Cornelius McLoughlin


Cornelius Frederic McLoughlin, Chief of the Name, born 11 July 1897.

Biography

McLoughlin was the senior descendant of King Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, and Chief of the Ó Maelsechlainn clan of Mide. His parents were John McLoughlin of Seltanaveeney, Kilronan, County Roscommon and Saragh Heffernan of Lattin, County Tipperary.
McLoughlin served with the Irish Volunteers as a captain from 1913–1923, for which he was awarded the general Service Medal. He was deported to Wakefield in 1916 as a political prisoner after the Easter Rising. Taking the Anti-treaty side in the Irish Civil War, he was captured and imprisoned at Kilmainham in 1923.
After independence, he held a number of posts, mainly concerning agriculture; they included Assistant General Secretary for the Irish Farmer's Union, to which he was a hon. director in 1927. For the term 1938-39, he was hon treasurer of the Irish Farmer's Federation. He was an editor of The Irish Farmer for most of the 1920s, and a published author.
Burke gave his address as 100 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin, with additional property at The Hill, Malahide, and Illaunagown, Glengariff, County Cork.

Pedigree

Cornelius mac John m. Cornelius m. Domhnall m. Eoghan m. Tomás m. Tomás m. Tomás m. Tomás m. Murchad Dubh m. An Calbhach m. Felim Og m. Felim Creachach m. Conn Mór m. Art m. Conn m. Cormac mc. Cormac Ballac m. Art na Caislen mc. Cormac mac Art O Melaghlain m. Art m. Maelsechlainn mc. Murchad m. Domnall mc Flann m. Domhnall m. Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, died 1022.