Contact Information and other sources
Irish chiefs
This is an interesting site concerning the Irish chiefs which debunks some modern attempts to claim chieftanship of so-called “clans”.Sean Murphy explains the Irish system of Septs rather than clans and the Gaelic system of Tanistry. In contrast to the English system of promogeniture, whereby the eldest son succeeds, under the Irish Brehon Law system the right to appoint a new Chief lay with the extended kingroup or derbfine.
Sean also discusses the claims to the O’Carroll chieftanship.
Carrolls of Oriel
The Carroll family of Oriel is a Gaelic family descended from Donough O’Carroll, King of Oriel, and claims a connected genealogy that traces back to Adam.
Some useful websites
www.carroll.co.uk/irish/irish.htm
This site has an easy to read history of the early times of the O’Carroll family in medieval, Tudor and Cromwellian Ireland.
This is the site of the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society.
http://www.goetsch.com/Surnames/Carroll.html
This is the site of the Quakers in England. Well worth a visit for general information on the Society of Friends.
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/history/ireland/book-1chapter1.html
This site provides access to McGee’s popular history of Ireland.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF IRELAND: FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS
By Thomas D’Arcy McGee
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/history/milesian.html
This site provides access to the Milesian genealogies.
http://www2.smumn.edu/facpages/~poshea/uasal/noble.html
This site provides information and links on Irish nobility.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/index.htm
Ireland’s history in maps.
http://www.communitywalk.com/ely_carroll_map/map/797671
This is the site of the Ely Carroll map showing the main sites associated with the O’Carrolls
TEXTS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET
http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/Carroll1Heber.php
This site provides extracts fron Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O’Hart
http://www.wordsvalley.org/node/33517
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
By G. A. Henty.
This is a work of fiction concerning the O’Carrolls.
King James’s Army List 1689
This is a web version of this authoratative description of the members of King James’s army on the eve of the Battle of the Boyne. Written by John d’Alton in 1855
Carroll Family History 