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The title of Earl of Clancarty has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, first in 1658, that title being attainted in 1690, and then in 1803.The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Dunlo ( 1801) and Baron Kilconnel ( 1797) in the Peerage of Ireland, and of Viscount Clancarty ( 1823) and Baron Trench ( 1815) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As Viscount Clancarty, the Earls sat in the House of Lords until 1999, when the House of Lords Act was passed.
1 Viscounts Muskerry ( 1628)
- Charles MacCarty, 1st Viscount Muskerry (d. 1640)
- Donough MacCarty, 2nd Viscount Muskerry ( 1594- 1665) (became Earl of Clancarty in 1658)
2 Earls of Clancarty, First Creation ( 1658)
- Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty ( 1594- 1665)
- Charles MacCarty, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (d. 1666Events September 2 Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people)
- Callaghan MacCarty, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (d. 1676Events January 29 Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Romer Bacon's Rebellion Year in topic 1676 in literature 1676 in music 1676 in science Births May 8 Frederick I of Sweden Deaths July 22 Pope Clement X 167)
- Donough MacCarty, 4th Earl of Clancarty ( 1668Events January The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed. February 13 Lisbon Peace Treaty between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England where it is recognized the legitimity of the portuguese monarch. Portugal yie- 1734Events January 8 Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. June 17 French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed June 21 In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French) (forfeit 1690)
3 Earls of Clancarty, Second Creation ( 1803)
- William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty ( 1741- 1805)
- Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty ( 1767- 1837), elected a Representative Peer in 1808
- William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty ( 1803- 1872)
- Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 4th Earl of Clancarty ( 1834- 1891)
- William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty ( 1868- 1929)
- Richard Frederick John Donough Le Poer Trench, 6th Earl of Clancarty ( 1891- 1975))
- Grenville Sydney Rocheforte, 7th Earl of Clancarty ( 1902- 1975)
- William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty ( 1911- 1995)
- Nicholas Power Richard Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty (b. 1952)
Clancarty
Irish representative peers