1659 Census of Ireland

     Inishowen Barony

          Incidence of Surname:

               McLaughlin  63
               McGlaghlin  76


          Moville Parish

               Tituladoes:  Brian Og McGlaghlin, gent.
                            Meaneletterbaile

                            Donnell McGlaghlin, gent.
                            Masagleen


          Clonca Parish

               Tituladoes:  Edmond Moder McLaughlin and
                            Hugh, his sonn, gent.
                            Tully one trien

                            Donnell Ballagh McGlaghlin, gent.
                            Menedaragh



      Barony of Boylagh and Bonagh

          Incidence of Surname:

               McGlaghlin  14



      1659 Census   Londonderry County

      Londonderry City and County

           Incidence of Surname:

                McLaughlin  04



      Barony of Terkerin

            Incidence of Surname:

                McLaughlin  19

      Barony of Kenaght

            Incidence of Surname:

                McLaughlin  30


 1665 Heath Money Rolls
     Co. Donegal


     Kilmacrenan Barony

          Kilmacrenan Parish

              Hugh ban M'Laughlin of Ballyscanlon
              Donell M'Laughlin of Carowkilly (var. Garrowcarrow)
              Owen M'Laughlin of Castlegeenan
              Neale M'Laughlin of Edincarnan



          Clondahurka Parish

              Pattrick M'Laughlin of Carickmean



          Tullabegley Parish

              Shan M'Laughlin of Kilulty



          Conwall Parish

              Edmund M'Laughlin of Cray and Corr



     Boylagh and Bonagh Barony

          Enniskeep Parish

              Owen M'Laughlin of Stranadorregh



          Glencolumkill and Kilcarr Parishes

              Turlagh M'Laughlin   [no townland named]





          Templecorone Parish

               Owen M'Laughlin of Mullough



          Templecairne Parish

               Donnaghy M'Laughlin  [no townland named]
               Farrell M'Laughlin   [no townland named]



       Raphoe Barony

          Leck Parish

               William M'Laughlin   [no townland named]
               Phelomy M'Laughlin   [no townland named]


     Inishowen Barony

          Moville Parish

              Donell Oige M'Laughlin of Massaglin
              Bryan M'Laughlin of Meinleter Meale
              Torlagh M'Laughlin of Glennagevenny
              Edmund M'Laughlin of Crehew
              Owen M'Laughlin of Demweir
              Connor M'Laughlin Oige of Culley
              Manus M'Laughlin of Clare
              Donnogh Boy M'Laughlin of Clare
              Neale M'Laughlin of Balliarohue
              Neale M'Laughlin of Drung
              Dermund M'Laughlin of Drung
              Neale M'Laughlin of Carrowkeeke
              Neale Oige M'Laughlin of Trumatty




         Fawthan Parish

              Tegg M'Laughlin of Tullyuny
              Manus M'Laughlin of Tulliarvill



         Donagh Parish

              Owen M'Laughlin of Carobleagh
              Connor Oige M'Laughlin of Cashell
              Phelomy M'Laughlin of Carrowreagh
              Pattrick M'Laughlin of Donagh




         Clonmany Parish

              No McLaughlins listed




         Culdaff Parish

              Donell M'Laughlin of Cashel
              Shan M'Laughlin of Cashel
              Edmund M'Laughlin of Cashel
              Dermund M'Laughlin of Waskill
              Bryan M'Laughlin of Monederagh
              Donell M'Laughlin of Monederagh
              Shan M'Laughlin of Monederagh
              Neale M'Laughlin of Aghituber
              Owen M'Laughlin of Ballimagarraghy
              Owen M'Laughlin Jr. of Ballimagarraghy
              Owen M'Laughlin of Lettrim
              Shan M'Laughlin of Clongel
              Edmund M'Laughlin of Balliaghan
              Phelomy M'Laughlin of Balliaghan



         Clonca Parish

              Owen M'Laughlin of Laraghoirrill
              James M'Laughlin of Grellagh
              Owen M'Laughlin of Grellagh
              Connor M'Laughlin of Grellagh
              Neale M'Laughlin Sr. of Grellagh
              Neale M'Laughlin Jr. of Grellagh
              Hugh M'Laughlin of Grellagh
              Owen M'Laughlin of Drumcarbet
              Rory M'Laughlin of Drumcarbet
              Shan M'Laughlin of Carowmore
              Phelimy M'Laghlin of Ballyknasy
              Edmund M'Laughlin of Ballyknasy
              Dermund M'Laughlin of Ballyknasy
              Connor M'Laughlin of Ballyknasy
              Wm. M'Laughlin of Carrowbleagh
              Donell M'Laughlin of Carrowbleagh
              Donnagh M'Laughlin of Beallagh
              Dualtagh M'Laughlin of Beallagh
              Owen M'Laghlin of Balliedoy  (Lagg)
              Edmund M'Laughlin of Ballikeny
              Aveny M'Laughlin of Ballikeny
              Hugh M'Laughlin of Balligorman
              Neale M'Laughlin of Ardmalin

