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This article concerns the Gaelic nobility of Ireland from ancient to modern times. It only partly overlaps with Chiefs of the Name because it excludes Scotland and other discussion. It is one of three groups of Irish nobility , the others being those nobles descended from the Hiberno-Normans and those granted titles of nobility in the Peerage ...
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.
The Norman and wider European concept of strict primogeniture was not completely adopted until after some of the families joined the peerage of Ireland. The most powerful Dalcassian family of the hereditary Gaelic nobility were the O'Brien (Kings of Thomond), followed by MacNamara (Lords of Clann Cuilean), O'Kennedy (Kings of Ormond), MacMahon ...
The Lordship of Ireland in 1450 Norman Lordships and native kingdoms. The family seat, since 1391, was Kilkenny Castle; [2] their main estate was previously at Gowran Castle. [3] From Kilkenny, the Butlers claimed overlordship of the surrounding Gaelic kingdoms of Ormond, Éile, Ikerrin and part of Osraige.
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 ).
Ó Caoimh arms. O'Keeffe (Irish: Ó Caoimh) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Cork, particularly around Fermoy and Duhallow.The name comes from caomh, meaning "kind", "gentle", "noble" Some reformed spellings present it as Ó Cuív and the feminine form of the original is Ní Chaoimh, as the primary sept of the Eóganacht Glendamnach, the family were once ...
Bingham family (Ireland) (2 C, 9 P) C. Clements family (10 P) ... List of family seats of Irish nobility; B. Baron Blayney; House of Burgh; Burnell family; C. Conlon ...
Donough MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty fought in the Williamite War in Ireland for James II of England against William III of England. He was attainted at the defeat in 1691 and the MacCarthys of Muskerry lost the noble titles of Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Muskerry, and Baron Blarney. In 1694, the family lost all noble titles and peerage in ...