The Herald and genealogist . ARMS OF O DEA. ARMS OF O QUIN. 492 MEMORIALS OF ADARE MANOR. Sir Eichard Carney, Ulster King of Arms, granted, Nov. 29, 1688,the coat of Ve7t, a pegasus passant ermine, a chief or, to Thady Quin,Esq. of Adare, under the misconception that he derived his descentfrom the northern OQuins, who had the pegasus for arms. To rectifythis error, and to perpetuate the ancient arms of OQuin of Inchiquin,chief of Munster liFearnain, the family from Avhich the Quins of Adarereally descend, the present Ulster King of Arms has issued a patent,giving authority to the Earl of Dunra
The Herald and genealogist . ARMS OF O DEA. ARMS OF O QUIN. 492 MEMORIALS OF ADARE MANOR. Sir Eichard Carney, Ulster King of Arms, granted, Nov. 29, 1688,the coat of Ve7t, a pegasus passant ermine, a chief or, to Thady Quin,Esq. of Adare, under the misconception that he derived his descentfrom the northern OQuins, who had the pegasus for arms. To rectifythis error, and to perpetuate the ancient arms of OQuin of Inchiquin,chief of Munster liFearnain, the family from Avhich the Quins of Adarereally descend, the present Ulster King of Arms has issued a patent,giving authority to the Earl of Dunraven and his descendants to bearquarterly, with the arms assigned by Carney, the coat of the OQuinsof Inchiquin, as marshalled in this engraving:. ARMS OF THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN. Quarterly: 1st and 4tli grand quarters, quarterly, 1st and 4th, Vert, a pegasuspassant ermine, a chief or—Quin; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a hand couped below thewrist grasping a sword proper, on each side a serpent, tail nowed, the heads respect-ing each other, or; in chief two crescents argent—OQuin of Inchiquin : 2nd and3rd grand quarters, Azure, a chevron between three lions heads erased or, with amullet for difference—for Wyndham. Crest, A wolfs head couped at the neck-Supporters, Two ravens proper, plain collared and chained or. The seven latest generations of the Quins and the Wyndhams arerepresented in rows of shields placed between the corbels Avhich sup- THE QUINS AND THE WYNDIIAMS. 493 port the beams of the oak ceiling in the vestibule or entrance hall atAdare. Those on the west side are : I. QuiN, with ORiORDAN on an escucheon of pretence. [Donogh Quin, or OQuin, of co. Clare, (whose ancestors, the OQuins ofInchiquin, were chiefs of Hy-Ifearnan
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