The History, topography and antiquities ... of the county and city of Waterford, etc

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psieriol §bWit\. THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES (natural and ecclesiastical), WITH Biographical Sketches of tlie Nobility, Gentry and Ancient Families, and Notices of Eminent Men, fye. OF IHE COUNTY AND CITY OF WATERFORD; INCLUDING The Towns, Parishes, Villages, Manors and Seats. compiled by JOSEPH HANSARD, iHflcmb.r of tlje Eogal historical "association" of Erelanb. Ef ang tfjere lie fofjiclj arc Bcsirous ta be strangers in tijiix ofome soile, forrainevs in tijtix oin ne Citie, tljeg mag so continue, ant tijere flatter tfjemselbes. JFor surf) like I finfaf not tovitten tfjese lines, nor taken tfjese pains.— Cam&rn. DUNGARVAN : JOSEPH HANSARD, MAIN STREET 1870. TO THE MOST NOBLE JOHN HENRY De La POER BERESFORD, K.P. FIFTH MARQUIS OF WATERFORD, Che ftepresentatibe of an ancient ani Illustrious Jl'attsc. THIS VOLUME is, (by permission) MOST RESPECTFULLY, DEDICATED BY THE COMPILER.

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. " Many," (writes Mr. Wakefield in his Preface to Irish Antiquities), " as are the political jealousies among the Irish ; there are few true ' natives of the soil' who would not resent any charge of coldness or indifference to the welfare of their country, or of wilful ignorance upon the subject of her history or antiquities, which might be urged against them." Yet most of our travelled countrymen are better acquainted with the appearance of the Rhine than with that of the Shannon ; with the windings of the Thames than with those of the beautiful valley of the Blackwater ; their knowledge of these Irish rivers being probably just so much as may be acquired out of a school geography, while they have steamed down the Thames, and visited the chief points upon the Rhine. I may venture to say that in like manner there are, even among our Waterford gentry, many better skilled in the fortifications of the Rock of Gibraltar, than in the beautiful monuments of ancient Irish piety and art remaining at Lismore and Ardmore in

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. VI their own county ; many, who, in England, Scotland, Wales, and upon the Continent, have sought mountain air and scenery, while the sublime ranges of the Knockmeeldown and Comeragh Mountains have never cost them a thought. Ireland has had to complain of many things ; but of none so much, perhaps, as that Irishmen are so much wanting to themselves and to their country. — Their fatherland presents much to interest the in quiring traveller in its varied surface and its " many colored life," and in its cities and cultivated plains, which present beauties of art and nature, that may vie with those of any other country. The woods and lawns, its ancient towers and island-studded lakes present many a charm ; but, alas ! they remain almost unknown ! In the execution and getting up of the present publication, no labour or expense has been spared in rendering it as perfect as the nature of it would admit.

It is compiled from " The History of Water ford," by Dr. Smith, published in 1746, and the Revd. Mr. Ryland's History, published in 1824, with several additions from papers in the British Museum, and Ordnance documents in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. A History of the County being often inquired for, I took upon myself the onerous task of compiling

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. VII one, as Smith's and Ryland's are both out of print, and being written at a time when antiquarian re search was in its infancy, and local histories were only the pedigrees of families on which Ulster King at-Arms would pass severe judgment ; at the same time I do not presume to call in question the great talents and acquirements of those writers : I merely allude to the limited amount of information at their command, in consequence of the great scarcity and expensive price of antiquarian works in their time in comparison to the present day. With the increase of general knowledge, the accumulation of facts, and the discoveries of modern inquirers in State papers, Irish Local Histories can now be brought out at a much cheaper rate ; and it will be found that the History of Waterford, now offered to the public, is rewritten on a different principle, and on a more voluminous scale.

It consists of five hundred pages of closely printed matter; whereas, Smith's or Ry land's histories contain respectively only about four hundred pages, in large type, — thus, it wiU be seen, that this history contains nearly twice as much matter. There are a few subjects introduced which, according to the present style of writing, should be inserted as notes ; but I thought it better to make one continuous narrative of each chapter. There are also a few digressions ; as, for instance, the par-

