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Macfie diaspora song
Mr. Robin McFee
Kilchrennan, Argyllshire
Scotland
song
“Macdubhsithe Diaspora”
by James & Robin McFee
In the west you’ll still find them
Tumbled and grey
The hearthstones they left
When our kin sailed away
Families with children
And some on their own
Left from the Island
Where they were born.
Across the world
The seed was sown
In lands they now love
And call their own
In the spell of time
Home ties remain
The letters may change
But the old name’s the same.
And even now
From far away
The dream persists
Of Colonsay.
An Echo of Pibroch
A soft touch of rain
And the road to the island
Beckons again
The sands of Kiloran
A walk on the shore
The quietness that tells them
They've been there before.
And now they know
And still can say
The dream persists
On Colonsay.
In the west you’ll still find them
Tumbled and grey
The hearthstones they left
When our kin sailed away
Families with children
And some on their own
Left from the Island
Where they were born.
And now they know
And still can say
The dream persists
On Colonsay.
book
The Duffy Clan plus 200 Years of History of the Duffys of Mace
by Peter Duffy
Lisduff
Longford
County Longford
Ireland
First edition
Published September 1992
ISBN 0-9520179-0-3 0952017903
The “Mace” mentioned in the book’s title refers to the Townland of Mace located in Rathowen, County Westmeath, Ireland, having earlier come from County Longford, Ardagh. The Duffys of Mace is Peter’s family. He mentions places in Ireland where Duffys were/are found in large numbers: Connacht, Donegal, and Monaghan in Ulster.
Peter still has copies of his book for sale. Contact him if you’d like to obtain a copy. He ships world-wide.
Irish Centre for Shamanic Studies
with Martin Duffy
Dunderry Park
Dunderry
Navan
County Meath
Ireland
email
shamanismireland.com
phone +353(0)46 9074455
McDuffee DNA Surname Project
The McDuffie DNA Surname Project seeks to emulate the success obtained by some other clans in applying the relatively new & accurate Male Y-Chromosome DNA test in order to establish the clan’s genetic roots.
MacFie websites
Clans & clan societies
International
Clan Macfie (the site’s NEW location)
Alexander “Sandy” Carpendale McPhie,
Clan Commander
Helen McPhie, Clan Macfie Secretariat
76 Lindeman Avenue
Heatley, Queensland 4814
Australia
email
phone 07 4779 6328
Sandy is the founder of the Macfie Clan Society of Australia. He was appointed Clan Commander by the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 7 Sep 1989.
North America
1
Macfie Clan Society of America
or just Clan Macfie
Rev. Jim & Ginger McAfee email
Baxter, Tennessee, USA
Mr. Norrie MacPhee membership email
Amherst, New Hampshire, USA
2
MacDuffee/Macfie Clan Society of America
Thomas P. McDuffee
I think this group specializes in (Mac) Duffy of different spellings.
email
Irish surname search engines & lists
GoIreland.com
(O) Duffy, Duhig, Dowey
goireland.com, a short history
The name Duffy or O’Duffy is widespread in Ireland: it is among the fifty commonest surnames; standing first in the list for Co. Monaghan, it is also very numerous in north Connacht. It is found in Munster to some extent but there is often takes the form Duhig, while in parts of Donegal it has become Doohey and Dowey. These variants arose from local pronunciations of the Irish O Dubhthaigh, a surname in which the root word is dubh (black).
Donegal
There were several distinct septs of O’Duffy. One belongs to the parish of Lower Templecrone in the diocese of Raphoe, Co. Donegal, the patron saint of which is the seventh century Dubhthach, or Duffy. His kinsmen the O’Duffys were erenaghs and coarbs there for eight hundred years.
Roscommon; east Leinster
The Connacht sept, the centre of whose territory was Lissonuffy or Lissyduffy near Stokestown, named after them, was remarkable for the number of distinguished ecclesiastics it produced, particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Among the many abbots and bishops whose names are recorded int he Annals and in the Rental of Cong Abbey, compiled by Tadhg O’Duffy in 1501, the most noteworthy were Cele (also called Cadhla and Catholicus) O’Duffy, Archbishop of Tuam, who was King Roderick O’Connor's ambassador to Henry II in 1175, and Muiredagh O’Duffy (1075-1150), also Archbishop of Tuam. This family was much occupied with ecclesiastical art and was responsible for making the famous Cross of Cong. They are traditionally believed to have originally been located in east Leinster, of the same stock as the O’Byrnes and O’Tooles.
