Henry Ponsonby (died 1681)

Henry Ponsonby (1620–1681) was a soldier in Oliver Cromwell's army during the Irish Confederate Wars. He became a significant landowner and landlord when he was granted the estates of long-established settlers in County Kerry, notably the Stack family after whom Stack's Mountains are named. His family influenced Kerry politics for the next two centuries.

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