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Soon after their marriage, the couple visited Italy. While there, Porter bought samples of
Italian appliqué work, and upon their return to Kilskeery, she set about studying how to recreate the work with her maid, Ann Steadman. The new lace the women developed garnered interest with its artistic
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Clogher episcopal palace, renamed Clogher Park, in 1850. After her husband's death, Porter lived at Clogher Park until her death in 1881. By the 1870s the Porter family owned 20,000 acres. The Porters had one son, John Grey Vesey Porter, and 6 daughters.
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