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The O'Callaghan land near Mallow, forfeited by Donough O'Callaghan after the Irish rebellion of 1641, came into the hands of a family called Longfield or Longueville, who built a 20-bedroom Georgian mansion there.
O'Callaghan's Mills (Irish: Muillte Uí Cheallacháin), also O'Callaghansmills, [1] is a village in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name.It takes its name from the O'Callaghan family who were large landowners in the area and a corn and grist mill built by John Coonan on the lands of Cornelius O'Callaghan in 1772.
Dromaneen Castle is a fortified house and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland. [2] [3] [4]It was one of the three main castles of the ancient O’Callaghan clan. The ruin is that of a Jocobean mansion and it is said to have been built by Caher O’Callaghan in around 161
Shanbally Castle was located near Clogheen, County Tipperary and built for Cornelius O'Callaghan, the first Viscount Lismore, in around 1810. It was the largest house built in Ireland by the noted English architect John Nash. [1] The castle was acquired by the Irish Land Commission in 1954. On 21 March 1960 the castle, after much controversy ...
Under the 1640 Adventurers Act, lenders were paid in confiscated estates, while Parliamentarian soldiers who served there were often compensated with land rather than wages. Although many of these simply sold their grants, the net result was the percentage of land owned by Irish Catholics fell from 60% in 1641 to 20% by the 1660 Stuart Restoration.
Callaghan 12th Lord: Dermot 13th Lord 1501–1570: Ellen FitzGerald: Cormac 14th Lord d. 1583 tanist: Callaghan 15th Lord tanist resigned 1584: Donogh O'Brien 4th Earl Thomond d. 1624: Cormac MacDermot 16th Lord 1552–1616: Mary Butler: Margaret O'Brien d. c. 1599: Charles 1st Viscount Muskerry d. 1641: Ellen Roche: Donough 1st Earl 1594 ...
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He was born George O'Callaghan, son of Colonel John O'Callaghan and Mary Johnson Westropp, and raised in the Church of Ireland. He lived at Coolreagh, an Anglo-Irish big house in County Clare. [3] In 1885, he added "Westropp" to his name under the terms of a bequest by his aunt Catherine's husband Ralph, who left him an estate at Fortanne.