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Descendants of unknown Logan

Generation No. 1

1. unknown¹ Logan

Notes for unknown Logan:
SURNAME DICTIONARY/ SLOINNTE NA h-EIREANN
Logan Very numerous: all areas, especially Ulster. Ir. Ó Leocháin, a sept of W Meath at the Invasion, they were dispersed through Connacht. Ulster Logans are part indigenous, part Scottish and the Normans added de Logan to the Ulster scene in 12 cent. MIF.

County Monaghan (Muineacháin, "Place of thickets")

Along with Armagh and Louth, Monaghan was originally part of the Gaelic kingdom of Oriel which dates from around 330 AD. The McMahons were the dominant family in the Monaghan area and, together with the McKennas, remained so until the mid-seventeenth century. Although a part of Ulster, the county was not included in the great Plantation which began in 1610. It was only after the failure of the rebellion against Cromwell later in the century, and the subsequent confiscations, that some settlement by the English and the Scots took place.

Like Armagh and Louth, Monaghan was one of the most densely populated areas of Ireland in 1841. Accordingly, its people suffered greatly in the Famine. The population dropped by almost a third between 1841 and 1851, and went on falling as emigrants flooded out of the county over the following decades. By 1961, there were only 47,000 inhabitants left, less than a quarter of the total 120 years before.

Surnames associated with the county include McKenna, McMahon, McGowan, Smith, McPhillips, Finnegan, Duffy, Hughes, Markey, McArdle and Mulligan.

From Irish Roots, (No. 28)
Published four times yearly.

Surnames of County Monaghan

By Willie O'Kane

COUNTY MONAGHAN, COMPRISING SOME 136,000 hectares, is a landlocked county, having boundaries with four other Ulster counties - Tyrone, Armagh, Fermanagh and Cavan - as well as with Louth and Meath.

The county name derives from Muineachan, the place of the thickets. Much of the county is a mix of rounded hills and poorly drained uplands interspersed with more fertile and manageable soils on the lower parts where limestone predominates.

The highest hills are the Slieve Beagh range in the north-west, along the Tyrone border. Reaching around 1,200 feet in height, the range is somewhat isolated and featureless. Other mountains are Cairmore, with its deep upland lake, and Crieve Mountain overlooking the southern part of the county.

The Blackwater is the chief river in Monaghan, and today most of the county is given to pasture and beef farming with sheep on the higher farmland. Nearer the main towns, potatoes and cabbage are grown, while in the northern part, near Tyrone, there is a concentration of mushroom-growing industries.

Monaghan is the county town, being the episcopal seat of Clogher diocese and noted for St Macartan's Roman Catholic cathedral.

The town has long served a relatively prosperous mixed-farming area, and despite a decline in local industries over the past few decades, evidence of its former solidity remains in buildings like the Market House, dating from the 1790s, the Westenra Hotel and the nearby printing works producing the Northern Standard newspaper.

Clones, 12 miles west of Monaghan, possesses a fine high cross in the market place and several notable Georgian houses.

The chief GAA playing field in Ulster is located here, and provincial matches regularly attract tens of thousands to the town. Castleblaney, at the head of Lough Mucknoo, one of the largest of Monaghan's many lakes, is the hometown of 'Big Tom' McBride, pioneer exponent of the hybrid musical form known as 'Country and Irish'.

Other towns include Newbliss, Emyvale and Ballybay.

Carrickmacross, in the south-west of the county, is noted for its fine lace, a tradition stretching back several centuries and today carried on by a dedicated co-operative movement.

Principal Names

As to be expected, there is a great variety of family names in Monaghan, mainly of native Ulster origin, although in the Ulster Plantation many Scots and English settlers arrived in the county. Prominent Monaghan names, in no particular numerical order, are McMahon, McKenna, Hughes, McCabe, Smith, Kelly, Maguire, Murray, Woods, O'Connolly, Duffy, Leslie, Hamiliton and Shirley.

Children of unknown Logan are:

+	2	i.	Richard² Logan, born Abt. 1773 in Ireland; died Feb 17, 1858.
+	3	ii.	William Logan, born Abt. 1786 in Ireland; died Jun 25, 1856 in West Nissouri, Ontario, Canada.
+	4	iii.	Edward Logan, born Abt. 1790 in Ireland; died Bef. 1851.
+	5	iv.	George Logan, born Abt. 1794 in Monaghan, Ireland; died Apr 11, 1872 in Thorndale, West Nissouri, Ontario.
+	6	v.	Robert Logan, born Abt. 1799 in Parish of Aghabog, County Monaghan, Ireland; died Dec 25, 1857 in Lot 17, Concession 3, West Nissouri Twp, Middlesex Cty, Ontario, Canada.

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