Diarmaid Riabach Ó Seachnasaigh,
Chief of the Name
The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan ( Irish and Scottish Gaelic: ''fine'') in Ireland and Scotland.
Ireland
There are instances where Norman lords of the time like ...
, died 1579.
Annalistic references
* ''M1573.6.
Murrough, the son of
Dermot, son of
Murrough O'Brien, was slain by
Ulick Burke, the son of
Rickard, who was son of
Ulick-na-gCeann, and O'Shaughnessy, i.e. Dermot Reagh, the son of
Dermot, who was son of William, son of John Boy. O'Shaughnessy was the man who laid hands on him. John Burke deprived O'Shaughnessy of
Gort-insi-Guaire, in revenge of the killing of his kinsman.''
References
*
D'Alton, JohnIllustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List (1689) Dublin: 1st edition (single volume), 1855. pp. 328–32.
* ''History of Galway'',
James Hardiman, 1820
* ''Tabular pedigrees of O'Shaughnessy of Gort'' (1543–1783),
Martin J. Blake, Journal of the
Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, vi (1909–10), p. 64; vii (1911–12), p. 53.
*
John O'DonovanThe Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach Dublin:
Irish Archaeological Society. 1844. Pedigree of O'Shaughnessy: pp. 372–91.
* ''Old Galway,'' Professor
Mary Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942
* ''Galway: Town and Gown,'' edited Moran et al., 1984
* ''Galway: History and Society'', 1996
Nobility from County Galway
Diarmaid Riabach
16th-century Irish people
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