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[[Tibbot ne Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo|Tibbot ne Long Bourke]], the heir of "Lower MacWilliam Burke" lands in [[County Mayo]], and a son of [[Gráinne O'Malley]], remained outside the system until 1593; he was knighted in 1604 and was created the first [[Viscount Mayo]] in 1627.<ref>Chambers, A. "Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley" (Ashfield Press, Dublin 2007) p. 109; ISBN 978-1-901658-65-1</ref> Gráinne herself accepted the system in 1576, in respect of her own lands, though she managed her lands with a high degree of autonomy over the next two decades.<ref>Chambers, Anne: Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, p 138. New York: MJF, 2003.</ref>

Donnel O'Donovan, chief of the largest sept of the [[O'Donovan]]s of [[County Cork]] offered a surrender of their sept lands in 1592 (with similar offers by Conoghor O’Kallaghane, Conoghor O’Mahoney and Teig M’Owen Carty), to personally receive back the sept lands by patent. The surrender to Queen Elizabeth was not effected until 1608, to James I; Donnel O'Donovan received the sept lands as his personal estate in 1615, but did not receive an English title. <ref>CALENDAR OP THE STATE PAPERS, RELATING TO I R E L A N D, OF THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH, 1592, October 1596, June. PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. EDITED BY HANS CLAUDE HAMILTON, ESQ., P.S.A., LONDON:PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, item 68, 1592. </ref>

The [[O'Donovan]]s of [[County Cork]] declined under the Tudors, but later reconsidered and surrendered their territory to James I in 1608, receiving a regrant in 1615, but no English title. Their powerful overlordsoverlord in the [[Barony of Carbery]] to Donovan of Clan Cathail, the wealthy [[MacCarthy Reagh]]s, who surrendered his sept lands in 1606, also never received any titles under this system. [[Donald McCarthy, 1st Earl of Clancare|Donal McCarthy Mór]] was knighted in 1558 and created Earl of Clancare in 1565, but resigned his titles in 1597.<ref>[http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/MacCarthyMor.php O'Hart's Pedigrees; Heber Line Pedigrees, MacCarthy Mor (1892)]</ref> The prominent [[MacCarthys of Muskerry]], a separate dynasty, were later created the [[Earl_of_Clancarty#Viscounts_Muskerry_.281628.29|Viscounts Muskerry]] in 1628 and [[Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty|Earls of Clancarty]] in 1658. The chief of the [[Maguire (surname)|Maguire clan]] of [[Fermanagh]] was created [[Baron Maguire]] in 1628.<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 22nd edition, 1839, p.768</ref> In 1631 Sir Terence [[Dempsey]] was created [[Viscount Clanmalier]].<ref>http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/Dempsey-2-Heremon.php</ref>

[[Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim|Randal MacDonnell]] was knighted in 1602, was granted estates in 1603 and was created [[Earl of Antrim]] in 1620.