First found in Leitrim, where they were anciently seated as a descendant of Billrian, a chief of the Heber line of Kings, descended from Daire Cearb, brother of Lughaidh, a King of Munster. Irish history, after the Norman Conquest of England, was stongly influenced by the invasion of Strongbow in 1172, almost equal to the enormous Irish cultural impact on England Scotland, Wales and the whole of Europe before the Norman Conquest from the 1st to 7th centuries. Many Irish clanns, sept names were intermixed and family groupings became almost indistinguishable.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Abraham Cran, who settled in America in 1724; ??? McCranie, who settled in North Carolina sometime between 1732 and 1776; Agnesia Ring, who arrived in Georgia sometime between 1733 and 1783.

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