My wife's ancestors - Fitzwilliam - Contents
1st Earl of Tyrconnel
- Sources yet to be consulted:
Oliver Fitzwilliam, 2nd Viscount Fitzwilliam, and 1st Earl of Tyrconnel,
like his father, both Catholic and royalist,
in 1645 he tried to get the Confederation of Kilkenny to support Charles I in the English Civil War, on the grounds that their Catholic demands would be met, he fought with the Confederates against the Parliamentarians 1645-6, successful assault on Roscommon Castle 1646,
mar 1stly to Dorothy Brereton,
mar 2ndly, pre-1647, to Lady Eleanor Holles [dau of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare, see HOLLES in [Burkes Extinct]],
succ as Viscount c.1655,
cr Earl by Charles II 1663,
grant reaffirmed 1666 to him of Dundrum, Merrion, Baggotrath, Donnybrook (the mill only), Simmonscourt, Ringsend, Little Bray, Kilmacud, Thorncastle, Booterstown, and other lands,
on the second storey of Merrion Castle the arms of the family were engraved in stone [Ball, vol.2, 1903],
attended on his deathbed by Fr. Bernard Doyle, Catholic priest of Booterstown, see [Lyng, 2000],
died at Merrion Castle, 11th Apr 1667, Earldom extinct,
bur 12th Apr in black marble tomb [now vanished], Fitzwilliam chapel, Donnybrook church.
Holles St Hospital, Dublin.
Photo 2007. See full size.
- Holles
- Clare St, Denzille St (now Fenian St), Denzille Lane and Holles St, Dublin, are named after the family of Lady Eleanor Holles.
- Holles St Hospital (National Maternity Hospital) is on the site of (and may still incorporate some of) an 18th cent. townhouse of the Mathew family (see MATHEW, Earl of Llandaff, in [Burkes Extinct]). Apparently it was the townhouse of the extravagant George Mathew, "Grand George" (died 1740).
- The chapter Oxen of the Sun of Joyce's Ulysses is set in Holles St Hospital.
