1760, Account of General Maguire, Governor of Dresden, Born in the Parish of Ballymageligot, near Tralee, where his grandfather came from Ulster in 1641, his mother Mary MacElligot. He and is sister were carried to Vienna by their father who had relatives in the Imperial service. Miss Maguire married Count O’Kelly, Herald at Arms to the Emperor. Young Maguire entered the Imperial Army, became a Lieutenant General and Count of the Empire. It is to him and his near kinsman Major General Baron MacElligott that their Imperial Majesties’s Army are indebted for forming the Croat Pandours and other Irregular freebooters into disciplined troops.
From John T. Collins, extracts of early Cork Newspapers
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