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DESMOND (Des-Mumha)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DESMOND (See also:Des-Mumha)  , an See also:ancient territorial See also:division of See also:Ireland, covering the eastern See also:part of the See also:modern Co . See also:Kerry and the western part of Co . See also:Cork . Its creation as a See also:kingdom is placed in the See also:year 248, when Oliol Olum, See also:king of See also:Munster, divided his territory between his two sons, giving See also:Desmond to Eoghan, and See also:Thomond or See also:North Munster to Cormac . In 1329 See also:Maurice Fitzthomas or See also:Fitzgerald (d . 1356), See also:lord of Decies and Desmond, was created 1st See also:earl of Desmond by See also:Edward III.; like other earls created about that See also:time he ruled his territory as a See also:palatinate, and his See also:family acquired enormous See also:powers and a large measure of See also:independence . Meanwhile native See also:kings continued to reign in a restricted territory until 1596 . In 1583 came the See also:attainder of Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of Desmond (q.v.), and in 1586 an See also:act of See also:parliament declared the See also:forfeiture of the Desmond estates to the See also:crown . In 1571 a See also:commission provided for the formation of See also:DESMOULINS 99 Desmond into a See also:county, and. it was regarded as such for a few years, but by the beginning of the 17th See also:century it was joined to Co . Kerry . In 1619 the See also:title of earl of Desmond was conferred on See also:Richard See also:Preston, Lord See also:Dingwall, at whose See also:death in 1628 it again became See also:extinct . It was then bestowed on See also:George Feilding, second son of See also:William, earl of See also:Denbigh, who had held the reversion of the earldom from 1622 .

His son William Feilding succeeded as earl of Denbigh in 1675, and thenceforward the title of Desmond was held in See also:

conjunction with that See also:honour .

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