Two records separated by only three years provide an unusually revealing glimpse of the world in which the northern Ó Maol Phádraig were living shortly before the upheaval of 1641. The first is a yearly lease made on an English…
Until the early seventeenth century, the surviving documentary record places Ó Maol Phádraig primarily within Bréifne, particularly in Cavan and the adjoining borderlands. There are scattered records elsewhere, but nothing yet found securely places the family as residents of County…
By July 1605, the war was over, but the men who had moved through it together had not simply gone home and disappeared. Some of them had moved again. The trail we had been following around Richard Tyrrell had previously…
Ó Maol Phádraig and the Last Years of O’Reilly Cavan On 30 April 1604, barely a year after the end of the Nine Years’ War, a general pardon was issued under James I to seventy-five people in County Cavan. Among…
Mac an Leagha, the Inlow Line and an Older Learned-Family Network Part I followed Richard Tyrrell through Cork and the final years of the Nine Years’ War, ending with the four Ó Maol Phádraig yeomen recorded at Mainistir Leathrátha, modern…
Richard Tyrrell, Cork and the Ó Maol Phádraig Men of Abbeylara On 5 November 1603, only months after the formal end of the Nine Years’ War, James I granted a general pardon to Richard Tyrrell of Ballybrack, County Westmeath, gentleman,…