LIMERICK AND
CLARE ; The Ancient Thomond
THE following were the Irish chiefs and clans of
ancient Thomond, or the counties of Limerick and Clare:
O'Dea, chief of Dysart-O'Dea, now
the parish of Dysart, barony of Inchiquin, county
Clare.
O'Quinn, chief of Muintir
Ifernain, a territory ahout Corofin in the county
Clare. The O'Heffernans were the tribe who
possessed this territory; over whom O'Quinn was
chief. These O'Quinns had also possessions in
Limerick, where they became earls of Dunraven.
O'Flattery, and O'Cahil, chiefs
of Fianchora.
O'Mulmea (or Mulmy), chief of
Breintire, now Brentry, near Callan hill, in the
county Clare.
O'Haichir (or O'Hehir), chief of
Hy-Flancha and Hy-Cormac, districts in the barony
of Islands; and (according to O'Halloran) of
Callan, in the county Clare.
O'Duibhgin, O'Dugan, (or
O'Deegan), chief of Muintir Con-lochta, a
district in the parish of Tomgraney, in the
barony of Tullagh, county Clare.
O'Grady, chief of Cineal
Dongally, a large territory comprising the
present barony of Lower Tullagh, county Clare.
The O'Gradys had also large possessions in the
county Limerick; and, in modern times, the Right
Hon. Standish O'Grady, Chief Baron of the
Exchequer in Ireland, was A.D. 1831, created
Viscount Guillamore.
MacConmara or MacNamara
(literally a warrior of the sea) was chief of the
territory of Clan Caisin, now the barony of
Tullagh, in the county Clare. The Macnamaras were
also sometimes styled chiefs of Clan Cuilean,
which was the tribe name of the family; derived
from Cuilean, one of their chiefs in the eighth
century. This ancient family held the high and
honourable office of hereditary marshals of
Thomond.
O'Connor, chief of the territory
of Fear Arda and of Corcomroe, at present a
barony in the county Clare.
O'Loughlin, chief of Burren, now
the barony of Burren, county Clare, which was
sometimes called Eastern Corcomroe. The
O'Loghlins and O'Connors here mentioned were of
the same descent: namely, a branch of the Clan na
Rory, descended from the ancient kings of Ulster
of the race of Ir.
O'Connell, chief of Hy Cuilean, a
territory south-east of Abbeyfeale, in the barony
of Upper Connello, on the verge of the county
Limerick, towards the river Feale, and the
borders of Cork and Kerry. According to
O'Halloran, the O'Connells had their chief
residence in Castle Connell, in the county
Limerick. In the twelfth century the O'Connells
settled in Kerry, where they had a large
territory on the borders of their ancient
possessions. According to O'Halloran, the
O'Falvies, admirals of Desmond; the O'Connells,
of Kerry; O'Sheas, chiefs of Muskerry, in Cork;
and several other chiefs, were descended from the
Clan na Deaga, celebrated chiefs of Munster,
originally a branch of the Heremonians of Ulster.
Of the Clan na Deaga, was Conaire the Second,
Monarch of Ireland, who was married to Sarad
(daughter of his predecessor, Conn of the Hundred
Battles, Monarch of Ireland in the second
century), by whom he had a son, named Cairbre
Riada, from whom were descended the Dalriedians
of Ulster, and of Scotland. A son of Cairbre
Riada got large possessions in South Munster, in
the present counties of Cork and Kerry.
MacEneiry, chiefs of Corca
Muiceadha, also called Conaill Uachtarach, now
the barony of Upper Conello, in the county
Limerick. The MacEneirys were descended from
Mahoun, king of Munster, and brother of Brian
Boru; and had their chief residence at Castletown
MacEneiry.
O'Billry, a chief of Hy-Conall
Guara, now the baronies of Upper and Lower
Conello, in the county Limerick.
O'Cullen, O'Kenealy, and
O'Sheehan, were chiefs in the baronies of
Conello, county Limerick.
O'Macassa (Macassey, and Maxey),
chief of Corca Oiche: and O'Bergin, chief of
Hy-Rossa, districts in the county Limerick.
O'Mulcallen, a chief of Conriada,
now the barony of Kenry, County Limerick.
O'Clerkin and O'Flannery, chiefs
of Dal Cairbre Eva, in the barony of Kenry,
county Limerick.
O'Donovan, chief of Cairbre Eva,
now the barony of Kenry, which was the ancient
territory of O'Donovan, O'Cleircin, and
O'Flannery. The O'Donovans had their chief castle
at Bruree, county Limerick.
O'Ciarmhaie (or O'Kerwick), chief
of Eoganacht Aine, now the parish of Knockaney,
in the barony of Small County, county Limerick.
O'Muldoon, also a chief of
Eoganacht Aine, same as O'Kerwick.
