Conway of Castle Conway, Killorglin, Co.Kerry

References:

CONWAY in [Burkes Extinct]
CONWAY in [Blen. Pedigrees]
Denny's "Kerry families"
Sources yet to be consulted:
- "The Conways of Kerry", by "S.J.M.", Kerry Archaeological Magazine, vol.5 no.22, July 1920.
- Three Kerry families: O'Mahony, Conway and Spotswood, S.T. MacCarthy, Folkestone, 1923.
- Bodrhyddan Manuscripts, 1316 to 1961, Bangor University, GB 0222 BODR.
- Norman Tucker, "Bodrhyddan and the families of Conwy, Shipley-Conwy, and Rowley-Conwy, Part I & II", Flintshire Historical Society Publications , Volumes 19-20, 1961-62.
- J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families; with their Collateral Branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire and other parts, (Horncastle, 1914), p.260.

John Conway,
of Bodrhyddan, between Rhuddlan and Dyserth, Flintshire, Clwyd, NE Wales (see map and satellite image),
NOT Bodrhyddran, Pembrokeshire,
mar 2ndly and had issue:

Edward Conway, had issue:

Sir John Conway, Knt, had issue:

Sir John Conway, of Ragley, had issue:
1. Sir Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway,
  cr Baron 1624, cr Viscount 1626, died 1630.
Capt. Jenkin Conway,
mar Mary Herbert [born est c.1550, descendant of Henry I and of Aoife Mac Murrough],
granted 1587 (confirmed 1592) the 13th cent. Killorglin Castle, Killorglin, Co.Kerry, as part of Munster Plantation,
renamed it Castle Conway,
granted 1614 the seigniory of Killorglin,
had issue:
1. Elizabeth Conway, born est c.1575,
  mar Robert Blennerhassett and had issue.
2. Jenkin Conway,
  mar Avis Dalton,
  he is bur in the private Chapel at Castle Conway, see memorial (chapel and memorial are now vanished),
  had issue:
  1. Edward Conway, of Castle Conway,
    mar Katherine Ryeves [descended through Touchet and Bourchier from Edward III],
    he is bur in the private Chapel at Castle Conway, see memorial (chapel and memorial are now vanished),
    had issue:
    1. Avice Conway [or Avis],
      mar Capt. Robert Blennerhassett and had issue.

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