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Doyne of Wells, Gorey, County Wexford, & St Austin’s, Tullow, County Carlow

See here for more stories of County Carlow     The Doyne family claimed descent from the medieval Gaelic sept of Ó Duinn (O’Dunne), lords of Uí Riagáin (Hy‑Regain) in what is now County Laois, as did their kinsmen, the Dunnes of Brittas Castle. They were a branch of the wider Uí Failghe kindred that also […]