b2: The family of Carrowbeg, descended from the principal of the name, was deprived, in a time of Cromwell, of the greatest part of its extensive possessions, which were assigned to Lord Limerick, but afterwards reverted back, by purchase, to the ancient inheritors. The Skerrett family relate that the estate of Carrowbeg^?, formerly belonged to them, but passwd into that of Bodkin through a marriage with an heiress of their name.