Norragh (hereditary barony)

The Barony of Norragh in County Kildare was an Irish feudal barony: that is, the holder had the right to call himself Baron, but did not hold a peerage and had no right to sit in the Irish House of Lords.

The De Wellesley family were of Anglo Saxon origin but were rewarded with land in Somerset near the town of Wells (hence Wellesley). One of the first mentions of the family was in the year 1172 when the ancestor left Somersetshire to serve as standard bearer to Henry II and was rewarded for his services with land in Meath and Kildare. After this there were multiple generations of Knights including Waleran de Wellesley who was justice for Ireland.

However in 1334 William de Wellesley was summoned to parliament as Baron Norragh but the dignity does not appear to have been in her by his son Sir Richard De Wellesley.