Lordships of the MacCarthy Reagh exert from The kINGDOM OF DESMOND ASSOCIATION

The following MacCarthy Reagh sub-septs had holdings of the Lord of Carbery and naturally owed him ‘chief rent’ as overlord: Clandermond (from Dermond a son of Donal Gott founder of the Carbery principality); Clan Tadhg Ilen, also called Clan Tadhg Dall (from Tadhg Dall, another son of Donal Gott); Sliocht Felim of Glean-an-Chroim (from Cormac Donn, a son of Donnell Caomh, Lord of Carbery who d. 1320); Clan Crimen (from Dermond, a son of Donnell Glas Lord of Carbery, d. 1366);  Sliocht Glas (from Donnell Glas II who was Lord of Carbery after the death of his father Donell Reagh in 1414);  Sliocht Dermod of Iniskeen (for Dermod, 2^nd son of Donnell MacCarthy Reagh d. 1414);  Sliocht Cormac na Coille (from Cormac 3^rd son of Donell MacCarthy Reagh d. 1414); Sliocht Owen (from Eoghan, 4^th son of Donnell MacCarthy Reagh d. 1414); and other sub-septs of which no great detail exists: Sliocht Corky, Sliocht Donough, Tuath ny Killie, Sliocht ShaneRoe, and Tuath Bally ny Deyghie. There were of course chieftains of each of these septs, and it is not conclusive that no descendants exist today.

Numerous castles/subinfeudations were associated with these septs, to include: Kilcoe near Ballydehob, Cloghan and Lissangle castles of Clandermond;  Currymacteige Castle of Clan Teige Ilen near Skibbereen; CastleDerry (Derryleamleary Castle), near Ballineen, and Castle Ballinorougher, near Timoleague, of Clan Crimen; Phale Castle near Enniskeane (very old, among first to be constructed in Carbery by the MacCarthys), which ended up with Sliocht Glas. And the MacCarthy Reaghs also had Short Castle and Kilgobbin Castle near Ballinadee and Downeen and Benduff castles near Rosscarbery, also among their properties lost in the wars.

And Togher and Dunmanway were possessions of Sliocht Glean-an-Chroim (sometimes also referred to as Clan MacCarthy Downey). .

Sliocht Tadgh Roe na Sgairte (Clan Tadhg Roe) was the initial appanage directly from a MacCarthy Mor (circa 1185), but would wind up under the Lords of Carbery and pay chief rents to them. More on that particular appanage follows under septs holding directly from a MacCarthy Mor.

There were also separate appanages of a MacCarthy Mor and thus independent MacCarthy septs though ‘within’ the area of Carbery. They continued to pay chief rents directly to a MacCarthy Mor: Clandermond (of the main branch), Clandonnelroe, and Clandonnelfinn, each of which is outlined in more detail in what follows later on. COPYRIGHT KINGDOM OF DESMOND