The Viscounts Fitzwilliam of Ireland
This family had many contacts with the
family of the
Earls Fitzwilliam of England
through the centuries.
They often referred to each other as kinsmen,
and they used
similar arms.
But there is no real evidence they are related.
- References:
- Sources yet to be consulted:
- Pembroke Estate papers
- Wilton papers (WSHC 2057)
- Evans/Carbery/Davy papers
-
FITZ-WILLIAM in
[Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1754, vol.3, p.1]
-
FITZ-WILLIAM in
[Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1789, vol.4, p.306]
- "The Fitzwilliams of Merrion", Reportorium 2(1):88-96, 1958.
- Fitzwilliam
throughout [Blacker, 1860-74]
- FITZWILLIAM
in [Index to Dublin Wills].
- Wilton House has a pedigree of the Fitzwilliam family, c.1700
(note this is before the
marriage with the 9th Earl
- Wilton may have inherited all the Fitzwilliam papers).
Mooretown, just NW of Swords, on
1829 to 1842 map.
The ruin of Glasmore Abbey survives today.
See
photo
and
satellite view.
Richard Fitzwilliam,
"of Ballymon"
(must be
Ballymun, N Co.Dublin),
fl temp
Edward II (reigned 1307-27),
had issue:
-
William Fitzwilliam,
born est c.1325,
of Moreton, near Swords, N Co.Dublin.
This must be Mooretown, just NW of Swords.
NOT of Swords Castle.
Ancestor of the Viscounts Fitzwilliam.
Related to the Viscounts Fitzwilliam
Various members of the same Fitzwilliam family
were connected with:
- Jobstown Castle, W of Tallaght, from 1326.
See JOBSTOWN
in [Ball, vol.3, 1905].
- Swords Castle,
end of Main St, Swords, N Co.Dublin, c.1400.
This was built 1183 for the
first Norman Archbishop of Dublin.
The Archbishops of Dublin left it for Tallaght
in 1324.
See 1791 picture.
In the 1500s the Viceroy Sidney
attempted to renovate it.
- Other lands in Dundrum
(not the Castle), early 1300s.
- Donnybrook, Co.Dublin, 1400s
(later inherited by their cousins).
- Thorn Castle
and the lands of
Booterstown, Co.Dublin, 1400s
(later inherited by their cousins).
-
Booterstown Castle, Co.Dublin, 1449
(later inherited by their cousins).
