archive.org/stream/fairbairnsbookof01fair#page/396/mode/2upFrom the above it is ease enough to see the descendants of some of these European aristocrats with possible African origins,names Sir Names are a dead give away especially if connected with a Moor/Mooress in profile Take for example the Marquees OF DROGHEDA
THE MARQUESSES OF DROGHEDA WERE THE PENULTIMATE LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY KILDARE WITH 16,609 ACRES
From two brothers, SIR EDWARD and SIR THOMAS MOORE, knights (descendants of the Moores of Moore Place, Kent), who went over to Ireland, in the reign of ELIZABETH I, sprang the house of Drogheda and the extinct house of Charleville and Tullamore.
SIR EDWARD MOORE, the elder brother, obtained, for his services, from the Queen, a lease of the dissolved abbey of Mellefont, with its appurtenances, County Louth, which he made the principal place of his abode; and so it continued that of his descendants until their removal to Moore Abbey, County Kildare, the seat of the Viscounts Loftus of Ely, which devolved upon the Earl of Drogheda.
Sir Edward's surviving son Garret was created 1st Viscount Moore.
The 1st and 3rd Marquesses of Drogheda were Knights of St Patrick (KP). The 11th Earl was a Knight of the Garter. It is notable that the crest of the Moore family is a Moor's head.
Following the Dissolution the property passed to George, Lord Audley, who assigned it to Adam Loftus, Viscount Ely. The site was eventually acquired by the Moore family, Earls of Drogheda.
They were responsible for building the town of Monasterevin and much of Dublin. In 1767 the 6th Earl pulled down the old abbey and used the stones to build a parish church, which has now been replaced by St John's parish church.
He replaced the abbey with a Neo-Gothic style mansion, now Moore Abbey. Preparations for a sunken garden, in 1846, exposed a mass of skeletons on what was presumably the site of the abbey cemetery.
In 1924, John McCormack, the world famous operatic tenor, leased the house from Lord Drogheda.
In 1938 the Sisters of Charity of Jesus bought Moore Abbey where they now have a training school for nurses of the mentally disabled.
As mentioned at the beginning, the Earls and Marquesses of Drogheda were the second largest landowners in County Kildare, though their acreage, at 16,609 acres, bore no comparison to that of the Dukes of Leinster.
Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore is the 12th Earl of Drogheda (b. 1937). The heir apparent is the present holder's son Benjamin Garrett Henderson Moore, Viscount Moore (b. 1983). It is believed that the family now lives in London.
Moore Abbey, near Monasterevin, County Kildare, is a Gothic rebuilding by Field Marshal Sir Charles Moore, 6th Earl and 1st Marquess of Drogheda, of a 17th century house built on the site of a medieval abbey, acquired by the Loftuses, whose heiress married into the Moores in 1699.
The main front consists of a seven-bay central block of three storeys over a basement, with four-bay projecting wings of two storeys. The windows all have pointed heads and Gothic astragals. The roof parapets are battlemented.
There is a large single-storey hall, where Lord Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, held his Chancery Court in 1641.
There is an elaborate castellated entrance gateway to the demesne.
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