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O'Donovan family

The O'Donovans, in Irish Ó Donnabháin, are an Irish family descended from Donnubán mac Cathail, a 10th-century king of the Uí Fidgenti in County Limerick. Displaced by Anglo-Norman settlers around the early 13th century, they moved south into Carbery in west Cork. There they held lordships around Castle Donovan and near Skibbereen under the MacCarthy princes until the confiscations of the 17th century.

O'Donovan family
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). O'Donovan family. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/odonovan-family
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