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| | Revealing a Private Inscription - the Tower House at Coole - Archaeology, Offaly History, Ordnance Survey Letters, ... |
 | | His son, John Oge, was appointed in his place." The Mac Coghlans were the chiefs of Delbna Bethra or Delvin Mac Coghlan, a territory roughly corresponding with the present barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. |
 | | This plaque is most likely to have come from Coole Castle because, in his will, Sir John left Coole to his wife "as long as she should live unmarried" but if she married it was to be restored to her son John (Oge) Mac Coghlan, who in fact succeeded his father as the Mac Coghlan. |
 | | The inscription, which is in Latin, also records that in that year the tribute payable to O'Melaghlin (the overlord of Mac Coghlan) was suppressed, probably by Sidney who, according to the Four Masters, was abolishing the exactions of lords and overlords in Munster in the year 1576. |
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