Glanerought and the Petty-Fitzmaurices 1937 County Kerry, Ireland ~History ~Kenmare, Derreen, Kilmackilloge ~Sir William Petty, Shelburne

Title: Glanerought and the Petty-Fitzmaurices

Author: The Marquis of Lansdowne [Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess]

Description: Forest-green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt coat of arms on front cover. A bit musty. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket edge chipped; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 23 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. Two-page bibliography. pp. xxviii, 226.

A historical narrative of the Petty-Maurice family, noble Irish landowners, intertwined with an account of the historical conditions of southern County Kerry, Ireland, with some focus on the locales of Derreen, Kenmare, and Kilmackilloge. The work begins with Sir William Petty (1623-1687) and his children, Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, and Anne, who married the 1st Earl of Kerry, Thomas Fitzmaurice, and traces events up to through the Great Famine and up into the Troubles of the early 1920s.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place: London New York Toronto
Year: 1937

Keywords: Petty-FitzMaurice, Ireland, County Kerry, South Kerry, Kenmare, Derreen, Kilmackilloge, history, Sir William Petty, Prime Minister, Earl of Shelburne,