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{{Short description|Irish MP (died 1641)}}
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{{Infobox MP
 | name            = Daniel MacCarthy Reagh
 | constituency_MP = [[Bandonbridge (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Bandonbridge]]
 | parliament      = Patriot
 | death_date      = 12 July 1691
 | death_place     = [[Battle of Aughrim]]
}}

'''Daniel MacCarthy Reagh, 20th Chief of the Name MacCarthy Reagh''' ({{Circa|1640}} – 1691), also called '''Donal''', was an Irish [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] politician and soldier. He represented [[Bandonbridge (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Bandonbridge]] in the [[Patriot Parliament]] and fought and died for King [[James II of England|James II]] at the [[Battle of Aughrim]]. He was succeeded in the Chiefship by his nephew, Alexander, who himself was succeeded by Daniel's father's second-cousin, Finghin of Benduff.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Part 6 of Généalogie de la Maison de Mac-Carthy anciennement Souveraine des Deux Momonies ou de l'Irlande Méridionale |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/F830000-001/text006.html |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=celt.ucc.ie}}</ref>

== Birth and origins ==
MacCarthy was the second son of Cormac MacCarthy Reagh and his wife Ellen MacCarty.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/120/ 120, right column, line 15]|ps=. "1. Finin; 2.Donal (who raised a regiment of foot for James II) ...; Donogh&nbsp;..."}}{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 13]|ps=. "Son and heir of Cormac (or Charles) MacCarthy Reagh by Eleanor, daughter of Cormac (MacCarthy), Viscount Muskerry&nbsp;..."}} His father was esquire of [[Kilbrittain]]. His paternal grandfather was [[Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain]]. His father's family were the [[MacCarthy Reagh]], a Gaelic Irish dynasty that branched from the [[MacCarthy Mor dynasty|MacCarthy-Mor]] line with [[Domhnall Maol Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach|Donal Maol MacCarthy Reagh]], the first independent ruler of [[Carbery (barony)|Carbery]].{{Sfn|Gibson|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/page/84/ 84, line 9]|ps=. "There were at this time [15th & 16th centuries] four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."}}

MacCarthy's mother was a daughter of [[Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry]].{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 13]|ps=. "Son and heir of Cormac (or Charles) MacCarthy Reagh by Eleanor, daughter of Cormac (MacCarthy), Viscount Muskerry&nbsp;..."}} His mother's family were the [[MacCarthy of Muskerry|MacCarthys of Muskerry]],{{Sfn|Gibson|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/page/84/ 84, line 9]|ps=. "There were at this time [15th & 16th centuries] four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."}} who also had branched from the [[MacCarthy Mor dynasty|MacCarthy-Mor]] line.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/n160/ 122, left column]|ps=. "116. Dermod Mór: son of Cormac Mór, Prince of Desmond; b. 1310; created by the English in A.D. 1353, 'Lord of Muskerry'&nbsp;..."}} 

His uncle, Finghin, commonly mistaken as being his brother ([https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/MacCarthyReaghCarbery.php#note1 see no. 125 in O'Hart's ''Pedigrees'']), was friends with John Churchill during the ascendency of King Charles II. It is through Finghin's descendants, that the family survives today.<ref>{{Citation |title=MacCarthy Reagh |date=2023-06-29 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacCarthy_Reagh&oldid=1162555982 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en}}</ref>

== Raised a regiment for James II ==
In 1688 MacCarthy raised an Irish regiment of infantry in support of King James II during the [[Glorious Revolution]].{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 16]|ps=. "In 1688 raised for James II a regiment of infantry. Was deputy lieutenant of Cork county in 1690."}}{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892a|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/page/120/ 120, right column, line 15]|ps=. "1. Finin; 2.Donal (who raised a regiment of foot for James II) ...; Donogh&nbsp;..."}}

== MP ==
In 1689 he was elected as one of the two [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] for [[Bandonbridge (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Bandonbridge]] in the [[Patriot Parliament]] called by [[James II of England]], which met between May and July 1689.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892b|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/page/772/ 722]|ps=. "Bandonbridge Charles MacCarthy of Balloa; and Daniel MacCarthy Reagh."}}

== Marriage ==
MacCarthy married Maria daughter of [[Richard Townsend (soldier)|Richard Townsend]], a Protestant. Daniel and Maria had two daughters who died unmarried.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 18]|ps=. "He married Maria, daughter of Richard Townsend MP and widow of _ Owen, and had issue of two daughters, who died unmarried."}}

== Later career and death at the Battle of Aughrim ==
He served in the Jacobite Irish army during the [[Williamite War in Ireland]]. He was appointed a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[County Cork]] in 1690.{{Sfn|Tenison|1896|p=[https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf 38, line 16]|ps=. "In 1688 raised for James II a regiment of infantry. Was deputy lieutenant of Cork county in 1690."}} He was killed at the [[Battle of Aughrim]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Research - Research Centres and Networks - Centre for Robert Burns Studies - Our research - Jacobite Officers Database - THE DATABASE - M |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/ourresearch/jacobiteofficersdatabase/thedatabase/m/ |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=www.gla.ac.uk}}</ref> on 12&nbsp;July 1691.{{Sfn|D'Alton|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/illustrationshi01dalgoog/page/784/ 784]|ps=. "Officers killed on the field [at Aughrim]&nbsp;... Col. Daniel Mac Carthy."}}

== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Sources ===
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* {{Cite book|last=D'Alton |first=John |date=1861 |title=Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689 |edition=2nd enlarged |volume=II |publisher=John Russell Smith |location=London |oclc=557976252 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustrationshi01dalgoog}} – Infantry
* {{Cite book|last=Gibson |first=Charles Bernard |date=1861 |title=The History of the County and City of Cork |volume=I |publisher=Thomas C. Newby |location=London |oclc=1046580159 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc01gibsiala/}} – to 1603
* {{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892a |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=I |publisher=[[James Duffy (Irish publisher)|James Duffy & Co.]] |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigrees00unkngoog/}} – Irish stem
* {{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892b |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=II |publisher=[[James Duffy (Irish publisher)|James Duffy & Co.]] |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/}} – Normans, English, Huguenots etc. (for Patriot Parliament)
* {{Cite journal|last=Tenison |first=Charles M. |date=1896 |title=Cork M.P.s., 1559–1800: Being a Biographical Dictionary of the Members of Parliament for the City, the County, and the Boroughs of the County of Cork from the Earliest Returns to the Union |journal=Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society |volume=2 |issue=13 |pages=37–40 |url=https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1896/b1896-004.pdf}} – Morres to O'Callaghan
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