FAMILY TREE OF OLIOLL OLUM TO JOSEPH CARROLL

Pedigree of the Princely Family of O'Carroll

• NOTE:
• 1. Olioll Olum was King of Munster. His wife was Dobhugh
• 2. Molruadh Big O’Carroll, King of Ely & Oriel, built Mellefont Abbey, Co. Louth in 1142, Newry in 1148 and Crossmaglen in 1182. He also built the temple of Armargh.
• 3. The average between birth dates of Nos. 47 to 51 is 35 years so using this as a guide Olioll Olum could have been born about 70 A.D.
• 4. This average suggests that Thomas, who was killed at the battle of the Boyne, lived for about 40 years from (1650 to 1690).
• 5. Thomas b. ( 1680 was about 10 years old when he was captured at Boyne in 1690.
• 6. Anthony who built the house attached to Emmel Castle in 1683 could have been born about 1650 and be the person referred to in intm 44.
• 7. Tadgh (Timothy) in item 41 may have been the father of Margaret O’Carroll d.1451
• 8. The original of this pedigree was written in an old form of Irish.
• 9. Source: David O’Carroll, Gower, who holds the original pedigree.

MAOLSUTHAIN O’CARROLL Maolsuthain O’Carroll

"Maolsuthain O’CARROLL (........-1031):son of ............b......... - m............." (d. 1031) was the confessor of Brian Boru (926 - 1014), King of Ireland, was probably the son of Maolsuthain Ua Caerbhaill, or O’Carroll, who died at Inisfallen, in the lower Lake of Killarney, in 1009, chief of Eoghanacht Locha Lein, and famous for learning. Brian’s brother Marcan was the chief ecclesiastic of Munster (Annala Rioghachta Eireann, 1009) in the time of the elder Maolsuthain, and it was perhaps through Marcan that the younger became attached to Brian. O’Carroll accompanied Brian in his journey round Ireland in 1004, and at Armagh wrote in the Book of Armagh, on f.16b, the short chapter in Latin, which is still legible, and ends with the words ego scripsi id est calvus perennis in conspectu briain imperatoris scotorum et quod scripsi finituit pro omnibus regibus maceriae. Calvus perennis is a version of Maolsuthain (maol = bald, and suthain = everlasting), while Maceria is a translation of the Irish word Caisil or Cashel, the chief city in Munster. There is no satisfactory evidence that O’Carroll wrote any part of the Annals of Inisfallen, as is suggested by E. O’Curry (Lectures, p.77) and E. O’Reilly (Irish Writers, p. 70). In a manuscript of 1434 there is a curious tale of O’Carroll, which has been printed by O’Curry (Lectures, p. 77 and App.p.xli).

Three of Maolsuthain’s pupils wished to visit Judaea. He told them they would die there, but gave them leave to go on condition that they should visit him after their deaths and tell him how long he should live, and what should be his doom after death. They died, asked the archangel Michael for the information, and thuslearned that their tutor had three years and a half to live, and that at the day of judgement he would be sent to hell, for three reasons: The way he interpolated the canon, his profligate conduct, and his omission to recite the hymn of St. Columba known as Altus prosator. His pupils returned as white doves, and communicated the gloomy intelligence. He announced his intention of abandoning vice and ceasing to interpolate the holy scriptures, of fasting three days a week, of performing one hundred genuflexions a day, and repeating the Altus seven times every night, and asked the doves to return on the day of his death. They came, informed him that Heaven was now open to him, and flew off with his soul. His manuscripts, the tale adds, are still in the church of Inisfallen. He died in 1031.

[Annala Rioghachta Eireann, ed. O’Donovan, vol ii Facsimiles of Historical Manuscripts of Ireland] NOTE: Many noteworthy O’Carrolls appear in the "Annals of the Four Masters"