Means that it belongs to the notable Irish dynasty Taaffe. In Austria, a political supporter of Eduard Franz Joseph Graf von Taaffe, 10th Viscount Taaffe first. He was President for two terms of Cisleithania (Austria-Hungary). The taaffeitas in essence were imperial counts, members of the German nobility (Reichsgrafen), the Holy Roman Empire and Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland (in the United Kingdom).
