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This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
By the time of the Treaty of Limerick, almost all Gaelic nobles had lost any semblance of real power in their (former) domains.Today, such historical titles have no special legal status in the Ireland, unlike in Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom.
Blood Royal — From the time of Alexander the Great to Queen Elizabeth II, by Charles Mosley, published for Ruvigny Ltd., London, 2002 ISBN 0-9524229-9-9; Vicissitudes of Families, by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, published by Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, Paternoster Row, London, 1861.
Burial sites of Irish royal families (3 C) F. FitzPatrick dynasty (1 C, 68 P) M. Meic Torcaill (4 P) Pages in category "Irish royal families"
The Irish nobility could be described as including persons who do, or historically did, fall into one or more of the following categories of nobility: Gaelic nobility of Ireland : descendants in the male line of at least one historical grade of king ( Rí ).
During the "Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán.
Anglicised Irish-language surnames (437 P) Anglo-Norman Irish dynasties (10 C, 7 P) I. Irish-language surnames (3 C, 88 P) O. O'Shaughnessy family (22 P)
It should only contain pages that are Irish-language masculine surnames or lists of Irish-language masculine surnames, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Irish-language masculine surnames in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .