482 



was not stated in the Anthologia Hibernica,"* and if that statement 

 was not supported in " Lodge's Peerage,"f edited by Archdall, " that 

 Elinor, daughter of Edmund, Lord Dunboyne, the second wife of the 

 16th Earl of Desmond, remarried O'Connor of Sligo, and died in 1656 ; 

 that she erected a chapel near the church of St. Dominick, in Sligo, had 

 a monument placed therein, and is herself buried there. 



I will not attempt to reconcile the discrepancy apparent between 

 the date (1638) at which I assume her death to have taken place, and 

 the date (1656) at which Lodge places it. I will only observe, that, as 

 she is known to have had one son and five daughters living at the time 

 of the murder of her husband, Earl Garrett, in 1583, it is not unrea- 

 sonable to conclude her then age to have been 30 years; and if this be 

 so, s?ie would have attained the age of 85 in 1638, and of 103 in 1656* 

 I leave the Academy, keeping in view the fact of the cessation of the 

 payment of the pension from Michaelmas, 1638, to form its own judg- 

 ment. 



The monument which was erected to the memorj^ of her last hus- 

 band is still subsisting, and I am enabled, through the kindness of a 

 lady friend, to present a sketch of it, done in oils. J Erom this illus- 

 tration, the monument appears to be a chaste and elaborate piece of 

 sculpture, and is a valuable relic of the past, whether considered in a 

 genealogical, antiquarian, or artistic point of view, and certainly the 

 families most interested should pay great attention to its preservation. 



This Countess of Desmond held estates in her own right in the county 

 of Sligo. I find her in charge upon the Crown Eentals from 1620 to 

 1641, as tenant, which officially signifies patentee to the Crown, at a 

 Crov/n rent of 20^., equivalent to 15-s. of the late Irish currency, for the 

 castle of Bealadrohid, the quarter of land of Eathsene, the quarter of 

 land of Leighcarrow, the cartron of land of Carrcumone, with other 

 lands which were forfeited to the Crown by the attainder of Erian 

 O'Connor, one of the Sligo family. 



Her second husband, the O'Connor Sligo, surrendered his estates 

 for the purpose of obtaining a regrant of them from Queen Elizabeth. 

 Such aregrant§ was made to him; it bears date 12th July, 27th Eliz., 

 A. D. 1585, and comprehends a large portion of the county of Sligo ; but 

 these estates of the Countess Elinor, as well as a large portion of her 

 second husband's, the O'Connor Sligo, by some arrangement, made 

 about the year 1636, passed into the hands of the Earl of Strafi'ord and 

 Thomas Eatcliife. A clause in the Act of Explanation of 1665, and a 

 grant from King Charles II., confirms the arrangement so made, and at 

 the present day represent the title from the Crown to these Sligo 

 estates. 



* Vol. i., p. 245. t Vol. ii., p. 75. 



% This lady would not permit me to reveal her name, for the reason that she is offended 

 at the illiberality of the Academy in excluding ladies from hearing polite literature and 

 antiquarian papers read, in many of which they would take a deep interest. 



§ Landed Estates' Record Office, Patents, Eliz., lib. 26, f. 53. 



