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In 1353 Muskerry, and Macroom with it, was given as appanage to Dermot MacCarthy, 1st Lord of Muskerry, second son of Cormac MacCarthy Mor, King of Desmond. The MacCarthys of Muskerry owned the castle until the middle of the 17th century. Teige MacCarthy, 11th Lord Muskerry, restored and enlarged the castle and died there in 1565. [9]
On his way to Kilkenny, the Confederate capital, Rinuccini visited Macroom Castle where Lady Muskerry and her 11-year-old eldest son, Charles, received him while her husband was negotiating with Ormond in Dublin. [295] [296] The nuncio stayed for four days [297] and then continued to Kilkenny arriving on 12 November. [298]
The Murcheatach Uí Briain and Richard de Cogan arrived in 1201 and 1207 respectively; the MacCarthys became the dominant and most powerful family and held Macroom Castle until the mid-17th century. [10] From the 14th century, Macroom became the capital of the Barony of Muskerry and the centre for trade, burial and religious worship.
The MacCarthy of Muskerry are a cadet branch of the MacCarthy Mor, Kings of Desmond. This cadet branch was founded by Dermot MacCarthy, 1st Lord of Muskerry, second son of Cormac MacCarthy Mor, King of Desmond, [10] who was in 1353 created Lord of Muskerry by the English. [11] This title's position is unclear.
An exception was Macroom Castle, which passed to the White family of Bantry House, descendants of Cormac Láidir Mac Cárthaigh. This was burnt in 1922 and is part of the local golf club today. [3] The Muskerry McCarthys' historical seat is Blarney Castle in County Cork.
Callaghan was born in the late 1630s [1] [a] in County Cork, most likely at Blarney Castle or Macroom Castle, residences of his parents. [4] He was the second son of Donough MacCarty and his wife Eleanor Butler. [5] At the time of his birth, Callaghan's father was the 2nd Viscount Muskerry, but he would be advanced to Earl of Clancarty in 1658.
Cormac was born in 1411, [4] the eldest son of Teige MacCarthy.His father was the 6th Lord of Muskerry.His father's family were the MacCarthys of Muskerry, [5] a Gaelic Irish dynasty that had branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line in the 14th century [6] [7] [8] when a younger son received Muskerry as appanage. [9]
Charles MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry (1633 or 1634 – 1665), called Cormac in Irish, commanded a royalist battalion at the Battle of the Dunes during the interregnum.He was heir apparent to Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty but was killed at the age of 31 at the Battle of Lowestoft, a sea-fight against the Dutch, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and thus never succeeded to the earldom.