OSSORY, See of.

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OSSORY, See of. Ancient — Azure, a bishop in his pontificals standing between two pillars argent, a mitre on his head, in his dexter hand a crosier, and in his sinister a Bible closed, all or. Modern — Gules a covered cup, on the top thereof a cross pattee between five crosses pattee fitchee or. Woodward terms this coat that of the see of Ferns.

[These last-mentioned arms are recorded in Ulster's Office as those of Ossory, and remain in use, but through the disestablishment of the Irish Church they are really extinct and their present use is illegal.]

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