Daniel MacCarthy Reagh

{{Infobox MP

| name = Daniel MacCarthy Reagh

| constituency_MP = Bandonbridge

| parliament = Patriot

| death_date = 12 July 1691

}}

Daniel MacCarthy Reagh, 20th Chief of the Name MacCarthy Reagh ({{Circa|1640}} – 1691), also called Donal, was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier. He represented Bandonbridge in the Patriot Parliament and fought and died for King James II at the Battle of Aughrim. He was succeeded in the Chiefship by his nephew, Alexander, who himself was succeeded by Daniel's father's second-cousin, Finghin of Benduff.{{Cite web |title=Part 6 of Généalogie de la Maison de Mac-Carthy anciennement Souveraine des Deux Momonies ou de l'Irlande Méridionale |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/F830000-001/text006.html |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=celt.ucc.ie}}

Birth and origins

MacCarthy was the second son of Cormac MacCarthy Reagh and his wife Ellen MacCarty.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/120/ 120, right column, line 15]|ps=. "1. Finin; 2.Donal (who raised a regiment of foot for James II) ...; Donogh ..."}}{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 13]|ps=. "Son and heir of Cormac (or Charles) MacCarthy Reagh by Eleanor, daughter of Cormac (MacCarthy), Viscount Muskerry ..."}} His father was esquire of Kilbrittain. His paternal grandfather was Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain. His father's family were the MacCarthy Reagh, a Gaelic Irish dynasty that branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line with Donal Maol MacCarthy Reagh, the first independent ruler of Carbery.{{Sfn|Gibson|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/page/84/ 84, line 9]|ps=. "There were at this time [15th & 16th centuries] four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."}}

MacCarthy's mother was a daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 13]|ps=. "Son and heir of Cormac (or Charles) MacCarthy Reagh by Eleanor, daughter of Cormac (MacCarthy), Viscount Muskerry ..."}} His mother's family were the MacCarthys of Muskerry,{{Sfn|Gibson|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/page/84/ 84, line 9]|ps=. "There were at this time [15th & 16th centuries] four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."}} who also had branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/n160/ 122, left column]|ps=. "116. Dermod Mór: son of Cormac Mór, Prince of Desmond; b. 1310; created by the English in A.D. 1353, 'Lord of Muskerry' ..."}}

His uncle, Finghin, commonly mistaken as being his brother ([https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/MacCarthyReaghCarbery.php#note1 see no. 125 in O'Hart's Pedigrees]), was friends with John Churchill during the ascendency of King Charles II. It is through Finghin's descendants, that the family survives today.{{Citation |title=MacCarthy Reagh |date=2023-06-29 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacCarthy_Reagh&oldid=1162555982 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en}}

Raised a regiment for James II

In 1688 MacCarthy raised an Irish regiment of infantry in support of King James II during the Glorious Revolution.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 16]|ps=. "In 1688 raised for James II a regiment of infantry. Was deputy lieutenant of Cork county in 1690."}}{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/120/ 120, right column, line 15]|ps=. "1. Finin; 2.Donal (who raised a regiment of foot for James II) ...; Donogh ..."}}

MP

In 1689 he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament for Bandonbridge in the Patriot Parliament called by James II of England, which met between May and July 1689.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892b|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/page/772/ 722]|ps=. "Bandonbridge Charles MacCarthy of Balloa; and Daniel MacCarthy Reagh."}}

Marriage

MacCarthy married Maria daughter of Richard Townsend, a Protestant. Daniel and Maria had two daughters who died unmarried.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 18]|ps=. "He married Maria, daughter of Richard Townsend MP and widow of _ Owen, and had issue of two daughters, who died unmarried."}}

Later career and death at the Battle of Aughrim

He served in the Jacobite Irish army during the Williamite War in Ireland. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of County Cork in 1690.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 16]|ps=. "In 1688 raised for James II a regiment of infantry. Was deputy lieutenant of Cork county in 1690."}} He was killed at the Battle of Aughrim{{Cite web |title=University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Research - Research Centres and Networks - Centre for Robert Burns Studies - Our research - Jacobite Officers Database - THE DATABASE - M |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/ourresearch/jacobiteofficersdatabase/thedatabase/m/ |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=www.gla.ac.uk}} on 12 July 1691.{{Sfn|D'Alton|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/illustrationshi01dalgoog/page/784/ 784]|ps=. "Officers killed on the field [at Aughrim] ... Col. Daniel Mac Carthy."}}

References

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{{Cite book|last=D'Alton |first=John |date=1861 |title=Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689 |edition=2nd enlarged |volume=II |publisher=John Russell Smith |location=London |oclc=557976252 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustrationshi01dalgoog}} – Infantry
{{Cite book|last=Gibson |first=Charles Bernard |date=1861 |title=The History of the County and City of Cork |volume=I |publisher=Thomas C. Newby |location=London |oclc=1046580159 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/}} – to 1603
{{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892a |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=I |publisher=James Duffy & Co. |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/}} – Irish stem
{{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892b |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=II |publisher=James Duffy & Co. |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/}} – Normans, English, Huguenots etc. (for Patriot Parliament)
{{Cite journal|last=Tenison |first=Charles M. |date=1896 |title=Cork M.P.s., 1559–1800: Being a Biographical Dictionary of the Members of Parliament for the City, the County, and the Boroughs of the County of Cork from the Earliest Returns to the Union |journal=Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society |volume=2 |issue=13 |pages=37–40 |url=https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf}} – Morres to O'Callaghan

{{S-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge |with=Charles MacCarthy |years=1689}}

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