Ormond (1817), a novel by Maria Edgeworth, written during her father's final illness. Harry Ormond, an aristocratic orphan, grows up in the Anglo-Irish society of his guardian Sir Ulick O'Shane's demesne, Castle Hermitage. Harry buys the Black Island from ‘King Corny’ and becomes an improving landlord.

[Old Irish Aurmumu; Modern Irish Urmhumha]

Anglicized name for the ancient territory of East Munster, when the province was divided in pre-conquest times; it is coextensive with most of Co. Kilkenny and north Tipperary.