Friday 27 July 2018

Heraldry at Cam, Co Roscommon


The graveyard at Cam between Ballyforan and Athlone is in Kiltoom - Cam Parish and there are a few gravestones of heraldic interest. 


The ruined church at Cam


A stone containing a face at Cam


The Byrne coat of arms, crest and motto at Cam dated 1820

Underneath there is a motto and the inscription:
This monument was erectd by Daniel Byrne in the year 1820.

The flat headstone nearby reads:
IHS Here lies the body of Patrick | Byrne who died on the 13th of | Octobr 1790? agd 84 yrs | Also the body of his wife Catherine | who died on the second day of | Decbr 1783 aged ?? She lived a | ? of a true Christian. Requiescant in Pace.

The inscription carries on further where Daniel Byrne is mentioned. 

The upright headstone at the other end reads:

IHS The Lord have mercy on the soul of Walter | Byrne the son of Peter | Byrne who departed | this life in the Lord on | the 13th of February 18?? | aged 40 years. Requiescat in Pace. 


The Byrne gravestone at Cam


The arms and crest of McKeogh

The McKeogh inscription reads:
IHS | Pray for the soul of Thomas | Keogh of Killerny? who | departed ys life Anno Domini | 1767 in ye  64 year of his age. | & lies Mullone? his wife | dd Anno Domini 1753 this | moument was erectd by | Doctr Dinis (son) McKeogh of | Shenbiunn ? physican to their | majesties in memory of ye above | & their posterity dated ye 30 | day of May 1767.

Coat od Arms, then

McKeogh, May he rest in peace, Amen.


There are similarities with the arms of O'Neill, for more discussion see:




The final coat of arms at Cam is that of Fallon  on the grave of Daniel Fallon.


The Fallon Coat of arms

A lovely illustrated version appears on Eddie Geoghegan's website, see:



The arms are given as:

The inscription at Cam reads:

IHS (twice) Pray for the soul of Mr Daniel | Fallon of Camma and Catherine | Fallon alias Fitzgerald his wife | who in her life time caused | this monument to be erected | for ... 1st ... & posterity | Anno Domini 1781.


The Fallon inscription at Cam


A gravestone at Cam with an unidentified crest

Wednesday 25 July 2018

The Man who would be King


No this is not the man who would be king but when you'll read the link below, you'll see where he fits in.

Cousins All!

Now to get to the point, recently I was looking at the arms of McKeogh, I realised that those of Haughey are the same.  See row two, number four; and row three, number one.



For details of McKeogh at Cam, Co Roscoommon, see:

http://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2018/07/heraldry-at-cam-co-roscommon.html

However on 21 February 1966 as Minister for Agriculture, Charles Haughey applied to the Chief Herald for a grant of arms. His arms were to be different from those of McKeogh or the 'usual' Haughey. Beneath the arms was to be the motto Marte Nostro (By Our Valour). 

For the full details on the grant of arms to Charlie see:

Type in 178 in the box beside Image that has a 1 by default



The arms granted to Charles Haughey in 1966


A later version in colour!

Here is a link to the family's website:


Charles Haughey acquired Abbeville House and estate in Kinsealy in 1969 for £120,000 from a German industrialist, Mr Franz Zielkowski. Abbeville was remodelled by the architect James Gandon who worked on the estate for the tax collector of Dublin, John Beresford, around the turn of the 18th century. The house was a project, Gandon squeezed in between the design and construction of Dublin's Four Courts and Custom House. The house was sold by the Haughey's in 2004 though they continued to live on by agreement. Mrs Haughey moved out in 2008.


Charles Haughey outside Abbeville remodelled by Gandon

Emo Court in Co Laois was designed by Gandon, see:



The arms of Charles Haughey at Abbeville

Even though it is not described in the grant of arms, I wonder if Charles Haughey viewed these arms as impaled, for Haughey and Lemass, now two great political families united through his marriage to Maureen Lemass. I have n't found any arms for Lemass, 

One could get carried away with the puns, suffice to say, the arms crisis of 1970 was not one of a heraldic nature! 

Finally here's where Trassey fits in!

https://magill.ie/archive/man-who-would-be-king

Monday 9 July 2018

Heraldry at Ballinloughloe - Mount Temple

                                 






                                 

                                                      Old Graveslab at Mount Temple


Ballyloughloe or Mount Temple is described as follows in the 1837 topological directory:







https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/B/Ballyloughloe-Clonlonan-Westmeath.php

There are three gravestones that are of heraldic interest. A local committee are recording the gravestones and they have restored the Bracken monument.

