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 The great Gaelic family Hickey emerged in
later years in County Clare. The Hickeys anciently descended from
King Brian Boru who died in Clontarf in 1410, were physicians to their
sister Clann, the O'Brien's, and were kinsmen of the McNamara's and the
O'Kennedy's. They branched into Northern Tipperary and to Limerick
by the 13th and 14th centuries, and were noted more as a scholarly group
rather than the ancient warriors of Munster. Soon after the
Cromwellian invasion they branched to England and acquired estates at
Billing in the county of North Hampton. Their more recent family
seat was at Kilelton. Notable amongst the family at this time was
John and Thomas Hickey, famous as Irish sculptor and portrait painter.
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