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By 1609. 69,279. Named after Castlerahan parish, ultimately from the ancient Castlera [c]han hillfort. Cavan. Clankee. Clann Chaoich[i 4] By 1609. 64,377. The name means "Caoch's clan"; Caoch (meaning "blind" or "squint") was the nickname of Niall mac Cathal na Beithí mac Annadh Ó Raghallaigh (died 1296).
1958–1979, 1979–1997, 1997–2010, 2010–2024, 2024–present) Baronets. Baronetcies. The peerage is the collective term for all those holding titles of nobility of all degrees. The term superseded the term baronage used of the feudal era. A barony is a rank or dignity of a man or a woman who is a participant of a small rank of a British ...
Barony map of County Cork, 1900; Condons and Clangibbon barony is in the northeast, coloured peach. Condons and Clangibbon. Coordinates: 52°13′26″N 8°12′24″W / 52.22383392976069°N 8.206543367043672°W / 52.22383392976069; -8.206543367043672. Sovereign state.
1330. Maltravers, Arundel, Fitzalan, Howard, Fitzalan-Howard. extant. The Barony was united with the Earldom of Arundel by Act of Parliament in 1627 and is held by the Duke of Norfolk. Baron Burghersh. 1330. de Burghersh, le Despencer, de Beauchamp. abeyant 1448. Baron Coleville.
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, surrounded by his baronage.Illustration from Cassell's History of England, 1902.. In the kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was the highest degree of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony"), under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons.
Barony (Ireland) In Ireland, a barony (Irish: barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí[1]) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland, replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion. [2]
The barony was created by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath as his own feudal barony, held directly from himself in capite, and so once constituted a feudal title. His vassals were commonly called "De Lacy's Barons". [2] The barony is named from the cross of the abbey said to have been founded by St. Cainnech in AD 560.
Ards Lower (named after the former barony of Ards ), alternatively known as North Ards, is a barony in County Down, Northern Ireland. [2] It lies on the northern half of the Ards Peninsula in the north-east of the county, with the Irish Sea to its east and Strangford Lough to its south-west. It is bordered by two other baronies: Ards Upper to ...