Sir Francis Slingsby (1569–1651) was an English-born soldier who settled in Ireland following service as an officer during the

Nine Years' War The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarch ...

. The ninth and youngest son of apparently recusant Yorkshire Catholic parents, Francis and Mary ( Percy) Slingsby, the younger Francis married Elizabeth Cuffe shortly after arriving in Kilmallock, County Limerick. She was a daughter of Hugh Cuffe, an early settler in the

Munster Plantation Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain. The Crown saw the plantations as a means of controlling, angl ...

who held estates in northern County Cork. Slingsby acquired lands at Kilmore through his marriage, and his family were established as prominent figures in Munster. He sat as MP for Bandonbridge in the Parliament of Ireland from 1639 to 1645.

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* MacCarthy-Morrogh, Michael. ''The Munster Plantation: English Migration to Southern Ireland, 1583-1641''. Clarendon Press, 1986. * Murphy, Noel.
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