Jeremiah O'Donovan

Who is Jeremiah O'Donovan?

Jeremiah O'Donovan, The O'Donovan of Clan Loughlin, Lord of Clan Loughlin, was MP for Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland, in James II's Patriot Parliament of 1689, alongside his kinsmen Daniel O'Donovan of Clancahill and Daniel O'Donovan.

Obtaining letters patent from Charles II, his extensive landholdings were erected into the manor of O'Donovan's Leap, or the Manor of the Leap, in 1684.

He was also appointed Registrar of the Admiralty in Ireland by James II.

O'Donovan was the son of Daniel Mac Murtogh O'Donovan, Lord of Clan Loughlin. A Protestant, he married in 1686 Elizabeth Tallant, daughter of Oliver Tallant, and they had issue 1 Jeremiah, 2 John, and 3 Anne.

O'Donovan was the guardian to Thomas Fitzgerald, 18th Knight of Glin, known as Tomas Geancach, who was the eldest son of Gerald Knight of Glin and his wife, Joan O'Brien, one of the daughters of Donough O'Brien, a chief of Thomond, from CarrigoGlinnell Castle, Co. Limerick. Thomas' father Gerald, known as the Knight of the Horses, was killed fighting for James 11 at the second battle of Windmill Hill after the Siege of Derry in 1689.