Of the Leinster Milesians
of the race of Heremon, were some Chiefs and clans of note in Munster, as
- O'Felan, princes of Desies in Waterford
- O'Bric, Chiefs in Waterford
- O'Dwyer
and O'Ryan, Chiefs in Tipperary
- O'Gorman, Chiefs in Clare King Henry the
Second, A.D. 1180, granted part of the kingdom of Thomond to Herbert Fitzherbert;
but he having resigned his claims, it was granted by King John to William and
Philip de Braosa. In the thirteenth century, King Henry the Third gave to Thomas
de Clare, son of the earl of Gloucester, a grant of the whole kingdom of Thomond
or "O'Brien's Country," as it was called; but the O'Briens and other Chiefs in
Thomond maintained for centuries fierce contests with the Anglo-Norman and English
settlers, in defence of their national independence.
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