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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 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 ).
By the early 1560s, Domhnall's brother Murtagh O'More (Irish: Muircheartach Ó Mórdha) was using the title. Murtagh was killed around 1577 in the Massacre of Mullaghmast, a mass killing of Gaelic nobility.
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...
Irish chiefs of the name (51 P) Pages in category "Gaelic nobility of Ireland" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Count Redmond O'Hanlon (Irish: Réamonn Ó hAnluain), (c. 1640 – 25 April 1681) was a 17th-century Irish tóraidhe or rapparee; an outlawed member of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who still held to the code of conduct of the traditional chiefs of the Irish clans.
Sir Cormac MacBaron O'Neill (d.1613 [1]) was an Irish soldier and landowner of the Elizabethan and early Stuart eras. He was part of the O'Neill dynasty , one of the most prominent Gaelic families in Ireland.