. The Herald and genealogist. the now Barony of Inchiquin (Insi-ui-Chuinn, or OQuinns Island) ;and from the other descend the OCuinn (or OQuin) and Inghean Baith (thedaughter of Baith), who founded Kilnaboy, and was the patroness of the OQuinnand his co-relatives. Mac Firbis appears to think that Aengus of the Serpent Head and Aengus of theFurze Head were but one person. There is little doubt that the Serpent Head wasremembered in the banners of the tribe in after times, and was not an invention ofDermod OConors, nor of Terry ; and, excepting the Red Hand of Mac Enis, whichthe ONeils usurp, it
. The Herald and genealogist. the now Barony of Inchiquin (Insi-ui-Chuinn, or OQuinns Island) ;and from the other descend the OCuinn (or OQuin) and Inghean Baith (thedaughter of Baith), who founded Kilnaboy, and was the patroness of the OQuinnand his co-relatives. Mac Firbis appears to think that Aengus of the Serpent Head and Aengus of theFurze Head were but one person. There is little doubt that the Serpent Head wasremembered in the banners of the tribe in after times, and was not an invention ofDermod OConors, nor of Terry ; and, excepting the Red Hand of Mac Enis, whichthe ONeils usurp, it is perhaps the oldest and most historical coat of arms or clanemblem, in Ireland. Motto: Cenn Nathrach Aboo I The Serpent Hill was one ofthe Royal residences of the Kings of Munster. See the Book of Rights. The arms of the OQuins and the ODeas are registered in an oldMS. authority in Ulsters Office in Dublin, entitled Smiths Ordinaryof Arms. The subjoined sketches of the same arms are copied fromOConnors edition of ARMS OF ODEA. ARMS OF OQUIN. 492 MEMORIALS OF ADARE MANOR. Sir Richard Carney, Ulster King of Arms, granted, Nov. 29, 1688,the coat of Vert, 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 IfFearnain, the family from which 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:
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