Hegarty Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Hegarty Name Origin



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Hegarty Family Crest



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Origin of the Name Hegarty



The Hegarty family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives.
Over the centuries Surnames developed a wide number of variants. Different spellings of the same name can be traced back to an original root. Additionally when a bearer of a name emigrated it was not uncommon that their original name would be incorrectly transcribed in the record books at their new location. Surnames were also often altered over the years based on how they sounded phonetically and depending on the prevailing political conditions it may have been advantageous to change a name from one language to another.
Variants of the name Hegarty
include Haggarty and Heggarty. Even though this name is associated principally with County Cork , the Hegarty's of Munster are in fact a branch of the main O'Hegarty sept of the Cinel Eoghan which was located on the borders of the present Counties of Donegal and Derry. In the fourteenth century the barony of Loughinsholin, Derry, was their principal habitat. In the seventeenth century they were more numerous in Tirkeeran in Derry and Inishowen in Donegal in the Ulster , and in the baronies of Barrymore and Carbery West in Cork . As is usually the case the present representatives of the sept are to be found in their traditional homeland and are today most numerous in Counties Cork , Donegal and Derry. The 1691 attainders of O'Hegartys relate to those of Ulster . The records of persecuted priests in the seventeenth century also indicate the Ulster character of the sept up until modern times.
The Hegarty coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Hegarty descendants.
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