Owen MacCarthy (fl. 1692) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier.
MacCarthy was a Member of Parliament for Clonakilty in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689.O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 20 February 2023. During the Williamite War in Ireland, he raised a regiment of foot and was a colonel serving under the Earl of Tyrconnell.MacCARTHY, Owen. Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 February 2023. He left Ireland for France with James II in 1690, and in 1692 he was a colonel in the Irish Brigade of the French Royal Army.Cork MPs. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, p.38.
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