        Desertegney Parish

              Donnell M'Laughlin of Gortcorkan
              Neece M'Laughlin of Gortcorkan
              Shan M'Laughlin of Bellinnen
              Owen M'Laughlin of Bellinnen




        Templemore Parish

              James M'Laughlin of Gortcomick
              Dartant M'Laughlin of Gortcomick
              Donnogh M'Laughlin of Gortcomick

              Edward M'Laugh     of Drumscallen
              Connor M'Laugh     of Tuer
              Neale M'Laughlin   of Iskaheen
              Connor M'Laughlin  of Iskahenn
              Dermod M'Laugh     of Carnemolle
              Turlagh M'Laghlin  of Mulleny





     1665 Hearth Money Rolls
     Tyrone County


        Omagh Barony

          Longfield Parish

              Philip M'Laughlin of Sopgaly 
              Edmond M'Laughlin of Sopgaly



          Drumra Parish

              Donold oge M'Laughlin of Cullbuke 



 1672 A.D.  Diocese of Derry

            CB MS 41 - Notes....Relating to Clergy......of the
            Diocese of Derry Daniel McLoughlin was instituted
            Rector of Desertegney in 1672


   1686-1718  Church of Ireland Parish Officials


 Clonca     1686     Hugh McLaghlin of Dannygrinnan     Churchwarden
                     Bryan O Laughlin od Duncorbek      Churchwarden
            1693     Hugh McLaughlin                    Churchwarden

Clonmany    1686     John McGlaghlin                    Parish Clerk and
                                                                     Inquisitor

Desertegney 1718     Douglas McLaughlin                 Churchwarden

Donagh      1661     Donally McLoghlin                  Churchwarden


 1694 A.D.  Vestry held for the Church of Clonca

 At a Vestry held for the Church of Clonca the 28th day of May
 1694 Memorandum of the wges asked at the sd Vestry by
 Hugh McLoughline should Receive so two pounds five shillings
 and three pens str.....ont of.....with the aforesaid parish
 of Clonca of the applottment the 9th day of April 1694.  Ordered
 at the sd Vestry Churchwardens and side man for this half year
 likewise it was agreed ye Hugh McLoughlin doe take up the above
 named applottment and be aCountable to the parish for ye money.

              signed:  Owen McLoughlin (his mark)
                       John D. Douglas (his mark)
                       Robt. Younge
                       Cal Corton (his mark)
                       Hugh McLoughlin (his mark)

              At a Vestry held for ye parish of Conca the 25th of June 1694
              ye minstor & Churchwardens being present.  It is order ye
              Archbald Watson & Alexander Moore be Churchwardens for this yeare
              in ye parish of Clonca.

              signed: Alexander Moore
                      Robert Young
                      Hugh McLoughlin (his mark)


              These records on the Parish of Clonca were contained in O'Casey's
              O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and the Upper Blackwater series,
              vol. 15 p. 655

              (From the late Dr. Robert S. Young, 1898)


  Chichester House Claims  1700


                            Lands                  Late Proprietor

 2552  Cashell and other lands      Ferdaragh McLaughlin
 2690  Half quarters of Kennaugh    Hugh McLaughlin and 
       and Ballykeny                Edmond McLoughlin
               



 1702  Confirmation of Arms and Nobility


Item 41310  Collection Noouveaux d'Hozier
            Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
            microfilm: positive 130

            From: James Terry, the Athlone Herald to
            James II and his descendents in exile; given
            to Anna MacLaughlin, daughter of Captain Darby 
            MacLaughlin.

            Darby MacLaughlin
            1st Lieutenant
            Earl of Antrim's Regiment
            (fought at Limerick and Aughrim)

            Ancestry:  Phelemy MacLaughlin = Mary O Dogherty
                         |
                        Owen MacLaughlin = Honora MacNamee
                         |
                        Terrence MacLaughlin = Una O Cahan
                         |
                        Owen MacLaughlin = Catrine O Dogherty
                         |
                        Darby MacLaughlin = Grace MacGroddy
                         |
                        Darby MacLaughlin = Mary O Kinan
                         |
                        Anna  MacLaughlin

  "Darby MacLaughlin .... is the first or Chief of that most ancient
   and noble family of the MacLaughlins, to which belongs the aforesaid
   Whitecastle of Inishowen and the lands belonging to it, for we are
   assisted by men worthy of faith and of the same parts.  This most
   ancient family of the Mac Laughlins always was Catholic and in all 
   of their endeavours supported it to the ruin and losing all their
   patrimony."



