Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDiarmait MAC CARTHY 4th King Of Desmond, 23G Grandfather
FatherCormac MAC CARTHY 2d King Of Desmond (-1138)
Web Notes notes for Diarmait MAC CARTHY 4th King Of Desmond
He was assisted by Raymond Le Gros against the King of Limerick, and gave Raymond as a reward a large tract of land in the county of Kerry.227
The McCarthy clan had given kings to South Munster, or Desmond, for several generations before the coming of the Anglo-Norman invaders; at the time of their coming the McCarthy kingdom contained all of the counties of Waterford, Kerry and Cork, and about 1/3 of Limerick. The McCarthy capital was located at Cork, probably in the fortress of Shandon, just north of the Viking settlement. Just at the very time of the invasion the McCarthys were engaged in attempting to add what later became County Tipperary to their kingdom, then held by their arch-enemies, the O'Briens of Thomond. King Diarmaid McCarthy had fought vigorously against the invaders, but had been forced to relocated his headquarters to the Lee Valley, west of Cork, where he was treacherously slain at a parley, in 1185, by the settlers of Cork.225
The following record is given by Ware, 1185 AD:
About the same time Dermot, son of Cormac mac Carty, King of Cork, with some others, was killed at a conference near Cork, by the inhabitants of Cork, and the party of Theobald Walter.228
The McCarthy clan had given kings to South Munster, or Desmond, for several generations before the coming of the Anglo-Norman invaders; at the time of their coming the McCarthy kingdom contained all of the counties of Waterford, Kerry and Cork, and about 1/3 of Limerick. The McCarthy capital was located at Cork, probably in the fortress of Shandon, just north of the Viking settlement. Just at the very time of the invasion the McCarthys were engaged in attempting to add what later became County Tipperary to their kingdom, then held by their arch-enemies, the O'Briens of Thomond. King Diarmaid McCarthy had fought vigorously against the invaders, but had been forced to relocated his headquarters to the Lee Valley, west of Cork, where he was treacherously slain at a parley, in 1185, by the settlers of Cork.225
The following record is given by Ware, 1185 AD:
About the same time Dermot, son of Cormac mac Carty, King of Cork, with some others, was killed at a conference near Cork, by the inhabitants of Cork, and the party of Theobald Walter.228