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OLD KERRY RECORDS,

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR, NOTES, AND APPENDIX.

MARY AGNES HICKSOX.

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CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

Introductory Memoir ... i

I. The Blennerhassett Pedigree 1688-

1736, by Captain John Blawerhassdt 33

II. The Antiquities of Tralee, by the

Veil. Archdeacon Roivan, D.D. . 109

III. The last Geraldyn Chief of

Tralee Castle, by the same . . 117

IV. The Black Earl's Raid, by the same 131 V. Tralee of the Dennys, by the same 135

VI. Dingle of the Husseys . . . 144

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CHAP.

VII. Caoine ox the Knight of Kerry,

Obit. 1642. by Pierce Ferriier . . 174

VIII. The Seignory of Castle Island . 1S5

IX. Castle Magne and its Constali.es toi

X. Depositions connected with 1641 . 194

XI. The Forfeitures of 16SS . . 200

XII. List of Estates sold to the Hollow- Sword Blade Company . . 209

XIII. List of Corcagltny Lands For-

feited by the Rices . . . 210

XIV. List of Claims on Forfeited Lands 212 XV. The Kerry Men of the Brigade . 230

XVI. Inscriptions and Epitaphs . . 250

XVII. Lists of Kerry Grand Jurors.

High Sheriffs, etc., 1600-1S72 . 260

Appendix 267

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

Egerton MSS.; Harleian MSS.; Lansdowne MSS.; Sloane MSS.; Add. MSS. British Museum ; Carew MSS. Lambeth ; Irish State Papers, Public Record Office. Pamphlets 1641-1692 King's Library British Museum ; Pacata Plibernia ; Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica ; Tours in Ireland between 1757 and 1760 ; Lord Mountmorres' Hist, of the Irish Parliament and Reflections on the Present Crisis, British Museum ; Annals of Four Masters ; O'Donovan's Trans- lation of O'Dubhagain's Topography of Ireland ; Memoir of Mapped Surveys of Ireland by W. M. Hardinge M.R.I. A.; Transactions of R.I. A.; Journals of Kilkenny Archaeological Society ; Gilbert's History of the Irish Viceroys ; Annals of Loch Ce translated by \V. M. Henessy ; D'Alton's Illustrations of King James's Army List ; Life and Times of Florence Mac Carth y Mor by D. F. Mac Carthy (Glas) ; Correspondence of Cecil and Carew edited (for the Camden Society' by Sir John Maclean F.S.A. K.C.B

ERRATA.

Page 130, line 2, for "work" read "mark" »» l63» » 4. for "only" read " the only " -•» 163, ,, 5, for "the blood" read "blood."

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AMONGST the English adventurers, for the most part younger sons of noble and knightly families or gentlemen of slender fortunes, who flocked to Ireland to take their share of the "good things going" when the great rebel Gerrot, Earl of Desmond, fell by the hand of an Irish mercenary, were Robert Blennerhassett of Flim- by in Cumberland and his " aged father Thomas." Their ancestors had long held an honourable position in £he north of England. A Blennerhassett represented Carlisle in the reisin of Richard II. and asrain in the reigns of Henry V., Henry VI., Elizabeth and James I., while in 29 Car. II., William Blennerhasset was High Sheriff of Cumberland. A William Blennerhassett was Mayor of Carlisle in 1382, and in 1430 as well as in 1614 and 1620, members of the family filled the same office. The name is said to have been derived from the township of Blennerhasset in the parish of Torpenhow in Allerdale, but the family seems to have had no property in that place and to have been chiefly settled in and about Car- lisle and on the western coast of the countv. In a list

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given in Nicolson's " History of Cumberland " of gentle- men called out to serve on the Border against the Scots by Sir Thomas Whartoo, Deputy Warden of the West Marches, and Captain of Carlisle Castle, 34 Henry VIII. appears the name of Thomas Blennerhassett of Gillesland bound to attend the Muster with companies_of horse and foot. Early in the same reign John Blennerhassett acquired knights' fees in Cumberland through his marriage with one of the five daughters and heiresses of James De Martindale. The husbands of his wife's sisters were Cuthbert Radcliffe, Humphrey Dacre, Richard Dacre and Anthony Barker, and the five ladies conveyed to their husbands a joint inheritance in the Manor of Newton on the Sea and the Ville of Newton, to be held of the King in capite by knightly service, and also the Manor of Ormesby and other lands by like services. Nicolson further states that John Blennerhassett the husband of Janet de Martindale acquired by purchase the Manor of Flimby or Flemingsby.

The Register of the Cistertian Abbey of St. Mary of Holm Cultram is still preserved and from it we learn that Flimby had been granted to the monks of that house by Cospatrick son of Orme and confirmed to them by Henry II. and Richard I. In the reign of Edward I. Robert de Haverington "quitted claim" to Gervase Abbot of St. Mary of Holm Cultram of " the Manor of Flimby, except three hundred acres," and the Abbot and the Convent, we are told, " took him and his heirs into their prayers." At the Dissolution of the Monasteries Henry VIII. granted to John Dalston nine messuages in Flimby, the woods and lands called Flimby Park and a fishery-

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therein. In less than a year after Dalston had received the royal gift he alienated it to John Blennerhassett, with whose descendants it continued until 1722 when it was sold by William Blennerhassett Esq. to Sir James Lowther Bart. This is Xicolson's account which agrees in sub- stance with the traditions of the family still lingering in Allonby (another portion of the Blennerhasset estates in Cumberland) as they have been transmitted to me by the kind courtesy of the vicar of that place. Hutcheson in his " History of Cumberland " states, that the probable derivation of the name of Allonby is from the river Elne and the Danish word " by." The tradition is, however, that the place takes its name from Alan, Lord of Aller- dale, who grave the lands to one of his kindred whose heiress conveyed them in marriage to the family of De Flimby. In a few generations according to Hutcheson these lands also vested in an heiress Margaret De Flimby, who brought Allonby to her husband William Blennerhasset and their descendants sold it in the be- ginning of the eighteenth century to the Thomlinsons of Blencogo in Cumberland. The Blennerhasset family being now extinct in that county it is impossible to ob- tain any authentic information beyond what I have here stated, but the probability is that the discrepancy between these accounts is more apparent than real, and that the three hundred acres retained by Robert de Haverington in the reign of Edward I. when he resigned the rest of the Manor of Flimby to the monks, may have been in- herited in the female line by a family taking its name from the place whose heiress married a Blennerhassett. The latter thus owning part of the old estate of Gos-

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patrick, may have been found the fittest and readiest purchaser of the rest by John Dalston when the edict of Henry VIIJ. barred out once and for ever the claims of the ecclesiastical possessors. The Cumberland Blenner- hassets seem to have adopted the Reformed faith which so many of the northern gentry rejected. In the great Civil War they were however with the " Spears of the North that encircled the Crown " (v. Rokeby Canto v.), and William Blennerhasset of Flimby was one of the Cumbrian gentlemen who sent in provisions to Carlisle when it was besieged by the Scotch army.

A branch of the family had been settled in Norfolk as early as the fourteenth century bearing the same arms as their Cumberland kinsmen with the addition of an annulet. Bloomfield in his valuable History of Norfolk says that — "Joan de Lowdham heiress of the Manor of Frense in that county married at the age of fourteen Thomas De Heveningham, and secondly, at his death, Ralph Blennerhassett Esq. of a very ancient family in Cumberland/' Joan Blennerhassett lived to the age of ninety-seven, and left a son and heir who was seventy- seven years old at the time of his mother's death. An ancient MS. account of the Churches in Norfolk quoted by Bloomfield gives the following inscriptions on old brasses and monuments in the church of St. Andrew at Frense : —

"Hie Jacet vexerabilis Sir Radulphus Blexerhassett,

ARMIGER, QUI OBIIT VIII. DIE MEXSIS NOVEMBRIS.

A.D. I400.

Cl'IS AXIME PROPIETUR DtUS. AMEX."

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Here lyeth the Venerable Gentleman John Blennerhassett, Esqre., who died March xxviith, 1514."

" Maria filive et h^eridi unic/e

Georgii Blennerhassett, militis,

inaurati enuptie primo

Thomje Culpepper, armigero

Qui hic postea

Francisco Bacon, armigero,

Qui Petistir/E in comitat : Suffolk

tumulatur sine prole,

Defuncte vil Sep. 1587. ^Etatis su^e 70.

Vidu,e, Pi^e, Castle, Hospitale, Benign^e,

Johannes Cornwaleis et Joannes Blenerhassett

Memori/e et amoris ergo posuerunt."

Margaret Blenerhassett, aunt of Sir Ralph who died in 1400, was Prioress of the convent of Campsey Ash in Suffolk. Her nephew John Blenerhassett married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cornwallis, ancestor of the Marquis Cornwallis. In the will of Sir John Cornwallis Knt., dated 10th April 1584, he bequeaths to "his daughter 'Hassett " his wife's gown of black satin and to " my Lady 'Hassett " his gilt cup that had " two eares " with an " antick boy and a child in his hand on it," and he constitutes Thomas his son and heir, with Lady 'Hassett, and John Blenerhassett his son-in- law his executors. (Collins' Peerage, pp. 306, 309.) The

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manor of Frense was in the possession of the Kemp family when Eloomfield wrote his history and the name of Blenerhassett is I believe no longer to be found in Norfolk.

About a century after the parent-stock had obtained Flimby by marriage or by purchase, Thomas and Robert Blenerhassett arrived in Munster. As their names do not appear in the list of undertakers given in the Records or the Carew MSS. it is probable that they did not come in that capacity, but were rather amongst the colonists of British blood, whom Sir Edward Denny was bound by the terms of his grant to place on his Kerry estate. Eager as had been the flight of English adventurers to Ireland " scenting the prey afar off" when the great Earl had fallen and Munster was after a fashion, "pacified" the wretched condition of the Palatinate wasted for years by fire and sword, and the repressed but inextinguishable hatred of the native septs made many of the new comers hesitate to remain there. Some of the undertakers them- selves sold or exchanged their grants and returned to England, or moved eastward into the safer districts of the old Pale, and others were murdered before they had time to follow their associates' example. Those that re- mained behind had a hard time of it, they found it well nigh impossible to procure English tenants and the Irish they dared not accept. Meantime Elizabeth with her usual covetousness was looking sharply after quit rents, escheated dues, and tributes, and with her usual wisdom to the necessity of planting the land extensively with men of English blood. In 1589 and again in 1594 Attorney- Generals and Roval Commissioners were commanded to

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inquire into the condition of the lands lately granted. In the former year no returns of the number of English tenants on the Kerry estates could be got from any of the grantees but Sir Valentine Brown. Twenty English tenants were planted on his lands whose vocation soon became more military than agricultural, engaged as they were night and day watching -and defending their homes against the forays and plunderings of Donell MacCarthy. The result of the Commission of 1594 was equally un- satisfactory to her Majesty who writes July 1st, 1597, to the Lord Deputy that she hears the " undertakers have neglected to plant English and have made grants to the Irish," and she calls on him "to enquire strictly into such matters and to proceed sharply to reform them."*

Sir Edward Denny whose gallant services at Fort-del- Ore no less than the memory of his grandfather's high favour with Henry VIII., had secured to him six thousand acres in Kerr}- pleaded as a reason for his short-comings that " the country being depopulate the rent was never answered by him," and that " the Earle of Desmond himselfe never received half so much " indeed " never received any, but in a warlike manner, upon the countries of Clanmorryes being the territories of the Baron of Lixnaue. " f The natural manner of rent collecting and rent paying between Geraldines and Fitzmorrises was dis- tasteful indeed absolutely impracticable for Sir Edward Denny. Like his cousin Raleigh he held that Irish warfare " better befitted kernes than gentlemen," and his little band of English tenants had more than enough to do defending

* Carew MSS., Vol. 601, p. 145. t Ibid, Vol. 167. p. 164.

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their lives and property without warring upon the Lord of Lixnawe and his innumerable and unruly galloglasses, in vain pursuit of her Majesty's lost beeves and tributes. Before Sir Edward had held his hardly-won Seignory ten years he was indebted to the Exchequer in the amount of ;£i,68i os. 3d. which sum however was forgiven him, and five years after he died in England. Ormond writing to the Queen in October 159S says in a tone of indignant complaint, "All the Undertakers I found on my arrival had shamefully forsaken their castles and dwelling places in Munster and left munitions, stuffe, and cattel,. behind to the traytors and no resistance made."

In December, 1600, Sir Robert CeciL writes to Sir George Carew from London " As to the Undertakers they aver that there is not so great quietnesse as is reported and none of them dare go thither, (i.e., to Munster.) Write something to prove that they may do soe without apparente perdition." * Carew probably tried his powers of persuasion for he was as skilful with the pen as with the sword, but in any case he wielded the latter so effectually that the absentees might have returned in comparative safety to their Irish estates if they had not preferred managing them from a distance by a system of deputies. It was well for them and their successors that these deputies and chief tenants were mostly gentlemen of good blood and gallant soldiers who had seen sen-ice. The stout Cumbrian Marchers who with their crossbows and bloodhounds watched Gillesland for Belted Will, against the moss-troopers of Buccleuch, while their wives like the gude-woman in the " Fray of Suport " (Border

* Carew MSS., Vol. 604, p. 65.

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Minstrelsy, vol. i., p. 2S0) " kept the house door wi' a lance " when the " muckle toon bell of Carlisle was rung "' to warn the citizens and dalesmen, had never a harder task than their descendants in the wilds of Kerr}- amongst the hostile tribes of MacCarthys Geraldines and Fitzmaurices. Soon after Sir Edward Denny had received his Seignory of Dennyvale from Queen Elizabeth, he "gave granted and confirmed," as appears by an Inquisition taken in Tralee on the death of his successor Arthur Denny in 1622, the lands of Ballycham (Ballyshane?) to Thomas Blennerhassett and his heirs and assigns for ever, for " one red rose to be rendered yearly at the Feast of Saint John the Baptist," and also the castle, town, and lands of Ballycarten (cmg/ice, town of the forge) at a yearly rent of £6, and "suit of court and a heriot after the death of the tenant of the premises." The Inquisi- tion further recites that the deceased Arthur Denny by his Indenture dated 10 May 161 1, gave, granted and confirmed to Robert Blennerhassett his heirs and assigns for ever, the town and lands of Killroan and Knockoma- nane, and Ballychamullick, (Bally mac Ulick?)* parcell of Carrignafeely at a yearly rent of £4 per annum. Be- tween i6nand 1628 Robert Blennerhassett also obtained from Sir Edward Denny, son and heir of the above-men- tioned Arthur by Mary Forest (v. Gen. Rec. p. 64) a lease for ever of Ballyshiddy castle, town, and lands, and of the lands of Killballyshiddy, Iragh, Ballymac Thomas, Gortbrack, Ballychamperson, (?) Knockbanane and Craigemullen, to be held with the lands before mentioned at a yearly rent of ;£io.

* V. Appendix II.

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Robert Blennerhassett was the first Provost of Tralee 10 Jas. I., and in the same year he and Humphrey Dethick represented the infant borough in a Parliament whose opening scenes deserve to be attentively studied by all enthusiastic advocates of Home Rule. The Irish Roman Catholic party at that period had become rather powerful, four out of the seven members returned by Kerry for the county and boroughs belonged to it, and in many other counties it had a like preponderance. When the House met and proceeded to the election of a Speaker a violent contest arose, the Catholic party sup- porting Sir John Everard with 101 votes, the Protestants electing Sir John Davies the Attorney-General by a ma- jority of twenty-seven. But Sir John Everard's friends however weak their "sweet voices" in the matter of election, (it was said that only two of them could speak English,) had strength of arm sufficient to thrust him jiotens volens into the chair from whence the Protestants endeavoured to eject him and finding that impossible they pushed Sir John Davies into his lap. Everard however still held on to his uncomfortable u place" until by a vigorous exertion, this time of Protestant strength of arm, he was finally dislodged when he and his followers quitted the chamber, disgusted at the non-success of their national fashion of conducting parliamentary business.

Anticipating enquiries from high quarters across the Channel anent these strange proceedings, the Protestant M.P.'s issued a " True Declaration of what passed on the first day of Parliament May iSth i6i3,"and amongst the signatures to it is that of * * * * Blener Hassett, so the spelling runs, without any Christian name prefixed.

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It is likely that Sir John Blenerhassett {vide Genealogical

Records, p. 66, and Appendix, VI.) was the person signing as he is described as a chief actor in this truly Irish row. The Protestants "declared" that before they had resorted to the extreme measure of putting their Speaker elect into Sir John Everard's lap, — " Mr. Treasurer had in fair and gentle terms moved him to come forth oute of the chair, neverthelesse he refused to do so." Then continue the Declarers " Sir Oliver St. John spoke to the same effect, and added withal that if he would not come oute they should be enforced to plucke him oute ; notwithstanding which he sate there still, whereon Mr. Treasurer and Mr. Marshall, gentle- men of the best qualirie, took Sir John Davies by the arms, and gently lifted him from the ground, and placed him in the chair upon Sir John Everard's lap, requiring him still to come forth of the chair,'' (it is difficult to see how he could) " which he obstinately refusing, Mr. Treasurer and others laid their hands gently upon him, and removed him out of the chair, and placed Sir John Davies therein, whereupon Sir John Everard/ and alle the rest who gave their votes for him, being in number four score and eighteen, in a contentious manner departed from the House into the voide room appointed for the divisions, where they remained because the outer doore was locked which was by direction of the House when they began to sit." The " Declaration " then relates how Sir John Blenerhassett and others were sent to summon the Opposition to forsake its Cave of Adullam and return to its appropriate place which reasonable request was refused, " William Talbot the lawyer making

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answer for alle in these words, Those within the House are no House, and their Speaker no Speaker of the House, but wee are the House and Sir John Everard is our Speaker, therefore wee will not join with you, but wee will complain to my Lord Deputy and the King shall heare of it" Which he very soon did ad nauseam, for in the course of the next four days the Catholics sent in no less than five petitions successively to the unfortunate Viceroy, setting forth all their grievances, censuring the undue returns of certain knights and burgesses from the newly incorporated towns, and declaring they were afraid to enter the House lest the Protestant members should murder them. (!) They requested an audience but when the Viceroy expressed his willingness to receive them they failed to attend upon him, and instead of doing so sent in a sixth petition, recapitulating all their grievances and adding demands which are described in their opponents' Declaration as; — "Such and soe strange, soe unlikely to be believed as they were not to be equalled by anie accident how rare soever transmitted to pos- teritie." This amazing petition which the Protestant members describe for the benefit of their " posterity " demanded from his sacred Majesty's Deputy and Repre- sentative copies of all Royal Letters for making new corporations, and lastly a copy of the Commission for holding the Parliament itself. With the British Solomon's notions of his Royal Prerogative it is not difficult to imagine how he was likely to receive such requests and how the pressing necessity of an extended " plantation " was made apparent to his infallible kingcraft. The Protestants concluded their " Declaration " in a stvle of

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plausibility and pedantry skilfully suited to the Royal taste : — " The Lord Deputie to every one of these peti- tions with extreme patience gave most milde and satis- factory answers, Sed opus et olium perdidit unto persuasion that moved to conformitie they were as deaf adders, no words tuning a pleasing sound unto their ears that did not say, — " Away with the new corporations ! Cast Davies oute of the chair and place Everard in it ! " *

A deputation of Catholic members went over to lay their grievances before James, while the Protestants dis- patched a missive informing him that their opponents' travelling expenses were paid by recusants, and their " stores of eggs and butter " for the voyage furnished by the " monks of Kilcrea," but before petition or counter petiton could reach Whitehall James sent Commis- sioners to Dublin to investigate the whole affair. They returned a fair and sensible report stating that only in a very few instances in the north of Ireland and in Limerick had there been anything like intimidation at the elections. Clogher in Tyrone which had not been incorporated had returned burgesses to the Parliament but this wrong- ful election was made void. The Commissioners also stated, that after the strictest enquiry they had found that the assertion made in the Protestant members' Declaration that the Roman Catholic members had come to attend Parliament followed by troops of armed retainers, meant to overawe their opponents and the Viceroy, was alto- gether untrue and that no Roman Catholic member had had any such following. Finally the speaker elect Sir John Davies took his place in the chair, but the Session

* V. Appendix I.

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ended abruptly having effected no more good than other sessions, of Irish Parliaments before and since and rather less harm. The new boroughs (Tralee and Dingle amongst the rest,) retained their charters and grew busy and prosperous.

In 1634 Robert Blennerhassett first settler of his name at Killorglin or Castle Conway, second son of John Blennnerhassett of Ballyseedy, and grandson of the member in 16 13 was returned for the borough of Tralee. Then came after a few years of Stratford's rule the insurrection of 1641 breaking out on the 23rd of October, St. Ignatius' day, when the misguided Pierce Ferriter and his followers plundered and destroyed the rising borough, helping to delay for more than a century their country's progress and the gradual emancipation of their co-religionists from oppressive laws. The Blennerhassetts appear to have taken little part in the troubles of 1641-49, but one of the name is said to have served during those years against the rebels in Glanerought and Iveragh. The writer of a curious old MS. history of Kerry (pre- served in the R. I. A. and bearing date about 1698,) who was evidently a Catholic inhabitant of one or other of these baronies relates the great cruelties practised in Iveragh by Colonel Nelson and Captain Barrington, who it is alleged hunted down the fugitive Irish with a large bloodhound which tore and mangled them so frightfully that for generations the proverbial phrase in Iveragh, describing any great misfortune or act of enmity was — " as bad as Barrington's bloodhound to us." But he adds that Captain 'Hassett although serving on the Cromweliian side was "an honourable and merciful man,"

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and that Irish prisoners deemed it a piece of good for- tune when they were entrusted to his keeping. It is probable that this Captain 'Hassett was Robert the MP. of 1634. the husband of Avis Conway, and that his services to the Commonwealth saved her estate from confiscation, for many of her relatives and near con- nexions were Royalists and Roman Catholics. Her aunt was married to the O'Sullivan More and some particular instances of kindness on the part of Captain "Hassett to the rebels of that Chieftain's Sept- are men- tioned by the old historian.

Notwithstanding his Cromwellian services Captain 'Hassett or Blennerhassett— the name is constantly spelt in either way in old documents — seems to have received a full and free pardon at the Restoration and one of his Ballyseedy cousins represented Tralee in the Parliament of 1 66 1. In another quarter of a century however the whole face of affairs in Ireland was changed, and a real danger threatened the flourishing sapling of the old Cum- brian tree which had weathered many an Irish tempest. The eight members returned by Kerry and its boroughs in 16S9 to James the Second's so-called Parliament were, Nicholas Brown, John Brown, Roger Mac Elligott and his cousin Cornelius McGillicuddy, Edward Rice, John and Maurice Hussey, and John Brown junior. Fore- most on the list of persons whom these gentlemen and their fellow legislators declared attainted if they did not surrender before the 10th of August following were five of the Blennerhassetts of Ballyseedy and Killorglin. What course the Ballyseedy branch took in this extremity is bv no means certain. There is no proof that they

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sided actively with either party but we know that they were closely connected with the Crosbie family, and Sir Thomas Crosbie was a High Churchman and a Jacobite holding a commission in King James' army. John and Thomas Blennerhassett of Killorglin or Castle Conway, the sons of the Captain of 1 641, at once took the part that became them. Scorning to surrender or to remain cooped up in Kerry dependant on the mercies of the Tories and rapparees whom James's mis-government had let loose on the unfortunate colony at the White House,* they resolved to join Sir Thomas Southwell's gallant band of two hundred gentlemen and one brave lady who were about to endeavour to make their way from Mallow to Sligo, where Lord Kingston with a considerable force at his command was fighting for King William. John Blenerhas- sett the eldest of these two brothers was the writer of the following Genealogical Records, which contain more than one allusion to the result of this perilous journey, though it is characteristic of the son of the ''generous foe" of the O'Sullivans in 1641-49 that those allusions chiefly refer to acts of kindness shown to him and his brother in their captivity, rather than to the bad faith and cruelty of James and his councillors. Six other Kerry gentlemen accompanied Sir Thomas Southwell, viz. : Thomas Pon- sonby and his brother Henry, (like the Blenerhassetts of ancient Cumbrian lineage,) William Gun, senior, and his son William, Thomas Collis and Christopher Hilliard. The lady who accompanied them was the wife of William Gun the younger, and the daughter of Colonel Townsend of Castle Townsend in the county of Cork. The party ;

* V. Appendix III.

