The Feeneys

There are two different septs - O Fiannaidhe in Sligo and Mayo and O Fidhne in Galway and Roscommon; both of these anglicized their name as Feeney so that, as all these counties are close together, it is hardly possible to determine to which sept present day Feeneys belong - the great majority of these hail from the four counties mentioned above. There are two places named Ballyfeeney, both in Co. Roscommon. The name was more numerous formerly than at present and it appears very frequently in the Elizabethan Fiants and in the census of 1659. then as now the name was now unknown in Co. Derry - the poet Patrick Feeney (d.1900) was born there.
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