Charles MacCarthy (politician)

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Colonel Charles MacCarthy (died 20 May 1704) was an Irish Jacobite politician.

MacCarthy was the son of Dermod MacCarthy of Ballea. In 1678 he served in the regiment of Colonel Thomas Dongan in the service of Louis XIV of France. He later became a colonel of militia in the Irish Army of James II of England. In 1689, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II. [1] [2] The Corporation of Bandon elected him as provost of the town in 1691, but he was prevented from assuming his position by the Jacobite defeat in the Williamite War in Ireland. Upon his death in 1704, he was buried in Kilcrea Friary. [3]

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References

  1. O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. Cork MPs. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, p.38.
  3. "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)". Kerry Archaeological Magazine. 3 (15): 216. October 1915. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Robert Gorges
John Read
Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge
1689
With: Daniel MacCarthy Reagh
Succeeded by