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proceeded from Mallow through O'Brien's Bridge by Killalloe and Portumna, until they reached Loughrea, where on the 1st of March 16SS-9 their progress was barred by a body of James's troops under the command of Captain Burke and accompanied by James Power, titular High Sheriff of Galway. The travellers were divided in opinion as to the use of resistance in the midst of the enemy's country before a fresh and strongly armed force, but Captain Miller who led them cried out '.' Gen- tlemen you have the sword before and the gallows behind !" and his spirited remonstrance found its warmest seconder in that member of the party whose weak frame might have well excused her counselling a surrender. Mrs. Gun however on the contrary earnestly entreated her husband and his companions to "fight and die honourably rather than trust to the mercy of a perfidious enemy !n But her advice was overruled and conditions were concluded " on the field/' As the night was falling they could not be reduced to writing but the substance of them was, that the Protestant gentlemen should have their lives preserved and that passes should be given them, and horses in exchange for their own (reserved for James's service) to enable them to return to their homes. Further it was agreed, that if they desired it they should have a troop of horse to protect them on their journey, but they were bound not to proceed towards Sligo or the north of Ireland. Notwithstanding this agreement, acknowledged in the following letter from the High Sheriff, and also in a certificate signed by Captain Burke, the two hundred gentlemen on their surrender and their lady companion were conveyed to Galway and there

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placed in confinement as prisoners accused of high treason.

" A Ceppie of the High Sheriff's Letter delivered to Mr. French on Good Friday, 16SS."

•'TO THE LORD DEPUTY/'

" Loughreagh, March 9, 16S9. " May it please your Excellency — It happened on Friday last the first day of this instant I had intelligence that a party of horse with Sir Thomas Southwell and others were making their way through this county to Sligo or the north, being routed out of Munster, whereupon the horse and foot in this town being commanded by Captain Thomas Bourke and Captain Dawley made ready to intercept the said Thomas and his party, who met upon a pass and faced one another, but a treaty being proposed they came to a capitulation wherein it was agreed j that the said Thomas and his party should lay dawn such horses and arms as w 'ere Jit for the king's service, and after so doing that they and every of their lives should be secured the ju, and dismissed with such parses and convoys as may bring them safe to their own habitations, without any harm to their persons or goods. All which with submission at their requests I humbly offer to your Excel- lency, and subscribe

" Your Excellency's most humble

" and obedient servant,

"James Power.''

Arrived in Galway, the unfortunate gentlemen and the lady whose intuitive estimation of the Jacubite urood faith had been so fully justified, were brought before Baron Martin and after a short trial all except Mrs. Gun were condemned to death ! For some reason or

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other, probably from very shame and fear of the effect on their cause of such a scandalous breach of honour, the Galway authorities delayed the execution of the sentence. There is no reason indeed to doubt that amongst them there were high minded, generous Catholics, English and Scotch as well as Irish, who would have fulfilled the terms of the Loughrea agreement had the party of mer- ciless bigots to whom the infatuated James surrendered his kingly honour and his conscience permitted them to do so. For fourteen long months the unhappy Protestant gentlemen remained in Galway, suffering the miseries of close imprisonment cold, hunger, and the daily expec- tation of a violent death. During this time their leader Sir Thomas Southwell described as a "very hopeful young gentleman, " so won upon the favour of the Earl of Seaforth, one of James's most devoted adherents, that he was able to obtain a Royal Warrant addressed to the Attorney General Sir Richard Xagle "to pass a pardon" for the Protestant Baronet. Then indeed was fully seen the miserable state of bondage to which James had re- duced himself, and the entire truth of Archbishop King's statement that it was by a stern necessity "he was laid aside as a Destroyer of his people, and a Disinheritor of the Crown of his ancestors.'' The valuable old tracts quoted by Archdeacon Rowan in the " Kerry Magazine " (vol. iii. p. 41,) relate that "the Earl of Seaforth showed the warrant to Sir Richard Xagle but he in a most unman- nerly and churlish fashion refused to obey it saying, " It was more than the king could do ! " The Earl returned to his royal master " continues the contemporary account of the transaction, " and positively tokl him that it was

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not in his power to grant a pardon, whereupon the poor prince was overcome with grief and passion and locked himself up in his closet. This stiffness of the Attorney General was grounded on the Act of Attainder passed in their parliament whereby the king is debarred from the prerogative of pardoning, and the subject foreclosed from all expectation of mercy, as may be seen by said Act hereafter in its due place. He who in England is flattered into a conceit of absolute and unlimited power to. dis- pense with the established laws, is in Ireland not allowed the privilege inherent to all sovereign power by the laws of nations to pardon the offence of a subject."*

In the month of May or June 1690, the Galway prisoners were removed to Dublin and sent at first to the White Friars, a house near the College, where they remained under charge of a jailor who placed barrels of gunpowder in the cellars beneath the rooms they occupied threatening to blow the building up if matters went ill with James's army. An appeal was made to Colonel Luttrell, the governor of the City, who denied that he had authorized this last barbarity but at the same time commended the zeal of the jailor. On the 24th of June the unfortunate gentlemen were removed from the White Friars to the Round Church and all the Newgate prisoners sent with them, so that they were well nigh stirled by the crowd which the warm season rendered the more into- lerable. The charitable contributions of their fellow Pro- testants collected regularly we are told in the church.es " every Lord's Day " for their benefit, could no longer

* From a tract entitled " An account of the Transactions of the late King James in Ireland." LunJon. 16^0.

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reach them no Protestants daring to appear in the streets or at public worship. The time wore wearily on until late in the afternoon of the memorable and glorious 1 st of July, there came to the metropolis flying rumours, that sometimes on such imminent occasions seem as if borne by supernatural agencies, of the result of that great struggle on the fair green banks of the Irish river, a struggle in which it is no exaggeration to say the destiny of half Europe was involved. First the news ran, "King James has won the day — the English are flying— William of Orange is a prisoner •" and the unfortunate Protestants trembled listening in their hiding places and in the foul gaols to the cheers of the triumphant Jacobites. Towards five o'clock however straggling parties of .Irish soldiers spurring fast their tired horses through the streets told a different and a truer tale, and as the summer twilight deepened into night James galloped in hot haste into the courtyard of the Royal Castle, the grey old citadel of the land which his ancestors had held so gallantly for five hundred years and which his imbecile tyranny had lost in a twelvemonth. The descendants of the men who had helped them to hold it were perishing in his dun- geons and for the rest, for the brave men who had fought and bled that day for his worthless cause, the royal ingrate had only taunts and reproaches. His first words to Lady Tyrconnell the wife of his Viceroy as she advanced to meet him on the Castle stairs were, " Madam your countrymen run well. " The beautiful Duchess had a large share of the ready wit which was also a redeeming feature in the character of her husband brave, blustering, Dick Talbot. With fine irony she instantly

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replied,—" But I sec your Gracious Majesty lias won the race /" He hastened as fast as horses could carry him from Dublin to Waterford and there embarked for France, declaring th.it nothing should induce him ever to com- mand an Irish army again, a taunt that was met by the drolly Irish oner of one of his deserted followers who said when reproached with the defeat of the Boyne, " If you will only change kings with us we will fight the battle over again and beat you ! ?'

When James and Tyrconnell had left Dublin the Pro- testants began to breathe freely. Captain Robert Fitzgerald, the second son of the sixteenth Fan of Kildare, and the grandson of the Earl of Cork, although he had been active in promoting the Restoration of Charles II. and had long and loyally served the Crown was on the accession of James deprived of his estate and committed to prison. During the Boyne he had been confined in the College, but on hearing of the defeat of their master his guards lost courage and he walked unmo- lested from his prison to the Castle which he found completely deserted by all but a Captain Farlow. Cap- tain Fitzgerald took possession of the fortress for William and Mary and with some other Protestants wrote to the King who arrived in Dublin on the following day. Archdeacon Rowan quoting from Macaulay says that the Galway prisoners smarting under the sense of their violated capitulation, and eighteen months of confinement, terror, and ill treatment were disposed to retaliate vio- lently on their persecutors, " entering their houses and demanding arms " but the strong and even hand of William checked those excesses, and our countrymen

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were doubtless not the least demonstrative among the " hundreds who next day in College Green ran wildly about, embracing the soldiers of King William hanging fondly on the necks of the horses of the English dragoons and shaking hands with each other" (Hist, of Eng. vol iii. p. 642). Captain Fitzgerald had the honour of presenting his Majesty with the keys of the City and was afterwards made a member of his Privy Council. Kerry men can easily picture to themselves the warm welcome that greeted the released prisoners on their return to Grotto, Rattoo, Baltygarron and Castle Conway.

In the year 1692 John Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy represented the borough of Tralee in the first of a long succession of Irish parliaments whose watchword and guiding maxim was Vce Vict is / This John Blenner- hassett was probably the husband of Margaret Crosbie and the father of John who was returned for the county in 1709 when he was yet under age. According to an article on the Parliamentary Representation of Kerr}' in the "Kerry Magazine," vol. iii. p. 172, he continued to- represent Kerry or one of its boroughs until 1769 (his son and grandson being also members of the House.) and was popularly known as the " Father of the Irish House of Commons." In 1724 Conway Blennerhassett eldest son of John of Killorglin was returned member for Tralee but deceased within the year. The Killorglin Blenner- hassetts seem to have taken little part in the corrupt politics or rather miserable borough mongering of Ire- land in the early part of the last century. The writer of the above-mentioned article in the " Kerry Magazine" has described it pretty accurately, so far as our county was

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concerned, but when observing that the election of 1727 the result of the famous Tripartite Agreement between Crosbies, Dennys, and 'Hassetts of the Ballyseedy branch " gave political quiet to Kerry for twenty years,"' he might have added, that this auspicious era diffused a more general blessing extending in fact over the whole island, inasmuch as the parliament which then assembled in Dublin had a venerable existence of three and thirty years. Of the three hundred members it contained two hundred and sixteen sat for boroughs, the two hundred being elected by constituencies having each a hundred electors, and the odd sixteen as well as thirty-six of their fellow members being elected each of them by TEX free and independent voters.

While this senate (presenting altogether as Chief Justice Whiteside has remarked, the aspect of a parish vestry or petty corporation) employed itself in dutifully registering the ordinances of the English Parliament, John Blennerhassett the " Galway prisoner " seems to have resided quietly at Castle Conway which he improved and planted extensively. In justice to the much abused parish-vestry of Chichester House however, it should be stated, that in its earlier sittings several useful laws were passed for draining and cultivating waste lands, and for encouraging the plantation of trees so as to repair the damage done to woods in the preceding century. A tract entitled "Reflections on the Present Crisis a. d. 1794," by Lord Mountmorres preserved in the British Museum Collection gives a summary of these Acts. The Statute 5 George II. enacted that a tenant holding for a term of seven years who reclaimed a portion of waste land should con-

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tinue in his holding until all the sum he had expended was repaid him. If one life only in a tenant's lease remained, or that he held by courtesy, or for a term of fourteen years two parts out of three of the expense he had incurred were to be repaid him. Tenants planting a certain number of trees were entitled to half of them, and for " every pear and apple tree duly fenced and preserved which shall be profitable at the expiration of the planter's lease'* he was to be allowed the sum of one shilling. In 1765 a Statute vested the whole property of trees registered at the quar- ter sessions in the planter, with a right to fell the same saving only to the landlord the right to buy such trees for their value. Tenants holding under leases of lives renew- able for ever were excepted from the provisions of this law, and according to Lord Mountmorres a seventh part of the land of Ireland was let in that way. He adds that this tenure was first introduced into Ireland by the Duke of Ormond, who was greatly in debt and sought to raise large sums of money by fines, thus borrowing at the ex- pense of posterity.

The small concessions and encouragements to tenants afforded by the Parliament of George II., effected some good although of course the majority of the nation derived no benefit from them. Aided by the natural advantages of our mild western climate, and a soil which, although less fruitful than the "golden belt"' of the midland counties, has still a large share of that wonderful fertility and regenerative power which extorted the admiration of Fynes Morrison, Spenser, and Dekker the district around Castle Conway soon grew prosperous and pleasant to the eye. A Tour in Ireland in 1775 by P. Luscombe

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states that the land in the neighbourhood of Kilcolman was planted extensively with hops, and that single apple trees in the orchards at Ballygamboon produced each three hogsheads of cider.* One of these trees the tourist says covered two hundred and eighteen square yards and could have sheltered seventy-two horses under its spread- ing branches. He notices also the mansions at Bush- field (Mr. Godfrey's) Prospect Hall, (Mr. Supple's) Barley Mount (Mr. Crump's) and Ballycrispin the seat of the Spring family ancestors of the Rt. Hon. Lord Monteagle. Jenkin Conway was bound by the terms of his grant to build a strong castle forty-four feet long, and thirty feet high within a bawn or enclosure of three hundred and twenty feet in circumference. This he did, using it is likely the fragments of the original MacCarthy fortress destroyed in 1602. His descendants added on to the Undertaker's keep a fine manor house the demesne and terraced gardens of which were long remembered in Kerry. Mrs. FitzSimons the accomplished daughter ot the late Daniel O'Connell M.P. herself a descendant through both parents of Conways and Blennerhassetts, has informed me that her grand-aunt Mrs. Moynehan, a lady who survived to a venerable age, has often de- scribed to her the beauty of the old-fashioned gardens at Castle Conway and the stately but genial hospitality dispensed there in the lifetime of Conway Blennerhassett the grandson and heir of the Galway Prisoner. The wretched condition of country roads during the last century (although in Ireland it was calculated that dur- ing the twenty years preceding 1790 a sum of not less * V. a!>o Smith's Kerry p. 145.

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than ,£200,000 had been spent upon them) made fre- quent calls such as are now exchanged in the course of an afternoon's drive an impossibility. A gay season in Dublin was almost as much out of the question, when an intended journey thither on horseback with saddle bags and loaded pistols involved the necessity of making one's will in anticipation of accidents by flood and field, tones and highwaymen. Country neighbours were therefore accustomed to pay lengthened visits to one another, especially about Christmas, which were prolonged lar beyond the little or " Ladies' Christmas'7 of the 12th of January. We know from the literature of the time and other sources that the provincial squires of the eighteenth century were generally an ignorant and boorish class ol men, dividing their days between the covers and the stable and winding up with deep drinking bouts to which their coarse hospitality invited oftenest the hardest drinker and loudest swearer lay or clerical. Notwithstanding the brilliant defence of these "line old English Tory times " attempted in Lord Mahon's last volume the pro- vincial life of the period between i;co and 1760 must have been generally dull and unattractive to say the least of it. It was therefore rather a pleasant surprise in looking over old letters and documents preserved for the last hundred and eighty years in Kerry families to meet with traces of an education, taste, and culture one did not expect to find existing at that time in a county so remote from the metropolis. Portions of Captain Blenncrhassett's MSS. contain extracts from the best French authors apparently made for the instruction of his children. The Trench language now familiar to everyone was I suspect

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an unknown tongue to the provincial squires of England in 1724. But what is even more remarkable is the fine legible hand-writing and correct spelling of ladies in our county at the same period, when Swift said not one gentleman's daughter in ten could write or spell her mother tongue correctly. The home circle at Castle Conway in olden times was evidently a refined and edu- cated as well as a pleasant one.

Conwav Blennerhassett whose birth is registered at p. 42 of the Genealogical Records married Elizabeth, daughter of Major Thomas Lacy, a member of one of the most ancient Anglo-Xorman families settled in Ire- land, and had issue three sons, John and Thomas who died young, and Harman Blenerhassett who survived to be his heir. . He had also six daughters, 1, Susanna who married the 26th Lord Kinsale, their grandson was the grandfather of the present Michael Conrad L>e Courcy thirtieth Baron of Kinsale, 2, Elisabeth married Daniel Mac Gillicuddy Esq. son of the Mac Gillicuddy of the Reeks by Catherine Chute of Chute Hall and died with-' out issue. 3. Catherine married Captain Agnew of Holish county Durham by whom she had several children. 4, Margaret married Captain Coxon by whom she had one daughter. 5, Anne married Hon. Michael De Courcy Admiral of the Line, K.T.S. brother of Lord Kinsale her sister's husband, and had bv him two sons one ot whom married Mary Blennerhassett of Ballyseedy (v. Burke's Peerage,) and a daughter Anne married to Sir John Gordon Sinclair Bart. Avice Blennerhassett the sixth daughter of Conway Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Lacy died unmarried.

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About the period of the first French Revolution Harman Blennerhasselt the brother of these ladies and the only surviving son of his parents visited the Continent an 1 resided there for several months. A visit to the principal European courts and cities or the " grand tour " as it -was then called was considered necessary to complete the education and impart a polish to the manners of every Irish gentleman of good estate. "They lose much that lose sight of home, more than ever schoolboy wept for,'' is one of the true sayings which Landor makes the Prior of Boxley utter in his conversation with Richard Cceur de Lion." Beauchamp Bagenal of Bargy Castle like the Scotch Squires of Burns' Twa Dogs passed through the cities of the Continent " riving his father's auld entails,'' dazzling people and princes with his splen- did equipage, gambling, fighting, scaling convent walls and carrying off countesses according to the gossip of the day, and of course rent-racking his miserable tenants to support his senseless extravagance. The danger to Harman Blennerhassett's fate and fortunes came in a subtler and yet more pernicious form. His great natural abilities were developed and cultivated by foreign travel, and especially by the intimate friendships he formed at Paris with the literary men and philosophers of the school of Voltaire and Rousseau. He returned to his Irish home with the intellectual acquirements and polished manners of an accomplished scholar and gentleman.

* " Alas ! my Liege society is froth above and dregs below and we have hard work to keep the middle <>f it sweet and sound, to com- municate right reason and tu preserve right feeling-. In voyages you may see too much and learn loo little. . . We lose much \vhen we k»e fight of home more than ever schoolboy wept for." — (Imagi- nary Conversations p, 3.)

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An aged relative of bis several years deceased, an excel- lent judge of character and disposition, used to describe him as possessing every gift and attraction that could render a man happy in himself and beloved by his fellows, " save only " the good old lady used to add sadly, " the one thing needful, faith in Christ.*' His naturally frank, and independent spirit did not permit Harman Blenner- hassett to conceal the opinions and sentiments which so deeply shocked the simple untravelled gentlefolk at home, pious and loyal believers in Church and State, and un- happy differences arose which the warm Irish affection between parents and child alone prevented from ripening into serious discord. After his fathers death however, Harman Blennerhassett decided to seek a more congenial home in the young Western Republic beyond the Atlantic, whose founders he had known during his residence in France. He sold to Lord Yen try, the husband of his father's cousin german, even* acre of the old, manorial estate granted to his Conway ancestors by Elizabeth and James I. and settled in a beautiful island, in one of the American rivers, where his ample fortune enabled him to collect around him books, pictures, flowers, statuary, until the place came to be known and described as a small paradise in itself. He became involved however after a time in some political disputes and his house and lovely demesne were burnt and plundered by a party of rowdies. Finally, he seems to have settled once more under British rule in Canada, and in a letter from thence dated 26th July 1S19, enquiring about some property in the county Longford to which lie believed himself entitled, as the heir-at-law of his

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great grandfather Colonel Wentworth Harman, he alludes to his friend Thomas Addis Emmett of New York, who was indeed his relative through the MacLoughlins and Masons of Ballydowney.

The grandchildren of Harman Blenerhasett are still I believe living in America, but he was himself the last male descendant of the eldest son of the Gal way Prisoner that resided in Kerry or possessed the hereditary estate. The Genealogical Records will supply further information as to his immediate family but in offering them to the public which I am enabled to do through the kind courtesy of John Hurly Esq., Fenit House, the owner of the original MS., I wish to observe that my first intention was to endeavour to arrange them in the orthodox pedigree form, with Roman and Arabic numerals, but finding that the multitudinous descents and alliances given would render any such attempt to disentangle the endless web of Kerry cousinship a most tedious and difficult task, I thought it best to print the old MS. exactly as the author wrote it, especially as notwithstanding its want of order and method its details are easy to follow and understand. The family tradition is that the earlier portion of it was written during Captain Blennerhassett's imprisonment at Galway but when the latest entries were made at Castle Conway he must have reached an advanced age. I am sorry to say that owing to the want of due preservation of our parish registers in Kerry during the eighteenth century I have been unable to obtain the dates of his birth, mar- riage and death. A correspondent of the Times lately suggested that copies of country parish registers should be deposited in metropolitan offices where they would be

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accessible to the general public. This plan if earned out would be of great use to those who are seeking authentic genealogical information and who feel as a writer in Notes and Queries has well said that " Genealogy ought to be the handmaid of history, not a romance invented to please any one who wants a pedigree."

In mentioning my obligations to Mr. John Hurly for the loan of his ancestor's MS. I must at the same time express my very sincere thanks for many services rendered to me in my task of editing this little work by Mrs. Fitz Simons, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr. W. M. Henessyofthe Public Record Office, Dublin, Mr.W. M. Hardinge, M.R.I.A., "Woodlands, Monkstown, Dub- lin, Mr. Francis Blennerhassett Chute, Chute Hall, Tralee, Mr. S. M. Hussey, Edenburn, Castle Island, Mr. F. A. Eagar, Xormanton house, Sandymount, and Mr. George Raymond B.L. Dublin.

Cfje TBlenncrfmssett 13ctugtce

S.D. 1580-1736.

1815046

Cfjc TSlcnncrfcassctt Pefcigtcc.

OBERT BLENNERHASSETT of Flimby in the County of Cumberland, with his aged [S*/V^/S Father Thomas, came to the County of "** Kerry, Ireland, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth with several undertakers, and particularly with Arthur Denny, Sir "William Herbert, and Jenkin Conway, to plant the forfeited estates of Gerrot Earl of Desmond.

This Robert by Elizabeth daughter of the said Jenkin Conway had issue three sons and one daughter. The sons were John, Edward and Arthur Blennerhassett the daughter was Elizabeth. John the eldest son by Martha Lyn had three sons viz.: John, Robert and Thomas and three daughters, Mary, Alice and Lucy. John, the eldest son of John and Martha, married Elizabeth Denny and had issue, Arthur married to Anne daughter of Sir Doyle Maynard and died J"./., John and one daughter viz : Ruth Blennerhasset This last mentioned John upon the

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death of his eldest brother Arthur without issue suc- ceeded, and by his wife Margaret Crosbie left issue five sons viz : John, Arthur since dead, Thomas, Pierce a lawyer, since dead, and "William and one daughter Agnes. This John, first son of John Blennerhassett and Margaret Crosbie, by his wife Jane Denny has issue, anno 1733, two sons and four daughters. The sons are John born 15th June 1 7 1 5, Arthur born 19th February 1719. The daughters are Agnes born 2nd May 1722, Arabella born 21st December 1726, Letitia born 28th February 1728, Man- born 6th October 1729. Thomas Blennerhassett, third son of John and Margaret, married Avice Spring and has issue, anno 1733, two sons John born 4th Au- gust 172S, and Arthur born 5th August 1731.

