Crest
'Above the Handcock escutcheon (Stone No.3) is carved the Cusack Crest - a mermaid holding a sword in her right hand and a comb in her left hand. During the absence of Deputy St. Leger, Sir Thomas held the Sword of State. It is said, in the family papers, that this accounts for the sword held by the mermaid.'
The Cusack CREST is recorded and described in
The Genealogical and Historic Archives of the NOBILITY OF FRANCE as
Mermaid holding a sword in the right hand and a Sceptre Fleurdelyse in the left.
Fairbairn's Book of Crests 1859 states (ref cf.184.7)
'CUSACK of Killeen, Gerrardstown, Lismullen and Clonard. Co Meath, Ireland.
A mermaid sa., holding in the dexter hand a sword, and in the sinister a sceptre ppr.
(today worn on a signet ring)
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