The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841 — John Shaqi
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841Various
History
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841
Various
Ireland -- Periodicals
1349. Hugh Mac Clanchy, chief of Dartree, and Gillchreest Mac Clanchy,
_were slain_.
1366. Cathal (the son of Teige) Mac Clanchy, chief of Dartree, _was
slain_.
1418. Teige (the son of Cathal) Mac Clanchy, chief of Dartree, died in a
monastery.
1420. Cathal (the son of Teige) Mac Clanchy, chief of Dartree, and Hugh
boy (or the yellow) Mac Clanchy, _were slain_ in their own house, about
the festival of St Bridget, by their own kinsmen Teige, Maurice, and
Henry.
1421. Cathal O’Rourke and his sons made a nocturnal attack on Mac Clanchy
on Iniskeen, an island of Lough Melvin, and the guards of the lake
delivered up the boats of the lake to them. They took young Mac Clanchy
prisoner, and possessed themselves of Lough Melvin and its castle. Five
of the sons of Mac Clanchy, and a great number of the men of Dartree,
were slain by them, and the remainder of the sons of Mac Clanchy went
after that into Carbury.
1532. Turlogh, the son of Mac Clanchy, was slain by his own two brothers
in the doorway of the mansion of Mac Clanchy. In revenge of this murder,
Brien O’Rourke destroyed a great portion of Dartree.
1536. Mac Clanchy (Feradach, the son of William, the son of Teige), chief
of Dartree, died. He was a charitable and humane man.
1578. Mac Clanchy (Cathal Duff, the son of Feradach), chief of Dartree,
died, and his son Cathal Oge assumed his place.
1582. Mac Clanchy (Cathal Oge), chief of Dartree, _was slain_ by his own
kinsman Teige Oge.
It appears from an inquisition taken at the Abbey of Creevelea, on the
24th September 1603, that Cathal Oge Mac Clanchy died on the 3d of
January 1582, seized of the castle and manor of Dun-carbry, and of the
whole country called Mac Clanchy’s country, leaving a son and heir,
Cathal Duff, then aged twenty-eight years.
It appears, however, that in accordance with the Brehon law, the
chieftainship of Dartree passed at his death not to his son, but to the
eldest surviving representative of the name, as an inquisition taken at
Rossclogher on the 3d of October in the same year, finds that the greater
part of the country, including the Castle of Dun-carbry, and the castle
and chief town of Rossclogher, &c., were in the possession of Malaghlin
Mac Clanchy, who died so seized on the 13th of August 1603, leaving a
son and heir, Cahir Mac Clanchy, three years and ten months old at the
time of his father’s death; and it is stated that all these castles,
lands, &c., were held of the king by knights’ service _in capite_, but
the quantity of the service was not ascertained by the inquisitors. By
the will of this Malaghlin Mac Clanchy he bequeathed to his son and heir,
Cahir, all his lands except such as were nominated wife’s jointure;
and to his wife, Katherine Ny Rourke, who was found to have been his
legitimate consort, he bequeathed his Castle of Dun-garbry, as also his
chief town called Rossclogher, in pawn of her marriage goods, until his
heir should redeem it.
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