Viscount Mayo () is a title that has been created twice in the
Peerage of Ireland
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, both times for members of the Bourke family. The first creation came in 1627 in favour of
Tiobóid na Long Bourke, also known as Theobald Bourke. He was the son of
Sir Richard Bourke, 18th lord of
Mac William Iochtar
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(Lower Mac William), and
Gráinne O'Malley
Gráinne O'Malley (, ; – ), also known as Grace O'Malley, was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
Upon her father's death, she took over active leadership of the lords ...
. Miles, the 2nd
Viscount
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, was created a
baronet
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in the
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
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in c. 1638.
His son Theobald, the third Viscount, was also created a Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in c. 1638 (although there are no records of this creation in the Great Seal). The third Viscount was executed in 1652 after being found guilty of murder by Cromwell's High Court of Justice in Connaught. The murders in 1642 became known as the "
Shrule
Shrule (, also anglicised to ''Shruel'', usage deprecated) is a village in County Mayo in Ireland.[Shrule]
Placenames Databa ...
massacre", but it seems that Lord Mayo had done his best to prevent them.
The third Viscount's daughter Maud married Col. John Browne, ancestor of the
Marquesses of Sligo.
On the eighth Viscount's death in 1767, the title became dormant or extinct. Historian
Anne Chambers considers that a legal right continued, but that the next claimant could not afford the legal costs involved in presenting a petition to the
Irish House of Lords
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The title was recreated for a very distant cousin,
John Bourke, 1st Baron Naas, in 1781. He was subsequently created
Earl of Mayo in 1785. See this title for more information.
Viscounts Mayo: First creation (1627)
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Tiobóid na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo (died 1629)
*Miles Bourke, 2nd Viscount Mayo (died 1649)
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Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo (died 1652)
*Theobald Bourke, 4th Viscount Mayo (died 1676)
*Miles Bourke, 5th Viscount Mayo (died 1681)
*Theobald Bourke, 6th Viscount Mayo (1681–1741)
*Theobald Bourke, 7th Viscount Mayo (died 1742)
*John Bourke, 8th Viscount Mayo (died 1767)
[Buried at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 5 February 1767. Source: ''The Register Book for Burials. In the Parish of St James in Westminster in the County of Middlesex. 1754-1812''. 5 February 1767.]
**Hon. Aylmer Bourke (1743–1748)
Viscounts Mayo: Second creation (1781)
*see
Earl of Mayo
See also
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House of Burgh
The House of Burgh (; ; ), also known by the family names of Burke and Bourke (), is an Ireland, Irish family, descending from the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman de Burgh dynasty, who played a prominent role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Irel ...
, an
Anglo-Norman and
Hiberno-Norman
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dynasty founded in 1193
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Mac William Íochtar
Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William), also known as the Mayo Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh in Ireland. Mayo covered much of the northern part of the province of Connacht and the Mac William Íoc ...
(Lower Mac William)
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Viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland
Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland
House of Burgh
Noble titles created in 1627
Noble titles created in 1781