NOTE 16.-PAGE 638.

Major Patrick Murphy.

In King James's Irish Army List for 1689, compiled by D'Alton, no Christian name is given for this officer. The name Patrick in the foregoing list is given by the writer of this note on the authority of the Chevalier O'Gorman, many of whose interesting and instructive MSS. are preserved in the valuable library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. The ancient Milesian sept of which this officer was a member was long distinguished in Ireland, and produced many warriors, both in ancient as well as later times. Particular mention is made in history of Malachy O'Morrogh, or Murphy, a chieftain of Wexford living in the fourteenth century, who, in conjunction with the celebrated Art Mac Murrogh, a life of whom was written by the late lamented D'Arcy Magee, rendered every opposition to Richard II. while in Ireland, who finally entered into a treaty of peace with them, and other Irish Chieftains, including Gerald O'Byrne, of Wicklow, Daniel O'Nolan, of Carlow, and Rory Oge O'Moore, of Leix, on the plain of Ballygorry, near Carlow. "The O'Murphys, who were chiefs of Crioch O'Felme, or High Feidhlime, are thus spoken of by the poet O'Heerin:—

'An extensive and profitable lordship

Was obtained by O'Murphy, of smooth and fair plains,

The country Hy-Felimy the chief received,

An inheritance handed down from his ancestors.'

"The O'Murphys were one of the Cahiráan families of Leinster, a branch of the same race as the MacMoroughs, Kings of that Province. The territory of Hy Felimy, which they possessed, extended along the sea coast, and was commonly called the Murrowes, and comprised the barony of Ballaghkeen, in the county of Wexford. The O'Murphys were powerful chiefs in ancient times, and at the present day the name is one of the most numerous in Ireland, and found in all the counties of Leinster, and in various parts of Munster, Connaught, and Ulster, and there are many respectable and wealthy families of them in various parts of Ireland."-Connellan's Annals of the Four Masters.

In A. D. 1488, according to the same work, the son of O'Murphy, Lord of Hy Felimidh (in Wexford), i. e. Mahon, the son of Teige, was treacherously killed by Donogh, the son of the Lord of Hykinsellagh. Major Patrick Murphy, the subject of this note, was a native of Kilkenny, in the Cathedral of which there are many monuments to the memory of different members of his family, from 1640 to 1741. The attainders of the year 1642 contained the names of Michael Murphy, of Balruddery, and Loughlin Murphy, of Dunganstown, George Murphy, of the parish of St. Michan's, in the city of Dublin, together with Donough Murphy and Conor Murphy, Esqrs., of Blarney, in the county of Cork. In 1654, Colonel Murphy, a native of Ireland, in command of 800 of his exiled countrymen, distinguished himself in the campaign in Spain. The members of this family attainted by the Williamite Government in 1692 were Captain Edmond Murphy, of Kilkenny, who served in Colonel John Hamilton's regiment of Infantry, and two others of the name in the same county; seven in Wexford, six in Louth, four in Cork, three in Down, two in Armagh, one in Clare, one in the Queen's County,

and one in Waterford. Members of this family were also highly distinguished in the Irish Brigade, and in the regiment of Charlemont, commanded by Colonel Gordon O'Neill, on its first formation in France, Captain Edmond Murphy, who served in Ireland in Hamilton's Regiment, was appointed its Major, and Cornelius Murphy was at the same time Major of the regiment of Clancarty. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Madam Maria Margarita de Murphy claimed the benefit of a judgment debt affecting the estates of Donough, Earl of Clancarty, but her petition, like that of many others, was dismissed. The archives of the grand and quaint old city of Bruges record the death of CaptainLieutenant Darby Murphy, of Lord Hunsdon's infantry regiment, and the writer of this note remembers distinctly, when there in the year 1864, seeing in St. Donat's Cathedral in that city a monument to the memory of the Rev. and Ven. John Albert de Murphy, of the Royal sept of O'Morrogh, which had given kings to Leinster, while himself had been imprisoned in London, driven into exile, found an asylum at Bruges, where he was appointed Penitentiary of the diocese, and died, universally lamented by the inhabitants, on the 12th of November, 1745.

NOTE 17.-PAGE 642.

Captain Thomas Keogh.

