Hello and welcome - whoever you are.
Since you have found this site, I assume that you are interested in the history of the McGroarty family. I hope that some of the information here will be of value to you.
"McGroarty" or sometimes "MacGroarty" is a family name with significant historical associations in Co. Donegal, Ireland dating back to (or perhaps before) the 6th century A.D. Unfortunately the name is now relatively uncommon in Ireland, but there are branches of the family to be found in Scotland, England and, particularly, America, with also a scattering in Australia and other places.
You may like to look at the pages on "Notable McGroartys" and "Historical Stuff" - especially the latter which contains, among other things, a harrowing account of the conditions which some of our ancestors and their neighbours had to endure in Donegal in the 1800s.
I have managed, so far, to trace back to my Greatgrandfather, Bernard McGroarty (1856-1928), but can't make any earlier connections. However, I have picked up a lot of family information along the way - some going back as far as 1746 - which I thought might be of general interest.
Since the family seems, almost entirely, to have forsaken "the oul' sod" in order to colonize America, I have now managed to include a history of their attempts to outbreed the rest of the population there.
If you are interested in tracing your family, I have provided a catalogue of individuals, (currently over 1650) which keeps getting expanded as I find more info. I have presented it as two lists, one by name in alphabetical order, and the other in family groups insofar as I can identify them.
Very little of the material on this site is directly from my own research. I have simply stolen other people's info and then tried to pull together as much as possible into one place so as to inform my own search and perhaps to be of use or interest to other researchers.
Unfortunately, when I started out I was not smart enough to keep a record of my sources, so most of the data should be regarded as anecdotal, unless independently verified.