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Phelim Caoch O'Neill
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Phelim Caoch O'Neill (Irish: Feidhlimidh Caoch Ó Néill, 1517-1542) was a prince of the Cenél nEógain.
The eldest son of King Conn Bacach O'Neill.[1] The then O'Neill, Conn's dynasty held lordship over significant parts of Ulster. Phelim's mother, Lady Alice Fitzgerald, was a daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. Phelim's father and maternal grandfather were among the most powerful men in Ireland in early sixteenth-century Ireland.
- ^ Hiram Morgan, Tyrone's Rebellion, The Outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland, The Royal Historical Society, The Boydell Press, p. 86
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