Tadhg na Mainistreach Mac Carthaigh Mór reigned as

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from 1390/2 to his death in 1428.''Annals of Inisfallen'' 1428.1 He was the son of the previous king Domhnall Óg Mac Carthaigh Mór (r. 1359–1390/2). According to the ''

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'' Tadhg Mac Carthaigh had the reputation as the greatest wine-drinker in Ireland when he died, but was still "a son worthy of his father". He was married to one Sebán, a daughter of "Garret the earl". This is likely a form of 'Siobhán' which translates as 'Joan,' so Sebán is probably a reference to Joan, a daughter of

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. Mac Carthaigh was among those Irish kings and princes to submit to

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in his progress of 1394, after which the title King of Desmond was rarely used by later members of the dynasty, the title of Mac Carthaigh Mór (Prince of Desmond) becoming the preferred. After dying in

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, Tadhg was buried in the monastery there, while his wife Sebán died in Caislén Mac nAeducáin and was buried at

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. He was succeeded by his son Domhnall an Duna Mac Carthaigh Mór, but in recent times his younger son Cormac of Dunguile has frequently been mentioned as the ancestor of the

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, the senior or today perhaps only surviving

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of the MacCarthy Mór dynasty.Ellis, ''passim''; McCarthy, S. T., ''passim'' His epithet "na Mainistreach" means "of the monastery."

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Mac Carthaigh's Book ''Mac Carthaigh’s Book'' is a collection of annals of the period AD 1114– 1437 inclusive. It was compiled from earlier material by Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Mór (c. 1560–1640) an Irish nobleman who was imprisoned for years in London. He was a ...

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, ed. & tr. Séamus Ó hInnse (1947).
Miscellaneous Irish Annals (A.D. 1114–1437)
'. DIAS. available from CELT. ;Modern * Ellis, Peter Berresford, ''Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland''. Palgrave. Revised edition, 2002. * McCarthy, Samuel Trant, ''The MacCarthys of Munster''. 1922. * Ó Murchadha, Diarmuid, ''Family Names of County Cork''. Cork: The Collins Press. 2nd edition, 1996. MacCarthy dynasty 1428 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-royal-stub

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