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logical Society in 1881 do not seem to refer lo this branch
of the family.
I 5 . Baile Phollaird. The townland and parish of Pollards-
town are situated in the barony of East OfFaleyjin County Kildare.
16. Mac Valronta. This name occurs once in the Annal»
of the Four Masters. The editor, John O Donovan, gives no
comment on it. I take it to be an Irish rendering of the English
name Wesley, later Wellesley, which occurs frequently m Kil-
dare at this time. Valronta is a semi-translation of Wel-sealy.
The converse process of erroneous translation from Irish to
English is too well exemplified in modern Ireland. Sir Henry
Piers, writing in 1682, identified the name of Weysly with
McFalrene, Vallancey, Collectanea i, 105. The Irish scholar
Tadhg O Neachtain, in Trinity College MS. H4.20, explains
the name of the place in the county Meath which belonged
to the Duke of Wellington's family as Daingean Mic Bhalróin.
17. Almhain Laighean, Allen of Leinster, in County Kildare,
famous in the great body of literature dealing with Fionn mac
Cumhaill. Philip, son of Maurice Fitzgerald of Allen is men-
tioned in a marginal entry in H2.7, page 250, dated 1553.
" Gerald fitz Philippe, of Allon," appears in Fiant of Elizabeth,
4150, May 12, 1583.
18. We might also translate " George son of Gerald."
19. Dun Muire. Dunmurry, a townland and parish in the
barony of East OiFaley, in County Kildare.
20. Maol Ussaoi. Mulhussey, a few miles north of Maynooth,
in County Meath. The great castle there fell or was demolished
about fourteen years ago.
2 1 . Calvagh O Connor, son of Tadhg, son of Cathaoir, was
of DerrymuUen, in King's County, and was dead in 1576,
when the ward of his son and the custody of his lands was
granted to Laurence Delahide of Moyglare. His heir, Brian,
succeeded in 1584. See Fiants of Elizabeth, 2909, 4409.
22. This paragraph, which is damaged in the original, is
entered in the margin. Hence in the next reference is back
to Dun Muire.
23. Edmund Butler was the second Viscount Mountgarret.
A pardon granted to him after certain rebellious courses taken
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