Monaghan
The same origin is claimed for the O’Duffys of Monaghan. There, too, they were remarkable for their contribution to the Church; but in this case not for mediaeval dignitaries, but for the extraordinary number of parish clergy of the name: for example, in the lists of priests and sureties compiled for Co. Monaghan in accordance with the Penal Laws in the eighteenth century Duffy is by far the most numerous name. One other priest must be mentioned, though he has no apparent connexion with these, since he was vicar of Tubrid in the diocese of Waterford, viz. Father Eugene (or Owen) O’Duffy (c. 1527-1615), a famous preacher who always used the Irish language in his sermons: he was the author of the well-known satire on the apostate bishop Miler Magrath.
19th & 20th centuries
In other spheres O’Duffys have distinguished themselves in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among these we may mention Edward Duffy (1840-1868), the leading Fenian in Connacht, who died in an English prison; Monaghan born James Duffy (1809-1871), the founder of the well-known Dublin publishing firm; and three members of the Gavan Duffy family (which, by the way, is not a hyphenated name) — Sir Charles Gavan Duffy 91816-1903), also of a Co. Monaghan family, founder of the Young Ireland party and The Nation newspaper, subsequently Prime Minister of Victoria, Australia; his son John Gavan Duffy (1844-1917), also a member of the Victoria government, though born in Dublin; and on the third generation a very prominent figure in modern Irish politics, George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), one of the signatories of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 and later President of the High Court of Justice of Ireland. The variant Duhig occurs in Munster. sir James Duhig, the late Archbishop of Brisbane, was born at Limerick in 1871. He held that position for 46 years. His predecessor, the first Archbishop, Robert Dunne (1830-1917), a native of Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary, held it for 30 years. The first bishop was James Quinn, appointed in 1859. He was so successful in promoting Irish emigration to Australia that his critics sarcastically suggested changing the name of Queensland to Quinnsland.
Diff to Duffy in County Mayo
The Mayo surname O Doither, formerly anglicized O'Diff, presents an example of the absorption of uncommon names by common ones: the O’Diffs have now become generally Duffys and so are hardly distinguishable from the O’Duffys or the adjoining county of Roscommon.
MacFie “unofficial” websites
MacPhee, MacFie, MacVee (of Glendessary)
as a sept of Clan Cameron
A branch of this Scottish Clan, in Glendessary & adjacent parts, was “confederated” with Clan Cameron for hundreds of years; following Lochiel, but usually retaining their surnames.
They were a branch of the Clann Dhubhi, whose chief, MacPhee of Colonsay, was driven off of that island & the clan became “broken,” settling where they might in other clan lands.
Macfie Clan Society
by Virginia Marin
Her profile
Folklore article
Dubh Sidhe’s Fairie Garden
email
Clan Macfie
by David Mowrey; Fred
email
Sadly, many of the clan were so destitute after being dispossessed that they could make no permanent home. After a time, many fled to Ireland for sanctuary and to start a new life.…
The bulk of the clan came to the United States with the great influx of Irish immigrants. All were in search of a common dream — to live as free men in a new country where one’s opportunities were restricted only by one’s ambitions. Clan MacFie suffered that same as many other European families upon their arrival in the United States. When landing in America and being asked their name, the MacFie name was often misunderstood; either because of the Gaelic brogue, illiteracy, or harried immigration officials.
Macfie.org
by Daniel Macfie
email
Mahaffey surname
or click here
All about Scotland
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MacFIE
NAME ON MAP: MacDHUBH-SHITHE (in GAELIC) (in the old county of) Argyll (Colonsay)
MEANING: ‘son of Dhubhshith’; the name derives from GOIDELIC dubh ‘dark’ and shith ‘peace.’ The name appears in the 13th century as MacDufthi. The clan lived on Colonsay and provided the Hereditary Keeper the Records to the MacDonalds.
