Mangan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Mangan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Mangan

The ancient history of the name Mangan was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The normal form of the name Mangan in Irish is O'Mongain, which is more phonetically anglicized as Mongan in parts of Connacht. In Mayo, the original homeland of one of the Septs so called, it is more usually Mangan nowadays. The Munster Mangans, originally of County Cork , are now found more in County Limerick . The Munster Mangans have been long enough established in County Limerick to have a townland called after them in the parish of Dromcolliher, namely Ballymongane. This is also the name of a townland in the parish of Kilnamona in County Clare. The Ulster Sept, which, as erenaghs of St. Caireall, gave its name to the parish of Termonomongan in County Tyrone, appears to be now almost extinct. Three brothers named Warburton who assumed the name Mongan, 1810-1894, were of sufficient importance to be included in Crone's Dictionary of Irish Biography.