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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 General Description of Ireland, i. 
 
 Ulster, 2, 246, 295. 
 
 Louthe, 3, 260, 296. 
 
 Downe, 6, 260, 296. 
 
 Antrim, 13, 260, 296. 
 
 Armagh, 19, 250, 261, 296. 
 
 Monaghan, 23, 262, 296. 
 
 Fermanagh, 24, 247, 262, 297. 
 
 Tyrone, 25, 249, 262, 297. 
 
 Coleraine or Deny, 28, 249, 262, 297. 
 
 Dunigal, 29, 248, 262. 
 
 Leinster, 35. 
 
 Dublin, 35, 263, 298. 
 
 Wicklow, 39, 259, 264. 
 
 Kildare, 44, 252, 264. 
 
 Catherlagh, 50, 253, 265, 298. 
 
 Wexford, 55, 256, 265, 298. 
 
 Kilkenny, 65, 254, 266. 
 
 Queen's County, 73, 267, 325. 
 
 King's County, 81, 268. 
 
 Countie of Elye, 87. 
 
 Meath, 89, 268. 
 
 West Meath, 102, 270. 
 
 Longford, 113, 270. 
 
 Cavan, 117, 246, 271, 300. 
 
 Connaught, 122. 
 
 Clare, 124, 271. 
 
 Gal way, 131, 272, 300. 
 
 Mayo, 140, 275, 300. 
 
 Sligo, 144, 275. 
 
 Leytrim, 147, 276, 300. 
 
 Roscommon, 150, 276. 
 
 Mounster, 156. 
 
 Waterford, 157, 277. 
 
 Cork, 167, 278. 
 
 Kerry, 187, 282. 
 
 Limerick, 196, 283, 300. 
 
 Tipperary, 207, 284. 
 
 Noblemen, 217, 349. 
 
 Bishops, 233. 
 
 Havens, 238. 
 
 Revenue, 240. 
 
 Names of the Council of Ireland, 244. 
 
 Appendix, 246. 
 
 1 . Chichester's Account of Ulster, 246. 
 
 2. Present Known Representatives of 
 
 the Families Extant in 1598, 260. 
 
 3. Catholic Clergy, 285. 
 
 4. Catalogue of Irish Jesuits in 1609. 
 
 290. 
 
 5. Irish Writers ; Irish Colleges 
 
 Abroad, 294. 
 
 6. Additional Notes from Camden. 
 
 296. 
 
 7. Barnaby Riche's Description of 
 
 Dublin, 299. 
 
 8. Records of Events, Battle of Bel- 
 
 lanaboy, &c, 301. 
 
 9. Some Original Letters Written this 
 
 Year, 339. 
 
 10. Parliamentary Lists of 1560, 1585. 
 
 and 1613, p. 349. 
 
 11. Addenda et Corrigenda, p. 353. 
 
 12. Round Towers and Index, p. 357. 
 
PRE FACE 
 
 The manuscript book, from which this description of Ireland 
 has been printed, is a royal quarto, bound in vellum, containing 
 ninety-two pages of " The Description of Ireland as it is in 
 hoc anno 1598," and fifty-four pages of" Haynes' Observations 
 on the State of Ireland in 1600" — both specimens of the same 
 exquisite penmanship. It bears on the first page the auto- 
 graph of the celebrated Father Betagh, S. J., after whose 
 death, in 181 1, it passed, with his other MSS,, to his distin- 
 guished pupil, Father Kenny, S. J., by whom it was deposited 
 in Clongowes Wood College in the year 18 14. It is said by 
 competent judges to be about one hundred years old, and it 
 is proved by the Betagh autograph and the Blauw* watermark 
 to have been written between the years 1756 and 181 1. 
 
 It is therefore a transcript ; and such it professes to be 
 in the following marginal notes b : — ' These lines from being a 
 note in the margin hath crept into the text ; ' ' cancelled in the 
 Original;' 'In the original the word seemeth to be Omelie, 
 but in my opinion it should be O'Reillie.' ' The original' was 
 compiled in the winter of 1598, as appears from the title and 
 the following- entries : ' O'Rourke hath bene a Rebell savins 
 a little time this last sommer, but he revolted again ; ' ' Sir 
 Thomas of Desmonde's Son latelie made Earle of Desmonde, 
 Capten of the Rebellion in Mounster raised in October last ;' 
 ' Donell Spaniaughe of late sturred up by the Earle of Tyrone ; ' 
 
 » "The firm of Blauw was established in b The marginal notes of the MS. have, for 
 
 1756" — Letter from that Dutch firm, received the sake of appearance, baen inserted, within 
 through the kindness of Heer Nyhoff. brackets, in the text. 
 
VI. PREFACE. 
 
 ' Sligo Castle was demolished four years ago and since not 
 reedified.' These entries, and the references to O'More and 
 Tyrrell in Queen's County, to O'Ferrall, to Westmeath and to 
 the political state of each county, point to the winter of 1598, d 
 while the silence about the death of Sir T. Norreys in June 
 1599, and of Sir E. Denny in February 1599, seems to indicate 
 that our MS. was written before these dates. 6 However, the 
 list of Noblemen appears to have been penned between the year 
 1603, and 1607 (the year of " The Flight of the Earls); " the 
 list of Bishops between 1605 and 1610; and the list of the 
 Members of the Council between December 1607 and De- 
 cember 1608, as ' Lord Davies ' came to Ireland after October 1, 
 1608, and Winche came after November 11, 1607, and, on 
 the 8th December, 1608, succeeded Ley as Chief Justice. 
 Again, of the many marginal notes, which correct or supple- 
 ment the text, and which are here inserted in brackets, two 
 were added after Mountjoy's death in April, 1605, one after 
 O'Dogherty's death in July, 1608, and one after 161 7, when 
 Rothe's ' Analecta' was published/ 
 
 The author was a man of English sympathies, and, no doubt, 
 an Englishman, and an English official ; his initials are, I 
 strongly suspect, those given in the marginal note, at page 
 31, ' Belleke is now the possession of S. H.'; s and his name 
 was.T presume, S. H[aynes], as Haynes is the writer of the 
 second treatise in the book. But since I cannot name the 
 author with certainty, I may be told — 
 
 To " pass the foundling by, a work of chance ; 
 Why into noble families advance 
 A nameless issue ? " h 
 
 e PF— ! 49> 181, 63, 147. Fpp. 20, 160. pp.— 22 & 23 were written soon 
 
 d See Record of Events of the Year, p. 305, after August, 1C98. 
 
 etc., and pp. 7S, 115, 112, 44, 39. % Quaere, is'it S(ir) II(enry Fulliott ?) 
 
 •pp. 184, 190. 'Dr. den. 
 
PREFACE. Vll. 
 
 Why place this thing of obscure or questionable origin by 
 the side of the authentic Descriptions by Stanihurst, Derricke, 
 Dymmok, Camden, and Riche ? The answer is, that ' the 
 original,' spoken of above, whose existence cannot fairly be 
 doubted, and which may be slumbering in some home or 
 foreign archivium, is a respectable relative, if not the parent, 
 of the best descriptions of Ireland hitherto published, and is 
 superior to all of them. The ' Dobbs MS.' description ot 
 Antrim, written 1 circ, 1598; Lord Burghley's copy of Marshall 
 Bagnall's description of Ulster, written k in 1586; the Carew 
 MS. description of Ulster, written 1 in 1 586 ; and Dymmok's 
 ' Treatise of Ireland,' m written circ. 1600, are all, as far as they 
 go, substantially, and, I may say, verbally the same as the 
 Betagh MS.; while the 'Perambulation of Leinster in 1596,'" and 
 the state papers given in the published Calendars, in the ' Life 
 of MacCarthy Mor,' and in Hardiman's ' Iar-Connacht,' res- 
 pectively corroborate its statements regarding Leinster, Munster 
 and Connaught. These concurrent accounts are enough, I 
 think, to give authority to our MS., which besides, as far as one 
 can judge from an extract on Wexford, printed in the ' Annuary 
 of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society for 1855, ' resembles 
 ' The Description of the Provinces of Ireland, Carew MSS. 
 635,' which Dymmok is said to have abridged. 
 
 Thus the critical and corrective tests of collation, to which 
 it has been subjected, establish and illustrate its genuine cha- 
 racter, and entitle it to the respect shewn to other published 
 descriptions ; moreover it challenges special attention on account 
 
 i Published by Dubourdieu in 1S12. m Edited by Rev. R. Butler, A.B. in 1843. 
 
 k Published by Hore in 1S54. n Published in the calendar of Carew Mss. 
 
 1 Printed as " a very interesting and instruc- ad an. 1596. N.B. The Calendar of Carew 
 
 tive survey " in the Calendars of State Papers Mss. (1589 to 1600) is often quoted and its 
 
 by Dr. Russell and Mr. Prendergast. title abridged to Car. Cal. 
 
Vlll. PREFACE. 
 
 of many particulars, which it alone gives, relating to the chief 
 towns and castles, the chieftains, noblemen, and gentlemen, 
 and the political state of each county. Finding that it was 
 much valued by antiquarians highly qualified to gauge its 
 worth, and that it occupied ground, which has been hitherto 
 unappropriated or treated with but scant attention ; and hoping 
 that it would reward, while it invited editorial care, ' I gave the 
 venture ' to edit, supplement, and illustrate it, and to try (though 
 unsuccessfully) to raise it to the dignity of an old-world Topo- 
 graphical Dictionary and primitive Directory of the year 1598 — a 
 hard and humble task, ' a work suerly full of unsavoury toyle . . . 
 which I write, not of vanity to commend my diligence, but of 
 necessity to excuse mine imperfection.' The records of the 
 same time and character - were ransacked, ' which would minister 
 furniture' for my notes; the archaic, or rather the perverse 
 and profligate, spelling of the 16th century has been followed 
 in all its freaks ; and the notes are put together according to 
 the method of Hardiman, O'Donovan, and Dr. Reeves, except 
 in the case of Ulster, where the peculiar social condition of 
 that province, and the necessity of collating the ' Dobbs,' Bagnal, 
 and Betagh MSS. made me sacrifice symmetry and reserve the 
 notes for the Appendix. The reader will find mentioned over 
 one hundred epitaphs, wayside crosses, and other souvenirs of 
 those times ; but not much concerning the round towers and the 
 manners and customs of the people, as these things are outside 
 the object of the original work, and the editor is preparing a 
 separate book on the manners and customs of the 16th century, 
 and is too lightly equipped to deal with the towers and such 
 antiquarian matters. On the other hand many may find an 
 
 Among others, Mr. Gilbert, the author of p Campion's Historie of Ireland, 
 
 "the Manuscript Materials of Irish History." i See list of Descriptions of Ireland p. xi. 
 
PREFACE. IX. 
 
 interest in the Original Documents, the Parliamentary Lists, the 
 List of the present known representatives of the old families, 1 " 
 and the full record of the events of 1598, which is given in the 
 very words of the State Papers and other contemporary author- 
 ities. 5 From the inspection of this record (p. 315), and of the 
 old map of the escheated county of Armagh, done in 1609, it 
 is clear that O' Donovan, Tucker, and Larcom,' were mistaken 
 with regard to the site of the battle-field of Belanahabuy, and 
 that the trench was two-thirds, or ' two miles ' of the distance 
 from Armagh, and one-third or ' one mile ' from Blackwater 
 Fort. This trench is now a drain crossing the solid ground 
 Ana/ia, n and carrying its water under Bagnall's Bridge ; and 
 beyond it is still the ' scons made on the top of the hill beyond 
 the same,'" and near it there is ' a mayne bogg.' v Moreover, in the 
 map of 1609 — 'ye long trenche of ye forde ' is distinctly 
 sketched, and also the Armagh road, which here branches off 
 to Blackwater Fort and Charlemont. 
 
 Having written this much of the history, the author, autho- 
 rity, and merit of our MS., of the method of its editor, and of 
 the site of the battle of Anaha or Bel-Anaha-buy, ' it remaineth 
 that,' with Campion, ' I request my countrymen to bend their 
 good liking to my good will, and to deliver me from all unjust 
 suspicions,' as I have endeavoured to be sternly archaeological, 
 and to handle my documents with an antiquarian temper, or, shall 
 I say, ' with a benevolent neutrality.' I may add, with Camden, 
 that ' if some there are who contemn this study of antiquitie as a 
 back-looking curiosity ... I am not destitute of reasons by 
 
 r Compiled from the works of Sir B. Burke, * Annals of the Four Masters, note p. 2060; 
 
 Lodge, Archdall, O'Donovan, and others. and the Ordnance Survey, Armagh, in the R. 
 
 • The memoirs of O'Neill, M'Carthy, and I. Academy. 
 
 Tyrill, promised at p. 176, could not be in- u See Ordnance six-inch Map of Armagh, 
 
 serted for sundry reasons. y pp. 316, 317. 
 
X. PREFACE. 
 
 which I might approve this my purpose to well-bred, well-mean- 
 ing men, who tender the glory of their native land . . . but if 
 any there be, who are desirous to be strangers in their own 
 soile, and forrainers in their own city, they may so continue — 
 for such I have not taken these pains.' Finally, with the Four 
 Masters, I think ' it is clear through the whole world, wher- 
 ever there is nobility or honour, that nothing is more glorious 
 than to give the knowledge of antiquity of old authors, and the 
 
 knowledge of the chiefs who lived in the days of yore 
 
 and that it was a cause of pity (for the glory of God and the 
 honour of Erin) that the race of the Gael have gone under a 
 cloud:" and hence I publish this Description of Ireland — 
 
 To THE GLORY OF GoD AND THE HONOUR OF ERIN. 
 
 Oo cum J5^ 0, I 1e ^ a 5 u r O no l ia nc( h-Gjieann. 
 
 Milltown Park, Dublin, 
 May, the ist, 1878. 
 
XI. 
 
 LIST OF DESCRIPTIONS OF IRELAND. 
 
 i. Topographical Poems of O'Duggan and O'Heerin. 
 
 2. MS. Abbreviate of Ireland and Description of the Power of Irishmen, by 
 
 Dean Nowell who died in 1576. 
 
 3. Campion's, in 1575. 
 
 4. Derricke's ' Image of Ireland,' 1581. 
 
 5. Carew MSS., No. 635. 
 
 6. Stanihurst's ' Plaine and Perfect Description,' 1586. 
 
 7. A brife Description by Payne, in 1589. 
 
 8. Dymmok's ' Treatice of Ireland,' circ. 1598. 
 
 9. Camden's in 1607 ; the best hitherto published. 
 
 10. Barnaby Riche's ' New Description of Ireland,' in 1610.' 
 
 11. Moryson's, in 16 17. 
 
 DESCRIPTIONS OF PARTS OF IRELAND. 
 
 1. Bagnall's Slender Description of Ulster, in 1586 ; published in 1854. 
 
 2. Carew MSS., Description of Ulster, 11. p. 437. 
 
 3. Carew MSS., Description of Ulster, Vol. 621. 
 
 4. Sir A. Chichester's Description of Ulster, in Calendar of State Papers, 
 
 an. 1609. 
 
 5. ' Dobbs MS. Description of Antrim,' circ. 1598 ; published by 
 
 Dubourdieu in 1812. 
 
 6. Loughfoyle in 1601 ; published in Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 
 
 7. ' Perambulation of Leinster in 1596,' in Calendar of Carew MSS. 
 
 8. ' Counties of the Pale,' Ussher MSS. E. 4 33. 
 
 9. Barony of Forth, printed in the Kilkenny Journal of Archaeology. 
 
 10. Composition of Connaught in 1585 in Hardiman's Iar-Connacht and 
 
 O'Donovan's Hy-Many and Hy-Fiachrach. 
 
 11. Description of Connaught in 1612, printed in Archaeologia Vol. 27. 
 
 12. Description of Clare, MSS. E. 2. 14., Trinity College, printed in this 
 
 book. 
 
 13. O'Flaherty's Chorographical Description of Iar-Connacht in 1684, 
 
 published by Hardiman. 
 
 14. O'Roddy's Description of Leitrim, MS. T.C.D. 
 
 15. Ordnance Survey MSS., in Royal Irish Academy. 
 
 16. Old Maps — the first in 1567; the second in 1571 for the Government; 
 
 Nowel's; Jobson's Ulster in 1590; Janson's ; Speed's; Maps of the 
 Escheated Counties in 1609 ; Maps in the Pacata Hibemia. 
 
Xll. 
 
 The notes have been taken from the foregoing Descriptions, from the publica- 
 tions of the Irish Archaeological Society's, the Kilkenny Journal of Archaeology, 
 the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, the Life and Letters of McCarthy Mor, the 
 Calendars of the Carew Manuscripts, and other Calendars. The Calendar of the 
 Carew MSS. from year 1589 to 1600 is meant by the reference Car. Cal, which is 
 so frequently repeated. I have also ransacked the various County Histories and 
 Statistical Surveys, the Topographical Dictionaries of Seward and Lewis, and the 
 Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, the Annals of the Four Masters., and the 
 Historia Catholica of O'Sullevan Beare. 
 
 The gentlemen, who preside over the libraries of The Royal Irish 
 Academy, of The Royal Dublin Society, and Trinity College, gave me every 
 facility for examining the treasures which are under their care. To them and to 
 the gentlemen of the Record Office I beg to tender my best thanks. 
 
THE DESCRIPTION OF IRELAND 
 
 AND THE STATE THEREOF, AS IT IS AT THIS PRESENT 
 
 IN ANNO 1598. 
 
 IRELAND containeth in length from the old head of Kinsale 
 in the South (which is West and to North from St. Michel's 
 mount in Cornwall) unto Ramshead Hand in the North of 
 Ulster, which is from Loghryan in Scotland, about 260 Miles ; 
 and in Breadth from Hoth, near Dublin, which is East, to 
 Crosfhe Patrick in Maio Westward, 120 Miles. a There are in 
 Ireland, according to the old number of their division of Lands, 
 6814 Town Lands; in Leinster, 1930; in Munster, 2200; in 
 Connaught, 1600; in Meath, 84; in Ulster, 1000. 
 
 Every Town containeth Eight Plowlands arable, besides 
 pasture for 300 Kyne ; the Sume of the arable Plowlands is 
 54,512, besides Woods, Marshes, moores, pastures and Hills. 
 Every Plowland containeth 1 20 Acres, every Acre is in Breadth 
 4 Roodes or Perches, in Length 40 Perches, and every Rood 
 21 Foot, so the Irish Acre exceedeth the English Acre by 5 / 8 . 
 If Ireland were re-formed, it might yield every year of common 
 
 * 'Irelande lieth a-toofe in the West least breadths are 174 and in miles.' 
 
 Ocean ; in proportion it resembleth an — Thorn's Directory. 
 egge, blunt and plaine on the sides, not ' From the South forelande to the 
 
 reaching forth to sea, in nookes and northe pointe called Thorach, about 
 
 elbowes of land, as Brittaine doth.'- — 300 myles; and in breadthe from 
 
 Campion. Dublin to St. Patrick's mounte and the 
 
 ' Its shape is that of a rhomboid, the sea beating alongst Connaught, 140 
 
 great diagonal of which is 302 miles, miles Irish, which are somewhat larger 
 
 and the less 210 miles ; its greatest and than our Englishe myles.' — Dymmok. 
 
2 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Subsidies upon every Plowland vi J- viij^-, which would amount 
 yearly to 18,170'- 13^ iiij*, besides Customs of Havens, Ports, 
 and offices, which was in old time 20,000 marks yearly, besides 
 the Inheritance of the Crowne ; that was, in Ulster, 32,000 
 marks and an half; in Connaught, 28,000 marks x s - vj^ ; in 
 Meath, 18,000 marks, besides Munster and Leinster, and 
 besides all advowsons of Churches, Wards, Marriages, Reliefs 
 and Escheats, first fruits, xx parts, imposts, and other Casualties. 
 Ireland is Divided into five parts or provinces : Ulster, 
 Meath, b Munster, Leinster, and Connaught. The province of 
 Ulster lyeth in the furthest part North of the Realm. It is 
 divided from Meath with the River Boyne on the South-east 
 part, and with the Breyine, which is called Omelies d Country, on 
 the South, and on the South-west it boundeth upon Connaught, 
 namely, upon the County of Leytrim and the County of Sligo ; 
 the rest is altogether invironed with the Sea, and containeth in 
 it Nine Counties", three of Antient and old making, and six new 
 made, the names whereof are these : 
 
 Louth, \ 
 
 Doune, > Old Counties. 
 
 Antrim, J 
 
 Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, ) New 
 
 Monaghan, Coleraine, Donegall, ; Counties. 
 
 b ' Meathe, so called, as lying in the e ' Some attribute the co. of Cavan for 
 
 midst of the country, and composed of a tenth.' — Dymmok. ' The Irish forces 
 
 a part of every province ; or else for of these counties were 1 702 horse and 
 
 that it conteyneth but 18 cantreds, 7220 foote.' — Moryson. 'The places of 
 
 whereas the others contain 34 or 35 a strengths and fastnesses in Ulster are the 
 
 piece.' — Dymmok. woodds and boggs of Clanbrasselogh, 
 
 c ' The insurgents of all Ireland in Clancane in the co. of Armagh, and the 
 
 1599 amounted to 18,368 foote and woodds and boggs of Killulto, Kilwarlin, 
 
 2346 horse.' — Moryson. Killoutry, and south Clandeboye, in ye 
 
 d ' O'Relye's countrey.' — Bagnall. co. of Downe.' — Dymmok, p. 26. 
 
COUNTY OF LOUTH. 
 
 THE COUNTY OF LOUTHE. 
 
 The Countie of Louth containeth all the Land by the Sea 
 coast, from the River of the Boyne by Drogheda to the Haven 
 of Carlingford on the East, and it hath the Countie of Meath to 
 the South, and South-west the barbarous Countries of the Fewes, 
 part of the County of Armagh to the North, and the Countrie 
 of Feony, part of the same County to the West, by means 
 whereof it is exposed to the incursions of the rude people 
 inhabiting these Countries/ who in times past kept a great part 
 of this Countrie lying next them wast ; but of late years Tyrone 
 and his adherents hath made the whole Countie desolate, that it 
 might not yield to the English Armie, whensoever it should 
 invade him, any succour or relief, either of men, or Victuals for 
 men or Horses, or any convenient place for soldiers to garrison 
 in, now againe re-inhabitted. 
 
 It is part of the English paile, and beareth contribution with 
 the rest of the English countries. 
 
 Townes incorporat \ Drogheda, standing upon the Boyne, 2 
 in the Countie of [ Miles from the Sea, with a barred Haven 
 Louth are these, ^ very dangerous to enter in, governed by 
 and walled : ) a Mair and 2 Sheriffes. 
 
 Dundalk, ) Both Sea Townes, and walled, 
 Carlingford, ) but barred ; Ardee, a drie 
 Towne within the Land 
 westward, walled. 
 
 f ' It hath the most dangerous bor- Monaghan, upon the O'Neiles of the 
 derers and neighbors of any county ; Teenes, and the O'Hanlons of Armagh.' 
 for it lyeth on the MacMahons of —Dymmok. Feony should be Ferny. 
 
STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Lords Spiritual. — The Primate Armagh, his chief Hous 
 and Seat at Armagh ; but he hath much Lande in 
 this Countie, and at this time his whole Residence 
 is in Drogheda or thereabout. 
 
 Lords Temporall. — The Lord of Louth, whose surname is 
 Plunket, his chief Hous is Louth. 
 
 Knights. — Sir Gerrot Moore, his chief Hous is Millefont. 
 
 Sir Chyver [Christofer] Bedlow, his Hous is called 
 of himself Bedlowstoune. 
 
 Sir Nico. Bagnell, the Father, and Sir Henrie, his 
 Sone, both Knight Marshalls of Ireland, had much 
 possessions in this Countie, and sometimes had their 
 residence at Carlingford, where Sir Henry was borne 
 [but for many years they have resided at the Newrie, 
 the L. whereof is now called Arthure Bagnell, an 
 idiot.] 
 
 "j Plunketts, 
 Brandons, 
 Taffes, 
 Cashells, 
 Barnwalls, 
 Verdons, 
 
 Gentlemen 8 of better 
 and meaner sort 
 are these : 
 
 Dartoyes, 
 
 Bedlowes, 
 
 Garlands, 
 
 Warrens, 
 
 Clintons, 
 
 Moores, 
 
 Dowdals. 
 
 g We have here forty names. We 
 find only twenty-five in the Perambula- 
 tion of the Pale, which, however, gives 
 fourteen additional names : ' Tath (sic, 
 but it should be Taaffe), of Clintons- 
 town ; Tath of Cookstown ; Tath of 
 Stevinstown ; Tath of Rathclare ; Dow- 
 dal of Glassepestell; Clinton of Drum- 
 cashell ; Plunket of Nuehowse : Gernon 
 
 of Gernonstown; Gernon of Donmogh- 
 an; Babe of Derver ; Stanley of Merlins- 
 town ; Warren of Warrenstown ; Barn wall 
 of Rathesker; Talbot of Castlering; 
 Rice Ap Hugh, Provost Marshal of the 
 Ardye.' It also informs us that Fleming 
 lived at Crowmerton, and that Verdon of 
 Clonmore was ' descended of Theobald 
 Verdon, High Constable of Ireland.' 
 
COUNTY OF LOUTH. 
 
 Of Plunketts in this Countie are — 
 Plunket of Bewlie. 
 Plunket of Correstone. 
 
 Other Gentlemen. 
 Dowdall of Newton. Cashells, 
 
 Taffe of Ballibrayen. 
 Drake of Drakeston. 
 Peppard of Ardy. 
 Bath of Raferghe. 
 Clinton of Clintonstoune. 
 Dromgold of Dromgoldstoune. 
 Wotton of Rochestoune. 
 Garland of Bothnan. 
 Garlond of Garlondstonne. 
 Verdon of Clonmor[vel Clonnor] Worrall 
 Allen of Ardy. Birrell. 
 
 ( of Dundalk. 
 Brandons, ' 
 
 Sagrave of the Grange. 
 
 of Carlingford. 
 
 Cusack of Richardstoune. 
 Hadsor of Keppock. 
 
 h The Members of Parliament for 
 Louth in i56owere Taf de Ballebragane 
 and Dowedal de Glassepistell ; in 1582 
 the members were Gerlone and Moore. 
 In this county there are of the Queen's 
 troops, 350 foote at Dundalk. under 
 Egerton, Bisset, and Bingley ; 200 foote 
 at Artherdee, under Sir Garret Moore and 
 Captaine Roe. — Moryson, p. 43. The 
 garrison of Drogheda in 1595 consisted 
 of 1 20 footmen of Sir H. Norris, 60 f. of 
 Captain Wingfield, and 60 f. of Captain 
 Brett. — Calendar of CarewMSS. Cap- 
 tain Brett was probably of the Louth 
 family mentioned in the text. ' Fleming' 
 was Captain Garret Fleming, at whose 
 
 Dowdon of Dowdonstonne. 
 
 Merriman, 
 
 Butler, 
 
 Hurlestone of Killany. 
 
 Garlond of Killoncowle. 
 
 Brett. Car. 
 
 Fleming. Cooke. 
 
 Sherlock. 
 
 Nugent. 
 Chamberlayne. Barnwall. 
 White. h 
 
 castle the truce was concluded between 
 the commissioners of Tyrone and Essex, 
 on the 8th Sept. 1599. — Vide Carew 
 Calendar. He was the grandson of Sir 
 Garret Fleming, Marshal of Ireland, and 
 was the father of the celebrated Fran- 
 ciscan, F. Fleming, who was born in 
 1 5 99, at Belatha Lagain, in Louth. — Vide 
 Ulster Jour, of Arch., No. 8, p. 254. 
 Only three of these names are now to be 
 found among the magistrates or among 
 the 'County Families' of Louth, viz., 
 Lords Louth and Bellew, and Mr. Taaffe 
 of Smarmore Castle. — See Thorn's Di- 
 rectory, and Watford's County Families. 
 
STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF DOUNE. 
 
 This shyre contayneth all the Countries between the Haven 
 of Carlingford and the Borry a of Knockfergus, viz. : — 
 
 The Topp b of the Newrie. 
 
 The Topp b of Mourney. 
 
 Evaghe, otherwise called M c Gennes' c Country. 
 
 Kilulto. lecahell. 
 
 Kiwarlen. Duffrin. 
 
 Kinalewarten. little Ardes and great Ardes. 
 
 South Clandeboye. 
 
 Clonbrassell M c yoolechan. d 
 
 The Topps of Newrie and Mourne are the Inheritance of 
 the H eyres of S r Nich. Bagnoll, who at his first coming hither 
 found them altogether Wast, and Shane O'Neall dwelling within 
 less than a Mile to the Newrie, at a place called feidem. 
 Suffering no subject to Travel from Dundalk Northwards, but 
 Sithence the Buildings and Fortifications made there by the 
 said S r Nicolas, all the Passages were made free, and much 
 of the Countrie next adjacent reduced to reasonable tributs 
 [civilitie], till this late Rebellion of Tyrone hath stopped againe 
 all the said Passages, and layed the Countrie in a manner Wast, 
 as it was in the said tyme of Shane O'Neall, e but since the King's 
 tyme returned to the former State. c 
 
 a ' The Bay of Knockfergus.' — Dobbs d Written M'Boolechan further on ; 
 
 and Dymmok. but M c Coolechan in Dobbs, and M c Goo- 
 
 b A curious mistake for Lopp, i.e., lechan in Bagnall. It is MacDuile- 
 
 ' Lordshipp,'asitis in Dobbs and Bagnall. chain in Irish ; perhaps it is the present 
 
 c ' All Maginnes' country' is in Dobbs; northern name of Dullagan? 
 
 but it is a mistake for called, which is in ' The words from e to * are not in 
 
 the Betagh and Bagnall MSS. Dobbs. 
 
COUNTY OF DOWN. 7 
 
 In this Countrie are few Gentlemen of name, the whole 
 Inhabitants being Tenants to late f S r Henrie Bagnoll. 
 
 Eveaghe [Evaghe], otherwise called M c Gennes Countrie, 
 was lately governed by Sf Hugh M c Genne, g and now by his 
 Sone, S r Arthure M c Gennes, g the civilest of all the Irish in these 
 parts. He was brought of by Sir Nicholas Bagnoll from the 
 Bonnoght h [paying of meal, butter, and some money for paying 
 of O'Neall's soldiers] 11 of the O'Neall's, to contribute to the 
 Prince [Queene], to whome he did paie an Anual Rent for his 
 Lands, which he took by Letters patents to hold after the 
 Inglishe manner, for him and his Heyres males ;' So as in this 
 place only k of Ulster the rude custome of Thanistship 1 was taken 
 away. But this old Knight being dead, his Sone that succeeded 
 being a young Man, hath ioyned himself with Tyrone, his 
 Brother-in-law m [for Tyrone hath to his Wife the sister of this 
 M c Gennes], m and thereby hath cast away his Father's civilitie, 
 and returned to the rudeness of the country. M c Gennes is able 
 to make four Score Horsemen and near 200 Footmen." °Of 
 late he hath carried himself well, and admitted Freeholders in 
 his Country by advice of the State." 
 
