Norman‑origin Barnewalls rise as Pale magnates, judges and Lords Trimleston, anchored at Crickstown and Turvey House. They back Simnel, shelter Edmund Campion, tie themselves to O’Neill and Bagenal, fight in Confederate and Jacobite wars, endure Penal‑era exile and foreign service, then re‑emerge as émigré peers, scandal‑tinged Trimleston dowagers and Carlow merchants.
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