[10] It may be recorded here as a matter of interest that my ancestress, Helena Sarsfield, was a daughter of James Sarsfield, great-uncle of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan and the defender of Limerick against the English. [11] Neither of her stories have appeared in print before. [12] See "The Ghost World," by T. F. T. Dyer, p. 227. [13] See Sir Walter Scott's Poetical Works, 1853, VIII., p. 126. [14] These extracts are taken from quotations of the poem in Chapter II. of a work entitled "Ancient History of the Kingdom of Kerry" by Friar O'Sullivan of Muckross Abbey, published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society (Vol. V., No. 44); and Friar O'Sullivan, in commenting upon these passages relating to the Banshees, writes (quoting from "Kerry Records"): "It seems that at this time it was the universal opinion that every district belonging to the Geraldines had its own attendant Banshee" (see _Archæological Journal_, 1852, on "Folk Lore" by N. Kearney). [15] See Records of the Truagh O'Donnells in the Office of the King of Arms, Dublin. Refs.: Genealogias, Vol. XI., p. 327; Register XV., p. 5; Register XXII., p. 286; and Sheridan, p. 323. [16] The originals are still in existence. The diary was kept right up to the night preceding his death. [17] Also spelt Truagh. [18] John O'Donnell of Baltimore's eldest son, Columbus, had a daughter, Eleanora, who married Adrian Iselin of New York, and their grand-daughter, Norah, is the present Princess Coleredo Mansfeldt. * * * * Transcriber's note: Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). The following misprints have been corrected: "know" corrected to "known" (page 14) "sometime" corrected to "sometimes" (page 17) "heartrending" standardized to "heart-rending" (page 243) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.