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Lythe, Robert (d. c. 1574), cartographer, was first recorded in 1556 when he was employed by the auditor of Calais, John Challoner (qv), to map the surrounding English Pale. Chaloner, a client of Sir William…

MacCarthy, Dermod Moyle (Diarmaid Maol) (d. 1602), Gaelic chief, was the younger son of Donogh (Donnchadh) MacCarthy Reagh of Carbery, Co. Cork, and Johanna, daughter of Maurice fitz John Fitzgerald of Carrigaline Castle, sister of…

MacDonnell, Colla (d. 1558), captain of the Route in Ulster, was third among six sons of Alasdair Cahanagh, 5th lord of Dunyveg and the Glens (Glynnes) of Antrim, and his wife Catherine, daughter of John MacIan MacDonnell of Ardnamurchan. According to the ‘four masters’ he was known…

MacDonnell, James (c.1501–65), lord of the Isles, commonly referred to in the records as ‘James MacConnell’, was eldest son of Alasdair Cahanagh MacDonnell, 5th lord of Dunyveg and the Glens (Glynnes) of Antrim, and his wife Catherine, daughter of John MacIan MacDonnell of…

MacDonnell, Sorley Boy (c.1512–90), lord of the Route and constable of Dunluce castle, was sixth and youngest son of Alasdair Cahanagh MacDonnell, lord of Dunyveg and the Glens (Glynnes) of Antrim, and his wife Catherine, daughter of John MacIan MacDonnell, lord of…

Magauran, Edmund (c.1548–93), archbishop of Armagh and catholic primate of Ireland, was a member of the family the lordship of which comprised the barony of Tullyhaw in north Co. Cavan. He appears to have been educated abroad, either at Louvain or at one of the Irish…

Magrath, Miler (Meiler) (c.1522–1622), archbishop of Cashel, was probably born in Co. Fermanagh. His father, Donough Gillegrowmoe, was the coarb of Termon Magrath and Termonamongan in the counties of Tyrone, Donegal, and Fermanagh. Magrath became a Franciscan friar and was…

Maguire, Hugh (d. 1600), lord of Fermanagh , was the eldest son of Cúconnacht Maguire (qv) and Nuala, daughter of Manus O'Donnell (qv). On the death of his…

Mooney, Donatus (Donagh) (1577–1624), Franciscan priest and historian, was born near Ballymore, Co. Donegal; nothing else is known of his family background. After a short military career in Donegal, he joined the Franciscan order c.October 1600. Before he could finish his…

Netterville, Richard (c.1545–1607), lawyer, was second son of Luke Netterville of Dowth, Co. Meath, second justice of the queen's bench, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Luttrell (qv) of Luttrellstown, Co. Dublin…

Newce, William (fl. c.1596–1623), planter, army captain, and founder of Bandon and Newcestown, Co. Cork, first came to Ireland in the late 1590s as a captain in the English army in Munster. In December 1600 he became a lessee of the Inchiquin seignory of Sir…

Norris (Norreys), Sir John (c.1547–97), military commander and lord president of Munster, was second son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norris of Rycote, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame. In the course of one of the most…

Norris, Sir Thomas (1556–99), soldier and president of Munster, was fifth son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norris of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame, and was a younger brother of Sir…

Nugent, Christopher (Criostóir Nuinseann) (1544–1602), 14th Baron Delvin , was the eldest son of Richard, 13th Baron Delvin, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jenico, Viscount Gormanston. The Nugents, whose estates lay on the frontier of the Pale in Co. Westmeath, with their…

Nugent, Nicholas (d. 1582), chief justice of the common pleas in Ireland, was fifth son of Sir Christopher Nugent and his wife Marian, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence. Educated as a lawyer, in 1564 he was appointed to a commission to hear and determine lawsuits in the Pale. On 5…

Parker, John (d. 1564), master of the rolls in Ireland, was a Kentishman who came to Ireland in 1540 as private secretary to Lord Deputy St Leger (qv). He may have been the John Parker, scholar of King's College, Cambridge, who…

Parrot (Parrat), William (fl. 1622–42), builder of St Columb's cathedral, Londonderry, is first mentioned in September 1622 as a pikeman mustered for the defence of the town of Coleraine. In November 1627 he went to England carrying a letter from the 1st earl of…

Parsons, Sir Lawrence (d. 1628), lawyer and planter, was a son of James Parsons of Leicestershire and his wife Catherine, sister of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (qv), secretary of state for Ireland (1580–1608). Lawrence was the youngest of…

Paulet, Sir George (d. 1608), governor of Derry, was son of Sir George Paulet, brother of the 1st marquis of Winchester, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Windsor, 2nd Baron Windsor. He attended King's College, Cambridge in the early 1570s, served as justice of the peace in…

Payne, Robert (d. 1592), planter and author, was born in Nottinghamshire, England. An entrepreneur who had been involved in a number of textile projects in Nottinghamshire, but who also had an interest in agriculture, he is thought to have been the author of a tract, Rob.…

Pelham, Sir William (d. 1587), lord justice of Ireland, was third son of Sir William Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, England, and his second wife, Mary, daughter of William, Lord Sandys of the Vine, near Basingstoke in Hampshire. Pelham joined the army and was made a captain at the…

Piers, William (d. 1603), constable of Carrickfergus, was son of Henry Piers of Piers Hall near Ingleton in Yorkshire; nothing is known of his mother. By his own account he arrived in Ireland in the early 1530s, but he is first recorded in 1555 as ‘a tall, burly man with a big,…

Powell, Humphrey (fl.1551–66), first ‘king's printer’ in Ireland, was a charter member of the London Stationers' Company, and had already printed seven or eight books in his premises in Holborn, London, when on 18 July 1550 the English privy council issued a warrant…

Pynnar, Nicholas (fl. 1600–44?), surveyor and director general of the fortifications in Ireland, first came to Ireland from the Netherlands in May 1600 as a captain of foot in the army that Sir…

Smith, Sir Thomas (1512–77), officer of state, author, and colonial projector, was born at Saffron Walden, Essex, son of John Smith, high sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, and Agnes Charnock. He entered Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1526, and was made king's scholar (1527) and…