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Irish royal families were the dynasties that once ruled large "overkingdoms" and smaller petty kingdoms on the island of Ireland. Members of some of these families ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Burial sites of Irish royal families (3 C) F. FitzPatrick dynasty (1 C, 68 P) M. Meic Torcaill (4 P) Pages in category "Irish royal families"
Irish royal families (3 C, 25 P) K. Knox family (Ulster-Scots aristocracy) (1 C, 23 P) L. Lowry-Corry family (14 P) ... Pages in category "Irish noble families"
Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had a High King (Ard Rí) based at Tara since ancient times, and compilations like the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn, followed by Early Modern works like the Annals of the Four Masters and Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, purported to trace the line of High Kings.
The Irish nobility could be described as including persons who do, or historically did, fall into one or more of the following categories of nobility: Gaelic nobility of Ireland : descendants in the male line of at least one historical grade of king ( Rí ).
List of Irish monarchs – lists sovereigns of the Kingdom of Ireland from 1542 to 1800 and the Irish Free State List of presidents of Ireland – lists heads of state of the Republic of Ireland This article includes a monarchs-related list of lists .
From 1943 until 2003 some of the modern representatives of the Gaelic nobility obtained a courtesy recognition as Chiefs of the Name from the Irish government. The practice ended in 2003 following certain scandals ( Terence Francis MacCarthy ) and under concerns that it was unconstitutional. [ 2 ]