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Thomas Johnson Westropp was a notable antiquary who wrote extensively
on the history of a number of counties in Ireland including Clare during
the nineteenth century. Clare County Archives holds one of Westropp’s
field notebooks that dates from 1881 and contains information on the genealogy
and heraldry of the Westropp family. With its extensively researched family
trees, the notebook refers to different branches of the family, noting
information on arms, crests and mottoes, and also containing extracts
from documents relating to the family name, and referring to inscriptions
on seals and tombs. In addition, it records legends of the Stamers, Clare
Castle, Quin Abbey, death of Colonel George Stamer, and arms of the families
that intermarried with the Westropps, and miscellaneous epitaphs. The
volume is illustrated throughout with ink sketches of crests, inscriptions
on tombs and seals, building plans of Kilpeacon Church, county Limerick,
and Mellifont Abbey, County Louth, detailed views of Clare Castle, Killoo
Church near Clarecastle, and Ennis Abbey.
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