Murrough McDermot O'Brien (c.1550 - 20 April 1573) was the 3rd
Baron Inchiquin
Baron Inchiquin () is one of the older titles in the Peerage of Ireland. It was one of two titles created on 1 July 1543 for Murrough O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, who was descended from the great high king Brian Boru. The grant of the English ti ...
. He was the son of
Dermod O'Brien, 2nd Baron Inchiquin and Margaret O'Brien and inherited his title in 1557 on the death of his father.
He married Margaret Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack of Cussington, Meath, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and his second wife Maud Darcy.
He was murdered in 1573 by Dermot O'Shaughnessey, supposedly at the instigation of
Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde.
[Mosley, ed. ''Burke's Peerage'' 107th Edition Vol.2 p.2035]
He was succeeded by his son,
Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin
Murrough MacMurrough O'Brien, 4th Baron of Inchiquin (1562 – 24 July 1597) was the son of Murrough McDermot O'Brien, 3rd Baron Inchiquin and Margaret Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack of Cussington, Meath, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and hi ...
.
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O'Brien Pedigree
1573 deaths
Murrough
Year of birth uncertain
People from County Clare
16th-century Irish people
People of Elizabethan Ireland
Barons Inchiquin
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