Carroll family history

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O'Carroll bibliography

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Books about the O'Carrolls and Carrolls

Stemmata Carrollana by Frederick John O’Carroll – per Charles Carroll of Carrollton p439

Mr Taylor copied the genealogies from the Irish MS book preserved at Doughoregan Manor and they were used in this book.

The Annals of the Four Masters, a compilation of all the available material on the history of Ireland to 1616, made under the direction of the Franciscan lay brother Michael O’Clery. It refers to noteworthy O’Carrolls.

[Annala Rioghachta Eireann, ed. O’Donovan, vol ii] - (Facsimiles of Historical Manuscripts of Ireland) [Annala Rioghachta Eireann, ed. O’Donovan vol. iv] - (Annala Rioghachta Eireann, 1009)

Facsimiles of Historical Manuscripts of Ireland - ed. Gilbert, vol. i. Dublin, 1874 Reeves’s Memoir of the Book of Armagh, Lusk, 1861

O’Curry’s Lectures on the Manuscript Material of Anchient Irish History, Dublin, 1873

IRELAND - An illustrated History - John Ranelagh - 1981

History of the Ely O Carroll Territory Father John Gleeson (This comprehensive history was published in 1915 and reprinted in 1982. It contains an O'Carroll genealogy, much information about local clans and a wealth of mythology and legends)

Heber Genealogies [see website below on Irish Pedigrees]

Centennial History of Cincinnati by Charles Theodore Greve,Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois 1904.

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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

History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating

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.

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Books of background interest

Keating’s History of Ireland - translated by Desmond O’Conner - issued at Dublin in 1890 (This edition gives the names of subscribers to the work when first published in 1723)

The Cambridge Modern History and Encyclopædia Britannic.

The Oxford Guide to Family History - David Hey - 1993.

Greer Pedigree Vol 1 O’Harte’s Irish Pedigrees: 2 vols 30/- published Dublin ( 1890 History of Mediaeval Ireland - Curtis -contains a map which includes Ely O’Carroll

New Ireland - Robt. W. Carroll found "it interests me very much" in 1883

Irish Castles and Castellated Houses - H.G.Leask (Dundalk, 1941)

Fairbairon (Standard Book of Crests) gives several Carroll & O’Carroll crests

Kate Mason Rowland, The Life of Chas. Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832 (2 vols 1898), in which are reprinted as appendices to vol. I, Letters of the First Citizen and the Canada Jour. of Chas. Carroll of Carrollton, and as appendices to vol. II, his will and the genealogy of his family.Charles Carroll of Carrollton a biography of over 300 pages by Ellen Hart Smith - (1942). It covers him from the O’Carrolls in Ireland to his death at 95. Russell & Russell - Division of Atheneum Pubs., 122 E 42nd St, New York1001? - $17.50 in 1971. If no longer available from the publishers one could advertise for a copy

History of Ely O’Carroll Territory-Gleeson 1915 - 6 fish - $19.50

History of North Tipperary & North Western Offaly. Contact: Andrew J Morris P.O. Box 535 Farmington, M I 48332 U.S.A.IRELAND

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Military books

MATTERSN.B. In the list of Chiefs commanding the 2nd column of the Irish [presumably at the battle of Clontarf on Good Friday 23 April 1014].

See Morre’s Ireland? D’Alton in his Army List of King James edition of 1862.Battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690.Treaty of Limerick - flight of the Wild Geese - 1691

The state of the Protestants in Ireland by Kin - includes a list of James’s Army

History of the Irish Brigade by O’Callaghan [Irish Brigade in the French Army.]

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.

What books are there on: Francis Carroll was a Dragoon Commander at the Battle of the Boyne with the rank of Colonel. From the names of officers in Col Francis’ Regiment it is evident that the regiment was mainly recruited in King’s Co. the original home of the Carrolls. After the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 he volunteered for service of France where he was a Colonel in the celebrated Irish Brigade. He was killed in the Battle of Marsaglia in Italy in 1693.