o'cavanaghs

Updated: June 11, 2025

Feudalism was thus reduced in Ireland to the small territory lying between the Boyne and the Liffey, subject to the constant annoyance of the O'Moores, O'Byrnes, and O'Cavanaghs. And this state of affairs continued until the period of the so-called Reformation in England. Ireland proved itself then the only spot in Western Europe where feudal laws and feudal customs could take no root.

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present