 Registry of Deeds Extracts


            83/343/59189

            Dawson to McFarland

            Lease dated 18th June 1729

            Parties

               Ralph Dawson of Dawsons Grove Co Armagh
               Elizabeth Dawson also McLauchland his wife
               Charles McFarland ...........................

            Land

              Masaglin next to Meinletterbeal where old Phillemey
              McLauchland lived, Moville, Inishowen

           Term of 27 years at #36 per annum

 52/341/34787

         31st July 1722

             Marriage settlement between Elizabeth McLaughlin
             & Ralph Dawson

             Lands include Dunaff, Letter & (unreadable) in the Manor
             of Buncrana


          84/245/59877

            Tripartite indented deed 5th August 1736

            Parties

               George McLauchlin of Greenwich Hospital (unreadable
               - 4 letters), London, Great Britain. Gent

               Elizabeth his wife

               Robert Young of (unreadable) in the barony of Inishowen

               William Scot ...............................

              Land

                 1/2 quarterland of Clare

              Most of the transcript is illegible but part of it says

              "Grant.........Robert Young his heirs...........forever"



        Printed Book of Chichester House Claims 1700
                    (PRINTED 1701)



            NLI MS 3012

           Claim No/Claimant/Estate or interest claimed/By what deed
           or writing/On what lands/County & barony/Late proprietor/Margin
           notes

           3007/Dominic Loughlin a minor, by Will Smith his next
           friend/Estate tail/Marriage articles dated about 4/11/(16?)
           75/Lands of Beheruagh/(Galway?)/Bryan Loughlin/ Dismist 

           2552/Arthur Earl of Donegall/Rent & reversion of a lease for
           lives renewable for 99 years/By lease dated 1/11/1656
           witnesses George Cary, Cahir O Dogherty & others/Cashell &
           other lands/Donegall, Enishowen/Ferdaragh McLaughlin/
           ( Dismist Caut )


           Note- Only the Claimant column was fully searched for
           McLaughlins. Other McLaughlins may exist in the Late
           Proprietor column.



Donegal Freeholders

BASED UPON
NLI MS 787-8
NLI POS 975
PRONI T808 14999

Name/Abode/Freehold/Landlord/Registered

John McGlaughlin/Ballyshannon/-/Conolly/1761
Daniel McLaughlin/Meadows near Ballyshannon/ Meadows
near Ballyshannon/Conolly/1768
Daniel McLaughlin/Rathmelton/Rathmelton/Sir A Stewart/1768
Thomas McLaughlin/ Meadows near Ballyshannon/ Meadows near
Ballyshannon/Conolly/1768
Archibald McLaughlin/Castlefin/Castlefin/Hrs Cor Hamilton/1768
George McLaughlin/Castlefin/-/ Hrs Cor Hamilton/1775
Hugh McLaughlin/Castlefin/-/ Hrs Cor Hamilton/1761

None of the above were  Ten Pound  freeholders



  Bishop Montgomery's Visitation 1606
  printed in Analecta Hibernica 12, gives details
  of the parishes of Inishowen, including the
  following on page 97.


Grillagh

Chapel of St Eunan. Herenachs Cornelius and Donatus M'Laghlan.
Two quarters of stony (land), near Rabegg aforementioned,
belong to the parish of Cloncha. On the further side of Rabegg
to the north is a mountainous country near the sea called
Malin, where there are two chapels.

Cornelius is latin for Conor and Donatus is latin for
Donnchad.



  Derry Clergy and Parishes', by JB Leslie
             

A succession list of the Church of Ireland diocese of
Derry and it contains succession lists from the earliest
times (the Church of Ireland regards itself as the 
true catholic church in Ireland and so it claims the
Catholic clergy from the period before the Reformation
as its own).



McLaughlins included pre-Reformation are:

1297
Geoffrey MacLoughlin became bishop of Derry.

1319
Michael McLoughlin became bishop of Derry.

1397
Donald McGlachlyn is Canon of Derry.
Nicholao Lochlynnagh was prior of the Dominican abbey in Derry

1412
Donald Macgialacind, Rector of Moville, died.

1425
Patrick Lochlonnah became Vicar of Grellach in
Cloncha parish and Vicar of Culdaff. He died in 1429
at the Apostolic See.