 Kilulto is a very fast Countrie, full of Wood and Boggs. 
 It bordereth upon Lough Evaghe and Clonbrassell ; the Capten 
 thereof was one Cormack M c Neal, who likewise was brought by 
 
 ' This word is not in Dobbs. Lord Burghley inserted ' amongest the 
 
 Bh The words from s to s , h to h , are I" shr y-' 
 not in Dobbs. \ This word 1S misspelled ' Thorn 
 
 ship' in Dymmok. 
 
 ' ' He lyeth very cyvilly and Enghshe „, FrQm » to ™ is a marg i na i note in 
 
 like in Ins house, and every festival day Qur Mg _ . b DMs it is in parenthes i s . 
 weareth Enghshe garmentes amongst „ Re had 6lQ f and I2Q h _ in 15g2 
 
 his own followers.'— Bagnatl. -Carew Calendar. 
 
 k After ' only' in the Bagnal MS. ° From ° to ° is not in Dobbs. 
 
8 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 S r Nich. Bagnoll from the Bonnaghts p of O'Neall's to yield to 
 the Prence [Ouene], but at this present the captaine thereof is 
 Bryan M c Art, Brother's Son to the Earl of Tyrone. He is able 
 to make 30 Horsmen q and 180 Shot and Kearne. r [The 
 Kearnes' arms are swords, tergats, and darts. ] r This countrie, 
 before the barons' Warrs in Ingland, was possessed and Inhabit- 
 ted by Inglishmen, and there doeth yet remain an old defaced 
 Castle, which still beareth the name of one S r * Miles Tracie. 
 
 Kilwarten, 5 Bounding upon Kilulto, is a verie fast Wood- 
 land ; the Captain thereof was one M c Rorie,' and sometymes did 
 contribute and yield to Clandeboy, and after reduced to have 
 dependance upon the Quene ; But of late the Earl of Tyrone 
 hath given this Countrie to one of his Coosons, named Owen 
 M c Hughe: this Countrie is able to make xx Horsemen and 
 aboute 100 Footmen. 
 
 Kinalewarten, otherwise called M c Cartie [forsan M c Cartan] u 
 Countrie, is likewise a Woodland and Boggie. It Lyeth between 
 Kilwarton and Lechaell, the Capten thereof is called Acholie 
 M c Cartan, and did yield to the Ouene, but lately adherred to the 
 Earl of Tyrone, as one of O'Neall's vassals. It is able to make 
 260 Footmen, but few or no Horsemen, by reason that the 
 Country is so full of Woods and Boggs. v 
 
 p ' From the bondage of the O'Neils.' Bagnall, and Kihvartin in the index to 
 
 — Bagnall; but it should be bonnaght, the Carew Calendar. 
 as in our MS. and in Dobbs. « By s i rname is M'Genis called Ever 
 
 "'Twenty h. and 160 foote and M c Rorie.—£at>nall. 
 Kerne.' — Dobbs. The Carew Calendar „. , . ,. r ,, , 
 
 .►„*«. A- k b MclJ .. r " Kincleartie, or M c Carthaneys 
 
 states that Bryan M c Art was captain of „ ,„,',, „ „ / 
 
 „„„ f „„ f , ' . , a „ ... Country' — Dobbs; but Bagnall has 
 
 300 loot, 'trained after ye English ._ _ } " 
 
 1VT c ( 1 T" t n n 
 
 manner, besides rascals and Kerne.' 
 
 ' From " to r is not in Dobbs. " M c Artan and the Sleaght M c Neill 
 
 s Rede Kilwarlin, as in Dobbs and hath 100 f. and 20 h. in 1599. — Carciv 
 
 Bagnall ; yet also written Kilwaren in Calendar. 
 
COUNTY OF DOWN. 9 
 
 Clonebrassell M c Boolechan (so called for difference be- 
 tween this and another Countrie of the same name in the Countie 
 of Armagh), is a verie vast Countrie of Wood and Bogg, 
 Inhabitted with a sept called the 0'Rellies, a verie Savage and 
 Barbarous people, given altogether to Spoiles and Robberies. 
 They contribute, but of their own pleasure, to the capten of 
 Glandeboy, b but were lately followers to Tyrone. b They can 
 make few Horsemen and 160 Kearne and Shott. 
 
 Lechaell is, c for most part, c the Inheritance of d the Earls of 
 Kildare, d the abbey Lands whereof were given to Gerrot, Earle 
 of Kildare, and his wife and the heyres Males of his Bodie, by 
 Queen Marie at their Marriage, and the Earl's restitution to his 
 Blood and Lands, in place of some of his livings given away to 
 others by patent by King Henrie the 8 th in the tyme of his 
 attainder. "Btit by reason the Heyres Males are now all extinct, 
 the King gave these lands to the late Earl of Devonshire, and he 
 disposed of them to the late L. Cromwell, whose heyres now enioy 
 them." f [These lines (in italics) from being a note in the margin, 
 hath crept into the text.] f It is almost an Hand, and no trees in 
 it ; in it is the Bishop's seat called Downe. First built and 
 Inhabitted by one S r John Coursey, who brought with him 
 sundrie Inglish Gentlemen and planted them in this Countrie, 
 where some of their posteritie yet remaine ; g their names are — 
 
 Savages. Audlies. 
 
 Russells. Jordans. 
 
 Fitzsimons. Bensons. 
 
 a ' The Kellies greatly affected to the not in Dobbs ; from ' to f is a marginal 
 
 Scott, whom they often draw into their note. 
 
 countries for the spoilinge of the sub- s ' Where some of them yet remayne, 
 
 jects.' — Bagnall. 'The O'Rellies.' — though somewhate degenerate and in 
 
 Dobbs. poore estate ; yet they hold still their 
 
 hci ' { From b to b , c ~ c , A ~ A , e_e , f_f , is freeholdes.' — Bagnall. ' I assure your 
 
 B 
 
IO STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 i h This Country of Lecahell, before it was spoyled by the 
 Rebells, yielded yearly to the Earl of Kildare 8oo & ster. in Rent, 
 besides much Service and many other duties. h 
 
 Duffryn, sometimes the Inheritance of the Mandevills, and 
 now appertayning unto one Whyte, Gent., 1 who, by reason 
 of his residence in the pale, cou'd not defend same in the late 
 Rebellion. j It is now come to be held by Lease by Mr. James 
 Hamilton. 3 This Countrie is for the most part Woodie, and 
 lieth upon the Lough called lough coyne, which issues into the 
 Sea at the Haven of Stran^ford ; this louo-h is farr navigable 
 within the Land, wherein are divers Isles, and in some of them 
 Strong Castles. This Countrie is able to make 120 Footmen 
 and 20 Horsemen. 
 
 Litle Ardes lyeth on the North side of the River of 
 Strangford k by the Sea, k a fertile Champion Countrie. 'The 
 Inhabitants are an old colonie of the English. 1 It is die Inherit- 
 ance of the Lord Savage, who, being not able to withstand the 
 violence of the O'Neals, was constreyned to take what they will 
 give him. There are besides dwelling here certen ancient 
 Freeholders of the Savages and Smithes, able to make amongst 
 them all 30 Horsemen and 60 Footmen, but of late being 
 spoiled by their Neighbours, some were compelled to remove, 
 
 Lordship I have been in many places therefore it is usurped and inhabited 
 
 and countries in my days, and yet did by the neighbours.' — Dobbs. ' It is 
 
 I never see for so much a pleasanter usurped by a bastard sorte of Scotts, 
 
 plott of grounde than the sayd Lecayll, who yield to White some small rent at 
 
 for the commoditie of the land and their pleasure. There are of those bas- 
 
 divers islands in the same, environed tard Scottes dwelling here some 60 bow- 
 
 with the sea.' — Lord Grey the Deputy men and 20 shott, which live most upon 
 
 in 1539, quoted in note to Bagnall MS. the praie and spoil of their neighbours.' 
 
 h From h to h is not in Dobbs. — Bagnall. 
 
 ' ' A mean gentleman, who is not of jkl From ' to j , k to k , and ' to ', is not 
 
 power sufficient to defend the same ; in Dobbs or Bagnall. 
 
COUNTY OF DOWN. 
 
 I I 
 
 some others, that knew not whither to go, "continued there to 
 this daie. m 
 
 Great Ardes is almost an Hand, a Champion, and fertile 
 Land, and now possessed by Sf Hugh Montgomery and Mr. 
 James Hamilton. But the Ancient dwellers there are the 
 n [ . . ], a rich and strong Sept of people, always followers of 
 the O'Neall's of Clandeboy. The force of the Inhabitants now 
 dwelling there is small, the "same being yet a Beginning of a 
 Plantation from [...]. 
 
 South Clandeboye is for the most part a Woodland, and 
 reacheth from the Duffrin to the river of Knockfergus ; p the 
 Capten of this was Con 0'Neal, q his chief Hous is called 
 Castlereagh. This Countrie was able to make 40 Horsemen 
 and 80 Footmen, "but the late Rebellion hath consumed them 
 all/ 
 
 m 'They are often harrowed and 
 spoiled by them of Clandeboy, with 
 whom the borders of their lands do 
 joine.' — Bagnall. Dobbs says, 'not 
 knowing what to do, they have joined 
 themselves to the enemy.' From ra 
 to m is not in Dobbs or Bagnall. 
 
 " ' The Ogilmers, a rich, &c. The 
 land is now possessed by Sir Con Mac- 
 Neil Oige, who hath planted there Neil 
 M c Bryan Ferto with sondrey of his owne 
 sirname. The force of the inhabitants 
 now dwellinge there is 60 horsemen and 
 300 footemen.' — Bagnall. 
 
 From ° to ° is not in Dobbs. 
 
 p ' The river of Knockfergus, Kilulto, 
 lyinge upon Lough Eaghe and Clan- 
 braselo.' — Dymmok. 
 
 q 'NialM c Bryan Flain.'— Dobbs. 'Sir 
 Con M c Neil Oige O'Nele, who in the 
 time that th' Erie of Essex attempted 
 this country was prisoner in the castle 
 of Dublin, together with his nephewe, 
 Hugh M c Phelim, Capten of North 
 Clandeboye, by mean whereof Sir Brian 
 M c Phelim, younger brother to Hugh, 
 did then possess both countries. The 
 Southe parte is able to make 40 horse- 
 men and 80 footemen.' — Bagnall. 
 
 ' The Dobbs MS. has not these re- 
 markable and significant words from ' to 
 '. In 1598 the Lords of Upper and 
 Lower Clannaboy had 120 h. and 300 f. ; 
 and in 1599 Neil M'Bryan Fertagh, 
 Lord of Upper Clannaboy, had 80 f. 
 and 50 horse in the service of Hugh 
 O'Neil. — Carcw Calendar. 
 
12 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Tounes in the Countie 
 of Doune are — 
 
 !The Newrie, ! 
 Downe, and 
 Arglas. 
 
 All unwalled, and with- 
 out any priviledges of 
 a Corporation. 
 
 Castles in 
 Countie — 
 
 1 • , / Green Castle, 'belonging to the Queene,' 
 
 < near the barr of Carlingford, upon the 
 [ Sea. 
 
 Dundrum, "belonging to the Earl of Kildare," in the Bottom 
 of the Bay, that divideth lecahell from Evaghe. The Castle of 
 the narrow Water which kepeth the River that goeth to the 
 Newire, passable. 
 Stranyford. 
 Ranechadie, ) 
 Scatterig, ) 
 Castlereaghe, in the Great Ardes. v 
 This Countrie hath the Sea to the East, the Countie of 
 Armagh to the West, the Haven of Carlingford and that river 
 to the South, the Countries of Brasilagh, Clancan, and Lough 
 Eaghe to the North. 
 
 within the lies of Lough Coyne. 
 
 ■ At the Newrie in 1599 there were 
 50 h. under Sir S. Bagnoll, and 950 f. 
 under Bagnoll, Blayney, Bodley, Freckle- 
 ton, Tobias Caufield, Stafford, and 
 Leigh.' — Moryson. 
 
 •From ' to ', and u to u is not in Dobbs, 
 ntfs there anything about the towns 
 ano^astles in B agnail. 
 
 u 'Doundrome, one of the strongest 
 holts that ever I saw in Ireland, and 
 most commodious for the defence of 
 the whole country of Lecayll, both by 
 sea and land.' — Lord Grey, in 1539. 
 
 v By mistake, the Dobbs 1 MS. has 
 
 ' Castlereagh in Lough Coyne.' The 
 Savages of Down are still represented 
 by Col. Andrew Nugent, of Portaferry, 
 of the Scots Greys, the old name of 
 whose family was Savage. The Russels 
 are represented by Mr. Russell, pro- 
 prietor of Quoniamstown, near Down 
 Patrick, in whose family the property 
 has remained for six centuries, and by 
 C. Russell, Esq., of Killough. The 
 Whytes are represented by J. J. Whyte, 
 Esq., of Loughbrickland, J. P. & D.L., 
 of the Co. of Down. 
 
COUNTY OF ANTRIM. 
 
 THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM. 
 
 The Countie of Antrim stretcheth from the River of Craig;- 
 fergus to the River a of the Bann, and containeth these Countries : — 
 
 North Clandeboy. 
 
 Hand magie, Bryan Carroghes Countrie. 
 
 The Glynnes, 
 
 the rout. 
 
 North Clandeboy is for the most part a plain Country, 
 being in length from the River of Belfast and Craigfergus to the 
 Rout, and in bredth from the Glynnes to the great Lough called 
 Eaghe, otherwise called Lough Sidney. This Land was given 
 by the Ouene by Letters Patents to S; Bryan M c Phelim's Sones, 
 notwithstanding by a division made by S: John Perrott the one 
 moyetie thereof was allotted to Hugh M c Phelim's Sones, whereby 
 great dissention fell out between them, and several Slaughters 
 on both parts hath been committed. b [But Shane M c Brian 
 possesses some part thereof at this day ; the rest for the most 
 was given by the h. L. Sir Arthure Chicester to the L. Dep.J b 
 The principall of all was c in this Countrie were these : — the 
 M c 
 
 a ' To the goinge out of the Bann.' — could not make out the names in the 
 
 B agnail. copy which he had. The varia/itcs, 
 
 b From b to b is a marginal note, ' Tartur ' and ' Bertier,' and ' the prin- 
 
 and is not in Dobbs. cipal followers' and ' the principal of all 
 
 c ' The principal followers in this was,' are very remarkable ; the latter 
 
 countrey are these : — the M c Gies, seems to be due to a lapsus lingua;. 
 
 M'Onulles, Onulchalons, Durnam, and Dymmok says, ' North Clandeboy is 
 
 Tarturs.' — B agnail; but, according to divided into two partes, the river of 
 
 Dobbs, they were MacYnes, Mac- Kellis being the mear bounde. The 
 
 Quillens, Ownilechabees, Dawmans, south parte thereof was geven for a 
 
 and Bertiers.' The writer of our MS. rent to the sonnes of Brian M'Phelim 
 
14 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The force which they were able to make was 80 Horsmen 
 and 300 Footmen, d but the most part in the last Rebellion killed. d 
 
 I LAND MAGIE. 
 
 I land magie is a portion of Land within five Miles of Craig- 
 fergus, almost environed with the Sea, the head Land thereof 
 maketh the Haven of Olderfleet. It is five Miles long, but little 
 more than a Mile br ad, all plaine without any Wood, very 
 fertile. It was given by the late Ouene to the then Erie of 
 Essex his Grandfather, and from him lately purchased by the 
 L. Dep e . 
 
 Bryan Carroghes Countrie was a portion of North Clande- 
 boy, but wonne from it by some of the Scottish Irysh f of the 
 Sept of the Clandonnels, who entered the same, and yet do hold 
 it, being a verie strong piece of Land, lying upon the North side 
 of the Bann. The name of the now Capten thereof is Bryan 
 Carraghe, who possesseth also another piece of the Countrie 
 upon Tyrone's side upon the Bann, for which he did contribute 
 to the Ouene 8 and for the Lande on the north Side to the Lorde 
 of that part of Clandeboy. This man, by reason of the Fastness 
 and Strength of his Countrie, having succour on each side of the 
 
 O'Neill, who were all pencioners in the M c Gyes, and contribute to the Lord 
 
 Ireland to her Majestie; and the eldest, of Clandeboy, but doth of right belong 
 
 Shane M'Brian, yet lyvinge, was cheefle. to the Quene's Castle of Carikfergus.' — 
 
 The north parte beyond Kellis to the Bagnall. ' It is the inheritance of the 
 
 river of Bann by Lough Eaugh was now Erie of Essex.' — Dymmok. 'It 
 
 assigned to the sonnes of Hugh hath us name from the M'Gies, it is 
 
 MThelim, elder brother to Sir Bryar., granted in lease to one Savage, one of 
 
 whose eldest son in that part is Hugh the Erl of Essex his men.' — Dobbs. 
 
 Oge M c Hugh.' — Dymmok. ... ... , „ „ ,, 
 
 & d „ c w d • • „,, f A bastard kinde of Scotts.—Bog/iall 
 
 d From d to d is not m Dobbs. 
 
 and Dobbs 
 
 'He dc 
 almost all waste ; such as be there be Bagnall and Dobbs. 
 
 Hand M c Gye, a portion of land 
 within 3 miles of Knockfergus. It is E He doth contribute to O'NeiL- 
 
COUNTY OF ANTRIM. T5 
 
 Bann, was so obstinate and careless as he never wou'd appear 
 before any deputie, h untill this Deputie came to be Governor of 
 Crau T feroais, h but vielded what relief he could to the Scotch. 
 His force in People is very small, he standeth only upon the 
 Strength of his Country, which indeed is the fastest Ground of 
 Ireland. 1 
 
 The glynnes is a Countrie so called, because its full of 
 rockie and wooddie dales ; it stretcheth' in length xxiv Miles on 
 the one side, being backed with a very steepe and Boggie 
 mountaine, and on the other part with the sea, on which side 
 there are many Creekes between Rocks and Thicketts where 
 the Scottish Gallies do commonly land ; at either end are verie 
 narrow Entries and passages into the Countrie, which lieth 
 directlie opposite to Cantyre, from which it is xviii'MUes distant. 
 The Countrie of Glynnes containeth Seven Barronies, whereof 
 the He of Raghlins is compted half a Barronie. The Names of 
 the Barronies are these : — Larne. 
 
 This Countrie of the Glynnes was possessed Parke, 
 
 by Agnes M c Connell of Cantyre ; but these three 
 or four years past, they have been possessed by 
 S^ Randoll M c Donell, Brother to S! James 
 M c Connell, who enjoys them at this present, and 
 is able to make 120 Footmen and 16 Horse- 
 
 Glanarme. 
 
 Radboy. k 
 
 Lade. 1 
 
 Carie. 
 
 Mowberry. 
 
 men. 
 
 h From h to h is not in Dobbs. 
 
 ' ' The fasted and safest ground of 
 Ireland — it is very hard to hurt him.' 
 — Dymmok and Bagnall. 
 
 ' ' It stretcheth from the haven of 
 Olderfleete to the Route.' — Dymmok. 
 
 k Redbay where Randal, now Lord of 
 the country, has his residence. — Dobbs. 
 
 1 Lade is not in Dobbs, but it is in 
 Bagnall. 
 
 m ioo f. and 100 h. Carav Calendar; 
 but Dymmok says: : Jameo M c Surly 
 Buy and his two brothers. Neece and 
 Randol, possessing the country of 
 Towany (being the Route), and ye 
 seven Glynnes, hath 400 f. and ico h.' 
 
I 6 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 These were sometymes the Inheritance of Baron Misset, 
 from whom it is descended to a Daughter, who was married to 
 one of the Clandonnells in Scotland, by whom the Scottish now 
 make their claime to the whole, and did quietlie possess the 
 same for many years, till not long agoe being spoiled of their 
 Goods they were whollie banished into Scotland. But againe, 
 the Countrie, by Instructions from the Ouene, was let to Agnes 
 M c Connell and her" Uncle Surleboy, to be holden from her," and 
 Her Heyres and Successors for a certen Rent yearly payable. 
 The force of this Countrie is uncertaine, for that they were 
 Supplyed as need required, from Scotland with what Nombers 
 they Listed to call for, by making of Fires upon many Steepe 
 Rockes hanging- over the Sea. The ancient followers of this 
 Countrie are these — Some few of the Missetts yet remaining, 
 but in poor State ; the Magies," . . . M c Carnocks, and the 
 Clanalasters, who are by Original Scottish, and all of them 
 are most desirous to Live under the Scotch, because they 
 
 Angus M c Connell, Lord of Cantyre. Bruce formed the resolve of reconquer- 
 
 ' His' and 'her' are used in the Dobbs ing Scotland, and it was at Sir Hugh 
 
 and Bctagh MSS.; but Dymmok writes, Bissett's manor of Glenarm, that 
 
 Angus and his, and says, ' by instruc- Edward Bruce landed with the victors 
 
 tions from her Majesty it was divided of Bannockburn. Some of the family 
 
 by Sir John Perrott, between Angus formed a Celtic clan, and took the 
 
 M c Connell, chief of his name, and name of M c Eoin or M c Keon. {Four 
 
 Sourley Buy, his uncle bysides in the Mast. An. 1383-7, and O 'Donovan 
 
 land of the Route.' Introd. to Topogr. Poem). 
 
 Margery Bissett married Ian Mdr ° ' The Magies, O'Nowlanes, Mac- 
 
 M'Donnell, son of the Lord of the Isles. Nygells, MacAroulbyes, MacCarnocks, 
 
 The Bissets were originally de Miset ; and the Clanacasters.' — Dobbs. ' The 
 
 they soon changed their name to Bissett, MacKayes, the Omulrenies, the Mac y 
 
 and adopted Irish customs. It was in Gilles, the MacAwnleys, the MacCar- 
 
 Bissett's island of Rathlin, that the nocks, and the Clanalsters.' — Bagnall. 
 
COUNTY OF ANTRIM. I 7 
 
 do better defend them, and less spoile them then the Irysh 
 doth." 
 
 The Route is a pleasant and fertile Country, being between 
 the Glynnes and the River of the Bann, and from Clandeboy to 
 the Sea ; it was sometime inhabitted with Inglishe, for there 
 remayneth yet certain defaced Castles and Monasteries of their 
 Buildinge. The Captain that made claime to it is called q [ . . . ] 
 the posteritie as is thought of Walsheman ; but S' James 
 M c Surlie wholy expulsed him and drove him to live in Knock- 
 fergus, where he remayneth in a very poor Estate. The cheif 
 Hous is called Dunluce, standing upon a rock in the Sea Shore, 
 where the said Sir James had his residence, r and since his 
 decease his Brother Sir Randoll MTJonnell has enjoyed it, first 
 under pretence of Succession, but now by virtue of the King's 
 grant to him and his heyres for ever of both the Rent and 
 Glynnes/ The cheife followers and Inhabitants of this Country 
 are the O . . , s and O'Guinnes, who dwell upon their Lands 
 and yield rent and Service to the foresaid S! Randoll. This 
 Countrie was able latelie to make 140 horsemen and 300 Foote- 
 men,' 
 
 p ' Are lest spent upon, and better fendeth rather by maintenance of Tur- 
 
 defended than by the Irish or English.' loch O'Neil, than by his own forces.' 
 
 Dymmok. , From , t0 , is not in Dobbs It is 
 
 ' M'Guillim.'— Bagn. < M'Guillin.' strange that BagmU does not mention 
 
 — Dobbs, ' M<Wdh.'— Dymmok. It Dunluce, which a State Paper of 1584 
 
 was, it appears, a corruption of declared to be an impregnable fortress. 
 M'Llewellyn. In 1 541 the Chief of the 
 
 M'Guillins declared that no captain of s ' O'Furries and O'Quins.'— Dobbs. 
 
 his race ' ever died in his bed sith the ' O'Harnes and O'Gumes.'— Dymmok. 
 
 first conqueste of their said lande.'— ' O'Haryes and O'Qums.'— Bagnall. 
 
 {Council Book An. 1541). Bagnall says : ' Moryson says, the Glynnes and 
 
 'The Scot hath well nere expulsed Route had 400 f. and 100 h.j but our 
 
 M c Guillin and driven him to a small MS. estimates at 450 h. and 156 f., the 
 
 corner near the Bann, which he de- forces they u<cre able to raise. 
 
 c 
 
i8 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Craigfergus" is the onlie Towne in this Shyre upon the 
 River, three Miles broad over against the Towne, walled partlie 
 with stone, partlie with Soades. There were in it 2 Wardes, 
 the one in the Castle in the South end of the Towne, the other 
 in the Abbey in the North end thereof; v but the Abbey Warde 
 is taken away. v This Towne is governed by a Maior and Two 
 Sheriffes, and at this day there is not may freemen of this 
 Towne. w 
 
 Bellfast, viii Miles by the River from 
 Craigfergus, where the passage is 
 over the River at low water. 
 O . . . x near Louofh Eaodie. 
 01derfleete. y 
 Glanarne. 
 Castle marten in the Route. 
 
 Castles Wardable 
 at this day, 
 
 Defaced. 
 
 u In 1599 the Queen had at Carrig- 
 fergus 30 h. under Neale M c Hugh, and 
 550 f. under Sir A. Chichester, Sir R. 
 Percy, and Captains Lington and 
 Norton. — Moryson. 
 
 v From v to v is not in Dobbs. 
 
 w At this day there are but 16 free- 
 men of this towne. — Dobbs. 
 
 " ' Edenduffee Carrig, near Lough 
 Eagh. '—Dobbs. 'The Castles Ward- 
 able in 1586 are Belfast, Edenduchar 
 and Olderfleete ; and the castles de- 
 faced are these — Portmuck in Hand 
 Magy, Glanarne, and Redbaye in the 
 Glynnes, and Castlemartyn in the 
 Route. ' — Bagnall. 
 
 In 1523 the Earl of Kildare took 
 Hugh M c Neil's castle of Belfast, and 
 
 ' burnt 24 myle of his country.' This 
 Hugh M c Neil kept 1,500 Scots, besides 
 his own soldiers. In 1591 Belfast 
 castle was almost surrounded by woods, 
 ' okes and other wood for many miles ' 
 {See Notes of the Editor of BagnalPs 
 Description of Ulster in Ulst. J. of 
 Arch.) 
 
 y On the narrow peninsula called the 
 Corran, which projects into the bay of 
 Larne, stands this castle, once a place 
 of strength. After M c Donnell over- 
 threw the English under Sir J. 
 Chichester in the end of 1597, this 
 castle was sold to him by its English 
 commander. In announcing this 
 treachery to Elizabeth, Ormond calls 
 it 'Alderfleet standing upon the north 
 
COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 1 9 
 
 THE COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 
 
 This Countie hath to the South the Countie of Louth, the 
 blackwater to the North, the River of the Newrie to the East, 
 and the Countie of Monaghan to the West. It contayneth all 
 the Land between the River of Dundalk and the black water, 
 saving a small proportion called Cowley, 3 joining to Carlinford, 
 belonging to Louth. In it are those several Countries compre- 
 hended. 
 
 Ornaugh, otherwise O'Hanlon's Countrie. 
 
 Clanbrassell, 
 
 Clancane, Mucknoe, Oneylans, 
 
 Clanant, Tirriaugh, Feues. 
 Most of these have Several Captens, to whom the Countries 
 do appertain, but in time of S r John Perrott were all made 
 contributories to the Earle of Tyrone, to whom they were subject 
 in the latter times. 
 
 O'Hanlon's Countrie reacheth from the Newrie and from 
 Dundalk to Ardmaghe ; it is for the most part without Wood, 
 but full of Hills and Boggs. It is able to make 50 Horsemen 
 and 250 footemen. b 
 
 a ' Couray.' — Dymmok. the poor gentleman hath utterly undone 
 
 b ' Forty h. and 200 f.' — Bagnall. himself in wrestling with them ; and his 
 
 ' In 1598, in the army of Hugh O'Neil, brother, likewise, an honest, valiant 
 
 there were 80 h. and 200 f. under gentleman, was wounded and maimed 
 
 O'Hanlon, M c Gyniesse, and Bryan in the service, and lost and spent all 
 
 M c Art.' — Carew Calendar, p. 287. Sir that ever he had. . . The Countrie 
 
 H. Sydney informed the English go- is large and long, yet is waste, altogether 
 
 vernment that a 'Mr. Chatterton under- without a house, pile, or castle left stand- 
 
 tooke to expulse and subdue the ing in it, but a little sorry fort pitched of 
 
 O'Hanlons . . . in troth, my Lords, sods and turves.' — Collins, vol. i., 148. 
 
20 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Clonbrassell is a verie Woody and Boggie Countrie upon 
 the great Lough side, called Oaghe or Sidney. It hath in it no 
 Horsemen, but able to make 160 Kearnes. c 
 
 Clancancane" 1 is a verie strong Countrie, almost all Wood 
 and deep Bogg ; it is invironed on one side with the foresaid 
 great Loughe, and on the other side with a great Bogg, and two 
 deep Rivers, the one called the Black Water, the other the 
 little Banne, which both within this Countrie do fall within this 
 Lough. In this Countrie are no Horsemen, but about some 
 150 kearne, who live for the most part in tyme of peace upon 
 Stealth and Robberies. 
 
 CANTAULE f is a peece of a Countrie, which of right apper- 
 taineth to the Arch- Bishop of Ardmagh and his Freeholders, and 
 Lieth between Ardmagh and the Blackwater. There is in it now g 
 to the River much underwoode and Loughes, h but the rest lying 
 towards Ardmagh is champion and Fertile.' The Capten of 
 this Countrie was called Turleighe Brasilaghe, who held this 
 peece of Land from the Earle of Tyrone, to whom he payed his 
 Rents and Service. The said Turloghe and his Sonnes were 
 Liable to make 40 Horsemen and 100 Footmen. 
 
 Muctionoe and Tirriaughelie, j between Ardmaghe and 
 M c Mahon's Countries, not Long since appertayning to him, but 
 of late possessed by the Earl of Tyrone, who hath placed certen 
 of his waged followers, that paid their Rents and Services only 
 unto him. 
 
 c M c Cane's country hath 100 f. and s 'nere.' — Bagnall. 
 
 and 12 h.— Carew Calendar, p. 299. ^'boggs.'— Bagnall. 
 
 Clanbrassil was M'Cann's country. . . 
 
 d Called Clancan by Bagnall. ' ' U P on P arte of thlS land f the 
 
 ' M'Can in Clancan hath 100 f. and brid S e and fort of Blackwater bullt -'- 
 
 12 h.'— Dymmok. Ba S nalL 
 
 f Written Clanant j7//V-<7, but Clanawle ' ' Muckno and Tireawh.' — Bagnall. 
 
 by Bagnall, and Clanowlo by Dymmok. ' Muckro and Tragh.' — Dymmok. 
 
COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 2 I 
 
 Fues bordereth upon the Inglish Pale, within 3 Miles to 
 Dundalke. It is a verie strong Countrie of Wood and Bogg, 
 peopled with certen of the O'Neals, accustomed to live much 
 upon the Spoiles of the Pale. k The Capten hereof is Sir 
 Turloghe M c Henrie O'Neall, Brother by the Mother to the now 
 Earle of Tyrone, but no way affected to the Earle. For while 
 the Earle of Tyrone was a good Subject, he overruled the said 
 S r Turloghe with his strength and Authoritie, and thereby kept 
 him from annoying the Pale. But afterward, when Tyrone was 
 a Rebell, the said S r Turloghe rebelled from his Brother and 
 came in to the L. Burrowes, Late L. Deputie, whom he served 
 Fathfullie during the Life of the said Deputie, after which he 
 was won by fair promises to returne from the Ouene to Tyrone, 
 with whom, when he had remained a certen tyme, he was com- 
 mitted to close Prison in a Castle within a Loughe upon a 
 Suspicion of a Second revolt from the Earle to the Quene, 
 where he remayneth in cheynes cruelly used for a long time, 
 for whose deliverie divers attempts were made, but without 
 success. At length he got his liberty by force, and ever since 
 hath been a good Subject. He hath this Countrie by Letters 
 Patents from his Majestic This country is able to make about 
 Fiftie Horsemen and 200 Footemen. 1 
 
 Oneylane is likewise a Woodie land, lyeing between Ard- 
 magh and Clanconcane. This Earle of Tyrone hath and 
 claimeth it to his inheritance ; he hath placed there some of the 
 O' m and , who fostered him, and for the most part 
 
 k All that follows, down to the end of who fostered him.' — Bagnall. The 
 
 the chapter on Armagh, is not in the learned Editor of the Bagnall MS. says 
 
 B agnail MS. that ' Henry O'Hagan was the Earl's sec- 
 
 ' In the Fewes Tirlo M'O'Neale retary, and probably his foster-brother.' 
 
 hath 300 f. and 50 h.' — Carew Calendar. But the Cal. of Carew MSS. removes 
 
 m ' Some of the Quins and Hagans all doubt regarding O'Neill's fosterers. 
 
22 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 he dwelleth himself amongst them in a little Hand within a 
 small Loughe called Lough Cotos." In this place lay his store of 
 Munition, his money and jewels, and whatsoever precious things 
 he had, namlie his Wife and Children. 
 
 There be no places of importance in this Countrie, but the 
 church of Ardmagh, which was wont to Serve for a Garrison 
 place, and a little Fort upon the Blackwater, which the old 
 Earle of Essex first Builded on the South side of the River, 
 together with a Bridge over the River ; but Tyrone demolished 
 the Bridge and raysed the Fort, and builded it on the North 
 side of the River to Stopp the Passage of the Foord, which the 
 L. Burrowes, late L. Deputie, surprised in July 1597, and 
 placed in it a Garrison of 200 Men, who kept the same till 
 August 1598, at which tyme, after the overthrowe given the 
 
 Under the year 1594, at p. 87, the Earl 
 of Tyrone says : — ' The Earl's foster- 
 brothers, Captain Richard and Henry 
 Hovendon, having the leading of 200 f. 
 upon the Earl's charges, overthrew 500 
 or 600 Spaniards in Tir-Connell . . 
 but neither they nor the Earl had any 
 recompense of such service.' Again, 
 in the negotiations with Elizabeth's 
 commissioners, Jan. 15th, 1596, O'Neil 
 says he cannot give them full satisfac- 
 tion, because his secretary, Henry Ho- 
 vendon, was absent, and he could not 
 trust another to write for him on such 
 matters. — Carat' Calendar, an. 1596, 
 pp. 133 and 136. 
 
 " ' In a little island called Lough 
 Coe.' — Bagnall. Island fastnesses in 
 inland lakes formed the universal sys- 
 tem of defence in the north. Phetti- 
 
 place, a famous pirate, informs the 
 Council that John O'Neal the Proud 
 ' dependeth for fortification on sartin 
 freshwater loghes in this country. It 
 is thought that there, in the said fortified 
 islands, lyeth all his plate, which is 
 much, and his money, prisoners, and 
 gages. He hath razed the strongest 
 castles of his country.' See what Mr. 
 Evelyn Shirley says on this subject in 
 his admirable work, called Account of 
 the Territory of Farney. As Hugh 
 trusted his foster-brothers, so, accord- 
 ing to Phettiplace, ' Shane's strength 
 and safety consists, not in the noblest 
 of his men, nor in his kinsmen nor 
 brothers, but on his foster-brothers, the 
 O'Donnelly's, who are three hundred 
 gentlemen.' 
 
COUNTY OF MONAGHAN. 
 
 23 
 
 Inglyshe at Ardmaghe, it was yielded upon Composition to 
 Tyrone, who possesseth the same at this instant. 
 
 The Principall men 
 of this Country are : 
 
 The Primate of Ardmaghe. 
 
 The Earl of Tyrone. 
 
 O'Hanlons. 
 
 Turloghe Brasilagh. 
 
 Sir Turloghe M c Henrie of 
 
 Fewes. 
 Art M c Barons Sonnes. 
 The Clero-ie of Armagh. 
 
 the 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF MONAGHAN. 
 
 This Countie was in tymes past called Oriel, given at the 
 time of the conquest to one Reinold FitzUrse, or Baresone, 
 supposed to be one of the 4 Knights that slew Thomas Beckett. 3 
 His offspring are grown mere Irysh, and called M c Mahon, which 
 signifyeth in Irish the Sone of a Beer. b He hath under him 
 three Captains, all of his own surname, and possesseth the 
 Countries of Loughty, Dartire, and Ferny, which last bordereth 
 
 Art MacBaron had 30 f. and 30 h. 
 — Dymniok. Cormack M c Baron had 
 300 f. and 40 h., and O'Neil had always 
 about him 700 f. and 200 h. — Carew 
 Calendar, p. 299. 
 
 a ' Sanct Thomas of Canterbury.' — 
 Dymmok. From this extract of Dym- 
 niok, and from a blank before Thomas 
 in our MS., it appears not unlikely that 
 Sanct, or Saint, was in the original. 
 
 b Sir Henry Sydney, Spencer, Dym- 
 mok, Campion, and others, laboured 
 under this delusion j but Mr. Evelyn 
 Shirley gives the pedigree of the 
 M c Mahons, and shows them to be pure 
 Celts. Marshal Bagnall says nothing 
 of the 'Bear's Son.' 
 
 c ' Iriell, Dartry, Loghtie, and Trow.' 
 — Bagnall. ' Iriel, Bartrey, and Ferney.' 
 Dymmok. 
 
24 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 upon the Countie of Louth, and being a parcell of the Ancient 
 Possessions of the Crowne, was given to the Grandfathers of 
 this Earle of Essex, the title whereof remayneth in the now 
 Earle, his Grandsonne. There is not in this Countie any 
 Corporat Towne or place of importance, save 2 or 3 defaced 
 Monasteries and the Lp. of Dunamore belonging to the Earle of 
 Essex. 
 
 M c Mahon, now Capten hereof, is Sister's Sone to the Earle of 
 Tyrone, and was able to make 120 Horsemen and 600 Footmen. d 
 This Countie bordereth upon the Countie of Louth to East, to 
 the Countie of Cavan or Omelies Countrie* to the South and 
 South East, to the Lough, called Lougherne, north-west, and 
 to the Countie of Ardmaghe to the North. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF FERMANAGH. 
 
 This Countie, called commonlie M c Gwyres countrie, 3 lyeth 
 upon both sides of the great Lough called Erne, and Stretcheth 
 northward toward O'donnell's Countrie, called Tyrconnell ; it 
 hath the Countie of Tyrone to the East, Leytrim to the West, 
 and to the South Monaghan and part of the Countie of Cavan. 
 
 d 'In 1599, M c Maghone, Ferry Clan- ' Recte, O'Reilly's Countrie. There 
 
 carvell, and Patrick IVPArte Moyle, in is in No. 9 of Ulster Jour, of Arch. 
 
 the co. of Monaghan, have 500 f. and a curious, coloured old map of Clones 
 
 160 h.' — Careiv Calendar. ' M c Mahon, and Dartrie, showing the 'watch toure' 
 
 with Ferney and Glancarvell, M c Arty (i.e., round tower), the four or five 
 
 Moyle (being a competitor for ye co. of churches, the Cross, ' the chapel,' and 
 
 Monahan'). — Dymnwk. ' M c Mahowne the Abbey ; and the bogs, woods, and 
 
 in Monaghan, Ever M c Coolye in the mountains all around. 
 
 Ferney, and others of that name in a Conteineth all Farmanaghe, Ter- 
 
 Clankarvil, 500 f. and i6oh.' — Moryson. mingraghe, and Tyrmin-Omungan. Bag. 
 
COUNTY OF TYRONE. 
 
 25 
 
 This Countrie for the most part is verie Strong of Wood 
 and Bogg, especiallie near the great Lake called Erne, wherein 
 is diverse Hands, full of Woods. Buildings in this Countrie are 
 none of importance, the chief Hous is Inishkellen, demolished, 
 which is Situat in one of the greatest Hands in the Lough. 
 The present Capten is named S' Conner roe M c Gwyre, an old 
 man . . . was able to make almost of his own Surname 120 
 Horsemen and 600 Footemen. b 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF TYRONE. 
 
 The Countie of Tyrone contayneth all the Land from the 
 Black Water to the Laffer and fyne. a This was the portion 
 assigned to Turlo°;he Lenogbe O'Nealle in the Treatie between 
 him and the Earle of Essex, who before had comandemend of 
 all Lands Southward to the Inglysh Pale. 
 
 This Countie hath the great Louche called Eaghe to the 
 East, and the Countie of Coleraine to the West, the Countie of 
 Ardmagh to the South, and Tyrconnell to the North. The 
 
 b ' He hath 600 f. and 100 h.' — Carew 
 Calendar. ' He is able to make (and 
 most of his owne nation), 80 horsemen, 
 240 shot, and 300 kerne.' — Bagnall. 
 ' He is left always to the rule and com- 
 mandment of O'Neil, and yet be very 
 desirous to depend on the Queen.' — 
 Bagnall. However, this Maguire, six 
 years afterwards, i.e., in 1594, would 
 not suffer any man to pass through his 
 country, who wore an English hat or 
 cloak (S. Paper, 10 Feb. 1594). 'He 
 
 is one of O'Neil's Uraughts ; he hath 
 not any of name under him but his 
 owne kindred ; he is under the bishop 
 of Clohn in the Co. of Tyrone.' — 
 Dymmok. 
 
 The Uriaghs just mentioned were 
 'sub-kings' (Oir-righ) who paid tribute 
 to their King, and joined his standard 
 in time of war. 
 
 a 'from Black water to Liffer.'- 
 nall. 
 
 -Bag- 
 
26 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 now Earle of Tyrone claiming this Countrie from his Grand- 
 father, and growing Strong upon Turloghe Lenaghe, the last 
 O'Neall, and wynning his followers from him, lest it should 
 burst out into Warr, a composition was made between them by 
 Sir John Perrot, L. Deputie, that for the life of the said O'Neale, 
 the Earle should paie to him for a portion of Land being almost 
 the halfe b of the Countie Southwards, iooo marks Stir, yearlie, 
 which Composition thoghe the Earle did not observe, yet the 
 Deputies succeeding wou'd not have the same broken during 
 the Life of the said O'Neall, after which the Earle of Tyrone 
 became M* of all, first under the name of Earle of Tyrone, but 
 in the entire of his Rebellion perceiving the Iryshrie more to 
 affect the name of O'Neall, he caused himself to be chosen 
 O'Neall after the ancient manner, thereby disannulling the Act 
 of Parliament, which had altogether [abrogated] the name and 
 Creation of O'Neall, made when his Grandfather Con O'Neall 
 was made Earle of Tyrone. 
 
 The Inhabitants of this Countrie and the chief Gentlemen of 
 the 0'Nealls d amongst whome were the Sonnes of Shane 
 O'Neall, Henrie, Hugh, Con, and Arthur. The Eldest and 
 
 b ' the half thereof and more.' — Bag- casion of much mischiefe and disorder; 
 
 nail, th' other that by this division it will 
 
 'which (1000 marks a year) hath weeken the force and greatness of such 
 
 been detayned by the Erie : where as shall succeede, whereby they shall 
 
 throughe it is like that some trouble will not be of power to do the hurt they 
 
 arise betwceue them or it be longe. were wont.' — Bagnall. 
 Turlough desireth from her Ma tie to his 
 
 sonne that portion of Tyrone, wherein ' first the 0ne y les ' who m ° St ar <; 
 
 he dwelleth, and is the remotest parte a11 horsemen; the Clandonnells, all 
 
 from th' English Paleward. The grant- g allo S las ' the Odoonelles, a very strong 
 
 ing whereof were very expedient; the ^ and much affected t0 Shane 
 
 one for extinguishing their barborous 0nell ' s sonnes > the Ha S ans and Q u y ns - 
 
 custom of Tanestship, which is th' oc- — £a g> ia ^- 
 
COUNTY OF TYRONE. 2J 
 
 the youngest were Prisoners in the Castle of Dublin, but 
 escaped; in which escape Henry wounded himself negligentlie 
 [accidently] with a knife as he was slipping down the Cord to 
 Escape, and died of the wound ; Con and Arthur are Prisoners 
 with the Earle ; Hughe was Hanged by the Earle upon a 
 Suspicion that he had intended his death, which was the cause 
 of the great hatred between Tyrone and M c Sleyne in Scotland, 
 Hugh's Mother being M c Cleynes Father's Sister. In this 
 Countie also is O'Neall's Turlogh's Grand Son to the last 
 O'Neall. 
 
 This Countie hath not Townes, but divers ruined Castles, as 
 Dungannon, the Earles principall Hous, which himself cast 
 down to the middest after he had well . . . builded it and 
 covered it with Lead, when Sir William Russell, late Lord 
 Deputie, approached with the Armie thereto ; Omaghe, New- 
 castle, Benburge, e and Strabane, which was the place, where the 
 last O'Neall had his Residence, whose Wife being a Scottish 
 woman drew great repair of Scottishmen thither insomuch as at 
 this present there are above 3 or four Score Scottish Familes 
 inhabitting there. This Countie is able to make 450 Horsemen 
 and 8oo f Footemen. 
 
 The Odoonells were the O'Donnellies In 1592 'the forces of Tyrone were 
 
 who were foster-brothers of Shane 930 h. and 5,260 f., of which 20 horse 
 
 O'Neil, and who numbered '300 gentle- and 1,000 foot were retained by the 
 
 men of their name' according to the Earl of Tyrone.' — (Carew Calendar, p. 
 
 pirate Phettiplace. 73). ' Where the Earle of Tyrone hath 
 
 e called Benburb by Shane O'Neil. rule is the fairest and goodliest countrie 
 
 f '3oo h. and 1,500 f., but alwaies in Ireland, and many gentlemen of the 
 
 the strength and greatness of the Neyles dwell therein.' {Letter of Lord 
 
 Oneyles stoode chiffest upon bandes of Chancellor Cusack of the &th May 
 
 Scottes, whom they caused their Uri- 1552, quoted by the Editor of Bagnall's 
 
 aughes to victual and paye.' — B agnail. MS.) 
 
28 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF COLERAINE. 
 
 This Countie beareth this name of the Castle of Coleraine 
 upon the North side of the Banne, and not of the Abbey of 
 Coleraine, which is on the other side of the River. It con- 
 tayneth all the Land* between the Rivers of Banne and Lough- 
 foile along the Sea coast. It hath the Sea to East, Tyrone and 
 the Woods of Clanknockkeyne to the West, the Banne to the 
 South, and Loughfoile to the North. There is no man of name 
 in it, But Sir Donald Ocaen and his Freeholders ; This Ocaen 
 is the cheif of O'Neall's Vassalls, b and createth him O'Neall by 
 casting a Shoe over his head upon a Hill in Tyrone. 
 
 He is able to make near 200 Horsemen, which are esteemed 
 the best Horsemen that O'Neall hath, and 500 Footmen ; c and 
 because he Lyeth near Scotland, he was well affected to the 
 Scotch and gave them yearlie great relief; he hath 2 strong 
 Castles upon Loughfoyle — Armagh d and Limevady, and upon 
 the Banne, near the Salmond Fishing, 2 Castles — the Castle of 
 Coleraine somewhat defaced yet Wardable, and Castle Roe 
 wherein O'Neall was wont to keep a Ward to receive his part 
 of the Fishing. 
 
 a ' all o'Cahan's country.' — B agnail. the Rebellion in Ulster 1596. — Careiv 
 
 b ' Uraughts.' Dymmok. Calendar. 
 
 In 1590 the Earl of Tyrone re- d 'Anagh.' — Bagnall In 1542 the 
 
 nounced meddling with the ' Uriats ;' Lord Dep. and Council wrote to 
 
 but saido'Cane was noneof the 'Uriatts,' Henry VIII. about a proude obstynate 
 
 being an inhabitant within the county Irysheman called O'Cathan. {Printed 
 
 of Tyrone. State Papers, Vol. iii. p. 408). The 
 
 c In 1592 'the forces of Colrane were O'Cahans were descended from 
 
 400 h. and 1,000 f. {Carew Calendar, O'Cathan, grandson of O'Niall of the 
 
 p. 73). ' A garrison should be placed Nine Hostages. They ruled Ciannacta 
 
 at Deny, bordering upon O'Cahan, the from at least the year 1138, and were 
 
 chief strength of horse that the Earl styled in Irish High (Kings), or Tigh- 
 
 has.' — Mr. Francis Shane, Discourse on earna (Lord), or Taoiscach (Chief). 
 
COUNTY OF DUNNIGALL. 29 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF DUNNIGALL. 
 
 This Countie contayneth all Tyrconnell, and is the greatest 
 of all the Shyres of Ulster, and contayneth all the Land to the 
 River of Fynne northward to the Sea. From the East Sea to 
 the County [River] of Earne near the Countie of Sligo, so hath 
 it the Sea upon the East and North, the River Fynne to the 
 South, and Earne to the West. This Countie contayneth all 
 O'Donnells and Odocherties Countrie. [The first year that 
 the K. came into England this Country was erected into an 
 Earldom, etc.] O'Donnell is Captain and Governor of Tyr- 
 connell, the chief strength of whom standeth upon 2 Septs of 
 People called 0'Gallochies b and M c Swynes who are all 
 Galloglasses [That is men armed with Coates of Mayl Steel 
 Bonetts, Swords and pole axes]. He is able to make about 
 300 Horsemen and so many more Footmen. 
 
 b ' O'Galchoule.' — Carew Calendar. whom 80 h. and 500 f. were retained 
 
 < /-»/- 11 u 11 . z> 71 T by O'Donnell. In 1599 O'Donnell had 
 
 O Gallochelles. — Baenall. In ' , , r J r. 1-1 
 
 r. z. •* • ™^i_ 1 j 1 180 h. and 1,250 f of whom he kept 
 
 Dymmok it is O Chaloganes, and the ... , , , ? r- 
 
 . , _,. . ° ' , round him 60 h. and 200 f. — Carew 
 
 learned Editor surmises, that perhaps -, , , . ,. „ 71 
 
 . . „, TT . , ,„/,■> Calendar. According to Dymmok he 
 
 it is O Halagan ; but the Betagh and , . , , , , ,■ , , 
 
 r, „,,cc. • . , ™~ „ , had 3,000 f. and 200 h. for his whole 
 
 BagnallMSS. point to the O Gallaghers, °' . TT . . , c . 
 
 i * . . 1 . , , .. ,, -,?, c country. 'His country is large, profit- 
 
 'a sept which inhabit the middle of ,, ', , , . , -, 
 
 rre r, n , ., , t. ■ . „ able and good — a ship under sail may 
 
 Tir-Connell, says the 'Description of ° r r , . , , ,1 
 
 T , „ , . , , ,-r, ... , , , come to four of his houses. (X. 
 
 Lough Foyle in 1601. (Published by „,,,„, . . 
 
 tt Z t -n> tt ■ xt o r tt, / Chancellor Citsackin 1552). 
 
 Herbert F. Hore, in No. 18 of Ulster . ,. ~ ,, co , 
 
 t £ a 7 \ ^!_ ™^ 11 1 r , According to Carew Mbb. 614, 
 
 / of Arch.) The O'Galchoule of the rtm _ ., * < A . . f T nrAo nf c^Z 
 
 Carew MSS. is called ' Gallchubhar in 
 
 O'Donnell was ' the best Lorde of fyshe 
 
 in Ireland, and exchangeth fyshe alwaies 
 the F. Mast. an. 1586 and 1587. .,,..' . ° r J . , 
 
 J J ' with foreign merchants for wine; by 
 
 c ' 200 h. and 1,300 f.' — Bagnall. In which his call in other countries is 
 
 1592 there were in O'Donnell's country King of the Fishe? (No. 7 Ulst. J. of 
 
 of Tir-connell 310 h. and 2,680 f., of Arch. p. 148-9). 
 
30 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Between O'Donnell and O'Neall in tymes past hath been 
 continual Warr for the Castle of Liffer and the Lands there- 
 abouts, Lying between both their Countries and bordering upon 
 Loughfoyle, by which means of their dissention it was kept 
 altogether Wast and uninhabitted, until the late Ouene took it 
 into her hands, and made it a Garrison place, and so remayneth 
 unto this day. This controversie was taken away by a double 
 Marriage. Tyrone having married O'donnell's Sister, by whom 
 he hath divers Sonnes, and O'Donnell having married his 
 Daughter, whom many yeares he hath cast off for Barronness. 
 
 O'Dogherties Countrie is a promontory almost environed 
 with the Sea, namlie, with Lough Swilly on the South, and 
 Loughfoyle on the North. It is Governed by a Capten, called 
 Sir Caher O'doghertie, who not being of power able to defend 
 himself was forced to contribute both to O'Neall and O'Donnell, 
 and by turne to Serve them both. His Country lying upon the 
 Sea, and upon the Isles of Ila and Jura in Scotland, was wont 
 almost yearlie to be invaded by the Scotch, who tooke the 
 Spoyles at their pleasures, whereby O'Doghertie was forced 
 always to be at their devotions [He was latelie Killed.] 
 
 He was able of his own Nation, and others his followers, to 
 make 80 Horsemen and 300 Footemen. d Buildings in this 
 Countrie are the Ordy [Orey] e which is defaced, and Creen 
 Castle/ which is also defaced. 
 
 d 60 h. and 300 f. — Bagnall. is one of the sept of the O'Gallocars. 
 
 * ' Dery, which is defaced, and Green- He dwelled in 1600 at the Castle and 
 
 castle, and [ . . . ] which are ward- Church of Fanne. {Lough Foyle in 1601 
 
 able.' — Bagnall. All that follows by H. J. Hore). 
 
 about Tir-connell is not in the Bagnall ' On the south syde of the country 
 
 MS. at the coming to the Loughe, an ould 
 
 The Derie stood three miles above ruined Castle called Newcastle. Here 
 
 Culmore ; there the Bishop dwelt, who dwells Hugh Boy mack Caire, one of 
 
COUNTY OF DUNNIGALL. 3 I 
 
 This Countie hath some principall Castles belonging to it — ■ 
 Dunigall, 6 O'Donnell's chief Hous, from whence the Countie 
 hath the name ; Ballyshannon, h standing upon the Earne, a 
 Strong Hous, by the means whereof O'Donnell passeth the 
 River of Earne at his pleasure, and entereth Conaught in a 
 manner quietlie, Lyffer and Fynne, 1 he had also Beleeke and 
 Bundroose beyond the River of Earne on Conaught side ; 
 besides the Abbeys of Dunigall, Asherowe, and Darrie, all 
 ruined saving Dunigall, latelie re-edifyed by the Earl of Tyr- 
 connell, and Sundrie other small Fryries. j 
 
 The Principal men in this Countie [It is now in the King's 
 hands and kept with a Garrison. Defaced. Beleke is now the 
 possession of S. H.] are Sir Roger O'donnell, Earle of Tyr- 
 connell, The Bishops of Derrie and Rafoe, Hugh Duff 
 0'Donnell, k who challengeth a title the whole Countrie. [Hugh 
 Oge Roe, Sonne and heyre to the said S" Hugh by the 
 Daughter of James M c Connell. Defaced. S' Hugh, Chief of 
 his name, who hath resigned his place to his Sone and betaken 
 
 the O'Doghertie sept ; It is called also of Dunboye ; O'Donnell's mother at the 
 
 Greencastle, but in Irish Caiskan nua, forts of M c Gwyvelin and Cargan. 
 
 i.e., the new Castle. — Hore. j The Fryars dwell in the abbayes of 
 
 Kil O'Donnell, of Ballaghan, of Asheroe, 
 
 s Here is a good haven, and the and of Donegall. Bishop O'Gallogher's 
 
 river Esk falls into it, also an Abbey houses were the Derry, the Castle and 
 
 and a Castle. Three miles above it is Church of Fanne ; and at the Castle of 
 
 Lough Eske, O'Donnell's chief keeping K ilmerrish at the lower end of O'Boyle's 
 
 and chief store-house for the warr.— country n ve d the Bishop of O'Boyle. 
 
 Hore - At a Castle and Church called Clon- 
 
 h tun. j 11 -ivTcrMT-i 1 meny lives a priest called Amerson. 
 
 * 'Where dwells M c O Dongonrye. — ,_ , , , ,„ TT , 
 
 TT a j (Condensed from Mr. Hore s Loumh 
 
 Foyle in 1601). 
 O'Donnell dwelt at Differ, and Cul k Hugh M c Hugh Duffe, I presume, 
 
 MacTryne; and Neal Garve, at Castle who lived in the Castle of ' Ramaltan,' 
 Fene ; Shane M c Manus Oge, at the fort which stands upon the Lanan. 
 
32 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 himself to the Monasterie.] Hugh M c Connell, 1 adopted, who is 
 also a Competitor for the Capitencie, and was many years 
 accompted the Sonne of Dronisk O'Gallochie. 
 
 The 2 Sonnes of Con O'Donnell. 
 
 S' r Caher O'Doghertie,™ Knight, Capten of his Countrie. 
 
 Sir Owen O'Gallochie." 
 
 M c Swyne Baine.° 
 
 M c Swyne faine. p 
 
 M c Swyne a Doagh. q 
 
 Quaere, was he the ' Seneschal 
 M c Gonell who dwelt at the haven of 
 Calboy?'— (See Hore). 
 
 m Of this name, the Chief, Sir Cahir, 
 lived at Don-yrish fort, at the Castle of 
 Elloghe (Oilcach), and at the Castle of 
 Birt he had a ward of 40 men ; Hugh 
 Boy M c Caire at Greencastle, and his 
 brother Shane M'Duffe at Moville ; 
 Phelimy Og, the chief's brother, at the 
 fort of Culmore. In the island of 
 Ench lives Doultach O'Dogherty ; 
 Conor M c Garret O'D. at Buncrana 
 Castle J Phelim Brasleigh O'D. at Car- 
 rigbraghey Castle; Phelim Brasleigh 's 
 two sonnes at the Castle of Caslan- 
 Stoke, and the fort of Don-Owen ; 
 M c Shane O'Doghertie at Caldanylie. 
 
 This country is called Inishowen; 
 the midland country is mostly moun- 
 tainous, and hath few inhabitants. 
 Also in this country Hugh Carrogh 
 M'Loughlin, chief of his sept, dwells in 
 the Castle of Caire MacEwlyn, and 
 Brien Og M'Loughlin at the Castle of 
 Garnegall. (Condensed and arranged 
 from the Description of Lough Foyle, 
 edited by Hore). 
 
 " Donel Gallocar, one of O'Donnell's 
 chief councillors, lives at the fort of 
 Ballakit. The O'Galloghers lived in 
 the Baronies of Raphoe and Tirhugh, 
 had a Castle at Ballyshannon, were the 
 Constables of the Castle of Lifford and 
 commanders of O'Donnell's cavalry. 
 Perhaps ' M'O'Dongonry who dwells 
 in Ballashannon,' mentioned in Mr. 
 Horis MS., is a mistake for O'Gallo- 
 gher. 
 
 dwells at M'Swyn O'Bane's Tower; 
 Hugh Boy M c Swyne (O'Bane's brother) 
 at the Castle of Bromoyle. 
 
 p At the castle and abbey of Ramel- 
 lan is M'Swyn O'Fane's chief country 
 House ; Menrice (near Red Haven) is 
 also a castle of M'Swyn O'Fanets. 
 Red Haven (where dwells Alexander 
 M c Donologe) separates the countries 
 of M c Swyne O'Fane's and M'Swyn 
 O'Doe's. 
 
 q of the castle of Conogarhen. 
 ' O'Boyle's chief house is O'Boyle, 
 where the ships used to ride.' (The notes 
 in this column are taken from Hore's 
 Lough Foyle). 
 
 Our MS. does not state the forces 
 
COUNTY OF DUNNIGALL. 33 
 
 All Ulster" is now joined together in Rebellion against the 
 Quene, saving the Countie of Louth, a little piece of land about 
 the Newrie and the Towne of Craigfergus ; all the Captens of 
 Countries are bound to the Earle of Tyrone, either by Affinitie 
 or Consanguinitie or duetie ; for O'Donnell is his Brother-in-law, 
 his first Wife being O'Donnell's Sister, M c Gwyre is his Coosen 
 Germane, for the Earl's mother was this M c Gwyres Father's 
 Sister ; Ocaen is his Coosen Germane, for his Father's Sister 
 was Ocaen's mother ; further, Ocaen is his chief Vassell, and of 
 late he hath married this Earle's Daughter, whom O'Donnell 
 hath divorced from him ; M c Mahon is his near Kinsman ; 
 M c Gynnes is his Brother-in-law, for his present Lady is 
 M c Gynnes's Sister. 
 
 Tyrone is a man valiant, Temperate and wise, well brought 
 up, partlie in the Court of Ingl., and a Speciall actor in all the 
 Warrs of Ireland these xxx years, whereby he is become a man 
 of great expereance, to which parts some ambition is joyned. He 
 is now become impotent to contayne himself within his bounds ; 
 but Seeketh to Usurpe the whole province. 
 
 His forces, when the Countrie is as hath been said, 5,800 
 Footemen and 1,870 Horsemen, To whom many ill disposed 
 persons from all parts of the Land hath conjoyned themselves, 
 
 of O'Donnell's sub-chiefs or Oir-righ, so wild, as never conquered nor quiet ; 
 
 viz., 'The Donnelagh's country, be- whollyinrebellionexceptsomescores(?), 
 
 twixt the river Fynn and Lough Swilly, the climate unwholesome; the passages 
 
 possessed by Con O'Donnell's sons and so difficult as that my Lord Burgh . 
 
