Mac Carthy Muscry / Muskerry
Mac Carthy
- of Muskerry.
A
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
Sept / Family branch who were the English appointed Lords of Muscry and
Earls of
Clan Carthy,
Ancestors: 115.Cormac Mac Carthy Mor
was
the Tanaiste / Prince
of Southern Munster
/
Des Muma / Desmond whose
second son was;
116.Dermod Mor Mac Carthy
who,
was born in
1310 AD and created the English Lord of Muscry in 1353 AD by the English, He was taken prisoner
by Mac Carthy of
Carbery who handed him over to
Lord Fitz Maurice, his mother's brother, who either killed him in 1363 AD / or
he may have been killed later on by the O Mahonys
in 1367, His sons were
Felim Mac Carthy the ancestor of the Mac Carthys
of Tuaonadronan, Donogh Mac Carthy
the ancestor of the
Carthys / Carties of
Cluanfada and;
117.Cormac Mac Carthy who was
also the Lord of Muscry who was born in 1346 AD and was slain by the Barrys
in Co. Cork in 1374 AD and
interred in Cork City. Donnell
Mac Carthy, his youngest son is the ancestor of
the Carthies of
Sean Choill / Shanakiel.
118.Teague Mac Carthy was also to be the Lord of Muscry who was
born in 1380 AD and died in 1448 AD who reigned there for
30 years. Ellen his daughter married
Dermod an Duna Mac Carthy the
Prince of Carbery, while his sons were
Cormac Laidir Mac Carthy, Dermod Mac Carthy
the ancestor of the Mac Carthys of Drishane who
constructed the Carrigaphooca Castle, Eoghan of
Rathduane the ancestor of Donogh Mac Cartie who married Eva
O Donoghue of Glenflesk who produced a son Charles
who married Mary the daughter of
Art O Leary,
119.Cormac Laidir Mac Carthy
was born in 1411 AD and married Mary the daughter of Edmund Fitz Maurice
the English Lord of Kerry, and in 1465 AD founded the Franciscan Monastery at Kilcredhe /
Cill Credhe / Kilcrea at
Kilbonane dedicated to St. Bridget
and also 5 other churches, along
with part of the Blarney Castle, Kilcrea and Ballymaccadan castles. He was
killed by Eoghan his own
brother and his sons, and was interred at Kilcrea and was then succeeded by
Eoghan. His daughter married Donnell Mac Carthy Reagh
of Carbery and;
120.Cormac Oge Mac Carthy who also became the Lord of Muscry who was born in 1447 AD, and died in 1537 AD, and was interred also at Kilcrea who had married Catherine Barry. He had defeated the Anglo - Norman Fitz Geralds in several battles and was involved in the Battle of Cluhar & Mourne Abbey where he was assisted by Mac Carthy Reagh and other Irish Chiefs, and also defeated James Fitz Gerald the English Earl of Desmond who was destroying the Munster Province in 1521 AD. He was also in the Anglo - Irish Parliament in 1525 AD as Lord of Muscry. Ellen one of his daughters married James Barrett, while another Mary was married to The O Sullivan Mor. Julia his other daughter, was married 3 times, first to Gerald Fitz Maurice the English Lord of Kerry, secondly to Cormac Mac Carthy Reagh of Kilbrittain Castle, and thirdly to Edmond Butler the English Lord of Dunboyne.
121.Teague Mac Carthy, his
son, was to also be the Lord of Muscry, who was born in 1472 AD and died in 1565 AD, and was
also interred at Kilcrea, who had married Catherine the daughter of Donnell Mac
Carthy Reagh the Prince of
Carbery and produced Donnell Eoghan Mac Carthy who was
slain at Dromanee, Donnell na Countea
- of the Country Mac Carthy
who died in 1581 AD,
Donogh Mac Carthy
the ancestor of the
Carthys of Carewe, and a daughter,
Eleanor.
His other sons where;
122.Sir Cormac the Lord of
Muscry who is the ancestor of the Septs at Courtbreak, Bealla / Ballea, Castlemore and
Clochroe / Cloghroe who died in 1581 AD had 3 sons,
Teague, Donogh Mac Carthy Maister na Mona,
and 123.Charles of
Cloghroe whose son,124.Charles Oge
had his Estate confiscated by Cromwell in 1641 AD and whose son,
125.Cormac Oge of Cloghroe in
1677 AD married a sister to Teague Mac Carthy
of Aglish and
produced 7
children, Denis, Alexander,
Margaret, Nelly, Mary who married
Florence Mac Carthy Mor, Catherine
and Ellen
and
126.Denis who married Mary
a
daughter of Sir. J. Meade,
who was a sister to Sir Richard Meade the Earl of
Clanwilliam, and produced Elizabeth who married Joseph Capel whose daughter Jane
was to marry Robert Mac Cartie
of Carrignavar.
