 | Bp. John O'Brien, Robert Daly, Michael McGinty - English language - 1832 - 534 pages
...all dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties; which indeed is the case of many other Irish families not less illustrious in former times, who are now either quite extinct, or reduced to a state of perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned. Cobeac,... | |
 | John O'Brien (R.C. bp. of Cloyne.) - 1832 - 532 pages
...all dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties ; which indeed is the case of many other Irish families not less illustrious in former times, who are now either quite extinct, or reduced to a state of perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned. Cobeac,... | |
 | John Lynch - Ireland - 1848 - 544 pages
...dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties ; which, indeed, is the case of many, other Irish families not less illustrious in...of perfect obscurity for the reason now mentioned." ! Not mentioned by O'h-Uidhrin. 1 That is, O'Flynn of Arda. He resided at Arda Castle, situated nearly... | |
 | Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society - 1862 - 372 pages
...Ui-Bagl,amhna, now the barony of Ibawn, in the south of the county of Cork, ibid., p. 36. 569 Tricha cMd medhonach, ie, the central cantred. This was the old...in the county of Cork ; but in other more northern parts of Ireland, it is anglicised Coffey, without the prefix O'. Dr. Smith, in his "Natural and Civil... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1862 - 358 pages
...O'Brien, who knew this part of Ireland well, speaking of the families of O'Cowhig and O'Floinn Ardn, about the middle of the last century, has the following...perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned." 570 O'Qobhthaigh. — Dr. O'Brien anglicises this name O'Cowhig, which seems to have been the form of the... | |
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But the melancholy remark which remains to be made is, that, of the two families first mentioned, there is not, to my knowledge, one individual now existing that may be held in the light of a gentleman, having been all dispossessed long since of their... 