An Chlann Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh
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The MacCarthy Reagh Clan
Fortis, Ferox et Celer ~ Tréan, Misniúil, agus Mear
Pedigrees
Academic rigour is essential. We will only publish pedigrees that have been certified by legitimate authority, or have been publicly published by competent genealogical authority and have since been engrained into the body of genealogical literature.
Historically Accepted Pedigrees*
*While these are pedigrees which have been historically accepted, modern research has proven that some elements of some of these sources (namely, one generation found in O'Hart and the MacCarthy-Willis-Bund pedigrees) are incorrect.
The digitized folios of Louis Nicolas Hyacinthe Chérin who worked as the genealogist to the King of France during the Ancien Regime. This pedigree was certified on 8 June 1776 by both Cherín himself and by Ralph Bigland, the Clarenceux King of Arms.
This is the very well known work by John O'Hart. His research is sometimes questionable, as he includes several errors, so this work should be taken with a grain of salt. Most notably for MacCarthy Reagh researchers is that Finghin listed as generation 125, was not the son of Cormac, but was rather his brother.
Following up with O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees," Finghin (1625-1676) although almost certainly one of “the other sonnes” of Donal (d. 1636) (see image 85), he cannot be Cormac’s son. The Inquisition Post Mortem of Donal MacCarthy Reagh can be found here: Irish Record Commission, “Inquisition Post Mortem for Dermott McTeige McDermott Duff, taken at King's Old Castle, Cork on 17/10/1636.” (See page 66, image 51 of 58.) The linked document is a PDF with a photo of the original document (in latin), a transliteration of the document, and an english translation.
The 1937 registration of Francis MacCarthy-Willis-Bund's Coat of Arms, for all heirs male of his own father. See folio 125, found on image 170 of 465.
The 1937 registration of Francis MacCarthy-Willis-Bund's pedigree, certified by the Norroy & Ulster Herald. The lineage he provides repeats the pedigree given in O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, which includes the erroneous belief that Finghin (1625-1676) was the son of Donal and Eleanor of Muskerry.
The certification of the Armorial Bearings and pedigree of Sir Evan Patrick McCarthy by the Chronicler of Arms of Casile and Leon. This corrects the pedigree presented in both O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees and in the 1937 registration of Francis MacCarthy-Willis-Bund.