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Eleanor (Butler) MacCarty (abt. 1615 - abt. 1682)

Lady Eleanor "Baroness of Blarney, Countess of Clancarty, Viscountess Muskerry" MacCarty formerly Butler aka McCarthy
Born about in Tipperary, Irelandmap
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Wife of — married before 1633 in Irelandmap
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Died about at about age 67 in Irelandmap
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Biography

Lady Eleanor Butler was the older sister of James Butler, first Duke of Ormond.Butler-46.[1][2]

Marriage and family

She married Donogh MacCarthy, Baron of Blarney, County Cork, Viscount Muskerry, and Earl of Clancarty.[1] Donogh was a General of the Irish Forces of Munster for King Charles I of England, and Charles II.[1] Lady Ellen and Lord Donogh had children:

  1. Charles MacCarthy, Lord Muskerry, oldest son, slain on board the Royal Charles on 3rd June 1665, fighting against the Dutch under the Duke of York;[1]
  2. Justin MacCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, died at Barege 21 July, 1694, married Lady Arabella Wentworth, second daughter of the Earl of Strafford.[1]

Fighting against Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army in the Irish Confederate Wars, her husband Donogh was defeated by Ludlow in Kerry in 1652, and on 27 June surrendered his last stronghold, Ross Castle Killarney, and his army of 5,000 men.[1] He then went to Spain until Charles II restored his estates to him and created him Earl of Clancarty.[1]

Her husband, Donogh died in London in August 1665.[1]

Death

She died in 1682.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Fifth Edition Vol II, (Dublin: James Duffy and Co Ltd, 1892), accessed 29 June 2014, https://archive.org/stream/irishpedigreesor02ohar#page/298/mode/2up pp.298.
  2. Wikipedia contributors, "Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justin_McCarthy,_Viscount_Mountcashel&oldid=864353457 (accessed December 16, 2018).

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