BRENNAN, Thomas A. A History of The Brennans of Idough, County Kilkenny. (Inscribed by the Author)

With maps. New Hampshire: Whitman Press, 1979. Octavo. pp. xi, 307. Green buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare.
MacLysaght tells us in his standard reference work on Irish families that there are many Brennans in Ireland and the name comes twenty-eighth in the statistical list of Irish surnames. There were two main branches of this clan, the MacBrennans of Corcachlann in County Roscommon and the principal sept of O’Brennan in Ossory who were chiefs of Ui Duach (Idough) in the northern part of County Kilkenny. It is from that branch that the author was descended and he deals at length with them.
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