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I'm looking for info on the Kinkennon line. I'm assuming that the spelling has changed several times over the years because we have confirmed the Kinkennon/Kinkenon spelling change. During my research of this possibility, I came across this write-up that may be of benefit to the Concannon side. It came from a book titled "Irish Families" (Page 84) in the San Bernardino Public Library (#929.4)
For those concerned:
O'Concannon
The name Concannon is rarely found outside the territory in which it originated. All the 21 births registered for the name in the last available statistical return took place in Co. Galway or in contiguous areas of ajacent counties. O'Concannon in Irish O'Concheanainn, is a sept of the Hy Many (Ui Maine), descended from Cuceannan who was killed in 991. From the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries their chiefs are described in the Annals as lords of Ui Diarmada (i.e. Kilkerrin, Co. Galway), and a century later the "Composition Book of Connacht" (1585) records the Chief of the Name as still resident in their old seat at Kultullagh in the parish of KilKerrin or Corcamoe. An interesting fourteenth century monumental slab to one Maurice O'Concannon can be seen in Knockmoy Abbey, Co. Galway. It will be observed from the number of births registered in one year, indicated above, that the sept has dwindled to comparatively small proportions in modern times. The head of the family in 1848 still retained some of the ancestral property in the parish of Kilkerrin, Co. Galway, but this estate does not appear in the list of landowners of 500 acres and over in 1878.
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