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hope i am in the right parish i am investigating this on behalf of another person  

county tipperary     parliamentary mid tipperary      poor law union  thurles      district electoral division kilrush            constabulary district templemore   sub district dovea      townland and street dovea lower   barony eliogarty     parish inch  

in the house 10 dovea lower the family trant lived and hung their portraits in the house concerned 

there were three portraits 

1665 sir patrick trant  portraiture painting displayed in the house during 1800s possibly a sir peter lelly composition 1600s  

1714 monarch charles restored the title to sir david trant when in rome had a portraiture painting commissioned and displayed it in the house during 1700s 1800s  

1790 david trant died was said to remember sir patrick trant

1815 nicholas trant pennisular war wellington officer lady longford biography states the king of portugual knighted him sir nicholas trant   

1815 circa a pencil drawing of dominick trant of dovea taken from observations of the late procedures in the parliament of ireland on the quest for a regency for that kingdom by dominick trant during the pennisular wars hung in the house 1800s 

1943 the house was sold

so if anyone can advise me where i might discover where these paintings are presently i will inform the person who is researching this family   

liam hua duinn

Saturday 29th Aug 2015, 03:55PM

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  • Willam

    if you are not aware of Trant papers being held by the National Library of Ireland then the following link may be of interest.

    http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/Trant.pdf

    It maynot list the painting but maybe they are in another collection in the NLI???

     

    Jim Vaughan.  

    Jim Vaughan, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Saturday 29th Aug 2015, 07:43PM

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