{"id":732,"date":"2020-10-14T07:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2020-10-14T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:41:00","slug":"dowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Dowling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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https:\/\/irishamerica.com\/2013\/12\/roots-the-dowlings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dowling.one-name.net\/up\/origins-01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dowling_(surname)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.johngrenham.com\/surnamescode\/Dowling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d3 D\u00fanlaing- anglicised Dowling, Dooling, Doolan, also Dowley etc. is from an archaic personal name.

\u00d3 Dubhlainn – anglicised Dowlan, Doolan and Dowling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woulfe (\u2018Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall\u2019 1923) says this comes from \u2018descendant of Dubhfhlann (black Flann)\u2019

\u00d3 Dubhl\u00e1in – anglicised Doolan, Dolan, Dowling, Delaney,etc. from meaning ‘black defiance\/challenge.

The \u00d3 D\u00fanlaing (pronounced \u00d3 D\u00fallaing) probably form the majority of this name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once Lords of Leix (modern Co Laois), their homeland was known as Fearann ua n- Dunlaing O’ Dowling\u2019s Country<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the \u2018seven septs of Leix\u2019, they were a powerful and numerous sept, spreading east into Carlow and Kilkenny.\u00a0Several leading members of the sept were transplanted to County Kerry by the English in the early 17th century.\u00a0Another sept of the name were in south-west Ireland; \u00a0they were of the Corca Laoighde, they also were numerous.

The \u00d3 Dubhlainn were of the U\u00ed Maine in present day County Galway.

\u00d3 Dubhl\u00e1in was the name of many families in different parts of Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anglicisations of all these names, as with so many others, had a habit of \u2018falling together\u2019 from the 17th century on.

In Petty\u2019s\u00a01659 Census<\/em>\u00a0the following occur as \u2018Principal Irish Names\u2019:
County Leix, Ossory Barony, Dooling (8 families) Dowley (17); Upper Ossory, Dowling (4) Dowley (9); Maryborough Bar., Dooling (8) Dowling (7) Dowley (5); Cullenagh Bar., Dowling (5) Dowley (5): Ballyadams Bar., Dowling (12):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County \\ Carlow, Catherlagh Bar., Doolin (6):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County Kilkenny, Galmoye, Dowley and Dooley (7); Gowran, Dowling (16); Fassagh Deinin, Dowling (9); Crannagh, Dowling (11); Kilkenny City\/Liberties, Dowling & c (17).
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All of these would be of the Leix sept. The returns for Co Galway are missing.\u00a0I could find no entries for the west Cork families, although some folios are missing.

By the time of Griffith\u2019s\u00a0‘Primary Valuation’<\/em>\u00a0(1848-1860) most Dowling households were in counties: Kilkenny (228); \u00a0Laois (158); \u00a0and Kildare (99).
For Doolan, most occur in Laois (159) and Kildare (70)

In the Registrar\u2019s Report on Births in 1890, showed most Dowlings in Countys Kilkenny, Laois, and Dublin.
Most Doolan births were in Countys Louth, Dublin and\u00a0Cork<\/strong>.

Two Famous Dowlings:
Thady Dowling (1544-1628) Irish scholar and grammarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartholemew Dowling (1823-1863) a Kerryman, of the transplanted Leix sept, wrote \u2018The Brigade of Fontenoy\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 (The Battle of Fontenoy was a very famous French battle against the English, where the Irish Brigade of France turned what seemed to be certain Defeat into a French VICTORY.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It seems there is not an active clan organisation for your name,\u00a0at this time<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the revival of interest in Irish culture and heritage over the past 100 years has led to the revival of many Irish Clans. In more recent times, increased access to historical archives online, DNA testing and ease of travel to Ireland has led many individuals to explore their own genealogy and connections to Irish Clans. Some of these have gone on to establish Clan Associations in Ireland, the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and anywhere that the Irish Diaspora has found itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Clans of Ireland Ltd invite those interested in Irish Clans to contact them with a view to explore the possibility of reviving your Irish Clan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.clansofireland.ie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/irishamerica.com\/2013\/12\/roots-the-dowlings https:\/\/www.dowling.one-name.net\/up\/origins-01.htm https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dowling_(surname) https:\/\/www.johngrenham.com\/surnamescode\/Dowling \u00d3 D\u00fanlaing- anglicised Dowling, Dooling, Doolan, also Dowley etc. is from an archaic personal name. \u00d3 Dubhlainn – anglicised Dowlan, Doolan and Dowling.  Woulfe (\u2018Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall\u2019 1923) says this comes from \u2018descendant of Dubhfhlann (black Flann)\u2019 \u00d3 Dubhl\u00e1in – anglicised Doolan, Dolan, Dowling, Delaney,etc. from meaning ‘black defiance\/challenge. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}