See “The Stem of the Heffernan Family,” in O’Hart’s _Irish Pedigrees_. The clan is a very old one in Irish history and has produced many people of note. Footnote 9: The O’Kellys, from which come the names Kelly and Kelley, were of great eminence in Ireland. An O’Kelly commanded the Connaught division at the battle of Clontarf, A. D. 1014. O’Kellys were princes of Hy-Maine, Ireland, down to the reign of the English Queen Elizabeth. Twelve of the name were distinguished in the Spanish service, between 1718 and 1788, as officers in the Irish regiments of Irlanda, Hibernia, Ultonia, and Limerick. Footnote 10: In his work on the _Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland_. Footnote 11: The form O’Dalaighe has been anglicized O’Daley, O’Daly, Daly, Daley, Daily, Dailey, Dayly, etc. The ancestor of the O’Dalys of Meath, Ulster and Connaught was Adam, brother of Fargal, monarch of Ireland. Fargal was killed in battle, A. D. 718. (See _Annals of the Four Masters_, O’Hart’s _Irish Pedigrees_, and similar authoritative works.) Footnote 12: This name also appears in Ireland as Lavery and O’Lavery. Footnote 13: The greater part of the will was reproduced in the _Narragansett Historical Register_, James N. Arnold, editor, Providence, April, 1891. Footnote 14: The names Gerard and Gerrard are found in Ireland. This name Garard, however, may have been Garratt or Garrett, and therefore derived from Garritty or MacGeraghty. Footnote 15: Dunn,—a typical Irish name; from the Irish O’Duin, and anglicized O’Dunn, Dun, Dunn, Dunne and Doyne. The sept was prominent, in the olden time, in Kildare and Queen’s. Footnote 16: For interesting mention of the MacCarthys, see Burke’s _Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages_ (London, 1866); O’Hart’s _Irish Pedigrees_ (Dublin, 1881); Burke’s _Vicissitudes of Families_ (London, 1859-60); Lodge’s _Peerage of Ireland_ (Dublin, 1789); Burke’s _Landed Gentry_ (London, 1871); Burke’s _General Armory_ (London, 1884); Washbourne’s _Book of Family Crests_ (London, 1882); the _Royal Book of Crests_, London, (Macveigh); O’Hart’s _Irish Landed Gentry_ (Dublin, 1877); Howard’s _Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica_; Nichols’ _Topographer and Genealogist_ (London, 1853); the _Complete Peerage_ (edited by G. E. C.), (London, 1893); the _Book of Dignities_ (London, 1894); Cusack’s _History of the City and County of Cork_ (Dublin and Cork, 1875); Prendergast’s _Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution_ (1660 to 1690), (London, 1887); Amory’s _Transfer of Erin_ (Philadelphia, 1877); John O’Kane Murray’s _Prose and Poetry of Ireland_ (New York, 1882); Douglas Hyde’s _Literary History of Ireland_ (London, 1899); _An Historical Pedigree of the McCarthys_, by D. McCarthy (Exeter, Eng., 1880); Lower’s _Patronymica Britannica_ (London, 1860). Footnote 17: