Hickey (Co Clare)
The Hickeys or O'Hickeys were an old Gaelic family, hereditary physicians to the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond. They held lands in the Quin locality of county Clare mainly at Ballyhickey, parish of Clooney and Drim, parish of Doora, barony of Bunratty Upper. The O'Hickeys lost their lands under the Cromwellian confiscation but in 1702 Drim was restored to them and they remained resident there throughout the 18th century. The house is now demolished and a late 19th century house stands in its place. The Hickeys of Kilkee and Ennis were both branches of the Hickeys of Drim.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Pedigree of Hickey of Ballyhickey, Drim, Drimelagan, Tarmon, Drimelogue, Dromin, Sixmilebridge, Ballyline, Cappagh Castle, Ennis, Kilkee, Barbane, Co Clare & of Limerick, of Whitechurch, Shropshire & of India, 1641-1950. GO MS 182: 589-592 & 595-602; National Library of Ireland
- Manuscript account of pedigree of Hickie of Drim & draft pedigree of Hickey of Barbane & Kilkee for Major Julian Hickey, c 1700-1933. GO MS 804: 4 & 5; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of confirmation of arms to descendants of Michael Corbett Hickie, eldest son of Michael Hickie, of Ennis, & to his grandson Major Henry Whitten Hickie DSO eldest son of Frederick Gerorge Hickie of Bedford, 31 Oct 1921. GO MS 111c: 14; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of confirmation of arms to Major Julian Hickey, son of Patrick Carroll Hickey MD of Kilkee and Barbane, 25 Mar 1933. GO MS 111d:139-140; National Library of Ireland
- Collection of letters, mainly addressed from Ennis, to Michael Hickey & his son, in India, from family members, 1817-1842. MS 5887; National Library of Ireland
Modern printed sources
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 108-109, 146, 282
- ''North Munster Antiquarian Journal'': HICKEY, Lieut. Col. J. The O'Hickeys: hereditary physicians to the O'Briens of Thomond and some of their descendants. VIII (1958), 38-41
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': CHAMNEY, Anne R. Extracts from Father Clare’s Annotations to the Conformity Rolls, include reference to this family. X (2001), 427-454
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 586-588