Daniel MacCarthy Reagh
Daniel MacCarthy Reagh (c.1640 – 1691) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier.
MacCarthy was a younger son of Cormac, Lord of Kilbrittain, son of Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain, and Ellen McCarthy Mor, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry.[1] He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689.[2] 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.[3]
References
- ^ Cork MPs. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, p.38.
- ^ 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.