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- ↑ Burke's The Complete Peerage; The St Catherine Press, London (1913), vol.III, p.224
- ↑ thepeerage.com Terence O'Dempsey, 1st Viscount Clanmalier
- ↑ thepeerage.com Lewis O'Dempsey, 2nd Viscount Clanmalier
- ↑ thepeerage.com Maximilian O'Dempsey, 3rd Viscount Clanmalier