ABSTRACT
About forty miles from Dublin, in a S.W. direction, skirting the “Great Bog of Allen,” there are a number of neat and somewhat superior class of villages; like many of their unhappy kind in Ireland, they are the property of an absentee nobleman, Lord Digby, of Sherbourne Castle, in the county of Dorset. One of these villages, from whence he takes his title as “Baron of Geashill in the King’s County,” was given as a marriage portion about 1590, with Lettice, daughter of Gerald Lord Offaley, ancestor of the present Duke of Leinster.
