Fitz-Gibbon Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(granted 26 Dec. 1873, to the Hon. Gerald Normandy Dillon, who, with his wife, Lady Louisa Isabella Georgiana Fitz-Gibbon, of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick, dau. and co-heiress of Richard Hobart Fitz-Gibbon, the third and last Earl of Clare, assumed, by royal licence, the surname of Fitz-Gibbon, in lieu of Dillon). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, erm. on a saltire gu. a mullet or, on a chief of the third three annulets of the second, for Fitz-Gibbon; 2nd and 3rd, ar. a lion pass. betw. three crescents gu., for Dillon; an escutcheon of pretence, erm. a saltire gu. on a chief or, three annulets of the second, for Fitz-Gibbon. Crests—1st: A boar pass. gu. bristled and armed or, charged with a bezant betw. two annulets of the second, for Fitz-Gibbon; 2nd: A demi lion ramp. gu. holding betw. the paws an estoile ar., for Dillon. Motto—Nil admirari. (His issue to bear the 1st and 4th quarterings of Fitz-Gibbon without the mullet, and the first crest charged with three annulets).

(Ballycalling, co. Kerry; Reg. Ulster’s Office, 1782, to James Fitz-Gibbon, M.D., of Bordeaux, eighth in descent from Sir Edward Fitz-Gibbon, Knt., of Ballycalling, co. Kerry, d. 1596). Erm. a saltire gu. on a chief ar. three annulets of the second. Crest—A boar pass. gu. bristled and armed or, charged with three annulets ar.