My grandfather, Patrick Peter Heneghan, came from Ballyhean and settled in St Helens Merseyside. He was generally called Peter rather than Patrick. Michael Heneghan of Kinturk Ballyhean was his half brother. Two other half-brothers were James and Patrick. His first language was Gaelic, though he was fluent in English.He was a prominent parishioner of Sacred Heart St Helens. He died in 1946. 

My Hene[g]han connection is JOHN J. HENE[g]HAN (1862/1867-1938). Immigrated to USA in 1883/84. He settled, raised family and died in Louisville, KY. He was born & raised in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland. Father: THOMAS HENEGHAN (?-?); Mother: SARAH SALLY PHILBIN (?-?); Siblings: JAMES HENEGHAN (1851-?), OWEN HENEGHAN (1854-?), MARTIN HENEGHAN (1856-?), SARAH HENEGHAN ROGERS MEEHAN (1859-1933), MARGARET HENEGHAN (1861-?). James and Martin served in British Army. James settled in England.

John J. Hene[g]han married CATHERINE DUDDY (1874-1966). They raised family of four daughters and one son in Louisville, KY. Only son was JOHN THOMAS HENEHAN (1905-1976). Daughters were MARY FLORENCE IRBY (1900-1983), SARAH SCHWEIKLE (1902-1986), LUCILLE HENEHAN (1911-2000), ELISE LANGFORD (1918-2004). 

How great to stumble across this site. Just had a look at the coats of arms and they seemed to be HENEGHAN variants.....is there a specific one for our spelling?
For those of you attempting family trees the Irish National Archive 1911 census material is fantastic. (I expect most of you know this already.) 

My Dad is from Tourmakeady, Co Mayo. Many of his cousin's moved out here, to the Chicago area as well. But there's still a majority of Heneghan's still in that area. The biggest problem is many of people from this area with the "Heneghan" name are not necessarily or extremely distantly related. The best way to figure it out is hearing if there's any nicknames on those families. Our nickname is the "Andy's" named for my great great Grand Father. I know many of the other Heneghan's in the area have nicknames as well like "vidny's" or "timmon's" or "vickileen's".

Also Tourmakeady is name for all the villages in the area. There are only like 4 or 5 house's there now. If you knew the village it would help you on your search ever more. Check out http://www.tourmakeady.ie/ it could be of help!

Good luck! 

Hi, just started to trace my family tree and was googling away and found your site. Thanks, has given me a great starting point and i'm sure i will be returning here often!