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Author: rorycain1
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Co Galway is my family's place of origin. As my good friend Robert O'Keane advised
you, there there are two separate clans of the name in Co Galway. Both originally named Ua
Cathain or O'Cathain, later Cain, Kane, etc. Robert is from the west
Galway/Connemara/Mayo clan and I am from the East Galway clan.
There were numerous men named John Cain, and of course his name may also have been
recorded as Kane or Keane depending on who did the writing. Do you have a town or parish?
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