No McLaughlin Bishop is recorded before Geoffrey.
The reconstructed lists for this early period are
scrappy due to a lack of records. The start and end
dates of holding office are not usually stated, so an 
earlier McLaughlin Bishop could have existed without
being recorded.



Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers
relating to Great Britain and Ireland

1306
6 Kal. Sept.
Bordeaux
(f.13)

"to John [Taaffe].  Appointment to the archbishopric of
Armagh void by the death of Nicolas, the election of Michael
Maglachlyn, of the order of Friars Minors by the chapter not
having been admitted by Benedict XI. and Denys, appointed
by that pontiff, having resigned.
Concurrent leters to the dean and chapter of Armagh, to
the clergy of the diocese, to the suffragans and to the King."
                                     [Theiner, 174]

1310
13 Kal. Sept.
Groseau
(f.133)

"To Michael Maclachoyim, of the order of Friars Minors, of the
diocese of Armagh, the son of a nun.  Dispensation to accept
offices in his order and any dignity, even that of archbishop."

1327
8 Kal. Mar.
Avignon
(f.44)

To the archbishop of Armagh.  Mandate to decide the matter between 
the bishop and chapter of Derry and the heirs of Richard de
Burgo, earl of Ulster.  As appears by the petition of bishop
Michael, his predecessor, Geoffrey, and the chapter had a dispute
with Richard touching the right of patronage of certain churches
and lands and rights belonging to the bishopric, and the earl relying
on his temporal power got the better of the bishop and chapter, who
suffered heavily, but verbally agreed that the earl and his heirs
should hold the portion and temporal jurisdiction which they had
in the city of Derry, and also the advowson in certain places, and 
divers tenements belonging to the church of Derry, paying a very
small yearly pension to the bishop.  The said earl has held
these for twenty years, to the great injury of the see, and as he
is now dead, bishop Michael has petitioned the pope to compel the
earl's heirs to make restitution.  Witnesses are to be summoned 
and necessary orders made and enforced."   [Theiner, 237]

1412
6 Id. March
St. Peter's, Rome
(f.4)

"To the bishop of Volterra, the archdeacon of Raphoe and the
official of Derry.  Mandate to collate and assign to Robert
Makellais, clerk, of the diocese of Derry, who has lately had
papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an
unmarried woman, to be etc. as in the preceeding, the rectory,
of the patronage of laymen, value not exceeding 10 marks, of
Magerbili alias Norraborg in the said diocese, so long void by
the death of Donald Macglalacind that etc., as ibid.  Vite
ac Morum.  (Pro dec.)

1425
3 Kal. Feb.
SS. Apostoli, Rome
(f.6d)

"To the abbot of Cella Niara, Magonius Odroibelaig, canon of
Raphoe, and the official of Derry.  Mandate to collate and
assign to Patrick Lochnonnach, priest, of the diocese
of Derry, the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 8 marks,
of Culdabtha in the said diocese, void by the death of Nemias
Odufaghy, although Arhalt Odufaghy, priest, of the same diocese,
who is to be removed, hassd detained possession for more than
ten years; whether it be voic as stated, or by the death of
Sitrag Obrolchan, or in any other way, notwithstanding that the
pope has recently ordered provision to be made to him
of the perpetual vicarage of Grelleach in the same diocese, value
not exceeding 2 marks.  He is hereby dispensed to hold both together
for life.  

1429
Non. Sept.
Ferentino
(f. 120d)

"To the dean of Derry.  Mandate to collate and assign to
Henry Omuirgissan, clerk, of the diocese of Derry, who is of
noble race, the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 6 mark,
of Culldavcha in the same diocese, void and therefore reserved
by the death at the apostolic see of Patrick Lochlannach; 
notwithstanding that the pope has lately ordered provision
to be made to him of a canonry of Derry, with reservation of a prebend
thereof and of a benefice with or without cure in the common
or several gift of the bishop and the [dean and] chapter etc. of
Derry, which latter mandate shall, upon his obtaining the said
vicarage, be null so far as regards such benefice with cure only.

1971/72 CLOGHER RECORD, in an article entitled "The Register of 
Clogher" by K.W. Nicholls:

"....Then the church of Clogher was ruled by Nicholas MacCathassayth, 
archdeacon of Clogher, who was elected in the monastery of SS. Peter 
and Paul at Clones on the vigil of St. Matthew the Apostle 1319 
[February 24, 1320, NS] and consecreted in the  monastery of  Lisgoole 
by the venerable Fathers Michael [MacLachlainn], bishop of Derry, 
Thomas, bishop of Raphoe, and Patrick, bishop of Tir Briun. ...."
 