 M c Hugh Duff, hath 150 f. and 30 h. ; The General Norreys never could look 
 
 M c Swyne's cuntry, M c S\vine de Band, over the water. Good soldiers well 
 
 M c Swyne de Fand, and MacSwyne de armed and in blood. The Scottish 
 
 Doe, hath 500 f. and 30 h. O'Boyle's islands, which yield men and provisions, 
 
 country reached to Calebegge, hath Clyfford betrayed ; Bingham lightly 
 
 100 f. and 20 horse.' — SeeCareiv Calen. condemned.' — Memorial for Ireland, 
 
 " Ulster. — A country so strong and written in Cecil's hand, Nov. 4, 1598. 
 
 E 
 
34 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 besides a certen number of Scots whom he entertayneth upon 
 the Bonnaghts of the Countrie, whereby his Forces will extend 
 to the number of about One [Ten] thousand. 5 
 
 s The summa totalis of such horse and 
 foote as the Erie of Tyrone hath very 
 lately plotted to be cessed and waged 
 by the several Captaynes and Lords of 
 Cuntries in ye Province of Ulster is 
 foote 8430, horse 1130 ; in all 9560. — 
 Dymmok, p. 30. 'In 1600 the main 
 strength of the chieftains of Ulster 
 was 9000 f. and 800 h.' — Careio Calen- 
 dar, p. 405. In 1598 Capt. Francis 
 Stafford gave ' The List of the Horse 
 and Foot of Ulster under the Earl's 
 command in 1598.' — Cormac M'Baron 
 of Carrick-Teague, 60 h. 200 f. ; Art 
 M'Baron in O'Neale's land, 30 h. 80 f. ; 
 Henry M c Shane of the Tynan, 30 h. 
 80 f. ; Phelimy O'N. of Dunavall, 10 h. 
 40 f. ; Con MTerlagh of the Tynan, 
 10 h. 40 f. ; Con M c Henry, between 
 Tynan and Clougharde, 1 2 h. 40 f. ; Sir 
 Art O'N. of the Onye, 30 h. 50 f. ; Tir- 
 logh M c Henry, 50 h. 100 f. ; Cormac 
 O'N. of Lenough, 10 h. 30 f. ; Con 
 O'N., s h. 20 f.; John O'N. of Carrick- 
 Teall, 20 h. 50 f. ; Shane M c Bryan O'N. 
 and Neal M c Hugh O'N. (Lords of the 
 Lower Clonduboyes), Neal M'Bryan 
 Erto O'N. and Owen MacHugh O'N. 
 (Lords of Upper Clanduboy), and 
 M c Sowrlie of the Rowte, 60 h. 200 f. ; 
 ' Tyrone 60 h. for himself and his men, 
 200 f. under Nugent and Tirrell, and 
 100 naked Scots with bows ' = 60 h. 
 300 f. ; Neal O'Guin of Curran, 10 h. 
 30 f. ; Oge Guin, 20 h. 30 £ ; John 
 M'Donnell Grome of Bunburbe, 8 h. 
 40 f. ; Edmund Gynelagh of Knock-la- 
 
 Glynche, 6 h. 30 f. ; Bryan Carrough 
 M c Donnell, 30 h. 60 f. ; O'Mallow 
 (Mallon ? Ed.) of Ellis Flynn, 6 h. 20 f. ; 
 O'Hagan, i6h. 40 f. ; Cormac O'Hagan, 
 ioh. 20 f. ; O'Cane, 60 h. 60 f. ; O'Han- 
 lon, M c Genyese, and Brian M c Art, So h. 
 200 f. ; Maguyre, 50 h. 200 f. ; The 
 M c Mahounds together, 100 h. 300 f. ; 
 O'Donnell, O'Doherty, and Tirconnell, 
 140 h. 1000 f. Total =1043 h. and 
 3540 foot. — Carew Calendar, p. 287. 
 
 In April 1599, the Ulster forces con- 
 sisted of 1470 h. and 6180 f. The 
 mustering of O'Donnell's forces in that 
 year is thus quaintly chronicled in the 
 Irish Annals : ' First of all assembled 
 the Kinel-Connel, among whom were 
 Hugh Oge (the son of Hugh Duv, son 
 of Hugh Roe, son of Niall Garv 
 O'Donnell) ; and Niall Garv (the son 
 of Con, son of Calvach, son of Manus, 
 son of Hugh Duv) ; O'Dogherty (John 
 Oge, the son of Felim, son of Conor 
 Carragh) ; O'Boyle (Teig Oge, the son 
 of Teig, son of Torlogh, son of Niall) ; 
 MacSuiny Fanad (Donnal, the son of 
 Torlogh, son of Mulmurry) ; MacSuiny 
 Banach (Donogh, the son of Mulmurry 
 Meirgeach, son of Mulmurry, son of 
 Niall) : all these with their forces. To 
 the same rendezvous came Maguire 
 (Hugh, the son of Cuconnacht, son of 
 Cuconnacht, son of Cuconnacht, son 
 of Brian, son of Philip, son of Thomas) ; 
 the son of O'Rourk ; and the MacWil- 
 liam.' 
 
LEINSTER. 
 
 Contayneth that portion of Land which was conquered by the 
 Inglysh, including the Counties of Dublin, Kildare, Catherlaghe, 
 Wexford, Kilkenny, King's and Ouene's countie, and latelie one 
 other Countie taken out of the Counties of Dublin and Wexford, 
 called by the name of Wickloe. 3 
 
 DUBLIN. 
 
 Dublin contayneth all the Land from Baleratherie, nere the 
 Countie of Meath, to Bray, which is the Length of the Shyre, 
 and includeth all the Land between the Naas and Dublin, which 
 
 a ' The Irish Septs planted in Leinster 
 are, according to Sir H. Sydney's Col- 
 lections, the Bymes, Tooles, Cavanaghes 
 (which is the nation of the Macmur- 
 row), Omores, O'Connores, Odempsyes, 
 Odun.' ' The Irish coursed the English 
 into a narrow circuite of certaine shires 
 in Leinster, which the English did choose 
 as the fattest soyle, most defensible, 
 their proper right, and most open to 
 receive help from England. Hereupon 
 it was termed their pale, as whereout 
 they durst not peepe. But now both 
 within this pale, uncivill Irish and some 
 rebells doe dwell, and without it Coun- 
 treyes and cities English are well go- 
 verned.' — Campion, p. 2 & 4. Ed. 1633. 
 
 ' Leinster includeth all that ground 
 from Dublin southwarde to the river 
 Suyre, and the Cytty of Waterforde, which 
 parteth it from Munster. The river of 
 Shenin in MacCouglian's country de- 
 videth the west parte fromConnaght and 
 Meath ; northwarde yt endeth with the 
 barony of Balrothryand theryver Boyne, 
 and on the east side it is bounded by 
 the sea. They have gone about of late 
 to add two other shires, the counties of 
 Wicklo and Femes ; but because these 
 two shires are unperfett, not having suf- 
 ficient freeholders and gentlemen to 
 choose Shriffes and other principal 
 officers, or to make a jury for the Queen, 
 they may be well omitted.' — Dymtnok. 
 
36 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 is the bredth thereof. In it is comprehended the Kings b and 
 the mountains, some of the O'Burnes and O'Tooles, and the 
 crosse of the Countie of Dublin, being the Libertie of the Arch- 
 bishop, also his Hands in the Sea, as Lambay, Ireland's Eye, 
 and Dalkey. So hath it the Sea to the East part, the Counties 
 of Meath and Kildare to the West, the Counties of Caterlaghe 
 and Wicklow to the South, and the Countie of Meath to the 
 North. 
 
 In it are Townes, viz. 
 The Citty of Dublin, the seat of the Government, the See 
 of the Archbishop Walled with a Barred Haven. 
 Dumboyne 
 Swords 
 
 Luske \ market Townes unwalled and without priviledges. 
 Ratoth 
 
 ' The whole number of the Rebels in 
 this Province of Leinster was 3048 foot 
 and 182 horse.' — Moryson. 
 
 ' Strangers within Leinster. With 
 Pheagh M'Hugh's sonnes are ye 
 Clamoles with 80 f. ; with Murrogh 
 M c Edmimds' sons, 30 Scotts under 
 Donogh Ganco ; of Ulstermen under 
 Con the bastard 800 foote.' — Dymmok. 
 ' The Fastnesses of wood and bogge 
 in Leinster are Glandilore, a fastness in 
 Pheagh M c Hugh's cuntry. Shilogh 
 in the co. of Dublin. The Duffrin in 
 the co. of Wexford. The Dromes and 
 Leverough in the co. of Catherloghe. 
 The great bogge in the King's Co. 
 called the Tougher. The Fewes in 
 the co. of Kildare. The woodes and 
 bogges of Monasterevan, Gallin, and 
 
 Slymarge in the Queen's Co. The 
 Roure near S' Mollines. Part of Con- 
 steragh, joining upon Kilkenny.' — 
 Dymmok, 26. 
 
 b The King's lands and the moun- 
 tains of the O'Byrnes, O'Tooles and 
 Banilagh, called Pheagh MacHugh's 
 cuntry, also Shilo and Ferderrogh and 
 the crosse of the country.' — Dymmok. 
 
 c ' Dyvelin, the beauty and eye of 
 Ireland, fast by a goodly river. The 
 seat hereof is in many respects comfort- 
 able, but less frequented of marchant 
 strangers because of the bard haven. 
 Its Mayorality,both for state and charge 
 of that office, and for the bountifull 
 hospitality exceedeth any Citty in Eng- 
 land, except London.' — Campion, p. 2 
 and 96. 
 
DUBLIN. 
 
 37 
 
 The names of the best Villages in this County. 
 
 Balerotherie Clondalkin Kilshaughlin 
 
 Hoth Brey Finglass 
 
 Newcastle Fieldstowne Ballimore 
 Kingsland 
 
 Principal Castles in this Countie are these 
 
 Swords | both belonging to the Archbishop of Dublin. 
 
 Tallowghe ) 
 
 Rathfernen [Built by S r Adam Loftus] 
 
 Dromconren 
 
 Castle Knock 
 
 
 Monckton 
 
 Dunshughlin 
 
 Donibroke 
 
 Newcastle 
 
 Dromnaghe 
 
 Malahide 
 
 Merron 
 
 Balgriffen 
 
 Belgard 
 
 Turvey 
 
 Lucan 
 
 Hoth 
 
 Donamore 
 
 Luttrelstone 
 
 
 Holme Patrick 
 
 The Ward 
 
 
 Men of name in 
 
 The Arch Bishop of Dublin 
 his Deane and clergie 
 
 L. of Hoth his name St. Law- 
 rence [alias Tristram] 
 
 S r Henrie Harrington 
 
 Preston of Balmadon 
 
 Sir Garot Elmer d 
 
 Preston of Tassagard 
 
 d Garret Aylmer at Munkton; Talbot 
 of Faghsaghere ; Couran of Wyartstone, 
 Coran of Curragh. Only sixty names 
 are given in the Perambulation of the 
 Pale in 1596 ; there are ninety-eight in 
 
 this Countie are 
 S r Will™ Sarsfield, Kn«- 
 
 his hous is Lucan 
 Allen of S' Wolstans 
 Allen of Palmerston 
 Talbott of Balgard 
 Talbot of Templeoge 
 Talbot of Fash d 
 Talbot of Kilmarocke 
 
 our manuscript, to which we will add 
 the following from the Perambulation 
 of the Pale : — Ashpoole of Kenleston, 
 John Bath of Balgriffin, Richard Net- 
 terville of Corballies, Philip Couran of 
 
38 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Barnwall of Dromnaghe 
 Walshe of Shaunogherghe 
 
 [Shanganagh] 
 Fitzwilliams of Merrion 
 Fitzwilliams of Jobston 
 S r William Usher of Dona- 
 broke 
 Phelim O'Toole of Powers- 
 
 toune 
 Walshe of Kilbegan 
 Walshe of Carrickmayne 
 Harold of the Grange 
 Archbold of Kellister 
 Archbold of Bray- 
 Bath of Dromconraghe 
 Burnell of Castle Knock 
 Hollywood of Tartayne 
 Nugent of Kilmore 
 Golding of the Grange 
 Hackett of Sutton 
 Talbot of Malahide 
 Russell of Seaton 
 Fitzsimons of Swords 
 
 Tailor of Swords 
 Caddell of Moreton 
 Caddell of Caddelston 
 Stokes of Knockyngen 
 Wycam of Drynan 
 Blackney of Riknhore 
 Sinothe of Sinot court 
 Foster of Killerghe 
 S r Chris r Plunket Knt of Dun- 
 
 shoghley 
 Bealing of Bealingston 
 Jordan of d 
 
 S r Patrick Barnewall of Turvey 
 Barnewall of Broymore 
 Stanihurst of Carduff 
 Cruis of the Naale 
 Conran of d 
 Beg of Borranston 
 Sedgrave of Killecrlan 
 Barnwall of Dunbroe 
 Scurlock of Rathcredon 
 Hamlen of Smitheston 
 Field of Carduff 
 
 Wyartown, Coran of Curragh, Sedgrave 
 of W. . . . , Golding of Tobbirsowle, 
 Fagan of Feltrim, Bath of Balgriffin, 
 Bellew of Weston, Belling of Kilcoskan, 
 Brown of Kissak, Fagan of Feltrim, 
 Cardiff of Dunsink, Dillon of Hunts- 
 town, FitzGerot of Damaston, Fitz- 
 william of Holmpatrick, King of Clon- 
 tarf, Pypho of Hollywood, Plunket of 
 the Grange, Russell of Dryneham, 
 
 Walshe of Killegarge, Walshe of 
 Ballawlie, Walshe of Kilgobbon, War- 
 ren of Drumconrath, and Peter Travers 
 of Ballykey. Doubtless Beg of Bor- 
 anstown, Scurlock of Rathcredon, and 
 Finglas of Tippersold are the same 
 as Bigg of Borarstown, Scurlock of 
 Rathcredant, and Finglas of Tobber- 
 ton given in the Carew Calendar, p. 
 
DUBLIN, 
 
 39 
 
 Luttrell of Luttrelstone 
 Whyte of S' Kathrens 
 Eustace of Confy 
 Dillon of Keppoch 
 Taylor of Feltrim 
 Finglas of Wespelston 
 Finglas of Tippersole 
 Goodman of Laughanston 
 Delahide of Loughfenny 
 Bath of Carrendeston 
 Bath of Beccanston 
 Sarkey of the Hintch 
 Barnwall of Laspelston 
 Bath of the new 1. 
 Tallen of Weston c 
 Bedlow of Reynoldston 
 Hewitt of Gareston 
 Young of Gareston 
 Plunket of Brownston 
 Sedgrave of Borranston 
 Chamberlon of Kilresk 
 Clinshe of Newcastle 
 
 Reynold of Newcastle 
 Russell of Newcastle 
 Linche of 
 Mason of 
 Taylor of Ballown 
 Den of Tassagard 
 Fount of Tassagard 
 Lock of Colmanston 
 Tappock of Colmanston 
 Fitzsimons of Balmadroght 
 Protford of Protfordeston 
 Tyrrell of Powerston 
 Byrne of Ballyeane 
 Mangen of Loughton 
 Dungan of Loughton 
 Pierce of Cromelin 
 Caddell of Harbardstone 
 Fitzsimons of the Grange 
 Newtervile of Kilsoghlie 
 Ulverston of Stalorgan 
 and many meane freeholders 
 
 Of this Countie of Dublin there is some in this action of 
 Rebellion. The Countrie commonlie called by the late Capten 
 thereof Fewghe M c Hueh his contrie is full of Woods and Hills 
 that it administereth a mervalous Succour to the Rebells that 
 lie therein, for there they lie safelie in a manner, and the Cattle 
 having pasture in abondance can hardlie be driven away there 
 being so few Entries and Outgates into the Countrie. In this 
 
 First written Callen, and then the C was changed to T. 
 
40 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 the Rebells remaynes commonlie all day, and in the beginning 
 of the Night they come abroad and wast the Countries farr and 
 nere, and the Vicinitie of this Countrie to Dublin doth much 
 annoy the Cittie, f for it being within four or Five Miles of the 
 Cittie, the Cittie is constreyned to keep strong watch least on a 
 sudden these Rebells that Lurke in these Mountains do set the 
 Suburbs on Fire which hath heretofore been done by them in 
 the Goverment of the late L. Grey. The now head Capten of 
 this Countrie is called Phelim M c Fewghe 8 who is able to make 
 some 300 or 400 Footmen but no Horsemen. He is confederat 
 
 f Campion thus quaintly speaks of 
 the Dublin mountaineers : — 'While the 
 Deputy staggered uncertain of continu- 
 ance, the Tooles and the Cavanaghes 
 waxed cockish in the Countie of 
 Divelin, ranging in flocks of seven or 
 eight score, on whom set forth the 
 Marshal and the Sheriffes of Divelin, 
 Buckley and Gygen, with the cities 
 helpe, and overlaid them in sudden 
 skirmishes, of which three score were 
 executed for example.' — Campion's 
 Historie, p. 124. Ed. of 1633. 
 
 s ' Those that dwell even within the 
 sight of the smoke of Dublin are not 
 subject to the laws. The very gall of 
 Ireland, and the flame from which all 
 others take their lights is our next 
 neighbour Pheaghe M'Hugh, who, like 
 one absolute within himself, with his 
 den of thieves, ruleth all things in his 
 own country at his own will, refusing 
 in person to come to the Governor, 
 and spoiling his neighbours, who for 
 fear dare not complain. His force does 
 not exceed one hundred persons. His 
 
 neighbours would help to cut him off. 
 The Cavanaghs, who rely upon him, 
 are entered into the like kind of life.' — 
 Sir G. Careiu to Mr. Vice- Chamberlain, 
 Nov. 1590, Carew Calendar. 
 
 Fewghe or Fiach, though not the 
 chief of the O'Byrnes, was the most 
 warlike and powerful man of his name 
 since the death of Dunlang, who was 
 the last inaugurated O'Byrne. He was 
 chief of that sept of the O'Byrnes 
 called Gaval-Rannall, and lived in Glen- 
 malure. His battles and victories are 
 recorded in several poems of the Lcab- 
 har Branach, or Book of the (J Byrnes. 
 The jealousy of the senior branches of 
 the O'Byrnes led to his betrayal and 
 death. Fiach left three sons, viz : 
 Felim who was M.P. for Wicklow in 
 16 13; Raymund and Torlogh ; also a 
 daughter, who was m. to Walter Reagh 
 FitzGerald. His eldest son, Felim, had 
 eight sons and a daughter, of whom the 
 eldest, Brian, had a son Shane M c Brian 
 M c Felim of Ballinacor, who was a 
 Colonel of the Confederate army in 
 
DUBLIN. 
 
 41 
 
 with Tyrone and comonlie doth most mischief when the companies 
 withdrawes from Dublin ether against Tyrone or the Omoores, 
 then do they besturr themselves burning, Spoiling, and praying 
 thereby Seeking either to draw back the Forces from any pro- 
 secution, or else to divide the Forces and so to weaken them 
 that they may either be the more easiliee overthrown or be com- 
 
 164 1, in which also Hugh, a grandson 
 of Fiach, was a lieutenant-colonel. 
 After the year 1641 the family of 
 Ballinacor disappears from history. — 
 See O' Donovan' s Notes to Four Masters, 
 an. 1597. 
 
 ' Fiach M c Hugh continually troubleth 
 the State, though he lyeth under their 
 nose ; plays the Hex, gives heart and 
 succour and refuge to all against her 
 Majesty. Through his boldness and 
 late good success the rebels Byrnes 
 and Tooles threaten perill even to 
 Dublin over whose necke they contin- 
 ually hang. He is a most dangerous 
 enemy to deal withall. Through his 
 own hardinesse lifted himself to such a 
 height, that he dare now front Princes 
 and make tearmes with great potentates. 
 . . . A thousand men should be laid in six 
 garrisons in order to reduce him — 200 
 f. and 50 h. at Ballinacor to shut him 
 out of his great glynne ; at Knocke- 
 lough, 200 f. and 50 h. to answer the 
 co. of Catherlagh ; at Arclo or Wicklow 
 200 f. and 50 h. to defend all on the 
 Sea side ; in Shilelagh 100 f. to cut him 
 off from the Kavanagh's and Wexford 
 about the Three Castles 50 h. which 
 should defend the co. of Dublin ; at 
 Talbotstown 100 f. to keep him from 
 
 breaking out into Kildare and to be 
 always on his necke on that side. 
 These garrisons will so busie him that 
 he shall never rest at home nor stir 
 abroad but he shall be had ; as for his 
 Creete they cannot be above ground 
 and must fall into our hands. By good 
 espialls, whereof there they cannot want 
 store, they shall be drawn continually 
 upon him ; so as one of them shall be 
 still upon him, and sometimes all at 
 once, bayting him — unto the eternall 
 quietness of that Realme.' — Abridged 
 from Spencers View, p. 81. Ed. 1633. 
 
 The Four Masters thus record his 
 death : ' Fiach, son of Hugh, son of 
 John from Glenmalure was slain in the 
 first month of Summer in this year, 
 having been treacherously betrayed by 
 his relation at the bidding of the Chief 
 Justiciary of Ireland, Sir W. Russel.' 
 
 Carew called him ' the firebrand, 
 the gall of Ireland, the ancient traitor 
 of Leinster.' In 1596 Elizabeth made 
 offers, ' honorable for herself and not 
 over hard for Fiach:' 1st, 'Pardon 
 for himself, his wife, sons and followers; 
 and restoration to his house and livings 
 by letters patent, yielding some ser- 
 vice. If he insists on getting back Bal- 
 linacor and will not be reduced without 
 
 F 
 
42 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 pelled more warlie to prosecute the Rebells. All the Gents 
 betwixt Dublin and these mountains do daylie susteyn great 
 losse in their Goods, and sometimes lose their Lives. 11 There is 
 joyned with this Phelim some few of the Walshes, and some of 
 the O'Tooles} 
 
 it, let him have it, and hold it of the 
 Queen, who is at great charges to keep 
 it. 2nd, He must promise to banish 
 all strangers,' etc 
 
 h The joy of these gentlemen of Dub- 
 lin at Fiach's death appears from the 
 following entries in the Lord Deputy's 
 Journal : ' May 8, Sunday. — Early in 
 the morning our foot entered the 
 Glynnes, and fell into that quarter, 
 where Fiach lay ; and coming several 
 ways on him, it pleased God to deliver 
 him into our hands, being so hardly 
 followed, as that he was run out of 
 breath, and forced to take a cave, 
 where one Milborne, sergeant to Cap- 
 tain Lea, first lighted on him, and the 
 fury of our soldiers was so great as he 
 could not be brought away alive ; there- 
 upon the said sergeant cut off Fiach's 
 head with his own sword, and presented 
 his head to my Lord, which with his 
 carcass was brought to Dublin to the 
 great comfort and joy of all that pro- 
 vince. Many of his followers were 
 slain and 200 cows were taken with 
 much pillage, which was divided among 
 the soldiers. My Lord returned to 
 Rathdrome, and there before the fort 
 Knighted Sir Calistinas Brooke, Sir 
 Thomas Maria Wingfield, and Sir 
 Richard Trevers. 9th of May. — My 
 Lord rode to Dublin. All the way the 
 
 people of the country met him with 
 great joy and gladness, and as their 
 manner is, bestowed many blessings on 
 him for performing so good a deed and 
 delivering them from their long oppres- 
 sions. The Council, divers noblemen, 
 and the citizens of Dublin with many 
 others met his lordship, and he was 
 welcomed with universal joy.' 
 
 O'Sullivan Beare says that he was 
 betrayed by some one in whom he had 
 the greatest confidence, 'quodam, quern 
 fidissimum habebat, prodente et hostes 
 ducente.' Dr. O'Donovan thought it 
 was Cahir M c Hugh Duffe ; perhaps it 
 was Hugh Duffe himself who figures 
 in Russell's Journal as ' being out on 
 service,' and as ' certifying that he had 
 taken certain of the traitors' heads.' 
 
 Russell's Journal tells us that Fiach's 
 wife, Rosa O'Toole was found guilty of 
 treason and ' sentenced to be burned.' 
 A constant entry in this Journal is, 
 ' Heads of so many of Fiach's followers 
 brought in.' If followers meant hus- 
 bandmen, or old men or women of his 
 clan, the journal is black indeed. On 
 the 9th of March 1597, 'my Lord 
 pledges his word to Ormond that he 
 will pardon Garret M c Murtagh if he cut 
 off 20 heads of rebel kernes.' 
 
 ' However, on St. Patrick's Eve 
 1597, Phelim O'Toole brought in one 
 
DUBLIN. 
 
 43 
 
 This Countie of Dublin is verie fruitfull, and yealdeth great 
 plentie of all kind of cornes ; but if the Rebells fear prosecution, 
 they burn the Corn that the Subject may not have means to 
 
 head to the Deputy and made a prisoner 
 of one of Fiach's followers. In 1595 
 Sir H. Harrington ' complained of 
 Capt. Lea about the murdering of one 
 of the O'Tooles, protected by Council.' 
 Old Sir Owen O'Toole, Knight, though 
 the Lord Deputy pledged his word he 
 should not be molested, was imprisoned 
 for six years, from the hardships of 
 which he died. — (See Carew Calendar. 
 pp. 89, 153). Felim O'Toole of Teara- 
 Cualann lived at Powerscourt ; he and 
 Brian O'Toole forfeited their territory 
 of ' Fercuolen,' which was five miles in 
 length and four in breadth. O'Toole 
 of Castlekevin, was Fiach O'Byrne's 
 brother-in-law. His son Fiach, was 
 deprived of his property by James I. ; 
 in 1 641 he was a Colonel in the Con- 
 federate Army in which two of his sons 
 held commissions as Lieut-Colonel and 
 Major. 
 
 The Wexford O'Tooles are the most 
 respectable representatives of the name. 
 
 According to the Carew Calendar 
 the O'Tohills, O'Bernes, the Galli- 
 glasses with other Irish septs had 500 
 men whereof 200 were horse. Moryson 
 is more explicit, and perhaps more 
 accurate. He says : — ' The Mountainers 
 of Dublin have 480 h. and 20 f. They 
 are Felim M c Feagh, and his brother 
 Redmond with their sept of the 
 O'Byrnes, and Phelim M c Feagh with 
 his sept of the O'Tooles, and Walter 
 
 M c Edward, chiefe of the gallowglasses, 
 with his sept of the MTJonnells. Only 
 two castles, Newcastle and Wickloe, 
 Sir H. Harrington held for the Queen, 
 and all the rest of the countrie contin- 
 ued loyal.' — Moryson, p. 31. 
 
 Essex tells us that near this castle of 
 Wickloe Harrington 'was overthrown 
 in 1599, and our troops, having advan- 
 tage of number and no disadvantage of 
 ground were put in rout and many cut 
 to pieces without striking a blow. I 
 called a martial court upon the captains 
 and officers. Walshe, lieutenant to 
 Captain Loftus, was executed ; the 
 other captains and officers were all 
 cashiered and imprisoned ; the soldiers 
 were all condemned to die; but were 
 pardoned, and only every tenth man 
 was executed. Sir H. Harrington, be- 
 cause he is a privy councillor in this 
 Kingdom, I forbear to bring to trial till 
 I know her Majesty's pleasure.' — Essex 
 to Privy Council, July n, 1599. 
 
 At Dublin Sir H. Foulkes commands 
 the L. Lieutenant's guard of 200 f. 
 In Fingall and the Navan 300 horse 
 under Sir W. Evers, Sir H. Davers and 
 J. Jephson; in the co. of Dublin 60 
 h. under Sir H. Harrington, Sir E. Her- 
 bert, Sir Gerald Aylemer, and Murrogh 
 M c Teig Oge ; Sir J" Talbot has 22 f. 
 undisposed; Sir Wil. Warren has 50 
 horse and 100 f. at Newcastle. — Mory- 
 son, p. 43. 
 
44 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 relieve the Soldiers in the tyme either of prosecution or cessation, 
 whereupon ensueth extream miserie either to the Countrie man 
 Souldier, or both; for the Souldiers being for the most Part dis- 
 ordered and verie Licentious, will violentlie draw from the poor 
 Husbandman that which shou'd sustain himself and his Familie, 
 and so doth dailie drive him to begg, or if the Souldier be res- 
 treyned which seldom falleth out, he perisheth for want of Food, 
 of both which these last years hath given infinit Examples, and 
 it is to be feared that if the Cornes be burnt up this Winter that 
 there will be little Sowing of Summer Corn this year, and con- 
 sequentlie a dearth and plague, which comonlie followeth dearth, 
 the next year. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF KILDARE. 
 
 This Countie hath Dublin to the East, Catherlogh to the 
 South, the Kings and Ouenes Counties to the West, and Meath 
 to the North. It reacheth no where the Sea ; in it are no 
 Townes of importance, saving Castledermott and Athie, which 
 hath been walled but now ruined, and the Townes of Kildare, 
 Kilcullen, Naas, Leslip, and Maynooth, the principall fors of the 
 Earles of Kildare with other Scattered Villages. 3 It hath many 
 Fayre Castles and Houses. 
 
 The Castle of Kildare, j the Earks of Kildare> 
 
 Castle of Maynooth, J 
 
 S'- Wolstans, a Hous belonging to M r - Allen, 
 
 The Castle of Leslip belonging to M r - Whyte, 
 
 a ' Divers proper villages lie scattered about the cuntrie,' says Dymmok, who 
 dispatches the county of Kildare in four lines. 
 
