In 1582, she lodged a complaint with the Irish privy council that "She and her tenants [were] utterly beggared by the rebels", and she had to live in Limerick town, and was seeking "payment of the head money for killing James Fitzmaurice".
She was living in poverty in Limerick but by July 1582 she has been paid 1,000 marks "in consideration of the killing of the traitor James Fitzmaurice".
Under her influence, Teigue was loyal to England during the Nine Years' War, and was granted three castles and 445 quarters of land in County Leitrim in 1603 by James I.
Her son John died in infancy, and in 1600 Richard and Thomas were killed by Hugh O'Neill's mercenary captain Dermot O'Connor at Bunbristy Bridge.
Theobald, her one surviving son from her second marriage, was favoured by James I who granted him large tracts of land across Ireland and created the title Baron Bourke of Brittas for him.