Ímar (Ívaar)
Ímar (Ívaar) (d. 1000), grandson of Ragnall and king of Waterford, belonged to a junior line of the Hiberno-Scandinavian dynasty known as Uí Ímair. This lineage, which ruled Dublin, claimed descent from Ímar (qv) (d. 873), king of Dublin.…...
Írgalach
Írgalach (d. 702), son or grandson of Conaing (‘nepos Conaing’, AU; ‘mac’, according to some other annals) and a king of the Uí Néill, belonged to the dynasty of Síl nÁedo Sláine. His (grand) father, Conaing son of Congal, had been killed at the battle of Ogoman (662) while…...
Kavanagh, Gerald
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Lethlobar
Lethlobar (d. 873), son of Loingsech and overking of Ulaid, belonged to the dynasty of Dál nAraide. His grandfather, Tommaltach son of Indrechtach, had briefly held the dignity of overking of Ulaid before his death (790). His father, Loingsech, however, does not seem to have…...
Lóegaire
Lóegaire (d. 461/3), putatively son of Niall and king of Tara, is eponymous ancestor of the dynasty of Cenél Lóegaire. Most sources, including the genealogies, call him a son of Niall Noígiallach (qv), making…...
Loingsech
Mac Carthaig, Cormac
Mac Carthaig, Cormac (d. 1138), son of Muiredach, king of Desmumu (Desmond) and overking of Munster, belonged to the Clann Donngaile lineage of Éoganacht Chaisil. His father, Muiredach (d. 1092), was a son of the eponymous Carthach, who in turn was a great-grandson of…...
Mac Carthaig, Diarmait Dúna Droignéin
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Mac Carthaig, Diarmait Mór
Mac Carthaig, Diarmait Mór (d. 1185), king of Desmond, was the product of an unusual union between Cormac Mac Carthaig (qv) (d. 1138) and a lady of the declining Leinster Uí Lorcáin dynasty of Ui Muiredaig; he seems to have been…...
Mac Carthaig (MacCarthy), Domnall Mór
Mac Carthaig (MacCarthy), Domnall Mór (d. 1206), king of Desmond, succeeded when his father, Diarmait Mac Carthaig (qv), was murdered on 6 November 1185. After Domnall's inauguration, he captured and executed the murderer…...
MacCarthy, Domhnall Riabhach
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MacCarthy, Domnall Got Cairprech
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MacCarthy, Finghín
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MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Domnall Máel
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Domnall Máel (d. 1327), lord of Cairbre (Carbery), was probably the youngest son of Domnall Got MacCarthy (qv), lord of Cairbre, a successful warlord who consolidated and expanded the gains of his father and brothers at the expense of…...
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Domnall Ruad
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Domnall Ruad (d. 1302), king of Desmond, son of Cormac Finn MacCarthy (d. 1247), king of Desmond, should not be confused with his cousin and contemporary Domnall Ruad, son of Domnall Gall mac Cormaic Óic Liathánaig MacCarthy. Nothing is known of his mother…...
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Fingen
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaig), Fingen (d. 1261), king of Desmond, was for the five years before his death the most prominent Irish ruler of Munster. He apparently succeeded his father, Domnall Got Cairprech MacCarthy (d. 1252), as king of Desmond on the latter's death; his mother's name…...
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Cormac Óg Láidir
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Cormac Óg Láidir (d. 1536), 9th MacCarthy lord of Muskerry, was the son of Cormac, 6th lord of Muskerry, and his wife Mary Fitzmaurice, daughter of Edmund, 9th baron of Lixnaw. Within six years of his father's death (1495), Cormac Óg had succeeded to the…...
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Diarmaid an Dúna
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Diarmaid an Dúna (d. 1473), lord of Cairbre (Carbery), was probably the youngest son of Domhnall Riabhach MacCarthy (qv), lord of Cairbre. Diarmaid (nicknamed ‘of the fortress’) succeeded his brother Donnchadh…...
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Domhnall
MacCarthy (Mac Carthaigh), Domhnall (d. 1531), lord of Carbery, was eldest son of Finghín MacCarthy (qv), lord of Cairbre, and (probably) Katherine, daughter of Thomas fitz James FitzGerald (qv),…...
MacCarthy Mór, Domhnall Dána
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MacCarthy Mór, Donal
MacCarthy Mór, Donal (d. 1596), 26th MacCarthy Mór and 1st earl of Clancare , Gaelic lord, was second but eldest surviving son of Domhnall MacCarthy Mór (qv), 25th MacCarthy Mór. Nothing is known of his…...
MacCarthy Mór (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Cormac
MacCarthy Mór (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Cormac (d. 1359), king of Desmond, probably the third son of Domnall Óc MacCarthy (d. 1306), king of Desmond, is a shadowy figure whose reign (1328–59) reflects the decline of the MacCarthy overkings of Desmond during the early decades of the…...
MacCarthy MóR (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Domhnall Óg
MacCarthy MóR (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Domhnall Óg (d. 1391), king of Desmond, eldest of the three recorded sons of Cormac MacCarthy Mór (qv) (d. 1359), king of Desmond, was a little-known king whose reign (1359–91)…...
MacCarthy Mór (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Tadhg na Mainistreach
MacCarthy Mór (Mac Carthaigh Mór), Tadhg na Mainistreach (d. 1428), king of Desmond, was probably eldest son of Domhnall Óg MacCarthy Mór (qv), king of Desmond, and succeeded his father on the latter's…...
MacCarthy Reagh, Donnchadh
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