The Midland Septs and the Pale. An Account of the Early Septs and Later Settlers of the King’s County and of Life in the English Pale. Dublin: Sealy, 1908. First Edition. Pp viii, 311. Green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. A good copy.

Four-page letter in the author’s hand pasted to front free endpaper.

The history of the original septs or Clans and the later English settlers of county Offaly, formerly called King’s County.

F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock (1867-1951) was Donnellan Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and later Rector of Kinnity, County Offaly. His other writings include ‘Types of Celtic Life and Art’