The third talk of the MMHS 2023/2024 season will be held on December the 7th at 8pm in the Community Centre in Mount Merrion. The following is the details of the talk and the presenter.
If Those Trees Could Speak – the story of an ascendancy family in Ireland
presented by Frank Tracy
Hugh Hamon Massy came to Ireland with Cromwell in 1649. He was a Cavalry officer who campaigned in Munster. Following the Cromwellian campaign he was granted extensive landholdings in Co. Limerick. By the end of the nineteenth century the Massy family had accumulated 34,000 acres of land and four mansions, in addition to a title, Lord Massy of Duntrileague. On 15th May 1924 the 8th Baron Massy was evicted from the family’s last remaining mansion at Killakee in the Dublin Mountains and Lord Massy spent his remaining 34 years living with his wife in straitened financial circumstances in a three-roomed gate lodge on his former estate.
This talk tells the story of the rise and fall of the Massy family