Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh

Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 13th Prince of Carbery (c. 1490–1567) was an Irish chieftain who owned almost half a million acres in south west Ireland.

Cormac na hAoine MacCarthy Reagh
Prince of Carbery
Tenure	1531–1567
Predecessor	Donal MacCarthy Reagh
Died	1567
Spouse(s)	Julia MacCarthy (Muskerry)
Issue Detail	Donal & others
Father	Donal MacCarthy Reagh
Mother	Eleanor FitzGerald

Birth and origins

Cormac was born in Carbery about 1490, the eldest son of Donal MacCarthy Reagh and his second wife Eleanor FitzGerald. His father was the 12th Prince of Carbery. His father's family were the MacCarthy Reagh, a Gaelic Irish dynasty that branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line with Donal Gott MacCarthy, a medieval King of Desmond, whose sixth son Donal Maol MacCarthy Reagh was the first independent ruler of Carbery.^[1]

His mother was a daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. Her family, the Geraldines, were Old English.

Family tree

Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a] Dermod an Duna 8th Prince Carbery Finghin 10th Prince Carbery d. 1505 Catherine FitzGerald Dermod 11th Prince Donal 12th Prince c. 1455 – 1531 Eleanor FitzGerald Cormac na Haoine 13th Prince 1490–1567 Julia MacCarthy Muskerry Finghin 14th Prince Donogh 15th Prince d. 1576 Owen 16th Prince 1520–1594 of the Parliament Donal 17th Prince d. 1612 of the Pipes Margaret FitzGerald Florence MacCarthy 1560–1640 Cormac MacCarthy d.v.p.* Eleanor Fitzgibbon David 7th Viscount Fermoy 1573–1635 Owen MacCarthy Reagh Donal Kilbrittain d. 1636 Ellen Roche Charles 1st Viscount Muskerry d. 1641 Daniel MacCarthy d. 1666 Charles Kilbrittain Eleanor MacCarthy Denis MacCarthy d. 1712 Springhouse Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Princes of Carbery XXX Viscounts Muskerry *d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

Carbery in Tudor times

Battle of Mourne

The Battle of Mourne or of Mourne Abbey, also called of Cluhar and Moor, was fought in 1520 or 1521. It was part of an internecine strife of the Geraldines of Desmond in which Thomas FitzThomas FitzGerald defeated his nephew James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond, and succeeded him as the 11th Earl. Carbery was drawn into this as Thomas Fitzthomas was allied with MacCarthy's father-in-law, Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy. MacCarthy therefore led his father's troops against the 11th Earl of Desmond, who was defeated.

Prince

MacCarty succeeded his father in 1530 as the 13th prince of Carbery.

Marriage and children

MacCarthy married Julia, daughter of Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy, 10th Lord of Muskerry. It was his first but her second marriage. She was the widow of Gerald Fitzmaurice, 15th Baron Kerry, who had died in 1550.^[4][5][6]

Cormac and Julia had two sons:

1. Donal na Pipi, became the 17th Prince^[7]
2. Dermond na-Glac MacCarthy

—and four daughters:

1. Catherine, married John Butler of Kilcash, father of Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond^[8][9]
2. Honoria, married her distant cousin Owen MacDonogh MacCarthy, Prince of Duhallow
3. Ellinor, married her cousin Dermod MacCarthy of Enniskean
4. Ellen, married first in 1572 Sir James FitzGerald, Lord of Decies (died 1581),^[10] and secondly James FitzRichard de Barry, Lord Ibane and 4th Viscount Buttevant, ancestor of the Earls of Barrymore. Ellen seems to have been an illegitimate child.^[11]

After MacCarthy's death his wife would marry thirdly Edmund Butler, 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne (died 1566)^[12]

Death

Carbery, as he now was, died in 1567. He was succeeded according to Brehon law and tanistry by his brother Finghin as the 14th prince.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh

16. Donal Reagh MacCarthy 8. Dermod an Duna MacCarthy Reagh 17. Joanna FitzMaurice 4. Finghin MacCarthy Reagh 18. Teige MacCarthy, Lord of Muscry 9. Ellen MacCarthy 2. Donal MacCarthy Reagh 20. James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond 10. Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond 21. Mary de Burgh 5. Catherine FitzGerald 22. William de Barry, 8th Baron Barry 11. Ellice de Barry 23. Ellen de la Roche 1. Cormac na Haoine 24. John FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Kildare 12. Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare 25. Rose Basset 6. Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare 26. James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond 13. Jane FitzGerald 27. Mary de Burgh 3. Eleanor FitzGerald 28. Sir Edward FitzEustace 14. Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester 7. Alison FitzEustace

See also

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