Thank you, Bess. It is so nice to have people on this list to help us wade
through the mistakes of authors, past and present. I so look forward to your
book.
Alice Benson descendant of
Leona Mildred Carnahan Benson
David Slater Carnahan
James Clark Carnahan
James Carnahan
In a message dated 5/19/2003 8:15:45 AM Central Daylight Time,
carnahanranch(a)scottsbluff.net writes:
I believe MacLysaght stated that Carnahan is a variant of Kernoghan
and he
is DEAD wrong. Carnahan is a variant of the original spelling of the name
which was Cearnachain. They were a warrior sept in the Fanad peninsula of
Donegal. I am in the process of writing a book on the Carnahans and along
with my co-author have done a great deal of research into the name. Your
advice is excellent, but even the experts can be wrong. I ultimately went
through all of the works of the Four Masters as well as many other ancient
texts that are available to the layman. Fascinating info, but in digging
up
Irish ancestors, one must dig deep.
Bess Carnahan
Fort Laramie WY