O'Kenealy, chief of Eoganacht
Grian Guara, a district comprising parts of the
baronies of Coshma and Small County in Limerick.
O'Gunning, chief of Crioch
Saingil and Aosgreine: Crioch Saingil, according
to O'Halloran, is now "Single Land,"
and is situated near Limerick; and both the
territories here mentioned are, according to
O'Brien, comprised in the barony of Small County,
in Limerick.
O'Caolidh or O'Keely, and
O'Malley are given as chiefs of Tua Luimnidh or
"the district about Limerick."
O'Keeffe, chief of
Triocha-Cead-an-Chaliadh, called Cala Luimne,
that is the "port or ferry of
Limerick."
O'Hea, chief of Muscry Luachra, a
territory lying between Kilmallock and
Ardpatrick, in the barony of Coshlea, in the
county Limerick.
MacDonnell and O'Baskin, chiefs
of the territories of Corca Baisgin or Baiscind,
now the barony of Moyarta, in the county Clare.
O'Mulcorcra was chief of Hy-Bracain, now the
barony of Ibracken; and O'Keely--probably the
O'Keely above named--was another chief of the
same place. One of the Corca Baiscinds here
mentioned was the present barony of Clonderlaw.
MacMahon. The MacMahons succeeded
the above chiefs, as lords of Corca Baisgin; and
possessed the greater part of the baronies of
Moyarta and Clonderlaw, in the county Clare. In
O'Brien's Dictionary these MacMahons and
MacDonnells are given as branches of the
O'Briens, the posterity of Brian Boru; and,
therefore, of quite a different descent from the
MacMahons, princes and lords of Monaghan, and the
MacDonnells, earls of Antrim, and the MacDonnells
of Kilkee, county Clare, who were of the race of
Clan Colla.
O'Gorman, chief of Tullichrin, a
territory comprising parts of the baronies of
Moyarta and Ibrackan, in the county Clare.
O'Diocholla and O'Mullethy or
Multhy, were chiefs in Corcomroe.
O'Drennan, chief of Slieve Eise,
Finn, and of Ginel-Seudna, a district on the
borders of Clare and Galway.
O'Neill, chief of Clan Dalvy and
of Tradree, a district in the barony of
Inchiquinn, county Clare. A branch of this family
went in the tenth century to Limerick, to assist
in the expulsion of the Danes, over whom they
gained several victories; and on one occasion,
having worn green boughs in their helmets and on
their horses' heads, they, from this
circumstance, got the epithet craebhach
(i.e.Ramifer), signifying "of the
branches", a name which has been anglicised
"Creagh." Of these Mac Gilla Craeibhe
or "Creagh" family there are still many
respectable families in the counties of Clare,
Cork, and Tipperary. Some of those O'Neills, who
were of the Ui-Bloid, of the race of Heber,
changed their name to Nihel, and some to Newell;
but they were all of the same stock as the
O'Briens of Thomond.
O'Davoran, chief of Muintir
Lidheagha (or O'Liddy), the tribe name of this
clan; whose territory was situated in the barony
of Corcomroe, and at Ballynalaken, near
Lisdoonvarna, county Clare.
O'Moloney, were chiefs of
Cuiltenan, now the parish of Kiltonanlea, in the
barony of Tulla, county Clare.
O'Kearney, as chiefs of
Avon-Ui-Cearney or O'Kearney's River, a district
about Six-Mile-Bridge, in the baronies of Tulla
and Bunratty, county Clare.
O'Casey, chiefs of Rathconan, in
the barony of Pubblebrien, county Limerick.
O'Dinan or Downing, chiefs of
Uaithne; now the barony of Owneybeg, in Limerick.
O'Hallinan and MacSheehy, chiefs
of Ballyhallinan, in the barony of Pubblebrien,
county Limerick. O'Halloran, chiefs of Fay Ui-
Hallurain, a district between Tulla and Clare, in
the county Clare.
Lysaght, placed in a district
about Ennistymon; MacConsidine, in the barony of
Ibrackan; O'Daly of Leath Mogha or Munster, in
the barony of Burren; MacGillereagh (MacGilroy,
MacGilrea, Gilroy, Kilroy) in the barony of
Clonderlaw; MacClancy, in the barony of Tulla;
and MacBruodin, in the barony of Inchiquin: all
in the county Clare. MacArthur and O'Scanlan, in
the barony of Pubblebrien; and O'Morny, in the
barony of Lower Conello; all in the county
Limerick.
LIMERICK In western Ireland, a Kingdom
established by the Norse.
- Bard (in Dublin 877-881) -- ( 845-880 ).
- Sigfrith (in Dublin 881-888) -- ( ? -888 ).
- Sigtryggr (in Dublin 888-896) -- ( 888-896 ).
