Ormond

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.

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.