School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)

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Leic Snámha, Co. Chiarraí
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An tSr. Gabriel
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    Smith, in treating of the Fitzmaurices, says that Clan Maurice had its name from Maurice, son of Raymond Le Gros, who married Basilia, daughter to Eve, daughter of Earl Strongbow.

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    house, whose heir general, Ellice, was mother to Connor O'Connor of Carrigafoyle.
    Thomas, Earl of Kerry. ob. 1741 was the first to be buried in East Clogher (the Monument). William, Earl of Kerry, died 1737. burial place unknown, but probably, East Clogher.
    Francis Thomas, died 1818; buried in Westminster Abbey. Here the long line of Fitzmaurices ends, a line that had blazed across the O'Connor territory and pushed that ancient clan back beyond the Cashen, and even then followed to narrow downthe possessions of that family having built and occupied the Castle of Beale and Lick.
    At the death of Francis Thomas in 1818 the line was merged in
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Heavey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Achadh Beag Meánach, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Miss Bessie Quilter
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Leic Snámha, Co. Chiarraí