Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

     We have issued our reports dated March 14, 2008 (which includes an explanatory paragraph relating to adoption of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans – An Amendment of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106 and 132(R) and FASB 123(R), Share Based Payments in 2006) with respect to the consolidated financial statements and internal control over financial reporting of Harleysville National Corporation and subsidiaries included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 which are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement of the aforementioned reports.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
January 26, 2009