William, fifth son of said John and Margaret, by Mary Morley daughter of Alderman John Morley of Cork has issue none, anno 1733. Agnes Blennerhassett, only daughter of John and Margaret aforesaid, by Robert Rogers of Ashgrove in the County Cork has issue three sons and two daughters. The sons are John, Robert and William, the daughters are Anne, and Agnes Rogers who married Doctor Richard Frankland. And the said Margaret Crosbie is now married to the Hon. Captain David Barry brother to the Earl of Barrymore. Edward Blennerhassett, the second son of the first mentioned Robert and Elizabeth Conway, by Mar)' Yauclier, a de- scendant of Lord Vauclerc in France of whom Philip De Comines makes mention in his history, had issue one daughter Anne Blennerhassett, who by Captain John Baker of Castle Eve in the County Kilkenny had issue, three sons and two daughters. The sons were John,

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Edward, and William and the daughters were Isabella and Elizabeth Baker. John Baker the eldest of the three sons by * * * ::: Mihill had issue an only son Henry who married Hannah Cook, daughter of Phanuel Cook of Garron Gibbon in Tipperary, and by her left issue an only daughter Henrietta, who married Henry Baker of Kathcolbin, son of the before mentioned Edward Baker, and has issue, anno 1733, a son John. Isabella, eldest daughter of Captain John Baker and Anne Blennerhas- sett, by * * * * Wall of Phrumplestown in Kildare left issue a son and a daughter, Garrett and Ellis Wall who are both married. Elizabeth Baker, second daughter of Captain John Baker and Anne Blennerhassett, by Walter Milbanck of Raheen near Ross Mac Cruon left issue Samuel, Anne, Isabella and Henrietta Milbanck.

Arthur Blennerhassett, third son of first mentioned Robert and Elizabeth Conway, by Mary Fitzgerald of Ballynard in the County Limerick had issue seven sons and three daughters- The sons were Edward, Robert, John, Thomas, Arthur, Gerrard and William. The daughters were Elizabeth, Annabella and Ellen. John and William the third and seventh sons died unmarried as did Elizabeth. Edward the first son of said Arthur and Mary married Elizabeth Windall (an heiress by her mother * * * * Rice of Riddlestown in the county of Lymerick) and left issue Rice Blennerhassett and two daughters. Rice Blennerhas-ett is married to Mary Buckworth of Cashel and has as yet, anno 1 733. no issue by her. The first daughter of Edward Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Windall married * * * * Bowden of * * * * and left issue, and * * * * second daughter of Edward

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and Elizabeth by * * * * Crofts left issue. Robert Blen- nerhassett, second son of Arthur and Mary, was Prime Ser- ' jeant in the reign of Queen Anne and by Alice Osborne, daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne of Ticmor in the county of Waterford, and widow of Waiters of Cullen, left issue one son and four daughters. The son is Arthur, and the daughters are Mary, Annabella, Alice and Elizabeth. Arthur Blennerhassett an able lawyer, King's Counsel and member of Parliament chosen for the Burrough of Tralee, married Mar)- Pope heiress of Derryknockane in county of Lymerick and has yet no issue, anno 1733. Mar}-, first daughter of Robert and Alice, by Doctor Thomas Squire of Coolrane in the county of Londonderry has issue, one son and three daughters, anno 1735, tne son 's Thomas, the daughters Alice, Anne and Mary. Anna- bella, second daughter of Robert and Alice, by John Groves of Ballyhymock in county of Corke has issue three sons, (illegible) and four daughters, Elinor, Arabella, Catherine and Dorothy. Arabella, second of these daughters, married Edward Smith of Killpatrick county Cork. Thomas Blennerhassett, fourth son of Arthur by Mary Fitzgerald, married Ruth Blennerhassett his cousin, only daughter of John by Elizabeth Denny, and left issue two daughters, viz : Mary and Jane. Mary, first of these two daughters, married George Rowan of Maghera in the county of Londonderry and left issue three sons, viz: John, George and Thomas Rowan and seven daughters Mary, Margaret, Ruth, Sarah, Katherine, Jane and Elizabeth Rowan. John Rowan, first son, by Sarah Leslie grand daughter of Dean John Leslie famed for his services in the wars of 168S among the Enniskillen men,

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left issue, anno 1732, when he died a son George and two daughters Man- and Sarah Rowan. Mary Rowan, first daughter of George and Mary Blennerhassett, married William Mullens of Burnham near Dingle and has issue, anno 1733, three sons and five daughters. The sons are George, Frederick and Richard and the daughters are Mary, Frances, Anne, and Katherine Mullens. Margaret •Rowan, second daughter of George and Mary, married Roger Crimble of Donaghadee in the County Down and hath no issue. Ruth Rowan, third daughter of George and Mary, married Charles Chambers of Letterkenny in Donegal and has no issue. Sarah Rowan, fourth daughter of George and Mary, married first William Shiercliffe of Castle Gregory and had no issue. By her second husband George Cash ell of Tipperary she has issue, anno 1 735, two sons George and Henry and three daughters Mary, Frances and Ruth CasheL Katherine Rowan, the fifth daughter of George Rowan and Mary Blenerhassett, by Pierce Chute of O'Brenane has issue, anno 1733, three sons and four daughters viz : Eusebius, George, Richard and Mary, Charity, Anne and Catherine Chute.

Jane Blennerhassett, second daughter of Thomas and Ruth, married Richard Hall of Ballyconnigan County Cork son of John Hall and Joanna Stout of Youghal (which John was the son of John Hall, an English gentleman and one of the Prebendaries of St. Finbarrye's Cork, by Julia O'Ryan. niece of Master Dermot O'Ryan of Sullaghode, county Tipperary) and left issue when she died, anno 1725, a son John born January 9th 1725, and two daughters Mary and Joanna Hall.

Arthur Blenerhassett, fifth son of Arthur and Mary

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Fitzgerald, died unmarried, a Senior Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a man of singular probity, universal learn- ing and sound judgment, — he fell — unhappily to the great regret and harm of his friends, " nltj-a * * * * (illegible) * * * * * * * Gerrald Blennerhassett, sixth son of said Arthur and Mary, by Christiana Bayley of Lough Gur in the county Lymerick, had issue one son viz : Arthur and six daughters viz : Mar}-, Rachel, Annabella, Ellen, Elizabeth and Christiana. Arthur Blennerhassett by Margaret Hayes of (illegible) in county Lymerick has issue, anno 1733, one son and one dau Hayes and Ellen, {and in 1735 a son named Gerrard.) Mary Blennerhassett, eldest daughter of Gerrald and Christiana, by Maurice Wall of Dunmoylan an able lawyer, the representative of Wall of Dunmoylan, left issue one son John Wall a young gentleman of great hopes who died lately much lamented and a daughter Mary. Rachel Blennerhassett, second daughter of said Gerard and Christiana, by Daniel Heaphy of * * * * in the county Lymerick has issue, anno 1733, six sons and three daughters. The sons are John, Gerard, Blennerhassett, Robert, Tottenham, and Arthur Heaphy, the daughters are Mar)-, Annabella and Christiana. Annabella Blennerhassett, third daughter of Gerrard and Christiana, died unmarried. Ellen Blenner- hassett, fourth daughter of Gerrard and Christiana, married Thomas Spires Gabbett of Baggotstown in the county Lymerick (dead) and left issue by him Ellen Spires Gabbet. Elizabeth Blennerhassett, fifth daughter of Gerrard and Christiana, married in 1733 William Harding of Coomgrin in the county Lymerick. Christiana Blennerhassett, sixth daughter of Gerrard and Christiana,

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by Thomas Lloyd of Kildroman in the county Lymerick has issue one son, viz: Richard Lloyd, anno 1 731, de- ceased, (since another son Richard, and El! en and a son born anno 1 735-) Annabella, second daughter of Arthur Blennerhassett and Mar}- Fitzgerald, married Captain Abraham Green of Ballymachrist in County Lymerick, one of the brave Derry officers who preserved that city against a long siege ,in 16S9. Ellen, third daughter of said Arthur and Mary, by Henry Bay ley of Lough Gur left issue.

Elizabeth Blennerhassett, only daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Conway, by Captain George Norton of Moyagh Castle, County Clare, had issue Elizabeth Norton who by Augustine Fitzgerald (mine and Brother Thomas's kind friend in our fourteen months imprisonment in Galway, anno 16S9,) left issue one son William and one daughter Ellen. William Fitzgerald married Jane Bryan of Bane- more in the County Kilkenny and had issue, anno 17 19, three sons and three daughters. The sons are Augustine, Norton since dead, and William, the daughters are Eliza- beth, Elinor and Walcote Fitzgerald. Augustine married Martha O'Ryan, only daughter of Major Morgan O'Ryan of Silver Grove in the County Clare, and has issue one son named Norton. William, third son of William Fitzgerald and Jane Bryan of Banemore, married Elizabeth Spaight of the Lodge, County Clare. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of said William and Jane married Henry levers of Mount levers and has issue by him two sons and three daughters, the sons are Augustine and Norton, the daughters are Jane, Ellen and Hannah Maria levers. Eleanor Fitzgerald, second daughter of William and Jane, married John

42 The Blennerhassett Pedigree.

Mincheon of Glandhilly in the County Tipperary Esq. and has issue by him, anno 1735, live sons v^z : Jonn> William, Francis, Edward, and Thomas Mincheon. Ellen

Fitzgerald, daughter of Augustine Fitzgerald and Eliza- beth Norton, Married Colonel John levers of Mount levers in the County Clare and left issue four sons Henry, Augustine, William and Thomas and six daughters. Robert Blennerhassett, the second son of John and Martha Lyn, by his wife Avice Conway, one of the.grand- daughters and co-heiresses of Jenkin Conway mentioned at page 1, left issue, three sons viz: John {the Writer,) Thomas, Henry and five daughters, Catherine, Avice, Alice, Lucy and Anne Blennerhassett. John, the first son of Robert Blennerhassett by Avice Conway, married Elizabeth Cross daughter of Doctor Benjamin Cross of Blackball in Oxford, first Rector of Christ Church Cork, and afterwards (about anno 1683,) of Sprotsbury in Dor- setshire and had issue six sons and four daughters. The sons were Conway, John, Benjamin, Thomas, Edward and Arthur, and the daughters were Anne, Elizabeth Tryphena and Mary Blenerhassett. Conway, eldest son of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, by his wife Elizabeth daughter of Colonel Wentworth Har- man of Movie in the county Longford left issue, one son by name Conway, born 3d of June 1720, and two daus viz: Avice born 16th of June 17 18 and Mar- garet barn 27th of October 1721. The first mentioned Conway husband of Elizabeth Harman died anno 1724, in the thirty-first year of his age an able Lawyer of great hopes, chosen a member of Parliament for the Burrough of Tralee, he was born October 3d, 1693. John, second

The Blennerhassett Pedigree. 43

son of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, by his wife Anne one of the daughters of Colonel James Dawson of Ballynacourty in the county Tipperarv has issue, anno 1 733, two sons and two daughters, the sons are Dawson born 23d October 1725, and John {dead) and the daugh- ters are Elizabeth and (illegible.) John Blennerhassett was born 6th April 1696. Benjamin, third son of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, by Susanna daughter of the Reverend and learned Dean John Richards left issue Susanna lately dead. This Dean Richards was son of John Richards one of the Eellows of Winchester Col- lege by * * * * Ryeves. and he left another daughter Deborah Richards who by Lieutenant Thomas Lacy had issue, anno 1732, Katherine and Elizabeth Lacy. (*Said Benjamin Blennerhassett was born 13/// September 1698.) Thomas, fourth son of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, was born 13th of August 1700. He married Mary Frankland on the 9th of March, 1735, anc^ nas issue anno 1736, one daughter by name * * * * Edward, fifth son of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, by his wife Mary Fitzgerald, daughter of Lieutenant Edward Fitz- gerald and Jane Leader, has issue anno 1733, a son John, a daughter born in January 1733, and a son Conway born in May 1736,(6*7// Edward Blennerhassett was born 2,1st Mareh, 1705.) Arthur sixth son of said John Blenner- hassett and Elizabeth Cross married Mildred, daughter of Captain Joshua Markham and Mildred Brewster, who is since dead. She was grand-daughter of Sir Francis Brew- ster and had issue, anno 1733, one son by name Joshua.

* All words printed in italics and bracketed are interlineations in the original.

44 The Blcnnerhassett Pedigree.

(Said Arthur Blcnnerhassett was born 19th February 1706.' He married secondly 3th February 1734, Sarah Gun.) Anne, eldest daughter of John Blennerhassett and Eliza- beth Cross, by Denis McGillicuddy of Carruebeg, called "the McGillicuddy" who died anno 1730, has issue living, anno 1733, four sons and three daughters. The sons are Denis McGillicuddy born 15th November 17 18. Cornelius born 28th January 1721. John born 26th July 1727. Philip born 10th February 1729. The daugh- ters are Avice McGillicuddy, Mary, and Elizabeth, to said three daughters their father bv will devised on his estate five hundred pounds viz : to Avice ^200, to Mary £200 to Elizabeth ^100. And said Anne Blennerhas- sett married secondly in January 1731, Thomas Herbert son of Arthur Herbert Esq. of Currens and by him has issue, anno 1733, one son viz : Arthur and a daughter by name Charity. Elizabeth, second daughter of John Blen- nerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, married Townsend Gun Esq. of Rattow, son of William Gun and Katherine Townsend of Castleton in county Cork and has issue, one daughter born 4th July 1725 byname Katherine, and Elizabeth Margaret born 14th September, 1736.

Toumsetid Gun's Ancestry.

William Gun Esq. of Rattow son of William Gun of Lfscahane in 1641, by Elizabeth Waller daughter of Richard Waller of Cully in the county of Tipperary, left issue William and George Gun which last named William married Catherine Townsend as before said, and by her left issue the said Townsend Gun married to Elizabeth

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Blcnncrhassett, another son Francis and three daughters, viz : Rebecca Gun married to Ambrose Moore, Sarah married to Richard Downing, Catherine married to John Roche of Farranpierse all in the County Kerry. George Gun, second son of first William Gun, married Sarah Connor daughter of the learned Archdeacon Thomas Connor of Ardfert and has issue, anno 1733, five sons William, Richard, John, George, Henry, and five daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Honora and Margaret Gun. Elizabeth, eldest of these five, married Richard Morris Esq. of Finuge, son of Counsellor Samuel Morris and Elizabeth Southwell (who was daughter of Richard Southwell of Callow in the County limerick by Lady- Elizabeth O'Brien, daughter of Murrogh Earl of Inchi- quin) and by said Richard Morris has issue, anno 1 733, two sons Samuel and George, and two daughters Sarah and Rachel Morris.

Tryphena, third daughter of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, born 21st of January 1703, by her husband Ulick Fitzmaurice of Duaghnafeely has issue one son and tA\o daughters, viz : Garret born 7th October 1724, Elizabeth born 9th June 1726 and Clifford Fitz- maurice born 9th July 1727. Mary, fourth daughter of John Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross, (born 23rd April 1707,) married to Raymond Fitzmaurice brother to the before mentioned Ulick. (She married herself.) Thomas Blennerhassett, second son of Robert by Avice Conway, by Jane Darby of * * * * in Wales has issue

46 The Blennerhassett Pedigree.

anno 1733, three sons viz : John, Chiswell, Arthur and four daughters, Elizabeth, Avice, Jane and Alice. The sons are not yet married. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Jane Darby, by William Con-

ron (son to Robert Conron Esq. and * * * * Carleton) has issue, anno 1727, one daughter Mary. Avice, second daughter of said Thomas Blennerhassett and Jane Darby, married Thomas Collis, Yiear of Dingle, and has issue, anno 1733, three daughters, viz : Jane, Man- and Isabella Collis. Jane, third daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Jane Darby, married Maurice Connell, the heir in remainder to Colonel Maurice Connell, who was killed in the battle of Aughrim and has issue by him. Alice, fourth daughter of said Thomas Blennerhasset and Jane Darby, married Thomas Hurly, son of Denis Hurly, a descendant of one of the brothers of Sir Thomas Hurly of Knocklong, County Limerick) by Anne Blenner- hassett

Henry Blennerhassett, third son of Robert and Avice Conway, married Dorcas Crumpe and left issue, anno 1733, five sons viz., Arthur, Robert, Samuel, Edward, Richard and four daughters, Dorcas, Avice, Alice and Lucy. Arthur Blennerhassett, eldest son of Henry and Dorcas, renounced his own and his family's religion and withdrew to France where he died a Doctor of Sorbonne. Robert Blennerhassett, second son of Henry and Dorcas, married Frances Yielding daughter of Richard Yielding and Belinda Bateman and had issue a daughter named Belinda and a son named Henry. Samuel Blenner- hassett, third son of Henry and Dorcas, married Cathe- rine Connor daughter of Archdeacon Connor of Ardfert

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and has issue, anno 1735, a son named Henry. Dorcas Blennerhassett, eldest daughter of said Henry and Dorcas, married John Godfrey of Ballingamboon and has issue a son whose name is Thomas and three daughters Dorcas,' Avice and Mar)- Godfrey. Avice Blennerhassett, second daughter of Henry and Dorcas, by John Yielding of Tralee has issue living, anno 1733, a son by name James, born 26th of November 1717, and a daughter by name Lucy Yielding. Alice Blenner- hassett, third daughter of Henry and Dorcas, by Daniel Ferris of Muckinagh has issue.

Catherine Blennerhassett, first daughter of Robert and Avice Conway, married first Richard Mac Loughlin of Ballydowney, son of Captain Richard Mac Loughlin by Elizabeth Pue of Dublin, and has issue only two daughters (who are co-heiresses to the lands of Ballydowney, county of Kerry) viz : Elizabeth and Avice Mac Louglin. The eldest Elizabeth married Lieutenant Myles Martin of Lurgan in the County Down, but now of the City cf Cork, and has issue, anno 1733, one son by name Henry and three daughters viz : Eleanor, Catherine and Agnes Martin. The second daughter Avice Mac Loughlin married John Mason of Bally mac Elligot, (great grandson of Sir John Mason of Sion House near London by Elizabeth Tuchet daughter of John Tuchet Lord Audley) and has issue living, anno 1733, three sons viz: James, Richard, and John and three daughters viz : Catherine, Barbara and Ellen Mason. {Catherine, first dau, married Francis S/>ri//j.) James Mason, first son of John and Avice, married Catherine Power (daughter of Pierce Power of Elm Grove Esq. by Catherine O'Hara) and has issue

48 The Blennerhassett Pedigree.

living anno 1733. And said Catherine Blennerhassett on the death of Richard Mac Loughlin married secondly John Conway, a descendant of Jenkin Conway mentioned at page 1, and has issue living, anno 1733, one daughter only, by name Mildred who is married to Thomas Jeflf- cott of Tonarigh by whom she has issue. Avice, second daughter of Robert Blennerhassett and Avice Conway, married Thomas Spring, son of Captain Thomas Spring the first of that name in Kerr}- (by his wife Annabella Brown daughter of John Brown of Knockany and Ka- therine O'Ryan of Sullaghode) and has issue living, anno 1733, four sons, viz: Thomas Spring a lawyer of great hopes, Edward now in the King of Prussia's or the Emperor of Germany's service, Francis, John, and four daughters viz : Alice, Anne, Annabella and Mary Spring. Thomas, eldest of these four sons of Thomas Spring and Avice Blennerhassett, married Hannah An- nesley youngest daughter of Francis Annesley of Ballyshannon, county Kildare, Esq. and has a son. (by name Thomas born 3d Jim?, 1 735.) Francis Spring, third son of Avice and Thomas, by his cousin Catherine Mason eldest daughter of John Mason and Avice Mac Loughlin has issue, one son by name John born June 23d 1730, and a daughter by name Avice born 23d December 1 734. Alice (deceased), third daugh- ter of Robert Blennerhassett and Avice Conway, by Walter Spring second son of Captain Thomas Spring left issue living, anno 1733, one son viz '■ Thomas and four daughters viz : Avice, Anne, Martha and Jane Spring. Thomas, only son of said Walter Spring and Alice Blen- nerhassett married Anne Fitzmaurice a descendant of

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Fitzmaurice of Buaghnafeely and has two sons, anno 1732, viz: William and Thomas. A vice Spring, eldest daughter of said Walter and Alice, married Thomas Blennerhassett and has issue John and Arthur and Thomas born in 1736. Anne Spring, second daughter of said Walter and Alice, married • Thomas Frankland Prebendary of Cloyne. Martha Spring, third daughter of Walter and Alice, married Captain John Thwaite of * * * * in Cumberland an able and experienced mariner. Jane Spring, fourth daughter of Walter and Alice, by Thomas Eagarof Ballymalis (illegible) to * * * "'Brewster and * * * * to Counsellor William Dunscomb of Cork deceased has issue anno 1733.

Lucy Blennerhassett, fourth daughter of Robert and Avice Conway, by Monsieur John Plaguavan a French gentleman has issue, anno 1733, two sons and two daughters viz : John and George, Jane and Avice Plaguavan. John Plaguavan of Cork eldest of these sons married Elizabeth Laird* of Cork and has issue, anno 1734, a son by name John, {and on the 20/// of June 1736 a son by name Henry.) Jane, eldest daughter of John Plaguavan and Lucy Blennerhassett, married John Poujade a French gentleman and has issue a son John born in 1732. Anne, fifth daughter of Robert Blennerhassett and Avice Conway of Killorglin, married Denis Hurly a descendant of a brother of Sir Thomas Hurly of Knocklong in the county Lymerick Bart, or of Sir Maurice Hurly his father, and has issue, anno 1733, five sons viz : Thomas, Charles, John. Denis, William and three daughters viz : Alice, Avice and Sarah Hurly.

I he name is half illegible— it is Laird or Lane.

50 The Blcnncrhassett Pedigree.

Thomas Hurly, eldest son of said Denis and Anne, is married to Alice Blennerhassett as mentioned at p. 46. Alice Hurly, eldest daughter of said Denis and Anne, is married to * * * * and has issue. Avis, second daughter of said Denis and Anne, is married to * * * * Eagar of * * * * and has issue.

My Mother Avice Conway's Pedigree from Wales by her

Father.

Sir Hugh Conway was succeeded by Sir Henry Conway who married Alice, daughter to Sir Henry Croniker, and had Richard Conway who married Alice daughter of Sir Henry Torbock of Torbock, and had John Conway who married Jane daughter of Sir Richard Rat- cliffe in Devonshire, and had Jenkin Conway who married (illegible) the daughter of Meredith, and had old John Conway who married Jane Stanley, and had Pierce Conway who married Jane daughter of Jenkin the son of Llewellyn, and had Henry Conway who married Grace Dry, and had Jenkin Conway, who married Mary Herbert, and with his three brothers, Hugh, Edward and William Conway came to Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth as Undertaker to plant near Killorglin, in the county of Kerry, one of the forfeited Manors and Estates of Garret Earl of Desmond, and by said Mary Herbert had issue an only son Jenkin, and two daughters Alice and Elizabeth Conway. Alice was married to Edmund Roe of Cloghane and Elizabeth to Robert Blennerhassett as mentioned at first page. Jenkin, the only son of said Jenkin and Mary, married Avice Dalton of Knockmore

The Blcnncrhassett Pedigree. 51

in Waterford, and left issue one son Edward, and two daughters, viz : Marv married to Daniel O 'Sullivan (second son of the then O'Sullivan More) and Alice Conway married to Captain. Edward Vauclier. This Edward Conway by his wife Catherine Ryeves daughter of James Ryeves (who was son of Sir Robert Ryeves and Dorothy Tuchet, daughter of Lord Audley father of the first Earl of Castlehaven,) and Alice Spring left issue two daughters, viz : Alice and Avis Conway co-heiresses to the estate of Killorglin.

