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- ↑ Bernard Burke, 'Chevers' in A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (Harrison, 1866), p.117.
- ↑ Text of the Treaty of Limerick (Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition, University College Cork). See Article 4: Chievers of Maystown, commonly called Mount Leinster. Retrieved 3 November 2022.