123.Donogh Mac
Carthy Maister na Mona / Mourne was from his
first wife, Ellen Barrett a daughter of James Barrett, whose mother,
Ellen was a sister to
his father, Teague Mac Carthy. He
also married
Ellen the daughter of
Donnell Mac Eoghan Mac Teague Illoyghie
Mac Sweeney
the Chief
Marshall of Blaney Castle, and was to die in 1605 AD when his son,124.Cormac
Mac Carthy was only
12 years of age. who had been born in 1593 who later
married a daughter of Donnell O Donovan
of Rahine,
whose mother was Joan
a daughter of Sir Owen Mac
Carthy Reagh, and they produced
Teague Mac Carthy whose daughter
Mary married
Donogh O Donovan of Castlehaven
and, 125.Donogh Mac Carthy Maister na Mona
whose wife was Catherine
in 1700 AD who produced 12
children including Daniel
who died in 1766 AD and who died himself in 1685 AD at
99 years of age. He held Courtbrack, Ballynapeak,
Claune, Ballycullen and Lahackaneen in Muscry, which in 1641 AD had been the
territory of his ancestors. His son, 126. Charles
Mac Carthy Maister na Mona produced
16 sons of which
13 emigrated in 1700 AD on reversion of their Lease due to
Donogh Mac Carthy who was then the English Earl of
Clan Carty. 127.Owen Mac Carthy
of Lyrelane who died in 1790 was interred in Kilcrea Abbey who had one son
and 3 daughters and was to be the last of the
Maister na Monas. 128,Charles Mac Carthy
his son, served in the army of the King of Portugal as a Colonel of a horse
regiment, and was Governor of Miranda in 1790 AD,
and died there in
1792 AD, leaving only a daughter who died in 1832 AD,
who was also interred at Kilcrea.
121.Teague Mac Carthy's
other son,
122.Dermod Mac Carthy,
was Lord of Muscry who was born
in 1501 AD and married Eleanor the daughter of Maurice Fitz Gerald who was the niece
of James Fitz Gerald the 15th Earl of Desmond, and died in 1570 AD, and was
interred at Kilcrea also. He had defeated Sir Maurice Dubh Fitz Gerald his
father - in - law who was beheaded. He was to be the father of
Teague Mac Carthy the ancestor of the Mac Carthys
of Insirahell near Crookstown in Co. Cork,
Julia who married John de Barry of Laisarole,
Grainne who married Donogh Oge
Mac Carthy Reagh of Carbery and;
123.Cormac Mor Mac
Carthy the Lord of Muscry who was born in 1552 AD who married Maria Butler
and produced 124.Teague Mac Carthy the ancestor of the
Mac Carthys of Aglish whose son,
125 Dermod Mac Carthy produced a daughter who
married Charles Mac Carthy of Cloghroe and
126,Teague Mac Carthy of Aglish who supported James
11 and had his 4,000 acre Estate confiscated
by the Williamites and was driven out of his residence.
127.Charles Mac Carthy his son had a sister, Joanne
who married John O Connor Kerry who was killed in
1652 AD by Cromwell forces.
124.Donnell Cormac Mac Carthy the ancestor of the Mac Carthys of Carrignavar, Julia who married twice, first to David Barry of Buttevant, and secondly, to Dermod O Shaughnessy of Gort in Co. Galway. In 1578 AD. Cormac Mor Mac Carthy was able to sit in the Anglo - Irish Parliament as Baron of Blaney after becoming a non - Catholic and when he was to die in 1616 AD he was also interred at Kilcrea. He had previously contested with Florence Mac Carthy Reagh for the vacant position of The Mac Carthy Mor, and on 21st October 1601 AD he had also assisted the English against Black Hugh / Aodh Dubh O Niall and Red Hugh / Aodh Ruadh O Donnell.
124.Donnell Mac Carthy
who died at an advanced age had 2 sons,125.Cormac
Spainneach,
and
Donnell Oge
whose son, 125.Cormac
inherited the Estate of Carrignavar, but had it confiscated because of his
involvement in the Irish Insurrection
in 1688 AD - 1689 AD, which was sold off in 1702 AD and the Family were to
eventually buy it back.
125.Cormac
died without issue and the Estate reverted to the son of
124.Donnell
Mac Carthy's
second son,
125.Cormac Spainneach, whose second son,126.Donnell
died at Carrignavar in 1692 AD who had 2 sons,
Cormac / Charles
of Carrignavar in 1716 AD who became a non - Catholic and was then able to
buy back their Estate under the English Penal Laws and
127.Donnell
whose son,
128.Donnell Oge who died in 1763 AD had
2 sons,
Justin who predeceased him in 1762 AD and
129.Robert
who married in 1784 AD Jane Capel of Cloghroe whose mother
Elizabeth was a daughter of
Denis Mac Carthy of Cloghroe and produced the
father of
Joseph Capel Mac Cartie, Elizabeth
and
130.Justin Mac Cartie.
124,Cormac Oge Mac
Carthy,
his son, was to be the 17th Lord of Muscry who was
born in 1564 AD who married Margaret the daughter of
Donogh O Brien whose mother
was Elena Roche, and died in 1640 AD in London. He had been educated in England
and in 1628 AD he had been created the English Baron of Blarney,
125.Donogh Mac Carthy,
his son, who was born in 1591 AD was to be created the
eighteenth English Lord
Viscount Muscry, and in 1641 AD he was
the
Irish Confederate
Chief
and commander of the
Munster Province forces
from 1642 AD - 1652 AD, when he was exiled
and his Estates were also confiscated, but he was to return to
Ireland after the
Restoration in 1658 AD and created the first English Earl of Clan Carty by Charles 11. He
contested for the position of The Mac Carthy Mor
against Florence and
Donnell Mac Carthy
and died in 1665 AD in London.
