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The O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Irish: Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties in Ireland. The O'Conor family held the throne of the Kingdom of Connacht up until 1475. Having ruled it on and off since 967, they ruled continuously from 1102 to 1475.
Charles O'Conor was born in 1710, in near Kilmactrany in the County Sligo, to Denis O'Conor of Bellanagare a scion of a cadet branch of the land-owning family of O'Conor Don, and Mary O'Rourke daughter of Colonel Count Tiernan O'Rourke, The O'Rourke (d. in 1702 at the Battle of Luzzara fighting for the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor) and Isabella MacDonagh daughter of Captain Brian MacDonagh ...
O'Connor was born in Gravelmount House, [2] a small country house in Castletown Kilpatrick, a parish located between Kells and Ardee in the north of County Meath in Ireland.He was the third and youngest son and fourth child of John O'Connor, a farmer and company secretary, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née O'Keefe. [3]
Ó Conchobhair Sligigh (anglicised as O'Conor Sligo) is a Gaelic-Irish family and Chief of the Name. The Ó Conchobhair Sligigh were a junior branch of the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht. They were descended from Brian Luighnech Ua Conchobhair (k.1181), a son of Irish High King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair and were Lords of Sligo into the 17th ...
The Clan Murtagh O'Conor (Irish: Clan Muircheartaigh Uí Conchobhair) were descendants of Irish High-King Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, through his son, Murtogh Moynagh O'Conor (d.1210), tánaiste of Connacht. They have been defined by Katherine Simms as:
Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don (Irish: Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1912–10 July 2000) was hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor, and is a direct descendant of Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland with a surviving male-line lineage and was seen by some as a nominal claimant [citation needed] to that defunct position.