Colonel Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh, Irish

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and Rapparee, died on Sunday 3 March 1667.

Life

Mac Coisdealbhaigh was a member of the Costello family of Connacht. His brother was the soldier and poet, Tomás Láidir Mac Coisdealbhaigh. Dudley (or Dubhaltach) Costello was an officer in the army of the Confederate Catholics in 1642, and later became a colonel in the Spanish army. Returning to Ireland after the Restoration and disappointed by his failure to recover the family estates, he devoted the rest of his life to wreaking vengeance on the new Dillon proprietors. Proclaimed a

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and a rebel in the summer of 1666, Mac Coisdealbhaigh "carried out a

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of raids and burnings against

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in the baronies of Costello and

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, in east Mayo, until he was shot dead by the soldiers of Captain Theobald Dillon in Coolcarney ... Bunnyconnellan, early in March 1667." (p. 236). His head was hung from the St. James Gate in Dublin, today the home of Guinness. He is featured in Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's Leabhar na nGenealach at 827.2, as ''Dubhaltach Caoch'', and in his ''Cuimre'' (1416.1) as ''Dubhaltach Colonel, mac Suirtain Buidhe Mec Goisdelbh''. A 19th-century namesake and kinsman was

Dudley Costello Dudley Costello (20 July 180330 September 1865) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, journalist and novelist. Life The son of Colonel J. F. Costello and a namesake and kinsman of Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh, Costello was born in Ireland. He was e ...

Clann Coisdealbhaigh (after Mac Fhirbhisigh)

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References

* ''The Celebrated Antiquary'', p. 236, p. 279,

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