Patrick Dunne ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

In the census for 1811 he was 50 years old and living with 5 children at a house at 1.1 in Clarence St. (Kingstown No. 3, Dublin).______________________________________

Motto: "mullach a-bu" (On top forever)
Gaelic: O Duinn or O Doinn

The history of this ancient Meath family traces its ancestry as a family of Irish origin before the year 1100 and appears first in the ancient records in Meath .

The O Doinn first came to prominence as lords of the area around Tinnehinch in the north of the modern Co Laois, and were known as Lords of Iregan up to the seventeenth century. At that time the surname was generally Anglicised as 'O Doyne'. Today the name is still extremely common in that part of Ireland, though it is now also widespread elsewhere. Perhaps because of the stronger English influence, in Ulster the name is generally spelt 'Dunn', while it is almost invariably 'Dunne' in other parts.

In Irish O Duinn or O Doinn (doinn is the genitive case of the adjective donn - brown) it is more often written Dunne than Dunn in English. The form O'Doyne, common in the seventeenth century, is now almost obsolete. In fact of 364 births registered for them in a given year, 313 had the final E and only 51 were Dunn. From this it can be estimated that the total number of people so called in Ireland to-day is approximately 15,000, giving them twenty-seventh place in the list of commonest surnames in Ireland. This sept originated in Co. Leix (Queen's County) and formed one of the principal families of Leinster, their chief being Lords of Iregan in that county.

The sept is one of those specially mentioned in the mid-sixteenth century official orders as hostile and dangerous to the English interest. It is in that part of the country that Dunnes are, appropriately, now to be found in greatest numbers, though they have spread far and wide. Nearly all those who spell the name 'Dunn' came from Ulster. At least one of the name is to be found in the gallery of famous Irishmen, viz., Gillananaomh O Duinn (1102-1160), the historian and poet. One was killed at the battle of Aughrim in 1391. Another very active Jacobite was James O'Dunne (c. 1700-1758). Bishop of Ossory, most of whose life was spent in France in the service of which country several of his relatives distinguished themselves as diplomatists and soldiers. In modern times Charles Dunn (1799-1872), was a notable judge in the U.S.A; and Col. Humphrey O'Dunne was famous for his bravery in the attack on Savannah in 1774.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a merchant mariner in 1911 in Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

Patrick married Mary Anne Shorthall. (Mary Anne Shorthall died circa 1893.)