Owen MacCarthy (fl. 1692) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier.
MacCarthy was a Member of Parliament for Clonakilty in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689.[1] During the Williamite War in Ireland, he raised a regiment of foot and was a colonel serving under the Earl of Tyrconnell.[2] He left Ireland for France with James II in 1690, and in 1692 he was a colonel in the Irish Brigade of the French Royal Army.[3]
References
edit- ^ 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, Owen. Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ Cork MPs. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, p.38.