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h-^^^M UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Uarlington JVxemorial JLibrary .yf\ ^'^^ .'i. i1l!^.'--.-5 0^<i^J-^aA''"-^'*'''-'*'^^''' Vf N, f»t. .-/* -a;:k,j '> 4 W IRISH LANDED GENTRY. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL. Duhlin : GtvrgeIlealy, Steam Printer, 20 Zoiver Ormond Quay. PREFACE. From sources as authentic as any that can be found in profane records wegivein our ThirdEdition*of Irish Pedigrees the "Originand Stem of the Irish Nation," and, so far as we could find, the genealogies of the families which branched from that ancient stem together with the ; genealogies of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Norman families which settled in Ireland from time to time since the English invasion. In this Volume are given some 257 additional genealogies which we collected, most of them in the MSS. Library of Trinity College, or in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, since that Edition was compiled with a ; few of the genealogies contained in that Edition, which we have been able to enlarge or correct since thatWork was published amongst them : being the genealogies of the " Bennett," '^ Dillonf," " MacGrath," "O'Brien,""O'Byrne,""0'Donel,""0'Shea,""0'Toole,"'Turcellf,"and "Sweney " families, &c. But, in our desireto meet the wishes offriends who urged the publication of this Work "as soon as possible," we regret that allthose additional genealogies are not, in theirregularalphabetical order, given with the others in the early pages of the Volume because : we went to Press before we had completed our investigation of some of those additional pedigrees. It is, therefore, thatsome ofthegenealogies J are given in pp. 195-225, and others in the Addenda, in pp. 599-G55. In the Corriijenda (which commence at p. 657)we givethe corrections, among which at p. QQQ see No. 9 on the "Cotter " pedigree ; and we there give some of the genealogies more fully than we were able to give * Edition: Publishedin 1881 by M. H. Gill and Son, Dublin. fora+sDkieltlcohnoafntdheP"urPucerlcle:llF"orfatmhielyorsiegeinp.of67t4h.e sirname "Dillon" see p. (5G9; and %Genealogies: Aserrorsarelikely tooccur in every compilation, we shall beglad ttoobaenycorpreedcitgerde,esifainnderhrisotro;riacanldtmoatrteecreicvoenatnaiyneidnfionrmtahtiisoVnoolfugmeen.eralAninyteirnefsotrrmealtaitoiinio^- hdoowceuvmeern,tanroyt pfroouonfdeordauuptohennftaicct,reifseroefncneos,usiet gsehnalelalroegcieciavlelyat;tbenuttioinf,aacncdo,mpaafnteiredcarbey- ful examination and comparison, corrections will be made, if necessary, in thenext £ditiou. VI PEEFACE. them in the body of the Work. Among these it will be seen are the genealogies of "Claiborne," "Cleborne," "Cleburne," "Clibborn," " Curwen," etc.: all of which, though correct in the main as they are given in pp. 197-210, we have lately been able to enlarge. As now inserted in the Corrigenda, however, these genealogies will bear the strictest scrutiny. In others of the genealogies in the Corrigenda we make only the more important corrections. But, should we live to see a secondedition of this Work, and thatwe aresustainedin itspublication expenses, we shall therein give each pedigree in proper sequence and its regular alphabetical order; as well as put in dictionary form at the top of each page of the genealogies the first three letters of the name ofthe family pedigree thereon given as we do in the Addenda to this Volume. ; A careful perusal of some of the Papers in the Appendix, particularly those numbered G, 7, 8, and 9, will show that in the wide field of our genealogical research we have been unable to collect all the Irish and Anglo-Irish Pedigrees ; but we are satisfied thatwe have collected all the Irish pedigrees that are preserved in our public archives, or that escaped the ravages of the Elizabethan Wars, and the Strafford and Cromwellian devastations, in Ireland. And some of the Papers in the Appendix, particularly those numbered 8, 9, 10, 11, IG, 17, 18, 20, 27 and 28, will account for the settlement, for the first time, of some families in certain counties in Ireland; but, in the Third Edition of our Irish Pedigkfes (whichmay beconsidered a " CompanionVolume" to this Work) may be ascertained the Irish origin of many of the siruames mentioned in those Papers. Some of the " new comers" settled in Irelandduringthe Elizabethan Wars*; many of them in the time of SirWilliam Petty;f others ofthem '* nVt/'-f; Foradescription ofthe state of Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabetli, see SirCharles Gavan Dufty's "Bird's Eye View of Ireland"; and, for adescription ofIreland intheCommonwealth period, seeour "Dedication," commencingatp. 