It was found by an Inquisition, proved by the examination on oath of several witnesses at Gort, on the 29th of may, 1615, that Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy, and the Lady Helena O'Brien, were lawfully married in the house of William Skerret, at Galway, a dispensation having been first obtained from the Pope.179 They needed a dispensation from the Pope because she was an abbess and so should not have been a wife. She had three children before the marriage.