User talk:Design ink

The person who edited this entry and claimed the family's connection with the Clare family is a complete fallacy. I have written academic articles on the origin of the family and there is no connection with the De Clare's, not least becuase they did not marry into Gaelic Irish families and indeed Thomas De Clare died in 1317 at the battle of Dysert O'Dea but his two sons' died relatively young. Further, the McInerneys were not a particularly powerful, lordly family, at any time in its history and did not marry into - at any time - the Anglo-Norman gentry. The citation given to support this was a reference in James Frost' History of County Clare and simply referred to the McInerneys taking over the former manor lands (demense lands) of De Clare - and does not mention anything else aside from this.

On a fully cited history of the family see my paper, Luke McInerney, "A Survey of the McInerney Sept of Thomond", The Other Clare, 2007 and op cit., 2008.