Alice Conway, first mentioned of these ladies, married Patrick Dowdall of Kippagh in the County Lymerick Esq. and by him has issue, living in 1733, one son John Dowdall Esq. an able lawyer residing generally in London and also four daughters viz : Katherine, Susanna, Bridget and Ellen. The said John Dowdall, hitherto unmarried, is a gentleman of estate in the Counties of Lymerick and Kerry and of plentiful fortune elsewhere. Katherine Dowdall, eldest daughter of Pat- rick and Alice, married Patrick Peppard of Kilmacow in the County Limerick and has issue one son Patrick, and three daughters Mary, Cicely, and Constance Peppard. Patrick Peppard of Kilmacow, only son of Patrick and Katherine, by his. wife Faith Standish of Baliynafrancky in the County Limerick has issue, anno 1735, coming. Maty Peppard, eldest daughter of Patrick and Katherine, married first * * * * O'Leary in the CountyCork, by whom she has issue Charles O Leary and secondly Denis O'Brien of Nenagh, County Tipperary, by whom she has issue. Cicely Peppard, second daughter of Patrick Peppard and Katherine Dowdall married Richard Stephenson of Bally-

52 The BlenncrJiassctt Pedigi'ee.

vaughan in the County Limerick and has issue four sons and one daughter. The sons are Oliver Stephenson married to Sarah daughter of Henry Harte of Coolrus, John, Patrick and Richard and the daughter is Frances who married Thomas Hickey of Ballyrobbin, County Limerick. Constance Peppard, third daughter of Patrick Peppard and Katherine Dowdall, married Morgan O'Con- nell of Newtown, County Limerick and of Cork and has issue, anno 1735, three sons Charles, Morgan and John and three daughters Mary, Honora and Constance O'Connell. Susanna, second daughter of Patrick Dow- dall and Alice Conway, by her husband (illegible) has issue several children. Bridget, third daughter of said Patrick and Alice, married Symon Leigh of Kippagh, in county Lymerick, and has issue three sons Hugh, Symon and Thomas and three daughters Elizabeth, Bridget and Catherine Leigh. Ellen, fourth daughter of Patrick Dow- dall and Alice Conway, by John Leigh hath issue, anno 1 733. four sons John, Arthur, Anthony and Patrick Leigh and five daughters Ellen, Elizabeth, Bridget, Catherine and Susanna. And on the death of Patrick Dowdall Alice Conway married to her second husband Edmund Lacy of Rathcahill Esq. and by him left two sons, Edmund who went to France after the surrender of Lymerick in 1691, and Patrick and also two daughters, viz: Honora and Elizabeth Lacy. Patrick Lacy second son of Edmund and Alice, by Lucy Anketill daughter of John Anketill of Farrihy in the county of Lymerick Esq. has issue three sons, viz : Edmund, Patrick, and William and four daughters, Joanna, Lucy married to James Mac Mahon of Newcastle, Mary, and Frances

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Lacy. Edmund, first son of Patrick Lacy and Lucy Anketill, by Jane Conway has issue three sons and five daughters anno 1733. Patrick, second son of Patrick Lacy and Lucy Anketill, by Mary Herbert has issue one son {and one daughter earning, anno 1734, and since tivo daughters, anno 1735.) Joanna, eldest daughter of Pa- trick Lacy and Lucy Anketill, by her husband Richard Mason brother to John Mason husband of A vice Mc Loughlin (v. page 47) has issue anno 1733. Lucy, second daughter of Patrick and Lucy, married as above to James Mac Mahon, is dead leaving issue. Avice Conway, second daughter of Edward Conway and Katherine Ryeves and co-heiress with her sister to the Seignory of Killorglin, married Robert Blennerhassett and left issue the sons and daughters mentioned at page 42.

N.B. The Conway Coat Armour is a Boar Sable on a Bengules {illegible) argent, a Rose proper between two annu- lets of the Field, the Crest is a Black a Moor's head.

The Pedigree of my wife Elizabeth Cross and her con- nexions.

Dean John Eveleigh, of or near Bandon in county Cork, by his wife Mildred Coldwell (daughter of * * * * Boyle who was cousin german to Primate Boyle) had issue five daughters only, viz : Alice, Anne, Rebecca, Jane and Elizabeth Eveleigh. Alice Eveleigh, eldest daughter, by Richard Power of Carrigaline left issue one son Erancis and one daughter Hannah. Francis Power married Mary O'Callaghan daughter of Cor-

54 Tke B leaner hassett Pedigree.

nelius O'Callaghan of Banteer, and h?s issue, anno 1 733, four sons viz : Richard, Cornelius. Pierce and David and three daughters Elizabeth; Joanna and Mary. Joanna second of these daughters married James Holmes of (illegible) under Ballinahoura Hill N. C. Hannah Power, daughter of Alice Eveleigh and Richard Power, by Uriah Babington Esq. son of William Bab- ington of Ballyhindon in county Cork, who was grandson of Alice Dalton sister of A vice Dal ton, the wife of Jenkin Conway (see p. 50) has issue, anno 1733, one son, viz : William Babington of Dromkeen in county Kerr)' Esq. and five daughters viz : Katherine, Alice, Hannah, Mary and Aphra Babington. William Babington, only son of Uriah and Hannah, is yet unmarried, anno 1733. Katherine Babington, eldest daughter of Uriah and Hannah, by her husband Angel Scott of Cahircon, county Lymerick, had issue, anno 1721, two daughters viz : Alice and Mary and since then they have had other children, living anno 1733. Alice Babington, second daughter of Uriah and Hannah, married Samuel Sealy of Cork, (son of William Sealy and Mildred Mullens,) and has issue, anno 1729, a son byname John born 17th April 1726, and three daughters viz : Mildred born 29th March 1724, Elizabeth born 23d May 1727 and Hannah Sealy born in February 1729. (Also Ury bor?i February 1 7 2S, Alice born in 1730, Samuel born in 1 734.) Hannah Babington, third daughter of Uriah Babington and Hannah Power, married William Meredith of Castle Island and died, anno 1 733, leaving issue. And the said Uriah Babington had two brothers viz : William of Maglass and Pierce Babington of Dromartin, county

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Kerry, yet unmarried, and also two sisters Catherine and Elizabeth Babington yet unmarried.

Anne Eveleigh second daughter, of Dean John Eveleigh and Mildred Coldwell, by Doctor Benjamin Cross had issue, three sons viz : John, Robert and William Cross, who except John died unmarried, and John had no issue. Doctor Cross had also three daughters Tryphena, a beautiful, charitable, and religious woman who died unmaried, Mary, and Elizabeth Cross my wife, to whose memory I raised a monument and had the fol- lowing inscription writt on her tomb :

" Hie jacet Elizabetha charissima coxjux Johaxxis Blexxerhassett armigeri ;

PIA, SOERIA, CASTA, MULTIS DESIDERATA J

obiitt 22. die Marti 1 MDCCXXXII, Axxoq;

JETATIS SL\E LXIII. M.EREXS maritus posuit.

HlC ETIAM JACET AviCIA, MATER DICTI

JOHAXXIS MERSA MARI, MENSE APRILIS

MDCLXIII. Etiam Jexkix et Edwardus

COXWAV, AVUS ET PATER DICT.E AVICLE.

NEC XOX HEXRICUS FRATER DICTI JOHAXXIS : IX

QUORUM OMNIUM MEMORIAM IPSE H.ERES AviCLE

HOC MARMOR IXSTRUI FECIT."

This Elizabeth Cross left issue by me as mentioned at page 42. Mary Cross, second daughter of Doctor Cross and Anne Eveleigh, by William Collis has issue, anno 1733, six sons viz: John, Thomas, Edward, Robert, Samuel and Henry Collis and three daughters Anne Martha, and Mary Collis. John, first son of said William

56 The Blennerhassett Pedigree.

Collis and Mary Cross, married Elizabeth Cook of Cork and left issue two sons, anno 1727, William and John Collis. Thomas Collis, second son of said William and Mary is a clergyman and by his wife A vice Blennerhassett has issue as mentioned at page 46. Edward Collis, third son of said William and Mary, married Ellen Hil- Hard and has issue, anno 1733, four sons viz: William, Christopher, Edward and Henry and one daughter Sarah Collis {and since other sons Arthur and Thomas, Samuel and John?) Robert Collis, fourth son of said William and Man-, by Elizabeth Day had issue three children all dead, anno 1 734. Henry Collis, sixth son of said William and Man-, is a clergyman. Anne Collis, first daughter of said William and Mary, by her husband Samuel Bennett of Ballincollon, County Lymerick, deceased left issue three sons viz : George, William and Joseph, and four daughters viz : Mar)-, Isabella, Martha, and Prudence Bennett. George Bennett, eldest son of Samuel Bennett and Anne Collis, married Sarah Hilliard. Mary Bennett, eldest daughter of Samuel and Anne, married William Creed of Ballindall in the County Lymerick by whom she has issue, anno 1733, three daughters, viz : Anne, Jane, and Sarah Creed. Martha, second daughter of William Collis and Mary Cross, married Joseph Gubbins of Kilbreedy County Lymerick. Mary Collis, third daughter of said William and Mary, married Simon King of Killoonnear Cork and has issue, anno 1733, one daughter Mary King.

Rebecca, third daughter of Dean Eveleigh and his wife Mildred Coldwell, married first, Henry Parr a pious and learned Divine of the Church of England who was un-

The Blennerhassett Pedigree. 57

happily drowned going to the service of one of his parishes at * * * * in the county Cork, and by him she left issue three sens and two daughters. The sons were Henry, William and Thomas, the daughters Martha and Mildred Parr. Henry Parr, eldest of these three sons of said Rebecca and Henry, married Man* Connor daughter of Archdeacon Connor and by her has issue, anno j 733 three sons and two daughters, Thomas, Henry and Maurice, Mary and Martha Parr. Thomas Parr, third son of Henry Parr and Rebecca Eveleigh, married * * * * a Londoner and left issue children now residing in London, anno 1733. Martha Parr, eldest daughter of said Henry and Rebecca, married * * * * Paul near Bristol and has issue. Mildred Parr, second daughter of said Henry and Rebecca, by her husband John Louis de Fauranac, a French gentleman and Refugee (who upon the Persecution was forced to quit an estate called Chateau Jaloux in the Province of Guienne in France) has issue, anno 1734, four sons and six daughters. The sons are Henry, John, Louis, Thomas and William and the daughters are Jane, Rebecca, Martha, Mildred, Eliza- beth and Tryphena. And the said Rebecca Eveleigh on the death of her first husband Henry Parr married secondly, Thomas Gorman of * * * * in the County Cork and left issue Rebecca Gorman, who married first Charles Allen of or near Clonakilty County Cork by whom she has issue, and secondly Edward Warner of Kilgarirf County Cork by whom she has also issue.

Jane Eveleigh, fourth daughter of Dean John Eveleigh and Mildred Coldwell, by Colonel Frederick Mullens of " Burnham," so called from the place of his nativity in

58 The Blenncrhassctt Pedigree.

England but by the Irish called " Ballingolin," near Dingle, had issue three sons viz : Frederick, Richard and Edward Mullens and four daughters Anne, Martha, Mildred and Frances. Edward and Frances Mullens married but had no issue. Frederick, eldest son of Colonel Frederick Mullens and Jane Eveleigh, married Martha Blennerhassett and left by her issue two sons viz : William and Frederick and one daughter by name Jane. William Mullens, first of these two sons, married Mary Rowan and has issue as mentioned at p. 39. Frederick Mullens, second son of Frederick and Martha, married and has issue. Jane Mullens, only daughter of Frede- rick and Martha, married Peter Ferriter and has issue. And said Martha, widow of Frederick Mullens, by her second husband Henry Parr of Tralee (mentioned at page 57) has issue two daughters, anno 1773, viz: Theodora and Anne Parr. Richard Mullens, second son of Colonel Frederick and Jane Eveleigh, a Major in the army of Queen Anne married * * * * of Winchester and left issue one daughter Jane Mullens who married * * * * Clark, a lawyer, by whom she has issue. Anne Mullens, eldest daughter of Colonel Frederick Mullens and Jane Eveleigh, married Whittall Brown of Ballyvan- nig Esq. and left issue two sons viz : Edward and Frederick and three daughters Jane, Mildred and Try- phena. Edward Brown, eldest son of Whittall and Anne, married Maty daughter of Jasper Morris Esq. by Margaret Bateman and has no issue as vet. Frederick Brown, second son of Whittall and Anne, married and has issue. Mildred Brown, second daughter of Whittall and Anne, married and has issue. Tryphena Brown, third

The Blennerhassett Pedigree. 59

daughter, married Francis Tallis Esq. several times Sove- reign of Dingle and by him has issue. Martha Mullens, second daughter of Colonel Frederick Mullens and Jane Eveleigh, married William Collis son of John Collis and Elizabeth Cook mentioned at page 56 and left issue, William Collis, Rector of Tralee and other Parishes and Vicar General of the Diocese of Ardfert, who married Isabella Galway. Mildred Mullens, third daughter of Colonel Frederick Mullens and Jane Eveleigh, married William Sealy of Cork and left issue Samuel Sealy who married Alice Babington.

Elizabeth Eveleigh, fifth daughter of Dean Eveleigh and Mildred Coldwell, married Alderman John Sealy, Mayor of Cork about 1698, and had -no issue. Her husband left his estate to the above mentioned Samuel Sealy his grand nephew.

Thomas Blennerhassett Esq. of Littur, (third son of John by Martha Lyn as mentioned in p. 1,) married Ellen Stoughton, daughter of Anthony Stoughton Esq. of Rat tow by Dame Honora O'Bryen, who was one of the daughters of Dermot, Lord Baron Inchiquin, and left issue six daughters, viz : Martha, Honor, Ellen, Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary Blennerhassett. Martha, eldest of these daughters, by Frederick Mullens her first husband has issue as mentioned at p. 58, and also by her second husband Henry Parr the two daughters there mentioned. Honor, second daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Ellen Stoughton, married Joseph Morris of Urly and left issue four daughters, viz : Honora married to Valen-

6o The Blennerhassett Pedigree.

tine Elliott Esq. by whom she has issue. Ellen Morris married to Michael Madden by whom she has issue. Jane Morris married * * * * Mason. Ellen Blennerhassett, third daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Ellen Stoughton, married Charles Wrenn Esq. (son of Captain Thomas Wrenn and Mary Blennerhassett hereinafter mentioned) and left issue three sons John, "William and Thomas Wrenn and four daughters Ellen, Martha, Mary and Margaret Wrenn. John Wrenn of Littur Esq., first son of Charles Wrenn and Ellen Blennerhassett, married Honora Ponsonby, daughter of Thomas Ponsonby Esq., and has issue, anno 1733, tw0 sons vlz '■ Thomas and Ponsonby and six daughters, Ellen, Susanna, Mary Anne, Martha, Rose and Jane. Ellen first of these daughters married Henry Distar of Rossmanahir, county Clare, and died without issue. Mary Wrenn, third daughter of Charles and Ellen, married John Edmonds of Ashdee in the county Kern- and by him has issue, anno 1 734. Margaret Wrenn, fourth daughter of said Charles and Ellen, married Robert Giles, son of John Giles and Ellen Kennedy of Castle Drum, and by him has issue.

Elizabeth Blennerhassett, fourth daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett of Littur and Ellen Stoughton, by Captain Arthur O'Lavery of Moyea in the county Down, had issue three sons, viz : Eugene, Arthur, Charles and four daughters Ellen, Elizabeth, Honora and Martha O'Lavery. Eugene O'Lavery, eldest of these three sons, married Elizabeth Blennerhassett the fourth daughter of Robert Blennerhassett and Alice Osborne mentioned at page 38. He was an eminent attorney at law and died, anno

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1733, to the great loss and grief of his family and his relations mentioned in these collections. He left issue by said Elizabeth Blennerhassett one daughter by name Alice dead (and a son born since his decease and called Eugene.) Arthur O'Lavery, second son of Elizabeth Blennerhassett and Captain Arthur O'Lavery, a hopefull young man died, anno 1733, soon after his brother Eugene, unmarried. Ellen O'Lavery, first daughter of said Captain Arthur O'Lavery and Elizabeth, married Samuel Raymond of Ballyloughran Esq. by whom she has issue, anno 1733, three sons viz : Samuel, Arthur and Anthony and three daughters Mary, Ellen and Eugenia. Martha O'Lavery, fourth daughter of Captain Arthur and Eliza- beth, married (illegible) Raymond, and by him has issue Samuel, Arthur, and a daughter Elizabeth.

Margaret, fifth daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Ellen Stoughton, by Launcelot Glanville has issue one son Nicholas, and three daughters Mary, Ellen and Martha Glanville. Nicholas Glanville married * * * * Mary Glanville, eldest daughter of Launcelot and Margaret married William Harnett of Ballyhenry by whom she has issue, two sons viz : Lancelot and William Harnett. Ellen Glanville, second daughter of Margaret and Lancelot, married Alexander Elliott of Dowhill in the county Lymerick and has issue, anno 1733, two sons viz : Thomas Blennerhassett and Alexander Elliott and one daughter Margaret Elliott.

Mary Blennerhassett, sixth daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett and Ellen Stoughton, married John Sandes and has issue three sons viz : Thomas, Henry and John and three daughters Susanna, Ellen and

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Martha Sandes. Thomas Sandes, eldest of these three sons, married Bridget Fitzgerald daughter of Maurice the late Knight of Kerry and Elizabeth Crosbie by whom he has issue, anno 1734, one daughter Elizabeth and a son by name William, born October 1 736. Susanna Sandes, eldest daughter of John Sandes and Mary Blennerhassett above mentioned, married first, Mr. Thomas Connor, clerk, son of Archdeacon Connor and has issue, anno 1732, two sons viz: John and Henry Connor and six daughters Maty, Elizabeth, Anne, Ellen, Susanna and Jane, [and on 29th January 1735, a daughter Dorothy Connor, to whom I am godfather.) Ellen Sandes, second daughter of Mary and John, married Zacharias Johnson of Carrunas upon the Shannon and has issue two sons John and Zacharias and two daughters Sarah and Rachel, {and another son called Thomas.) Mary Blennerhassett, first daughter of John .Blennerhassett and Martha Lyn mentioned at page 1, manied Captain Thomas Wrenn by whom she left issue a son Charles Wrenn who married Ellen Blennerhassett as mentioned at page 60 and a daughter Martha Wrenn who married William Fitzgerald of Bromore, by whom she left issue, anno J 733, a son by name Henry. He married Honora Fitzgerald the late Knight of Glin's daughter and by her hath issue, anno 1733, a son. Henry and a daughter Martha Fitzgerald.

Alice Blennerhassett, second daughter of John and Martha Lyn mentioned in p. 1, married Edmund Con- way of Cloghane, son of Captain James Conway and Elizabeth Roe, who was daughter and sole heiress of Edmund Roe and Alice Conway mentioned at p. 50,

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by which Edmund Conway she left issue living, anno 1733, James Conway of Cloghane, who at or before the Revolution of 16SS married Catherine Fitzgerald, daughter of Patrick Fitzgerald, (one of the sons of the Knight of Kerry) by his wife Thomasine Spring. James Conway and Catherine Fitzgerald had one daughter Alice who in the reign of Queen Anne married Colonel John Colthurst of Ballyhaly, near Cork, by whom she left issue three sons viz : John, James, and Nicholas and two daughters Llonora and Elizabeth Colthurst. And the said James Conway is married secondly to a lady of great merit, by name Honora Piers, daughter of Sir William Piers of Trystenagh in the County Westmeath, by Dame Honora Fitzmaurice, daughter of "William twentieth Lord Kerry, and by her has no issue. The said James Conway's descent is as followeth : —

Christopher Conway, a nephew of Lord Conway of Killultagh in Ulster, was before the year 1641 possessed of the estates of Lazy Hill and Raghmines near Dublin and married one of the daughters of Sir James Ware, Auditor General in the reign of James the First, by whom he had the above mentioned James Conway who before or soon after the Restoration came to Kerry and married Elizabeth Roe the heiress before mentioned.

Lucy Blennerhassett, third daughter of John Plenner- hassett and Martha Lyn mentioned at page 1, married Lieutenant John Walker an officer employed in the re- duction of Ireland in 1641 and had issue one daughter, by name Martha Walker. This Martha Walker about the year 1CS0 was married to Thomas Shiercliflfe of Cas- tle Gregory and died 16S3, leaving two daughters Alice

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and Martha ShierclitTe. Alice, first of these two daugh- ters, married Edward Rice by whom she left four daugh- ters, Christiana, Alice, Mary and Martha Rice. Martha, second daughter of Thomas ShierclitTe and Martha Walker, in right of her uncle is possessed of her grand- father's estate near Moyalla county Cork.

My Relationship with Denny, of Tralee, besides the Affinity created by my uncle John Blenncrhasseit (mentioned in p. i ) and by John with Jane Denny (mentioned in p. 2) is thus : —

Sir Antony Forrest had two daughters, viz : Elizabeth and Mary Forrest. Elizabeth married Arthur Denny Esq. (mentioned in the first page as an Undertaker in Desmond) who was father of Sir Edward Denny, who was father of Sir Arthur Denny, and of Elizabeth Denny married, as before mentioned, to John Blennerhassett. And the last-mentioned Sir Arthur Denny was the father of the late Colonel Edward Denny and of Ellen Denny who married William Carrique, of Glandine. Colonel Edward Denny had a son Edward, who by the Lady Letitia Coningsby left issue the present Colonel Arthur Denny, married to Lady Arabella Fitzmaurice and two other sons Thomas and Barry Denny. Mary Forrest, second daughter of Sir Antony Forrest and sister of the wife of Arthur Denny, married William Lyn, of * * * * within twenty miles of London and had a son George Lyn and a daughter by name Martha, who was married to the first John Blennerhassett as before mentioned. And the said George Lyn had one other brother, or a cousin german, bv name Andrew Lyn who in the latter

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end of Queen Elizabeth's or the beginning of James the First's reign came to Ireland and settled at Ballinamona near the city of Waterford ; which Andrew Lyn married

* * * * ancj naci issue one Son called Robert and three daughters viz : Anne, Cristabel, and Mary Lyn. Robert proving an ill Manager, and his father despairing of any good to come to his Posterity through him, married his eldest daughter Anne Lyn to Robert Carew, of Bally- boro' in the County of Wexford, an ingenious and accom- plished gentleman on whom said Andrew Lyn settled his estate. And said Anne Lyn by Robert Carew left issue three sons and five daughters. The sons are Robert, Peter and Lyn Carew, the daughters are Cristabel, Juliana, Mary, Alicia and Elizabeth Carew.

Robert Carew, eldest son of Robert and Anne, married

* * * * Chaplain of Wexford and has issue, anno 1735, three sons Robert, Chaplain and Thomas Carew and a daughter. Peter Carew second son of said Robert and Anne is married and has issue. Lyn Carew third son of Robert and Anne is also married to * * * * Palmer and has issue Robert Carew of Waterford. Cristabel, eldest daughter of Robert and Anne Carew, married William Freeman Esq. of Castle Corr in the coun'.y of Cork and by him she now has issue, anno 1733, a son named William and three daughters Mary, Cristabel and Catherine Freeman. William Freeman, only son of William and Cristabel, by her husband William Gabbet of Carline in the County Lymerick Esq. has issue. Crista- bel, second daughter of William Freeman and Cristabel Carew, married herself to Mr. Joseph Collins and by him has issue. Catherine Freeman, third daughter of Crista-

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bel Carewand William Freeman, married William Philpott of Newmarket County Cork and has issue, Juliana Carew, second daughter of Robert Carew and Anne Lyn, married first * * * * Otway Esq. and had by him issue. She married secondly John Armstrong of Ferrybridge, by whom she had issue and thirdly Thomas Wray of Kill * * * * , by whom she has issue. Mary Carew, third daughter of Robert Carew and Anne Lyn, married Thomas Armstrong of * * * * in County Tippe- rary and has issue five sons and four daughters. Alicia Carew, fourth daughter of Robert and Anne, by her husband John Creed of * * * * in Lymerick has issue. Elizabeth Carew, fifth daughter of Robert and Anne, married. * * * * Snow of the County Kil- kenny, opposite to the city of Waterford and hath issue.

