Decies

Decies was a district of western County Waterford in Ireland, where the le Poer family held Curraghmore. In 1337 Roger le Poer belonged to the Anglo-Irish family that established its seat there after Henry II’s grant in 1177.

In the fifteenth century a younger son of the Earl of Desmond held Decies as an appanage, while the le Poers remained at Curraghmore. The family gained a barony in 1535 and the titles Viscount Decies and Earl of Tyrone in 1673; its male line died out in 1704, and Curraghmore passed by marriage to the Beresfords.