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" The name of the townland in which the urn was found 

 is Ballyvadden, in the parish of Kilmuckridge ; and the name 

 of the finder is Patrick Dempsey. 



" I regret that I have not been able to procure more sa- 

 tisfactory information on the subject. 



" Over the spot where the urn was found there was a 

 mound of earth, in removing which to fill a marl-pit, and in 

 levelling the bank, the discovery was made ; but whether the 

 mound was occasioned by the opening of the marl-pit in the 

 first instance, or existed there previously, does not appear." 



Sir William Betham exhibited a seal belonging to Mr. 

 Cooke of Parsonstown, found in the river at Roscrea, bearing 

 the " fleur de lis," with the inscription " S. Galfridi Cor- 

 NUBiENSis," apparently of the early part of the fourteenth 

 century. 



Sir William stated that he had not been able to connect 

 this Geoffrey Cornwall with Ireland by the Irish records, but 

 there could be no doubt it was the seal of Sir Geoffrey Corn- 

 wall, Knight, who died about 1342, or his son. Sir Geoffrey, 

 who died about 1364. 



The first Sir Geoffrey Cornwall was son of Sir Richard 

 de Cornubia, natural son of Prince Richard Plantagenet, Earl 

 of Cornwall and Poictou, King of the Romans, second son of 

 King John. He married Margaret, daughter and co-heir of 

 Hugh de Mortimer, of Rickard's Castle, and sister of Joan, 

 wife of Richard Talbot, Lord of Rickard's Castle, ancestor to 

 the Earl of Shrewsbury. Sir Geoffrey obtained the barony 

 of Burford with Margaret, and large estates in Shropshire 

 and Herefordshire. He had a grant of free warren in his 

 manors of Stepleton, Dineford, Norton, Auberden, and Ni- 

 mindon, 10 Edw. II. 1316 ; and a market and fair at Steple- 

 ton, 1333, 8 Edw. III. On his death, about 1342, he was 

 found seised of the manor of Thorpe and half the manor of 

 Norton, in Northamptonshire, with other lands. 



