Hadfield notes that “we have no actual record of where [Spenser] was living [in the mid-1580s], but he probably stayed in Co. Cork in order to attend the Lord President when they were not on the road.” (189)
On the main banqueting table in the Great Hall sits a “mether,” which is a four-sided, four-handled Irish drinking vessel carved of wood. See also the methers in the Tower House Parlor.
An example from the 16th century with the provenance…