. The Tiernan and other families. <^2^€^a^^. y^, ^^^2^- THE TIERNAN AND OTHER FAMILIES. THE FAMILY OF TIERNAN belongs to theCounty of Meath, Ireland. The name is Celtic;Tier, or Tierua, signifying Chief; andnan being merely a termination. See Celtic Dic-tionary. The name frequently occurs in early Irish history,and there are several well-known legpnds connectedwith the family. One of them, called The Blue Knight and thePrincess Mora, on Lough Mora, was reprinted fromThe Irish People in ^^ The New York Freemans Jour-7ial, of March 5, 1864, and is given in the concerning the

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. The Tiernan and other families. <^2^€^a^^. y^, ^^^2^- THE TIERNAN AND OTHER FAMILIES. THE FAMILY OF TIERNAN belongs to theCounty of Meath, Ireland. The name is Celtic;Tier, or Tierua, signifying Chief; andnan being merely a termination. See Celtic Dic-tionary. The name frequently occurs in early Irish history,and there are several well-known legpnds connectedwith the family. One of them, called The Blue Knight and thePrincess Mora, on Lough Mora, was reprinted fromThe Irish People in ^^ The New York Freemans Jour-7ial, of March 5, 1864, and is given in the concerning the Princess of Brefni, is com-memorated in Moores Irish Melodies, in the poemcommencing The Valley Lay Smiling Before Me, andsome members of the family are still prominent inDrogheda, and its neighborhood, in Church and State. In the Dublin Penny Journal for 1829, there is anengraving of the New Church of Kill-Ternan, or TIERNAN. properly,Kill Tiernun, from which the Picture here,is taken. It says: In the prefixed engraving, we pr

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