All the Mount Temple photographs on this page are taken by the author.

The first gravestone appears to be that of William Gustavus Adamson as follows: 


                                                The impaled arms of Adamson and Travers.


The arms of Adamson and Travers

This would appear to be the case from the marriage of William Gustavus Adamson in 1758 to Jane Travers daughter of John Travers, Rector of Ballyloughloe and Alice Smyth. See:




The Travers coat of arms can be viewed on various websites. Here we illustrate the version from John Lehman's COADB website, he contributed a guest post as follows:

http://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2017/09/guest-post-from-john-lehman-coadb.html


The second gravestone of heraldic interest is the McAuly one. This gravestone is to Peter McAuly, eldest son of Patrick McAuly of High Bastin who died in 1803. The gravestone was erected by his son William McAuly. 


                                                                  The McAuly Gravestone

The Annals of Ireland: Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by Owen Connellan and Michael O'Clery gives the following on the McAulys or Magawleys. See:


https://books.google.ie/books?id=91dfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA249&dq=mcauley+ballyloughloe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS6PSe3pTcAhVIK8AKHTKiBJUQ6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=mcauley%20ballyloughloe&f=false





The arms on the McAuly Gravestone

These arms appear to match those of O'Melaughlin or McLaughlin/McLoughlin rather than McAuly.



The arms of O'Melaughlin



The beautifully restored Bracken momument carries a crest, coat of arms and motto. as shown below.  Mary Bracken, alias Coughlan is named on the monument so the crest would appear to refer to Coughlan. 






The crest, coat of arms and motto on the Bracken monument.

Saturday 7 July 2018

Heraldry at Emo Court


Emo Court, between Portlaoise and Portarlington, is a country villa designed by architect James Gandon (1743-1823), who also designed the Custom House and the Four Courts in Dublin. The house is an example of neo-Classical style, emulating that of ancient Greece and Rome. The house is surrounded by the gardens and parkland which were first laid out in the eighteenth century. Gandon designed Emo Court in 1790 for John Dawson, the First Earl of Portarlington. When the earl died in 1798, the house was incomplete. Work was then ceased until the 1830s, when the second earl completed the garden front and commenced work on the interior. Starting in 1860, the third earl oversaw building of the copper dome on the rotunda, as well as work on the interior and construction of a bachelor wing. When the last of the Portarlingtons left Emo Court in 1920, the house fell into decline.


The Jesuits purchased the house in 1930 and used it as a novitiate. In 1969, the order sold Emo court to Major Cholmley Dering Cholmley-Harrison who began the process of restoring Emo Court and its grounds.


Today Emo Court and its gardens are owned and managed by the Office of Public Works.  Check the Heritage Ireland website for details of opening hours and events.




Heritage Website
https://www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage/emo-court-house/1568

There is much detail on the interior of the house on:
https://theirishaesthete.com/tag/emo-court/

The arms associated with the Earls of Portarlington are those of Dawson and Damer


Dawson Arms

The Dawson arms supported by a tiger with the motto strapped around its body



R (Robert) Barton 1854

Damer Arms


The detailed history of the Damer-Dawson family is given in:
http://www.emocourt.net/Pearls/DawsonDamerFamily.htm

Ephraim Dawson, who purchased the town of Portarlington in 1710, was a banker who had married Ann Preston from Emo. For her, he built Dawson Court near the village. That house no longer remains. Their son William Henry (created Viscount Carlow in 1776) married Mary Damer. Their son John married Caroline Stuart, the daughter of the Earl of Bute, and consequently increased in wealth and standing. He was created the first Earl of Portarlington in 1785.

A full history of the Damer family can be found at:

https://chrisb2701.wordpress.com/tag/william-dawson/

Joseph Damer III died in 1798 and his only surviving son, succeeded as Earl of Dorchester. Joseph's sister, Mary Damer was married to William Henry Dawson in 1737. The second earl assumed the extra name of Damer allowing the family name to become Damer-Dawson






The quartered arms of Damer and Dawson along with supporters, motto and coronet of an earl dated 1896


One of the remaining pieces of furniture remaining from the time of the Damer-Dawsons


For a colour version of the arms see:
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Earl_of_Portarlington

The following photos depict the freize on the outside of the house.