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Swift, Catherine, “The Uí Briain, the De Burgos and the Hiberno-Norman settlement of Limerick”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 57 (2017): 1–18.

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Norman dynasts who were awarded lands in Ireland have tended to be examined as the creators of novel aristocratic power blocks whose power derived from their military capabilities. In this paper, it is suggested that the early de Burgo leaders profited greatly from their progenitor’s marriage alliance with the daughter of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, king of Munster at the time of the Norman invasion. Careful reading of contemporary sources illustrates how the thirteenth-century De Burgos, like their Uí Briain predecessors, built up local power-bases in Limerick in ecclesiastical as well as secular circles and how such processes impacted on the careers of the wider kin-group of both families and on those they patronised.

Swift, Catherine, “John O’Donovan and Thomas le Keu: preliminary comments on processes of anglicisation of Irish surnames”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 55 (2015): 79–87.

McInerney, Luke, “An early-seventeenth-century deed of conveyance from Co. Clare”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 54 (2014): 73–80.

Tierney, Andrew, “Tower houses and power: social and familial hierarchies in East County Clare c.1350-c.1600”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 53 (2013): 207–225.

McInerney, Luke, “Lettermoylan of Clann Bhruaideadha: a résumé of their landholding, topography & history”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 52 (2012): 81–113.

McInerney, Luke, “A Meic Fhlannchadha fosterage document, c.1580”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 51 (2011): 61–70.

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A deed of adoption by the Meic Fhlannchadha (McClancy) brehon family of Tradraighe, Co. Clare, is translated from Latin. The document provides details on the practice of fosterage amongst learned Gaelic families in the late sixteenth century and is reproduced in the appendices to facilitate greater interest in this oft-neglected area of research into Gaelic social organisation.

McInerney, Luke, “The West Clann Chuiléin lordship in 1586: evidence from a forgotten inquisition”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 48 (2008): 33–62.

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An unpublished inquisition of the Court of Exchequer is used to shed new light on the inner workings of a sixteenth-century Gaelic lordship prior to the collapse of the Gaelic system. As a contemporary recording of native political organisation it provides valuable evidence on social hierarchies, economic organisation and place-names.

McInerney, Luke, “Clerics and clansmen: the vicarages and rectories of Tradraighe in the fifteenth century”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 48 (2008): 1–21.

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The printed volumes of the documents known as the Papal Registers relating to Ireland for the period 1396-1521 are utilized to study the inner-working of ecclesiastical administration in Killaloe diocese during the fifteenth century. A case study is presented on a selection of parishes in, and adjacent to, the old deanery of Tradraighe with a particular focus on the Mac an Oirchinnigh (McInerney) of Tradraighe. The registers offer a valuable perspective on the role of vassal-septs at the parish level, as well as insight into the machinations of ecclesiastical administration in Gaelic dioceses.

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