Clanricarde

Clanricarde was the lordship of the Galway Burkes, a Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman Burgh family. In 1337 Ulick Burke headed its southern branch in eastern County Galway, amid the Burke Civil War of 1333 to 1338.

In 1543 Henry VIII made Ulick na gCeann Burke the first Earl of Clanricarde. The fifth earl led Irish Royalists in the 1640s and became Marquess of Clanricarde in 1646. The ninth earl fought for James II and was captured at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.