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Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 13th Prince of Carbery (c. 1490–1567) was an Irish chieftain who owned almost half a million acres in south west Ireland.

Birth and origins

Cormac was born in Carbery about 1490, the eldest son of Donal MacCarthy Reagh and his second wife Eleanor FitzGerald. His father was the 12th Prince of Carbery. His father's family were the MacCarthy Reagh, a Gaelic Irish dynasty that branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line with Donal Gott MacCarthy, a medieval King of Desmond, whose sixth son Donal Maol MacCarthy Reagh was the first independent ruler of Carbery.

His mother was a daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. Her family, the Geraldines, were Old English.

Battle of Mourne

The Battle of Mourne or of Mourne Abbey, also called of Cluhar and Moor, was fought in 1520 or 1521. It was part of an internecine strife of the Geraldines of Desmond in which Thomas FitzThomas FitzGerald defeated his nephew James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond, and succeeded him as the 11th Earl. Carbery was drawn into this as Thomas Fitzthomas was allied with MacCarthy's father-in-law, Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy. MacCarthy therefore led his father's troops against the 11th Earl of Desmond, who was defeated.

Prince

MacCarty succeeded his father in 1530 as the 13th prince of Carbery.

Marriage and children

MacCarthy married Julia, daughter of Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy, 10th Lord of Muskerry. It was his first but her second marriage. She was the widow of Gerald Fitzmaurice, 15th Baron Kerry, who had died in 1550.

Cormac and Julia had two sons:

1. Donal na Pipi, became the 17th Prince
2. Dermond na-Glac MacCarthy

—and four daughters:

1. Catherine, married John Butler of Kilcash, father of Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond
2. Honoria, married her distant cousin Owen MacDonogh MacCarthy, Prince of Duhallow
3. Ellinor, married her cousin Dermod MacCarthy of Enniskean
4. Ellen, married first in 1572 Sir James FitzGerald, Lord of Decies (died 1581), and secondly James FitzRichard de Barry, Lord Ibane and 4th Viscount Buttevant, ancestor of the Earls of Barrymore. Ellen seems to have been an illegitimate child.

After MacCarthy's death his wife would marry thirdly Edmund Butler, 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne (died 1566)

Death

Carbery, as he now was, died in 1567. He was succeeded according to Brehon law and tanistry by his brother Finghin as the 14th prince.

Ancestry

See also

http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/MacCarthyReaghCarbery.php Irish Pedigrees: MacCarthy Reagh, Prince of Carbery] #120

Notes and references

Notes

1. This family tree is based on genealogies of the MacCarthy Reagh dynasty.

Citations

1. Gibson 1861, p. 84, line 9. "There were at this time four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."
2. O'Hart 1892, pp. 118–121.
3. Lainé 1836, pp. 79–102.
4. Lainé 1836, p. 73:"Shely or Julia Mac-Carthy, mariée 1e à Gerald Fitz-Maurice, 15e lord de Kerry (Lodge, t. II, p. 190); 2e avec Cormac Mac-Carthy-Reagh, seigneur de Kilbritton; 3e avec Edmond Butler, lord Dunboyne (Lodge)."
5. Lodge 1789, p. 190, line 22. "Gerald (the red-haired) third son of Edmond, the tenth Lord, became the fifteenth Lord Fitz-Maurice of Kerry;"
6. Lodge 1789, p. 190, line 25. "... but had not been married above a month, when he was killed in Defmond; he was buried at Ardfert 1 August 1550."
7. O'Hart 1892, p. 120, left column, line 19. "120. Cormac na Haoine, Prince of Carbery: son of Donal married Julia dau. of Cormac, lord of Muscry, and had by her a son called Donal-na-Pipi."
8. Burke & Burke 1915, p. 1549, right column, line 57. "3. John of Kilcash, to whom his father granted lands by deed, 26 May 1544; m. Katherine, dau. of Cormac MacCarthy, the MacCarthy Reagh ..."
9. Lainé 1836, p. 91, bottom. "2. Catherine Mac Carthy, mariée 1e avec Jean Butler de Kilcash, fils puyné de Jacques Butler, 9e comte d'Ormon ..."
10. Burke 1883, p. 561, right column, line 24. "II. Sir James FitzGerald, of Dromana, Lord of the Decies, co. Waterford, aet. thirty, 1572 m. Ellen Carty,dau. of Mac-Carthy Reagh, and d. 16 December, 1581, leaving an only son, Gerald ..."
11. Barry 1902, p. 87. "... his marriage with Iline, illegitimate daughter of Sir Cormac MacCarthy Reagh, Lord of Carbery."
12. Cokayne 1916, p. 516, line 14. "He m. , before 1551, Cecilia or Gille, da. of Cormac Oge Macarty, of Muskerry."

Sources

• Barry, E. (1902). Barrymore: Records of the Barrys of County Cork. Cork: Guy and Co.
• Burke, Bernard (1883). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 499232768.
• Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1915). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (77th ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 1155471554.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1916). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Dacre to Dysart (for Dunboyne)
• Gibson, Charles Bernard (1861). The History of the County and City of Cork. Vol. I. London: Thomas C. Newby. OCLC 1046580159. – to 1603
• Lainé, P. Louis (1836). "Mac-Carthy". Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France [Genealogical and Historical Archives of the Nobility of France] (in French). Vol. Tome cinquième. Paris: Imprimerie de Bethune et Plon. pp. 1–102. OCLC 865941166.
• Lodge, John (1789). Archdall, Mervyn (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. II. Dublin: James Moore. OCLC 264906028. – Earls
• O'Hart, John (1892). Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. I (5th ed.). Dublin: James Duffy & Co. OCLC 7239210. – Irish stem

• 1490s births
• 1567 deaths
• 16th-century Irish landowners
• De Barry family
• Irish lords
• MacCarthy dynasty
• People of Elizabethan Ireland