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References
- ↑ Sir Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland (1899), 48.
- ↑ Michael C. O'Laughlin, Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland (Irish Roots Cafe, 1994), 30.
- ↑ Burke's Irish Family Records (London, 1976), 134
- ↑ ThePeerage.com (entry #166291) http://thepeerage.com/p16630.htm#i166291
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