Offally

Leix and Offally, the territories of O'More and O'Connor [Footnote: See p. 201, _ante_.] on the west of the Pale, were absorbed into it and partially colonised, becoming

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Wexford; O'Carroll of Ely had 40 pounds from the English in Kilkenny, and O'Conor of Offally 20 pounds from those of Kildare, and 300 pounds from Meath.

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The de Mariscoes, de Barris, and le Poers, were not extinct; and finally Edward I., soon after his accession, granted the whole land of Thomond to Thomas de Clare, son of the Earl of Gloucester, and son-in-law of Maurice, third Baron of Offally.

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Alternately the guest of his aunts married to the chiefs of Offally and

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Francis Bryan, who appears to have been everywhere, overran Offally, Leix, Ely and West-Meath, sending the chiefs of the two former districts as prisoners to London, and making advantageous terms with those of the latter.

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Sir Oliver of Killeigh, married an O'Conor of Offally; the daughter of another son, Sir James of Leixlip,

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Henry, no chief of the McCarthys, the O'Conors of Roscommon or of Offally, entered into any such engagement.

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The baronry of Offally was enlarged into the earldom of Kildare; the lordship of Carrick into the earldom of Ormond; the title of Desmond was conferred on Maurice Fitz-Thomas Fitzgerald, and that of Louth on the Baron de Bermingham.

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By his mother, the Lady Gormley of Offally, he was a half

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O'Carrolls of Ely, the O'Conors of Offally, O'Neils and

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