Patrick Sarsfield (Irish confederate)

Patrick Sarsfield
Born	County Kildare, Kingdom of Ireland
Residence	Lucan Manor Tully Castle
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Landowner Politician Soldier,
Spouse(s)	Anne O'Moore
Children	William Sarsfield Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan

Patrick Sarsfield was an Irish landowner and soldier of the seventeenth century noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars. He is best known as the father of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, and is sometimes referred to as Patrick Sarsfield senior because of this.

He came from a long-established Old English family from The Pale. His great-grandfather Sir William Sarsfield had been Mayor of Dublin and was knighted for his service against the rebellion of Shane O'Neill in 1566. He acquired two estates at Lucan Manor and Tully Castle, dividing the properties between two of his sons on his death. Patrick's grandfather, the younger son, received Tully Castle.

Patrick's father was Peter Sarsfield. His mother Eleanor Dempsey, was the daughter of the Gaelic lord Terence O'Dempsey, 1st Viscount Clanmalier. Like the majority of the traditional Anglo-Irish population he was raised as a Roman Catholic, as opposed to more recent arrivals who were generally Protestant. He inherited Tully Castle from his father.

In 1641 a major rebellion broke out in Ireland. The Catholics inhabitants, while proclaiming their loyalty to King Charles I, rose up against the Parliament of England and its allies in the Irish government in Dublin. The rebellion spread across Ireland, drawing in both the Gaelic Irish and Anglo-Irish Catholics. In response to some massacres of Protestants, forces of Scottish and English troops were raised and arrived to support the Irish Protestants. The following war lasted for more than a decade.

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