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Lisgreny is a well-known hill in the South of Ireland. Of the individual O'More, here named, I have not been able to trace any particulars. This distinguished Irish family has been already alluded to.—Vol. I, p. 114.

A branch of the great family of that name, descended from Brian Ruadh O'Brien prince of Thomond, who was expelled from his Territory in the early part of the fourteenth century, and settled in the district of Ara, in the N. W. part of the present County of Tipperary. This circumstance is fully detailed in the, or "Catalogue of the battles of Turlough, being valuable annals compiled in Irish by John Mac Craith, in 1459, containing an account of the wars of Thomond, from the landing of Henry II. to the year 1319. A fine copy of this scarce and curious work in the possession of the writer, will, he hopes, be published by a patriotic member of the O'Brien family, as an honorable record of the bravery of his countrymen and ancestors.

This is literal, and according to the usual meaning of the word ; but it might also be rendered, a shout, rejoicing, burst of joy.

The person here alluded to, and so highly extolled, is supposed to have been a member of the O'More family.

Either Cromwell, or William III. The original,, however, seems to indicate the latter, as bearing on his