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Teige Caol Uisge O'Brien

d. 1259

Vitals

Died
1259

Family

Parents
CN
Connor na-Siuddine O'Brien
d. 1268
MM
Mor MacNamara
Spouse
FO
Finola O'Kennedy
Children
TM
Turlogh Mor O'Brien
1250 – 1306

About

Teige Caol Uisge O'Brien takes his byname from the narrow water of the Shannon. He held Thomond in the middle of the thirteenth century, in the generations when the O'Briens were adjusting to Norman neighbours.

Research notes

✓ (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 O'BRIEN, surnamed CAOL UISGE - d. 1259 (O'Hart; note the loose dating vs his father's 1268). m. Finola, dau. of Kennedy son of Kennedy son of Murtogh O'Brien. Father of Turlogh Mor (No.114, our line). Direct ancestor.

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