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Tadhg na Mainistreach Mac Carthaigh Mór reigned as King of Desmond from 1390/2 [1] to his death in 1428.[2] He was the son of the previous king Domhnall Óg Mac Carthaigh Mór (r. 1359–1390/2). According to the Annals of Inisfallen Tadhg Mac Carthaigh had the reputation as the greatest wine-drinker in Ireland when he died, but was still "a son worthy of his father."[2] He was married to one Sebán, a daughter of "Garret the earl,";[2] this is probably a reference to Joanne, daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare, who married into the MacCarthy dynasty.

Mac Carthaigh was among those Irish kings and princes to submit to Richard II of England in his progress of 1394,[3] after which the title King of Desmond was rarely used by later members of the dynasty, the title of Mac Carthaigh Mór (Prince of Desmond) becoming the preferred.[4]

After dying in Ballycarbery Castle, Tadhg was buried in the monastery there, while his wife Sebán died in Caislén Mac nAeducáin and was buried at Tralee.[2] He was succeeded by his son Domhnall an Duna Mac Carthaigh Mór, but in recent times his younger son Cormac of Dunguile has frequently been mentioned as the ancestor of the Sliocht Cormaic of Dunguile, the senior or today perhaps only surviving sept of the MacCarthy Mór dynasty.[5]

His epithet "na Mainistreach" means "of the monastery."

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Notes

  1. ^ Annals of Inisfallen 1390.1; Mac Carthaigh's Book 1392.16
  2. ^ a b c d Annals of Inisfallen 1428.1
  3. ^ Mac Carthaigh's Book 1394.26
  4. ^ Ó Murchadha, p. 53
  5. ^ Ellis, passim; McCarthy, S. T., passim

References

Annals
  • Seán Mac Airt, ed. (1944). The Annals of Inisfallen (MS. Rawlinson B. 503). Translated by Mac Airt. Dublin: DIAS. Edition and translation available from CELT.
  • Mac Carthaigh's Book, Florence MacCarthy, ed. & tr. Séamus Ó hInnse (1947). Miscellaneous Irish Annals (A.D. 1114–1437). DIAS. available from CELT.
Modern
  • Ellis, Peter Berresford, Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. Palgrave. Revised edition, 2002.
  • McCarthy, Samuel Trant, The MacCarthys of Munster. 1922.
  • Ó Murchadha, Diarmuid, Family Names of County Cork. Cork: The Collins Press. 2nd edition, 1996.


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