COUNTIE OF KILDARE. 45 
 
 S 1 - Kathrens a Hous belonging to him, also 
 
 Lecagh a Castle belonging: to one of the Geraldines, 
 
 Kilkea a Hous of the Earles of Kildare, 
 
 Woodstock a Castle of the Earle of Kildares, 
 
 Castle martin belonging to M r - Eustace, 
 
 Carberie belonging to one Coolie, 
 
 Domfert to one b .... Reban belonging to Henrie Lee, 
 
 Mottinsey, 
 
 Monasterevan or the pleasant Abbey, belonging to the L. 
 Cromwells, 
 
 Baltinglass belonging to S r - Henry Harrington, sometyme 
 the chief Hous of the Viscount Baltinglass, B 
 
 Rathangan a Castle of the Earle of Kildares, latelie raysed 
 by the Rebells, 
 
 Rathcoffy, c 
 
 Tipper a hous belonging to one Sutton, 
 
 Osberts Toune belonging to one FitzGerrald. 
 
 b To one Bremingham. — See infra. B The monastery of Baltinglass, 
 In the church of Dunfierth near Enfield, founded by M c Morogh in 1148, was 
 there is, or was not long ago, a sepul- granted, with its manor and castle, to 
 chral effigy carved in high relief, re- Sir Th. Eustace in 1541 ; his grandson, 
 presenting a knight in complete plate the third Viscount Baltinglass, confed- 
 armour; round the neck was suspended erated with the OByrnes, and with them 
 by a chain a large crucifix — according to slew 800 English at the battle of Glen- 
 tradition it represents one of the Ber- malure, in 1580; after the defeat of 
 minghams. Elizabeth wrote to the Desmond in 1583, he retired to Spain 
 Council, Nov. 1599: 'What will be the and his lands were confiscated. His 
 answer of the traitor (O'Neil) for the brother William's descendant, C. S. 
 last treason of the bridge where Es- Eustace, Esq., of Robertstown, claims 
 mond's company was defeated, and the title. — See O 'Sullivan Sere's Hist. 
 what reason will he yield for usurping Cath., Lewis's Top. Diet, Burke's Peer- 
 so unjustly in the time of the Cessation age. 
 
 to place Bremingham in the county of c Belonging to Wogan. — See infra 
 
 Kildare.' — Car. Cat., Nov. 6, 1599. and the Car. Cal. 
 
4 6 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Principal men* in this Cotmtie are : 
 
 Gerrot e Earle of Kildare, Long of the Dour, 
 
 David Sutton, 
 
 Fitz Gerrald of Allen, 
 
 Flatesburie of Johnston, 
 
 Fitzgerrald of Osbertston, 
 
 Edw d - Fitz James of Blackball, 
 
 Eustace of Castlemartin, 
 Barnet of Reban, called S'- 
 
 Michell now belonging- to 
 
 Hen. Lee, 
 Wolf of Benford, 
 
 d The Clongowes MS. gives 58 names; 
 the Car. Cal. contains only 35 — from 
 both we gather the names of 72 gentle- 
 men, of whom 13 were FitzGeralds, 8 
 Eustaces, 4 Berminghams, and 4 
 Aylmers. The only remaining repre- 
 sentatives of any of these seventy-two 
 gentlemen are the Duke of Leinster, 
 FitzGerald of Geraldine, Eustace of 
 Ballymore-Eustace, the Aylmers (for- 
 merly) of Lyons, of Donadea, of Pains- 
 town, and of Courtown. — See Walforcts 
 County Families. 
 
 e This name would show that our 
 'Description' was written before 1585, 
 or in or after 1599 ; since Gerot E. of 
 Kildare died in 1585, and the next of 
 the name of Gerot got the title in 1599. 
 The former Garret was some time a 
 prisoner in the Tower. His son Henry, 
 who had married a d. of the Earl of 
 Nottingham, enjoyed the title until 
 1 597- 'The L. Deputy, having taken 
 the fort of Blackwater, was with the 
 whole army rendering thanks to God'; 
 the Irish interrupted their prayers, and 
 in the conflict killed ' Sir F. Vaughan, 
 the L. Deputy's brother-in-law ; R. 
 Turner, the Serjant Major of the Army; 
 
 and two foster-brothers of the E. of 
 Kildare, who, with his troop of Horse 
 served valiantly upon the Rebells, and 
 tooke the death of his foster brothers 
 so to heart (after the education of the 
 Irish) as shortly after he died. Many 
 also were wounded of whom T. Walker 
 was of chiefe name.' — Moryso/i. O'Neil 
 in his letter to the King of Spain 
 writes : ' Kildare was hurt and died of 
 his hurt;' but Carew wrote in the mar- 
 gin, 'a lie; he died of no hurt.' O'Sul- 
 livan-Bere says: ' Kildare was unhorsed 
 by push of pike, and was wounded ; but 
 was put on horseback again by his two 
 Irish foster-brothers, named O'Hickey, 
 who were killed while saving him. 
 Kildare died a few days afterwards.' 
 The Four Masters say that ' in conse- 
 quence of a wound or of a fever he 
 went homewards, and died at Drogheda 
 and his brother William was installed 
 in his place. William with eighteen 
 chiefs of Meath and Fingall was 
 drowned coming from England,' in 
 1598; and 'his kinsman Garret, the 
 son of Edward, son of Garret, son of 
 Thomas, son of John Cam succeeded.' 
 He was 14th Earl, and with a dispen- 
 
COUNTIE OF KILDARE. 
 
 47 
 
 Baronet/ of the Noraghe, 
 Eustace of Blackrath, 
 Sutton of Tipper, 
 Eustace 6 of 
 Rochfort of Laraghes, 
 Fitzgerrald of Dunor, 
 Owgan of Newhall, 
 Eustace of Mulahasse, 
 
 Sherlock of the Naas, 
 Owgan of h 
 
 Fitzgerrald of Leccaghe, 
 Young of Newton, 
 Browne of Browneston, 
 Fount of Founteston, 
 Pipard of 
 Young of Youngstone, 
 
 sation from the Pope, married his 
 second cousin Elizabeth who was a d. 
 of the 14th Baron of Delvin and was 
 born in the Tower of London. This 
 Garret, according to O'Sullivan, was 
 poisoned by the English in 16 12. 
 
 f Wesley or Wellesly was Baronet 
 of the Noragh. The Car. Cal. has 
 ' Wesley at the Norragh ' in Kildare ; 
 and again, ' Garrat Westie (Wesley ?) 
 of the Dengin ' in Meath. The Wes- 
 leys of the Dangan came to Ireland in 
 1 172, and are ancestors of the Duke of 
 Wellington through Alison Wesley of 
 Dangan, who was married to Sir Henry 
 Colley and died in 1597. Among 
 those pardoned by the English govern- 
 ment in 1598 was R. Wesley; and in 
 1 600 ' Walter Wesley of the Narrowe,' 
 co. of Kildare, and Richard Wesley. — 
 See Morrin s Cal. of Close Rolls, ad an. 
 1598 and 1600. 
 
 g There are five Eustaces in our 
 MS. ; but this Eustace, mentioned with- 
 out the name of his place, may be ' E. 
 at Newlande, E. at Cradockstowne, E. 
 at Coffy, or E. at Clangloswoodd.' 
 This is clearly Clongoweswood near 
 
 Clane, to which our MS. belongs. — 
 See Car. Cal. , Peramb. of the Pale, p. 
 191. 
 
 "Wogan of Rathcoffy.— Car. Cal 
 This family produced some remarkable 
 men, of whom the Editor of this book 
 published an account some years ago. 
 John Wogan was twice ruler of Ire- 
 land in the 14th century; R. Wogan 
 was High Chancellor in 1443; Colonel 
 Wogan of Rathcofty saved the King's 
 life at the battle of Nazeby ; young 
 Captain Wogan's enterprising character 
 has been drawn by Clarendon, and by 
 Walter Scott in Waverley. Sir Charles 
 Wogan of Rathcoffy, a near kinsman 
 of the aforesaid colonel and nephew 
 of Talbot Duke of Tirconnell, a Roman 
 Patrician and Senator, and Colonel in 
 the Spanish Army, 'with but 1400 men 
 held out for four hours against 20,000, 
 losing half his soldiers, and thus secured 
 a victory and conquest for the Prince 
 he served.' He was one of the most 
 dashing and daring men of his day, and, 
 with the help of three Irish officers, he 
 rescued Maria Sobieski from an Aus- 
 trian fortress and brought her safe to 
 
48 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Creaff of Thomaston, 
 Wale of 
 Elmer 1 of Lions, 
 Allen of S'- Wolstanes, 
 Allen of Kilheele, 
 Weslie of Barringstone, 
 Fitzgerrald of Brecaston, 
 Fitzeerrald of Breton, 
 Whyte k of Sherlockstone, 
 Fitzgerrald of Kilune, 
 Fitzgerrald of the Grange, 
 Bremingham of Doinfert, 
 Bremingham of Corrikeris, 
 Bremingham of the Graunge, 
 
 Rome to the Pretender, whose fiancee 
 she was. All Europe wondered at this 
 exploit, and the Duke of Wharton 
 complimented him on it thus : 
 ' Great in your verse as on the martial 
 
 scene, 
 Whose essay was to free a captive 
 
 Queen.' 
 
 '' Also Aylmer at Clancurry, Aylmer 
 at Downada, and Aylmer at Hardwell. 
 — Car. Cal. The head of the Aylmer 
 family and representative of the Aylmers 
 of Lyons is Michael Valentine Aylmer, 
 Esq., Deny, Rathcabbin, co. Tipperary. 
 ' Aylmer of Downada,' the ancestor of 
 Sir Gerald G. Aylmer of Donadea Cas- 
 tle, was son of A. of Cloncurrie, and 
 grandson of A. of Lyons. His lady 
 was the widow of Viscount Baltinglass 
 
 k 'and Whyte of Leixlip'— Car. Cal. 
 
 BreminoTiam of Rosewood, 
 Misset of Dowdingleston, 
 Calf of Duriforth, 
 Fleming of the Naas, 
 Golding of Harberston, 
 Eustace of Ballecotlan, 
 Dongan of Fontistone, 
 Cowley 1 of Carberrie, 
 S r Edward Fitzgerald,™ Knt., 
 Walshes of Morten, 
 Stanihurst of Ballincapoch, 
 Buggon of Rathmore, 
 H owlet of Rathmore, 
 Row of Branganston, 
 
 ' at Carbry Castle.'— Car. Cal. He 
 was the direct ancestor of Wellington. 
 He was grandson of Walter Colley, 
 Solicitor-General and then Surveyor- 
 General for Ireland. In 1595, as ap- 
 pears from Sir W. Russell's Journal, 
 ' the L. Deputy went to the Nasse (Mr. 
 Coolie's) ; also in April, that year, 
 Lieut. Greemes brought in one Hall, a 
 priest, taken at the Lady Colie's house ; 
 he was committed close prisoner to the 
 Castle of Dublin.' 
 
 ra Also, ' FitzGerald at Castle Iskin, 
 F. at Ballysonan, and F. at Dunnocks.' 
 To which may be added from the Car. 
 Cal., 'Allie at Rathbrede, Beling at 
 Killussy, Cheevers at Rathmore, Sir 
 W m - Sarsfield at Tully, Sarsfield at 
 Turning, Herbert at Collanstowne, Sir 
 H. Warren at Castletowne, and Sir 
 Harry Harrington at Golmoorstowne.' 
 
COUNTIE OF KILDARE. 
 
 49 
 
 Fitzphillips of Clain, 
 Branaghe of Leslip, 
 Fyan of Leslip, 
 
 Tyrrell of Ardchille, 
 Delahide of Moyglare. 
 
 Few of this Countie" are yet entered into action of Rebel- 
 lion, saving some younger Brethren of the Geraldines that 
 followed Thomas, base Brother of this Earle of Kildare's, into 
 Rebellion, who was apprehended and Executed by the Earle of 
 
 n ' Touching the five shires of the 
 English Pale, though many of them 
 have showed more backwardness to 
 answer the service and their own de- 
 fence than were meet, which, we think, 
 groweth more upon their poor estate 
 and waste of their countries, than of 
 any wilfulness or corrupt mind; yet in 
 many of the meaner sort, upon the bor- 
 ders towards the North and the co. of 
 Kildare some of the Bastard Garral- 
 dines, especially two base brothers of 
 the now Earl of Kildare are in open 
 rebellion with two of the Eustaces.' — ■ 
 State of Ireland in 1597. ' Kildare is 
 for the most part spoiled, wasted and 
 consumed by burning or otherwise, 
 save some castles, where the owners do 
 shroud themselves from the rebels. 
 This waste has been caused by the in- 
 cursions of the rebels, the daily out- 
 rages and disorders of the soldiers and 
 the burthens imposed by the governors, 
 the Council and the commanders.' — 
 Car. Cal.,p. 260. 'Two base brethren of 
 the Earl of Kildare, called the Bastard 
 Geraldines, having drawn to them a 
 number of loose people, do range up 
 and down the Pale, extorting meat, 
 
 drink and money at their own wills, and 
 so terrify the subjects as many do for- 
 sake their dwellings. These Bastard 
 Geraldines are now upon protection, 
 and what will further come of them we 
 know not, having often written to the 
 Earl of Kildare to temper with them 
 and to stay them, but we have not as 
 yet heard anything from him.' — Report 
 of the Dublin Council, 5th Nov. 1597. 
 ' In Kildare James Fitz Piers a Geral- 
 dine, Sheriff of the shire, the two Bas- 
 tard Geraldines, one (some) of the 
 Delahydes, Glashane O'Dempsie, and 
 Lisaghe O'Dempsie with the rest of the 
 O'Dempsies, and certain of the Eus- 
 taces of kindred to (of the sept of) the 
 late Viscount Baltinglasse attainted are 
 in actual rebellion ; their forces are 
 230 f. and 30 h. (220 f. and 30 h.).' — 
 Car. Cal., State of Ireland, April 1599/ 
 but the words in parenthesis are from 
 Moryson. 
 
 The Queen's troops in Kildare were : 
 ' Horse, — in and about the Nasse : Earl 
 of Kildare, 50 ; Capt. R. Greame, 50 ; 
 Capt. Gifford, 25 ; Capt. Lee, 12. 
 Foote, — in and about the Nasse were : 
 Earl of Kildare, 150; Earl of South- 
 
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 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Ormond. These, becaus they have no head of themselves and 
 are but few, they abide out of their owne countrie amongst 
 Strangers, and serve onlie for Guyders to Lead others through 
 the Countrie. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF CATHELAGH. 
 
 This Countie is a long slip of Land lying for the most part 
 between the 2 Rivers Slaine and Barrowe, and contayneth divers 
 Baronies ancientle inhabited by the Inglyshe, but not long after 
 the conquest a good part thereof was recovered by the Cavan- 
 aghs, which did inhabit both it and the Countie of Wexford. a 
 
 ampton, 200; Sir M. Morgan, 150; 
 Sir T. Loftus, 100; Williams, 150; 
 Esmond, 150; W. M c Edmond, 100 ; 
 E. Loftus, 100; Lea, 100; Eustace, 
 100; J. Masterson, 100; Flood, 100; 
 Trevor, 100. '• — Moryson, p. 43. 
 
 The following Kildare worthies 
 were pardoned in 1598 and 1600, so I 
 presume they aided the ' Geraldines ' : 
 ' Piers Walshe Fitz Piers of Moynally, 
 and Howel Walshe; W m - Fitz Oliver 
 FitzGerald ; R. Fitz Maurice Fitz G. ; 
 W. Fitz Maurice Fitz G. ; W. Fitz Ed- 
 ward Fitz G., W"- Bremingham of 
 Uunfert ; E. Bremingham of Derite ; 
 R Bremingham Fitz James ; Garret 
 Bremingham Fitz Redmond; Richard 
 Mac William Oge Bremingham of 
 Muckland, Cecily Linch his wife, W°- 
 B. his son, and Piers Fitz James Brem- 
 ingham, Gerald Wogan of the Down- 
 ings ; R. Wesley, Walter Wesley of the 
 
 Narrowe ; W m - Eustace of Castlemartin ; 
 Christopher Eustace of Ballycallen and 
 Ellinor his wife ; Thomas Rochford of 
 the Laragh ; Donal Enos and W m - 
 Moony of the Laroghs ; Sir W" 1, Sars- 
 field of Lucan; Christopher Flattesburie 
 of Johnstown ; Carroll, Boylan, and 
 Ashe of the Naas ; Keatinge, Doyne, 
 Gilliglas O'Scott, Brenan, Morogh 
 O'Hanlon, O'Conlan, D. O'Byrne, H. 
 O'Byrne, O'Kellie, Coffie, O'Halegan, 
 O'Donnell, Tallen, O'Rhawley;'— See 
 Morrins Cal. of Close Rolls. 
 
 a The Cavanaghs held the strong 
 mountain fastnesses lying between the 
 Counties of Wexford and Carlow, and 
 extending down the left bank of the 
 Barrow to the neighbourhood of New 
 Ross. In the description accompany- 
 ing Speed's Maps we read : ' Cavcnaghi 
 hie {i.e., in Carlow) circumquaque agunt, 
 in numerosam familiam propagati — viri 
 
COUNTIE OF CATHLAGH. 
 
 51 
 
 It hath in it certan high mountains upon the East part and the 
 rest of the Countrie is nere plain. The third part of the whole 
 Shyre is accompted to belong to the Earle of Ormond and his 
 brother S r Edmond Butler. One baronie called Idrone was the 
 ancient Inheritance of S r Peter Carew. b 
 
 This Countie is bounded with the Countie of Kildare to the 
 North, with the Ouene's Countie to the West and Southwest, 
 and Kilkenny to the East and Southeast. It hath onlie one 
 Towne called Catherlaghe, from which the Shyre hath its name. 
 
 Principall 
 Castles are : — 
 
 Catherlaghe, 
 Leighlin, 
 Rathvilley, 
 Fortovollon, c 
 
 Tully, 
 
 S l Mollins, 
 
 Cloughgrenan, 
 
 Rathmore. 
 
 bell ko si, sed qui per mutuas clades se 
 quotidie conficiunt.' Circa 1568 five 
 Cavanaghs owned Idrone East. In 
 1587 Murtagh C. chief of his name, 
 dwelt at Garryhill, though his chief 
 house was the Castle of Rathnegarry 
 in Idrone. As he was wantonly mur- 
 dered by Dudley Bagnall's men in 
 1587, his two sons made a raid on 
 Bagnall's land, plundered it, and being 
 pursued, killed Bagnall and thirteen of 
 his men, inflicted on him sixteen 
 wounds, drew his tongue out of his 
 mouth and slit it. — Kilk. Arch. Jour, 
 
 Three years afterwards Hugh O'Don- 
 nell was helped to escape from the 
 Castle by ' a certain renowned warrior 
 of Leinster, Art Cavanagh by name, 
 who was a champion in battle and a 
 commander in conflict.' — Four Masters. 
 Belonging to Sir Dudley Bagnoll. — 
 
 Dymmok. In the Kilk. Jour, of Arch., 
 April 1870, the Rev. J. Hughes gives 
 an account of this barony, from which 
 we take the following details : The 
 ninth Earl of Ormonde purchased the 
 Dullogh and gave it to his son Sir 
 Edward Butler. Carew claimed it in 
 right of his ancestors and in 1568 got 
 possession of Idrone from the Sheriff of 
 Carlow. Sir Edward, who had done 
 great service against the O'Mores, re- 
 belled, and after holding out for some 
 time was pardoned in 1573. He had 
 four sons, one of whom succeeded to 
 the father's estates in 1603, got the title 
 of Viscount Tullophelim, and married 
 the only daughter of his uncle Ormond, 
 but died without issue. 
 
 c ' In the co. of Catherlagh, being 
 little and all wasted, the castles of Car- 
 logh and Laghline, and her Majesty's 
 
52 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Principall 
 
 Gentlemen : — 
 
 S r Edmond Butler d 
 Dudley Bagnoll's e sons 
 
 house of Femes, held by the Queene's 
 Warders, and six castles belonging to 
 the Earl of Ormond held for the 
 Queene, but the Cavanaghs and Key- 
 tons were in rebellion.' — Moryson, p. 
 
 ' The Earl of Ormonde's chief manor 
 there is Ravelly, and his territories 
 reach along Clonmore and Fortanolan 
 to Arclow.' — Car. Cat. The Fothart 
 O'Nolan, or country of O'Nolan is now 
 the barony of Forth in the co. of Car- 
 low. O'Flaherty in his Ogygia, p. iii., 
 c. 64, says O'Nolan the last proprietor 
 and chief of this territory died a short 
 time before O'Flaherty wrote his book, 
 so there must have been a chief of that 
 name in 1598. O'Heerin thus sings of 
 the chief in his time : 
 
 ' O'Nuallain, hero without fault 
 Chief prince, fine and bountiful of 
 Fothart.' 
 
 O'N. was senior Vassal of M c Murrogh ; 
 ' O'N., the Lord of Fotharta was slain 
 in 1133; his son was slain in 1154; 
 Shan O'N. was chief of Fogharta in 
 1394; and in 1406 Laighsech O'N. 
 the royal heir of Foghart died.'— See 
 Four Masters and Annals of Loch Ce. 
 
 d Sir Edmond Butler of Cloghgren- 
 nan, was brother of Ormond, and is 
 called Edmond an Caladh (of the 
 Port) by the Four Masters. In 
 1569 this Edmond and his brother 
 Edward ' seized at the fair of Eniscor- 
 
 thy, on Great Lady Day, an immense 
 quantity of property — horses, cattle, 
 gold, silver and foreign goods ; but 
 Ormond having returned made peace 
 for his Kinsmen with the State.' In 
 1582, these brothers with their cavalry, 
 galloglasses, and giomanachs were de- 
 feated by the Earl of Desmond. In 
 1596 this Edmond, son of James, son 
 of Pierce Roe, son of James, son of 
 Edmond, son of Richard Butler, was 
 imprisoned for the crimes of his sons 
 who turned out to plunder.' — See Four 
 Masters. In 1596 the Lord Deputy 
 wrote to him : ' Your son, Pierse But- 
 ler, hath received a commandment to 
 come to us, and yet hath obstinately 
 refused to do so : these are therefore to 
 will and command you to apprehend 
 him and deliver him to his uncle, the 
 Earl of Ormonde.' In the month ot 
 December 1596, the heads of his son 
 James and two others were sent to the 
 Deputy; and in 1597 his son Pierse 
 was taken and executed by his own 
 uncle Ormond, who sent his head to 
 Dublin. — See Car. Cat. 
 
 e Sir W. S'- Leger was governor of 
 the fort of Leighlin, had 150 men, and 
 was guardian of Dudley Bagnall's son, 
 who owned Idrone Barony. — Car. Cat., 
 p. 191. Dudley's brother, Marshal B. 
 owned the premises and castle of 
 Leighlin Bridge until his defeat and 
 death by O'Neil in 1598. Dudley's 
 son, Sir Nicholas B. was constable of 
 
COUNTIE OF CATHLAGH. 
 
 53 
 
 S r William Harpole f 
 The Heirs of Henry Dowels 
 Edmond Gline 
 
 Turloghe M c Donnell Galliglass 
 The Bishop of Laghlein, the Sonnes of Bryan M c Cawer 
 
 Cavanagh g of S' Molins 
 
 the Castle of Leighlin in 1602. Dud- 
 ley's grandson, Colonel Walter B. had 
 an Irish mother, who was d. of the nth 
 Earl of Ormond ; he was a Catholic, 
 and though a Confederate officer, he 
 allowed Ormond's army to pass Leigh- 
 lin Bridge and thus enabled Ormond 
 to escape from Owen Roe. He was 
 tried for ' murder ' by the Parliament- 
 arians, was put to death in 1652 ; his 
 property of 15,000 acres in Idrone was 
 confiscated, as he was ' an Irish papist] 
 and his brother Colonel Thomas Bag- 
 nail was ' transplanted' into Connaught 
 as ' an Irish papist] — See the papers 
 published by Mr. Prendergast in Kilk. 
 Arch. J. of i860. 
 
 ' Perhaps a son of Hartpole, con- 
 stable of Catherlogh who died in 1594, 
 aged 70, whose effigial tomb was found 
 many years ago in the cemetery of S'' 
 Mary, Castle Hill, Carlow. ' He was 
 matched with a Coltyonean (i.e., an 
 O'Birne) and was a maintainer of 
 rebels.' — Survey of Ireland in 1572 
 and 1602. The Car. Cal. mentions a 
 William Wall ; who, I presume, was of 
 the Carlow family of Wall that after- 
 wards rose to some eminence in France. 
 The Survey of Ireland circa 1575 and 
 circ. 1602 says, ' there are in Carloe 
 
 Keating's kerne ill-disposed and now 
 rebels.' 
 
 e ' Garret M c Murtagh Cavanagh, 
 Morgan M c Brian Cavanagh at Poble 
 Tymolin.' — Car. Cal., p. 191. 
 
 According to the Cavanagh Pedigree 
 in the Kilk. Arch, foumalof July 1856, 
 Donnell Spaineach fl. 1600, attainted 
 an. 1617, was father of Sir Murrough 
 M'Morrough ; Morgan, son of Brian of 
 Borris (who died in 1572) d. 1636; his 
 great grandson was governor of Prague 
 in 1766; Murtogh attainted in 1605 ; 
 Dowling Cavanagh of Ballyleigh lived 
 in 1598 ; Art M c Morrough Kavanagh of 
 Borris is the 7 th in descent from Mor- 
 gan of Borris who died in 1636. 
 
 The ' Sects of the Cavanaghes in 
 Carloe: (1) Morchage of Garlile [Gar- 
 ryhill — Ed.] chief of that sect. (2) 
 Gerard M c CahairCarragh of Glennmulle 
 [Clonolyn — Ed.] chief of another. (3) 
 Cahir Begge of Leinerocke chief of 
 another sect. (4) Bryan M c Murtagh 
 of the country of the Melaghe, chief of 
 another sect. (5) Bryan M c Cahir 
 M c Arte, dwelling in the barony of S'' 
 Malyne, between Sir Peter Carew and 
 Rosse on the river of Barrouglie — all 
 open rebels or doubtful ; and Bryan 
 M c Cahir M c Arte, a notable rebel, who 
 
54 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Hugh 
 
 Owen O'Gormoghan 
 
 John Barrie. 
 
 killed Browne in 1572, with a number 
 of other good gentlemen of Wexford. 
 The Coltyoneans alias Byrnes notable 
 rebels ; all the rest faithful to her 
 Majesty. Wm. M c Hubberd, chief of 
 these hanged in 1602. There are 10 
 septs of the Kavanaghes, i.e. : (1) Gerald 
 M'Moridaghe Oge of Slught Mori- 
 taughe; he is upon protection; his sept 
 in rebellion ; his house Rathengerge in 
 O'Dorne. (2) Brian M c Donoghe (both 
 of these are of Slewght Morrogh Bal- 
 laghe), upon protection ; his house 
 Castle Balliboghare in O'Dorne. (3) 
 Morietaghe M c Donogh, dead ; his sept 
 in rebellion. (4) Morietagh M c Morish 
 in rebellion ; both these septs are of 
 Slewght Ayte More ; both these men's 
 lands in O'Dorne. (5) Dowghe M c Cahir 
 in rebellion ; his house was the castle 
 of Fenes. (6) Donell M c Dowghe alias 
 Donell Spanaghe in rebellion ; his chief 
 house was Huysceethy. (7) Dermond 
 M c Morish a pensioner in pay ; his sept 
 in rebellion ; those three septs are of 
 Slewght Donell Reaghe ; his pension 
 in Kilkennin in Wexford. (8) Morogh 
 M c Brian upon protection ; his sept in 
 rebellion ; he is of Slewght Dermond 
 Langrett ; his land in S'- Nolin in 
 Wexford. (9) Moroghe Leighe M c Cahir 
 dead ; his sept in rebellion ; he is of 
 Slewght Art More ; his land in S'- 
 Nolin in Wexford.' — Suri'ey of Ireland, 
 
 written circ. 1574, with additions circ. 
 1597 and 1602. Car. Cal. in year 
 1603. p. 447. 
 
 'In 1597 there were some of the 
 Butlers who range up and down the 
 borders of Carlowe having of their 
 adherancy some of the Connaughts 
 {sic. perhaps bonnaughts — Ed.) and 
 sundry of the O'Tooles and OByrnes.' 
 — State of Ireland, Car. Cal. 
 
 ' In 1599 most of the Cos. of Carlow 
 and Wexford were in rebellion ; the 
 chief in these two counties are the 
 Kevanaghes, who with their followers 
 are 750 men and whereof 50 are horse.' 
 — Moryson and Car. Cal. 
 
 In a tract of the British Museum, 
 written by Nowel, Dean of Lichfield, 
 who died in 1576, the power of the 
 Carlow Irish in his time is thus stated: 
 ' M c Murghowe is prince of Leinster. 
 He and his Kinsmen will be 200 horse 
 well harnessed, a bataile (i.e., about 
 80) of Galoglas and 300 kerne — his ; 
 O'Moroghowe 1. of Yphelim 16 h. and 
 40 k. ; O'Nowlane L. of Tohyrly 12 h. 
 and 20 k. ; O'Brenan of Idough 40 
 keme.' A later paper, circ. 1572, men- 
 tions as of estimation the Cavanaghs of 
 ' S 1, Molyns, of Garryhill and Clono- 
 lyn ; but none of them able to make 
 8 horsemen of his own byinge, and 
 every one of them is enemy to the 
 other.' 
 
COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 55 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 
 
 This Countie being the first conquered by the Inglysh men, 
 hath so much written in several Books now extant, as it were 
 superfluous to speak more of this Shyre, than of the present 
 State thereof. S r Henrie Sidney and S r William Drury caused 
 it to be Surveyed, and had a meaning to have it divided into 
 Two Shyres, and to have called the North part the Countie of 
 fearnes as the south part the Countie of Wexford, but for want 
 of Sufficient Freeholders to be of Juries, or to be Sheriffe, 
 or to bear any other Office, this purpose of Division took no 
 Effecte. 
 
 This Shyre serveth to be an Inglyshe Pale, and an Irish 
 Countie. The Pale or civill part is contayned within a River 
 called the Pill, a in the which the most of the posteritie of the 
 ancient Gentlemen, that were conquerors do inhabite. b The 
 other without the Pill is yet Inhabited by the Originall people, 
 
 a Weisford with the territory baied as commonlie the inhabitants of the 
 
 and perclosed within the Pill was so meaner sort speake neither good Fng- 
 
 quite estranged from Irishrie, as if a lish nor good Irish. — Stanihursfs De- 
 
 traveller of the Irish (which was rare script ion of Ireland. 
 in these days) had pitched his foot b ' The mansion houses of most gen- 
 
 within the Pill and spoken Irish, the try were fortified with Castles, some 
 
 Weisfordians would command him neere 60 foot high, having walls at 
 
 forthwith to turn the other end of his least 5 foot thicke to the number of 
 
 toong, and speake English, or else Thirty, of which few as yet becom 
 
 bring his trouchman with him. But in ruinous,' says one who wrote in 1680. 
 our days (circa 1578) they have so ac- 'The people of the B. of Forth spoke 
 
 quainted themselves with the Irish as the same tongue and wore the same 
 
 that they have made a mingle mangle dress and professed the same Faith as 
 
 or gallimanfreie of both the languages, the first settlers, their predecessors. 
 
56 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 as the Cavenaghes and Kinshelaughes possessing the Woodie 
 part thereof; into which, notwithstanding, some of the Inglysh 
 have intruded, and planted Forts and Castles within them. 
 
 This Countie hath the Sea to the East, the County of 
 Wicklo to the North, the Countie of Catherlagh to the West 
 and the River of Barrowe and the County of Waterfoord to the 
 South. 
 
