Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . j 12 Marchfollowing, one of the Privy Counsellors, and Captain of two hundred and fiftyfoot-men : | erected by Sir Nicholas Bagnol, Knight Marshall | of this realm, whomarried Ellen, one | of his daughters and co-heirs, and now renewed by | Sir HemyBagnol, Knight, son and heir to the said | Sir Nicholas and Dame Ellen. 2 His grandson, Walter Bagenal, suffered death in 1653 in Kilkenny at thehands of a High Commissioner which sat to try participators in the Rebellionof 1641. 20 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND have been a very arde
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . j 12 Marchfollowing, one of the Privy Counsellors, and Captain of two hundred and fiftyfoot-men : | erected by Sir Nicholas Bagnol, Knight Marshall | of this realm, whomarried Ellen, one | of his daughters and co-heirs, and now renewed by | Sir HemyBagnol, Knight, son and heir to the said | Sir Nicholas and Dame Ellen. 2 His grandson, Walter Bagenal, suffered death in 1653 in Kilkenny at thehands of a High Commissioner which sat to try participators in the Rebellionof 1641. 20 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND have been a very ardent Protestant, and was probably quite contentto see his daughters well matched to men of good property of oldEnglish descent, who had held to the religion of their forbears. In Archdeologia Cambrensis, third series, vol. 14, page 97, is anarticle on Berw in the township of Porthamel and the Hollands,containing references to the Bagenals connection with Anglesea,where in right of his wife Sir Nicholas Bagenal had large estates. Plate I] [To face page 27. PROCESSIONAL CROSS (FRONT)Found at Sheephouse, Co. Meath ( 27 ) PROCESSIONAL CROSS, PRICKET-CANDLESTICK, ANDBELL, FOUND TOGETHER AT SHEEPHOUSE,NEAR OLDBRIDGE, CO. MEATH By E. C. R. Armstrong, Vice-President [Read 26 January 1915] The Royal Irish] Academy is the fortunate possessor of a veryfine processional cross which, together with a pricket-candlestickand a small hand-bell of bronze, was discovered in 1899 by JohnFarrell, resting on the rock, covered by some stones, a few feet fromthe surface of the ground in a quarry at Sheephouse, near Oldbridge,Co. Meath The objects were purchased by the Academy from thefinder shortly after their discovery, but have had to await thepublication they so well deserve until the present occasion. Oldbridge, as will be seen on consulting a map, is only a shortdistance (some two miles as the crow flies) from Mellifont, and thewriter is tempted to conjecture that the processional cross, candle-sti
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