Daniel MacCarthy Reagh
Daniel MacCarthy Reagh (c.1640 – 1691) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier.
MacCarthy was the son of Cormac, Lord of Kilbrittain, son of Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain, and Ellen McCarthy Mor, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689.[1] Between 1688 and his death he was a colonel in the Jacobite army during the Williamite War in Ireland, having raised an Irish regiment in support of James II. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of County Cork in 1690. He was killed at the Battle of Aughrim on 22 July 1691.[2]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ MacCARTHY, Daniel. Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 February 2023.