title: Lehane
text: Lehane () is an uncommon Irish surname, typically from County Cork. Ó Liatháin is more frequently anglicized as Lane or Lyons. 
  
  Most people with this surname derive from the ancient Munster kingdom of Uí Liatháin, which was powerful in the early to mid 1st millennium, and one of the few important Irish kingdoms to have colonies in Britain, documented in both Irish and Welsh sources (see Byrne 2001; Ó Corráin 2001). Later Uí Liatháin became politically marginalized when the Eóganachta, or more specifically the descendants of Conall Corc, came to power - although the rath they accepted from the new dynasty was the largest (Byrne 2001) - but remained relatively independent until disintegrating in the later Middle Ages.
  
  Uí Liatháin was the sister kingdom of Uí Fidgenti, and thus its people share common ancestry with the O'Donovans, Ó Coileáins, and others. More distantly all are related to the historical Eóganachta in the stricter sense, if not by common origins in Ireland then at least by nearly two millennia of alliances and intermarriage.
  
  The earliest documented ancestor of the Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti is the 3rd or 4th century Dáre Cerbba (Dáire Cearba), otherwise known as Maine Munchaín.
  
  People
  Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
  Faith Lehane, a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  Lesley Lehane, retired distance runner.
  Jan Lehane, ex-tennis player.
  Bruce Lehane, track and cross country coach.
  Patrick Lehane, Irish farmer and politician
  Con Lehane (socialist)
  Kevin Lehane, screenwriter of Grabbers
  
  Companies
   Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand, former British civil engineering company
  
  See also
   Castlelyons
   Castlemartyr
   Cobh
   Crimthann mac Fidaig
   Mongfind
   Scoti
   Attacotti
   Mahoonagh
   O'Donovan
   List of Celtic tribes
   Kingdoms of Ireland
   Irish name
  
  Further reading
   Byrne, Francis J., Irish Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts Press. 2nd edition, 2001.
   Charles-Edwards, Thomas M., Early Christian Ireland. Cambridge University Press. 2000.
   Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (ed.), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork: Corpus of Electronic Texts. 1997.
   Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, "Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland", in Foster, Roy (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. 2001. pgs. 1-52.
   O'Hart, John, Irish Pedigrees. Dublin: James Duffy and Co. 5th edition, 1892.
  
  Surnames