MONROE, Horace. Foulis Castle and The Monroes of Lower Iveagh. With folding genealogical charts and illustrations. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1929. Octavo. pp. xii, 84. Green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. Scarce.                                                                                                                                                      

This publication attempts to supply an omission in Alexander Mackenzie’s work The History of the Monroes of Foulis where there was no mention of the Irish branch of the family. Horace Monroe details the history and genealogy of the Irish branch of the Monro family. Major Daniel Munro of the House of Obsdale, accompanied by his brother Robert and his nephew George, went to Ireland in 1642 in the army commanded by General Robert Munro. For the next ten years or so, he fought in Ireland, and in 1666 was rewarded by King Charles II with the lands of Lower Iveagh. It therefore was through this third son of George Munro of Obsdale that we have the link between the Scottish and the Irish branches of the Munro family. This history contains extensive materials on the history of the Monroes in Ireland and in North America, from their arrival in Ireland in 1642 through the end of the nineteenth century.

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