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. VIII ticulars of the Beresford family are inserted with the description of Corroughmore demesne, whereas they should be with the chapter of " distinguished parsonages ;" as also the account of the Stewart family inserted with the description of Dromana. — I have in my possession several old papers and documents, relating to some of the old families of the county, but declined introducing them without the permission of the representatives of those families. In conclusion, I have to offer my acknowledge ments generally for the assistance and information kindly supplied by many high personages and officials in the county. To the Rev. Mr. Ardagh, of Strad bally, for some valuable and interesting old works, kindly lent me, from his library ; to Richard R. Brashe, Esq. M.R.I.A., for his work on the Oghams discovered in this county ; to Edward Brenan, Esq. Dungarvan, for his paper on the fossils, discovered at Shandon, near Dungarvan ; to those distinguished personages who confidingly honoured this work with their names as individual subscribers ; and to all of whom I am indebted for the ready and valuable in formation given, and through whose courtesy, in fluence and obliging assistance, I have been enabled to introduce several new additions, and bring the History of the County down to the present time. JOSEPH HANSARD. T(>\ f.Q Main-street, Dungarvah,* 1870. lr THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY AND CITY OF WATERFORD.

Chapter I

Of the Bounds, Extent, Length and Breadth of the County, fye. This County is bounded on the east and south by St. George's Channel, and part of the Harbour of Waterford, which divides it from Wexford; on the west by the Counties of Tipperary and Cork ; and on the north by the river Suir, which separates it from the Counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary. The opposite land, on the English coast, to the Harbour of Waterford, is St. David's Head, in Wales, bearing about east by south from it sixty English miles Its greatest length, from east to west — that is from Creden Head to the western part of the Barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, is about forty miles. The greatest breadth, from north to south, from the river Suir to Ardmore Head, in a meridian line. •2 history of waterford. is about twenty-four miles; but in some places it is not half; and in others, not above a quarter so much.

This County is situated under the same parallel of latitude as the Counties of Gloucester, Oxford, Buck ingham, Bedford, Hereford and Essex, in England. The river Suir, which separates it from the Counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny, unites it water with those of the Barrow and the Nore. From its navigable part, at Clonmel, to that of the river Blackwater, at Cappoquin, the distance is only seventeen miles ; from Carrick-on-Suir to the river Nore, at Kilkenny, the distance is about twenty-two miles ; and from Golden bridge, near Cashel, where the Suir is still a good sized river, to the Shannon, near Limerick, the dis tance is only twenty-five miles. Hence, it will be seen that few places possess greater advantages of communication with the interior of the country than the City of Waterford ; besides now having direct communication to Limerick and intermediate towns by the Waterford and Limerick Railway, as well as to Dublin, Kilkenny, &c, by the Waterford and Kil kenny line of Railway.

The County of Waterford is situated between the latitude of 51 degrees 50 minutes, and 52 degrees 15 minutes north ; and between the longitude of 7 degrees 10 minutes, and 8 degrees 24 minutes west. The latitude of the City of Waterford is 52 degrees 8 minutes. Independent of the City and liberties of Waterford, which are a County in themselves, the County of Waterford is divided into seven Baronies, viz : — Gaultier, Middlethird, Upperthird, Decies Without Drum, Decies Within Drum, Coshmore and Coshbride, and Glenaheiry. The total superficial contents of the County is estimated at 471,281 statute acres, including Tramore Strand, Dungarvan Strand, Woodstown. niSTORY OF WATERFORD. 3 Strand and Ardmore Strand. According to the census of 1861, the entire population of the County and City generally amounted to as follows : — The County 134,252 The City of Waterford, 23,293 Dungarvan Town, 5,881 Town and Borough of Dungarvan, 8,600 Town of Lismore 2,089 Town of Tallow, 1,627 Town of Cappoquin, 1,798 Town of Portlaw, 3,915 Town of Tramore, 1,802 The net annual value of property in the County, as sessed under the Tenant Valuation Act, is .£318,721.

It is the general opinion that counties were first instituted in Ireland by King John, about the year 1210; and that they were twelve in number, and among the rest, this County of Waterford. Yet, it seems probable, that counties were formed, and Sheriffs and other officers of justice instituted in Ireland, before the period here mentioned, and even in the reign of King Henry II. For by a patent granted by that monarch, to Nicholas de Benchi, of lands in Ireland (which is enrolled iii the Chancery office, in the eleventh year of Edward III) ; among other grants, Henry II directs it "to all Archbishops, Bishops, Sheriffs, Ministers, and Justices of Ireland," which he would not do if there were no such officers then established in this Kingdom ; for if they were Sheriffs, they must be such over Counties or Cities, or some other districts.