Cristabel Lyn, second daughter of Andrew Lyn, by her husband William Dobbin of Ballinakill in the county of Waterford hath issue five sons and three daughters. The sons are Thomas, Andrew, Michael, Gilbert and Robert and the daughters are Cristabel. * * * * Mary Lyn third daughter of Andrew Lyn married Charles Hubbart of * ■ * * * in the county Waterford and lias issue.

My Relationship to Blennerhassett of Dublin. >

Sir John Blennerhassett, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland in the eleventh year of King James the First, (as appears by letters

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patent granted tojenkin Conway,) married * * * * and left issue only three daughters. The eldest of these three daughters married Henry . Monck of or near Stephen's Green, Dublin, by whom she had issue Henry Monck who by his wife Mrs. Jane Stanley left issue four sons and two daughters, the sons are George who by Mary Molesworth lefc one son Henry Stanley Monck, and two daughters one of whom married Robert Mason, the other married * * * * Butler. The daughters of Henry Monck and Jane Stanley are Rebecca and Jane. Rebecca, eldest of these two, married John Forester, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the year 1719, and by him left issue, one son by name Richard of Forest in the county Dublin, and two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth Forester and another daughter married to Major Richardson of Logarcurry in the county Armagh. Jane Blennerhassett, another daughter of Sir John Blen- nerhassett, married Henry Fernihy of Cavan Street, Dub- lin, by whom she had Captain Henry Fernihy, mine and Brother Thomas" kind and good natured friend and sup- plyer in May and June 1690, during our confinement in Dublin. And the said Captain Henry Fernihv married and left issue a son Philip, and a daughter Jane. Philip Fernihy the son married Mary sister of Mr. Justice Ward, and died a clergyman of the Church of England of good character at his seat in the county Kildare much lamented leaving issue. Jane, only daughter of the said Captain Henry Fernihy, married Colonel John Tichborne Gover- nor of Charlemont in 1736 and by him she lias issue one daughter Jane aged thirty. The said Sir John Blenner- hassett was the cousin german of Robert Blennerhassett

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mentioned in first page as an Undertaker in Desmond. The relationship therefore stands thus :

1. Sir John Blennerhassett I. Robert Blennerhassett

2. Mrs. Fernihy 2. John Blennerhassett

3. Captain II. fernihy 3. Robert Blennerhassett

4. Mrs. Tichborne 4. John Blennerhassett tlic Writer

My Relationship with Blennerhassett of Fermanagh.

Henry Blennerhassett of Crevenish, alias Castle 'Hassett near Inniskillen, (whose father was cousin german to Sir John Blennerhassett and to Robert men- tioned in first page) married Phoebe Hume daughter of Sir John Hume of Eaglehurst and left only two daughters. The eldest of these daughters married several times, and by her last husband John Cochrane Esq. she left issue living, anno 17 19, one son by name Henry aged then seven years and one daughter aged ten years whose name is Martha. The second daughter of Henry Blennerhassett and Dame Phoebe Hume was married to my dear friend Major Charles Bingham, killed at the battle of Aughrim, whom she did not long survive dejected for so great a loss. They left issue Henry Bingham of New Brook, in the County Mayo, within five miles of I3allinrobe. This Henry Bingham by his wife Dame Susanna Vesey, daugh- ter of his Grace the late Lord Archbishop of Tuam had issue, anno 1726, three sons viz : — John, Henry and Richard and six daughters Anne, Mary, Dorothy, Lau- rentia, Susannah and Sarah. Martha Cochrane, daughter of John Cochrane and * * * * Blennerhassett of

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Crevenish, married James Cochrane and had issue two daughters, Penelope married to Doctor Edmund Erwyn by whom she has issue James Erwyn living, anno 1 733, and Letitia married to Alderman Gilbert Squire of Lon- donderry by whom she has James and Edmond Squire and a daughter Deborah.

My Relationship to the Dcscenda?its of Brorcn of Knock- munihy created by my mother Avis Conway is as f?//o7^s : —

John Brown, commonly called the Master of Awney, son of Ulick Brown of Camus and Knockmunihy by Margery Madden, (which Margery before or after was married to Burgh of Dromkeen, called Tiema Labanagh, and by him had issue a son, the grandfather of Mr. William Burgh late Rector of Newcastle,) married Kathe- rine O'Ryan, daughter of Master Dermot O'Ryan of Sullaghode, County Tipperary, called Master from his being Master of the Rolls in Ireland and had no issue male, but ten daughters, of whom six were, Annabella, Joanna, Elizabeth, Margaret, Elinor and Katherine Brown. (/ do not know the names of the rest.) The above named Dermod O'Ryan had two other daughters Julian and Mary to be mentioned in their places hereafter. I therefore come to Annabella Brown, first daughter of John Brown and Katherine O'Ryan, who married first William Apsley of Lymerick by whom she had only two daughters viz : Mary and Joan Apsley. Mary Apsley tirst of these two daughters married Sir Thomas Brown

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of the Hospital, county Lymerick, son of Sir Nicholas Brown of Ross ancestor to the present Viscount Kenmare, anno 1733, and had issue two sons, viz: Sir John and Thomas Brown and five daughters viz : Thamasin, Annabel Anne, Mary and Alice Brown. Thomas, the second of these sons of Sir Thomas Brown and Mary Apsley, was shot by accident in a smith's forge. Sir John Brown, eldest son of said Sir Thomas and Mary, married Barbara Boyle daughter of John Boyle, Bishop of Cork, brother to the first Earl of Cork and by her had a son named Thomas who died unmarried, and one daughter named Elizabeth the only survivor of that family ; this Sir John Brown was killed in a duel in Lon- don by Sir * ■■'• * * Barnewall and his widow said Bar- bara married Sir Richard King. Elizabeth Brown his only daughter above mentioned married Captain Thomas Brown, (son of the first Sir Valentine Brown by his se- cond wife Juliana daughter of Cormac Mac Carthy, Lord Muskerry, by Margaret O'Brien daughter of Donogh, Earl of Thomond) and left issue only three daughters : viz : Ellen, Elizabeth and Celina Brown. Ellen Brown, eldest of these three and co-heiress of Hospital, by her husband Nicholas Brown, son to the second Sir Valentine Brown, (illegible) 1689 by King James the second created Lord Viscount Kenmare, who had married Jane daugh- ter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Plunket brother of the Earl of Fingal, left issue one son viz : Valentine the pre- sent Lord Kenmare. anno 1733, and four daughters viz : Jane, Elizabeth Margaret and Frances Brown. Valentine Brown, the present Lord Kenmare, by Honora daughter of the Hon. Thomas Butler of Kilcash in county Tip-

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pemry (grandson of Richard Butler, only brother of James first Duke of Ormond,) and his wife Margaret Viscountess Iveagh, daughter of William Bourke Earl of Clanrickard, has issue, anno 1733, a son Valentine and a daughter Helen Brown. Jane Brown eldest daughter of Nicholas and Ellen above mentioned married John Asgil Esq. and died without issue. Elizabeth Brown, second daughter of Ellen and Nicholas, married William Weldon of Knock in county Meath, and by him has issue, anno 1734. Margaret Brown, third daughter of said Ellen and Nicho- las is a nun in Ghent. Frances Brown, fourth daughter of Nicholas and Ellen, married Edward Herbert of Kil- cow in county Kerry and by him has issue, anno 1733, three sons Thomas, Edward and Nicholas and five daughters viz : Agnes, Helen, Frances, Elizabeth, Ara- bella and Thamasin Herbert.

Annabel, eldest or second daughter of Sir Thomas Brown and Mary Apsley, married James Gould, son of Mr. Justice Gould proprietor of Ballybricken in county Lymerick, and had issue, Mary Gould who about the time of the Piestoration married Sir George Ingoldsby and by him had issue two sons viz : Richard and Francis and four daughters viz : Mary, Annabel Anne, and. Barbara Ingoldsby. Richard Ingoldsby (eldest son of Sir George and Mary Gould) was a Lieutenant-General of her late Majesty Queen Anne's forces in Ireland and Ford Justice. He married Frances, daughter of Colonel James Naper of Fough Crew in the county Meath, and left issue" only one son Henry who married Catherine daughter of Sir Constantme Phipps, Ford High Chan- cellor in the reign of Queen Anne, and by her had issue

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two daughters Catherine and Frances Ingoldsby. Francis Ingoldsby second son of Sir George and Mary died unmarried. Mary Ingoldsby, eldest daughter of Sir George and Mary, married Simon Purdon of Tinnerana in Clare and left issue none. Annabel Ingoldsby, second daughter of Sir George and Mary, by her husband Cornet Buckworth of Ballycomisk in county Tipperary had issue two daughters viz : Sarah and Mary Buckworth. Sarah Buckworth married Henry Russell Esq. in county Tipperary, and has issue, anno 1735, two daughters Annabel and Mary Russell. Annabel Russell married Thomas Royse Esq. of Xantenan in county Lymerick. Mary Russell is unmarried anno 1736. Mary Buckworth, second daughter of Annabel Ingoldsby and Cornet Buckworth, married Rice Blennerhassett of Riddelstown mentioned in p. 37. {and left no issue). Anne Ingoldsby, third daughter of Sir George Ingoldsby and Mary Gould, married Captain Richard Pope of Derryknockane and by him left issue only two daughters, viz : Mary and Frances Pope. Mary Pope, first daughter, married Arthur Blennerhassett as mentioned at p. 38, and Frances Pope second daughter married David Bindon of * * * * in Clare and by him has issue. Barbara Ingoldsby, fourth daughter of Sir George Ingoldsby by Mary Gould married * * * * Smith Esq. the late Lord Bishop of (illegible) son and has issue, anno 1735, one son named Ralph. Anne Brown, third daughter, Mary Brown fourth daughter and Alice Brown fifth daughter of Sir Thomas Brown and Mary Apsley were also married to gentlemen of whom I have no account. Elizabeth, second daughter of Captain Thomas Brown of Hospital and

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Elizabeth his wife, mentioned in p. 70, married Melchior Levallin Esq. of Waterstown county Cork. Celina Brown, third daughter of said Captain Thomas and Elizabeth, married Colonel John White of Rhagowran, county Lymerick, by whom she had issue two sons viz : Boyle White married to Margaret Burke and died without issue, and John White and four daughters viz : Ellen, Elizabeth, Jane and Priscilla White. John White on the death of his brother without issue succeeded and married Ellen Fitzgerald daughter to the late Knight of Glyn. Joan Apsley, second daughter and co-heiress of William Apsley and Annabella Brown, married Sir Richard Boyle, first Earl of Corke, by whom he had a considerable fortune and one child of which she died and the child lived not long after.

Annabella Brown, eldest daughter of John Brown and Katherine O Ryan mentioned at p. 69, on the death of her first husband William Apsley married secondly Cap- tain Thomas Spring, the first settler of his name in Kerry, and had issue two sons, Walter and Thomas, and five daughters Elizabeth, Frances, Susanna, Alice and Annabella Spring. Walter Spring, eldest son of Captain Thomas and Annabella, married Mary Crosbie daughter of Patrick Crosbie, Bishop John Crosbie's brother, and sister of Sir Pierce Crosbie and had issue one son P2dward Spring, and two daughters Katherine and Annabella Spring. Edward Spring, only son of Walter and Mary, married Anne Brown, (daughter of Sir Nicholas Brown and Julia O'Sullivan the daughter of O'Sullivan Bear) and had issue by her " Walter the Unfortunate" and one daughter named Thamasine. Walter Spring called " the

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Unforiiuiate"' from the large estates he forfeited in 1641, married Julian Fitzgerald of Ennismore and they left issue two children Thomas and Mary Spring.* Thama- sine Spring, only daughter of Edward by Anne Brown, married Patrick Fitzgerald of Gallerus, the fifth son of John, Knight of Kerry, and had issue one son named John and three daughters viz : Catherine married to James Conway, Anne married to Thomas Conway cousin- merman of said James, and Lucy married' to Richard Ferriter near Dingle.

Thomas Spring, the second son of Captain Thomas Spring and Annabella Brown, was commissioned a Cap- tain to command a company at Castlemagne by Sir William St. Leger, Lord President of Munster, and the Earl of Inchiquin, as appears by their letters and commis- sions now in the hands of his son. He married Margaret Fenn and left issue three sons viz : Thomas (mentioned ante p. 48), Walter {ante p. 49) and Edward who married Katherine Flussey. Katherine Spring, eldest daughter of Walter Spring and Mary Crosbie, married first Nicholas Brown of Coolcleave and afterwards Daniel Oge Maol Mac Carthy of Dunguile. Annabel Spring, second daughter of Walter and Mary Crosbie, married Colonel Henry Black well and after the end of the rebellion of 1 64 1 went with him to France. Elizabeth Spring, eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Spring and Annabel Brown, married Captain James Delahoyde of :': * * * and had issue three sons, viz : George Manfred and John and two daughters viz : Elinor and Katherine Delahoyde. Elinor Delahoyde eldest of these daughters married * * :;: ::: * V. Genealogical Note on the Spring family, Appendix.

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Hurly of * * * * in county Lymerick and had issue by him a daughter married to * * * * Dwyer of * * * * Katherine Delahoyde, second daughter of Captain James Delahoyde and Elizabeth Spring, was married to Captain Daniel O' Donovan, but in the late war of 16S8 Lieutenant- Colonel O'Donovan, by whom she left issue Captain Morgan O'Donovan of Glandore in Carberry (or his father) aged in 1732 about fifty years.

Frances Spring, second daughter of the first Captain Thomas Spring and Annabel Brown or Apsley, married Meyler Hussey of Castle Gregory and had issue two sons viz : Nicholas and Walter and two daughters named Annabel and Ellen Hussey. Nicholas Hussey, eldest son of Meyler Hussey and Frances Spring, was killed unmarried and Walter Hussey their second son succeeded. He married Katherine Fitzgerald of Kilmurry and had issue three sons Nicholas, John, and Robert, and two daughters viz : Katherine and Frances Hussey. Nicholas Hussev, eldest son of Walter Hussey of Castle Gregory and Katherine Fitzgerald of Kilmurry, married Mabel Brown, daughter of Nicholas Brown of Colcleave by Katherine Spring aunt of ,; Walter the Unfortunate" and by her has several children, anno 1733. Katherine Hussey, eldest daughter of Walter Hussey of Castle Gregory and Katherine Fitzgerald of Kilmurry, married her cousin Oliver Hussey of Rha and had issue, two sons Edmund and "Walter Hussey and one daughter Katherine Hussey married to Edward Spring before mentioned, by whom she left issue two sons and two daughters. The eldest son's name is John. Frances Hussev, second daughter of Walter Flus^ev of Castle

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Gregory and Katherine Fitzgerald of Kilmurry, married Thomas Hickson of Gowlane and left issue one son named Richard, married to Martha daughter of Captain Theobald Magee, by whom said Richard Hickson has issue, anno 1734, two sons Theobald and George and two daughters. The above mentioned Walter Hussey of Castle Gregory married to Katherine Fitzgerald of Kil- murry, was the proprietor of Castle Gregory, the Ma- gharees and Ballybeggan before 1641, when having a great party under his command he made a garrison of his own Castle, and being pressed hard by Cromwell's army he escaped thence in the night with all his men and got into Minard Castle, where he was besieged by Colonels Le Hunte and Sadlier. After some time was spent the English observed that the besieged made use of pewter bullets, whereon powder was laid under the vaults of the Castle, which was blown up with Hussey and his men.

Frances Spring, second daughter of the first Captain Thomas Spring and Annabel Brown, after the death of her husband Meyler Hussey, married secondly Marcus Mc Grath of Kill * * * * in Tipperary, Baron of Clan- william, one of the sons of Myler Mc Grath, Archbishop of Cashell, and by him left issue a son Thomas McGrath who by Honora Walsh, daughter of Colonel John Walsh of Abbeyowney, left issue a son James Mc Grath. And said James Mc Grath by Katherine Grady of Kilfrush near Hospital left issue two sons, viz : James and Thomas, and four daughters viz : Annabella, Honora Sabina and Mary McGrath. James McGrath married Mary Pren- dergast and has issue two sons viz : Thomas and James, and three daughters viz : Katherine, Ellen and

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Annabella living in 1733. Annabella Mc Grath eldest daughter of James Mc Grath and Katherine Grady, by- Roger Mc Grath in the County Clare left no issue. Ho- nora Mc Grath, second daughter of said James and Katherine, married David Barry of Mungerett near Lymerick and has issue. Sabina Mc Grath, third daugh- ter of said James and Katherine, married Edmund Barry of Carra (illegible) in Lymerick and has issue. Mary Mc Grath, fourth daughter of James and Katherine died

without issue.

Susanna Spring, third daughter of Captain Thomas Spring and Annabella Brown, married * * * * Tra- verse of Killfallyny in the County of Kerry, uncle or cousin german to Sir Robert Traverse, and had issue nine sons and two daughters, the sons were — John, Mark, Nicholas, Thomas, Alexander, William, Arthur, Bryan and Walter, the daughters were Annabella and Alice. All these sons lived to be men and bred gentle- men, but 'tis not known that any of them were marry 'd except Nicholas and Walter. Nicholas was a Captain in the Army and governor of Portsmouth in the latter end of Charles the Second's reign, and Walter was married and left a daughter Annabel! Traverse, married to

* * * * Burke of * * * * in Lymerick. Annabella Traverse, eldest daughter of * * * * Traverse by Susanna Spring, married Captain John Downing in the County Cork or Waterfortl and had issue, two sons, viz: Robert Downing a Major in Holland, and John Downing a Captain in King Charles the Second's Gawds, and also two daughters one of whom married Rev.

* * * * Brook, a clergyman in Westraeath. And the

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above mentioned Sir Robert Traverse had with other children a daughter (his eldest) named Martha, who mar- ried first Captain Stannard by whom she had issue Robert and Elizabeth Stannard. Robert Stannard married Jane daughter of * * * * Hedges of * * * * in county * * * * and left issue three sons viz : George, Eaton and Robert Stannard and * * * * daughters. And the said Martha Traverse by her second husband, Sir Richard Aldworth left issue, a son named Boyle, a young man of great merit unhappily lost at sea going to England, and a daughter named Man*. Boyle Aldworth Esq. had mar- ried * * * * daughter of * * * * Cullyford Esq. one of the Commissioners of the Revenue, and left issue one son viz : Richard and daughters. Richard Aldworth, son of said Boyle married * * * * St. Leger daughter to the Rt Honble. Arthur Viscount Doneraile and hath

issue, anno 1734-

Alice Spring, fourth daughter of Annabel Brown and Captain Thomas Spring, mentioned in p. 73 married Colonel James Ryeves of Carrignafeely in the County Kerry, (son to Sir Robert Ryeves and Dame Dorothy Touchet one of the daughters of John Touchet Baron Audley father of the first Earl of Castlehaven) and had issue four sons, viz : James, John. William and Gerrard and five daughters viz : Annabella, Jane, Anne, Katherine and Elizabeth Ryeves. No account of James and William first and third of these sons, I therefore come to John Ryeves, the second son, who by *■ * * * Warters sister to Gamaliel Waiters of Cullen had issue three sons viz : William, James and John and one daugh- ter named Annabel. These three sons of John Ryeves

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and * * * * Warters died without issue, and William, the eldest of them, being possessed of a handsome Estate in Carrignafeely and having no issue by a barren wife and misled by infatuation to the injury of his only sister, survivor of his family, and her issue the Wilsons of Caherconlish in the County Lymerick, sold the Estate to his brother-in-law Patrick Crosbie Esq. Gerrard, fourth son of Colonel James Ryeves and Alice Spring. by Joan, daughter of Colonel David Crosbie, had issue one son named Thomas who left this kingdom after the Surrender of Lymerick and died beyond seas, and three daughters viz : Alice, Katherine and Elizabeth. Alice first of these three daughters of Gerrard Ryeves and Joan Crosbie married Dr. William Carrigg of Colomines in county Clare and left issue Garrett Carrigg married to Martha Gilburn of Granacurra in county Lymerick, by whom she has issue a son Robert, and a daughter named Mary Carrigg married to Daniel Finucane of Ailrue in county Clare. Catherine Ryeves, second daughter of Gerrard Ryeves and Joan Crosbie, married Frances Brudenell of * * * * in the county Lymerick by whom she left issue none. Elizabeth Ryeves, third daughter of Gerrard Ryeves and Joan Crosbie. married Walter Langdon son of Walter Langdon and Catherine Hick- son. The last mentioned Walter was son of Nathaniel Langdon, Dean of Ardfert before 1641, by Margaret Lucas of the Isle of Man, who was cousin german to my Grandmother Martha Lvn they being sisters' children. And the said Elizabeth Ryeves by her husband Walter Langdon of Dingle, anno 1734, has issue two sons viz : Thomas and Nathaniel. Thomas Langdon, first of these

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two sons, married Anne Paine and has issue three sons viz : John, Nathaniel and William and two daughters viz : Elizabeth and Mildred Langdon. Nathaniel Langdon, second son of Walter and Elizabeth, married Margaret Goedhaire and has issue one son by name Solomon and a daughter by name Elizabeth.

Annabel Ryeves, first daughter of Colonel James Ryeves and Alice Spring, by Garret Fitzgerald of Bally- nard in Lymerick had issue six sons viz : John, Garret, James, Alexander, Edward, Thomas and two daughters viz : Mar}- and Ellen Fitzgerald. John Fitzgerald the eldest of these six sons, afterwards a Colonel in the Army, married Barbara daughter of John Boyle, Bishop of Cork and widow of Sir John Brown mentioned at page 70, and died without issue by her, whereupon Garret Fitzgerald second son of Garret and Annabella succeeded to the family Estate. By his first wife an English lady he had issue, one son named William, a gentleman of weak capacity who however married, and by his wife Sabina Weekes had issue two sons named Gerrard and John, and one daughter by name Annabel Fitzgerald. She married Captain Thomas Fitzgerald by whom she had issue one daughter who is married, anno j 735, to Alexander Butler. And said Garret Fitzgerald second son of Garret and Annabell married secondly, Margaret Warters and left issue two sons, viz : Gamaliel and James and two daughters Mary and Margaret Fitz- gerald. Gamaliel Fitzgerald, eldest of these two sons, by his wife Susanna Raines has only two daughters viz : Margaret and Elizabeth. Margaret the eldest married Harman Fitzmaurice, only son of Captain James Fitz-

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maurice brother to the Earl of Kerry, and by him left issue one son, anno 1735, James Fitzmaurice. James, second son of Garret Fitzgerald and Margaret Waiters, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Captain George Gregory of Newtown in the county Lymerick, left issue four sons, viz : Garret, George, Gregory, Robert and one daughter Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Mary Fitzgerald, eldest daughter of Garret and Margaret, married John Fitz- gerald eldest son of her uncle John Fitzgerald of Kilduff and by him has issue. Margaret, second daughter of Garret Fitzgerald and Margaret Warters, married Quarter- Master Smith. James Fitzgerald, third son of Garret Fitzgerald and Annabella Ryeves, was an able lawyer. By his wife Anne Porter he left issue two daughters only viz : Anna- bell and Anne Fitzgerald. Annabell Fitzgerald the eldest of these two married Colonel Ulick now, anno 1734, Count Ulick Brown, in the service of the Emperor of Germany, and by said Count Brown had issue Ulick, now Count Brown, and two daughters viz: Barbara married to Colonel Xoland and Mary married to a Ger- man noble. Anne Fitzgerald, second of the two daugh- ters of James Fitzgerald and Anne Porter not yet married. (She died anno 17 35.) Alexander and Edward Fitzgerald fourth and fifth sons of Garret and Annabella Fitzgerald both died unmarried. Thomas Fitzgerald sixth son of Garret Fitzgerald and Annabell Ryeves, married his cousin Anne Butler of Ballynahenshy and had issue six sons and three daughters. The sons were John. Garret. William, James, Alexander, and Richard, the daughters Jane, Annabell and Mary Fitzgerald. John Fitzgerald, eldest of these six sons of Thomas

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Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married Mary Fitzgerald his cousin and by her had issue living, anno 1735, a daugh- ter married to Lieutenant Christopher (illegible) of Tip- perary and by him has issue two sons Samuel and Christopher. Garret Fitzgerald, second son of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married a daughter of John Shortall, Clk. and by her left issue two sons Shortall and Thomas Fitzgerald of Cullen and three daughters. Wil- liam Fitzgerald, third son of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married * * * - * O Brien of Pallice and left issue three sons viz : Thomas a Captain in the Prus- sian army, John, and George who married a daughter of Donat O'Brien and left issue. James Fitzgerald, fourth son of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married * * * * Lysaght and left issue one daughter. Alexander Fitzgerald, fifth son of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne But- ler, married * * * * Barry of Johnstown and left no issue. Richard Fitzgerald, sixth son of said Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married * * * * daughter of * % * * Blake near Cullen and left issue one son William and two daughters Alicia and Jane Fitzgerald. Jane Fitzgerald, first daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married William Lloyd of Tuogh in county Lymerick, Clk. and by him left issue two sons, Thomas Lloyd, Clk. and Edward Lloyd of Eyon, county Lymerick. Annabell Fitzgerald, second daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married Captain Jasper Grant of Kilmurry in the county Cork, and by him left issue two sons Jasper and Thomas Grant and two daughters Anne and Christi- ana Grant. Mary Fitzgerald, third daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald and Anne Butler, married Thomas Lloyd of

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Fuintarrefin county Lymerick, and by him left no issue, and she afterwards married Thomas Moore one of the Galway Prisoners and by him left issue, anno 1735, tnrce sons Roger of Ballinaclogh, John (abroad,) Southwell and two daughters Barbara and Catherine Moore.

