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O'Flaherty (/ oʊ ˈ f l ɛər t i, oʊ ˈ f l æ h ər t i / oh-FLAIR-tee, oh-FLA-hər-tee, UK also / oʊ ˈ f l ɑː ər t i / oh-FLAH-ər-tee; Middle Irish: Ua Flaithbertaig; Modern Irish: Ó Flaithbheartaigh [oː ˈfˠlˠahəɾˠt̪ˠəj]) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Galway. The clan name ...
O'Flaherty was the last de jure Lord of Iar Connacht, and the last recognised Chief of the Name of Clan O'Flaherty. He lost the greater part of his ancestral estates to Cromwellian confiscations in the 1650s.
See O'Flaherty, Muintir Murchada, Maigh Seóla, and Iar Connacht. Pages in category "O'Flaherty dynasty" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Ned Flahert was the grandson of Edmond mac Morogha na Maor and Morogh na Mart Ó Flaithbertaigh, sons of Morogh na Maor Ó Flaithbertaigh, (died 1627, who was the last substantial chief of the O'Flaherty clan. Both brothers fought in the Irish Confederate Wars.
Donnell, the son of Hugh O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught, was slain by the sons of Brian O'Flaherty, at a meeting of his own people. 1417. Rory, the son of Murrough O'Flaherty; Rory, the son of Dermot Duv O'Flaherty, and sixteen others of the O'Flahertys, were drowned in the bay of Umallia. Murchad mac Brian Ó Flaithbheartaigh – 1419 ...
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans.
The O'Neills of the Fews are a 15th-century branch of the Tyrone or Ó Néill Mór line whereas the O'Neills of Clanaboy are a High Medieval line. Hence the matter is academic, both being somewhat distant from the last sovereigns of Tyrone in Ulster (to 1607), whose plentiful descendants eventually fell into comparative obscurity. [ 15 ]
Andy Cooney (d. 1968), a member of the Third Battalion of the Dublin Brigade and a suspected participant in the execution of the Cairo Gang; Timothy Coughlin (d. 1928), a member of the Dublin Brigade during the War of Independence who assassinated the Vice President of the Executive Council, Kevin O'Higgins.