The Confederates also held important port towns at Waterford and Wexford through which they could receive aid from Catholic powers in Europe.
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During the Confederate Wars set off by the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Lord Forbes, commanding forces of the English Long Parliament, was allowed by the then Lord Barnabas O'Brien to occupy Bunratty in 1646.
He was related to Colonel Charles O’Kelly (1621–1695) who fought in the Irish Confederate Wars and at the Battle of Aughrim, and was the author of a book on the Williamite Wars, The Conquest of Cyprus.
General Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585–1655) who fought on the side of Confederation in the Irish Confederate Wars (1642-1649)