Dominick Browne, of Barna and Carrabrowne

ORANMORE AND BROWNE, BARON. (Browne) Peer of Ireland Godfrey or Geoffrey de Brun came over with William the Conqueror in 1066. His great-grandson David Brun or Browne Fitz-Stephen, went to Ireland with Prince John in 1185, and to his descendant in the 4th degree, Sir david Browne, large possessions in Leinster and Connaught were granted, after the battles of Athenry, in 1316, and Dundalk in 1318, in which he was engaged with Richard, 4th Lord Athenry, and his brother, Sir John Birmingham, 1st Earl of Louth. He settled at Bally-David near Athenry; the family removed about 1442 to Carra-Browne castle, in Oranmore, near Galway.

Sir Dominick Browne, 10th in descent from Sir David, was knighted by Lord Wentworth, afterwards earl of Strafford, in 1629. His son Geoffrey was one of the Envoys from the Confederates to Queen Henrietta, in 1647, and afterwards to the Duke of Lorraine, in 1650. He was pillaged of a considerable part of his estates under Cromwell, and forced to remove to mayo, were the family have since resided at castle-Mac-Garrett. His sons Dominick and Stephen, each held a regiment in King James’s service at the battle of Aughrim. Colonel Browne’s son Geoffrey, planted most extensively at the Castle-Mac-Garrett, in 1694, and lived sixty years after. He married a daughter of the ancestor of the present Lord Wallscourt.

His son Dominick married in 1754, Henrietta, daughter of Sir Henry Lynch, of Carrindulla, Bart., by whom he had an only son, Dominick Geoffrey Browne, Esq., a Governor of mayo, for whom see The Peerage Volume. In his time in 1811, the family mansion, Castle-Mac-Garrett, was destroyed by fire, and many ancient family documents burnt, leaving this genealogy necessarily imperfect. His son Dominick, the present Lord, represented the County of mayo in seven Parliaments, was made a Privy Counsellor in 1834, and created a Peer of Ireland in 1836, by the title of Baron Oranmore and Browne, of Carra-Browne castle, in the County of the Town of Galway, and of the Castle-Mac-Garrett, in the County of Mayo. Edmund Lodge: The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family

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18. Dominick, of Barna: second son of William ; Mayor of Galway in 1575 ; was with other Chieftains a party to a composition which they entered into in 1585, with Sir John Perrott on the part of Queen Eliza beth, for their properties in Con naught. This Dominick m. a dau. of Sir Morogh OTlaherty, by whom he had a daughter Jane (the wife of Alderman Patrick Kirwan, ancestor of the Kirwans of Cregg and Bawn- more), and seven sons; he died in 1596, and was buried in the family vault at the Franciscan Abbey, Gal way. The sons were :

I. Oliver, of whom presently.

II. Edward, who went to Ger many, attained to distinction there, and had issue.

III. Geoffrey, ancestor of Lord Oranmore.

IV. Marcus, ancestor of the Brownes of Connaugh Mor, who are now extinct.

V. Thomas, ancestor of the Brownes of Brownville, and also of Newtown, Ardskeagh, and Cooloo.

VI. James, who had four sons:

1. Peter, who was Sheriff of Galway in 1647.
2. Thomas.
3. Nicholas, ancestor of John Browne, J.P., of Tuam and Greenville.
4. Peter, who joined his relations on foreign service.

VII. Andrew, Alderman of Gal way, ancestor of the family °of Clonkeely and Moyne.

19. Oliver : eldest son of Dominick ; served as Sheriff of Galway in 1593, and as Mayor in 1609.

20. Martin, of Coolarne: his son ; was a staunch adherent of Royalty, and therefore, under the Commonwealth Rule in Ireland, his property was confiscated, in cluding the handsome Mansion* he had erected in Galway, in Abbey gate-street. He mar. Marie Lynch, and left two sons :

I. Oliver, of whom presently.

II. Sir Dominick.

21. Oliver,f of Coolarne (called " Captain Oliver") : son of Martin ; m. Julia Lynch, and had at the Restoration a re-grant of part of his father's lands. He left, with daughters (one of whom, Elizabeth, m. Marcus Lynch, of Barna), three fions, of whom the eldest was Martin.

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