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From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Castle of the Hackett family, Southern Ireland
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 07:57:24 -0500

I don't have time this morning to go on line and fill out the message
board stuff; so if someone else does, please cut and
paste my message below. You can have the credit.

The castle in question is the Cathedral at the Rock of Cashal,
seat of the Kings of Munster from the 5th century and handed
over to the Christian church [now RC] in 1101. In 1607
Cromwell massacred its 3000 occupants. It is in Co.
Tipperary and is a major tourist attraction. You will
not need a map.

I have visited and seen the three fishes crest of the Hacketts
on, I believe, a tomb in some part of the cathedral.

These are the Hacketts who descend from those who came
into Ireland with the Normans ca 1200 and settled in Co.
Tipperary. The line is in one of the Burke's lineage books
that covers Irish gentry, and the family is now scattered all
over the globe, mainly in the old "Colonies" of Great Britain,
such as Canada, Australia, etc.

But of course the crest can be used by only the designated
and recognized line (going down from eldest son to eldest
son), and I have never kept track of who that might be.

Elizabeth
great great grandaughter of Eliza Hackett, Co. Offaly.



Message text written by INTERNET:
>I have been told that a castle that bears the family crest of the Hackett
family existes in Eire.

Can anybody give me instrucrions as to where I can fin it on some map?

Many thanks,
John Hackett
East Sussex and Lancashire
England.<

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