But by a patent, dated on the third of July, in the seventh year of King John — which is five years before the time mentioned by historians for the distributing of Ireland in Counties — the said King grants several franchises and privileges to the City of Waterford; and, among others, that no itinerant justice of assize in the County of Waterford, should, for the future, vex or disturb the Citizens, or oblige them to appear without the bounds of the City, either at the King's suit, or at the suit of any other com plainant. By the whole tenor of this patent, it is manifest, that it was only a recital and confirmation of former liberties and franchises granted to the Citizens of Waterford, and the Charter expressly mentions the County of Waterford, as a district dis tinct from the City.

Chapter II

Of the ancient Names and Inhabitants of the County of Waterford, together with those of the middle and present Age. — (from smith's history.) A people, called the Menapii, inhabited the countries, since called the counties of Waterford and Wexford, in the time of Ptolomy the geographer, who flourished about the year of Christ 140. Strabo, a writer of the Augustan age, about the birth of Christ, places a people of the same name in Belgic-Gaul, near the banks of the Rhine. Julius Cæsar, who wrote before Strabo, makes these Menapii a part, or sub-division, of the Belgce, and adds, " that after the rest of Caul had submitted to peace, only the Morini and the Menapii, stood out in arms ; and neither sent ambas sadors to him, nor otherwise treated of a submission." He then describes their manner of making war, by retiring with their substance, into woods, bogs, and fastnesses, (not unlike the practice of the Irish, upon the early invasion of the English) and by making sudden sallies and assaults upon the Romans.

In order to subdue them, he employed his army in cutting down the woods, and, by that means, made himself master of their goods and cattle, though they themselves escaped into thicker woods. Thus, having wasted their country, and destroyed their villages and houses, he marched back his army into winter quarters. A few pages after he relates, that the TJsipites, a German nation, passed the Rhine, drove the Menapii out of their territories, and fixed themselves in their places. These events happened about 52 years before the birth of Christ ; and it would seem probable, that from that period of destruction, a colony of these Menapii, whom Ptolomy placed here near 200 years after, first arrived and settled in these parts. As the Menapii were a part, or subdivision, of the Belgæ of Gaul, it may be questioned, whether they did not first remove into Britain. with the Belgæ, and from thence, a few years after, retire into Ireland, when Julius Cæsar invaded Britain, for the sake of preventing their ancient liberty, and of avoiding the insolence of the Romans, which they had severely felt in their own country.

These things are not obtruded upon the reader otherwise than as conjectures, that carry with them some shew of probability ; and he is left to his own judgement on the matter. Mr. Cambden indeed thinks "that our Menapii were the offspring of the Menapii upon the sea-coasts of the lower Germany ;" and Sir James Ware is of opinion, (though he is not positive in it) that Carausius, who assumed the purple in Britain against Dioclesian and Maximinian, was of these Menapii in Ireland; because Aurelius Victor calls him a citizen of Menapia, Menapiæe civem, and that Ptolomy places the city of Menapia in Ireland, and not in Belgic-Gaul, though the Menapii are seated by him in both countries. It is doubted, whether the city of Wexford or Waterford be the Menapia of Ptolomy ; but as some incline to one, and some to the other opinion, Avithout giving reasons for either, I shall not take upon me to determine the point.

We do not find these people mentioned in any his tory after Ptolomy ; and therefore, it is probable, that, by incorporating with the more ancient Irish, they lost their names, especially as they were only a slender colony, and not of figure enough to give a denomination to a people in a strange country. For Cæsar himself says, that they furnished only 9,000 men in the general confederacy against him ; whereas the Bellovaci sent 60,000, and the Suessones 50,000. The next people we met with in this country, were a powerful clan, called the Desii, from whom the barony of Desies is denominated ; for they subsisted here till the time of the English invasion. The history of this clan has something singular in it. They were originally planted in Meath, and possessed a large tract of country near Taragh, called Desie- Temragh.

From the remains of this family, the barony of Desie, in the county of Meath, took its name. They drew their descent from Fiachadh Suidhe, eldest son to Fedlimid, the law-giver, who was supreme monarch of Ireland, from the year of Christ 164, to the year 174. But Fiachadh died in the life-time of his father ; and though he left issue, yet the crown descended on the line of his younger brother, in the person of Cormac Mc. Art, who began his reign in the year 254. Aongus, or Æneas, grandson to Fiachadh-Suidhe, a prince of an high spirit, resented his exclusion ; and, under pretext of some injury offered him by the reigning monarch, raised a body of forces, broke into the palace of Tarah, and not only slew Kellach, the king's son, by his father's side, but thrust out the king's eye with his spear.

