The story of the author of the critically acclaimed ‘Castle Rackrent’, a comic masterpiece, and her inventive father, and how Maria came to the aid of the people of Longford during the Great Hunger. Unlimited access for €1 a month / €12 a year...
HENRY ESSEX EDGEWORTH, ABBE DE FIRMONT (1745 – 1807) – KING LOUIS XVI’S LONGFORD BORN CONFESSOR The Rectory in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, was built in 1732, possibly as a dower house for the Edgeworth family. One of the more enterprising babies to have been born...
MORE O’FERRALL OF BALYNA, CO. KILDARE FROM ‘THE LANDED GENTRY & ARISTOCRACY OF CO. KILDARE’ BY TURTLE BUNBURY & ART KAVANAGH (IRISH FAMILY NAMES, 2004). Descended from two great Catholic Irish families, the More O’Ferrals combined with the marriage in 1751 of...
MORE O’FERRALL OF LISARD, CO. LONGFORD FROM ‘THE LANDED GENTRY & ARISTOCRACY OF CO. KILDARE’ BY TURTLE BUNBURY & ART KAVANAGH (IRISH FAMILY NAMES, 2004). The Lisard property in Co. Longford was acquired in the mid 19th century by John Lewis More O’Ferrall,...
In 1735, Thomas Bunbury of Kill married Catherine Campbell, daughter of Josias and Lettice Campbell of Drumsna, Annaduff, Co. Leitrim. The Campbells were closely related to the great naval dynasty of Rowley, the Virginia tobacco merchant family of Martin, and to...
