county initially triggered by the great famine, as well as searching for new work in the United Kingdom and the United States. Today the county has beautiful landscapes and historical sites, such as the tombs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>","A family seat,<\/strong> or simply a seat,<\/strong> was the principal manor of a medieval lord, often an elegant country mansion. It denoted the family held political and economic influences. ","County Fermanagh (Fermanagh, <\/b>Contae Fhear Manach)<\/b><\/span><\/span>
County Fermanagh <\/span><\/span>“Contae Fhear Manach, <\/span>meaning “men of Manach,” is within the province of Ulster, bordered by County Tyrone, County Monaghan, County Cavan, County Leitrim, and County Donegal. The only known Celtic tribe named in the 150 AD map of Ireland is the Menapii; they located their first colony—Menapia—on the Leinster coast around 216 BC. There are a sequence of faults over the county the Killadeas <\/span><\/span><\/span>","Richard de Clare (1130-1176) was a famed archer, and was popularly called De Arcu Forti, meaning of the Strong Bow. When his father died, he was about eighteen","County Donegal (Donegal, Contae <\/b>Dhún na nGall<\/b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Part of the province of Ulster, County Donegal, has also been known as County Tyconnell (used 1922-1927). The name came from the town Donegal meaning ‘fort of the foreigners.’ Once home to the Clann Dálaigh, better known in English as the O’Donnell dynasty, around 1600, they were one of Ireland’s wealthiest and most potent native families. In 1585 the modern County Donegal was shired by order of the English Crown; however, full control was achieved after the Flight of the Earls in September 1607. During the Great Famine in the late 1840’s County Donegal was the worst affected part of Ulster.<\/span><\/span>","Ireland<\/strong> was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","The northern region of Ulster was an ancient kingdom, and one of the four historic Provinces of Ireland. The region was mostly annexed by the English Crown during the reign of James I (1603-1625). The Province of Ulster is now","A Clan<\/strong> is a social group made up of a number of distinct branch-families that actually descended from, or accepted themselves as descendants, of a common ancestor. It is a common misconception that all members of a clan are related,","The First Fleet<\/strong> departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books2.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/bayeux1.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/county_mayo.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/county_fermanagh.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/county_donegal.webp?pos=floatRight","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/scotland-med2.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Sherring","sU":"SHEERAN","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/SHEERAN\/IR\/Sherring\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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