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Donald O'Brien, of Ara

Donald O'Brien, of Ara.
See genealogics.
His father (the King of Thomond) was killed in 1277.

He is ancestor of O'Brien of Ara (or Arra) barony, Co.Tipperary (on the Shannon opposite Co.Clare).
Ancestor of O'Brien of Ballina Castle, at Ballina, Templeachally par, Co.Tipperary.
Ballina is on the Co.Tipperary bank of the Shannon, with Killaloe, Co.Clare on the opposite bank.
This line is called Mac I Brien of Ara.

As at 1641, Murrogh O'Brien (son of Donogh O'Brien of Ballina) holds part of Craglea, Killaloe parish, Co.Clare (just across the county border NW of Ballina).
From p.509 of The history and topography of the county of Clare, by James Frost, 1893.

Donogh O'Brien of Ballina Castle appears among the signatures on a petition to Rome from the clergy and nobles of Cashel diocese, 18 March 1652 (new style year).
From p.20 of "Fabian Ryan, O.P., postulated as bishop by clergy and laity of Cashel and of Emly 1652", by Benignus Millett, Collectanea Hibernica, No. 29 (1988), pp. 14-33.

Donnogh O'Brien of Ballina Castle in [Civil Survey, 1654-56].
See Co.Tipperary, vol.2, p.163.
He holds Ballina by descent from his ancestors.

Notes, under the entries for the year 1585, about Mac-I-Brien Ara by John O'Donovan in his 1856 translation of the Annals of the Four Masters.
He says there were then (in 1856) still some of this O'Brien family in the area of Ballina-Killaloe.
From pp.1834-1835 of vol.5.

Denis O'Brien, of Ballina

The following Denis O'Brien, of Ballina, Co.Tipperary, is probably descended from the above family.

Denis O'Brien,
of Ballina, Co.Tipperary.
Maybe born temp 1765. (His son married a woman whose father was born that year.)
KEVILL-DAVIES in [Burkes LG, 1906] says he is of "a collateral branch of the Thomond family".

Extract from KEVILL-DAVIES on p.437 of [Burkes LG, 1906].
Showing the link back to O'Brien of Ballina, Co.Tipperary.

References

O'Brien of Ara, p.181 of [O'Brien, 1949].
- This has pedigrees, but no Ballina branch is seen.
KINCORA LODGE in [Houses of Clare].

Sources yet to be consulted

"Dublin Annals of Inisfallen" (18th century). TCD MS 1281 (H 1.7). Has a pedigree of Mac-I-Brien Ara.
O'Brien of Ballina in Annals of Arra, Vol. 2 (2020).

Civil Survey Notes - Ballina