The O'Meaghers were in ancient times powerful chiefs, and had the territory now forming the barony of Ikerrin, in the county of Tipperary, and the place mentioned in the above verses as Bearnan Eile is now called the Devil's Bit Mountain, in the parish of Barnanely. There were very respectable families of the O'Meaghers in the counties of tipperary, Kilkenny and Carlow (errata Owen Connellan's translation of The Four Masters the Annals of Ireland p 199-200, Keatings, History of Ireland 710)
Powerfully they have peopled the country,
The O'Meaghes of the land of Hy Kerrin
A tribe who inhabited Bearnan Eile,
It is not improper to extol their fame. O'Herrin
Lineage:
- Elizabeth b. @1760 Tipperary IRE m. 1783 Patrick Dunn
Ireland
- Tipperary
- Killenaule
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