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234 DESMOND and held them till his death. He d. 23 July 1261, being slain in a conflict with the MacCarthys of Carbery, at Callan in Kerry,(') and was bur. in the Dominican Friary at Tralee in that co.,() which he had founded. Thomas fitz Morice, called the CrooJ^d Heir,(f) grandson and h., being s. and h. of Morice fitz John, by Maud de BarrYjC^), which Morice was s. and h. ap. of John fitz Thomas abovenamed, and was slain quadragesimo quarto [22-28 Feb. 1259/60] usque ad vigiliam sancti Jacobi Apostoli anno regni Regis ejusdem Henrici quadragesimo quinto [Saturday, 23 July 1261] quo die obiit." (Ch. /«y. p. m. — on John fitz Thomas, dated Sunday the morrow of St. Peter ad vinculo 10 Edw. I [2 Aug. 1282] — Edw. I, file 31, no. i). Cf. Inq. p. m. on John de Prendegaste, iit supra. (') Annah of Mulufernam^ p. 1 4: Annals of Ulster, vol. ii, p. 330: Annals of Loth Ce, vol. i, p. 438 : Clyn, Annales, p. 8: Annals of Ireland, p. 316. These give the year only, 1 261. Callainn Gleanna O'Ruachtain, the site of the battle, is about 5 miles east of Kenmare. {^) " Obierunt felicis recordacionis dominus Johannes filius Thome fundator conventus predicatorum de Traly, et dominus Mauritius filius ejusdem Thome [/. Johannis] in loco vocato Callyn Desmonie anno domini mcc°lx°, et sepulti sunt in boreali parte monasterii de Traly." (Red Book of the Earls of Kildare, Hist. MSS. Com., 9th Report, part ii, p. 288). Grace's obits (Annales, p. 164) are obviously derived from the same source as those in the Red Book. John fitz Thomas is said to have had by Honora (some call her his 2nd wife), da. of Fedhlim O'Conor Donn of Connaught, 4 sons, ancestors of the White Knights, the Black Knights or Knights of Glin, the Green Knights or Knights of Kerry, i3c. (■=) Annals of Ulster, vol. ii, p. 392: Annals of Loch Ci, vol. i, p. 520. Genea- logists call him A nAppagh (simiacus). " This young babe at the tyme of his father's death, beeing nursed and fostered at Traley; the report and rumor of this overthrow [at Callan] comeing thither, suddainly the nurses running forth cryeing and lament- ing, the childe was left all alone, when a monkey that was kept in the house tooke him out of the cradle, carryed him to the topp of the castle, there unwrapped him out of the swadling cloathes, licked and lapped the childe and folded y* child up in the cloathes againe, and . . brought him down againe in safety, and left the sayd child where first he found him, and finding the nurse setting by the cradle, gave her a sound boxc on the eare, as it is thought thereby warneing and admonishing her to looke better hereafter to her charge. You may be sure this is noe fable ; for he ever after, during his life tyme, boare the name of Thomas an Appa." (Thomas Russell's Relation, 1 638). The whole episode has, however, been claimed as occurring to John fitz Thomas, afterwards ist Earl of Kildare. {^) She is so called (being then living) in an Inq. p. m. on John fitz Thomas, dated Saturday after St. Peter ad vincula lO Edw. I [8 Aug. 1282], and is also so called (being then deceased) in the Inq. p. m. on Thomas fitz Morice, 28 Apr. 1 300. Although recognizing that this Thomas was only a few weeks old at his father's death, the genealogists say that he was son of Morice, not by Maud de Barry, but by