[9] See Addenda.
[10] It may be recorded here as a matter of interest that my ancestress, Helena Sarsfield, was a daughter of James Sarsfield, great-uncle of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan and the defender of Limerick against the English.
[11] Neither of her stories have appeared in print before.
[12] See “The Ghost World,” by T. F. T. Dyer, p. 227.
[13] See Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works, 1853, VIII., p. 126.
[14] These extracts are taken from quotations of the poem in Chapter II. of a work entitled “Ancient History of the Kingdom of Kerry” by Friar O’Sullivan of Muckross Abbey, published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society (Vol. V., No. 44); and Friar O’Sullivan, in commenting upon these passages relating to the Banshees, writes (quoting from “Kerry Records”): “It seems that at this time it was the universal opinion that every district belonging to the Geraldines had its own attendant Banshee” (see Archæological Journal, 1852, on “Folk Lore” by N. Kearney).
[15] See Records of the Truagh O’Donnells in the Office of the King of Arms, Dublin. Refs.: Genealogias, Vol. XI., p. 327; Register XV., p. 5; Register XXII., p. 286; and Sheridan, p. 323.
[16] The originals are still in existence. The diary was kept right up to the night preceding his death.
[17] Also spelt Truagh.
[18] John O’Donnell of Baltimore’s eldest son, Columbus, had a daughter, Eleanora, who married Adrian Iselin of New York, and their grand-daughter, Norah, is the present Princess Coleredo Mansfeldt.