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79b). Gerald and TJlig, his sons, had been pardoned in 1581 (Pi. 

 3842). It continued in the hands of the Herberts. 1605 Edm. 

 Hubbert pleads that his father, Morris f. Edm., left Eathkeale Abbey 

 and Cahirmehill to his younger son Garrett, so he (Edm.) is not liable 

 for arrears (Rev. Exch. Orders, vol. i., p. 57). Sir J. Dowdall was 

 granted a Thursday market at the high cross of Eathkeale, in the 

 manor of Knockbillingsley (Pat. E.). Edmund Hubbert had a son, 

 Morish, who married M. Bourke, of Ballinagard, widow of Don. 

 Canny, of Drombanny, and had issue Garrett, m. to Ellen Fitzgerald, 

 of Caherassa, with Morris, James, and several daughters (Eun. Ent., 

 1638, p. 615). 1642 A number of the English fled to the Chancellor's 

 C. of Eathkeale about Candlemas, and were besieged by M. Harbert, 

 who "raised a fort or sconce,"^ and "offended the besieged." He 

 kept another C. half a mile away till the English surrendered (Deps. 

 264, 345, 346). 1655 Morrish Harbert held the C, bridge, millseats, 

 and tenements (C.S., p. 54). 1669 Granted to 01. Lambert. 



Falric. — The low, broken, vaulted basement, and the north wall, 

 two stories higher, with a spiral stair, remain. 



314. Castle Mattkess (29). Marked. 1487 James ninth Earl 

 of Desmond, murdered by[his servants in Caslan Mattras (Len., p. 68), 

 called Courtmattress, 1488. 1580 I^. f. William held Matrascourte 

 (Matrackscourt) C. on the Deel, on N'ekraghe, in Eathkealy (Peyton, 

 164; Inq. Exch., 10, 11). 1588 Granted to Pillingsley (Fi. 5171, 

 Carew i., p. 450) ; and 1608 to Sir J. Dowdall, of Pilltown, with the 

 Courts-Barron, and the Abbey (Pat. E. and Inq. Chan., 15a). 1616 

 Held by Edm. Southwell (Exchr. Lease, 32). 1642 Besieged by M. 

 Herbert, and surrendered (Dep., 1903). 1655 C. Matrix, or Court 

 Matrix, with Inishgousee, the C, orchard, and grist mill on the Deel. 

 Edm. SouthwelPJ(C.S., p. 58). Traditionally a Desmond C. 



Falric. — It was repaired by J. Browne before 1840. The tower 

 is 44 feet by 35^ feet outside, 60 feet high, with walls 7 feet thick. 

 It is battlemented, and has four stories (O.S.L., 8, p. 186). 



^ An old term notable from its use in the renaming of Dun Ceithirn as " The 

 Giant's Sconce." 



2 The family was formerly of Suell, or Suthwell, Nottingham, lords of its 

 manor from^l260. Kob. Suthwell, Serjeant-of-Law, died 1514 ; his grandson, J. 

 Suthwell, of Barham, migrated to Ireland, and two of his sons, Eic, of Singland, 

 and Edmund, of Castlematrix, settled in Limerick. John, fifth son of the latter, 

 M^as sheriff, 1654, and baronet, 1662. His monument at Eathkeale calls^him '<of 

 Barham Hall," Suffolk. His descendants were created Barons, 1717; and 

 Viscounts Southwell, of Castlemattress, 1766, 



