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| | Terrell Tirrell Tyrell Tyrrell coat of arms |
 | | The arms of Sir John Tyrell, Mayor of Dublin, knighted at Christ's Church, Dublin, by Sir George Cary, Lord Deputy of Ireland, St. James' Day, 1603, son of Richard Tyrell, Mayor of Dublin in 1541, son of Richard Tyrell Mayor of Dublin l530, son of Sir Walter Tyrell thrice Mayor of Dublin. |
 | | Very shortly after the invasion of 1170 the Anglo-Norman family of Terrell or Tirrell, which had gone from France to England with William the Conqueror, came to Ireland, obtaining a grant of the greater part of the barony of Fertullagh in Westmeath as well as the lordship of Castleknock in county Dublin. |
 | | The battle of Tyrrell's Pass is described by MacGeoghegan, and mentioned by Leland and other historians; it was fought in the summer of 1597, at a place afterwards called "Tyrrell's Pass," now the name of a town in the barony of Fartullagh, in the county Westmeath. |
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