Harkins are recorded as being church stewards at Clonca church
RATHMULLEN – where the Flight of the Earls took place in Sept 1607, arriving in Rome in May 1608. They were the last two earls of old Ireland who went into exile when they could no longer defend their lands in the north from the English; the end of the Gaelic nation of Ireland. One of the diarists on the journey was O’Cianain (Keenan today) was one of Mikes ancestors on his mum’s side.
