School: Meanus, Brúgh na nDéise (roll number 11840)
- Location:
- Meanus, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs Harnett
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[Dinely?] who visited Loughgur in 1685 [dates?] that the Countess of Bath also bestowed on it a rich pulpit cloth and silver chalice and service book. The chalice and [paten?] are now in use in Knockaney Protestant Church. On them is the following inscription "The gift of the Right Hon. Rachael Countess Dowager of Bath to her chapel in Ireland. A.D. 1679."
[Dinly] also says that the said Countess was Dowager of Henry [Bounchier?] of Bath and that John Bounchier Lord [Fitzwaren?] of Tavistock in Devonshire was descended from William Bounchier Earl of [Ewe?] in Normandy, a younger brother to Henry Bounchier, 1st Earl of Essex, [and?] John Bounchier was on 9th June 1836.
Charles Fane inherited the Loughgur property from the Bounchiers was created in 1718 Viscount Fane & Baron Loughgur. His only son Charles died without issue in 1782 when estates devolved on his sister's descendants of whom many had married Jerome Count de Salis and Dorothy John Earl of Sandwich(continues on next page)
