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About Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty
Sir Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty (1594–1665), was an Irish soldier and politician. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Muskerry in 1641. He rebelled against the government and joined the Irish Catholic Confederation, demanding religious freedom as a Catholic and defending the rights of the Gaelic nobility. Later, he supported the King against his Parliamentarian enemies during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Everything about Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty →- Occupation
- aristocrat, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland
- Born
- 1594
- Died
- 1665