Mar>r Fitzgerald, first daughter of Garret Fitzgerald and Annabell Ryeves, married Captain Arthur Blenner- hassett and had issue by him as mentioned in p. 37. Ellen Fitzgerald, second daughter of Garret Fitzgerald and Annabell Ryeves, married Sir Ralph Wilson of Ca- hirconlish, county Lymerick, and by him had issue two sons Jonathan and David. Jonathan died unmarried in London, and David Wilson by his second wife Constance Mouncton of Ballylynny in county Lymerick had issue one son viz : Ralph, called Ralph a Bohur, from his place of abode and to distinguish him from his uncle Ralph Wilson, eldest son of Sir Ralph by his first wife. This Ellen Lady Wilson, alias Fitzgerald, was afterwards mar- ried to Sir Thomas Crosbie but had no issue by him. Annabell Ryeves, only daughter of John Ryeves and * * * * Warters of Cullen mentioned at p. 78, was mar- ried to Ralph Wilson Esq., son and heir of the before mentioned Sir Ralph Wilson by his first wife, and had issue four sons viz : Ralph, Jonathan, David killed at the Siege of Lille, and William the present Mayor of Lyme- rick anno 1734. Ralph Wilson, eldest son of the said Ralph Wilson and Annabell Ryeves, married Margaret Warters of Cullen and by her left issue two sons viz : Ralph and Edward Wilson and one daughter viz : Catherine married to Mr. Henry Honohan of Broghil. Jonathan Wilson, second son of Ralph and Annabell,

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married Jane daughter of Ambrose Upton, Esq. of Dub- lin and left issue Ambrose and Annabella Wilson. Ralph Wilson, first of the two sons of Ralph Wilson and Mar- garet Warters, married Thomasina Bowen of Kilbollane and has issue one son Ralph and one daughter Catherine. Jane Ryeves, second daughter of Colonel James Ryeves and Alice Spring, mentioned in p. ;S, married first Roger Carew of Lismore and had issue (at least) one son Roger, and a daughter named * * * * married to James Hendley of Ballyhendley, in the County Cork near the Funcheon river. And said Jane Ryeves by her second husband Captain Richard Butler of Ballyna- henshy, near Cashel, had issue one son viz : Captain James Butler a gentleman of great strength and courage and two daughters viz : Anne married to Thomas Fitz- gerald as mentioned in p. Si, and Ellen married to Mr. Daniel Cahill of Imokilly by whom she had issue a son, Charles Cahill, a Captain in the army. Captain James Butler, son of Richard Butler .of Ballynahenshy and Jane Ryeves, married Mrs. * * * * Grant and had issue by her three sons, Richard, James and Alexander and two daughters Ellen and Mary Butler. Richard Butler, eldest of these three sons of Captain James Butler and * * * * Grant, married * * "' * daughter of James Grace of Brittas in Tipperary and has issue two sons, viz: Richard going on thirteen years, anno 1729, John going on ten years, and four daughters viz : Eliza- beth going on fifteen years, Jane going on fourteen years, Margaret going on eleven years and Mary going on eight years.

Anne Ryeves, third daughter of James Ryeves and

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Alice Spring, married Turlogh O'Connor the proprietor of Ballingowan before 1641, and had issue one daughter, Alice O'Connor, a goodnatured well bred gentlewoman, who by her husband Captain Owen Mac Carthy of Lis- nagaun and Carnina Sliggagh in the County Kerry, left issue one son called Daniel and a daughter Anne Mac Carthy. Daniel, only son of Captain Daniel Mac Carthy and Alice O'Connor, married Winifred Mac Elligott and left issue with others a son by name Justin, well entitled to the estate of Lisnagaun if he do qualify himself by becoming a Protestant, by which means and no other he will recover his right, and defeat the secret management of Garret Barry of Dunasloon, father-in-law of Florence Mac Carthy, the said Justin's uncle. This youth will be lost in his pretensions to the estate if he do not become a Protestant, or be supported by the Lord Kenmare, whose ancestor Sir Nicholas Brown (by the name of Nicholas Brown gent.) did by a small Deed of Enfe- offment in Latin, grant the said estate to Captain Mac Carthy's ancestor named Connac Reagh, at two shil- lings per annum and suit and service. This Latin Deed of Enfeoffment I delivered, anno 171 7, to Mr. Francis Enraght, attorney, to serve upon a hearing of Captain Mac Carthy's cause and defence in the Exchequer where the titles of Mac Carthy (quae vide) are set forth. On the death of Alice O'Connor, Captain Owen Mac Carthy married secondly Margaret Lacy of Ballylaghlan, and left a son Florence of Lisnagaun above mentioned. Katharine Ryeves, fourth daughter of Tames Ryeves and Alice Spring, married as mentioned in p. 50, Edward Conway of Killorglin, son of Jenkin Conway and Avice

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Dalton, and had issue the two daughters and co-heiresses there mentioned viz : Alice Conway wife of Patrick Dowdall of Kippagh, and afterwards of Edmund Lacy of Rathcahill, and Avice Conway my mother mentioned in p. 42. Elizabeth Ryeves, fifth daughter of Colonel James Ryeves and Alice Spring, died unmarried.

Annabell Spring, fifth daughter of Captain Thomas Spring and Annabell Brown, (mentioned in p. 73) was married to Luke Taafe uncle to the Earl of Carlingford and by him had issue one son, viz : Christopher Taafe, a Captain in the regiment of which Dominic Ferriter was Major in the time of Charles the Second's exile in Flan- ders, when and where some angry words happening between him and Ferriter the latter commanded two of Dr. Field's sons his kinsmen then in their company, to shoot Captain Taafe if he would not quit the place, which one of them accordingly did and there killed him. This Captain Taafe, son of Colonel Luke Taafe and Annabell Spring, married Fitzgerald of Ballysquiddane's daughter and left one son viz : Luke Taafe a Captain in the late war of r6S8, after which he went to France. He married Elizabeth Gunter of * * * * in the county * * * * and left one son viz : Abel Taafe living near Emly.

Sir 'Robert Ryeves, (mentioned in p. 78) had three brothers all knights, viz : Sir William Ryeves Attorney- General before the rebellion of 1641, Sir Francis Ryeves of Rathsillagh near Ballymore Eustace, and Sir * * * * Ryeves ancestor of Sir Richard Ryeves, one of the Barons of Exchequer in the reign of William the Third of Glorious Memory. This account I had from ancient records and from one of the name

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and family. The Pedigree of these knights is as fol- loweth : —

Sir William Ryeves, the Attorney-General before 1641, by his wife Dorothy Bingley of Rathsillagh had issue, two sons viz : William and Charles Ryeves. William first son, by Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Bagshaw of Castle Bagshaw near Belturbet, had issue living, two sons William and Edward Ryeves. William Ryeves, eldest son of William and Dorothy, married Bridget daughter of Sir * * * * Bagshaw of London, and had issue three sons, viz : Thomas, Francis and Bagshaw Ryeves and three daughters viz: Prudence, Elizabeth and Catherine Ryeves, and on the death of Bridget Bagshaw said William Ryeves married Elinor Coffey of Lansillagh near Tullamore in the King's County, and had three sons George, Edward and Armstrong, and five daughters alive, anno. 1731, viz : Jane, Lucy, Mary, Juliana, and Elinor Ryeves. Jane, first of these five daughters, married Edwyn Sandes of Roscommon by whom she has issue. Lucy, second daughter of William Ryeves and Elinor Coffey Lansillagh, married William Rutlidge near Ferns, by whom she has issue. Mary third daughter of William Ryeves and Elinor Coffey, married John Bradish of Kilkenny by whom she has issue. Juliana fourth daughter of said William Ryeves and Elinor Coffey is also married. Elinor Ryeves fifth daughter of said William and Elinor married first Cap- tain Dudley Davis of Rahornan near Leighlin Bridge, and secondly Alexander Burrowes of Ardmore in the County of Kildare by whom she has no issue.

Thomas Ryeves, eldest son of William Ryeves and his

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first Wife Bridget Bagshaw, married first Jane Burrowes and left issue by her four sons, viz : William, Alexander, Thomas and * * * * also one daughter Catharine Ryeves who married Colonel Robert Burton of the Battle Axe Guards, and Knight of the Shire for the County Carlow and by him she has had issue. William Ryeves eldest of the four sons of Thomas Ryeves and Jane Burrowes, married Elizabeth Burrowes and has issue, anno 1731, a son named Thomas. Alexander Ryeves, second son of Thomas Ryeves and Jane Bur- rowes, married * * * * Aspin of Dunlavin and has issue. Thomas Ryeves, third son of Thomas Ryeves and Jane Burrowes, is lately married in London and is a linen draper there.

Prudence Ryeves, eldest daughter of William Ryeves and Bridget Bagshaw, married Doctor Lancaster and left issue Peter and Sophia Lancaster. Elizabeth Ryeves, second daughter of said William Ryeves and Bridget Bagshaw, married Cornet * * * * Goolin and left issue Catherine married to Edward Harris a minister of the gospel in Armagh. Catherine Ryeves, third daughter of said William and Bridget, married James Bradish of Kilkenny and has a son named William in the College, anno 173 J, and a daughter named Francis Bradish.

Charles Ryeves, second son of Sir William Ryeves and Dorothy Bingley, left issue three sons viz : Sir . Richard, Jerome, and George who died unmarried. Sir Richard Ryeves married the daughter of * * * * Savage, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and left issue two sons Charles and William Ryeves. Charles, eldest of the

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two is now, anno 1731, heir of Freshford in Kilkenny and by his wife Penelope Price he has three daughters. William second son of Sir Richard Ryeves, married

* * * * Clayton, daughter of Dean Clayton and sister to the Bishop of Killala and has issue. Jerome Ryeves, second son of Charles Ryeves and brother of Sir Richard, was married to * * * * Maude and by her left issue one daughter. This said Jerome Ryeves was Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin. Francis Ryeves, second son of William Ryeves and Bridget Bagshaw, married Elizabeth Breams of Kent and has issue one son named Walter. Bagshaw Ryeves, third son of William Ryeves and Bridget Bagshaw, married Priscilla Kirk of Leicester- shire and had issue one son Kirk Ryeves and one daughter Susanna. Bagshaw Ryeves married secondly

* * * * ancj hath three daughters viz : Elizabeth, Mary, and Katherine Ryeves. George Ryeves, eldest son of the said William Ryeves by his second wife Elinor Coffey, married. * * * * Edward and Armstrong, second and third sons of William Ryeves and Elinor Coffey are also married.

TJie Ryrues of Lymerick.

William Ryeves of Ballyscaddane Esq. by Sophia, second daughter of Sir Robert Traverse of Richard- ford's Town near Cork, left issue one son named Robert who by Elizabeth Ryeves his cousin has issue two sons and two daughters. The sons are Robert and Edward, the daughters are Elizabeth and Katherine Ryeves. Edward, second son of Robert Ryeves and Elizabeth, married Elizabeth Powell, daughter of Hassard

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Powell Esq., and has issue anno 1734. Elizabeth and Katherine Ryeves, daughters of Robert and Elizabeth, also married and had issue. And said William Ryeves of Ballyscaddane on the death of his first wife Sophia Traverse married secondly Bridget Howes, daughter of * * * * Howes Esq., a relation of Charles Oliver Esq. and left issue a son named Nicholas, who by Catherine Croker left issue one son named William, who at present enjoys Ballyscaddane and is married.

N.B. The Ryeves Coat Armour is three Lozenges, five Ermines in a Lozenge in a field argent. The crest is a greyhound sedent.

Joanna Brown, second daughter of John Brown, Master of Awney, and Katherine O'Ryan mentioned at page 71, married Maurice Hurley, Esq. and had issue by him Sir Thomas Hurley of Knocklong in the county Lymerick, who married Grissell Hogan and had issue two sons viz : Maurice and John, and four daugh- ters Catherine, Anne, Grace, and Elinor Hurley. Sir Maurice Hurly, eldest son of Sir Thomas Hurly and Grissell Hogan, married * * * * O Dwyer and had one son viz : Sir William Hurly, and this Sir William by his wife Mary Blount had issue Sir John Hurley taken up in Dublin, about the year 1714, for raising men for the Pretender but made his escape. Katherine Hurley, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Hurley and Grissell Hogan, married Pierce Butler, Lord Dunboyne, and had issue James the late Lord Dunboyne and four daughters viz : Anne, Mary, Grace and Elinor Butler. Anne Butler,

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eldest daughter of Pierce Lord Dunboyne and Katherine Hurley, married Mr. * * * * English of * * * * Mary Butler, second daughter of Pierce Lord Dunboyne and Katherine Hurly, married Daniel O'Ryan of Sullaghode and had issue. Grace Butler, third daughter of said Pierce and Katherine, married Walter Bourke near the Devil's Bit called Mac Walsar Duhallow. This Walter's sister was the wife of Colonel Blount and mother to the Lady Hurly, (Sir William Hurry's relict) and after Colonel Blount's death she married O'Bryen of Duharra. Elinor Butler, fourth daughter of said Pierce Lord Dun- boyne and Katherine Hurley, married Robiston of Bally- cloghy in the county Cork and had a daughter Ellen, who married Garret Fitzgerald of Kilmurry. And said Garret Fitzgerald by Ellen Robiston had issue Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald, who married * * * * and had a son Garret Fitzgerald. This last mentioned Garret Fitzgerald married Julian sister of the present O'Sullivan More, anno. 1734, and left issue Thomas Fitzgerald who married Mary daughter of Patrick Pierse of Ballinerossig in the county Kerr)-. Elinor Hurley, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Hurly and Grissell Hogan his wife, married David Barry of Rathane, by whom she had issue, Edmund Barry the late Queen Anne's foster- father. John Hurley, second son of Sir Thomas and Grisell, married * * * * and had a son, John, the father of. the late Colonel John Hurley, and also three daugh- ters viz : Grace, Anne and Ellinor Hurley. Grace, the eldest of these three daughters, married Captain John Purdon of Cullagh county * * * * Anne, second daughter, married John Bourke of Cahirmoyle. Ellinor

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Hurley, third daughter, married John Lacy, of Ballin- lughay and had two sons, John and Pierce Lacy and a daughter Margaret married to Captain Owen Mac Carthy. Pierce Lacy, second son of said John Lacy and Ellinor Hurley, married and had a son George Lacy of Dromadda who married Frances daughter of Patrick Lacy.

Elizabeth Brown, third daughter of John Brown and Catherine O'Ryan, married Gerald Fitzgibbon, proprietor of Ardskein in county Cork called Tonebuie Riagh a noted man under Garret last Earl of Desnjond and left issue one daughter who married Burgett of Ballyfronte, the old proprietor of Ponsonby's estates in the County Lymerick. This Burgett was father of Doctor William Burgett a titular Archbishop of Cashel in the reign of Elizabeth or James the First and of the rest of his brothers.

Margaret Brown, fourth daughter of John Brown Master of Awney and Catherine O'Ryan, married Donogh Mc Grath of Quil- (illegible) commonly called Donogh na Traghlig, and had a son Thomas and four daughters viz : Margaret, Catherine, Mary and Honora Mc Grath. Thomas Mc Grath, son of Donogh Mc Grath and Margaret Brown, married and had a son called Thomas who was father to Colonel Denis Mc Grath, killed in a duel in the reign of Queen Anne. Margaret Mc Grath, eldest daughter of Donogh Mc Grath and Margaret Brown, married James Barry of Raih- cormac in county Cork, called Mac Adam Barry, and had issue Redmond Barry Esq. who married first * * * * and had issue a son, Colonel James Barn-, and a

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daughter married to Alan Broderick, late Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, and afterwards created Lord Middleton. By his second wife * * * * Purdon, Red- mond Barry had issue a son Redmund, now of Bally- clogh near Fermoy, who by his wife * * * * Taylor has issue, anno 1734- Colonel James Barry, son of Redmund Barry, married an English lady of great merit and fortune and left two sons viz : Colonel Redmond Barry now of Rathcormac, and his brother James Barry a Captain of foot (and purse-bearer to the late Lord Chancellor Broderick,) also daughters. Catherine Mc Grath, second daughter of Donogh Mc Grath and Margaret Brown, was married to Philip Roe of Hackets- town in the County Waterford and was grandmother to the late John Roe, Michael Roe, and other brothers and their sister Mary Roe who married Captain George Brown, of Ballyvrinny in county Lymerick, and had issue two sons viz : Lieutenant-General George Brown, late Governor of Milan under the Emperor of Germany, and Colonel Ulick Brown, styled Count Brown, married to* Annabella Fitzgerald as mentioned in p. Si, and by her has issue one son and two daughters. Margaret Roe. another sister of the said John Roe, was married to James Gib- bon of Castle Riagh in county Lymerick. Anne Roe, another sister of said John's, was married to Charles Mac Carthy called Tierna (or Lord of) Coshmagne. Man- Mc Grath, third daughter of Donogh Mc Grath and Margaret Brown, married * * * * O'Hiffernan of Scronil in Tipperary. and had issue a son who married and had issue, and a daughter Ellinor, who by her husband old Doctor Hickey, had issue four sons, viz :

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Doctor Morrogh Hickey late of Lymerick, Doctor John Hickey late of Clonmell (who was father of Doctor Hickey now of Clonmell.) Michael Hickey the Lawyer, and Laurence Hickey all dead. Honora Mc Grath, fourth daughter of Donogh Mc Grath and Margaret Brown, married Philip Mc Grath of (illegible) and Curragh- nasloadv in countv Waterford, and by him had a dau<rh- ter called Mary who was the second wife of Sir Nicholas Osborne of Ticmor, and stepmother of Sir Thomas Osborne mentioned in p. 3S. She was reputed one of y* most excellent good women of her time in ye Pro- vince. Colonel Denis Mc Grath, mentioned in p. 92, as killed in a duel left issue three sons, Thomas, Robert and Donogh and three daughters viz : Mary, Margaret and Jane Mc Grath.

Ellinor Brown, fifth daughter of John Brown Master of Awney and Catherine O'Ryan, mentioned at p. 69, married * i:~ * * Fitzgerald of Cahirassa, from whom all the Fitzgeralds of that family are descended, amongst others, Thomas Fitzgerald, who managed a law suit for Colonel Stewart at Tralee Assizes, anno 1700, against Mr. Walcot so that the Colonel had a favourable ver- dict. And :-c * * * Fitzgerald grand daughter of said Ellinor Brown was mother of the late Lord Cahir, and he being the next collateral heir of Pierce, Lord Cahir, was father of the present Thomas Lord Cahir, who is married to Frances, daughter of the eminent lawyer Sir Theobald Butler, and has issue anno 1727, three sons viz : James, Thomas, and Jordan Butler and daughters. And the last named Lord Cahir has a sister Jane Butler, who married James son of the before mentioned Sir

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Theobald Butler and left issue, two sons, viz : Theobald and James and two daughters Margaret and Mary Butler. And said Jane Butler married secondly and had issue.

Katherine Brown, sixth daughter of John Brown Master of Awny and Catherine O'Ryan, married Thomas Russell of Ballinreague now called Shannon Park near Cork and had one son Francis, and a daughter who was married to Cogan of Bearnehealy. This Thomas Russell a learned man out of some melancholy hung himself in his own stable. The descendant and representative of the above mentioned Cogan of Bearnehealy is William Cogan of Muckinagh, anno 1734, in the County Kerry. The seventh daughter of John Brown Master of Awney and Katherine O Ryan mentioned at page 69 married * * * * Rawleigh of Rawleighstown in the County Lymerick and had a daughter married to Lieutenant Rutlidge, father of Joan Rutlidge who was the wife of old Edward Lacy of Rathcahill. The eighth daughter of said John Brown Master of Awney and Katherine O'Ryan of Sullaghode, married * * * * Fitzgibbon of Ballyleemy in the County Limerick, and had a daughter married to * * * * Baggott, of * * * * by whom she had issue old John Baggott the Counsellor and James and William Baggott. James Baggott married Juliana Power, daughter of Sir William Power of Killbolane, and had issue young John Baggott the Counsellor, and Peter Baggott. William Baggott married * * * * Fitton of Knockaney and had three sons viz : James, John and Edward Baggott, the two last were killed at Aughrim and James in right of his mother * * * * Fitton had a claim to the lands of Awney but was bought off by Counsellor

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Fitzgerald mentioned at p. 94. Katherine Fitzgibbon another daughter of Fitzgibbon of Ballyleeny and his wife * * * * Brown was grandmother of Henry Supple of Criggane. The ninth daughter of John Brown Master of Awney and Katherine O'Ryan was married to * * * * Cushin or Cushinagh of the County Cork and one of his daughters was mother of Nagle of Monanimy, and another daughter of his was mother of James Rawleigh father of Walter Rawleigh the Counsellor. The tenth daughter of John Brown, Master of Awney, and Katherine O Ryan was married to Butler of Knockgraffan in the County Tipperary.

By some of the foregoing ten sisters, daughters of Brown of Awney, I am related to the Burghs of Dromkeen and Newcastle, and the Fitzgeralds of Ballyglickane. A sister of Captain Thomas Spring mentioned at page 73, married the grandfather of Major John O'Dell of Ballin- garry thus : —

1. Captain Thomas Spring. 1 Spring (his sister).

2. Alice Spring. 2 O Dell.

3. Katherine Ryeves. 3. Major John O Dell.

4. Avice Conway. 4. John O Dell.

5. John Blennerhasset (the 5 O Dell.

writer).