4. firstttoPeitnttyro:duIctemiantyo Iirnetelraensdtwohuartriesadkenrsowtno aksnoQwuitthaRtenStir: Wthialtliias,moPneettpyenwnaystpheer acre (or 10s. perquarter or 120 acres) of land held by each of the then Irish Pro- prietors, tobe paid to Queen Elizabeth "for ever," in consideration forwhich each Proprietorwas made to believe that he would be confirmed inhis possessions, and protected by the Government against all breakers of the law. When, however, through Petty's Survey, the Government became cognizant of the extent of land possessed by eachIrishCatholicProprietor,therewasalmost in everycaseawholesale confiscation oftheir Estates; the rulers of provinces, counties, ordistricts in Ireland largely sharing in the resultof those confiscations. But that it would be invidious, perhaps, to do so, we could name several of the present families in ournative county (Mayo), whos—e ancestorsthus obtained large tracts of the land then confiscated in thatcounty. See p. 032 forthe Indenture made between Sir John Perrott, forand onbehalfof Queen Elizabeth, ofthe onepart, and the Lords, Chieftains. Gentlemen, Freeholders, etc., inthe "Countie ofMayoe," ofthe otherpart. PREFACE. Vli during the Viceroyalfcy of the Earl of Strafford, who ruthlessly- dispossessed, particularly in the province of Connaught, almost all the Catholic Proprietors, but especially the Catholic Proprietors of the Irish race, in his time in Ireland. Of Strafford's government we read in Darcy M'Gee's History of Ireland, Book viii., p. 93 : "TheplantationofConnaught, delayed by the late King's deathand abandoned amongthenew King's Graces, was resumed. The proprietary of Connaughthad in the 13th year of thelate reign paid £3,000 into the Record Office, Dublin, for the registration of theirDeeds ; but theentries not being made by the Clerk employed (forthatpurpose), the titleto every western county, five in number, wasnow called in question. The Commissioners to enquire into defective Titles were let loose on the devoted Pro\ince, with the noted Sir William Parsonsat their head andthe ; King's titletothewhole ofMayo,Sligo, andEoscommonwasfoundbypacked, bribed, orintimidated Juries. The GrandJury of Galwayrefused to find a similarverdict, andwere in consequence summoned to the CourtofCastleChamber, and sentencedto pay a fine of £4,000 each, to the Crown. The Sheriff who empanelled them was sentencedto pay afineof £1,000 ; eventhe Lawyers who pleaded fortheactualpro- prietors werestripped,of theirgowns; the SheriffDarcy died inprison; andthe work ofspoliation proceeded." The Irish genealogies which are collected in our Irish Pedigrees and in this Volume are carried down to the lineal representative of each family living when such family was deprived of its patrimony, to make room for thenew settlers, according as each Englishor Scotch migration* landed in Ireland but most of the Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Norman ; genealogies recorded in our "Works are brought down to the Common- wealth period. Members of many of the present Irish families will see in one or other of the Lists given in this Volume the names of their ancestors who firstobtained grants of Land, and settled in Ireland during the Elizabethan, Straffordian, Cromwellian, or Williamite Confiscations : And Oh ! itwere agallantdeed To showbeforeMankind Howeveryraceand every creed Mightbeby love combined : Mightbe combined, yetnot forget Thefountainswhencethey rose ; As, filledby manyarivulet The statelyShannon flows. * Migration: ThefirstEnglish migration came into Ireland in 1168, inthereign of KingHenry II. From that period down tothe end of the reign of HenryVIII, there were seventy-eight such migrations.—See p. 688 of the Third Edition of our Irish Pedigrees. Vlll PREFACE. While O'Clery brings most of the Irish genealogies contained in his book down to a.d. 1636 MacFirbis, to 1666 and O'Ferrall's Lbiea ; ; Antigua, to 1708, it is only in a few cases that, in any of those great works, the localliy of anyrepresentative of an Irish family living at those respective periods is mentioned: possibly, because under the Laws of Tanistry the locality in which was situate each family patrimony in Ireland was in those times wellknown. To MacFirbis,however, we may look, so far as their genealogies are contained in his book, for the lineal representatives of the Irish, Anglo-Irish, and Anglo-Norman families living when the Estates of the Irish " Papist Proprietors " and of the Irish "Delinquent Protestants "*wereconfiscated,underthe Cromwellian Settlement ofIreland. The Booksof the Commonwealth,! however,which are now deposited in the Public Record Office, Dublin (and which through the kind per- mission of the amiable Sir SamuelFerguson, Q.C., Deputy Keeper of the Rolls in Ireland, we havecarefully consulted),enabledus to locatenearly all the Irish families whose Estateswere forfeited duringtheCromwellian Confiscations. One of those Books (No. 12 on the Catalogue, p. 233 of this Volume), which is marked in the Public Record Office I. E. 10. 115, and whose Title is " Forfeiting Proprietors, Listed," gives the counties, baronies, and in most cases the localities in which resided the Irish Landed Gentry whose Estates werethen confiscated but, unfortunately, ; the names of the Lauded Gentry whose Estates were confiscated in the counties! of Carlow, Wicklow, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, and part of the counties of Mayo and Sligo, are not included in that Volume. No. 56 on the said Catalogue (whose Title is ''Transplanters' Cer- tificates," and) which is marked I. E. 10. 123 ; together with two other Volumeswhicharealso deposited in the Public Record Office, Dublin, and there respectivelymarked I. C. 8c. 126, and I. C. 8c. 127, arethe onlyones now extant which give the names of the Transplanters from any of the *Delinquent Protestants : By this designation wereknowntheloyal Protestants who sided, or were suspected of sympathy, with their King, the unfortunate Charles I. fCommonwealth: The Books of the Commonwealth which are forthcoming, consistoffifty-six volumes, andareallin Manuscript. XCounties : 8ee, atp. 247ofthisAVork,thePreface totheCommonwealthVolume "Forfeiting Proprietors, Listed."