• Introduction

• 1570-71 Teige Mac Murrough O’Brien
• 1576 Donnell Reagh McNamara
• 1578, 1579, 1580 Turlough O’Brien
• 1582 Sir George Cusack
• 1583 Cruise
• 1588 Boethius McClancy
• 1599 Richard Scurlock
• 1605 Lawrence Delahoyde
• 1607 Sir Nicholas Moid
• 1609 Turlough McMahon
• 1610 John McNamara
• 1612 John Thornton
• 1613 Samuel Norton
• 1615 Boetius Clancy
• 1616 Donat O’Brien
• 1622 Samuel Norton
• 1623 Sir John MacNamara
• 1624 Captain Daniel Norton
• 1628 Donough O’Brien
• 1633 Donough O’Brien
• 1634 Therlough O’Brien
• 1641 William Brigdale
• 1643 Daniel O’Brien
• 1644
• 1646 William Brigdale
• 1654 Sir Thomas Southwell
• 1656 William Pigott
• 1657 Sir William King
• 1661 Thomas Cullen
• 1662-3 George Purdon
• 1664 George Ross
• 1665 Giles Vandeleur
• 1666, 1667 Thomas Greene
• 1669 Samuel Burton
• 1670 Thomas Foote
• 1671 Thomas Hickman
• 1672 Benjamin Lucas
• 1673 Henry Ievers
• 1674 Mountfort Westropp
• 1675 Walter Hickman
• 1676 John Colpoys
• 1677 Henry Lee
• 1678 Thomas Hickman
• 1681 George Stamer
• 1682 Donough O’Brien
• 1683 Giles Vandeleur
• 1684 Simon Purdon
• 1685 Edmond Pery
• 1686 Henry Cooper
• 1687 John M’Namara
• 1688-1689. John Mac Namara
• 1690 Sir Donat O’Brien
• 1691-92 Francis Burton
• 1693 Edmund Pery
• 1694 David Bindon
• 1695 Thomas Hickman
• 1696 Simon Purdon
• 1697 Thomas Spaight
• 1698 Mountfort Westropp
• 1699 Henry Hickman
• 1700 John Cusack

• Appendix: Sheriffs from 1701 to 1800
• Notes

‘Notes on the Sheriffs of County Clare, 1570-1700’ was published in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. I, part 1, 5th Series (1890), pp. 68-80. The High Sheriff was the principal representative of central government in the county in relation to the execution of legal process in both civil and criminal actions issuing from the courts. His duties included selecting the grand jury and supervising the conduct of parliamentary elections.