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| CASTLETOWN-ROCHE, CO. CORK.- The vicissitudes of once distinguished and powerful families in Ireland have rarely been better illustrated than by the change of fortune which overtook the Anglo-Norman house of the Roches of Fermoy, generally called after their ancient manor of Castletown-Roche, situated near the famous town. In the days of the English Commonwealth, Maurice, Viscunt Roche and Fermoy, who had gallantly fought for the cuase of Charles I. on nearly enery battlefield in the Three Kingdoms, attainted and outlawed by the decree of the firece usurper, Oliver Cromwell, to whom he refused to make submission. |
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