Carbery, or the
Barony of Carbery, was once the largest barony in Ireland, and essentially a small, semi-independent kingdom on the southwestern coast of
Munster, in what is now
County Cork, from its founding in the 1230s by
Donal Gott MacCarthy to its gradual decline in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His descendants, the
MacCarthy Reagh dynasty, were its ruling family. The kingdom officially ended in 1606 when Donal of the Pipes, 13th Prince of Carbery chose to
surrender his territories to the Crown of England; but his descendants maintained their position in Carbery until the
Cromwellian confiscations, following their participation in the
Irish Rebellion of 1641.