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KEXPtY. 



The district of Caenraige was the patrimony of L'i Maelchallain 

 (Mulholland), and included that of the Ui Beagha or Uibh rosa of 

 Iveruss. It is of but little early note, and is not mentioned by the 

 Four Masters till the reign of Elizabeth. In about 1297-1300 appear 

 records of a few suits of Symon FitzPhilip, the Stakepols, Maghrys, 

 and others about lands in Kenry and Eossagh. In the sixteenth 

 century much of Kenry was held by the Knights of Glyn under the 

 Earls of Desmond. Almost the only events of note are the raids of 

 the Adare Garrison, 1581, and the capture of Castletown from Sir 

 Hardress Waller by the Confederates in 1642.^ 



IVEEUSS. 



141. Beagh or IvERrss (3). Marked. 1237 Oros was an early 

 manor of the Bishops (Proc. K.I. A., xxv. (c), p. 388). 1295 Gerald 

 and Anastas Stacpole held Eossagh in Kenry. 1297 Suit of Eic. 

 and Lucia Stakepol and T. de Maghry about lands in Eossagh, 

 Eossaghrote, or Oros, with which the late John, son of T. de Maghry, 

 had endowed histhen wife, Lucia (Plea. E., 39, &c.). 1317 Suit of 

 Phil, de Londi^es and Julian, his wife, against "W^alter Mauncel for 

 dower on Oros (Mem. E., m. 42d). 1420 Ui Eosa or Ui Beagha 

 (O'Huidhrin). In 1573 it was held by the Knight of the Glin 

 (Yalley), confiscated and granted in 1578 to Sir W. Drury(Fi. 3277), 

 1583 The C. and rill of Beahagh, Enbeough or Yearosse (Des. E., 

 74b; Peyton, 225). It was granted, 1587, to J. Stroude, and then to 

 G. Boston and Lau. Bostock as Cloveagh" or Beaugh, and in 1592 

 to AY. Carter (Carew, i., p. 449, 450; Pi. 5444-5717). 1619 The 

 chief Feriy fi'om Beagh to Eingannon in Clare, granted to Jas. 

 Ware and W. Plunkett (Pat. E.). 1629 C. conveyed by Edm. 

 Southwell to Eic, Earl of Cork (73.). 1657 C. of Beahy or Ballyna- 

 hagulshy, Sir H. Waller^ (C.S., xxvi., p. 25). 



^ I must record my special indebtedness to Dr. Geo. Fogerty for help as to 

 notes and views of the Castles of Beagh, Shanpallas, Carriganea, Bolane, and 

 Court. The Wallers have a view of the first, taken some seventy years ago ; it has 

 since been altered considerably. Miss Ellen Westropp, of Eallysteeu, also took 

 kind pains to procure me other information on Beagh, 6cc. 



- Sir Hardress "Waller, scion of an ancient family at Groombridge, Kent, a 

 member of which (his lineal ancestor) took the Duke of Orleans prisoner at 

 Agincourt. Sir Hardress married a daughter of Sir J. Dowdall of Eilfiuy ; their 

 second daughter married Sir W. Petty. 