The said Major John O'Dell, grandson of Captain Thomas Spring's sister, married Elizabeth Cane and had issue two sons viz : John and William and three daughters viz : Judith, Mary, and Grissell O'Dell. John O'Dell, eldest of these two sons, married Constance Fitzmaurice, daughter of William Lord Baron of Kerry, and left issue an only son John who married Anne Fitzmaurice,

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daughter of Captain James Fitzmaurice, son of the said Lord Kerry, and had issue three sons and one daughter. The sons are Thomas and William and the daughter is Catherine 0*Dell. William O'Dell, second son of Major John O'Dell and Elizabeth Cane, married Anne Hunt of Glangould in the County Tipperary and left issue by her four sons and two daughters. The sons are John, Edward, William and George, the daughters are Elizabeth and Anne. John O'Dell, eldest son of William O'Dell and Anne Hunt, married Frances Massey of Ma- croom in Cork and has issue. Judith, eldest daughter of Major John O'Dell and Elizabeth Cane, married Captain Charles Conyers of Castle Town Mac Eniry and has issue, anno 1735, one son O'Dell Conyers and three daughters Catherine, Margaret and Mary Conyers.

O'Dell Conyers, son of Captain Charles and Judith, married Jane Langford of Tullagha in Lymerick and by her has issue, anno 1735, two daughters. Catherine Conyers first daughter of Captain Charles Conyers and Judith O'Dell, married Mr. John Bunbury a clergyman in the Diocese of Mallow, and by him has issue. Margaret Conyers, second daughter of Captain Charles Conyers and Judith O'Dell, married Lieutenant John Shelton of Rosse in the County Lymerick and by him has issue. Mary Conyers, third daughter of Captain Charles Conyers and Judith O'Dell, married William Upton of Ballynaboarney in the Count)- Lymerick and by him has issue. Mary O'Dell, second daughter of Major John O'Dell and Elizabeth Cane, married Captain Thomas Brown (since dead) and by him had issue one son, viz : Thomas, (a Lieutenant in the Army.) and the

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said Mary by her second husband John Langton of

Killbeg in Lymerick has also issue. Grissel, third

daughter of Major John O'Dell and Elizabeth Cane,

married Henry Graydon of Elverstone near Blessington

and lias issue, anno 1735, tw0 sons xlz '• MorrogTi

and Henry and four daughters viz : Mary, Anne, Eliza-

beth and Katherine. Morrogh Graydon, eldest of these

two sons, married Catherine Graydon of Russellstown

near Blessington. Mary Graydon, eldest daughter of

Henry Graydon and Grissell O'Dell, married Lieutenant

Thomas Brown above mentioned and has two sons and

two daughters. Anne Graydon, second daughter of

Henry Graydon and Grissell O'Dell, married John Smith

of Balteboig and by him has issue. Katherine Graydon,

fourth daughter of Henry Graydon and Grissell O'Dell,

married * * * * Ormsby of the County Sligo. Major

John O'Dell, the husband of Elizabeth Cane, had also

another daughter by name Jane married to Major

Nicholas Mouncton of Killmore by whom she left issue

five daughters viz : Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, Judith

and Grissell Mouncton. Elizabeth Mouncton;- eldest of

these five, married Lieutenant Tristram Carey by whom

she left issue three sons, F^dward, George and Mouncton,

and three daughters Anne, Mary, and Jane. Mary

Mouncton, second daughter of Major Nicholas Mouncton

and Jane O'Dell, married James Langford of Bannemore

near Farley. Catherine Mouncton, third daughter of

Major Nicholas Mouncton and Jane O'Dell, married

Lieutenant Joseph Standish of Ballynafrancky county

Lymerick, by whom she has issue living, anno 1735, two

sons viz : John and Michael and three daughters viz :

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Faith married to Patrick Peppard of Kilmacow, (men- . tioned in p. 51,) Jane married to Matthew Markham of Lymerick by whom she has issue one daughter named Faith, and Mary Standish as yet unmarried. Judith Mouncton, fourth daughter of Major Nicholas Mouncton and Jane O'Dell, married Mr. Brown. Grissell Mouncton, fifth daughter of Major Nicholas Mouncton and Jane O'Dell, died without issue.

And the said Major John O'Dell the husband of Elizabeth Cane had a sister, who married first Captain Oxford of Newcastle in the County Lymerick, and had issue only one child, Mary Oxford who married Richard Stephens Esq. of Newcastle, and had issue six daughters viz : Catherine, Thamasine, Grace, Mans Susanna and Jane Stephens. Catherine Stephens eldest of these six married Captain John Bowen of Kilbullane. Thamasine, second daughter of Richard Stephens of Newcastle and Mary Oxford, married Thomas Mansel of Drombane in Lymerick and had issue two sons Thomas and Edward Mansel. Grace Stephens, third daughter of Richard Stephens and Mary Oxford, married Doctor Rudgate of Dublin and had issue a daughter married to Doctor Roberts of Dublin. Mary, fourth daughter of Richard Stephens and Mary Oxford, married (illegible) near Roscrea in Tipperary. Susanna Stephens, fifth daughter of Richard Stephens and Mary Oxford, married Edmund Burgh of Newcastle Esq. by whom she had issue two daughters viz : * * * * who married ' Cox one of Sir Richard Cox's grandsons, and Jane Burgh who married the son of Henry Bayley of Lough Gar. And the said Susanna Stephens on the death of

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her first husband Edmond Burgh, married secondly, George Rose Esq. brother of Mr. Justice Rose and has issue. Jane, sixth daughter of Richard Stephens and Mary Oxford, married the Reverend William Burgh, late Rector of Newcastle, and left no issue. And the said * * * * 07)ell (mother of the wife of Richard Stephens) on the death of her first husband Captain Oxford married secondly, Mr. Ralph Conyers and left issue one son by name Charles, and four daughters viz : Catherine, Grissell, Elizabeth and Margaret Conyers.

Captain Charles Conyers the said son married Judith O'Dell of Castletown Mac Eniry as mentioned in p. 97. Catherine Conyers, eldest daughter of Ralph Conyers and * * * * O'Dell otherwise Oxford, married Revd. William Burgh, Rector of Newcastle, (anno 1696,) by whom she had issue three sons viz : William, Edmond and John Burgh and four daughters viz : Elizabeth, Annabel, Margaret and Catherine. William Burgh the eldest son married Jane Stephens, above mentioned, and Edmond Burgh married Susanna Stephens as mentioned in preceding page. John Burgh, (third son of Catherine Conyers and Rev. William Burgh, Rector of Newcastle anno 1696,) resided at Ballyleen near Crogh in Lymerick and married :;: * * * of Dublin, by whom he has issue one son named John and a daughter Margaret Burgh. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Reverend William Burgh and Catherine Conyers, married Captain Robert Lloyd of Newcastle and has issue, one son John, and one daughter Mary Lloyd married to Erancis Langford of Tullagha in Lymerick. Annabel Burgh, second daugh- ter of Rev. William Burgh and Catherine Conyers,

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married John O'Dell of Waterford and has issue. Mar- garet Burgh, third daughter of Rev. William Burgh and Catherine Conyers, married Mr. Nathan Sprigg, late Rector of Newcastle, they are both dead, and left issue two sons viz : William and Nathan, and one daughter named Catherine married to Stephen Bowen of New- castle, Captain John Bowen of Kilbullane's son. William Sprigg, first of these two sons, married Catherine Brudenell of Ballyguile and by her has issue. Grissell Conyers, second daughter of Ralph Conyers and * * * * O Dell, married Thomas Whippy by whom she left issue Ralph Whippy married to Margaret Fitzmaurice of Kil- carragh, county Kerry. Elizabeth, third daughter of Ralph Conyers and * * * * O'Dell otherwise Oxford married John Upton of Newcastle by whom she left issue a son John Upton of Curraghnamullaght, and three younger sons, Charles, William and Jonathan. Margaret Conyers, fourth daughter of Ralph Conyers and * * * * O'Dell, otherwise Oxford, married Edward Darcy of Newcastle by whom she left two sons viz : James and Conyers Darcy. James Darcy lives at Knocka- derry and Conyers Darcy at Carrugart.

Master Dermot O'Ryan of Sullaghode mentioned at p. 69 had besides Katherine wife of John Brown, two other daughters viz : Julian and Mary O'Ryan. Julian O'Ryan married Mac O'Brien of Duharra or Arra and had * * * * sons and three daughters. The eldest of these three daughters married Charles, Lord Muskerry, called Cormac Reagh. Ellen O'Brien, second daughter of Julian O'Ryan and O'Brien of Duharra, married Mac Carthy Reagh, by whom she had issue with others

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Florence Mac Carthy, who died in the Tower of London, having been privately married to Lady Ellen Mac Carthy, only daughter of Donnel Mac Carthy Earl of Clancare, who was the great grandfather of Randall Mac Carthy More father of the present Mac Carthy More, anno 1733. * * * * O'Brien, third daughter of Julian O'Ryan and Mac O'Brien of Duharra, married Brien Mac Sweeny of Dimisky in the county Corke and was ancestor ot Major Charles Mac Carthy of Gortnalough.

And said Julian O'Ryan on the death of her first husband Mac O'Brien of Arra, married Maurice Fitz- gerald, called Maurice Dhuv Mac an Earla, (or Black Maurice the Earl's son) and had issue James Fitzmaurice of Desmond, and this James of Desmond had two daughters, Joan and Honora Fitzmaurice. Joan Fitz- maurice, eldest of the two, married * * * * and was great grandmother of Colonel Donogh Mac Carthy of Drishane lately deceased. Honora Fitzmaurice, second daughter of James of Desmond, married Sir Edmund Fitz John Fitz-Gerald of Cloyne and Ballymoloo and had issue one son Maurice Fitzgerald of Castle-Ishen, and three daughters viz : Ellen, Mary and Honora Fitz- gerald. Ellen, eldest daughter of Sir Edmond Fitz John Fitzgerald and Honora Fitzmaurice, married Dermot, fourth Baron of Inchiquin, and by him had issue, Morrogh first PZarl of Inchiquin and two daughters Mary and Honora O'Brien. Mary Fitzgerald, second daughter of said Sir Edmond Fitz John Fitzgerald and Honora Fitzmaurice, married Owen O'Sullivan More and by him had issue Daniel O'Sullivan More, the present Daniel O'Sullivan More's grandfather, anno 1734.

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Honora Fitzgerald, third daughter of said Sir Edmond and Honora, married Patrick Fitzmaurice, Lord Baron of Kerry, the present Earl of Kerry's grandfather, and by him had issue two sons and three daughters. The first of these two sons was William late Lord Kerry present Earl's father, and the second son was Raymond Fitzmaurice. The eldest daughter of Patrick Lord Kerry and Honora Fitzgerald was Jane Fitzmaurice, who mar- ried the Lord Leigh of * * * * in England and after- wards * * * * Gifford Esq. Mary Fitzmaurice, second daughter of Patrick Lord Kerry and Honora Fitzgerald, married the Marquis D'Abbeville by whom she has issue. Elizabeth Fitzmaurice, third daughter of Lord Kerry and Honora Fitzgerald, married first Thomas Amory by whom she left issue, Thomas Amory of Bun- ratty, lately deceased, and secondly O'Connor Kerry by whom she had one daughter by name Julia, who married Charles O'Connor a learned mathematician of Dublin by whom she left issue an only son Charles Fitzmaurice O'Connor.

Maurice Fitzgerald of Castle Ishen, only son of Sir Edmund Fitz John Fitzgerald and Honora Fitzmaurice, married Honora Mac Carthy daughter of the Lord Muskerry and had issue a son, Garret Fitzgerald of Castle Ishen, and said Garret by Katherine O'Brien sister of Daniel, Lord Viscount Clare, had a son James Fitzgerald. The said James Fitzgerald of Castle Ishen married Amy Fitzgerald, daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald Knight of Kerry, and left issue two sons, Maurice and James. Maurice Fitzgerald, eldest son of James Fitz- gerald of Castle Ishen and Amy daughter of the Knight

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of Kerry, married Dame Elinor Butler of Kilcash and left issue. Honora O'Brien eldest daughter of Ellen Fitzgerald and Derniot Lord Inchiquin, married Anthony Stoughton of Rat too in the county of Kerry Esq., and by him had issue, two sons, viz : Henry and William and four daughters, viz : Margaret, Elizabeth, Ellen, and * * * * William, second son of Anthony Stoughton and Honora O'Brien, died unmarried. Henry the eldest son married first, Mary Ponsonby and had a daughter Honora Stoughton married to Edward Shewell, son of Captain Shewell of Ardfert, by whom she has issue living, anno 1734, two sons and a daughter. The sons are Henry and Thomas and the daughter is Sarah Shewell. Henry Shewell, eldest son of Edward Shewell and Honora Stoughton, married Elizabeth Anne Julian daughter of James Julian and * * * * Kirby, (daughter of Colonel Kirby and a Blennerhassett in Cumberland) and hath issue two sons, viz : Edward and Anthony Shewell and five daughters Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth Anne and Harriett Shewell. Sarah Shewell, only daughter of Honora Stoughton and Edward Shewell, married Robert Usher of Ballynaskea in the county Meath and has issue three sons viz : Edward, Richard, and Stoughton Usher. Henry Stoughton on the death of his first wife Mary Ponsonby married Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Crosbie, and left issue two sons viz : Anthony and Thomas Stoughton. Anthony Stoughton, first son of Henry Stoughton and Sarah Crosbie, married Sarah Lloyd of * * * * niece of Mr. Justice Rose, and left issue three sons of whom there is but one living, anno 1734, named Anthony and a daughter Sarah Stoughton. Thomas

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Stoughton, second son of Henry Stoughton and Sarah Crosbie, married Dorothy daughter of Archdeacon Bland and by her has issue a son by name Henry Stoughton born in January 1728. Margaret Stoughton, eldest daughter of Anthony Stoughton and Honora O'Brien, married first, William Sandes Esq. of Carrigafoyle and had issue three sons, viz : "William, Lancelot, and Henry, and a daughter Ellen Sandes. Lancelot, Henry and Ellen died unmarried. William Sandes, eldest son, married Mary Coward an English lady and by her left issue two sons, viz : William and Lancelot and three daughters Margaret, Catherine, and Elizabeth Sandes. William Sandes, eldest of these two sons, married the late Bishop of Lymerick's daughter and died without issue by her. Lancelot Sandes, second son of William Sandes and Mary Coward, married Margaret Crosbie, sister of Sir Maurice Crosbie, and by her left issue three daughters viz : Margaret, Jane and Catherine. Margaret, eldest daughter of William Sandes and Mary Coward, married Counsellor Pierce Crosbie, son of Sir Thomas Crosbie, and by him has issue, anno 1734, a son Francis Crosbie and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth Crosbie. Catherine Sandes, second daughter of William Sandes and Mary Coward, married Arthur Crosbie of Ardfert Esq. and by him has issue one son William and four daughters, Lucy, Elizabeth, Margaret and Agnes Sandes living, anno 1734. Margaret Stoughton, eldest daughter of Anthony Stough- ton and Honora O'Brien, on the death of her said first husband William Sandes, married Edward Payne of the County Lymerick Esqre. and left issue.

Elizabeth Stoughton, second daughter of Anthony

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Stouchton and Honora O'Brien, married Colonel Rosier Moore of Johnstown near Dublin, and by him had a son and four daughters at least. One of the sons of Roger Moore and Elizabeth Stoughton named Boyle was married to * * * * Cox, daughter of Sir Richard Cox, Lord High Chancellor, and Lord Justice of Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne and the said Boyle Moore by her has issue. Honora Moore, eldest daughter of Roger Moore and Elizabeth Stoughton, married first Doctor Foley, Bishop of Down, and had issue and secondly Counsellor Whitley by whom also she has issue. Hannah Moore, second daughter of Roger Moore and Elizabeth Stoughton, married Doctor Benjamin Scroggs, Senior Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, by whom she has issue. Elizabeth Moore, third daughter of Colonel Roger Moore and Elizabeth Stoughton, married Colonel John Edgeworth by whom she had issue three sons viz : Henry Edgeworth of Lascow in ye County Longford, (illegible) and Robert and two daughters Mary and Eliza- beth Edgeworth. Frances Moore, fourth daughter of Roger Moore and Elizabeth Stoughton, married * * * * Ormsby of (illegible.) Ellen Stoughton, third daughter of Anthony Stoughton and Honora O'Brien, married Thomas Blennerhassett mentioned in p. 59 and had issue. * * * * Stoughton, fourth daughter of Anthony Stough- ton and Honora O'Brien, married * * * * Harding of Corke.

Mary O'Ryan, third daughter of Master Dermot O'Ryan mentioned in p. 69, was married to Sir Tiege Mac Mahon of Clounderahin, County Clare, and by him had issue two sons, Turlogh and Tiege and four daughters. Mary

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Mac Mahon, eldest of these four daughters, married first Cornelius O'Brien and had issue the late Sir Donogh O'Brien of Leamanagh, who married * * * * Hamilton and left issue Lucius O'Brien. And said Lucius O'Brien married Dame Catherine Keightley and left issue, Sir Edward O'Brien, anno 1735, wn0 by Mary daughter of Hugh Hickman Esq. of Fenloe has issue two sons Donogh and Lucius and a daughter. And on the death of her first husband Cornelius O'Brien, Mary Mac Mahon married secondly, Tiege O'Nelane, and had issue William O'Nelane of Corrofm who left a son, Colonel Francis O'Nelane, an officer in the Emperor of Germany's service, anno 1733, and the said Mary Mac Mahon by her third husband Francis Cooper Esq. of Newmarket had issue. The second daughter of Mary O'Ryan and Sir Tiegue Mac Mahon was mother of Donogh Lord Clare. The third daughter of said Mary O'Ryan and Sir Tiegue Mac Mahon married * * * * O'Shaughnessy. The fourth daughter of said Mary and Sir Tiegue Mac Mahon married . Bermingham, Lord Athenry in Galway.

My Relationship to Ton diet Lord Audley. ' John Touchet, Lord Audley, by Joan daughter of Fulke Bouchier had issue, George Lord Fitzwarren, the first Earl of Castlehaven and three daughters at least. Dorothy Touchet, first of these daughters, married Sir Robert Ryeves mentioned in p. 87, father of Colonel James Ryeves who was father of Katherine Ryeves my grandmother mentioned in p. 51. Elizabeth Touchet, another daughter was married to Sir John Mason of Sion House, near London. Tin's Sir John was grand-

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father of James Mason of BallymacElligott in the County of Kerry, whose father was a Captain of Horse and slain in the rebellion of 1641, which James was father to John Mason mentioned in p. 47. * * * * Touchet another daughter of Lord Audley married * * * * Mervyn Esq. father of Sir Audley Mervyn, and was grandmother of Henry Mervyn Esq. of Trellick, within nine miles of Enniskillen in Tyrone, who married and has issue, anno 1729, three sons and one daughter. Mervyn, second Earl of Castlehaven, left issue a son Mervyn, called "Earla beg" or the "little Earl" who was general of the Irish forces in 1641. The second Earl of Castlehaven had also three daughters, viz : Lady Francis Touchet who married the Honourable Richard Butler a relative of the Marquis of Ormond, Lady Lucy Touchet who was married to Mr. John Anketill of Farriehy in Lymerick and had issue John Anketill who by Inez Katherine Mac Gillicuddy aunt to the Mac Gilli- cuddy (mentioned at p. 44) left issue. And the said Lady Lucy married secondly Colonel Edmund Fitzmaurice. Lady Mary Tuchet, third daughter of the second Earl of Castlehaven, married Edmund Butler, Lord Viscount Mountgarret.

" S/ion> tne the country ', place, or spot of ground Where 'Has setts or their allies are not found.''''

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Cfjc antiquities of Cralcc.

(Ker?y Magazine, January, 1854.)

E designedly open our Journal with a title to make our readers stare. "The Antiquities of Tralee ! " If ever there was a new town Tralee is one. There are in it men old enough to remember the building of every house now standing. Almost everything in it is new. There is the new Court House — and the new Gaol — and the new barracks and the new poorhouse — the new Church and the new Scots' Church — the new Roman Catholic Church and new shops with new plate glass fronts in their windows — new flag ways under foot and new light (gas light we mean) over head — the new Canal and we hope soon to see the new railway station. In short, Tralee is decidedly a new town, in all its essentials, and yet we are going to write about its antiquities. Yes truly people who see it in its band box freshness will scarce believe that it was once looked down upon bv a cp^1- -

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nay, by two castles, stately and tall, and that much of the present town stands upon the site of an ancient Abbey its cloisters and burying ground. We know many good people in Tralee who would be very shy of crossing a burying ground after dark and yet who sleep comfortably enough every night of their lives in a grave yard (!) over the bodies of numberless old monks and friars, together with knights, nobles, and their retainers in good store, gentle and simple, above and below, all rest quietly together. But more of this anon.

These old buildings are all passed away. Many of our readers will remember Tralee Castle, the last of them standing, a huge pile of black walls, without even a window to break its dead front as it extended across the site of Denny-street pretty much in a line with the present entrance to the "Wesleyan Meeting House," this was the " Great Castle." The " Short," or " Rice's Castle," supposed to occupy the site of Mr. Edward Stokes' present house.* had gone long before and the " ould ancient abbey " had been reduced to " rubbage " long before that again. There is some reason to con- jecture that the first idea of " The Square " was taken from occupying the site of its cloisters while its gardens and cincture extended so as to include all that quarter now bounded by "The Terrace" and "Mary-street."

Tralee Castle was always called the chief stronghold of " The Desmond." Except for its central position in the principality it is hard to say why, for there were other localities much more pleasant and inviting, but so it was, and though Kilmallock and Askeaton on the one

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side, and Imokilly or StrancaHy on the other, might offer more desirable situations the Castle on the Strand of the Lee seems to have been always the central head quarters of the Desmond power and authority, round which the minor fortresses of Liscahane," liallybeggan, and Ballymullen, were all ranged as satellites in the hands of the Desmond's relatives and dependants. The castle was certainly one of those Norman erections which began to rise all over Ireland after the period of the English Conquest. It continued in the power of the Desmond chiefs for nearly four hundred years, and from among the chequered records of that period, we select one or two incidents connected with its history which may be called part of the " romance of truth."

Of all the sixteen or eighteen Earls who held this stately keep, none has so marked a place in history, as the unfortunate and turbulent Gerald, the sixteenth

Ear]? "the great model rebel" as he is called — who

came to his end after many vicissitudes, in the woody hoilow of Glanaginty, in the range of hills above Chute- hall. We intend to make his fate and the details of it, the subject of a separate paper hereafter ; but must first notice two incidents of his, and his family"s career, con- nected with the castle of Tralee.

The Desmond Earls it is well known, were both proud and jealous of their palatine privileges, and long struggled to maintain the ''liberties of Kern-" and the "jura 'regalia' of the principality independent of the royal authority. They appear to have done this with more or less effect through a' long period, until at length Sir * V. Appendix.

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Henry Sidney, in his report of a progress through Munster, declared his opinion that there could be " neither peace nor order in the South, until the palatine jurisdiction of both Ormond and Desmond (East and South Munster) were reduced." It thus came to pass that in the year 1576, Sir William Drury, then Lord President of Munster, determined to take the Queen's writ in his hand, and to give it currency throughout the palatinate. Desmond, as one of the Council of Munster, used all endeavours to dissuade him — told of the "antres vast and deserts wild," — the rough riding and no thoroughfares — beyond " Slieve-Longhra •" but finding all in vain, he changed his tactics and proffered every assistance. In Spanish phrase, he " placed himself and his castles at and under the Lord President's feet," and begged of him to make his headquarters at his " Castle of Tralee." Drury set out on his progress attended by a few score men little more than a guard of honour : —

" Enough for state but far too small for strength"

and as he approached the Castle of Tralee, according to Desmond's invitation, an incident occurred of that dubious character, that it might have been rough play, or rough earnest, just as the case turned out. Tralee and its vicinity must, as we gather from incidental notices, have been a very different looking place then from what it is now for, if we except the comparatively modern plantations on Ballyard hill, the castle desmesne, and a few other places about, all Ireland does not probably present a barer or more treeless plain or one affording less facilities for ambush or shelter than the vicinity of

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Tralee. Whereas, from several incidental notices of " the Woods" in the histories of these times, we must suppose that the aboriginal native forests of Sliabh-Mis were not yet destroyed, and that they stretched down to the vicinity of the present town at the time when, as Hooker relates it, Sir William Drury, approaching the Castle of Tralee, was astonished by an apparition of seven or eight hundred armed men, who issuing from the woods around, greeted his approach with shouting voices and brandished weapons.

