Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty

Sir Donough MacCarty
Sir Donough MacCarty
Earl of Clancarty
	Detail from the portrait below
Tenure	1658–1665
Predecessor	Charles, 1st Viscount Muskerry
Successor	Charles James, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (an infant)
Born	1594
Died	4 or 5 August 1665; London
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Butler
Issue; Detail	Charles, Callaghan, Justin, Helen, & others
Father	Charles, 1st Viscount Muskerry
Mother	Margaret O'Brien

Sir Donough MacCarty,^[a] 1st Earl of Clancarty (1594–1665), was an Irish soldier and politician. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Muskerry^[b] in 1641. He rebelled against the government and joined the Irish Catholic Confederation, demanding religious freedom as a Catholic and defending the rights of the Gaelic nobility. Later, he supported the King against his Parliamentarian enemies during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

He sat in the House of Commons of the Irish parliaments of 1634–1635 and 1640–1649 where he opposed Strafford, King Charles I's authoritarian viceroy.^[c] In 1642, he sided with the Irish Rebellion when it reached his estates in Munster. He fought for the insurgents at the Siege of Limerick and the Battle of Liscarroll. He joined the Irish Catholic Confederates and sat on their Supreme Council. Having fought in the Irish Confederate Wars, he negotiated the Cessation of 1643, a cease-fire between the Confederates and the King. He tried to transform this cease-fire into a permanent peace and was the leader of the Confederates' peace party, which opposed the clerical faction led by Rinuccini, the papal nuncio. Together with President Mountgarret, he negotiated the Glamorgan Peace in 1645, which was disavowed by the King. In 1646 he captured Bunratty Castle from the Parliamentarians and negotiated the First Ormond Peace, which was rejected by Rinuccini, who excommunicating him. During the Cromwellian conquest, he lost the Battle of Knocknaclashy in 1651 but held on until 1652, defending Ross Castle against Edmund Ludlow. He was one of the last to surrender.

In 1653 during the Commonwealth he stood trial for war crimes but was acquitted. In exile on the continent, Charles II created him Earl of Clancarty. He recovered his lands at the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

Family tree

Donough MacCarty with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.^[d]

Donogh
O'Brien
4th Earl
Thomond
d. 1624

Cormac
MacDermot
16th Lord
1552–1616

David
Roche
7th Viscount
Fermoy
1573–1635

Margaret
O'Brien
m. 1590

Charles
1st Viscount
Muskerry
d. 1641

Ellen
Roche

Donough
1st Earl
Clancarty
1594–1665

Eleanor
Butler
1612–1682

James
1st Duke
1610–1688

Charles
Viscount
Muskerry
c. 1633 – 1665
d.v.p.*

Margaret
Bourke
d. 1698

Callaghan
3rd Earl
d. 1676

Justin
Viscount
Mountcashel
c. 1643 – 1694

Charles James
2nd Earl
1663–1666
infant

Donough
4th Earl
1668–1734

Elizabeth
Spencer
1671–1704

Legend

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Subject of
the article

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Lords & Viscounts Muskerry,
as well as Earls of Clancarty

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Earls & dukes
of Ormond

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Earls of
Thomond

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Viscounts
Fermoy

*d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

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