 The Chief of the O'Higgins Clan today uses the courtesy title of "The O'Higgins of Ballynary" or "Lord of Ballynary" although his family have not lived there since the 17th century.The townland of Ballynary is just over in area, and is just 2km from Ballindoon where the ruins of a Dominican Abbey, founded by the MacDonagh Clan, are located.Ballynary also contains O'Higgins Memorial Park which is dedicated to Ambrose O'Higgins, who was born in Ballynary in 1720/21 and who—emigrating to Spain to escape the discrimination against Irish Catholics in his time—eventually became the Viceroy of Peru, then part of the Spanish Empire.