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Amid the sweeping limestone country of southern County Galway, between Loughrea and the River Shannon, the Keegan story first emerged. Here the Mac Aodhagáin family established a hereditary school of Brehon law that served the kings of Connacht for centuries. Learning defined their place in Irish society. Knowledge was preserved with care, valued with intensity, and entrusted to each new generation as a living inheritance. Even as Ireland's political landscape shifted and ancient institutions gave way, this tradition remained unbroken. When confiscation reshaped Connacht, the world that had sustained them was forever changed. The law school disappeared, lands were reduced, and the family's role was transformed. The Great Famine later carried the Keegan name far beyond Ireland's shores, where new communities emerged and the lineage continued. In his latest volume in the Irish Genealogy Series, Sean Kelly traces the Keegan family from its origins in Connacht to documented settlement in the United States. Irish parish records and early American sources bring the story of migration and renewal into clear and compelling focus. For Keegan descendants in America and across the world, this work gathers the surviving record of a family shaped by conviction, tested by hardship, and sustained across nine centuries. Your heritage awaits.

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