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Description of Coat of Arms: Argent on a cross gules a lion passant
between four martlets of the first, in each quarter a sword erect of the
second. Crest: A martlet argent. O’Nolan Nolan, seldom found nowadays with its
legitimate prefix O, is the name of a sept of great antiquity which has always
been associated with that part of Ireland which lies around the barony of Forth
in Co. Carlow (not to be confused with the better known Forth in Co. Wexford).
In pre-Norman days their chiefs, who held high hereditary office under the Kings
of Leinster, were known as Princes of Foharta (modern Forth). After the
invasion, though their power declined, they retained considerable influence. In
the sixteenth century a branch of the Nolans migrated to Connacht and became
extensive landowners in Counties Mayo and Galway, in which counties the name is
not uncommon to-day. Nolan is among the forty most numerous names in the country
as a whole, the great majority of persons so called being found, as might be
expected, in Carlow and the adjacent counties. In 1878, however, Connacht
landlords named Nolan possessed over 12,000 acres; but there was no extensive
landowner of the name in or near Co. Carlow. There was also a small sept of
O'Nuallain belonging to the Corca Laidhe group. (Possibly the Nolans of west
Munster to-day stem from them). These, however, for some reason not apparent,
were often called O hUllachain - thus in Lynche's De Praesulibus (1672) the two
names are treated as interchangeable. In this connexion it may be mentioned
that, according to Woulfe, O hUallachain is anglicized Nolan in north Connacht.
As Knowlan and Knowland this name is noted in the "census" of 1659 as
numerous in Longford and in the adjacent baronies of Co. Westmeath. In Irish the
name is O Nuallain, I.e. descendant of Nuallan. The derivation of the name is
obscure. the word Nuallan in modern Irish means a shout or cry, but it does not
follow that the name comes from that. IN recent centuries few Nolans stand out
as being particularly distinguished but several not unimportant persons of the
name may be mentioned. Philip Nolan (1771-1801), an Irish emigrant to America,
was one of the most notorious frontiersmen and contraband traders of those early
days in the West; Most Rev. Edward Nolan (d. 1859), was Bishop of Kildare and
Leighlin; two Nolans had some success in the literary field, viz. Rev. Frederick
Nolan (1784-1864) as a Protestant theologian and Michael Nolan (d. 1827) as a
legal writer; John Philip Nolan (1838-1912), of the Co. Galway Nolans, is
remembered not so much as a soldier as for his political career during which he
came into conflict with the notorious Judge Keogh and took the part of Parnell
at the split of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Index to Griffith's Valuation of
Ireland, 1848-1864
Nolan,
Anthony
County : Tipperary Nolan,
Anthony
County : Tipperary Nolan,
Anthony
County : Tipperary Nolan,
Anthony
County : Tipperary Nolan,
Thomas
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Edward
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Francis
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Judith
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Martin
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Mary
County : Tipperary Kelly,
Mrs. T.
County : Tipperary Kelly,
William
County : Tipperary Nolan Family Notes on marriages: Four members of the Dunn family married into the James Nolan family. James Nolan born February 2, 1828 in County Tipperary, Ireland. Arrived in America at age 22 on July 5, 1851, aboard the British Brigatine Fanny from Galway. Ann Mary Kelly born August 15, 1831 in Nenagh Parish, County Tipperary, Ireland. Arrived in America at age 20 aboard the Waterloo on July 2, 1851 from Liverpool. James and Ann were married on Feb. 2, 1854 in Wayne County, Ohio, and later settled in Moultrie County, Illinois. Ann died on July 9, 1896 in Dalton City, IL. James died Feb. 18, 1911 in Dalton City, IL. James later married Bridget Lynch who died Feb. 16, 1911.
Nenagh is in the Province of Munster, County Tipperary, N.R, Poor Law Union of Nenagh, Parish of Nenagh and the Barony of Lower & Upper Ormond. The name Nenagh comes from Aonach Urmhumhan, meaning fair
of Ormonde, and is situated in a fertile plain surrounded by the Silvermine and
Arra mountains. It is the chief town of North Tipperary, and about 25
miles north of Galbally. Nenagh castle is one of the finest of its kind in Ireland, built in 1200 by Theobald FitzWalter one of the ancestors of the Butlers' of Ormonde. It is a hundred feet high and at its base 53 feet across. In 1860 the top portion was reconstructed. The Parish church of St. Marys' of the Rosary is a large Gothic revival building. The remains of a Franciscan Friary founded in 1250 by Bishop Donal O'Kennedy of Killaloe may be found on Abbey street. It was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell. Click Here for photos of Church.
Mrs. James (Bridget Lynch) Nolan: (second wife of James) Visit the Sacred Heart and St. Isidore pages on the Henneberry web site. James Nolan was one of the original sixteen founders of St. Isidore Church in Bethany, IL.
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