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- ↑ MacGUIRE, Lord Roger INISKELLEN (Inniskillen, Enniskillen) (1641–1708). Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ↑ – Barons Maguire History Page Archived 4 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 4 John Cornelius O'Callaghan, History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France (1854) vol. i, pp. 278–279