Seán mac an Iarla a Búrc (died 1583) known as John "na Seamar" Burke, Baron Leitrim or John of the Shamrocks, was one of the notorious half-brothers called the meic an Iarla ('sons of the earl'), whose conflicts with each other and their father, Richard "Sassanach" Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde (died 1582), caused devastation to south Connacht several times between the late 1560s and early 1580s.
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