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Wilton
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Brian Ó Dálaigh speculates that the Ievers may have sold the townlands of Mountievers, Clogga and Ballyliddan East, parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, county Clare, to "Lord" Joseph Wilton in the mid 18th century. Joseph Wilton (1722-1803), a well known sculptor of the 18th century, whose monuments include that of Lady Anne Dawson at Dartrey, county Monaghan, married a Lucas and his marriage may possibly have been his link with county Clare. He commissioned the mapping of the village of Sixmilebridge and surrounding townlands circa 1760. Thomas Westropp made a rough tracing of this map in 1911 which is now in the Royal Irish Academy.
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