This event happened in 278. King Cormac quelled the rebellion in seven successful battles, and drove AEngus, with two of his brothers, and others of the Desii adhering to him, into Munster ; where, either by force of arms or concession, (for the story is told both ways) they settled them selves, and became inhabitants of that tract of country which extended from the river Suir to the sea, and from Lismore to Credan-head, comprehending, in a manner, all that territory, since called, the county of Waterford: and they gave it the name of Desie, in memory of their former settlements of the same name in Meath. From this time, Desie in Meath, and Desie in Munster, came to be called N. and S. Desie ; and the latter also bore the name, in Irish, of Nan-Desie. Long after this period, AEngus Mc. Nafrach, king of Minister, who was converted to the christian faith, by the ministry of St. Patrick, enlarged the territory of the Desie, by annexing to it the lands of Maghfemin, which extended N. of the river Suir, as far as Corca-Eathrach, comprehending the coimtry about Clonmel, the barony of Middlethird, and the large extended plains near Cashel, called Gowlin-vale, (now known as the Golden vain) ; from which time, the name of N. Desie, i,e, those of Meath, became anti quated ; the lands comprised in this grant of king AEngus, were distinguished by the name of Desie- Thuasgeart, or North Desie ; and the former territories in this county retained the name of Desie-Deisgart or South Desie.

St. Declan, one of the precursors of St. Patrick, was descended from the family of these Desii ; was the first who preached to them the christian religion, and converted numbers of them in the year 402, thirty years before St. Patrick came to Ireland, on the like mission. In a MS. life of St. Declan (out which arch-bishop Usher published his extracts) king Ængus, St. Pat rick, St. Ailbhe, and St. Declan, are introduced sit ting in a synod, in the year 448, and making consti tutions for the further propagation of the christian faith ; upon which occasion the arch-bishopric of Munster was established in the city and see of Saint Ailbhe, and the bounds were appointed to St. Declan where he should employ his ministerial labours, i.e. among the people of the Nan-Desii, so that they should be within the parish of his episcopate ; that the Irish, in other places, should be subject to Saint Patrick ; and that the nation of the Nan-Desii should pay all obedience, under God, to their patron, St. Declan.

Then St. Patrick is said to have sung the following Irish distich, as it were an oracle, appointing St. Ailbhe to be the Patrick or patron of Munster ; and St. Declan to be the Patrick or patron of Nan- Desii : — Ailbhe umal, Padruig Mumhan, mb gach rath : Declan Padruig Nan-desii, ag Declan go brath. Thus translated by Dr. Dunkin. Of humble mind, but fraught with ev'ry grace, Great Ailbhe, the Patrick of Momonia's race, Declan the mitred honour of divines, The deathless Patrick of his Desie shines. About this time the bishopric of Ardmore was established. The same M.S. life gives a catalogue of the chieftains of the Desii, not down from prince Ængus, but Eogan, one of his brothers (he and his elder brother Roffus, probably, having died without issue male). Thus, Eogan, son of Fiachad-Suidhe, begot Carbry Righruahd, who begot Conry-Bellovictor, or the Warlike, who begot Cuan-Cainbrethach, who begot Mesfore, who begot Moscegra,, who begot Moscorb, who begot Art-corb, who begot Eogain II. who begot Brian, who begot Niath, who begot Ludhoich, who begot Trene, who begot Ere, who was father to St. Declan.

These were the chieftains of the Desii, from the time they were driven out of Desie-Temrach, to the birth of this saint. Libanus succeeded Ere in the chieftainry of the Desii ; and because he continued an obstinate pagan, and could, by no means, be prevailed upon to embrace Christianity, St. Declan persuaded the sub jects of Libanus, who had received baptism, to forsake him, and follow himself; for that, in consideration of his descent, he had as good a right to rule them as the other ; upon which the multitude followed him, were blessed by St. Patrick, and then asked St. De clan, who should be their new chieftain ? He gave the government to Fergall Mc. Cormac, who was of the tribe of the Desii, and of the same line with St. Declan ; and they were all pleased with the change. In other ancient writings we meet with more chieftains of the Desii, viz. Cobthaig, who begot Moelctride, from whom St. Carthag, who died in 637, obtained the territories about Lismore, as an endow ment for a cathedral there to be established ; and Branifinius, son to Moelctride, and prince of the Desii of Munster, who is said, in the annals of the Four Masters, to have died in the year 666 ; from which time, no other chieftain of this territory occurs, till Cormac Mac Culenan, who was bishop of Lismore, and prince of the Desii in Munster; and died, according to the above-mentioned annals, in 918.

