O'Grady family

The O'Grady family, also styled O'Grady of Kilballyowen, is one of Ireland's noble families and surviving Chiefs of the Name. Their title is The O'Grady in English and Ó Grádaigh in Irish.

O'Grady
Ó Grádaigh

Arms of O'Grady: Per pale gules and sable, three lions passant guardant in pale per pale argent and or
Parent houseDál gCais
CountryKingdom of Thomond
FounderGradhach mac Treassach
Current headJoseph O'Grady
Titles

Naming conventions
Main article: Irish personal naming system
Male Daughter Wife (Long) Wife (Short)
Ó Grádaigh Ní Ghrádaigh Bean Uí Ghrádaigh Uí Ghrádaigh
Ó Gráda[1] Ní Ghráda Bean Uí Ghráda Uí Ghráda

History

They belong to the Dál gCais kindred and are distant cousins to the O'Brien dynasty, but have since the Middle Ages been based not in County Clare, from where they originated, but in County Limerick. The seat of the family, Kilballyowen, is near the town of Bruff.

The name Standish was often used by the family; it derives from the marriage in 1633 of Darby O'Grady, The O'Grady, to Faith Standish.

Some of the O'Grady family converted to the Church of Ireland (Anglican Communion) and produced a Bishop of Meath, Hugh Brady. The family also produced some prominent historians such as Standish Hayes O'Grady and Standish James O'Grady.

The now extinct title in the peerage of Ireland, the Viscount Guillamore, was held by the family.

See also

References
  1. "Ó Gráda". Sloinne. 5 December 2015.
  • Hy-Donghaile from Ordnance Survey Letters by John O'Donovan and Eugene Curry, 1839
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