The President halted his little party. He did not well know how to take the demonstration before him. His host did not appear to give the proceeding a charac- ter. It might be peace and play, or it might be war and mischief, and in fact to this hour, it seems to have been one of those dubious proceedings to be judged by the event, at least, there is nothing in Desmond's after history to render it certain that he meant fair play if he could have found an opportunity of playing foul. Had Sir William Drury hesitated or faltered in his course — had he shown the slightest symptom of irresolution or distrust of his resources — it seems very possible that his welcome and its results might have been of a very different character from what they ultimately proved. As it was, Dairy's resolution was quickly taken it was one of those crisis in which "blood and courage" will tell against any dis- advantage. After a moment's council with his little company of about one hundred and twenty men the President advanced at a charge against the shouting mul- titude before him, they neither returned nor waited his onset but retired, and dispersed themselves among the

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woods around, and Sir William Drury stood unmolested before the entrance of Tralee Castle. Still, no mark of greeting or welcome from the Earl, when suddenly the castle portals unclosed, and Desmond's Countess appeared as a mediator and peace maker, an office which she very constantly performed for her unfortunate and turbulent husband. This was Ellinor Butler, daughter of Edmund Lord Dunboyne, the Earl's second wife and mother of all his children, and her whole life seems to have been passed in a succession of petition and suit, whether to the throne, to the Viceroys, or to military commanders, on his behalf. When Desmond was prisoner in the tower of London, some years previous, we find his Countess his active agent at court. His submission to Elizabeth, in which "he laid his estate at her feet to convey what parts she pleased to accept of," bears date the nth July 1570 and we may judge how far his cause was promoted by the following petition from the Countess dated in the March previous : —

" The petition of Ellynor, Countess of Desmond, to the Secretary. ( Walsinghcim) "

" Right Honorable,— Since I have received from your honor, the doleful and heavie answer of her majestie towards me, I have conceived much sorrow in my harte, as I would God my lyfe were ended ; and though I knowe myself cleare of anie cryme towards her majestie, Vet- fny synncs, with the offences of my forefathers toward God otherwise, have 1 suppose, deserved adver- sitie for nice here on erthe. But good Mr. Secretary, I most humbly beseeche your honor for mercy and justice sake towards mee, a poore woman, that being a stranger

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here and utterly destitute of fryndes to whom I may utter my griefe, as to be meanes to her majestic seeing

I am barred from her presence, to dryve mee to the trial of my misdemeanour toward her majestie, and, if thereupon, anye such can be trulye proved — as the voiding of her majestie's presence is too smalle punish- ment for so heynous an offence — even so lette mee suffer the bitter payne of deth without mercy. Other wise, if I have not offended, for charitie sake, I desire 1 may not longe for her majestie's favour without my desert ; and, for doing this you shall duringe my lyfe, fynd mee ready to do you anye reasonable service, that ever shall be in my power, and, thus I beseeche God send mee the reward of my harte towards her majestic" " At Molsey, the xxvth of March 1570. Your honors poore woful friende,

Ellyxor Desmond."

This was the lady who now appeared to explain the mistake the President had fallen into about his reception. She assured him that the body of men whom he had routed never " meaned hostilitie," that the shouts were not " battle cries but Irish welcomes." and that the Earl and his principal retainers and friends were within waiting to entertain Sir William Drury with a hunt — not after Kerne — but after " a harte in season.'"' The President received the excuse either believed or affected to believe the Countess' explanation, and accepted the Earl's hos- pitality, but he was not to be diverted by either stag hunt or carouse, from his purpose of exhibiting the royal authority as paramount in the "kingdom of Kerry" and other parts of the palatinate. He persevered in holding his courts of assize and sessions of criminal justice wherever he went, and this insult to the Earl's claims

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and pretensions produced a fierce, and never forgotten enmity to Drury, and may have helped to drive the hapless nobleman upon his ultimate rebellion and fate.

Such is a first recollection connected with the vanished Castle of Tralee, and as beau and belle now pace the length of Denny Street it may take from the every day, common place, character of their promenade to consider that they are treading in the footsteps of Knight and Noble — of the stern President and the pleading Countess — of the " olden time."

A. B. Rowan, D.D.

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CIjc last ©cralDgn Cfjicf of Cralcc Castle.

{Kerry Magazine, May, 1854.)

HE fate of the last Geraldyn who was an acknowledged Earl of Desmond, and as such possessor of Tralee Castle, is matter of so much historic notoriety that we should be disposed to put it by as a subject too hacknied and familiar for an article, were it not that we can offer some circumstances ascertained by local knowledge and personal investigation which, though too minute to find their way into general history, may have an interest for our readers of the Palatinate of Kerry. We therefore proceed after a brief sketch of those events which hurried the luckless Earl on his fate, to that last scene of which we are enabled to give our readers a graphic and seemingly accurate narative, from the depositions of a prime actor in the tragedy made in a few days after it was completed.

Our last notice of Earl Gerald (v. No. 11 of the

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Antiquities of Kerr}-,) was in some advices from Sir William Drury, A.D. 1579, which intimated a seeming correspondence between the -Earl and his brothers, Sir John, and Sir James of Desmond, both banded in open array against the Queen's authority. When Sir John of Desmond was routed and slain at Connelloe, near Limerick, the Desmond and the Lord of Lixnaw over- looked the engagement from an eminence to this day- called " Tory Hill" and after the battle the Earl sent letters of congratulation to Sir Nicholas Maltbie, the victor, who thinking that if the victory had been on the other side the congratulations would have gone thither also, received his missives very coldly and " demanded a conference " which the Earl, probably distrusting that as on a former occasion in his troubled career conference might mean "captivity" carefully evaded. Now who is to decide which party was here in fault? Curry in his "History of the Civil Wars" affirms, that the English determined to partition the Desmond Palatinate among fresh English settlers were resolved to make or declare Desmond a rebel, and that they had no matter against him but mere suspicion, and that only because he refused or delayed to draw out his forces against his brother John of Desmond who appeared in arms against the Queen. Others again allege, that on the person of the priest, Doctor Allen, slain in battle, were found papers which placed beyond doubt the Earl's complicity in his brother's treason. One thing is certain that Saunders, the most able and active mover of the whole insurrection, was now attached to the Earl's person, and that among those conditions proposed to him through his relative

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the Earl of Ormond with which he refused to comply,, was a demand that he should " deliver up Saunders and the Spaniards." Saunders never left him afterwards while he lived, but to counterbalance these, circumstantial evidences of disaffection Desmond, or rather his Countess, that unhappy lady of whom mention was before made (p. 114) gave one proof of confidence in the English, so little compatible with the idea of disloyalty, that the Earl's after conduct seems indicative of insanity unless we suppose him urged on by impulses, or injuries which he had not the prudence to resist or the patience to endure. About a month before he was proclaimed rebel the Countess of Desmond had delivered up to Sir William Drury at Limerick, their only son, and with him as Curry informs us " Patrick O'Haly, Bishop of Mayo," and " Cornelius O'Rourke a Franciscan," both "men of importance " as pledges for the Earl's loyalty. And yet, in the face of these pledges, we read of Desmond's attacking the English Camp at Rathkeale in person on two successive nights, of his answering the entreaty of Sir Nicholas Maltbie to return to his allegiance by declar- ing that — " he owed the Queen no allegiance and would no longer yield her obedience." To Sir William Pelham, the Lord Deputy on Drury's death and who summoned him to a conference at Cashel, he sent a vague excuse by his usual Messenger the Countess, and to four distinct propositions made to him through Ormond he gave evasive replies. His object seemed to be procrastination though with what view none can tell, but at length came the fatal day when the great Earl was a proclaimed and outlawed traitor.

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It is related that within an hour after the proclamation was issued, his unhappy lady arrived at the English Camp with her husband's submission, but it was too late, the Rubicon was passed — the license for plunder and slaugh- ter had gone forth — the English troops had begun to ravage the Principality and the doomed Earl setting up his standard at Ballynahowra in Cork had begun his fearful retaliations. A re-inforcement of Spaniards arriving at Fort-del-Ore in Smerwick Harbour, and a severe dis- comfiture which Lord Grey, the newly arrived Deputy, received from the O'Byrnes at Glenmalure in Wicklow, gave Desmond a momentary confidence which was however soon overcast by the capture of the western Fort, and the massacre of its garrison ; his castles, one by one, were captured or surrendered, his brothers or principal followers killed or dispersed. Carrigafoyle, though defended by an Italian engineer, was stormed and the garrison put to the sword or hanged. The garrison of Askeaton, fearing the same fate, evacuated the fortress and all his strongholds being thus ultimately taken and either rased or garrisoned by the Queen's forces, he became a houseless wanderer, flitting from one fastness to another, sometimes escaping in his shirt, again hiding in December " up to his chin in a river under a bank,'"' and reduced from the command of the whole County Palatine of Kerry and the. leadership of hundreds of gentlemen of his name and race to a miser- able following, at last narrowed down to some kerne and for his own immediate attendants to a "priest, two horsemen, and a boy, with whom he wandered about from one place to another." Doctor Saunders had some

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time before this sunk under the fatigues of this hard, wandering life and of all the Clans who once gathered around the Desmond only a few members of the 'Xy Sheehys and Mac Swyny tribes, a kind of hereditary body guard of the Palatine Earls, remained with him to the last. Closely pressed by his pursuers he was hunted from Limerick to Kerry, from the fastnesses of Aherlogh to those of Sliabh Loughra, with his indefatigable perse- cutor Captain Dowdall close upon his traces so that he was put to hard shifts for the very means of existence. If anything could add to the bitterness of the unfortunate Earl's fate, it must have been the fact, that his old heredi- tary rival and foe the "Thierna Dubh" Ormond, being come out of England as Lord General of Munster, was now the arbiter of his destiny. A feeling similar to that expressed by the Douglas in the old ballad of Chevy Chase, when wounded and dying he exclaimed in despair :

"Earl Percy sees me fall !n must have been torture worse than death to that haughty chief who had once spoken so proudly over " the necks of the Butlers." As the toils grew closer round him however, he penned a humiliating and sorrowful letter to Ormond, ottering submission and sueing for that interview which he had so often evaded. This letter we give below and it otters a curious contrast to the following advices out of Munster :

" From Sir Henry Wallop to the Earl of Leicester "

CIohvicU 10th April 1583

"The first of this month the Countess of Desmond sub- mitted herself to the Lord General, here is a bruit that

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Desmond himself should come hither in two or three daics upon a protection. John Lacy who came lately out of England having licence to deale with the Earle his master concerning his submission, at his coming pleaded him to submitt himsclfe simplie to her majestie:s mercy, and in manifestacion to yield himselfe to the Lord General. The first part of his spceche the Earle heard with patience, but to the second he bade " avaunt Churle .' with other opprobrious wordes saying alsoe, " Shall 1 then yielde myself e to a Butler mine ancient and knozune enetnie ? No ! if it were not for those English dairies that he hath at eoni'uaud, I would drinke allc their bloode as I would warm mi Ike .' The late overthrow he gave the Butlers being as the countrie saith six to one causeth him so to insult against them."

To the same effect are all the advices from all quarters showing the disposition of his affairs and the close pur- suit which followed him. From the State Paper Office we select the following which brings us down almost to the day of his death : —

Earl Ormond to Earl Burleigh.

"June iS, 1583. The unhappy wretch the Earl of Des- mond wandercth from place to place forsaken of all men ; the poore Countess lamenteth greatlie the follie of her husband whom reason could never rule."

Same to Same.

" From the Campe at Newcastle in Connilloe. June 22. Desmond is forsaken of all his followers saving a priest two horsemen a kerne and a boy."

From the Council of Munster to the Privy Council.

"July 19th. Desmond wecpes like a child over the loss of his men, he hath nothing but by stelthe."

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Lord Roche to Earl of Ormond.

" Desmond hath been on the borders of Sliabh Loughra. My men overtooke the Earl's chaplain tooke their bags, bottles, four oxen and other stuflfe. Desmond and his followers narrowly escaped with their life."

While such " advices " of the Earl's condition and sentiments were reported to his adversaries, it is scarcely wonderful that all the submission and sorrow expressed in the following letter should have availed little to avert his fate : —

11 Desmond to Ormond, $fh Jane 1583."

" My Lord, — Greate is my griefe when I thinke how heavilie her Majestie is bent to dishonour mee, and howbeit I carry that name of an undutifulle subjecte, yet Godknoweth that my harte and minde are most lowlie inclined to serve my most loving prince : so it may please her Highncsse to remove her heavy displeasure from me. As I maie not con- demn myselfe of disloyaltie to her Majestie, so can I not expresse myselfe but must confess that I have incurred her Majesties indignacion, yet when the cause and means which were found and which caused me to committ folly shall be known to her Highness I rest in assured hope, that her most gracious Majestie will both think of me as my harte deserveth, and also of those that wronge me into undutiful- ness as their cunning devices meriteth. From my harte I am sorrie that follic, bad counsel, streights, or anie other thinge, hath made me to forget my dutie, and therefore I am desirous to have conference with your Lordship to the end that I may declare to you how tyrannouslie I was used. Humbly craving, that you will please to appoint some place and tyme where and when I may attend your Honour, and then I doubt not to make it appear how dutieful a minde I carry ; how faithfully I have at myne owne charge served

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her Majestic before I was proclaimed ; how sorrowful! I am for myne offences, and how faithfull I am affected ever here- after to serve her Majestic "And soe I commit: your Lordship to God, the fifth of June 1583. Subscribed,

" Gerott Desmond."

After observing that — " it does not appear whether this conference was ever granted," (there is little doubt that it was not,) Curry proceeds in his cursory yet partial way to say : — " We only know." and here he refers to Carte's Ormond Vol 1, " that Kelly of Morierta, of whom the Earl of Ormond had taken assurance of his fighting against the rebels, with twenty-five of his Kerne did in the night time assault the Earl of Desmond in a cabin deserted of all his friends." This summary gives a very inaccurate and unfair colouring to the incidents of the final catastrophe to which we are now approaching, and which we shall describe from documents the authenticity of which cannot be questioned : but before we do so, we may as well give our readers a sketch of the scene of the transactions which follow.

Among the districts of our county which now lie denuded and desolate, but which in former times were clothed with natural wood and coppice is that long dreary tract ranging from Blennerville towards Brandon moun- tain. To this day the stools of holly and copsewood of oak, hazel, and birch, still surviving the destructive bite of browsing cattle, mountain sheep and goats — and though not allowed to grow, putting forth their shoots annually, attest the vigour with which they formerly flourished in the wood of Doiremore, now corrupted to Derrymore, while some gigantic trees yet remaining in the

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holly wood of KUlballylahiffe'* further to the west, afford proof that if proprietors would only afford common pro- tective play, nature would quickly again clothe itself in the becoming dress of a natural forest without asking the aid of a " nursery man." This wooded district was during the Desmond wars, and long after, approachable from Tralee only by a ford over Tramore, (i.e. the big strand) the new bridge, as the bridge at Blennerville is even still sometimes called, was not then nor for many years after in existence. Whether the old Tramore ford was at the spot where the bridge has been erected, or on the firmer sands further down towards Tralee Spa, is not certain, but the ancient name of Blennerville, (before the late Sir Rowland Blennerhassett made it his residence and elevated it into a village called after his name,) being CaJiirmoreaitn i.e. the cahir on the great river, renders it probable that the passage was there, and that a ferry house or some such place was the nucleus round which the hamlet originally grew.

The unfortunate Earl of Desmond routed from near Kilmallock while he and his followers were u feasting on a stolen horse !" and closely hunted by his pursuers, was known to be lurking in the woods about Slieve Luachra and towards "the Dingell," where as yet no sufficient

* Bingham writing in 15S0 to Walsingham says : — "There are two notable places which the rebels give forth they will fortitie that do lye in the bay of Tralee, the one Ls called Bongoinder the other Killballyluthe winch places are naturally very strong as I doe leamc." Archdeacon Rowan considered that the ancient name of Boingoinder bad been altered to "Camp" a townland on the road from Trake to Castle Gregory. When clothed with holly and birch woods it must have been a place well fitted for a strong mili- tary position, an "Alma " (says the Archdeacon) "in miniature."

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garrison had been placed since his followers had sacked and burnt it. This absence of any adequate force in the peninsula of Corcaguiny allowed the Earl to make forays in the district with impunity : and for some time he con- tinued to levy contributions upon the inhabitants, " chiefly upon those who had placed themselves under English protection." At last, in an evil hour, in the early part of November 1583, he sent his marauders to bring him a prey from " Cahir-ni-Fahye " which I discover to be a farm in the heart of the tillage district of the " Magha- rees," the only spot in it according to my guide which "could rear a bawn of cows." From this farmstead Desmond's men made a clean sweep of "forty cows, ninecoppuls, (horses) with "household stuffe," and "strip- ped the owner his wife and children naked," a fact which even O'Daly the most partial of Geraldine chroni- clers confesses and condemns. It is not very clear what the name of the plundered man was, popular tradition inaccurately tells us that the prey was driven from a widow, some speak of Moriarty, and some of O' Kelly, as the actual slayer of the Earl while Curry makes a jumble of both and speaks of " O'Kelly of Moriertha" as if the second name were a territorial designation. This confusion and uncertainty arises from dealing with Irish names without knowledge of their complications and intricacies, all that seems to us certain is, that the plun- dered man was named "Maurice Mac Owen" or "Maurice the son of Owen." He may have been himself a Mo- riarty, and was undoubtedly brother in law to Owen Mac Donell O'Moriertagh to whose deposition we have before referred, and we now give the document at length,

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as a relation of the slaying of the Great Earl the accuracy of which there seems no reason to question, for the date of the paper being within sixteen days of the events deposed to, appears some security for the correctness of this very natural narrative : —

"£f)r (Fiamuiatton of ©torn /tlar Donm'I <D jllorintagf) tafcrn 26ifj flobcmfirr 1583 of tbc manner ant) Discourse fjoto tfjf C?arlr of Drsmontr toas pursued anti slaijnc."

(From a Volume in Black Letter, A.D. 1 584.)

" On Saturday 9th of this November, the Earle left the woods near the Island of Kerrie (Castle Island) and went westward beyond Tramore to Doiremore (Derry More) Wood near Bonyonider, from whence he sent two of his horsemen with eighteen kernes to bring him a preye ; they • went to Cahirnafahye and there took a preye of Maurice Mac Owen brother-in-law of Deponent, forty cowes, nine coppuls with household stufte, and stripped naked the said Maurice his wife and children. The preyers to terrify the people from making pursuite gave oute that the Earle and the rest of his companye were close at hand. Maurice Mac Owen sent word to Lieutenant Stanley at Dingell,to Deponent and his brother Donill Mac Donill of the taking of the preye : whereupon Deponent and his brother Donill having word sent them from Lieutenant Stanley to pursue, and track out the preye, and to call to their ayde the Ward ot Castle-Mang, set forward being fourteen proper Kernes in companie. He obtained five souldiers from the Constable of Castle-Mang, and came up with the others on the mountain of Slicvc-Misse j they arrived at Tray ley on Sunday even- ing, hoping to overtake the preye before it could pass the Strait of Tramore : there they discovered the track, going eastward to Slicve LuacJira. Whereupon, the souldiers

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from Castle Mang sent after the track declared they would proceed no further, but Deponent promised them " two beeves of the prey "' if they succeeded in recovering it. The men agreeing, the party went forward, and the track was followed by daylight to Ballyore, and by moonlight toward Glamiageeiitie at Slicve LougJtra, when the Deponent and his elder brother got up above the glenne to view whether they might see anie fire in the woode, or heare anie stirre, and having come to the heighte over the glin they saw a fire underneath them. Donnil went to spy and returned reporting there were some persons there, but no cattel ; they agreed to wait until the preye was found with them. In the dawning of the day on Mundaye, the nth of November, they put themselves in order to set upon the traytors in their cabins ; this examinate with his brother Donnil with their kerne broke the foreward, (went first) and appointed the soul- diers to kecpe the rereward, saving that one Daniel (J Kelly, a souldier, which had but his sword and target stood in the forewarde with them ; they all making a greate cryc entered the cabbin, where the Earle lay, and this Deponent ran round throwe the cabbin after the Earle's companie which fledde to the woode, and at his return backe to the cabbin doore, the Earle being stroken by one of the companie by whom cer- tayne hee knoweth not, (but that alle the footemenne and souldiers were together within the cabbin.) hee discovered himselfe sayinge, " I am the Earle of Desmond .' Save my lyfe /" To whom this Deponent answered, — "thou hast killed thyself long agone, and noue thou shalt be prisoner to the Queen's Majestic and to the Earl of Ormonde, Lord Gcnerall of Munster." whereon this Deponent took him by his arme being cutte, and willed the Earle to make spcede else they would carrye awayc his headc seeing the traytours drew very neare to have him rescued. Whereupon Donnil Mae Donnil sayde, " I will carry him on my backe awhile and so shall every one of you;" Donnil carried him a good while and being weary he put him ofTe, the traytors being at hande all the companie refused to carry him anie further

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considering the eminent danger they stood in, the traytours drawing ncarc. Whereat this Deponent willed the souldier, Daniel CPKelly, to cut off the Erie's head for that they could not apply to fight and to carry him away, to whose direction Kelly obeyed, drawing out his sword and striking off the Erie's head, which they brought to Castle Mang to be kept there, till they were ready to take it to the Lord General. Daniel OKelly being examined testified to the above narrative, and stated that he himself wounded the Erie in the cabbin. Saide before the Right Honourable the Erie of Ormonde, the Bishop of Ossory and the Sovereign of Kilkenny."

This plain and precise narrative delivered by one of the actors in the tragedy so soon after it occurred, seems preferable to the "second hand" stories of later writers. The "Annals of the Four Masters" a.d. 1583, do not differ from it in any essential particular ; they speak indeed as if the transaction took place " along the River Mang," and they make mention of a woman and two boys as the only persons with him, but these are dis- crepancies not more than might be expected from persons unacquainted with the locality and writing some time after the events had occurred.

The last Earl of Desmond was not buried with his fathers ; he was laid however with those of his name and lineage. In a mountain defile running eastward through the townland of Cordel above Castleisland — which in former days was an important pass into O'Keefe's coun- try— stands the fortalice of Ardnagragh built to com- mand and defend it ; and lower down the stronger and more important castles of Kilmurry and Lally-Mac- Quodam, all strongholds garrisoned by gentlemen of the Fitzgerald name and race relatives and retainers of the

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great Earl. In the throat of this defile, lies a little grave- yard which seems to have been a peculiar and appro- propriated burying place of the Geraldines, for the church and general burial ground of the parish of Kilmurry lies in the lowland immediately below, and the title of Kil- na-n-onaim or the " Church of the Name," verifies the tradition that up to a late period no one who did not bear the name of Fitzgerald had ever been interred there. To this lonely spot, his sorrowing adherents, after as Smith says "eight weeks hiding," conveyed the decapitated body of the great Earl and buried it. Wq however doubt the length of this delay for which there seems no reason, but rumour has it that within this century a stone coffin was exhumed in this churchyard said to have contained the remains of the once mighty chief of Desmond. This relic of former days no longer exists having been, if report may be credited, broken up by the modern Goth who found it for the lime kiln, an act of gratuitous mischief in a district where limestone is abundant. The Desmond remains may possibly have been kept unburied until his vassals could provide for him this last poor mark of fallen greatness, and in Glaunageentha wood