Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy, The O'Shaughnessy (died 11 July 1690
), was
Chief of the Name
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In Ireland
In Eli ...
and a captain in the
Irish army
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of
James II of England
James VII and II (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Re ...
. He was present at the
Battle of the Boyne
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, and died ("sick, though not wounded") ten days after the battle at his castle in
Gort
Gort ( or ) is a town of around 3,000 inhabitants in County Galway in the west of Ireland. Located near the border with County Clare, the town lies between the Burren and the Slieve Aughty and is served by the R458 and R460 regional roads, ...
.
All his property was declared forfeit, and his son and heir,
William O'Shaughnessy, was forced into exile.
In 1697 Roger's estates were granted to
Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet
Brigadier-General Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet ( 1660 – 11 September 1709) was an Irish politician and soldier.
Early life
He was the son of Thomas Prendergast (d. 1725) of Croane, County Limerick, a small Catholic landowner, and Elean ...
, a Catholic neighbor; who had previously been a Jacobite and Confederate and had lost most of his own estates during the Cromwellian Wars; but this time decided to switch sides. There followed decades of legal disputes with the
Prendergasts, but the
O'Shaughnessy
Ó Seachnasaigh, O'Shaughnessy, collectively Uí Sheachnasaigh, clan name Cinél nAedha na hEchtghe, is a family surname of Irish origin. The name is found primarily in County Galway and County Limerick. Their name derives from Seachnasach mac ...
family were never able to recover them.
Family
Roger was the son of Dermot O'Shaughnessy.
He married Helena, daughter of Conor O'Brien, a son of
Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond
Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibrickan, PC (Ire) (died 1624), was a Protestant Irish nobleman and soldier. He fought for Queen Elizabeth during Tyrone's Rebellion and participated in the Siege of Kinsale. He obtained the tran ...
. Her brother was William O'Brien.
Their children were:
* Helena. She married Theobald Butler. They had three children: Francis, John and Theobald.
* Major General
William O'Shaughnessy, The O'Shaughnessy.
Roger O'Shaughnessy succeeded to the O'Shaugnessy lands in Ireland in 1678.
Lough Cutra, Galway
Castles in Ireland
References
Further reading
* D'Alton, John
Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List (1689)
Dublin: 1st edition (single volume), 1855. pp. 328–32.
* O'Hart, John
Irish Pedigrees
Dublin: James Duffy and Co. 5th edition, 1892. pp. 754–6
* ''History of Galway'', James Hardiman
James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway.
Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and ''Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the fi ...
, 1820
* ''Tabular pedigrees of O'Shaughnessy of Gort'' (1543–1783), Martin J. Blake
Martin Joseph Blake (born c. 1853) was an Irish historian who died around 1930.
Blake was a descendant of one of The Tribes of Galway
The Tribes of Galway ( ga, Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, ...
, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society was founded on 21 March 1900, at the Railway Hotel, Galway. It promotes the study of the archaeology and history of the west of Ireland. Since 1900, the Society has published 70 volumes of the '' ...
, vi (1909–10), p. 64; vii (1911–12), p. 53.
* ''Old Galway,'' Professor Mary Donovan O'Sullivan
Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway (now NUI Galway) from 1914 to 1957.
Biography
One of ten children, four of whom survived infancy, Donovan was born at Fair Hill Road in Galway on 24 November ...
, 1942
* ''Galway: Town and Gown,'' edited Moran et al., 1984
* ''Galway: History and Society'', 1996
People from County Galway
Roger
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1690 deaths
17th-century Irish people
O'Shaughnessy
Ó Seachnasaigh, O'Shaughnessy, collectively Uí Sheachnasaigh, clan name Cinél nAedha na hEchtghe, is a family surname of Irish origin. The name is found primarily in County Galway and County Limerick. Their name derives from Seachnasach mac ...
Year of birth unknown
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