Sources


O'Shea/Shea/Shee genealogy. Contains semi-legendary descent from the High Kings of Ireland, and more reliable genealogies from the 10th century to present. Concentrates on the ancestry and descendants of Sir Richard Shee of Kilkenny, though many lines branch into Tipperary, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, and other parts of Ireland and elsewhere. Updated version now includes all of the following sources (sources are given in the file by the abbreviation in parentheses, or by full citation):

Bugge, A., ed. and trans., Caithreim Cheallachain Chaisil, (The Battle Career of Callaghan of Cashel), University of Christiana Press, 1905. (CCC)

Burke, Sir Bernard. Burke's Irish Family Records, London: Burke's Peerage, Ltd. (BIFR)

Burke, Sir Bernard. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, London: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., 1958. (BLG 1958)

Keating, Geoffrey, History of Ireland, 3 vols. Reprinted, Kansas City, MO: The Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1983. (Keating)

O'Hart, John. O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, 5th ed. Dublin, 1892. (Reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1989). (O'HART)

O'Shea, Katharine (Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell). Charles Stewart Parnell: His Love Story and Political Life, 2 vols. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1913. (PARNELL)

O'Shee, Col. William. A History of the Sept or Tribe of O'Shee, Manuscript, unpublished, dated 1869. Col. William O'Shee styled himself, The O'Shea, Chief of the Name, and was the senior representative of the line of O'Shee of Cloran. This particular copy of the manuscript was presented to a James John O'Shee (b. 1819) of Abbey View, Clonmel, and later acquired by another O'Shee family in the same vicinity, with typescript copies distributed to some descendants, including Dr. Vincent O'Shee of Grosse Point Woods, Michigan, USA. (O'Shee 1869)

Mac Firbisigh, Duald. Leabhar Ghenelais (Great Book of Genelaogies), Royal Irish Academy MS 23.P.1 (MacFIRBIS)

National Library of Ireland, GO Manuscript 164 pp. 142-150 / Microfilm P.8301m "Genealogy of Henry O'Shee, Esq., 1789" (NLI MS 164)

National Library of Ireland, Manuscript 9011: "O'Shee, family of; Pedigree of O'Shee of Kilkenny and France, 1810." (NLI MS 9011)

National Library of Ireland, Manuscript 18315: "Parnell Genealogy." (NLI MS 18315)

National Library of Ireland, Manuscript 112: "Pedigree of the Ancient Family of O'Shea, c.1800" (NLI MS 112)

National Library of Ireland, Microfilm P.1545: "O'Shea of Munster, 1937." Microfilm copy of MS in the British Museum, submitted by George Raymond O'Shea. (NLI mf P.1545)

Rolleston, T.W., Celtic Myths and Legends, London: The Gresham Publishing Company, reprinted London: Studio Editions Ltd., 1994. (CML)

Who was Who, 6 vols. (1897 - ). New York: St. Martin's Press. (WwW year).


A useful tool, though it should always be verified with primary sources, is the World Family Tree compiled by subscribers to Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/).


Patrick M. O'Shea
E-mail: poshea@smumn.edu

Additional Co. Cork material provided by Margaret O'Shea Jordan.
E-mail: margaretlj@eircom.net


3 August 2000