Redmond Roche (c. 1610 – after 1654) was an Irish politician who sat for County Cork in the Parliament of 1640–1649.
[6] He married secondly, after 1636, Alice Smith, widow of William Wiseman of Bandon (died 1636), daughter of Sir Richard Smith of Ballinatray and his wife Mary Boyle, sister of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
MacCarty had to vacate his seat in the Commons as he had on 20 February 1641 succeeded as the 2nd Viscount of Muskerry and moved to the House of Lords.
MacCarty's father, the 1st Lord Muskerry had in 1599 married Roche's eldest sister Helen as his second wife.
Ireland was ruled (since 10 February 1641) by the joint Lord Justices Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont and John Borlase.
[16] The parliamentarian records show that at the time Roche lived at Caherduggan Castle, a tower house that stood along the road between Mallow and Doneraile.
[d] Phelim O'Neill launched the Irish Rebellion of 1641 from the northern province of Ulster in October 1641.
[18] Redmond's brother Maurice, Lord Fermoy, was one of the first of the Catholic noblemen of Munster to join the rebellion and was its leader in the early times.