 Both Wexford and Rosse hath walled and Haven Townes, 
 the first upon the East Sea, the other upon the River Barow 
 being amplyfied by the Rivers of Nuer and Suer, and the 
 mouth of the Haven is the Haven of Waterfoord, yet hath it 
 other ancient ruined Townes as Fearnes whereof the Bishop 
 hath his name, Clomyne B . . . . and Federt. 
 
 In that single barony there were no 
 less than eighteen churches, thirty three 
 chapels, one religious hospital and two 
 convents, and very many crosses in 
 public roads.' — Description of B. of 
 Forth, ed. by H. F. Hore in Kilk.Jour. 
 of Arch. The Gentlewomen of Wex- 
 ford, in 1634, 'wore good handsome 
 gownes, petticoates, and hatts,' and for 
 mantles, had ' Irishe ruggs with hand- 
 some comely large fringes, which go 
 about their necks ; thick rugg fringe 
 is joined to a garment, which comes 
 round about them and recheth to the 
 very ground ; it is much more comely 
 than the rugg short cloaks used by the 
 women on festival days at Abbeville 
 and Boulogne.' — Sir W. Brcreton. 
 
 c ' That part of the county north of 
 the river Slane is possessed chiefly by 
 the Irish called Cavanaghs. It hath 
 on that side also many English inhabit- 
 ants ; sc. Synot of Clelande, Roth of 
 
 Roth, Synot of Ballinerah in the Mur- 
 ros (?), Masterson at Femes Castle, 
 where also the Bishop's see is, Peppard 
 of Glascarrig.' 
 
 'The Irish on that side the Slane are 
 — Donell Murtagh, Edmund O'Morowe 
 of 'the O'Morowes' country, and others, 
 ever bad neighbours and rebellious 
 people, under the government of Wil- 
 liam Synot, by lease from her Majesty. 
 Other Irish nations are by east them to 
 the sea. The countries are called the 
 Kinshelaghes, Kilconelin, Kilhobock, 
 Farinhamon, inhabited by Art M c Der- 
 mot, MTJaMore, M c Vadock, Darby 
 M c Morish, all under the government of 
 Mr. Masterson. On the south-west of 
 the Slane are four English baronies 
 called Fort, Barge, Sherberre, and 
 Shelmalen, and an Irish barony called 
 the Duffree. In the Duffree dwell Sir 
 H. Wallop, and Lord Mountgarret.' — 
 Car. CaL, p. 190. 
 
COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 
 
 57 
 
 The Principall Castles are : 
 belonging to the Adamstone, 
 
 Wexford d 
 Quene, 
 Femes to the Bishop, 
 Tinterne to S r Tho. Code, 
 Donbrodie Abbey, 
 Doncannon, 
 The Towre of Hooke, 
 Ballihack, 
 
 Inishcortie to Sir Henrie 
 
 Wallop, 
 Bromestone, 
 Rosegarland, 
 Old Crosse, 
 Mountgarret, and 
 Kilclogher. 
 
 Principall Gentlemen : e 
 
 The Bishop of Fearnes, Richard Mastersone, 
 
 Sir Henrie Wallop, Sir Tho. Colclough, 
 
 Sir Dudley Loftus, Roche f of Rochesland, 
 
 d 'Washfort was very populous in 
 1644, owing to its great commerce. 
 The fortress a small square regularly 
 enough fortified, at the foot of which 
 were many ruins of churches ; the 
 people came chiefly from France.' — 
 Boulaye Le Gouz 1 Travels in Ireland in 
 1644. 
 
 ' In the co. of Wexford, being wasted, 
 all the castles held for the Queene, and 
 Sir T. Colclough, Sir R. Masterson, 
 and Sir Dudley Loftus, the only Eng- 
 lish there inhabiting, held for the 
 Queene. But Donnell Spaniagh, alias 
 Cavanagh, with all that Sept, the 
 Omorroghs, Macony More, all the 
 Kinsellaghes, Dermot M c Morice, etc 
 were in rebellion and had 750 f. and 
 50 h. In 1599 there were 200 f. at 
 Eniscorthy, under Sir Oliver Lambert, 
 
 and 150 f. under Sir R. Masterson.— 
 Moryson, p. 43. 
 
 e An old barony of Forth alliterative 
 rhyme conveys the supposed hereditary 
 characteristics of several Wexford fam* 
 ilies : — ' Stiff Staffort, Dugget [dogged] 
 Lamport, Gay Rochford, Proud Dewe- 
 ros, Lacheny [laughing] Cheevers, 
 Currachy [obstinate] Hore, Criss [cross] 
 Calfer, Valse [false] Furlong, Shimereen 
 [showy] Synnot, Gentleman [gentle] 
 Brune.' 
 
 f Sir J. Fitz George Roche, Knt. was 
 summoned to the war in Scotland in 
 1335. The Roches of Roche's land 
 waxed very Irish in their ways ; for the 
 Wexford jury of 1537 'do present that 
 Walter R with his followers went to 
 the suburbs of Wexford by night for the 
 most part feloniously, burned a boat of 
 
 H 
 
58 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Synnot g of Clayland, 
 
 R. Canton ; and burned a towne of 
 Wm. Meyler and T. Synnot in ye 
 parish of Kilkevan ; and so ye said 
 Wm. and Thomas must give unto the 
 said Walter 20s. to have license to build 
 ye same towne ; that the said Walter 
 came with a banner displayed of Irish- 
 men, and took with them ye prey, that 
 is to say, of kine and cattle of the 
 towne of Wexford ; and also as yet 
 holdeth an Irishwoman to his wife.' 
 
 'In 1552 Roche of Artramont, Lord 
 of Rochesland, wrote to the L. Deputy 
 that his father retained the yearly rents 
 of money, sheep, butter, etc., of the 
 tenants and dwellers of Rathalvey, and 
 that whenever any goods were taken from 
 the tenants by the English Pale of the 
 co. of Wexford, being in wars with the 
 Morrowes, Roche caused the same to 
 be restored ; and that the said lands 
 had ever been freed from O'Morrowe's 
 galloglasses and other charges.' 
 
 e ' The Sinnots exceed in number 
 any ancient name ; the house of Bally- 
 brennan in Forth was the most eminent, 
 from which sprang men remarkable for 
 school learning, persons endowed with 
 heroic spirits and martially disposed 
 minds. Richard S. of Ballybrennan, 
 for his noble services with his sons, 
 relations and dependents, was rewarded 
 with forfeited lands. His son Walter 
 being slain in battle, his grandson 
 Martin S. inherited Ballybrennan ; his 
 son James S. got the Manor and 
 Barony of Rosegarland, John got 
 Cooledyne with 1200 acres; Nicholas 
 
 FitzHenrie of Maghemorne, h 
 
 got Park, Logh and other villages with 
 several houses in AVexford ; Sir Wm. S. 
 got Ballyfarnocke with 24 plowlands 
 intire in the Murrowes ; Edmond S. got 
 Lingstown and other villages. 
 
 ' The following were gentlemen of 
 the name enjoying good estates for 
 many descents, from whom also several 
 persons famous for learning and chiv- 
 alry — in Germany, France, Spain and 
 Muscovie, etc., were extracted. 
 
 ' In the Barony of Forth — 
 
 ' Sinnot of Balligery ; S. of Rath- 
 downey; S. of Stonehouse of Wexford; 
 S. of Gratkerock. In Ballaghene Bar- 
 ony — S. of Owlert, S. of Ballymore, 
 S. of Garrymusky, S. of Tinraheene. 
 In Shilmaleere — S. of Garrymusky, S. 
 of Owlortvicke, S. of Ballinhownemore, 
 S. of Ballinvacky, S. of Belleareele, S. 
 of Balliroe, S. of Ballinkilly, S. of 
 Monyvilleog, S. of Mogangolie. 
 
 ' These gentlemen, compleatly armed 
 and mounted on horsebacke in Q. 
 Elizabeth's warrs vigorously opposed 
 such as appeared Rebellious.' — De- 
 scription of the Barony of Forth, Edited 
 by H. F. Hore. 
 
 h Maghmayne. — Ussher M.S. Fitz- 
 Harris of Killkevan is given in the Car. 
 Cal. in which are found only twelve 
 names, whereas there are fifty or sixty in 
 our MS. I fancy this is the 'Feeffarris, a 
 malefactor matched with the Cavanaghs 
 in Carlow, and holding with them ;' he 
 is thus described by the Survey of Ire- 
 land, written between 1575 and 1602. 
 
 In 1537 the jury of New Ross ' pre- 
 
COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 
 
 59 
 
 Deverox' of Balmagere, 
 Foorloncr k of Hoorton, 
 
 Browne 1 of Malrancan, 
 Hay m of Tancomshanee, 
 
 sent that one FitzHarry, that now is, 
 of Kilkevan, robbed ye towne of Rosse, 
 and killed a man within ye liberties of 
 the said towne, and that ye said Fitz 
 Harry did take a pray to the some and 
 valew of ^ioo.' — Annuary of Kilk. 
 Arch. Society, Vol. i. 
 
 1 The Devereuxes were the wealthiest 
 and most powerful of all of the Strong- 
 bonian race in Wexford. In 1566 Sir 
 Nicholas D. makes ' bold to refresh his 
 acquaintance ' with his schoolfellow, 
 Lord Burleigh; in 1574, 'he was 
 spoiled of a great part of his inheritance 
 by the Cavanaghs ;' in 1599, Devereux, 
 Earl of Essex, on his march from 
 Waterford to Dublin, passed a day at 
 Balmagir, and Knighted Sir J. De- 
 vereux. — p. 43, Aim. Kuk. A. Soc. and 
 Car. Cat., p. 308. 
 
 k ' Furlongs, malefactors matched 
 with the Cavanaghs.' — Survey of Ire- 
 land, 1574-1602. In 1539 Philip Fur- 
 long of Carrigmenan gent, granted to 
 Th. Rosseter of Rathmanee gent, his 
 town and manor of Carrigmanan ; in 
 1638, Furlong of C. sold his large 
 estate for ,£2500 to R. Devereux, Esq. 
 Eleven gentlemen named Furlong were 
 summoned to attend an expedition 
 against O'Brien in 1345. Their chief 
 house was Horetown near Taghmon. 
 John F. was Knight of the Shire in 
 1613, and owned the manors of Cam- 
 ross, Bridgestown, etc.; another branch 
 lived at Davidstown in the Glynn. 
 
 1 The following letter of Q. Elizabeth, 
 dated 1572, throws some light on this 
 family and on Wexford: ' El. R. Where 
 we are informed that R. Browne of 
 Mulrancan (a yonge gentilman of great 
 valour, wholy given to our sarvice 
 against the disobedient Irish of that 
 Countie, upon whom his father hath 
 valiantly builded a fortress, and he after 
 his father's death hath as valiantly kept 
 and defended the same, to the ampli- 
 fying of our obed c *, being also near of 
 bloud to the houses of our r'- t r and 
 well beloved Cosins Th' Erles of Kil- 
 dare and Ormond) is traitorously mur- 
 dered by Brene M c Coder Kavanagh, 
 and his brethren, Hugh M c Shan's sons 
 .... [These Cavanaghs were kinsmen 
 of Elizabeth through the Kildare al- 
 liance. — Ed.] And whereas we are in- 
 formed likewise that two gentlemen of 
 our said co. of Wexford, the one, J. 
 Furlong of Horeton, who hath of late 
 procured the pitiful murder of the s d 
 Browne's sister, to bring home her join- 
 ture to his house, the other M. Fitz- 
 henry of Magsmagh, being under Off" 
 to Thos. Stukeley, bearing the s d 
 Browne malice, and both of them 
 cosins of blood to the said murderers 
 of the Kavanaghs, have been procurers 
 of the s d Murd r ' — We think it good,' 
 etc. — Forwarded by John P. Prender- 
 gast, Esq., to the Kilk. Arch. Jour. 
 
 m Henry the 6 th , ' on account of the 
 services Hay and his progenitors had 
 
6o 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Tod of Carne," 
 Lamport of Ballyhinch, 
 Scurlock of Roseland, p 
 Keting of Kilcowan, q 
 
 rendered to the King and his predeces- 
 sors, in many times resisting the 
 enemy, acccpit eum in intimntn aniiaim.' 
 The Hays owned the Towers of Hill, 
 Slade, Tacumshene, and Castlehays- 
 town. — Kilk. A?imtary. 
 
 ° Nich. Codd of Came d. in 1564 
 seised of the castle and lands of Rath- 
 aspig. In 1599, Nicholas Codde of 
 Castleton, son of Martin Codde and 
 Margaret da. of A. Roche, Lord of 
 Rochesland, was marshal of Wexford 
 Liberty; he was slain in 1600. — (See 
 'Description of the Barony of Forth,' 
 written arc. 1680, edit, by Hore in 
 Kilk. Arch., Vol. iv., p. 62). 'These 
 Coodes of Castletown expressed singu- 
 lar loyaltie and valour in Q. Eliza, warrs 
 several of them being therein slain.' 
 
 Of Ballyhire near Greenore. The 
 Wexford jury of 1537 'present that Lam- 
 port of Ballyhire did take James Kent 
 prisoner, and took from him feloniously 
 
 p 'Scurlocke of Roslare. — UsshcrM.S. 
 ' He owned two manors with a valuable 
 estate in Ballymore and Roslare, unto 
 whom the Copyholders by their tenures 
 performed homage, divers customary 
 duties and services not elsewhere used, 
 many of which were servile ; none could 
 marry in his Lordships without his pre- 
 vious License nor build a house, nor 
 suffer it to be demolished or to fall to 
 decay. If a Copyholder married a 
 
 Chevers of Ballyhaly, r 
 Rawceter of Rathmokue, 5 
 Wadding of Ballicoiley,' 
 
 maide, a certaine fine was payable to 
 the Lord ; if a widow, double as much ; 
 if a woman whose virginity had been 
 violated, more ; which fine or duty was 
 termed Lothcrwite (i.e., Lother's law). 
 All tenants deceasing were liable to 
 Heriots. Transgressors of such and 
 many other strange customs incurred 
 forfeiture of their interest by Copyhold.' 
 — Descrip. of B. Forth. 
 
 q yy m - Keting was commander of 
 Kilklogan, arc. 1537; Baldwin and R. 
 Keting were witnesses of the Charter 
 of the Earl of Pembroke to Tintern 
 Abbey. The eldest house had the 
 title of Barons K. of Kilcowan. 
 
 ' Cheevers, a Flemish family named 
 Chevre, long settled in Wexford ; Pat- 
 rick C. witnessed the charter given to 
 Wexford in 13 17 ; Edward C. was 
 created Viscount Mount Leinster by 
 James II. — Hore. 
 
 s The family came from Rocester in 
 Lincolshire ; Rossieter of Rathmacnee 
 was expulsed in 1653 ; Bargy castle 
 was built by a Rosseter, whose initials 
 are on an oak panel in the house. 
 Slevoy belonged to Walter R. in 1608; 
 another R. lived at Tacumshane and 
 owned the manor of Tomhaggard. 
 Colonel R. of Rathmacknee is said to 
 have married a sister of the famous 
 Sarsfield. — Hore. 
 
 ' R. Wadding of Ballycogly m. a da. 
 of Rowseter of Rathmacnee, Esq., and 
 
COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 
 
 6l 
 
 Stafford of Balmakeryn," 
 Barry of Bonecarry, 
 Rochford v of [ ], 
 
 French of Ballitorie, 
 Eliot of Rathshillan, 
 Sutton of Ballikerock, w 
 Prendergasse of the Gorchins," 
 
 had four sons and seven daughters ; 
 his eldest son, Thomas, was one of the 
 Knights of the Shire in 1613, and was 
 married to a d. of Eustace of Castle- 
 martin ; his daughter Elenor was m. to 
 Th. Scurlock of Bolgan in the Glynn. 
 
 " Ballymacarne, the principal castle 
 of the Staffords, who were a numerous 
 and distinguished family. There was 
 a branch at Balliconnor, where Denis 
 Stafford of Balliconnor and his wife 
 Katerina Synnot of Byllygeary built a 
 tower in 1570, which still stands. 
 Their son Hamond S. died in 1630. 
 
 v Of Taghunnan (Mountpleasant) un- 
 der the mountain of Forth. The 
 Rochfords were barons in the 13th 
 century and owned the barony of 
 Duffyr, but were driven northwards by 
 the Irish. — Kilk. Annuary, p. 41. 
 
 " Ballykeroge, a castle of unusual 
 dimensions in ' Sutton's parish ' near 
 Ross was the chief house; but branches 
 lived at Oldcourt, Ballysop, and Priest- 
 haggard. 
 
 " Gurteen — The Prendergasts owned 
 the territories of Femes and Kinsellagh ; 
 but were driven southward, and in 
 1598 lived in a tower called Gurteen 
 near the mountain of Forth. 
 
 y Written also Bosher or Busher. 
 
 Bourcher of Balliconnick/ 
 Mayler* of 
 
 Redmond of the Hooke, 
 Laffan of the Slade, aa 
 Sygin of Syginston, bb 
 Cullen of Cullenston, 
 Osmond of Johnston," 
 
 2 ' Walter Meyler of Duncormack and 
 his ancestors have been in possession 
 of Mountgarret beside Ross with the 
 appurtenances, as their inheritance of 
 right until the Earl of Ossory entered 
 and kept it by force in 15 18.' In 1570 
 Walter M. of Doncormock, gent., ad- 
 dressed the Government, staring that he 
 was possessed of the manor of Prysts- 
 town, 'adjoining the salvage nacion 
 of the Cavanaghes, and the Key of the 
 country upon the very frontiers of the 
 Irishry, and therefore wasted by their 
 continual incursions, and they have oft 
 times shed his blood.' 
 
 M ' Mac Laffan of the Sladd ' is in- 
 cluded among the gentlemen of Shel- 
 burne in the grand panel of the co. of 
 Wexford 1608. In 1638 Henry Laffan 
 of Slade Castle died. 
 
 bb Siggins, perhaps S ( - John ; one S*- 
 John had land at Tomhaggard and at 
 Monsyu in 1472 ; and about 1537 W. 
 Browne ' did take Stephen S'- John in 
 ye highway and did lead him to his 
 castle and did imprison him after his 
 own use, contrary to the King's laws 
 till he paid his fine.' There was also 
 a Sigon on the Wexford Jury of 1537. 
 
 cc Esmond — ' Lord Esmond served 
 as a Martialist in the Low Countries, 
 
62 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Whyte of Tromer, 
 Eshingham of Dunbrody, 
 Isham of Bryanston, 
 Walshe of dd 
 Hore of S dd 
 
 Butler of ee Clonkyraghe, 
 Fitzjohn of Ballicoppock, 
 Fitzneal ff of Ballyharth, 
 NevelF of Rosegarland, 
 Turnor of ff 
 
 St. John of Wexford, bb 
 Whitty of Baltitege, gg 
 Butler of Wexford, Brother to 
 the L d - Mountgerat, 
 
 and then against the Kavanaghes, 
 Bimes and O'Tooles ; his countenance 
 terrible, with a formidable voice when 
 exasperated ; of sanguine complexion, 
 compact, solid corpulent body with 
 robustious Limms, terrible to his Enemy, 
 maintaining always a numerous Retinue 
 of well accomplished young gentlemen, 
 well accoutred and compleatelie armed 
 with excellent serviceable horses. He 
 was abstemious and continent.' — De- 
 scription of the B. of Forth, edited by 
 H. F. Hore. 
 
 dd 'Walshe of Polrankan ; Hore of 
 Harpiston.' — Ussher M.S. In 1649 
 there were H. of Pole-Hore, H. of 
 Harperstown, and H. of Kilyash- 
 lan. In Taghmon Church there is 
 a very ancient monument to Hore of 
 Harperstown. W m - Hore of Harpers- 
 town was Knight of the Shire in 1559 ; 
 and was in 1572 seised of the castle 
 
 Lewes^ of Leweston, 
 
 Chyver of Killyan, 
 
 Hasson of Wexford, 
 
 Bryan of the ff 
 
 And of the Irishe — 
 
 Donell Cavanaghe, commonlie 
 called Donell Spaniaughe, 
 or Donell the Spaniard, 
 being broght with Stuckly 
 in Spaine, also 
 
 the Sept of Croan [Shean] 
 M c Murrow, 
 
 The 3 Lo. of Kinsheloghe, 
 
 and lands of Harperstown, held of 
 Roche of Drinagh, and of the castle 
 and lands of Taghmon, held of the 
 Queen. — H. F. Hore. 
 
 ec Perhaps ' Piers Butler, who has a 
 portion of the Fassasse of Bentry, who 
 is reported to be a rash young man.' — 
 Survey of Ireland. 
 
 " ' Fitznicol ; Nevil baron of Rose- 
 garland ; Turner of Ballyasshin ; Lowes 
 of Lowston ; Brian of the Starr ; Graye.' 
 — Ussher M.S. (e. 4. 33) T.C.D. There 
 was also a ' Pippard of Glascarrig,' ac- 
 cording to the Car. Cat. j and there 
 was an influential family, named Gerot, 
 as appears from a paper penes me. 
 
 es R. Whitty of Bally teige b. 1546, 
 d. 1623, was J.P. for the co. of Wex- 
 ford ; held three manors, three caru- 
 cates and 523 acres; married ad. of 
 Sir N. Devereux of Ballymagir, 'the 
 
COUNTIE OF WEXFORD. 63 
 
 M c Vadock, hh Edmond Duff. 
 
 M c Danore, 
 
 The whole Countie of Catherlaghe, and the one halfe of the 
 Countie of Wexford was in tymes past inhabitted by the Cavan- 
 aghes, who being by Warr driven out have from time to time 
 greatlie disturbed the Inhabitants of the foresaid Counties ; 
 there remayneth of them but few, and these of four Septs or 
 Families, of which Griffyne M c Morroghe and his Brethren were 
 chief and dwelt nere Fearnes ; the Elder Brother being Exe- 
 cuted, the younger doth altogether depend upon S r Henrie 
 Wallop. 
 
 The Second Familie is Donell Spaniaughe and his Kinsmen, 
 who also pretended to be much at the devotion of S r Henrie 
 Wallop, who procured to the said Donell a yearlie Pension 
 from the quene, but of late being Sturred up by the Earle of 
 Tyrone, he took Armes against the quene and challingeth the 
 Hous of Enishcortie possessed and sumptuouslie Builded by S r 
 Henrie Wallop, without which he purposeth not to live in 
 quiet." The 3 rd was the Sept of Bryan M c Care of or 
 
 White Knight ; ' his son married a d. skirt of the Duffry, the chief fastness of 
 
 of Stafford of Ballyconnor, and his D. Spaniaghe, who now pretends [to 
 
 grandson married a d. of Oliver Eus- be chief?] of the Cavanaghs and 
 
 tace of Ballynunry. There is a fine M c Murragh, which in the Irish account 
 
 monument to the Whittys in the ruined is no less than to be King of Leynister. 
 
 Church of Kilmore. — SezKilk. A. Jour. His Lordship also viewed the ground 
 
 year 1872, p. 62. between Eniscorthy and this fastness, 
 
 bh M c Vadock and M c Damore were where the garrison had not long before 
 
 descended from Murchadh a brother of skirmished with D. Spaniaghe. Soon 
 
 Dermot IVFMurrough. M c Vadock's after, D. Spaniagh, Phelim M c Feagh 
 
 sept dwelt round Gorey. Hi Kinsel- and M c Rowry fought against Essex, 
 
 lagh, Ui Cennselach, was in the north- In Sept. 1599 he was in action with 
 
 east of the co. of Wexford. 300 or 400 of his followers in the co. 
 
 "In June 1599 Essex 'viewed the of Wexford and greatly annoying these 
 
64 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 S'- mollins and these depended upon S r Antony Colclough in 
 his Life tyme, and now I suppose they depend upon his Sone, 
 Sir Thomas Colcloughe Sone-in-Law to the late Lord Chan- 
 cellor. The 4 th are of the Countie of Catherlagh in the Baronie 
 of Idrone,whose chief dependance was upon the Earle of Ormond. 
 
 The head of this last Sept was Mourtoghe oge 
 
 latelie 
 
 by one of the Omailies. The rest of them together with the 
 Remainder of the third Familie, have joined themselves toge- 
 ther with the foresaid Donell Spaniaughe who dailie vexeth the 
 Counties of Wexford, Catherlaghe, Kildare and Dublin ; he is 
 not able to make above 200 Footmen, who, being prosecuted 
 from Countie to Countie, hath continuall relief from Phelim 
 M c Feughe the Rebell of the Countie in Dublin, whose Brother- 
 in-law he is» kk 
 
 parts. Much of the lands of Donall 
 Spaniaghe were possessed by Sir R. 
 Masterson, Sir H. Wallop, Lord Mount- 
 garrett, and Sir N. Walshe ; his ances- 
 tor> Art Boy Kevanaghe possessed 
 Enischortye, etc' — Car. Cal. 
 
 A member of this clan, Morgan 
 Kavanagh, was Governor of Prague 
 in 1766, and was the largest man in 
 Europe. Relatives of his were living in 
 Austria in the year 1844, and were 
 declared by Professor Niemann of 
 Vienna to be the tallest men in all 
 Germany. They were descendants of 
 Bryan na-Siroice Kavanagh, who was 
 the largest man in the army of James 
 the Second. — See O' Donovan on the 
 Physical Characteristics of tlie Irish, in 
 Ulster J. of Arclt* 
 
 ** A Souvenir of Wexford in 1598 
 has been recently discovered : — ' Near 
 the burial ground of Bannow have been 
 found squared granite stones, forming 
 the entrance to a house, and on one 
 of the stones, a portion of which had 
 been broken off, was the fragmentary 
 inscription ; — 
 
 . > . . mes . colli . fz 
 . . ence . builded . this 
 house . in . the . yeere . of 
 owre . lord . 1598 . and 
 marion . sinot . his . wife. 
 This may be read : " [Ja]mes Collin 
 (Cullen) fitz [Lawr] ence builded this 
 house in the yeere of our Lord 1598, 
 and Marion Sinot, his wife." ' — Kilk. 
 J. of Arch., October 1864. 
 
COUNTIE OF KILKENNY. 65 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF KILKENNY. 
 
 This Countie hath the most shew of civilitie a of any other of 
 the border Counties, in respect of the fayre Seats of Howses, the 
 number of Castles and Inglysh manner of Inclosure of their 
 Grounds. It is bounded with the River Barow to the East, with 
 the River Suer to the South, with Ossorie to the North with 
 Tipperairie to the West. These Counties being Ancientlie 
 called Osseria seemeth to contayne the whole county of Kil- 
 kenny or rather Ossery, and the other part called upp. Osserie, 
 and so to be all one Countie. But albeit many directions have 
 been sent from the Queen and her progenitors for the deciding 
 of this controversie, Yet M c GillaPatrick, the ancient possessor 
 of Upper Osserie and now baron b of it wou'd never consent to 
 be of that Countie for the native malice between them, the one 
 having been utter Enimie to the other ; but pleadeth a Prero- 
 gative by custome to be out of all Shyreground and to be 
 Sheriffe himselfe for the Execution of the civill cawses, and 
 criminall cawses, he rather sorteth himself to be of the new 
 
 a A Kilkenny jury in 1537 declared lady, his wyff, the Lord Jamys Butler, 
 
 that — ' The gentylmen with all the and other the said Erie's children and 
 
 comoners of the said counte, the Sover- Kyne of his name; wherefor to provide 
 
 eine with all the heddes and comoners that these persons may be reduced, the 
 
 of the towne of Kilkenny, ben very countie wyl be immediately prosperous 
 
 desirous to be obedient to the Kinges and of gret strength to defend ther- 
 
 lawe, and to lyve in good cevylitie ; selves against their enemyes.' — An- 
 
 and albehit the Kinges laws in the said nuary, p. 136. 
 
 counte be not only clerly void and b Florence, the 3rd Lord, lived in 
 
 frustrate, but also all the exactions, the time of Elizabeth, m. a daughter of 
 
 suppressions and other enormities be- O'More of Leix ; his son, Thady the 
 
 fore presented, with many mo, be men- 4th lord, m. a daughter of Sir Edmund 
 
 teyned only by the Erie of Ossory, my Butler of Tullow, and d. 1627. 
 
 I 
 
66 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 Countie, and so in all criminall cawses to be tried by the late 
 planted Inglyshe, then by their Ancient Enemies the Countie of 
 Kilkenny. 
 
 ' Kilkenny 
 Thomaston 
 Callan 
 I d 
 
 Gauran d 
 Balleragat 
 Burnchurche 
 and many other of meane reckoning. 
 
 The chief Tonnes of this 
 Countie are these: 
 
 c ' The best uplandish towne in Ire- 
 land .... famous for Peter White's 
 school out of which have sprouted such 
 proper Impes so as the whole weale 
 publik of Ireland is thereby furthered.' 
 — Stanihurst. ' Kilkenny the best dry 
 towne in Ireland.' — Campion. 
 
 ' The most pleasant and delightful 
 town of y e Kingdom ; the buildings 
 are fair and people fashionable ; its 
 cituation is in the best Air of Ireland 
 upon the river Nore of admirable cleer 
 water upon a gravel — it is said that it 
 hath — 
 " Water without mud, air without fog, 
 
 Fire without smoke and land without 
 bog." ' 
 —Dynelfs Tour, temp. Charles II 
 
 In 1644 it seemed to Le Gouz, a 
 French traveller, as large as Orleans, 
 which had 31,000 inhabitants. 
 
 The ten leading families or ' tribes 
 of Kilkenny,' are thus given, in Galway 
 fashion, by Mr. Prim : 
 
 'Archdekin, Archer, Cowley, Langton, Ley, 
 Knaresborough, Lawless, Ragget, Rothe and Shee.' 
 
 The Shees, the only one of un- 
 doubted Milesian blood, was the most 
 important, and next to them ranked 
 Rothe and Archer. — J. G. A. Prim, Esq. 
 
 The Corporation of K. in 1537 : — 
 Shee, Rothe, Lanton, Rothe, Hakket, 
 Walshe, Rothe, Shee, Ragge, Archer, 
 Raaour, Lawless, Savage. 
 
 ' Commyners of the town of Kil- 
 kenny in 1537 : — Lye, Busser, Dormon- 
 dus, Marshall, Clery. Brasell, Purcell, 
 Thyvyn, Langton, Rothy, Machill, 
 Gybbes, Ragge, Garrard, Archer, 
 Cavin.' 
 
 d I is perhaps Inistioge ; Gauran is 
 Gowran. 'In 1608 Gowran got a char- 
 ter, and N. Hackett was made Port- 
 reeve, and Everarde, Archer, J. Nashe, 
 R. Nashe, J. Swayne, E. Staunton, 
 Kealy, Raghtor, R. Swayne, M. Staun- 
 ton, E. Walshe, and T. Staunton were 
 Burgesses and of the Common Council 
 
COUNTIE OF KILKENNY. 
 
 6 7 
 
 Castles . 
 
