Finghin MacCarthy, also known as Fineen of Ringrone (), was

King of Desmond The following is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of Desmond. Most were of the MacCarthy Mór ("great MacCarthy"), the senior branch of the MacCarthy dynasty. 12th century MacCarthy MacCarthy claimants O'Brien claimants MacCarthy 13th ...

from 1251 to his death in

1261 Year 1261 ( MCCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * March 13 – Treaty of Nymphaeum: Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos signs a trade and defense agreement with the ...

, shortly after his famous victory over

John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond John FitzThomas, 1st Baron Desmond (died 1261) was the son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord OConnello by his wife Ellinor, daughter of Jordan de Marisco, and sister of Geoffrey de Marisco, who was appointed justiciar of Ireland in 1215. Cokayne, ...

at the

Battle of Callann The Battle of Callann was fought in August 1261 between the Hiberno-Normans, under John FitzGerald, and three Gaelic clans: MacCarthy, who held the Kingdom of Desmond, under Fínghin Mac Carthaigh, King of Desmond, ancestor of the MacCar ...

.Diarmuid Ó Murchadha
"The Battle of Callan, A.D. 1261"
''Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society'', Vol. LXVI, No. 204; July–December 1961; pages 105-116.Diarmaid Ó Murchadha, ''Family Names of County Cork''. Cork: The Collins Press. 2nd edition, 1996. p. 52 He was the son of Donal Gott MacCarthy, King of Desmond and founder of the

MacCarthy Reagh The MacCarthy Reagh (Irish: ''Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach'') dynasty are a branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the Eóganacht Chaisil sept. History The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach seated themselves as kings of Carbery in ...

dynasty, Princes of Carbery, and for that reason is considered to belong to them. It was largely Finghin MacCarthy's victory against the

Geraldines The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman noble and aristocratic dynasty, originally of Cambro-Norman and Anglo-Norman origin. They have been peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the Four M ...

that preserved

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

Desmond for the next three centuries.

Career and legacy

References

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