naught, was elected King of Ireland, A. D. 1166. In his reign the kingdom was invaded by Henry II. King of England. Roderick, deserted by most of the provinces, was finally, in 1175, obliged to enter into a convention with the King of England, wherein he yielded to become that monarch's vassal for the province of Connaught alone. Thus ended the Irish monarchy. "From Cathal Crovedarg, the younger son of Torlogh the Great, descended the most powerful branch of the O'Conor family, as the succession of their history in the annals of the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries amply testifies. From that Cathal Crovedarg, who died King of Connaught in 1224, is descended, in the sixteenth generation, Brigadier Thomas O'Conor, for whom we have drawn up the following genealogy. "We have drawn out this genealogy from the most authentic materials in the archives of Ireland, and from the antient annals, as well as modern documents, now preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. To this noble repository of antiquities we had daily access thro' the indulgence of Dr. Thomas Leland, the present librarian, and one of the Senior Fellows of the University. The accounts in the Herald's Office in the Castle of Dublin could not be guides to us in the following genealogy; as they do not reach farther back than the 12th century. The later accounts in that office are only taken from the originals that we have perused. 66 'Having premised thus much, we now proceed to our genealogical line from Achay Moymedon to the Brigadier Thomas O'Conor, marking as we go along the principal evolutions in power and prosperity. C. O'CONOR. 66 HY BRUNE. "1. Achay Moymedon, King of Connaught, was elected King of Ireland A. D. 358, and died A. D. 366. "2. Brian, the common father of the Hy-Brune race, and Prince of Connaught, died "6. Fergus, Prince of Connaught, died 517. "7. Eochy Tirmcarna, Prince of Connaught, died 543. "8. Aodh, Prince of Connaught, was elected King of Connaught by the states in 556, and died in the battle of Benbow, A. D. 577. "9. Uada, King of Connaught, 597. 10. Reilly, King of Connaught, 645. "11. Fergus, Prince of Connaught, 654. "CLAN "CLAN MURRAY. 12. Murryach Mullethan was elected King of Conaught A. D. 696, and died A. D. 702. From him the principal Hy-Brune branch took the name of Clan "15. Tomaltach, Prince of Connaught, 774- "20. Teige of the Tower, King of Connaught, died A. D. 956. "23. Teige (of the white steed), died King of Connaught, 1030. who took the surname of O'Conor. "24. Aodh (of the broken spear), died King of Connaught, 1067. "25. Roderick (of the yellow hound), 1118. He was the first "26. Torlogh the Great, King of Connaught, and elected King of Ireland 1136, died 1156. "27. Cathal Crovedarg, elected King of Connaught, over which he reigned with great reputation 33 years. He died A. D. 1224. "28. Aodh died, King of Connaught, 1228. "29. Roderick, Prince of Connaught, was drowned in the Shannon, 1244 30. Eogan (of the palace), King of Connaught, 1274 "31. Aodh, King of Connaught, 1309. After the battle of Athenry in 1317, the provincial power of the O'Conors in Connaught was much reduced, the English having wrested near one-half of the province out of their jurisdiction. "32. Turlogh, King of Connaught; he was called Torlogh Don, and his family took from him the surname of O'Conor Don, 1345. 66 35. Fedlim Geancach (Prince of the Plains of Connaught), killed in a skirmish treacherously, 1474 "36. Eogan Caoch (Prince of the Plains of Connaught), 1485. "37. Carbry (Prince of the Plains, &c.), 1548. "38. Dermod (Prince of the Plains), died in his castle of Ballintobber. He married the daughter of Torlogh Roe O'Conor, otherwise O'Conor Roe, 1585. "39. Aodh (Prince of the Plains of Connaught), who compounded for his country of the Plains with Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy, Sir John Perrot, died 1627. 40. Hugh Og of Castlerea, Commissioner for the province of Connaught in the Council of Kilkenny, A. D. 1642, died 1655.” 66 "From this Hugh Og descended Thomas O'Conor, Esq., an officer of great repute in the service of His Most Christian Majesty."-See Dissertations on the History of Ireland, p. 282. "The Hy-Brune, or Clan Murray O'Conors, were descended from Teig, who first took that surname, and governed the province of Connaught in the year 1030; and from him, in the fifth generation, descended Roderic O'Conor, King of Connaught in the year 1157, and elected King of all Ireland in the year 1166, on the death of his predecessor Murkertach O'Laghlin, in the battle of Literluin. "In the year 1175, Roderic yielded to such terms as Henry II., King of England, proposed to him. In 1186 he resigned the provincial government of Connaught, which, after many contests, devolved finally on Cathal Crove-darg, Roderic's youngest brother. "From this Cathal Crove-darg, who died in the year 1224, descended the O'Conors of Ballintobber, otherwise the O'Conors Don. Hugh O'Conor, the chief of this name, in 1586, submitted to Queen Elizabeth's Government, and the composition between him and the Queen's Lord Deputy, Sir John Perrot, is still preserved in the Rolls Office in Dublin. "This Hugh O'Conor Don, of Ballintobber, gave the lands and castle of Belanagare, with other estates, to his third son, Cathal Og, otherwise Charles O'Conor, who died on the ninth of February, 163[]. And these estates were confirmed to Major Owen O'Conor, the said Charles's eldest son, in the Act of Settlement made in Ireland, soon after the Restoration of King Charles II. 66 Major Owen O'Conor died without issue male in 1688. The confusions which followed subjected his estate to a dismemberment, on account of the forfeiture of one of his co-heirs. What remained, being two-thirds, devolved on his nephew, Denis O'Conor, who died at his house in Belanagare, February 1, 1750. "To him succeeded Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, still alive, and for him we have drawn up the following genealogical line, down from the time of Cathal Crove-darg O'Conor abovementioned: "1. Cathal Crove-darg O'Conor died in the abbey of Knockmoy, A. D. 1224. IRISH ARCH. SOC. 15. T 66 2. 