Domhnall Mór na Curra MacCarthy King of Desmond

✓ Domhnall Mór Mac Carthaigh, King of Desmond c.1186-1206. AI 1206.7: 'Domnall son of Mac Carthaig, high-king of Mumu, died in Corr Tige Meic Urmainn this year on the Kalends of December ... It was he, of all the contemporary kings of Ireland, who was most feared by the foreigners and by the Gaedil. During the twenty years he held the kingship, he never submitted to a foreigner.' MCB 1206.1: 'Domhnall Mór son of Diarmaid Cille Badhun, son of Cormac Muighe Thamhnach, died ... having held the kingship for twenty years. It was by this Domhnall that Geoffrey de Cogan was killed ... to avenge his father. It was he who inflicted the defeats of Inis Eóghanain, Ceall Mo-Chumóg, Bearn Mic Íomhair, Srón Olair'; MCB 1196.3 and 1203.4 record his raids on the castles of Kilfeakle and his victory at Bearn Mic Íomhair. Father of Cormac Fionn (AI 1248.1) and of Diarmaid Dúna Droighneáin (k. by a thunderbolt 1229). Wife not recorded. Sources read 26 Oct 2026: Annals of Inisfallen (Mac Airt ed.), CELT T100004; Mac Carthaigh's Book (Miscellaneous Irish Annals, Ó hInnse ed. 1947), CELT T100013; Annals of the Four Masters (O'Donovan ed.), CELT T100005B. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 26 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]