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Conor O'Brien (died 1651)

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cavalry near Inchicronan a few miles away from the castle, being shot from his horse, and his troops then retreating. His sword (which was used at the engagement with Ireton's forces) is preserved at Dromoland Castle, being in the family's possession for over 300 years. An unsubstantiated legend
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had collected about five thousand men in the counties of Cork and Kerry, which, with a force of three thousand more in the county of Clare, were destined for the relief of that city. The former were defeated and dispersed by
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Historical memoir of the O'Briens : with notes, appendix, and a genealogical table of their several branches, John O'Donoghue, Dublin : Hodges, Smith, & Co., 1860., page 324, page 296,
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who repudiated it, insisting she was not married, and married a Cromwellian soldier in order to maintain her family's estates. The castle was then occupied by Ludlow's troops.
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and to maintain order amongst the discontented factions, while he himself was engaged in the south of the kingdom in co-operating with his father-in-law,
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History of the O'Briens from Brian Boroimhe, AD. 1000 to AD. 1945, by Donough O'Brien, 1949, Batsford, page 213, page 211, page 259, page 205,
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and his wife Honora Wingfield, and was the head of the Leameneagh branch of the O'Briens with estates centred around Leameneagh and Dromoland.
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was ordered to the pass of Inchicronan to check the advance of the latter. At this place the Irish offered a determined resistance.
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states that his body was brought back to the castle by Ludlow's soldiers and presented to his wife
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and had eight children, three of which died in infancy, the surviving children were:
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Leameneh Castle, outside of which Conor was killed in battle by Ludlow's cavalry.
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was besieged and he was killed at the head of his men by
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Máire Rua O'Brien
Irish
Royalist
County Clare
Irish Confederate Wars
Sir Donough O'Brien (1595-1637)
Irish Rebellion of 1641
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
County Clare
Sir William St Leger
Confederate armies
Lord Muskerry
Lord Broghil
Battle of Knocknaclashy
Edmund Ludlow
Leamaneh Castle
Ludlow's
Maire Rua O'Brien
Máire Rua McMahon
Clonderalaw
Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond
Donough
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