_Banning or Bayning Family_ (Vol. v., p. 536.).--This surname is traced in
Ireland on _record_ from the time of Richard II., while the native
annalists represent it with that Milesian prefix which old Alvary so
ingraciously attaints--"_O datur ambiguis_." These annalists mark Patrick
"O'Bainan" Bishop of Connor in 1152, and Gelasius "O'Banan" Bishop of
Clogher in 1316. The records that I have alluded to spell the name
"Bannyn," or "Banent." In 1620 Creconnaght "Bannan" was seised of lands in
Ulster; and in the army raised for the service of King James, while in this
country in 1689, William Bannan was a quartermaster in Colonel Nicholas
Purcel's regiment of {618} horse. I have reason myself to know that two
families of "Banon" still exist here.