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The Irish Submissions to Richard II, 1395



MacCarthy Reagh

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Futher reading on the MacCarthy Reagh family

Curtis's biographical note: MacCarthy or MacCarrthaigh; Taig, Cormac son of Dermot, Donal, Cormac son of Donal, see p. 158, 192, 198. Taig or Tadhg MacCarthy Mor (‘Maior’), Princeps Hibernicorum Dessemonie, was son of Donal Og and became King of Desmond in 1391. He married Joan, daughter of the third Earl of Desmond. As the senior MacCarthy he was suzerain over the otherr branches of the family. Cormac, son of Dermot, was cousin of Taig and Lord of Muskerry in west Cork, a lordship founded by his father Dermot, son of Donal Og, who died in 1368. Donal MacCarthy was head of the family of MacCarthy Reagh of Carbery in south-west Cork, the next most important branch after MacCarthy Mor, and Cormac who submits with him is probably his son, founder of a sept called ‘Sliocht Chormaic na Coille’. The MacCarthys at the time were making a constant advance at the expense of the Cogans, Lombards, Barrys, and Barrets of mid Cork.

W.F.T. Butler, Gleanings from Irish History (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1925): 157-194.

K.W. Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2003: 186-191.

Kenneth Nicholls, "The Development of Lordship in County Cork, 1300-1600" in Patrick O'Flanagan and Cornelius G. Buttimer, eds., Cork: History and Society (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1993): 157-211.

Brian Ó Cuív, “A Poem for Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach,” Celtica 15 (1983): 96–110.

Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Family Names of County Cork (Cork: Collins Press, 1996): 53-58.

Samuel Trant MacCarthy, The MacCarthys of Munster: The Story of a Great Irish Sept (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1922).

Keith Alan Waters, “The Earls of Desmond in the Fourteenth Century,” (Ph.D. thesis, Durham University, 2004)



Donal Reagh MacCarthy Reagh

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Donal Reagh, the eponymous founder of the MacCarthy Reagh dynasty, was lord of Carbery in west Cork from 1366 to 1414. He was married to Joanna FitzMaurice, possibly a daughter of FitzMaurice. Donal expanded the lordship aggressively, taking the castle of Kilbrittain from the de Courcys and making it the seat of his lordship. He was also a patron of poets and scholars. His death was commemorated in two elegies, and a colophon in a medical manuscript produced by his physician provides Kilbrittain as his place of death. Following his death, however, the lordship (and indeed many of the Munster lordships) descended into internecine disputes that consumed the region for decades.

Location

Kilbrittain Castle

Selected Further Reading

Kenneth Nicholls, "The Development of Lordship in County Cork, 1300-1600," in Patrick O'Flanagan and Cornelius G. Buttimer, eds., Cork: History and Society (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1993): 157-211: 191-192.

Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Family Names of County Cork (Cork: Collins Press, 1996): 53.

Keith Alan Waters, “The Earls of Desmond in the Fourteenth Century,” (Ph.D. thesis, Durham University, 2004)


Cormac MacCarthy Reagh

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About

This "Cormac, son of Donal MacCarthy" is almost certainly Cormac na Coille ("of the wood"), son of Donal Reagh. Cormac survived his father, but not by much, dying in 1421 in a regional conflict involving the Roches and two rival claimants to the lordship of the MacCarthys of Muskerry.

Location

Kilbrittain Castle

Selected Further Reading

Brían Ó Cuív, “A Poem for Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach,” Celtica 15(1983): 96-110: 97, 109.

Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Family Names of County Cork (Cork: Collins Press, 1996): 53.


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Margaret K. Smith