- Olaf -- ( 896 ).
- Harald I -- ( 896- ? ).
- Tomar -- ( 922-930 ).
- Ivarr -- ( 930-977 ).
- Harald II -- ( 977-978 ).
Munster (Mumu)
The S.W. Quadrant of Ireland:
O'BRIEN:
- Brian I Bóruma -- ( 978-1014 )
- Donnchad III -- ( 1014-1064 ).
- Murchad I -- ( 1064 ).
- Turlough I -- ( 1064-1086 ).
- Murcherty II -- ( 1086 ).
- Dermot I -- ( 1086-1118 ).
- Brian II ( 1118 ).
- Partitioned into two separate Kingdoms -- (
Desmond and Thomond ).
THOMOND A division of the old Kingdom of
Munster, created after the bitter conflict of the early
12th century.
- Conchobar I -- ( 1118-1142 ).
- Turlough II -- ( 1142-1168 ).
- Donal the Great -- ( 1168-1194 ).
- Murcherty III -- ( 1194-1198 ).
- Conchobar II the Red -- ( 1198-1210 ).
- Donnchad IV Cairprech -- ( 1210-1242 ).
- Conchobar II Na Suidaine -- ( 1242-1258 ).
- Tadhg II Cáeluisce -- ( 1258-1268 ).
- Brian III the Red -- ( 1268-1277 ).
- Turlough III -- ( 1277 ).
- Donnchad V -- ( 1277-1306 ).
- Donnchad VI -- ( 1306-1311 ).
- Dermot II the Cleric -- ( 1311-1313 ).
- Donnchad VII -- ( 1313 ).
- Murcherty IV -- ( 1313-1343 ).
- Brian IV the White -- ( 1343-1350 ).
- Dermot III -- ( 1350-1360 ).
- Mathghamhain of Maonmhagh -- ( 1360-1369 ).
- Brian V Sreamhach -- ( 1369-1375 ).
- Turlough III the Bald -- ( 1375-1400 ).
- Conchobhar III -- ( 1400-1426 ).
- Tadhg III -- ( 1426-1438 ).
- Mathghamhain Dall -- ( 1438-1444 ).
- Turlough IV the Soft -- ( 1444-1459 ).
- Tadhg IV an Chomhaid -- ( 1459 ).
- Donnchad VIII -- ( 1459-1466 ).
- Conchobhar IV the Great -- ( 1466-1496 ).
- Turlough V the Young -- ( 1496-1498 ).
- Turlough VI -- ( 1498-1528 ).
- Conchobar V -- ( 1528-1539 ).
- Murchad II Carrach -- ( 1539 ).
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LIMERICK AND
CLARE ( Thomond )
THE following were denoted as early
MAJOR LANDHOLDERS in the counties of Limerick and Clare :
De Burgo, Fitzgerald,
Fitzgibbon--a branch of the Fitzgeralds, De
Clare, De Lacey, Brown, Barrett, Roche, Russell,
Sarsfield, Stritch, Purcell, Hussey, Harold,
Tracey, Trant, Comyn, White, Walsh, Wolfe,
Dongan, Rice, Aylmer, Nash, Monsell, Massy, etc.
The Fitzgeralds, earls of
Desmond, had vast possessions in Limerick;
and of the estates of Gerald, the
sixteenth earl of Desmond, in the reign of
Elizabeth, about one hundred thousand acres were
confiscated in the county Limerick, and divided
amongst the following families:
Annesley, Barkley,
Billingsley, Bouchier, Carter, Courtenay,
Fitton, Mannering, Stroude, Trenchard,
Thornton, and Uthered.
QUOTING from Connellan, the following have
been the noble families in Limerick and Clare, since the
reign of Henry the Eighth:
- O'Brien, earls and marquises of Thomond, earls of
Inchiquin, barons of Ibrackan, and barons of
Burren, also viscounts of Clare, and barons of
Moyarta;
- Bourke, barons of Castleconnell; Roche, barons of
Tarbert;
- Fitzgerald, knights of Glin, in the county of
Limerick;
- Sarsfield, vicounts of Kilmallock, in the county
of Limerick;
- Dongan, earls of Limerick; Hamilton, viscounts of
Limerick;
- Fane, viscounts Fane and barons of Loughguire, in
Limerick;
- Southwell, barons Southwell of Castlematross in
Limerick;
- Fitzgibbon, earls of Clare;
- Perry, earls of Limerick;
- Quinn, earls of Dunraven and barons of Adare, in
Limerick;
- O'Grady, viscounts Guillamore in Limerick;
- the lords Fitzgerald, and Vesey or Vesci, in the
county of Clare;
- Massey, barons of Clarina in Limerick;
- Monsell, barons of Emly.
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