(The Register was compiled between 1520 and 1525, and then updated 
sporadically until about 1575.  It disappeared in the 17th Century, 
but numerous extracts of it survive, and Nicholls was able to 
reconstruct most of it.)


             The succession list for Grellach is:

             To 1425
             John Ugubun

             To 1425
             Roger Ocnambsi

             1425-1429
             Patrick Lochlonnah

             1429 onwards
             John Drover


       George Hill  "Plantation of Ulster"
       p. 400

     "Religious Houses.- The island of the Derry was occupied in early times
      by buildings exclusively of an ecclesiastical character, but of these
      structures not a vestige now remains.  The most venerated among them
      was the church of St. Columba, the original position and form of which
      are described by O'Donnell, a prince of Tirconnell, who, in his days of
      seclusion, wrote a life of the saint, about the year 1520, when his 
      church, although then in ruins, was still to be seen at Derry.  
      Referring to the locality of this ancient building, O'Donnell says:-
      'Many other signs and mircales were wrought by this servant of
      Christ [St. Columba] in the same place, in which he himself dwelt for 
      a long time, and which he loved above every other; and particularly
      that beautiful grove [Doire, 'the dense oak wood'] very near the monastery
      of Derry, which [the grove] he wished should be always left standing.'
      Next to St. Columb's church in importance was that other adjoining it, 
      and known as Temple More, or the Cathedral Church, erected in 1164.
      The Annals of Ulster inform us that Temple More was 90 feet in length,
      and that the principal front and corner stones employed in its erection
      were prepared in forty days.  'These two churches, with the accompanying
      buildings, were situated adjacent to each other outside the present city
      wall, on the ground occupied by the Roman Catholic chapel and cemetery;
      but with the exception of the round-tower belfry, were partly destroyed
      by an explosion of gunpower in 1568, and finally by Docwra in 1600,
      for the purpose of employing their materials in the new works he was
      erecting.  This tower survived till after the siege [1690], being 
      marked on the maps or plans of that time as the 'Long Tower or Temple 
      More; its site is still indicated by a lane called the Long Tower.  In
      the charter of Derry it is called Colum-kille's Tower.'
          Next came the Nunnery, which must have been built much earlier 
      than the sixteenth century, - the date generally supposed,- as the
      building is mentioned at the year 1134 by the Four Masters, who record 
      the death of Bebinn, the daughter of MacConchaille, female erenach
      of Derry, in that year.  This building was situated on the southern
      side of Derry.  
          Then there were the Dominican Abbey and Church, founded in the year 
      1274.  'Nicholas 'the Loughlinnagh,' or MacLoughlin, was prior in
      1397.  The number of friars in this Dominican ouse, previously to
      the suppresion, was generally 150.  It had the honour of supplying 
      two bishops to the see of Derry; and according to O'Daly and De Burgh,
      of sending forth five martyrs, namely, Donagh O'Luiny, prior of the
      order, and his brother William O'Luiny, in 1608; John O'Mannin, about
      1637; John O'Laighin, prior, about 1657; and Clement O'Colgan, in
      1704.  A convent of the order was maintained in Derry till a late
      period, which in 1750 contained nine brothers.'  The Dominican abbey
      and church were situated on the northern side of Derry, but their
      particular site is not now known.  It is certain, however, that it 
      was outside the present walls of the city.
          The Augustinian Church in Derry was situated within the walls,
      on the spot now occupied by the bishop's garden; and it appears 
      originally to have been a large as well as a comparatively elegant
      structure of its kind.  'The erection of this church is not noticed 
      in the Annals, from which it may be concluded that its date was
      not earlier than the close of the thirteenth century for some time
      previously to which the records of Derry are minute and accurate.'
      The Augustinian church was the only religous house preserved
      for a time after the advent of the settlers at Derry.  They
      made it a convenience until they got the present cathedral built,
      and from that time until its demolition, they used to call it the 
      'little church.'  
          A Franciscan Friary stood on the north side of the bog, near 
      the island of Derry, and had three acres of land as a church-yard,
      which, in earlier times, probably constituted some eccesiastical
      gort or garden.  The site is now occupied by three streets, viz.,
      Abbey-street, Rosville-street, and William-street.  The foundations 
      of the friary were discovered some years since.  See the Memoir of
      Templemore Parish, pp. 25, 26."