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BALLIOL — BALLYMORE. 223 Cathedral. He appears to have been imprisoned ami ullaintcd by Ed. IT, whereby hit honours became forfeited.^) BALLY AN E. Barons for 1, Cahir (or Charles) McArt Kavaxagh, "Chief of Life [F 1 ' us Sept " (whose ancestors at the time of the English invasion of Ireland were Kings of Leinster), was by patent, 8 Feb. (15534), 1 L 1554, Mary, cr. BARON OF BALLYANE, eo. Wexford [I.], " with seat and to place in all Parliaments and Councils like all other Barons of Ireland " 1555? [but merely] for life. For the hetter support of this dignity he had a grant of the office of Captain over his kindred and others, &c, also that he should have twenty-four soldiers (called " Kernes ") for him- self and twelve more for [his s. and h. ap.] Maurice, alias Morghe, Kaveuagh, " qui proxinie post eum in gradum Baronis dc Coirelcliiene{ h ) futurus sit." He is said to have in. Alice, da. of Gerald (Frra Gerald), Eahl Of Kildare [I.] He d. about a year after his creation, before the end of the year 1555, when his life Peerage became extinct. II. 1555, 1. Dermot Mc Cahir Kavanagh, s. of the above, "being to accepted and esteemed as Baron of Cmoclelijcnc," was made by patent 15 17 May 1555, "Secondary or Tanist" in the said Captaincy, from the death of Maurice (his br.) aboveuamed and was assigned the twelve kernes, which the said Maurice had enjoyed during the life of his said father. By this patent he (according to " Lynch," p. 188) was cr. BARON OF BALLYANE [I.], for life as his father had been. On his death (he appears to have d. s.p.) his life Peerage (if indeed it ever existed) became c.ctinct.{ 1 ) BALLYIIIGUE. See Peerages cr. by James II after 1688, Pago 61, note. BALLYLIEDY. See " Dufferin and Clanehoye of Ballyliedt," co. Down, Baroness [I.], cr. 1800. BALLYMORE. See " Westcote of Ballyjiore," eo. Longford, Baron [I. J, cr. 1776. (s) The history of his descendants is obscure. Thomas Balliol (probably Ins grand- son), resigned the Lordship of Cavers in March 1368 to William, Earl of Douglas [S.] This Thomas is frequently spoken of (13C0, &c.) as " brother to the Earl of Mar " [8,], and, to account for this relationship, some make him to be s. and h. of another Alexander Balliol (said to be s. and h. of the Alexander mentioned in the text), by Isabel, Dow. Countess of Mar (mother of the Earl of Mar aboveuamed), da. of Sir John Stewart of Boukil. Others make this Thomas Balliol a son (instead of a grandson) ef the Alexander mentioned in the text, his mother (as in the previous conjecture) being the said Dow. Countess of Mar, whom they state to have been a second wife of his father. Isabel, sister of the said Thomas Balliol, appears to have been his heir and was given by David II [S.] in marriage to Ranald More. " So ended," says Crawford m his "Officers of State " [S.], " the family of the Baliols after they had continued in great lustre in this realm for upwards of 200 years." ( ') i.e. the Barony of Cowelelyene, co. 'Wexford, being the principal estate of the family. His 1st s. Maurice appears to have sue. thereto and to have d. shortly after- wards. (') From Bryan, his yr. br., the family of Kavanagh of Bonis, co. Carlow, are lineally descended. S 2