Clan MacFie, electronicscotland.com
Clan MacPhee, scotclans.com
History, tartan, crest, map
Jordan’s Clan MacFie site
email
Genealogy of Scotland
dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/page145c
Name MacFee
District Dumfriesshire
Era 13th Century
Clan Alpin
Clan Macfie, coulintrye.co.uk
under construction
Duffy
Duffy, Mairin ni Dubhthaigh
Bardshall
Duffy family crest, allfamilycrests.com
MacCuish (Clan Donald)
home.earthlink.net/~chucksafrit
Only those from N. Uist or Skye. MacCuishes not of Clan Donald may be of Clan MacDuffie. Clan Donald MacCuishes derive from: Gaelic MacDubhsidh “son of the black one of peace.” Originally MacDuffies who came to N. Uist & Skye, Clan Donald NORTH.
MacDuff
Clan MacDuff Society of America
Question
What is the difference between Clan MacFie (MacDuffy) & Clan MacDuff? The names sound so much alike.
Answer
Several of the clans and I believe MacFie is one of them, separated from the Clan MacDuff centuries ago for one reason or another. The MacDuffs are from the Fife area of Scotland, so if your ancestors are from that area you most likely belong to Macduff. If from another area most likely you would belong to MacFie.
— Carol Frederick
Clan MacDuff Society of America
clan genealogist
email
Clan MacDuff, scotclans.com
Clan MacDuff Society
Duffus
A Saint Duffy?
St. Dúbhthach, Templecrone, of Cinel Chonaill
St. Dúbhthach belongs to that period midway between the death of St.Crona and the great reform movement of the 12th century. The evidence of his connection with the Templecrone Church is based on the fact that his muinntir were in possession of the church lands in Templecrone as late as 1609.
The O’Doughie, (Ó Dúbhthaigh) of the 1609 Inquisition belonged to muinntir Ó Dúbhthaigh or Dúbhthach’s community which was later translated into a clan name which is common in the Rosses today.
Dúbhthach belonged to Cinel Chonaill. His genealogy is recounted thus in the Four Masters; Dúbhthach son of Dubhan, son of Maoluidhear, son of Fergus, son of Baoitheachtor, son of Diochubhais, son of Congal, son of Failbhe, son of Faolan, son of Aodhan, son of Ginnteach, son of Luighdeach, son of Eanna Boghaine, son of Conall Gulban.
Thirteen generations separated Dúbhthach from Conall Gulban and seven from Croine Bheag, thus he lived in the closing years of the 9th century and the early decades of the 10th, approximately between the years 880 - 930AD.
It was during these years that he established a community of monks at Termon as the principal church of the Rosses and his community cared for the spiritual needs of the people of the Rosses for at least two hundred years. His muinntir were erenaghs of the church lands until the 17th Century.
His feast day was celebrated on 5th February and until recently there was a turas to holy wells and a penitential bed associated with him in Calhame. Annagry.
Within a hundred years of the Dúbhthach’s death there was a marked change in the nature and observance of religious life in the Irish Church.
The comharb or successor to the saintly founder was often a lay-lord, usually married, who appropriated to himself the title of erenagh also. It was not until the synod of Rathbreasail, Co. Tipperary, in 1110 that some order was restored with the establishment of the Diocesan administration of Ireland. The diocesan system and boundaries established at that synod remain almost unchanged to the present day.
In 1160 Gilbert O Caran was described as Bishop of Tirconnell that is the dioceses of Raphoe, presumably at this time also the parochial structures of the dioceses were established, among them the parish of Templecrone.
In medieval times the parish of Templecrone comprised the area between the Crolly river, Traighéanna and Abhainn na Marbh. It extended inland to Loch Beara and included the Islands off the Rosses.
This area became known in plantation times as ‘The great proportion of the Rosses.”
In post plantation times Doochary and Lettermacaward were separated from Templecrone and became a parish in their own right.
It is not known how long the monastery in Termon existed. It was long gone when the next great figure associated with the church in the Rosses appeared.
