Notes

1. Hamilton, Hans Claude (ed.), Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, 1509-1575, London 1860, p.433.

2. Twigge, R.W., "Edward White's Description of Thomond in 1574", Journal of the North Munster Archaeological Society, Vol. I, no. 2 (1910), pp.75-85.

3. Frost, James, The History and Topography of the County of Clare. London. pp.243-245.

4. Twigge, op. cit., p.76.

5. Westropp, T.J., "Notes on the Lesser Castles or 'Peel Towers' of the County Clare," Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., (1899), pp348-365.

6. Maxwell, Constantina. (ed.), Irish History from Contemporary Sources, 1509-1610. London 1923, p.94.

7. Twigge, op. cit., p.75.

8. Very Rev. P. White, History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of Tipperary, Limerick and Galway, (Reprint Cork 1973), pp 394-397.

9. Twigge, op. cit., p.75.

10. Hogan, Edmund, The Description of Ireland and the State thereof as it is at this present in Anno 1598, London 1878, pp.124-130.

11. S.P.I. Elizabeth, vol. xlv, 35,1.