On an Agreement, in Irish, between Gerald, Ninth Earl of Kildare, and the Mac Rannalls, Executed at Maynooth, November 5, 1530 (vol. 10)

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1. Grant of Lands in Mohill to Humfry Reynolds

   Mohill · town · Leitrim · 1629

   Among the 1629 grants of lands in County Leitrim by Charles I. under the old Mac Grannell name, a single roll records the English name Reynolds, granting lands in the barony of Mohill to Humfry Reynolds.

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   just referred to), to live free from all Irish service, and to enjoy the English laws.* In the latter part of that century among the forty-one Mac's and twenty-six O's, who, on October 5, 1585, surrendered their Irish names and customs of inheritance to Sir Eichard Bingham and the Commissioners, the "Mac Granils" are enumerated. Notwithstanding this surrender, however, we find them figuring among the Irish force which opposed Bingham several years later, in 1590. And, nearly forty years later, in 1629, among the grants of lands in the county of Leitrim, by Charles I., seven distinct grants were made under the old name to Connor Mac Murragh Mac Grannell, Tirlagh Mac Grannell, and five others, while but a single roll contains the English name of Reynolds — that containing a grant of lands in the barony of Mohill, to " Humfry Reynolds, his heirs and assigns for ever."f Still the change, if slow, has been complete. The English name Reynolds has long entirely displaced the Irish patronymic, even in its hereditary seat ; and the wellknown George Nugent Reynolds, of Letterfian, in Leitrim, a notable local celebrity in the last generation as a wit and poet, whose name attracted considerable notice some years since on account of a claim made on his behalf to the authorship of the "Exile of Erin," was a descendant of the Mac Rannalls of Muintir Eolus.

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