Milligan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Milligan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Milligan

The Milligan family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Molohan, Mulligan, Milliken, and Mulqueen. This family Sept, in Irish O'Maolagain, is of distinguished origin, its Chiefs being Lords of a territory called Tir McCarthain in the baronies of Boylagh and Raphoe, County Donegal. They were dispossessed in the Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century. Today these families are chiefly located in Counties Mayo and Monaghan. In 1659 they were found in considerable numbers in the Monaghan and Fermanagh areas, and also in the Longford-Westmeath area. In Donegal their name was sometimes changed to Molyneux, but this is rare there now. Of this sept was Charles J. Mulligan, 1866-1916, the American sculptor, who was born in County Tyrone. John O'Mulligan, who was Bishop of Leighlin and died in 1431, is also said to be of this line. The names Milligan and Milliken can also be found in the North-Eastern part of Ulster Province as well as in County Dublin .