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- ↑ Estates and Landed Society in Galway, Footnote 101 p. 373
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- ↑ Quoted by Patrick Melvin, Estates and Landed Society in Galway, footnote 103, p. 373
- The Recollections of Skeffington Gibbon from 1796 to the present year, 1829; being an epitome of the lives and characters of the nobility and gentry of Roscommon; the genealogy of those who are descended from the kings of Connaught; and a memoir of the late Madame O'Connor Don, Dublin, printed by Joseph blundell, 1829. Originally published privately by Augustus O'Kelly 1824.
- Biography of the houses of Ormond, Seymour, Stanley and Paget, London, September 1832
- On the Repeal of the Union, a pamphlet (ca. 1840?)
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