Katherine or Catherine FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond after her 1529 marriage to her cousin Thomas FitzGerald and popularly known as the Old Countess of Desmond for her extreme longevity, was a noble
Nathaniel Grogan's 1806 engraving of Lord Kerry's portrait of Katherine, Countess of Desmond
Engraving after a painted portrait which has been claimed to be that of Katherine, Countess of Desmond (the Dromana Portrait)
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Katherine FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond
…her 1529 marriage to her cousin Thomas FitzGerald and popularly known as the Old Countess of Desmond for her extreme longevity, was a noblewoman of the Hiberno-Norman FitzGerald dynasty in Ireland. Probably born in the early 1500s, she was likely at least 90 years old when she died and possibly near 100. This longevity…
The Pale in 1488
Monument marking the site of the capture and execution of the Earl of Desmond James FitzMaurice FitzGerald in Glanageenty forest, County Kerry.
Kilkenny Castle, seat of the General Assembly of the Irish Confederacy (1642-1652), an independent government composed of Gaelic and Old English Catholic aristocrats
Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Maynooth, Naas, and Llansteffan, progenitor of the FitzGerald dynasty, from a manuscript of the Expugnatio Hibernica