Constantine O'Neale (1692) was an Irish

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politician. O'Neale was the son of Richard Neale of

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. On 2 December 1664, O'Neale was made a

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for County Wexford and in 1667 he was granted estates in

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. A supporter of

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after the

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, O'Neale was a Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough in the brief Patriot Parliament called by James II in 1689.O'Hart, John
The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689
''Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'' (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 15 February 2023. He died in 1692.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:O'Neale, Constantine Year of birth uncertain 1692 deaths 17th-century Irish people Irish Jacobites Irish justices of the peace Irish MPs 1689 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Armagh constituencies