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Connor na-Siuddine O'Brien

d. 1268

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1268

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Connor na Siudaine O'Brien was King of Thomond and was killed in 1268. He is buried at Corcomroe Abbey, where his effigy, one of the finest surviving Gaelic royal tombs in Ireland, still lies.

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✓ (O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees (1892), 'O'Brien (No.1) King of Thomond', gen. nos. as cited; corroborated by the Annals of the Four Masters and by the DC782/R-L226 O'Brien Y-DNA study (which independently numbers this same descent 105 Brian Boru -> 120 Turlogh Donn). Wired 23 Jul 2026.): CONNOR-NA-SIUDDINE O'BRIEN - SLAIN at the Wood of Siudan, Burren, co. Clare, 1268 (whence the epithet); interred at Corcomroe Abbey, where HIS CARVED TOMB EFFIGY SURVIVES - a mailed 13th-c warrior, famously shown with a short pipe. m. Mor, dau. of MacNamara, Lord of Hy-Coileann. Father of Teige (our line). Direct ancestor. ||27 Oct 2026 - RING|| Daughter Slany (I99545), wife of Nicholas FitzMaurice, Lord of Kerry (d. 1332), wired ~ on Lodge/CP VII 'Slany, da. of Connor O'Brien, prince of Thomond' - so the Lords of Kerry descend from him as well as the later O'Briens. Source: John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland (Archdall ed., 1789), vol. II, 'Fitz-Maurice, Earl of Kerry' pp.186-188 (archive.org peerageofireland02lodg), read 27 Oct 2026 - Lodge's authority is 'MS pedigree' (the Lansdowne roll attributed to Segar, Ulster).

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