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Browne of Awney, Co.Limerick

No reason to believe these are related to Browne, Viscount Kenmare or Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey.

Ulick Brown,
of Camus and Knockmunihy, Co.Limerick.
He mar Margery Madden.
They had issue:

John Browne, or Brown,
of Awney, Co.Limerick.
"Awney" (or Any, Anye) is the old name for the area of Knockainy and Hospital, E Co.Limerick (see map and map).
He was an ally of the rebel Earl of Desmond.
He was "Master of Awney" as at 1568, when the imprisoned Earl of Desmond wrote to him.
He mar Catharine O'Ryan [or Katherine, dau of Dermod O'Ryan, or Dermot, of Sullaghode, Co.Tipperary].
He was killed in 1580 by Sir Thomas Norris.
A letter of 17 Aug 1580 describes him as the "wisest of all Desmond's councillors".
John and Catharine had issue:

1. Annabel Browne,
   or Annabella.

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Sources yet to be consulted

• "Notes on Kerry Topography, Ancient and Modern" (ctd.) by Mary Agnes Hickson, in JRSAI (previously Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association), Fourth Series, Vol 5, No. 44 (Oct 1880), pp.349-364.

• History of Hospital and Knockainy