Teige an-Chomhaid O'Brien
d. 1468
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Teige an Chomhaid O'Brien held Thomond in the fifteenth century and is remembered for rebuilding and endowing churches across Clare.
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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.): TEIGE AN-CHOMHAID O'BRIEN, of the castle of Chomhad in Burren (which he built 1459 in his father's lifetime); d. 1466/68. m. Annabella, dau. of Ulick Burke, son of 'Ulick of the Wine' of Clanrickard. Father of Turlogh Donn (No.120, I99630, our line). Direct ancestor - the rung directly below which the wired O'Brien spine already ran. Added 23 Jul 2026.