B42346-O'Mora

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Name of the family:

O'Mora

Blason:

Vert a lion ramp. or, in chief three mullets of the last.

Crest(s):

A dexter hand lying fessways, couped at the wrist, holding a sword in pale, pierced through three gory heads all. ppr.

Motto:

Conlan-a-bu

Info about the family:

The O'Mors, Lord of Laoighis, or Leix, an extensive territory comprising the eastern and southern baronies of the present Queen's co.; the territory was so called from the tribe designation of the Sept, Mac Laoighis, a name derived from their ancestor, Laoiseach, son of Conal Cearnach, Chief of the Crasbhruadh, or Red Branch of Ulster; Mordha, the descendant of Laoiseach, was Lord of Lacighis, and from him derived the surname O'More. Roby O'More, Lord of Leix, temp. Queen Elisabeth, waged war against Her Majesty, and was slain in rebellion, 1578. Anthoby, or Owny, O'More, his son, s. as Lord of Leix, but was slain in rebellion, 1601, when all the estates were forfeited and the Sept scattered

Page in the book:

757

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