This person must be distinguished from another of the same name and surname, who was king of Munster, and archbishop of Cashel ; and died ten years earlier than our Cormac. Among other lay-princes who appeared in the synod of Athboy, in 1167, Dunchad O-Feolain, chieftain of the Desii, was one; but whether he was chieftain of the Desii of Munster, or those of the same tribe, who remained in Meath, after Ængus and his faction were driven out of it as aforesaid, is uncertain. In 1169, Melaghlin 6 Feolain, prince of the Desii, was taken prisoner by earl Strongbow, when the city of Waterford was stormed ; but was saved from death by the mediation of Dermod Mc. Murrough, king of Leinster. In him ended the chieftainry of the Desii ; and no traces of consequnce remain of this territory, except in the large extended barony of Decies in this county, which was soon after established.

The abbot Benedict, a contemporary writer with these transactions, relates, "that after the submission of the Irish to king Henry II, that monarch, in the year 1177, granted, in custodium, to Robert le Puher (or le Poer) the city of Waterford, with all the cir cumjacent province, and appointed that the following lands should, for the time to come, belong to the service of Waterford, viz. all the lands which lie between Waterford and the water beyond Lismore (which comprehend the greatest part of this county) and also the lands of Ossory." This Robert le Poer was marshal to king Henry II, and from him, in a direct line, descended sir Richard le Poer, created baron le Poer and Curraghmore, on the 13th of September, 1535, whose descendant, Richard le Poer, was created viscount Decies, and earl of Tyrone, by patent, dated at Westmister, the 9th of October, 1673.

This earl was succeeded by his son John, who dyingwithout issue, in 1693, the honours of the family devolved on his brother James, by whose death, on the 19th of August, 1704, with out issue male, they ceased ; and his only daughter, the lady Catherine Poer, being married to sir Marcus Beresford, bart. he was created lord viscount Tyrone, by King George I. Though the power of the Desii was abolished by the English, and by the grant to sir Robert le Poer, as aforesaid ; yet there remained of them people of some account after that period, and such whom the Irish historians call kings. Nor is the territory of the Desii left unmentioned. Thus, in the annals of Leinster, under the year 1181, we find, "that Cuilen O-Cuilen, and O-Feolain, king of the Desii, marched to Lismore, rased that castle, and slew sixty or eighty men therein ; and further, that all the castles of the Desii and Ossory were taken."

Again, in 1203, "Art Corb O-Feolain, king of the Desii, died ; the next year was a great plague through the Desie, which emptied most of the houses in it ; and in 1206, Daniel O-Feo lain, king of Desie, successor to Art Corb, died at Cork, in the lord justice Fitz-Henry's army." It cannot escape observation, that the princes of this sept of the Desii, took up the surname of O-Feolain, and retained it in their families, from the year 1167 (probably earlier) till after the English acquisition of their country. This happened by the decree of Brien Borohme, who mounted the throne of Ireland in the year 1002; for it was in his time, that the family sirnames of the Irish began to be fixed, and handed down to posterity with the particle (b), or the mono syllable (va), prefixed, which was afterwards changed into the vowel (o), and signifies one descended from some prime man or head of a principal family, as Brien, O-Connor, O-Neil, and, in this instance, O-Feo lain, of which see the Antiquities of Ireland, chap. 2.

Yet for several centuries after, many families did not conform to this custom, and it was generally taken up only by the prime men of the sept ; so that the name of Desii, or Desie, is, to this day, retained in the county Meath, who draw their pedigree from such of the Desii as were not driven into Munster with Ængus and his faction, as is before related. In 1600, Thomas Desie was titular bishop of Meath, and Oliver Desie titular vicar-general of the same ; and both were born in the county of Meath. Besides the territories of the Desii, we read in our ancient historians of two other small tracts, one called Coscradia, and the other Hy-Lyathain, on S. about Ardmore, and opposite to Youghal. But as these were narrow tracts, and the inhabitants of no great figure, they were probably early swaUowed up by the encroachments of their more powerful neighbours, the Desii; for we read nothing of them after the seventh century.

Chapter III

Of the Ancient Families and the present Gentry and leading Families of distinction in the County ; List of Magistrates, fye.

