Dermot O'Driscoll, 1600–…

Name
Dermot /O'Driscoll/
Type of name
birth name
Given names
Dermot
Surname
O'Driscoll
Note: English form used as the primary name for searching. Spanish Dermicio ("Don Dermizio Odriscol, natural de Castelaven", 1634 Santiago genealogy, A.H.N. Madrid, Santiago exp. 5852; Walsh, Spanish Knights of Irish Origin I, doc. XXIX); Irish Diarmaid Ó Drisceoil. See alternative names.
Name
Dermicio /Odriscol/
Type of name
also known as
Given names
Dermicio
Surname
Odriscol
Note: Spanish form, as in his Santiago file: "Don Dermizio Odriscol" / "Odrisol y Hurles, Dermicio" (A.H.N. Madrid, Órdenes Militares, Santiago, exp. 5852, 1634).
Name
Diarmaid /Ó Drisceoil/
Type of name
also known as
Given names
Diarmaid
Surname
Ó Drisceoil
Note: Irish form of his name (Diarmaid = Dermot).
Birth
about 1600 20
Castlehaven, County Cork, Ireland
Note: Place: "natural de Castelaven" (1634 Santiago genealogy). Date: several witnesses in the 1634 Madrid depositions give his age as 34 ("de hedat de treynta y quatro años"), so born about 1600. Very probably taken to Corunna as an infant when his parents sailed for Spain in Aug 1602 (Coombes, JCHAS 1965, p. 110).
Marriage of parents
Note: Married before May 1601, when "Donnchadh and his wife Eilis Ni Rannaill Ui Mhuirthile" were pardoned together (Irish fiant 6515, 17th Report DKPRI; cited by Coombes, JCHAS 70 (1965), p. 108 n. 1). The 1634 Santiago genealogy of their son Dermicio names his parents as Don Dionisio Odriscol, señor de Castelaven, and Doña Isauel Ohurleo, natural de Baly Nicarrigui.
Death of a maternal grandfather
before September 16, 1631
Ballinacarriga, Ballymoney, County Cork, Ireland
Note: Date/place from the inquisition taken at Bandonbridge, Co. Cork, 16 Sep 1631 (no. 241), which finds that Ranell Oge Hurley - having inherited Ballinacarriga from his father Ranell Hurley senior and taken the 19 Dec 1615 patent - "died so seized".

Date/place from the inquisition taken at Bandonbridge, Co. Cork, 16 Sep 1631 (no. 241), which finds that Ranell Oge Hurley - having inherited Ballinacarriga from his father Ranell Hurley senior and taken the 19 Dec 1615 patent - "died so seized".

The passage naming his own heir and heir's age is defaced in the surviving manuscript copy. His exact death date is not given, only that it was before this inquisition (16 Sep 1631).

Title
Knight of the Order of Santiago
1634
Madrid, Spain
Note: Granted the habit of the Order of Santiago by Philip IV. His proofs of nobility and limpieza de sangre were taken at the court in Madrid from Irish and Spanish witnesses; the Council of the Military Orders approved his admission (decree dated 12 Jan 1634 in the file; the genealogy page is dated 5 [March/May] 1634 - one of the dates needs re-checking). The genealogy names his parents as Don Dionisio [Donnchadh] Odriscol, lord of Castlehaven, and Doña Isauel Ohurleo of Ballinacarriga, and his maternal grandparents as Don Reynaldo Ohurleo of Ballinacarriga and Doña Catalina Colan. His first cousin Daniel O'Driscoll, son of Diarmaid, was knighted in the same order in 1633 (Coombes, JCHAS 1965, p. 110).
Last change
September 30, 2026 – 12:40:27
Author of last change: daveh
Family with parents
father
mother
1580–…
Birth: estimated 1580 25 20 — Ballinacarriga, Ballymoney, County Cork, Ireland
Marriage Marriage — before May 1601 —
-3 months
himself
1600–…
Birth: about 1600 20 — Castlehaven, County Cork, Ireland