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- ↑ Haverty, Martin (1885). The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. T. Kelly.
- ↑ Joyce, Patrick Weston (1902). A Comprehensive Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland [and] General History. Murphy & McCarthy.