From a very early period the sept of MacKeogh was located in Connaught, and should be distinguished from the Keoghs of the county of Wicklow, though the names of both septs were often spelt in a similar way. Under the year 1479, the Annals of the Four Masters record the death of Fergal MacKeogh, a 'good poet.' Under the year 1534, the Four Masters record the death of 'Maolmuire MacKeogh, the intended chief professor of poetry in Leinster, a man of learning and of extensive knowledge in poetry, and who kept a good house of hospitality.' In the attainders of the year 1642 are to be found the names of Thomas MacMaolmuire MacKehoe,' or Keogh, and William MacShane MacFarrel MacKehoe, of Knockandarragh, county of Wicklow. In 1691, John Keagho,' or Keogh, of Ballymuraroe, in the county of Wicklow, and his cousin, Humphrey Keogh, of Bally beddin, in the county of Wexford, were outlawed and attainted, in consequence of their attachment to their religion and country. Of the Connaught line of this ancient family was the late William Keogh, Esq., of Corkip, in the county of Roscommon. Of this line also was the Right Rev. Dr. Teige Keogh, Lord Bishop of Clonfert, who ordained the Rev. Dermot Moylan in 1680 (see page 61) Parish Priest of Beach, or St. Anne's, and who is one of the characters introduced in this work. Duelling being then in vogue, Mr. William Keogh and the late Robert Blake-Forster, of Bath, granduncle of the writer of this note, having quarrelled about some trifling matter, met, as was then the custom, on the Fifteen Acres, Phoenix Park, Dublin. After exchanging shots, their seconds having interfered, they left the field on friendly terms. This gentleman, who was highly esteemed in the counties of Roscommon and Galway, married Mary, daughter of A. Ffrench, Esq., of Rahoon, county of Galway, and had, with other issue, the Right Hon. William Keogh, of Bushy Park, in the county of Wicklow, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland.

Judge Keogh was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; called to the Irish Bar in 1840; appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1849, Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1852; Attorney-General in May, 1855; a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, in 1856, and sworn a member of the Privy Council in Ireland in 1855; was M. P. for Athlone 1847-56.

NOTE 18.-PAGE 642.

Lieutenant David Tobyn.

This family (whose name, according to some writers, was originally 'St. Aubin') settled in England at the time of its conquest by William of Normandy, and in Ireland, A. D. 1172. Now, I find that at the time of the invasion of Ireland, under Richard De Clare, Earl of Pembroke, surnamed Strongbow,' the names of De Tobyn' and 'De St. Aubin,' or 'St. Aubin,' were borne by two different families.

The family of Tobyn was principally settled in Kilkenny and Tipperary. Pierce Butler (son of Edmond, son of James, son of William Butler, Baron of Dunboyne) was slain in 1502 by James Tobyn. In 1382, William, son of Thomas, and Richard, son of David Tobyn, were appointed Guardians of the Peace for the county of Kilkenny. 1419, the King appointed John Tobyn to fill the offices of water-bailly, searcher and guardian of all the harbours and seaports on the coast of Cork. 1566, Robert Tobyn was Portreeve of Irishtown, Kilkenny; in 1608, Thomas, and in 1649, Richard. In 1557, Francis Tobyn died Mayor of the town of Youghal. In 1615 Edmond, son of Walter Tobyn, of Kenaganach, in Tipperary, surrendered to the Crown several lands for the purpose of obtaining a re-grant; he married, in 1638, Margaret, daughter of Edward Tobyn, of Killaghy, in Kilkenny. Catherine, daughter of James Tobyn, of Cumpshinagh, county of Tipperary, married Sir Richard Everard, Bart., of Fethard, whose daughter, Catherine Everard, was married to Richard Shee, of Cloran, Colonel of an Irish regiment at the siege of Arras. James Tobyn married Catherine, daughter of Lord Dunboyne, and had a daughter, Margaret Tobyn, who married James Butler, living in 1560, fourth son of James Butler, Earl of Ormonde. The Tobyns of the Compsey, on the borders of Kilkenny and Tipperary, are characterised by Clyne, in the fourteenth century, as a restless and turbulent clan, more dreaded by the English settlers than the aboriginal Irish.

