Unpublished manuscript, 'Account of an extraordinary luminous presence in the heavens seen at Athboy in Ireland on the 21st March 1833' by Lord Darnley [Edward Bligh] Bligh, fifth Earl of Darnley, writes of a 'luminous presence', originally described as a meteor, observed at Clifton Lodge. Includes one diagram separate to the text. With accompanying letter from Darnley to J G [John George] Children. Subject: Astronomy Written by Bligh at Clifton Lodge, Athboy [Ireland]. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of an extraordinary luminous appearance in the heavens, seen at athboy in Ireland, on the 21st of March, 1833'. 28 March 1833