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- ↑ George Hill (2004). The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster: Including the Names of Irish Catholics, and Protestant Settlers (illustrated ed.). Irish Roots Cafe. p. 276. ISBN 0-940134-42-X.