The Irish name Egan is derived from the native Gaelic Mac Aodhagain Sept that was located in Counties Galway and Tipperary. The name translates as ‘son of Egan’. MacEgan is a seldom used variant. This Sept name was also sometimes anglicized as Keegan which can be found mostly in the County Dublin and County Roscommon regions.
View some photos of this family and their relations from Shrule and beyond .
Letters sent to members of this family from civil war detainees later executed due to their opposition of the treaty in 1921.
Descendants of Thomas Egan born in Brackloon , Shrule in 1793 a family tree reaching back into the 18th century .
All the Egan family details and photos are credited to Mike Johnson a descendant of Thomas Egan born in Brackloon 1793. The Egan house in Brackloon is still recognisable and is being renovated by the latest owner .
Sorry, I can’t answer that. You would have to find some historian who is able to read the Tithe maps. The last Egan to own the property was Patrick Egan, Jr. and he died in 1954. His wife, Margaret Greaney Egan, took over the property and after she passed, she left it to her niece, who was a Burke from the Corrundulla section in Co. Galway.
Hi; is your family sharing land with Thos Gill in the Tithe App’t for Ballymulvey?