66 2. Hugh, his son, succeeded to the government of the Irish province in Connaught [namely, the countries yielded by the English monarchs to the O'Conors, as a government, independent of that established in favour of the first English adventurers]. This Hugh was killed in the court of Jeffrey Marsh, Lord Justice of Ireland, A. D. 1228. 3. Roderic, Hugh's son. 4. Eogan, Roderic's son, succeeded to the government of the Irish of Connaught for three months, and was murdered in the monastery of the Fryers Preachers in Roscommon, A. D. 1274. "5. Hugh, Eogan's son, succeeded governor of the Irish of Connaught, and was killed by his own kindred, A. D. 1309, at Kell-an Clochan in Breffiny. "6. Torlagh, Hugh's son, obtained the government of the Irish province in Connaught, and was killed at Fiodh-Doruda in Munter Eolus, A. D. 1345. "7. Hugh, Torlagh's son, obtained the government of the Irish province of his ancestors; was deposed A. D. 1350, and murdered in Baly-loch-Decar, by Donagh O'Kelly, the chieftain of Hy-Many, A. D. 1356. "8. Turlogh Og, Hugh's son, obtained the provincial government of his ancestors, and was killed in Clanconrey, A. D. 1406. "9. Feidlim Geancach, a minor when his father died, succeeded in his advanced age to the patrimonial possessions of his father, and lived in the castle of Ballintobber. He was killed in a skirmish with the O'Kellys of Hy-Many, A. D. 1474 "10. Eogan Caoch, Feidlim's son, died, chief of his name, at Ballintobber. Edania, the daughter of Daniel O'Conor of Sligo, his wife, died in 1476, and he died himself A. D. 1485. "11. Carbre, the son of Eogan Caoch and Edamia, died in his castle of Ballintobber, A. D. 1546. He married Dervorgilla, the daughter of Feidlim Finn O'Connor, his own kinswoman. 12. Dermod, the son of Carbre and Dervorgilla, succeeded to the estates of Ballintobber; married Dorothy, the daughter of Teig boy O'Conor Roe, and died at Ballintobber, A. D.: he lived in 1585. 13. Hugh, the son of Dermod and Dorothy O'Conor, married Mary O'Ruark, the daughter of Bryan na Murrtha O'Ruark (who was executed in London in 1590). He compounded with the Queen's Lord Deputy, Perrot, for his patrimonial estates, and died in his castle of Ballintobber, A. D. 1627. 14. Cathal Og, otherwise Charles, the third son of Hugh and Mary O'Ruark, obtained the castle and estate of Belanagare from his father, on his inter marriage marriage with Anne O'Mulloy, the daughter of William O'Mulloy of Oghtertire, Esq. He died on the 9th February, 1634. "15. Cathal Og, or Charles, the second son of the aforesaid Cathal Og and Anne O'Mulloy, married Cecilia O'Flynn, the daughter of Fiacra O'Flynn of Balin logh, Esq., and the chief of his name. O'Conor, died at Belanagare, A. D. 1696. This latter Cathal Og, or Charles "16. Denis, the son of the said Charles and Cecilia, married Mary O'Ruark, the daughter of Col. Tiernan O'Ruark (the grand-nephew of the abovementioned Bryan na Murtha, who forfeited). He left issue of that marriage, viz., Charles his eldest son, now living, and born in 1710; Daniel, born in 1727; and Hugh, in 1729.”—Orig. MS. Charles, born in A. D. 1710, was the venerable author of the "Dissertations on the History of Ireland," &c., and he also compiled the foregoing account of his own name and family. He was great-grandfather of the present Denis O'Conor Don, M. P. for the County of Roscommon. The kings of Connaught, from an early period, were inaugurated on the hill of Carnfraoigh, near Tulsk, in the present County of Roscommon. The duties of some of the chief officers on that occasion appear in an Irish manuscript, preserved in the library of the Duke of Buckingham, at Stowe, in England, codex iii. fo. 28, beginning "Agus ar e ua Maolconaire, 7c." It is O'Maolconar's [Mulconry's] right to present the wand to the king, and it is not lawful for any of the nobles of Connacht to be present in company on the carn, excepting O'Maolconar, who inaugurates, and O'Connachtan, who guards the entrance of the carn. The King's horse and clothes become the property of the successor of Daconna, and he follows O'Conor on that horse; and an ounce of gold is paid to O'Connachtan, who is obliged to smooth the Carn at every inauguration."-Cat. Stow. MSS. p. 168. For the original of this fragment, see Rerum Hib. vol. i. prolegomena 2, p. 91. O'Ferrall, in his Book of Irish Pedigrees, preserved in the Office of Arms, Dublin, under the O'Conor family, notes," that the King of Connaught kept twelve prime officers, of the chief families of his country, in his court, attending his person, as his councell; and to rule and govern as well his household, as to manage the affairs of his kingdom, in war and peace, and were called, in Irish, Taoisiż na Cruaċan, which officers were hereditary from father to son. These were O'Flannagan, Mac Oireachty (Geraghty), O'Mulbrenin, O'Finaghty, O'Fallon, O'Flin, O’Manachain, O'Concanon, Mac Branan, O'Hanly, O'Heyn, O'Seachnusy." These chief lords had from the king the following stipends for their services, viz.: "Fifty cows and fifty sheep on the day of Baal's fire to Mac Geraghty; fifty cows and fifty pigs every Samin's T 2 day |