School: Kilaneerin (roll number 950)
- Location:
- Killinierin, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Nuala, Bean Uí Chadhla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0888, Page 157
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- (continued from previous page)Fitzstephens and landed in Bannow in 1169. The property of this family, in both North and South Wexford, was very considerable, and in the southern portion the castles of Ballytramont, Johnstown and Rathlanan with the adjoining lands, were their strongholds. In the reign of James (II) I a peerage and a grant of the manor of Limbrick was conferred on Lawrence Esmond for his services in Holland and Ireland. He shared with Sir William Parsons in plundering the O'Byrne's of Wicklow of part of their territory. The latter, we remember in Irish history, were unjustly deprived of their ancestral possessions for alleged defeet of their titles during the successive reigns of the Stuarts.This Lawrence Esmond or Lord Esmond, apostatised, and taking advantage of the laws of the period abandoned his Catholic wife as well as his faith. In the civil wars of Charles (I) , he held Duncannon Fort for the King against the Confereate Army for three months when he capitualted. Leaving Duncannon, he set out for Dublin but was forced through illness, to break his journey at Johnstown Castle,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Statia Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inch, Co. Wexford
