ATHENRY COMPLETE PEERAGE 293 IV. 1374. 4. Walter (Bermingham), Lord Athenry [I.], 3rd but 1st surv., s. and h. (*) He was called " Mor " or "the Great." After having been fined 100 J. C') for absenting himself from the Pari, held at Dublin 1377, he was again sum. 11 Sep. 1380, and 29 Apr. 138 1. Sheriff of Connaught 1388 and again 1400. He d. in 1428, at a great age, and was bur. at Athenry Priory. V. 1428. 5. Thomas FiTz Walter (Bermingham), Lord Ath- enry [1.], s. and h. He was enfeoffed by his cousin, Sir Walter Bermingham, 3 Hen. IV (1402), in the manors of Knockgraffin and Kiltenenan, (°) co. Tipperary, and was sum. to Pari, in the reign of Hen. VI. He is said to have d. "in senectute bona" 1473 . _Qy. aged 90 years and upwards ?] VI. 1473 • 6- Thomas (Bermingham), Lord Athenry [I.], (^) s. and h. He was called " Oge " or junior. His succes- sion to the Peerage was disputed by Richard MacFeorais called " of the wine " or " old Richard, " (^) apparently his uncle, being 2nd s. of Walter the 4th Lord, which Richard was presumably the chieftain elected by the native Irish. He was one of the 15 Irish Barons who obeyed the sum. of Hen. VII in 1489 to Greenwich, being ranked as " L. Bremingham de Athenrie, " next below " L. Roche de Fermoye " and " L. Barre de Butte- vant, " which last was next below the Earl of Ormond. (') He m. Annabel DE Burgh or Bourke. He d. 1489 . known the interpretation, " but a Daniel was found in C.M.Tenison, who explained that ny is Erse for daughter, and MacCagan an old form of McEgan. The McEgans were a Galway sept. V.G. (*) According to W.F. Carter, editor of The Midland Antiquary, in his continua- tion of Dugdale's JVarwiekshire (so far as that work relates to Birmingham), this Walter's exact relationship to his predecessor is unknown, and he further remarks that " thenceforward up to the middle of the i6th cent, the ped. of the family and the descent of the Barony are quite uncertain. " V^.G. (") This was the fine of a Peer of Pari, being greater than that of a Commoner. It continued in force till 70 years later, when, by Act 28 Hen. VI, the fines of Peers and Commoners were made equal. C^) These manors, after 1500, were vested in the family of Butler, Lords Caher [I.], through the match of Piers Butler with the h. gen. of this line of the family of Bermingham, t^/'z. Elizabeth, da. and h. of John, 1st s. and h. ap. of Thomas, 6th Lord Athenry, which John d. v. p. in 1488, i.p.m. See pedigree p. 298. (*) The Lords Athenry and the Lords Kerry [I.] appear to have held no corres- pondence with the King's Government from temp. Richard II to temp. Henry VII, and had become Irish Chieftains and assumed Irish names. f ) It was his descendant who succeeded to the peerage on the death of John the I Ith Lord about 1547. If it be true as stated in the Annals of the Four Masters that Richard " of the wine " estabhshed his claim to the title, then he and his successors as set out under the 9th Lord should take the place of the 6th, 7th, and 8th Lords of the text. V.G. See Appendix A. to this volume, and note sub Desmond.
