Sir Dominick Browne, Irish

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and landowner, – .

Biography

Browne was the eldest of three sons of Geoffrey Browne,

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(died 1608), a member of the

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. Dominick was of age and married at the time of his father's death, and a town

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in 1609. He was convicted for

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and

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of Henry Rany of Galway, at

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on 29 July 1620. However, for the sum of £5.00 he was pardoned that December. He successfully stood a M.P. for Athenry in the 1634 Irish parliament, in the same year been elected

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. In 1635 he was

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. In 1636 he was noted as holding half the lands of Mayo Abbey in addition to other land in the baronies of Costello, Gallen and Clanmorris. Two of his sons were made Freemen of Galway in 1641. His activities during the

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are uncertain. In 1653 he was dispossessed of his Galway property but permitted to retain a portion of his lands in Mayo. He was married to Anastasia Darcy, a daughter of James Riabhach Darcy (died 1603). Via his son, Geoffrey Browne, M.P. (died 1668) and grandson Dominick Browne, he was ancestor of

Baron Oranmore and Browne Baron Oranmore and Browne, of Carrabrowne Castle in the County of Galway and of Castle Macgarrett in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1836 for Dominick Browne, who had earlier represented County Mayo in t ...

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and

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References

* ''Pedigree of the Brownes of Castle mac Garrett'', Lord Oranmore and Browne, ''Journal of the

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, volume 5, 1907–08. * ''Dictionary of Irish Biography:from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002'', p. 903, Cambridge, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Sir Dominick Politicians from County Galway Mayors of Galway Irish people convicted of murder People of the Irish Confederate Wars 17th-century Irish businesspeople Irish MPs 1634–1635 1580s births 1650s deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies