Fitzgerald (Knight of Kerry)

Family title

Knight of Kerry

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Fitzgerald (Knight of Kerry)	According to the late Desmond Fitzgerald, last Knight of Glin, county Limerick, three of the cadet branches of the Fitzgerald of Desmond lordship were known as the White Knight, the Knight of Glin and the Knight of Kerry. These titles are anomalies and are more akin to Gaelic Chieftainships, demonstrating the Gaelicisation of this Norman sept. John Fitzgerald of Ennismore was granted estates under the Acts of Settlement in 1667. The Knight of Kerry, as the name suggests, held lands in county Kerry, in the barony of Iveragh in the south of the county and in the area around Listowel, in the north. The latter included several townlands in the parish of Finuge, barony of Clanmaurice. Over 5000 acres owned by Peter Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court, in June 1853. The sale included the mansion house at Glanleam. In the 1870s, Peter Fitzgerald, 19th Knight of Kerry, owned over 5300 acres in county Kerry as well as over 2000 acres in county Carlow. Reverend Richard Fitzgerald, of Ballydonohoe, owned over 1300 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. In the mid 19th century the Knight of Kerry owned an estate in county Limerick, located in the parishes of Lismakeery, barony of Connello Lower, Dunmoylan, Kilbradran and Robertstown, barony of Shanid. This estate of 1,305 acres was included in the sale of June 1853 and was sold by the 1870s. An offer was made by the Congested Districts Board on over 3200 acres of the Knight of Kerry's estates in county Kerry after 1909. In the mid-nineteenth century the Knight of Kerry was the immediate lessor of townlands in the parishes of Kilkenny West, Castletownkindalen, Killucan and Pass of Kilbride, county Westmeath. His lands were comprised of two estates known as the Kilkenny West and Broadwood estates amounting to 2,022 acres when sold in the Encumbered Estates Court in May 1857. In the 1870s the Knight of Kerry owned no land in the county Westmeath.
Bayly (Ballyarthur)	In 1878, Col Edward Symes Bayly of Ballyarthur, county Wicklow, is recorded as owning 659 acres in county Westmeath and 3,026 in county Wicklow. Col Edward S Bayly was married to Catherine, daughter of the Rt Hon Maurice Fitzgerald Knight of Kerry. The Knight owned an estate in county Westmeath in the mid-19th century.