Ireland Its Scenery Character And History volume 3
Ireland Its Scenery Character And History volume 3
S C Samuel Carter Hall
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In 1559 the great O'Neil made a pilgrimage here, as did one of the Desmonds in 1579. 54 The two great Irish antiquaries are at issue upon this sub- ject. Mr. Petrie contends that the monument is to the memory of Eleanor, daughter of James, the second Earl of Ormond, who mar- NOTES 351 ried in 1359, by the king's command, Gerald, the fourth Earl of Desmond ; while Sir William Betham " ventures to assert, " that " the monument in question is not the tomb of the Countess of Desmond, or any of her ...family, but that of Elizabeth, the daugh- ter and heiress of Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was the first wife of James, the fourth Earl of Ormond. This, indeed, " he adds, " removes all difficulties ; all the escutcheons of arms are in perfect order and position. The royal arms of England show the descent of the Butlers from the Plantagenets ; the Butler coat is on the husband's side; the Fitzgeralds on the wife's; the cross on the first escutcheon may be, and possibly was, intended to represent that of St.
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