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O'Kennedy Family History

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(or O'Kennedy) There is a Kennedy clan in Scotland also who, very far back, may have been related to the Irish Kennedys. They were certainly kinsman of King Brian Boru, from whose brother, Dunchad, they descend. For a long time the O Kennedys were settled in Clare, near Killaloe. The O Briens and the MacNamaras drove them away to Tipperary and Kilkenny, then know as Ormond. For 400 years they were Lords of Ormond and grew so mighty they divided into several new septs. For a long time they held out against the Butler-led encroachment of the Normans. These stirring times are recorded in the Ormond Deeds (c. 1579), which were presented to presented to John F. Kennedy during his 1963 visit. John F. Kennedy’s line sailed from Dunganstown to Boston.


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