About

This site is dedicated to the McLoughlin clan originating in Fawn Dromahaire County Leitrim. After John McLoughlin married Brigid Gilmartin they produced a total of 14 offspring who traveled far and wide.Many marriages produced children grand children and indeed great grandchildren throughout Ireland Europe and North America
Bridget came from Killery near Dromahair.She had two brothers James and Dan Gilmartin.

James stayed in Killery and married Lizzie. Dan moved to Belfast where he was a barman in Roddys Pub. In the 1950s Dan Gilmartin married Kitty and had 4 sons. In order from oldest to youngest… Pat (Patrick), Jim (James), Danny (Daniel) & Francie (Frank) The only one still alive is Frank the youngest.

Pat and Francie grew up and bought their own pubs on the Falls Road [The Laurel Leaf] and Springfield Road[The Fort Bar] Pat was buried the day Paul made his confirmation
Danny died in Feb 04.

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The Irish Name McLoughlin – (pronounced Mac-lau-’gh’-lin) (‘gh/ch’ sound as in ‘Irish Loch’ meaning lake) is the Modern English form of the surnames for two different, but distantly related septs, both of considerable importance to Irish history. ‘Mc’ is an abbreviation of ‘Mac’ meaning ‘son’/ ‘son of’. There are various similar versions of the name (also spelled MacLoughlin, and McLaughlin; and, in Scotland, MacLachlan and McLauchlan).

In one instance, originating in Ulster, it derives from the Gaeilge Mac/Nic Lochlainn. The prefix Mac meaning “son” and Nic, “daughter” (Gaelic patronymics have distinct masculine and feminine forms.) “Lochlainn” is the genitive case of “Lochlan” – from the root ‘loch’. The word ‘loch’ also being applicable to fjords and certain types of rivers, as well as lakes throughout Ireland, Scotland and Norway. While there may be some McLoughlins with Norse-Irish ancestry, there is nothing Norse or Norwegian about the surname. The McLoughlins of Ulster were, in fact, a senior division of the northern branch of the Uí Niall Dynsty, ruling the northern territories of Ireland at the time.