Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Florence Maccarthy Reagh, Tanist of Carbery, Maccarthy Mor: With Some Portion of "the History of the Ancient Families of the South of Ireland," Compiled Solely From Unpublished Documents in Her Majesty''s State Paper Office
It may be needful, and it will be sufficient, to render this descent, and these alliances intelligible to the reader, to state that the Sept of the m.c.s had for several centuries been divided into three great stems, each subdivided into several minor, and dependent, but still powerful branches. The main line was known amongst the Irish.
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