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- ↑ Hardiman, p. 232
- ↑ Hardiman, p. 224
- ↑ Hardiman, p. 230
- ↑ John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, volume IV (Dublin, 1789) p. 119-120
- ↑ John Burke and John Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, second edition (London, 1841) page 601
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