 Kilkenny 
 Gauran d 
 Kell 
 
 Ballingtoughe 
 Creey Toune 
 Whyte's Hall 
 
 Men of Accompt? 
 
 The Earle of Ormond/ 
 
 his name JanV MButler, 
 
 his chief Hous Carrick ; 
 
 The L. Viscount Mountgarot s 
 
 of the Borough.' — Kilk. J. of Arch., 
 July 187 1, p. 540. In 1608 David 
 Archer was constable to the Earl of 
 Ormond of the Castle of Gowran. 
 
 c The gentlemen of the jury of the 
 Shire of Kilkenny in 1537 were: — 
 Grace, Sweetman, Comerforth, Dobbin, 
 Smith, Watonn, Cowik, Datowne, 
 Howel, Forstall, Forstall, Purcell, 
 Shortall, Shortall, Forstall, Croke and 
 Blomfeld. 
 
 Jury of the Commyners of the Co. 
 of Kilk. in 1537 : — Troddye, Herford, 
 Moteing, Fanneing, Mounsell, How- 
 ling, all of Callan ; Forstall, Power, 
 Walshe, Arland, and Karron, all of 
 Inystioke ; Power, Tywe, FitzTohn, 
 Lacye, all of Knocktopher ; Lorknan, 
 Whyte of Knocktopher. — See Annuary 
 of Kilk. J. of A. 
 
 f Thomas 10th Earl, called The 
 Black Earl ; his mother was daughter 
 and heir of the nth Earl of Desmond; 
 ♦lis father's mother was a d. of the Sth 
 
 his name Rich d Butler, 
 The L. Bishop of Ossorie_ 
 his Seat at Kilkenny, 
 
 C-< 
 
 Earl of Kildare ; he enjoyed the title 
 since the year 1546; in 1559 he was 
 constituted lord treasurer of Ireland, 
 and in the Carew Calendar he is styled 
 ' Lord General, General of the Army, 
 and Lord Lieutenant General.' He 
 was a great favourite of Elizabeth ; ac- 
 cording to Burke's Peerage ' he was the 
 first of his family to conform to the 
 Church of England;' however, he be- 
 came a Catholic a few years before his 
 death, and was constantly visited by 
 Fathers Walle and O'Keamey, S.J. 
 He had six brothers. 
 
 e Edmund Butler 2nd Viscount 
 Mountgarret, 1st cousin of the Earl of 
 Ormonde ; he married a d. of Fitz- 
 Patrick 1st Lord of Upper Ossory ; he 
 died in 1602, and was succeeded by 
 his son Richard, who had married the 
 eldest d. of the Earl of Tyrone. His 
 hou=e is called Beallagarett and Ballin- 
 aggett in the Car. Cal. The 1 2th Vis- 
 count was made Earl of Kilkenny. 
 
 
68 
 
 Garrot, h Baronet 
 
 church, 
 Purcell' of Ballynfoyle, 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598 
 
 of Burn 
 
 Edw d Butler of Butlerswood, 
 Deane k of Thomastowne, 
 David Baron 1 of Brownsfoord, 
 
 h Rowland FitzGerald alias Baron 
 de Burnchurch. In the churchyard of 
 Bumchurch there is a tomb of ' Fitz- 
 Gerald alias Baron, dominus de Burn- 
 church, who d. in 1545. The castle of 
 B. is in a good state of preservation. 
 The representative of this family is Sir 
 H. Winston Barron.' — Kilk. Annuary 
 0/1858. The Baron of Burnchurche 
 is the title given by the Kilkenny juries 
 of 1537. — Annuary. 
 
 ' To P. of Ballyfoyle was erected 
 Purcell's Cross in St, Patrick's Cemetery: 
 it bears the inscription, ' Orate pro 
 anima Nobilimi D.D. Edmundi Pur- 
 celli, qui obiit 16 Aug. 1625.' The 
 Baron of Loughmoe in Tipperary was 
 the head of the Purcells from whom N. 
 Purcell O'Gorman is descended in the 
 female line ; but there were five re- 
 spectable branches in Kilkenny, viz. : — 
 of Ballyfoile, of Foulksrath, of Lismain, 
 of Ballymartin and of Clone.— See The 
 Wayside Crosses, by Mr. Prim, in Vol. I. 
 of Kilk, J. of Arch. 
 
 The Purcells were hereditary captains 
 of Ormonde's Kerne. The chief stock 
 lived at Foulksrath, the offsets at Bally- 
 foyl, Lismain, Clone and Ballymartin. 
 Edmund Purcell ' captain of Kerne ' 
 died iir 1549, and is buried in S 1 - 
 Canice, where his tombstone bears the 
 inscription, ' Capitanus turbariorum 
 Comitis Ormoniae.' — Mr. Prim in Kilk. 
 [. of Archaology. 
 
 There was a Patrick Porcell gent, of 
 Lowyston in the year 1537 ; and Piers 
 P. of Ballyen ; also ' the Lorde Pur- 
 cell.' — See Annuary, pp. 116, 117, 121, 
 123, 132. 
 
 The ruin of Ballyfoile Castle stands 
 in the glen of that name at the foot of 
 the Johnswell mountains. 
 
 k Also ' Mr. Den of Grenan.' — Car. 
 Col. 
 
 1 David FitzGerald, alias Barron. 
 This family, which had the title of Baron 
 after it had ceased to be summoned to 
 Parliament as such, was of the Geral- 
 dine stock. The title came at last to 
 be a surname. A way-side Cross in 
 the Square of Inistioge has the inscrip- 
 tion, ' Orate pro animabus Domini 
 David Geraldini, dicti Baron de 
 Brownsfoord, obiit 14, Apr. 1621/ et 
 Joannae Mor res' 
 
 The castle of Brownsford is situate 
 over the Nore. In 1537 the Kilkenny 
 ' Jurye present that the Baron of 
 Brownesforde, and his officers doth 
 use Blak men, that is to saye, the 
 Baron will show the country that he 
 hath VHP* Gallawglasseis, and require 
 wages of them therefor; where of 
 truthe he hath not above the number of 
 100 Gallowglassheis, and doth take and 
 levye of the country wages for VIII" 
 personnes, and so keepeth the residue 
 of the money to himself, which 
 amounteth to the some of 60 persons 
 
COUNTIE OF KILKENNY. 
 
 6 9 
 
 Fostor" 1 of Kilseraghe, 
 Sir Ri char d SheeJ 1 Knight, 
 Sir James Butler" Knight, 
 
 Sir Pierce Butler p Knight, 
 and divers more Families of 
 
 wages.' — See Annuary, pp. 117, 121, 
 and Mr. Prim's Wayside Crosses in 
 Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 
 m Gerald Forster. In 1537 R. For- 
 stell of Kilferrouthe gent. From a 
 pedigree it appears the name was origi- 
 nally Forrester, but the name was 
 afterwards written Fforstall. The head 
 of the family held the manors of Kil- 
 feragh and Ballyfrunck by Knight's ser- 
 vice from the Crown in capite. Mon- 
 sieur Forestall of Paris is believed to 
 be the head of the Kilkenny Forstalls 
 of Rochestown. 
 
 n Of Upper Court and Cloran ; he 
 was descended from O'Seagha, chief of 
 Iveragh in Kerry. He was son of 
 Robert Shee and Margaret Rothe ; he 
 was a member of Gray's Inn, seneschal 
 of Irishtown in 1568, in 1576 deputy 
 to the E. of Ormonde (lord high trea- 
 surer of Ireland), he was knighted in 
 1589 ; he died at his castle of Bonnetts- 
 town in 1603, and in his will left an 
 injunction on his son, Lucas, to build 
 an Alms' House, and left his curse on 
 any of his descendants who should ever 
 attempt to alienate the property pro- 
 vided for its maintenance, which con- 
 sisted chiefly of impropriate tithes. A 
 cross was erected to Sir Richard by his 
 wife Dame Margaret Fagan. His son 
 Lucas married a sister of Lord Mount- 
 garret, and at Freshford there is or was 
 a Wayside Cross erected in memory of 
 
 Lucas and his wife, and the site is 
 called in Irish Bun na Croise. 
 
 Co lonel Coun jJZVShee, of the French 
 service, is the representative of Sir 
 Richard, whose old vellum Cartulary 
 he possesses. From Sir Richard's se- 
 cond son, Marcus of Sheestown, is de- 
 scended J. Power O'Shee, Esq., of 
 Sheestown and Gardenmorres. Sir 
 Richard's brother, Elias Shee of Cran- 
 more was, says Hollingshed, ' a scholar 
 of Oxford, of passing wit, a pleasant 
 conceited companion, full of mirth 
 without gall ;' from him was descended 
 Sir G. Shee of Dunmore, co. of Galway. 
 
 Perhaps ' Sir James Oge Butler of 
 Slewardaghe.' 
 
 p ' M r - P£ers_Butler_of Old Abbey.' 
 — Car. Cal. 
 
 Piers Fitz Thomas Butler of Duiske 
 Abbey and Lowgrange, illegitimate son 
 of the Earl of Ormonde, died in 1601, 
 leaving (by his wife, a da. of Lord 
 Slane) two sons, Edward, afterwards 
 Viscount Galmoy, and Sir Richard 
 Butler of Knocktopher. Piers was a 
 zealous Catholic, and did his best to 
 save Archbishop O'Hurly ; he died in 
 1 601. In 1697 the third Viscount 
 Galmoy was attainted, but James the 
 Second created him Earl of Newcastle — 
 a poor recompense for the broad acres 
 which he had lost. — See an account of 
 Galmoy and his regiment in O'Cal- 
 laghan's Irish Brigades. 
 
 ,4* &-<L4=^^ 
 
7° 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I59S. 
 
 Butlers q Graces/ Shees, Cant- 
 wells, 5 Comberfords/ Deanes, 
 Archdeacons," Walshes/ 
 
 Roothes* Archers," Dormers, 
 Stronges, which are thought 
 
 q ' Richard B. now sheriff, of Pallis- 
 toun.' — Car. Cal. From the B. of 
 Paulstown came Colonel B. the slayer 
 of Wallenstein, and Sir W. Butler who 
 defended Kilkenny against Cromwell. 
 
 ' There is a ' Grace's Cross ' near 
 Bonnetstown, erected by Edward G. 
 and his wife Catherine Archer ; he was 
 of the family of the Barons of Courts- 
 town ; he d. in 16 19. Sir J. Grace, 
 Baron of Courtstown, died after 1568; 
 his tomb is in St. Canice's. 
 
 5 ' Of Cantwellstown.' — Car. Cal. 
 Cantwell's Court is four miles north-east 
 of Kilkenny. 
 
 ' ' Garret Comerford of Inchiolegan.' 
 — Car. Cal. The head of the Comer- 
 fords was Baron of Danganmore ; 
 junior members were settled at Bally- 
 mack, Ballybur, Callan and Inchebo- 
 loghan Castle; circa 1572 'Thomas C. 
 late of Ballymacka, having been in his 
 lifetime one of the chiefest conspirators 
 and actual dooers in this last rebellion, 
 was attainted.' At Danganmore there 
 is a Wayside Cross with a Latin in- 
 scription, asking prayers for the souls 
 of Richard C. and his wife, Domina 
 Joanna S L Leger. 
 
 u 'Archdeacon of Bawnmore.' — Car. 
 Cal. Also A. of Dangan ; they were 
 descended from Odo le Ercedekne, 
 and hence, when the family waxed 
 Irish it took the name of Mac Odo, 
 shortened to Cody. Of this family was 
 
 Father Arsdekin, S.J., the celebrated 
 Author of the Theologia Tripartita. 
 
 v 'Walsh of Castle Hely and Mr. 
 Justice Walshe of Glomemore.' — Car. 
 Cal. W. of Castlehowell was the head 
 of the Kilkenny Walshes or the Bren- 
 nachs of the Walsh Mountains. By 
 the Kilkenny Jury of 1537 they are 
 called Brennach, and Walter B. and 
 his sons are presented as exacting 
 coyne and lively. Walter W. the head 
 of the family died in 161 9. 'The 
 Walshes are a great sect at the Earl 
 of Ormond's commandment,' says a 
 state paper of this time, to which I 
 cannot now give a reference. 
 
 ■ The most distinguished man of 
 this family in 1598 was Dr. D. Rothe 
 afterwards Bishop of Ossory. 
 
 1 In 1597 Thomas Archer was sheriff 
 of Kilkenny City; in 1601, Patrick A. 
 and in 1603 Martin A. were sheriffs. 
 In 1602 John Archer FitzLaurence, 
 burgess of the city of Kilkenny, in his 
 will mentions his sons William and 
 Matthew, and his daughters, to whom 
 he leaves his land in fee. In 1605, 
 Megge Archer FitzEdward mentions 
 her son Jenkan Roth and desires her 
 ' body to be buried with her husband 
 Jenkan Rothe in the Choire of our 
 Ladye Chapell Kilkenny.' In 1599 
 'the Sovraigne Burgesses and Commons 
 demised to Walter Archer FitzArcher 
 Esquire, S'- James' Castle, provided he 
 
COUNTIE OF KILKENNY. 
 
 Thought to be Stranges/ their Amies agreeing with the Stranges 
 of Ingl. ; St. Legers, z Blanchviles, aa Staffordes, Sweatman, bb Ger- 
 aldin, Tobyn," Dobyn, Forestall, Crooke, Hullen, Arnold 
 White Dalton Smethes Dryling Shortall, dd Wales, Waton Row 
 
 cover the same with oken timber and 
 maintain it stiff, strong, staunch and 
 tenentable ; but the Soveraigne, etc., 
 should have the use of it in time of 
 war or danger.' 
 
 y Peter Strong of Dunkit and Ayl- 
 wardstown, where the present head of 
 the family, Peter Strange, Esq., resides. 
 
 * The Jury of 1537 present that Lord 
 Sleggar charged his tenauntes with 
 coyne and livery. In 1549 he is called 
 Baron Lyster. S 4, Leger (or Slyggar) 
 lived at Tullaghanbroge, also a branch 
 resided at Ballyfennon ; they were 
 called Barons or ' Banrets ' of Slew- 
 margie, and by Stanihurst are described 
 as ' mere Irish.' Hanmer states that 
 Slieve Margie was granted to S f - Leger 
 with the title of Baron, and that of late 
 years (circa 1598) a gentleman of the 
 name dwelling at Danganstown near 
 Carlow laid claim to the same, as de- 
 scendant of S 1 - Leger. 
 
 33 Gerald Blancheville of Blanch- 
 villestown was Knight of the Shire in 
 1584; his son, Sir Edmond B. was 
 living in 16 16, and was maternally de- 
 scended from the Earls of Ormond. 
 The Blanchfield living in 1537 is called 
 by the Kilkenny Jury ' lorde Blanche- 
 feld.' Sir John Blanchfield Knt. was 
 summoned to the war in Scotland in 
 the year 1335. 
 
 bb 'Sweetman of Castlelyf.' — Car. 
 Cal. 
 
 Sir R. Sweetman was summoned as 
 a Baron to Parliament in 1374 ; Ed- 
 ward S. of Hoodgrove died in 1616 
 seised of a castle in Gowran, a castle 
 in Thomastown, etc. The chief seats 
 of the S. were Castlereife, and Newtown 
 D'Erley. 
 
 William S. of Castellyf in the co. of 
 Kilkenny, Gent, tried to persuade Sir 
 Edmund Butler to submit to the Go- 
 vernment in 1569. By the jury of 
 1537 S. is called 'the lord Sweetman.' 
 
 cc Originally S c ' Aubin. They were 
 titular Barons of Comsey in the co. of 
 Tipperary, a branch seems to have set- 
 tled at Ballaghtobin in the co. of Kil- 
 kenny. — Annuary, p. 127. 
 
 dd ' Shortall of Ballylorcan, S. of 
 Clagh.' — Car. Cal. J. Shortalls, 'Lord 
 of Ballylorcan,' whose tomb was erected 
 in 1507, is buried with his wife Catha- 
 rine White in the Cathedral of S' 
 Canice. Sir Oliver S. of Ballylorcan, 
 and Castle Idough, etc., married the 
 widow of N. Shortal of Upper Claragh ; 
 he died in 1630. The jury of 1537 
 presented that ' the Lorde Shertell 
 (written also here Sortall) useth the 
 same exaccyons as the Earl of Ossory.' 
 The war-cry of the Shortalls was Pucan- 
 sac-abo ! 
 
72 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Frayne ee Dowley Knaresburghe 
 
 Conway, Baggad, Lancton* 1 Troddy, Lawles 
 
 Davels Ledwyshe Brenan, gs Swayne, Cormicke hh 
 
 Of these the L. Mountgarrat accompanied with many Butlers, 
 
 ee Frenge, French, Fulke de la 
 Freigne was first of the gentlemen of 
 the shire summoned to the war of 
 Scotland in 1302. The head of the 
 F. lived at Ballyreddy where Lord 
 Freny died in 161 1. Lord de Freyne 
 is of this family, being descended from 
 Oliver de Freyne who was seneschal of 
 Kilkenny in 1336. We find a cross 
 at Ballyneale near New Ross, and a 
 tomb to Robert Frayne, ' viro vere pio, 
 munifico et hospita/i,' erected by his 
 wife Eleanor Geraldine, d. of the Baron 
 of Brownsford ; he died in 1643. The 
 de F. was usually seneschal or chief 
 officer to Ormond. — See Mr. Prim's 
 Wayside Crosses. 
 
 " In 1598 the Rev. J. Langton was 
 one of the vicars choral of St. Canice. 
 In the same year Edward L. was sove- 
 reign of Kilkenny. Nich. L., Alderman, 
 and P. Archer Esq. were members for 
 Kilkenny in 1613. Mrs. Peter Grehan, 
 of Rutland Square, Dublin, is of this 
 family ; her brother, F. Langton, Esq., 
 of London, is its representative, 
 and also heir and representative 
 of the Comerfords, Palatine Barons of 
 Danganmore. The Rev. E. Madden 
 R C.C. is also a representative of the 
 Langtons and Comerfords, and owns 
 the ' great stone house ' of Langton in 
 Kilkenny. Alderman Langton, M.P., 
 who was born in 1562 and d. 1632, 
 
 had twelve sons and thirteen daughters. 
 — See Memoirs of the La?igtons by Mr. 
 Prim in the Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 
 EB The following were the septs of 
 O'Brenans arc 1603: 'The sept of 
 Gilpatrick O'Brenan of Rathcally which 
 are called Clanmoriertagh hath seven 
 towns or hamlets ; the sept of Edmund 
 O'B. of Kildergan, alias Hokerety, and 
 Edmund O'B. of Smithstown, which 
 sept are called Clan M c Conill, they 
 own four towns and hamlets ; the sept 
 of Ffarr M'Donoghoe of Croghfenaly, 
 which are called Clanvickelowe, they 
 have three towns and hamlets ; the 
 sept of Moriertagh M c Donoghoue 
 Killy, which are called Clanowly, they 
 own KyledonoghoueKilly, and three 
 other places.' — Rev. James Graves in 
 1st Vol. of Kilkenny J. of Arch. 
 
 Ul Also 'Lovellof Ballymaka.' — Car. 
 Cat. There were also Barnabe Bolgyr 
 at Bishopscourt, the Cowleys ancestors 
 of Wellington, the Grants of Curluddy 
 and Ballynabooly, Le Poer of Powers 
 Wood ; the Rochfords, whose feudal 
 residence was the Black Castle of Kil- 
 dare. There was also a family of Gall 
 or Gall-Burke of Gallstown, from which 
 Dr. O'Donovan, the Irish scholar, was 
 sprung. Walter Gall de Burgo of 
 Gallstown was M.P. for Kilkenny 
 county in 1560. Of his sons, Walter 
 d. in 1642 ; William (Count Gall von 
 
THE QUENES COUNTIE. 
 
 / 6 
 
 Graces, and all the younger Brethren of Gent of this Countie are 
 7iow in Rebellion he is able to make about 150 Horsemen and 500 
 Footemen, they Stop the Passage from Dtiblin to Motmster which 
 lieth through this Countie and do much harm to all the Counties 
 adjacent [The lines in italics are Cancelled in the" Original]. 
 
 THE QUENES COUNTIE alias LEASE.* 
 
 This Countie contayneth all the Lands in effect between the 
 Water of Barrow and Ormond, including all that did belong to 
 Omore Odwine [ODunn] upper Ossyrie and Sleumaghe [als 
 
 Bourckh of the German Empire) d. 
 1655; James was slain at Torgau ; 
 David was slain at Leipsig in 1631 ; 
 Patrick was in the Spanish service, and 
 Thomas was living in 1636, in the 
 Austrian army, and had a son William 
 Walter Gall de Burgo, Count Gall von 
 Bourckh of Gerstorf and Holstein. — 
 See Dr. 'Donovan '.r Memoir of the 
 Gall-Burkes, in the Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 
 " In April 1599, Mountgarret with 
 his brother's sons, Richard, James and 
 Edward, and followers, are in rebellion 
 with the O'Carrolls : their forces 150; 
 whereof 20 are horse, besides continual 
 assistance from Tyrone, to whose 
 daughter Mountgarret married his son. 
 — Car. Cal., p. 298. 
 
 The English had in Kilkenny 230 
 horse under Ormond, Sir J. Lambert, 
 Sir Walter Butler, Sir Chr. S u Law- 
 rence, and Captains Fleming and 
 
 Taffe; also 800 foot under Ormond, 
 Sir Carew Reynel, Sir H. Follyot, 
 Croft, Sheffield and Pinner. — Moryson, 
 
 P- 43- 
 
 N.B. — Most of these notes on Kil- 
 kenny have been put together from the 
 Arinuary of the Kilk. Arch. Soc, an. 
 186S, and from various papers by the 
 Rev. J. Graves and J. Prim, Esq., in 
 the Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 a ' Let us approach Laoighis, 
 
 Brown-haired heroes for whom show- 
 ers fall ; 
 The great territory of Laoighis of 
 
 slender swords 
 Belongs to O'Mordha, bulwark of 
 
 battle, 
 Of the golden shield of one colour.' 
 —O'Hicidhrin. 
 Laoighis, pronounced Lee-ish, com- 
 prised, not the baronies of Upper 
 Ossory, Portnahinch, and Tinnahinch, 
 
 K 
 
74 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Slewmargie]. The Soyle is FruitfulP and Exceeding pleasant, 
 
 but only the northern and eastern 
 baronies of Queen's Co. 
 
 ' Lease est regiuncula sylvestris et 
 uliginosa ; primarium oppidum est 
 Maryburgh, ubi cum suo Seneschallo 
 praesidiarii agunt, qui sese aegre defen- 
 dunt contra CfMoores (qui se ut anti- 
 quos hujus dominos gerunt), Mac-Gil- 
 patrick, O' Danpsios et alios, malefica 
 et tumultiosa hominum genera, qui ad 
 Anglos deturbandos nihil non quotidie 
 moliuntur.' — Letterpress prefixed to 
 Jansson's old Map of Leinster. 
 
 b ' It seemed incredible, that by so 
 barbarous inhabitants (as the people of 
 Leix) the ground should be so ma- 
 nured, the fields so orderly fenced, the 
 Townes so frequently inhabited, and 
 the high waies and paths so well 
 beaten as the Lord Deputy here found 
 them — the reason whereof was that the 
 Quecne 's forces during these warres never 
 till then came among them. His Lord- 
 ship staying in Leax till the twenty 
 three of August did many waies weaken 
 them — he fought with them every day 
 and as often did beate them — our 
 Captaines and, by their example (for it 
 was otherwise painful) the common 
 souldiers did cut down with their 
 swords all the Rebels corne to the 
 value often thousand pound and up- 
 ward, the only means by which they ivere 
 to live, and to keepe their Bonaghts 
 (or hired souldiers).' — Moryson, Lrc- 
 land anno 1600, p. 77. 
 
 ' The Lord Deputy's journey into 
 
 the Queen's Co. in 1600.' — Vol. 601 of 
 Carew MSS. 'Aug. 14. His Lordship 
 left Sir J. FitzPiers and Sir H. Follyott 
 with 400 men, "to fall into Leix another 
 way that night for a prey; Aug. 15. 
 Rory M c Rory with 100 Kerne skir- 
 mished with them and they got no 
 prey. The L. Deputy burned and 
 spoiled Keating's country and the corn 
 thereabouts." Aug. 16. He sent Sir O. 
 Lambert with 600 foot who marched 
 through the fastness of Slemarge, spoil- 
 ing their plots of corn within the woods, 
 burning their towns, with some skir- 
 mish in the passes. His Lordship 
 coasted along the plain " burning and 
 spoiling likewise. At the river there 
 were some skirmishes. Aug. 17. En- 
 camped at Ferney Abbey. The army 
 marching along the valley, the rebels 
 coasted along the mountains. Divers 
 of them came from the hill waving us 
 to them with their swords, and calling 
 us, as their manner is, with railing 
 speeches." Aug. 18 and 19. The army 
 passed to Kilgighy in Ossory, " all the 
 way we burned all their houses in their 
 fastnesses and woods." Aug. 22. We 
 spoiled the corn about Teig Fitz- 
 Patrick's Castle.' — Car. Cal., p. 432. 
 
 On the 5 th of Sep. the Deputy wrote 
 to Carew : ' With 800 foot and 1 00 
 horse I entered Leixe, burned and 
 spoiled all their towns and cut down 
 their corn ; Owny M c Rory wrote to 
 the Earl of Onnond desiring him " to 
 stay this execrable and abominable 
 
THE QUENES COUNTIE. 
 
 75 
 
 and hath on the one Side the River Barrow, and through a great 
 part thereof the River Newer [N ore] well Sorted with plaines 
 and Woods. This Countie being throughlie conquered by the 
 Earle of Sussex was planted with a mixed people of Inglysh and 
 Irish, and in the tyme of King Phillip and Quene Marie this 
 Countrie was called by the name of the Quenes Countie, and the 
 
 course (for so he termed it) of cutting 
 down green corn." On our return the 
 rebels charging our men hotly were 
 beaten back.' — Car. Cat. 
 
 Owny declared himself 'outraged by 
 the abominable new device of Mount- 
 joy, to cut down green corn wherever 
 he goes — an execrable course and a 
 bad example to all the world. The 
 English had taught him bad lessons 
 before, and as they do not mean to 
 give over schooling him in bad actions, 
 which he protests he loathes, he de- 
 clares he will give over tillage and take 
 to living on the tilling of others.'— See 
 his letter published in Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 
 c There is in the Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 a fac-simile of an ancient map of Leix, 
 Ofaly, etc., which was made circ. 1563. 
 It excels all other Irish maps in archaeo- 
 logical interest — it exhibits the huge 
 and wide mountains of Slievebloom 
 and Slievecomar, the primeval forests, 
 as 'the great wood;' the vast heaths 
 and morasses as Frugh-more (the great 
 heath of Maryborough) and part of the 
 bog of Allen ; fort ' Protectour ' (now 
 Maryborough) ; the old feudal for- 
 tresses of Lea, Geashill, and Dunamase; 
 smaller castellated houses of Celtic 
 chiefs ; the smaller dwellings of the 
 
 bards, brehons, and physicians ; clus- 
 ters of cabins ; considerable monas- 
 teries such as Abbey-Leix, Killeigh, 
 and Monasterevan ; a sprinkling of 
 small churches ; and some evidences 
 of an armed settlement as ' Castle 
 Cosby,' ' Castle Pigot.' The sylvan 
 condition of the land is remarkable ; 
 the ' passes ' or rude roads through the 
 bogs and these ' backwoods ' of the 
 Pale are marked also. Finglas wrote 
 in 1529 that among the most dangerous 
 passes were ' two passes in Feemore 
 {Fiadh-mor or great wood) in O'More's 
 country.' In 1548 a pass in Leix was 
 described as three miles long through 
 a forest of great timber mingled with 
 hazel ; and in a state paper we are told 
 the Irish ' repute the great woods of 
 oak no fastness, but the thyke woods 
 of hassel and sallies they take for great 
 assurance.' — Description of an Ancient 
 Map of Leix by H. F. Hore, Esq. 
 
 Leis was divided into seven parts, 
 the boundaries of which met at a stone 
 called Leac-Riada, on the plain of 
 Magh J?iada, now Morett ; these re- 
 gions were under seven petty kings, 
 who were subject to an Arch-King, 
 called J?igh-J?iada, who resided at 
 Dunamase. 
 
7 6 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 chief Towne called Marieborroughe, as the next Countie was 
 called by the name of Kings Countie and the chief Towne 
 thereof called Phillipstowne. The new planted Inhabitants 
 Hath bene so molested continuallie with the multitudes of the 
 first Natives thereof, and the Omoores, and especially at this 
 present, as that they have in a manner recovered the Countrie 
 againe and Expelled all the Inglysh Inhabitants saving 3 or 4 
 which contayne themselves within their Castles till they be 
 relieved from Ingl. These Omoores was almost extinct, but 
 they have increased againe chieflie for lack of good Govern- 
 ment/ and due observation of such Orders as were appointed 
 
 d This is unjust to the government 
 of Sir H. Sydney, who thus tells us in 
 his 'Memoir ' what he did to extinguish 
 and extirpe the O' Mores : 'Rory Oge 
 O'More was the sonne of another 
 Rorye, chief of the O'M, and Captain 
 of the country called Leish who mar- 
 ried a daughter of the Earl of Ormond 
 (and was first cousin of the tenth Earl). 
 He called himself O'More. Against 
 him in 1578 I advanced, being of 
 horsemen and footmen a right good 
 force ; but he would not abide me, nor 
 I overtake him ; he carried away cap- 
 tive, to my heart's grief, my lieutenant, 
 Sir Harrie Harrington, my most dear 
 sister's son. I made on him as actual 
 and cunning a ?ca r re as I could; I besett 
 his cabanish dwelling with good sol- 
 diers and excellent good executioners ; 
 he had within it twenty-six of his best 
 men, his wife and his marcial's wief, 
 and Cormac O'Connor, an ancient and 
 rank rebel of long mentyned in Scot- 
 land. All were killed, his wife and all 
 
 his men ; only there escaped himself 
 and his marshall called Shane M c Rory 
 Reagh, in trouth most miraculously, 
 for they crept between the legs of the 
 soldiers into the fastness of the plashes 
 of trees. The soldiers saved the mar- 
 shal's wife.' — Sydney. 
 
 As Shane O'Neill was subdued by 
 the Scots, Desmond by Ormond, and 
 the Kavanaghs by the Butlers, so were 
 the O'Mores ruined by their neigh- 
 bours and kinsmen, the M c Gillapatricks. 
 'M c 6illapatrick, Baron of Upper Ossory, 
 my particular sworn brother,' says 
 Sydney, ' was the faithfullest man for 
 martial action that ever I found of that 
 country. He followed O'More with 
 great skill and cunning and with much 
 or more courage assailed him and made 
 the best fight with him that ever I 
 heard of between Irishmen. Rory 
 was killed by a household servant of 
 the Baron's ; his marshall escaped, and 
 the rebel's bodye, though dead was so 
 well attended and carried away as it 
 
THE QUENES COUNTIE. 
 
