John OHart (1824 – 1902) was an Irish genealogist. He was born in Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, Ireland. A committed Roman Catholic, OHart originally planned to become Catholic priest but instead spent 2 years as a police officer. He was an Associate in Arts at the Queens University of Belfast. He worked at the Commissioners of National Education during the years of the Great Irish Famine. He worked as a genealogist and took an interest in Irish history. He was an Irish nationalist. He died in 1902 in Clontarf near Dublin, at the age of 78. OHarts 800-page The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry (Dublin 1884) was reprinted in 1969, with an introduction by Edward MacLysaght, the first Chief Herald of Ireland. Another work, Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation, first published in 1876, has come out in several subsequent editions. To complete his genealogies he used the writings of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Duald Mac Firbis and OFarrell, along with the Annals of the Four Masters, for the medieval pedigrees. He used the works of Bernard Burke, John Collins and others to extend his genealogies past the 17th century. According to OHart- The princes of Tara I here record: The Royal OHart, and likewise ORegan; The host who purchased the harbours Were the OKellys and OConnollys. OHarts were princes of Tara; and when, on the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, they were dispossessed of their territories in Bregia or the eastern portion of the Kingdom of Meath, they were lords in Teffia or the western portion of that ancient Kingdom. Connellan styles ORegan, OKelly, and OConnolly, princes of Tara; and ODonovan states that they were of the four families who, by pre-eminence, were known as the Four Tribes of Tara. The princes of Tara were also styled princes of Bregia, a territory which extended between the Liffey and Boyne, from Dublin to Drogheda, thence to Kells; and contained the districts about Tara, Trim, Navan, Athboy, Dunboyne, Maynooth, Lucan, etc.; the territory comprising these districts and that part of the present county Dublin, north of the river Liffey, was known as OHarts Country.
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