From his first marriage he produced
Donogh -
the Fair Haired Boy Mac Carthy, and from his second marriage he had
3 sons, Cormac
Mac Carthy
who became Lord Muscry who in 1665 AD was engaged in a battle
on the sea with the Dutch of Harwich along with the Duke of York / James 11 and
died from his wounds. He had been married to Margaret
the daughter of Ulick de Burgo the 1st English Marquis and 5th Earl of Clanrickard and
the 2nd Earl of St. Albans, He produced
Charles James born 1663 AD and
Francis born 1664 AD,
and
Justin Mac Carthy
who was created Lord Mount Cashel by
James 11 in 1689 AD who was married to Arabella the second daughter of
Thomas Wentworth the Earl of Strafford and their daughter
Margaret
married Luke the Earl of Fingal who died in 1693 AD, Ellen
who married William de Burgho the Earl of Clanricarde and produced Honoria who
first married Patrick Sarsfield and later in 1695 AD James Stuart the Duke of
Berwick the son of James 11.
Justin Mac Carthy
died in France on the 1st of July 1694
at Barrege from his wounds also.
126 Donnell
Buachaill Ban Mac Carthy his eldest son married the
daughter of Mac Carthy Derreacha
of Glean na Chroim whose
son 127.Donnell Cormac
Mac Carthy had Drishane
Castle, and was the father of
128.Finghin Mac Carthy
of Croom who produced 4
daughters and one son, 129.Finghin Mor Mac Carthy
who was involved in the Irish
Insurrection in 1798 against the continual
oppression of the English, who was known as The Mac
Carthy Mor ,
and was married to
Margaret O Connor and died in a
Co. Cork
jail in
1818 AD
at the age of 98 years.
He
had 5 sons and 5
daughters including, Donnell Mor, Finghin Oge
Mac Carthy who married
Mary O Crowley and migrated to America,
John, Cornelius who married Kate Forbish,
Charles who married Naney O Donovan
and went to Canada, 130.Donnell Mor Mac Carthy
who was married to Mary O Callaghan
Richerson and produced 4 sons and
3 daughters and was also a Captain in command of
Irish forces in the
Insurrection of 1798 AD in the
Battle of Ballynascarthy
and was to die in America in 1828 AD. 131.Cormac Mac Carthy
was born in 1808 AD and left
Ireland in 1828 AD was married
to Ellen O Connor Collins and produced 3 sons,
Donnell Francis and John, and
2 daughters, Mary and
Johanna and migrated to America.
132.Cornelius Mac Carthy Mor was born
in 1846 AD and was in America..
126.Callaghan
/ Ceallachain
Mac Carthy
his second son was being educated in France for Holy Orders
until his
brother died and he then left the monastery and became a non - Catholic and died in 1676 AD
after marrying Elizabeth Fitz Gerald the sixth daughter of George Fitz
Gerald the 16th Earl of Kildare and produced one son and
4 daughters,
One of his daughters, Catherine
married Paul Davis who was created Lord Viscount Mount Cashel and they
had a daughter who was to
later
marry Justin Mac Carthy
the son of
Donogh Mac Carthy
the Earl of Clan Carty.
127.Donogh Mac Carthy
his son, was the 4th Earl of Clan Carty
who was born in 1669 AD and educated at Oxford and married Elizabeth Spencer the
second daughter of Robert Spencer the Earl of Sunderland. In 1668 AD he received
James 11 in Ireland and
in 1690 AD he was taken prisoner by John Churchill and put in the Tower of
London from which he escaped in 1694 AD and went to France. In 1698 AD he
returned to England and was arrested and exiled, and his Estates confiscated and
sold off in Violation of the Limerick Treaty and died in Hamburg in 1734 AD. His
wife who had accompanied him into exile had died in 1704 AD.
128.Robert Mac Carthy, his son, was the Lord of
Muscry, Earl Clan Carty and Baron of Blaney who was born in 1686 AD and died in
France in 1710 AD after he had joined in with The Pretender / James 111, and his
Estates were also confiscated by the English.
129.Dermot
Mac Carthy, his son, was an Officer in the French Service who married
Rose the youngest daughter of Niall O Neill the
Prince of Ulster and he
also returned to Ireland and died in 1815 AD and was
interred also at Kilcrea, leaving 3 sons, and
4 daughters,
130.Cormac
Mac Carthy, one of his sons, was the hereditary Earl
of Clan Carty who lived in the City of Cork and married the daughter of
William O Neill of Ulster
and died in 1826 AD and was interred at Moviddy,
131.Donogh Mac Carthy, his son, married
Eva Mac Loughlin, and was to die in 1871 AD and was also
interred at Kilcrea, 132.Justin Mac Carthy, his son,
married Margaret O Daly and migrated to America,