In King James's Parliament in Dublin, James Tobyn sat as one of the representatives for the borough of Fethard. On the remodelling of James's army at Bretagne, after the surrender of Limerick to Baron De Ginckell, James Tobyn was appointed Major of Lord Galmoy's Horse. The attainders of 1691 include, with James Tobyn, M.P. (mentioned above), Pierce Tobyn, of Jerpoint, and James Tobyn, of Killalow, in Kilkenny. I find that, in the Index Nominum to the Inrolments of the certificates for Adventurers, Soldiers, &c., preserved in the office of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Dublin, the following members of this family are mentioned :

In the Index Nominum to the Inrolments of the Decrees of Innocents (preserved in
the same office), I find the names of―

In the Index Nominum to the Inrolments of the Connaught Certificates (preserved
in the same office), are recorded the names of-

John Tobyn, Esq., of Cahirbiska and Ballytobyn, in the county of Kilkenny, was
one of those whom Cromwell banished to Connaught; he married Miss Walsh,
of Ballinvoher, county Kilkenny, and had issue Michael Tobyn, Esq., of Tobynstown,
county of Galway, who married Isabella, daughter of Keane, of Keanesbrook, county of
Leitrim, and was father of David Tobyn, Esq., of Tobynstown, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Tobias Kelly, Esq., of Clondoyle, and had issue Michael David Tobyn,
Esq., of Murrough or Merville, in the county of the town of Galway, who married
Marcella, daughter of Nicholas Bermingham, Esq., of Barbersfort, county of Galway,
and had, with other issue, Michael Charles, and Elizabeth, now living.

NOTE 19.-PAGE 649.

Colonel Oliver O'Gara.

This officer was not, as is generally believed, slain at the last siege of Athlone. See
Note 108, page 506, and the Treaty of Galway, page 587.

NOTE 20.-PAGE 664.

Colonel Constantine Maguire.

This officer, who was High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh in 1687, was killed at the battle of Aughrim. No correct list of the officers of his regiment can now be made. They were nearly all cut to pieces at the battle of Aughrim, and, besides their brave Colonel being slain, their Lieutenant-Colonel was taken prisoner.

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS WHO ACCOMPANIED KING JAMES FROM FRANCE AND AFTERWARDS.

The Duke of Berwick (see Note 48, page 457), Lord Henry Fitz-James, Lord Grand Prior of England, the Duke of Powis, Count d'Avaux, the French Ambassador at the Irish Court, the Marshal Count de Rosen, Lieutenant-General, the Marquis de Pusegnan (killed at the siege of Londonderry, Lieutenant-General de Maumont (killed at Londonderry), Major-General Leary, Major-General de Boisseleau (appointed Governor of Cork), St. Martin de Boisseleau (his brother, Commissary of Artillery, killed at the siege of Crom Castle); Colonel the Earl of Dower, Colonel the Earl of Abercorn, Colonel Lord Dongan (afterwards Earl of Limerick), the Earl of Melfort, Lord Drummond, Lord Hunsdon, Lord Seaford, Lord Tendraught, Lord Buchan, Lord Henry Howard, Lord Thomas Howard, the Lord Bishop of Chester (who died in this country, and was interred in Christ's Church, Dublin); Dr. Gourdoin, Lord Bishop of Galway, the Very Rev. Hans Hamilton, Dean of Glasgow; Sir Edward Herbert, Sir John Sparrow, Sir Roger Strickland (sea Captain), Sir William Jennings, Sir Henry Bond, Receiver-General; Sir Charles Carney, Sir Edward Vaudrey, Sir Charles Murray, Sir Robert Parker, Colonel Sarsfield of Lucan (see Note 47, Page 454), Colonel Anthony Hamilton (see Note 81, page 490), Colonel Porter, Colonel John Hamilton, Colonel Simon Luttrell, Colonel Henry Luttrell, Colonel Ramsey (killed at the siege of London), Colonel William Dorrington, Colonel Sutherland, Colonel Robert Clifford, Colonel Parker, Colonel James Purcell, Colonel Alexander Cannon, Colonel Robert Fielding, LieutenantColonel John Skelton, Lieutenant-Colonel David Hungate, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander MacKenzy, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel Bynns, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Leonard, Major Thomas Arthur, Major John Gordon, Major John Ennis, Major William Douglas, Major William Cannock, Major James Fountaine, Major Teige O'Regan (afterwards the celebrated Sir Teige O'Regan, Governor of the Fort of Charlemont); Major Robert Frayne, Major Simon O'Hogherne, Major Robert Ingram, Major Edmond Prendergast, Major John Gifford, Major Edmond Burke, Major James O'Dempsy, Major Frederick Conyngham, Major Richard Hillersden, Major