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Comhairle Chlanna na hÉireann
The Council of Irish Clans

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Fitzpatrick of Leinster

Mac Giolla Phádraig Laighean

The clan name means 'son of the servant of Patrick'. Various members of the Leinster clan resisted anglicisation and maintained the Irish form of the name until the nineteenth century.

Ancient Territory: County Kildare. After the rebellion of Thomas FitzGerald, tenth Earl of Kildare, the clan were dispersed into Counties Carlow and Wicklow (then Dublin), Further relocations in the seventeenth century saw some branches of the clan settle in County Louth and County Down.

Contact: Dr Mike Fitzpatrick PhD

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Fitzpatrick of Upper Ossory

Mac Giolla Phádraig Osraighe Uachtarach

The Fitzpatricks of Upper Ossory are called so following a 1541 decree by Henry VIII of England, which required that Barnaby MacGilpatricke and his kin 'utterly forsake and refuse the name'.

Ancient Territory: By surrender and regrant, Barnaby Fitzpatrick was created Baron of Upper Ossory and awarded several thousand acres of his patrimony, and also that of his kinsmen, in modern-day Laois,

Contact: Brian Fitzpatrick.

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