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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...the most wealthy, powerful, loyal, and gallant races in Munster. The head of the name, Donat or DonoughO'Callaghan, who was possessed of large estates and several castles, was distinguished as a member of the Sovereign Council of Kilkenny, and in other posts of the civil magistracy, amongst his countrymen; while, in the national army, of which his brother, Colonel Callaghan O' Callaghan, was a brave and skilful officer, there were, according to Dr. Callaghan, above 500 of the name, of the rank of gentlemen. The Doctor's words, writing in France, in December, 1652, are: " De la seule branchedes Callaghans de Muskry dont je suis, il s'est trouuv plus de deux cens gentilshommes sous les armes en 1641, & de l'autre plus de trois cens, tous combattans pour la foy catholique,"--of whom, he adds, "sont morts vn tres grand nombre de mes proches parents, mesme de mes neveux." By the fatal results of that contest, as well to the old Irish in general, as to the royal cause, almost all of the O'Callaghans, on this side of the Shannon, were those Irish potentates is, "That they will not exact any Black Rents, for the future, from the Inkabitants of Cork, Youghal, or Kingsale." It may be noted, in a work connected with the Revolution of 1688, that, in the history of these islands, we read, so late as the year 1691, of plans to pacify Celtic Chieftains by money, in in the case of William III.'s government in Scotland, and the heads of the Highland clans, who were the adherents of James II. Having mentioned how, with the "winter" of that year, the Highlanders "recommenced their hostilities," upon which, Lord Breadalbane, a member of William's government in Scotland, set on foot "a scheme for...