Catherine MacCarthy
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Catherine MacCarthy was a daughter of Teig MacCarthy Mor, head of one of the great Gaelic houses of Munster, and a cousin of her husband the sixth Baron of Kerry.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Source: Burke's Peerage (modern edn), LANSDOWNE lineage pp.2237-38, re-photographed and read 22 Jul 2026.): CATHERINE, "his cousin, dau of TEIG MACCARTHY MOR ('The Great' or 'The Elder')" (note-only - the MacCarthy Mor princes of Desmond); m. c. 27 Mar 1422 the 6th Baron; mother of the 7th (our line). Direct ancestress. Added 22 Jul 2026. CHECKED 25 Oct 2026: AFM 1582.12 records a 'Catherine, daughter of Teige, son of Donnell, son of Cormac Ladhrach Mac Carthy, wife of Mac Maurice of Kerry' - a later namesake (wife of Thomas, 16th Lord), not this Catherine (m. 1422). Her own father 'Teig MacCarthy Mor' of c.1400 (Tadhg na Mainistreach, d.1428) has no AFM obit; stays note-only. ||26 Oct 2026|| Parents wired: Tadhg na Mainistreach MacCarthy Mór, King of Desmond (d. 1428) and Sebán (Joan) FitzGerald, da. of Gerald 3rd Earl of Desmond - CP VII p.206 ('Catherine, da. of Teige McCarthy More, diocese of Ardfert', disp. 27 Mar 1422) + Annals of Inisfallen 1428.1 (Tadhg reigned 1390-1428; 'His wife was Sebán, daughter of Garret the earl'). The 1582 'Catherine, wife of Mac Maurice of Kerry' in AFM is a different, later Catherine (see earlier note). Source: Annals of Inisfallen (Mac Airt ed. 1944), CELT T100004, read 26 Oct 2026.