The names of the principal inhabitants of the county of Waterford, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, were these : — The Aylwards, Brownes, O'Briens, Bracks, Bourkes Condons, Creaghs, O'Connery's, Daltons, Dobbyns,' Everards, Fitz-Garretts or Fitz-Geralds ; the O'Feo lains, Fitz-Theobalds, Leas or Leaths, Maddens, the Mandevils, Merryfields, Morgans, O'Meaghers, Mac- Henricks, the Nugents (ancestors of the present Sir John Nugent Humble of Cloncoskoran House, near Dungarvan) ; the Poers or Powers ; the Osbornes of Knockmaun Castle (ancestors of the present Mrs. Bernal Osborne of Carrickbarrahane and of Newtown anner, Clonmel) ; the Prenderghasts, Rochfords, the Sherlocks, Tobins, Walls, Walshes, Waddings, the Wyses (ancestors of the present Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse of Waterford) ; the Whites, &c. The following is a list of the principal families of the County in 1710, taken from the list of jurors returned by the Sheriffs at the assizes in that year : — Anthony of Carrie-castle ; Allen of Reisk ; Alcocks of Waterford ; Annesly of Waterford ; Beresfords, Lord Viscount Tyrone of Curraghmore ; Barker of Waterford ; Bolton of Waterford ; Bagg of Ardmore, and Bagg of Lismore ; Bird of Tramore ; Boyd of Crook ; the Boats of Dungarvan ; Butler of Dungar van ; Barbon of Dungarvan ; Christmass of Whitfield; Cook of Bolendisert ; Coughlans of Aridigna ; Crotty of Ballygalane ; Car of Stonehouse ; Croker of Glan bee ; Clarke of Tallow ; Disney of Churchtown ; Ducket of Whitestown ; Dobbyn of BallinakiU ; Drew of Ballymartin ; English of Monerlargy ; Fitzgeralds of Kilcanevee ; Foulks of Tallow ; Freestones of Kil st-Nicholas ; the Flings or Flinns of Dungarvan ; the Greenes of Kilmanehin and Shandon ; the Greatrakes of Affane ; the Gumbletons of Tallow ; Guest, of the Half-way-house ; Gamble of Cullinagh ; Groves of Clonea ; the Hales or Healys of Cappoquin ; Hearns of Shanakill ; Hearns of Dungarvan ; Jackson of Glenbeg ; Ivey of Killea ; the Keanes of Cappoquin ; Keily of Carriglea ; the Kings of Tallow ; Keyes of Kilmeadon ; Lee of Waterford ; Lemery of Clonmel bridge ; Lourice of Tallow ; Lymbry of Kilcop ; the Longons of Ballynacourty, Wyse's-point, and Dun garvan ; May of Mayfield ; Mason of Dromana ; the Musgraves of Ballyin and Little-bridge ; Morgan of Ragheens ; Mons of Butlerstown ; Murphy of Kil mayemoge ; the Newports of Waterford ; Nicholson of Passage ; Nettles of Toureen ; the Odells of Mount odell, and the Odells of Ardmore ; the Powers of Gardenmorris, the Powers of Gurteen, the Powers of Clashmore, &c. ; the O'Keeffes of Kilmacabogue and of Mountaincastle ; the Penroses of Waterford ; the Quarrys of Ballintaylor ; Rawlins of Glenpatrick and Rogers of Portlaw ; Ratcliffe of Ardmore ; Rylands of Dungarvan ; the Rodericks of Dungarvan ; Smyths of Ballinatray and the Smyths of Headborough ; the Sherlocks of Butlerstown ; Towel of Tallow ; Villiers, Earl of Grandison of Dromana ; the Usshers of Kil meaden, the Usshers of Ballintaylor, and the

Usshers of Cappagh ; Worthvale of Newtown ; Wilson of Kilmayemogue ; the Wigmores of Lismore ; Walshe of Cooleneff, and the Walls of Coolnemuck ; and the Worthvales of Newtown.

The following are the present distinguished and leading Families of the County : — John Henry De La Poer Beresford, of Corroghmore house, fifth Marquis of Waterford, was born 21st of May, 1844 ; is a Knight of the order of St. Patrick ; a Captain in the 1st Life Guards ; a Deputy-Lieuten ant and Justice of the Peace for the County. Was Member of Parliament for the County, in 1865 and 1866. He is the eldest son of the late Marquis by Christiana, fourth daughter of the late Colonel Powell Leslie, Member of Parliament, of Glasslough house, County Meath. The Right Honble. Lord Stuart De Decies (Henry Villiers Stuart) of Dromana house, Cappoquin, was created Baron of the United Kingdom, in 1839 ; is a Privy Councillor, and Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Colonel of the Waterford Militia. He represented this county in Parhament, from 1826 to 1830.