It was held by the O'More family[2] and later the More O'Ferralls who ruled the kingdom.

[citation needed] The title is first recorded as existing in 1016, in the Annals of the Four Masters.

[3] After the O'Mores were dispossessed of their lands in the 16th century, they left Laois, after 600 years.

[citation needed] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1895).

London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 175–176.