Riversdale Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Alcock-Stawell-Riversdale, Kilbrittain Castle, co. Cork; exemplified to William Thomas JONAS ALCOCK Stawell. Esq., second son of William St. Leger Alock Stawell, Esq., of Kilbrittain, on his assuming, by royal licence, 1871, the additional surname of Riversdale. in compliance with the will of Right Rev. Ludlow Tonson, Baron Riversdale, Bishop of Killaloe). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu. on a fess betw. in chief two castles and in base a dexter gauntlet ar. three pellets, for Riversdale; 2nd, gu. seven lozenges in cross ar. a crescent or, for diff., for Stawell; 3rd, sa. a fess betw. three cocks’ heads erased ar. combed and wattled or, for Alcock. Crests—1st: Out of a mural crown or, a dexter arm in armour couped at the elbow ppr. charged with a pellet, and the hand grasping a sword all ppr., for Riversdale; 2nd: On a cap of maintenance gu. turned up erm. a falcon rising ar. in his beak a scroll, thereon, En parole je vis, for Stawell; 3rd: A cock ar. combed and wattled gu. spurred az., and above it on an escroll the motto, Vigilanter, for Alcock. Motto—Hæc inimica tyrannis.