 77 
 
 to the Livetennants thereof by the Earle of Sussex, (To wit) 
 that the Freeholders of this Countie, and the King's Countie 
 be compelled to keep for their own defence the Horsemen and 
 Footmen, which they are bound to keep by their Tenures, which 
 if it had been put to Execution without any charge to the 
 Ouene had bene able to have suppressed any power that the 
 Rebells cou'd have raysed against them. The Capten of these 
 Omoores at this present is one Orory M c Rorie — who is not 
 able to make of himself above 160 or 180 Footemen ; e but when- 
 
 was the cause of the death of a good 
 many men on both sides ; yet carried 
 away it was.' — Sydney's Memoirs. 
 
 e When Owny captured Ormond on 
 the ioth Apr. 1600, 'he had,' says 
 Carew, ' 500 foot and 20 horse, the 
 best furnished men for the war and the 
 best apparelled that we have seen in 
 this kingdom, whereof 300 were 
 bonaghes.' — Carew to Privy Council, 
 April 18, 1600. In April 1599, 'Owny 
 with the rest of the Moores and their 
 followers were 600, of whom 30 are 
 horse.' — Car. Cal. 
 
 ' The best service done at that time 
 was the killing of Owny, a bloody and 
 bold yong man, who had lately taken 
 the Earl of Ormond prisoner and had 
 made great stirres in Mounster. He 
 was chief of the O'Mores and by his 
 death they were so discouraged that 
 they never after held up their heads. 
 Also a bold bloody rebel Callogh Mac- 
 Walter (O'More) was at the same time 
 killed. ' — At or y son. 
 
 ' Callogh M c VValter, the most bloody 
 rebel in Leinster, was killed in 
 
 helping of Owny ; after the skirmish, 
 we heard that Owny, being mortally 
 wounded, and fearing his head should 
 come into the L. Deputy's hands, had 
 willed it to be cut off and buried after 
 his death, and he appointed Owny 
 A'PShane to be O'Moore.' 'L. Mount- 
 joy's Journey.' — Car. Cal. ' Uaitne, son 
 of Rury Oge, son of Rury Caoch 
 O'Moore, an illustrious, renowned and 
 celebrated gentleman, by right the sole 
 heir to his territory, had wrested the 
 government of his patrimony by the 
 prowess of his hand and the resolute- 
 ness of his heart from the hands of 
 foreigners, brought it under his own 
 sway, and under the government of his 
 stewards and bonnaghts according to 
 Irish usage, so that there was not a vil- 
 lage from one extremity of his patri- 
 mony to the other which he had not in 
 his possession except Port-Leix alone.' 
 — Four Masters. According to Dym- 
 7110k, p. 32, 'Owny challenged Essex 
 to fight 50 of his with 50 of ours with 
 sworde and target which was consented 
 to by the L. Lieutenant; but Owny 
 
78 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 soever he inter) deth any Robberie or Spoyle he is assisted 
 partlie with his Neighbours of the King's Countie the Oconnors 
 partlie by Phelim M c Feughe whose coosen germaine he is, and 
 partlie by Capten Tyrrell who is readie with his Companie to 
 assist ether the Omoores or the Oconnors or the Omelaghlanes 
 for in any Sudden and present exployt. This Countie is bounded 
 with the Countie of Kilkenny to the South, with Tipperairie to 
 the West, with the Kings Countie and the mountaynes of 
 Slewblowe to the North, and the River Barrow to the East. 
 It is governed by S r Vaughan S' Leger who hath a commission 
 of Lieutenancy for the Countie. The chief Towne whereof is 
 Marieborrow ruled by a Portrise, and wherein is a Fort garded 
 with 150 Footmen or Sometymes 200, as need requireth, and 
 some few Horsemen. 
 
 The chef Castles : f 
 
 The Quene's Fort 
 
 The Shyan 
 
 The Abbey of Lease 
 
 Stradbellie 
 
 Pallace 
 
 Dunas 
 
 Blackfort 
 
 Baleclockan 
 
 Disert 
 
 Balliadams 
 
 Principal 
 Irysh Gentlemen ; s 
 
 Sir Henrie Power Lieutenant and 
 constable of the Fort 
 
 never came to perform it.' — See about 
 his fight with Essex at the Pass of the 
 Plumes in O'Sullivan Beare's Historia 
 Cath. 
 
 f ' Master Hartpol, M r - Bowen and 
 M r Pygot were the only English in- 
 habitants, by whom and some others 
 certaine castles were kept for the 
 Queen, besides the Fort of Maria- 
 borough kept by the Queen's Garrison.' 
 
 ' The English foote at Leax and the 
 Barow side were Sir Warham S 1, Leger 
 150 f, Sir F. Rush 150, Captaine John 
 Fitz-Piers 150, and M r - Hartpoole 10.' 
 — Aforyson. 
 
 K Cosby (?) at Stradbally ; Cosby at 
 Castle Dirrhy ; Harpoole of Coolbane- 
 ghar, he is constable of Catherlagh 
 Castle ; Bowen of BallyAdams ; Ed- 
 ward Brierton of Laghtiog ; Pigotts of 
 
THE QUENES COUNTIE. 
 
 79 
 
 Alexander Cosbie 
 
 William Harpole 
 
 Robert Bowen 
 
 Bruerton 
 
 Rob' Pio-grot of the desert 
 
 Young Davels 
 
 Barrington 11 
 
 ] of Ireland 
 
 Freeholders of the [ 
 The Earle of Kildare 
 The Barron of upper Ossyrrie' 
 Pierce Butler Brother to the Earle of Ormond 
 O Dunne k 
 
 Bryan M c Calloghe M c Donell, 1 and many other inferior Free- 
 holders. 
 
 Dysart ; John Barrington of Cowlniagh. 
 Earl of Kildare at Moyrit and Tymog; 
 Hovendon at Taukardstowne, Hether- 
 ington at Tully, Sir Thos. Colclough 
 of Ballyknockan, Loftus of Tymoghoe, 
 Whytney of Shyan, Hugh Boy Clan 
 Donnell of Tenne-Killeh ; Edmund 
 MacDonell of Rhahin, Tirence 
 O'Dempsey of Ballybrittas. — Car. Cal., 
 p. r 9 i. 
 
 h In fighting with the O'Mores there 
 fell, i°the son of Captain John Barring- 
 ton, 2° Joseph Barrington, 3 Thomas 
 Lighe, second husband of Mrs. Barring- 
 ton. 
 
 ' Florence FitzPatrick or Fineen 
 MacGillapatrick, son of Brian, the first 
 Baron. He and his father mainly con- 
 tributed to ruin the O'Mores ; but his 
 son Teig was opposed to the English. 
 
 ■ — See Car. Cal. year 1600. O'Dugan 
 says, ' MacGillapatric of the fine seat, 
 noble fairfaced is the tribe of the resi- 
 dence of the head chieftain.' Lord 
 Castletown is descended of this family. 
 k ' Over Ui-Rigan of heavy routs, 
 
 A vigorous tribe who conquer in 
 battle, 
 
 Is O'Duinn, chief of demolition, 
 
 Hero of the golden battle spears.' 
 
 — O ' Huidhrin. 
 
 Iregan is co-extensive with the 
 barony of Tinnahinch. General Fran- 
 cis Dunn, M.P., is the head of the 
 O'Dunnes of Iregan. 
 
 1 ' This county of Leax, lately all 
 English is now usurped by O'More and 
 all the sept of the O'Mores, and the 
 chiefe of the galloglasses in that 
 county of the sept of MacDonnell, 
 
8o 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Ancient endwellers m 
 The whole race of the Omoores were excluded from having 
 residence here by act of Parliament An 2° Phill. & maria. 
 
 use weapon or armor in serving of any 
 other but her Majesty,' etc. — Sir E. 
 Burrowes in Ulster J. of Arch. 
 
 About this time 1598 the castles and 
 towns of Rahin and Derry, belonging 
 to M c Edmund McDonnell of Queen's 
 Co., were forfeited and given to Sir R. 
 Greame. In 1631 James M C D. got a 
 patent of his estates of Tennekille in- 
 cluding 30 townlands ; but was obliged 
 to agree that 'his sons and servants 
 shall use English dress and language, 
 and he and they and all the males 
 under their controul between the ages of 
 1 6 and 60 shall present themselves every 
 year before the constable of Mary- 
 borough and get their names inscribed.' 
 In 1 64 1 James M C D. of Tenekille was 
 a Confederate colonel.'— J. Huband 
 Smith. The M c Donnells are still found 
 about Strahard and Portarlington, but 
 as peasants and blacksmiths on the 
 lands of their galloglas ancestors. — 
 J. M c Grady in No. 7 Ulst. J. of Arch. 
 
 m The seven septs of Leix were the 
 the O'Mores, O'Kellys, O'Lalors, 
 O'Devoys, M c Evoys, O'Dorans, and 
 O'Dowlings. — See an account of them 
 in C Byrne's History of Queen's County. 
 From Ruary O'More, Prince of Leix in 
 1555, is descended the Right Hon. R. 
 More-O'Ferrall of Balyna. 
 
 The names Cosby, Bowen, Fitz- 
 Patrick, Butler, Dunne, and Lalor are 
 still among the ' County Families.' — 
 See Walford. 
 
 the sept of O'Dempsies (except Sir 
 Terence O'Dempsey), the sept of 
 O'Doyne, except Teig Oge O'Doyne.' 
 — Moryson. 
 
 In Nos. 5 and 6 of the Ulster J. of 
 Arch, there are interesting accounts of 
 the McDonnells of Tennekille Castle 
 by J. Huband Smith, Esq., and by 
 Sir Erasmus Burrowes, Bart. From 
 them we extract the following details : 
 The Castle of Tennekille (teach mi 
 coille or house of the wood) was built 
 arc. 1450; it is remarkable for its 
 skilful design, groined ceiling, and fin- 
 ished execution ; a few patriarchs of 
 the forest still remain, venerable com- 
 panions of the old keep. In 1578 an 
 agreement was entered into between 
 the L. Deputy and ' the three chiefe 
 Captains of the three septs of Clan- 
 donnells of Leinster, her Majesty's 
 Galloglas, viz. — Turlogh Oge M c Alex- 
 ander of Wicklow, M'Edmund McDon- 
 nell of Rahin and Hugh Boy McDon- 
 nell of Tennekille.' It was agreed 
 that — ' In consideration of the auntient 
 and continued fydelytie, loyaltye and 
 true service of the Capitaynes, gent and 
 septs of the said Clandonnills, the 
 Bonaghts dead payes, and black-mail, 
 heretofore levied, shall be commuted 
 into a yearly pencon of ^300 to be 
 paid out of her Majesty's exchequer, 
 unto th' ands of the said three chief 
 captains — Provided that henceforth 
 none of the said Capitaynes . . . shall 
 
THE KING S COUNTIE. 
 
 81 
 
 THE KING'S COUNTIE. 
 
 The Countie being in tymes past called Offaly a was inhabited 
 by the O'Connors, a wicked and Rebellious people, which for 
 their sundrie Rebellions were by the Earle of Sussex in the 
 tyme of Quene Marie banished and disinherited, their Countrie 
 converted into Shyre ground and called the King's Countie, b 
 and the chief Towne thereof called Phillipstowne appointed to 
 be ruled by a portrise as Marieborroughe. 
 
 This Shyre contayneth all the Land between the Countie of 
 Kildare and the River of Sheynen including all the Clonmillier 
 or O'Dempsies Countrie on both sides of the Barrow also Galline 
 
 a ' King's County consisteth of Offaly 
 lately possessed by the O'Connors ; 
 Fercal of the O'Meloyes ; Moynter- 
 tagan or Foxe's cuntrie possessed by 
 the Foxes ; Delvin M c Coghlan of the 
 M c Coghlans ; and that parcel of Glen- 
 maliry possessed by the O'Demsies.' — 
 Endorsement on Ancient Map of Idrone 
 in the Rolls' House, London. 
 
 There is as much of O'Faley in 
 Queen's Co. as in the King's Co. ; and 
 the baronies of Garrycastle, Bally- 
 cowan. Fercal, Clonlish and Ballybritt 
 were never included in O'Faley. 
 
 Ui-Failghe, i.e., the descendants of 
 Failghe, eldest son of Cathaoir Mor, in- 
 habited originally the baronies of East 
 and West Offaly in Kildare, of Portna- 
 hinch and Tinnahinch in Queen's Co., 
 and that part of King's Co. comprised 
 in the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. 
 
 The O'Conors were chiefs of this terri- 
 tory till the reign of Philip and Mary, 
 when they were dispossessed, and then 
 the O'Dempsies became the most pow- 
 erful families till the Revolution in 1688. 
 — Note to Irish Topographical Poem. 
 The 'Lords of Offaly, the land of 
 Cattle, are not unknown to the poets, 
 they spend their lands on knowledge ; 
 O'Conor is the hero of the plain, on the 
 green round hill of Cruachan.' — Top. 
 Poem. 
 
 b ' O'Connor of Ofaly was the scourge 
 of the Englishry,' from whose rich do- 
 mains in Meath he levied a. ' black ' 
 rent equivalent to j£,\ 0,000 a year [i.e., 
 ,£300 at that time). His territory was 
 ' the gall of the Pale,' ' the doore 
 whereby myche warre and myschyff 
 entered emong the subjects.' — Irish 
 Archaol. Miscellany. 
 
82 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 and ferecall, or Omeloyes Countrie the Shenaughe or O'Foxes 
 Countrie and Delvin M c Coghlane commonlie called M c Coghlanes 
 Countrie to the brink of the Sheynen nere Myllick. So it is 
 bounded East with the Countie of Kildare, West with the 
 Sheynen and with Westmeath, South with the Ouenes Countie 
 and Slewblow and Elie or O'Carrells Countrie, and North with 
 Meath there is no Towne in it but Phillipstowne. 
 
 Principall Castles The Fort called Dingan in Phillipstoune, 
 
 Croughan belonging to S r Thomas Moore, 
 Balliburlie, belonging to S r George Cowlie, 
 Baliburtane belonging to S r Henrie 
 
 Warren, Munster-Oris, 
 Castlejordan, 
 
 Eden Durick belonging to S r Edw. 
 Harbert. 
 
 Chief Gent. c The Earle of Kildare, 
 
 S r George Bouchier, \ 
 S r Edward Moore, Con- 
 stable of the Fort, 
 S r Henrie Warren, > Knights. 
 
 S r Thomas Moore, 
 S r George Cowley, 
 S r Edward Herbert, 
 Capten Brabazon's Sonnes, 
 Sanchie, 
 Tyrrell, 
 
 c Sir Henry Warren at Ballybrittan ; Sir John Tirrell at Blacklowne ; Francis 
 
 Sir Thomas Moore at Croghan ; Sir Herbert at Monaster-Orys ; Thomas 
 
 George Colly at Edenderrie ; Sir Edw. Wakeley at Ballyburley. '— Car. Cat. 
 
 Herbert at Dorrown ; Nicholas Sanky ; an. 1596. 
 
THE KING S COUNTIE. 
 
 83 
 
 Of the Irysh Freeholders : d 
 
 Gerrot Fitzgerrald, 
 
 Thomas Fitzgerrald, 
 
 the Sonnes of Neall M c Geogaghan, c 
 
 M c Coyhlan f and his sept, 
 
 Omoloy s and his sept, 
 
 d Garret FitzGerald at Corbetstown ; 
 Redmond Og FitzG. at Clownebolche ; 
 W m - FitzG. at Geishell ; John Raynolds 
 at Cloyduff ; Barnaby Connor at Derry- 
 mollin. — Car. Cal. 
 
 e Mageoghegan's country of Kinalea 
 (Cinel-Fiachach) originally extended 
 from Birr in King's Co. to Uisnech in 
 Westmeath; but subsequently the 
 O'Molloys, a junior branch of the 
 Cinal-Fiachach, asserted their sway 
 over the southern portion. Mageo- 
 ghan's territory was co-extensive with 
 the barony of Moycashel. Of this race 
 were R. Mageoghegan, the heroic de- 
 fender of Dunboy in 1602, Connell M. 
 of Lismoyny, who translated the Annals 
 of Clonmacnoise in 1627, and the Abbe" 
 M. who wrote the Histoire d'Jrlande. 
 Sir R. Nagle inherited the property of 
 the last chieftain, from whom he was 
 maternally descended. — O'D. Note to 
 Top. Poem. 
 
 ' The manly sept, the illustrious 
 Clan Geoghagan, host of the girdles, 
 comely their complexion.' — O 'Dugan. 
 
 ' ' John MacCoghlan of Coghlan.' — 
 Car. Cal. 
 
 ' MacCochlan whose children are 
 beauteous to behold, King of Dealbhna- 
 Eathra.' — 0' Dugan. His territory com- 
 
 prised the present barony of Garrycastle, 
 except the parish of Lusmagh. The 
 family retained their territory till this 
 century when they were succeeded by 
 the O'Dalys and Armstrongs, who are 
 descended maternally from the Mac- 
 Cochlans. Mr. Coghlan of Castlebar 
 is head of one of the most respectable 
 families of this stock. — 0' Donovan's 
 Notes to O' Daly's Tribes of Ireland. 
 About 1249 Conor M'Coghlan of the 
 Castles was 'a great destroyer of the 
 English.' 
 
 s ' Connell O'Moloy of Ralyhen'— 
 Car. Cal. O'Molloy's territory com- 
 prised the baronies of Fircal or Eglish, 
 Ballycown and Ballyboy. ' O'Mulloy 
 King of Feara-Ceall of ancient swords, 
 noble the surname ; every sword was 
 tried by him.' The head of the sept 
 in 1588 was Connell son of Caher, 
 whose grandson was Chief in 1677. 
 D. Molloy, Esq., of Clonbela, Birr, 
 is supposed to be the present repre- 
 sentative of the family.— O' Donovan. 
 
 ' When Calais was taken, I during 
 the Christmas holidays upon a sudden 
 invaded Fyrcal, or O'Molloys country, 
 burned and wasted the same ; on my 
 return was fought with by the O'Conors, 
 O'Mores, and O'Molloy, and the people 
 
84 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Odempsie h and his sept, 
 OFoxe' and his sept, 
 
 of Mackgochigan, albeit he was 
 with me in person in that skirmish ; 
 I received in a freize jerkin (though 
 armed under it) four or five Irish ar- 
 rows.' — Lord Deputy Sydney's Memoir. 
 
 'On the 10th of March 1596, my 
 Lord Deputy (Russell) went from 
 Durrough to Rathmagolduld (Tege 
 O'Molloyes). The chief of the O'M. 
 with other gentlemen and some kerne 
 met my Lord and declared that the 
 Scots were burning the country within 
 view. His Lordship sent 100 shot 
 with certaine kerne under the guiding 
 of O'Moloy, and assisted by M c Goghlin 
 they fell upon the Scots at break of 
 day and slew 140 of them, others being 
 drowned.' — Russell's Journal, Car. Ceil. 
 
 O'Molloy — (J Maolmuidh (Conal son 
 of Cahir) died in the spring of 1599, 
 and his son Calvach took his place, 
 being appointed by the Queen. Some 
 of the gentlemen of his tribe contended 
 with him for that name, according to 
 the Irish law of tanistic succession. — 
 Four Masters. 
 
 h ' Noble the degree of their race, 
 a smooth plain this sept have defended, 
 the land is hereditary to O'Diomosaigh.' 
 — O ' Huidhrin. Their land of Clann 
 Maoilug/ira, or Clanmaliere, embraced 
 the baronies Portnahinch in Queen's 
 Co., and of Upper Philipstown in 
 King's Co. Their chief was ennobled 
 by Charles I. ' There was a Terence 
 Dempsy of Clonegawny ;' also a Sir Ter- 
 
 ence O'Denrpsye lived at Ballybrittas ; 
 the Earl of Ormond was imprisoned in 
 his castle by O'More in 1600. Gla- 
 shane O'D. and Lisagh O'D. with the 
 rest of the O'Dempsies were in actual 
 rebellion in 1599. — Car. Cal. 
 
 ' ' Hubart Fox of Lehinche.' — Car. 
 Cal. The Foxes or Sinnachs were 
 ' O'Caharny's, Kings of Teffia— the 
 brown oaks of the valleys, the protection 
 and bounty of Erin, of whom robbers 
 were afraid.' O'Dugaji. The Foxes 
 owned Mui/iler Tadhgain, which be- 
 came the barony of Kilcoursey. Darcy 
 Fox of Foxville, in Co. Meath, is be- 
 lieved to be the head of this clan. 
 Fox of Foxhall in Longford is of this 
 family, and is descended from Sir 
 Patrick Fox, Clerk of the Privy Council 
 of Dublin from 1588 to 1610. 
 
 The following extract from a Patent 
 Roll shows the extent and sub- 
 division of Fox's country in 1598 : — 
 ' Hubert Foxe of Lahinchie Barony 
 Kilcoursie, alias the Foxe his countrie, 
 Gent., commonly called The Foxe, 
 chief of his name, by deed dated 1 May 
 1599 surrendered to the Queen all his 
 estate temporal and spiritual within the 
 whole barony and territory of Kil- 
 courcie, with intent that her Maty 
 should regrant the same to him in tail 
 male. Wherefore from Richmond, Jan. 
 29, 1599, her Maty granted the same 
 to him and his heirs male, remainder 
 to his nephew Brissel F. son of his 
 
THE KING'S COUNTIE. 85 
 
 The old Inhabitants, O'Connors, 11 was by act of Parliament 
 
 brother Arte, to his uncle Owen F. of 
 Lissinuskie, to Phelim F. of Tolghan 
 ne Brenny, to Brissel F. of Kilmaledie, 
 son of Neil F. who died lately in the 
 Queen's service, with power to keep a 
 Court Baron and a Court Leet, hereby 
 appointing him Seneschal of that 
 Barony.' — Irish Arch. Misc., Vol I. 
 
 n ' The O'Conors Faly, namely the 
 descendants of Brian, the son of Cahir, 
 son of Con, son of Calvagh, were for 
 three or four years in the Irish Con- 
 federation up to this time (1600). 
 During this period they took and de- 
 stroyed the most of the castles of Offaly, 
 and indeed all except Dangan (Philips- 
 town) and a few others. About Lam- 
 mas this year 1600 the L. Deputy came 
 into Offaly with scythes and sickles, 
 and destroyed or reaped the ripe and 
 unripe crops ; the consequence of this 
 was that the inhabitants fled to Ulster 
 and other territories, where they re- 
 mained to the end of the year.' — Four 
 Masters, an. 1600. 
 
 ' Henry Cooley, seneschal of the 
 county with other English freeholders 
 are sore pressed by the O'Conors, of 
 whom Cormac O'Conor is chief, and 
 by the Clandonnell Galliglasses, a 
 naughty race and disposed to rebellion.' 
 — State Paper. 
 
 'Nugent of Dysert, M.P. for West- 
 meath in 15S5, m. a dau. of the Great 
 O'Conor Offaley.'— Lodge. 
 
 ' Shortly after the arrival of Essex the 
 O'Connors slew 500 English horsemen 
 
 and wounded their commander.' — Lom- 
 bard, p. 417. About the same time 
 Cahir Murtagh and John O'Conor of 
 Offaly, with a hundred footmen took 
 by assault the castle of Cruochan, which 
 was defended by Sir Thomas More and 
 Lifford — all the garrison was slain. The 
 words of O 'Sullivan are : ' Cathirius, 
 Mauritius et Joannes O'Conchures Ip- 
 halii equites cum centum peditibus, 
 improviso, scalis altissimis admotis 
 Cruochanum castellum, quod in Iphalia 
 principatu Thomas Morus eques Aura- 
 tus et Liflirdus, Angli pnesidio tenebant, 
 ascendunt, et propugnatoribus occisis 
 expugnant' — O' Sullivan. Lib. v. cap. 
 8. Hist. Cath. 
 
 When Essex was in Offaly in 1599, 
 Captain William Williams sallied forth 
 from Philipstown with ' 300 men to 
 recover a pray taken that morning by 
 the rebels, lost 60 of his men, which 
 fell improvidently between three ene- 
 mies ambuscados.' 'A porcion of 
 Offaly, called Fercal, is so strong as 
 nature could devise to make it by wood 
 and bogge, hence it was a storehouse 
 for prays. Essex with 1200 foote and 
 200 horse went from Derrow to Bally- 
 cowen, where Sir Conyers Clifford, 
 Governor of Connaught, arrived with 9 
 companies of foote. Sir Conyers 
 Clifford was sore fought with at the 
 entrance into Fercall, and had 10 men 
 slayne and 40 hurte, which losse was 
 doubled upon the rebel by the virtue 
 of our men and specially of Sir Griffin 
 
86 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 debarred from having Frehold here. There was a tyme of late 
 when this Countie governed by a Livetenant S r George 
 Bowchier grew wealthie and was verie quiet, both because it is 
 by nature strong, and few passages, and those well garded ; as 
 also because the Inhabitants have better united in good Will 
 one to another, and have better observed the Constitutions 
 appointed unto them, than their Neighbors of Lease — besides 
 they were in the beginning of her Majesties raigne verie well 
 quieted with a prosecution which the old Earle of Kildare made 
 upon the O'Connors who in manner did wholly extirpe them. 
 But since the last Rebellion the O'Connors have from all 
 quarters gathered themselves together againe to recover their 
 ancient possessions, which in a Sort they have done, for they 
 have ether banished the most of the Inglysh that dwelt in that 
 Countrie, or else constreyned them to keep within their Castles, 
 and albeit there are 40 knowen to be of the race of the O'Connors, 
 yet at this present they lead of themselves their followers, and 
 Strangers almost 400 . They are not yet agreed who shall be 
 the chief; 4 men contending for it Moretoghe oge, Shane Glasse, 
 Donoghe Pope, and 
 
 O'Foxe and O'Dempsie themselves kepe in but most of their 
 friends and followers be in rebellion. 
 
 Markham. In the morning Essex sent years continuously in this country ; no 
 
 into the woods 1000 choice men under counties were more dearly purchased 
 
 Sir John MacCoughlin, Sir Theobald by the English than the King's and 
 
 Dillon, and Sir C. S 1 - Lawrence, and Queen's Counties. Even the occasional 
 
 his Lordship with the rest of the horse notices of the battles of the O'Mores 
 
 and foot took up the fittest places to and O'Conors for these two counties 
 
 second them ; there was great slaughter would supply the poet or historian with 
 
 of the rebels.' — Dymmok. one _ of the most thrilling episodes in 
 
 ' The O'Conors, Princes of Ofaly and Irish history.'— Rev. M. Kelly's Note to 
 
 the O'Mores princes of Leix waged war O' Sullivan's Hist., p. 88. 
 
 on the English for more than sixty ° ' The O'Conors, O'Mollyes and 
 
THE KING S COUNTIE. 
 
 87 
 
 Nere unto this Countie is the Countie of Elie or 0'carroll's p 
 Countrie, which the Earles of Ormond have of long tyme chal- 
 lenged to have belonged to their Countie Palatine of Tipperarie ; 
 but by reason of the great dessention that have bene betwixt 
 the Hous of Ormond and the OCarrell's, they wou'd never yeald 
 to be of that Countie. This S r Charles 0'Carrell's q Father did 
 
 O'donners had 468 f. and 12 h. The 
 English foote in Offaly are Sir H. Cooly 
 20 f. Sir H. Warren 100 f. Sir Edward 
 FitzGerald 100 f. Sir George Cooly 
 200 ; Sir G. Boucher 100 f. at Philips- 
 town.' — Moryson, p. 43. 
 
 ' Lords to whom the nut-trees bend 
 Are the Munitir-Cearoll of Biorra's plain 
 King of Ely to sweet Bladhma, 
 The most hospitable mansion in Erin. 
 Eight cantreds, eight chieftains east 
 Under the King of Ely of the land of cattle, 
 Brave the host gathering a prey, 
 The host of yellow curling hair.' 
 
 — Top. Poem. 
 
 In 1598 Ely comprised only the 
 baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt. 
 The freeholders of Sir W. O'Carroll in 
 1576 were O'Flanagan, M c Corcran, 
 O'Hagan, O'Dooly, M c Gilfoyle, and 
 O'Banan. — 0' Donovan's Notes to Top. 
 Poem. 
 
 q Sir Charles O'Carroll, was third 
 son, considered illegitimate, of Sir 
 William O'C. chief of Ely O'Carroll in 
 the present King's County. In 1582 
 he succeeded his brother John, who 
 was murdered by his kinsman Mulrony 
 O'C. ; in 1 5 85 he attended the Dublin 
 Parliament, and in 1588 was Knighted ; 
 in 1598 he committed an act of 
 treachery towards some Ulster soldiers 
 
 in his service. The Four Masters say : 
 ' Some gentlemen of the MacMahons 
 with one hundred soldiers were hired 
 by O'Carroll (Calvach, son of William 
 Owen, son of Ferganainm) in the spring 
 of this year ; and, at the time that their 
 wages should be given them, O'C. with 
 his people went to them by night and 
 slew them on their beds and in their 
 lodging houses. He hanged some of 
 them from trees, but the party of one 
 village made their escape. The evil 
 fate deserved by that wicked deed 
 befell Ely; for (in Hugh O'Neill's 
 march southwards) nothing was left in 
 it but ashes instead of corn, and embers 
 in place of its mansions. Great num- 
 bers of their men, women, sons and 
 daughters were left in a dying state, 
 and some gentlemen of his own tribe 
 were left in opposition to O'Carroll in 
 the territory.' O'Carroll's territory 
 comprised the baronies of Clonlisk and 
 Ballybritt. The present chief of the 
 family is unknown ; the senior branch 
 removed to America in Cromwell's 
 time, and the head of that was grand- 
 father of the late Marchioness of 
 Wellesley. There is a letter of this 
 ' Ch. O'Carroulle ' from ' my chamber 
 at London this present Monday, 1595.' 
 
88 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 yeald himself to be under the Government of the Inglyshe, and 
 namelie under the Government of the livetenant of the Kings 
 Countie. But this O'Carrell having committed a Slaughter 
 upon 3 of the Earle of Ormond's friends, and being summoned 
 to abyde a Jurie in the Countie Palatyne of Tipperarie, obtayned 
 by Letters from the Ouene, that he should be tried by the 
 Inhabitants of the Countie of Louth, which is a Countie fan- 
 distant from him. This S r Charles O'Carrell hath continued 
 his duetifull obedience to the Quene/ notwithstanding that his 
 
 It is 'A brief note of territories sub- 
 tracted and concealed from her Majesty 
 by the Erie of Ormond.' They were 
 Dow Arra the contre of MacBrien 
 Arra, O'Mulrian's is contre ; Keelan a 
 longforta or Shane Glasse is contre ; 
 Dow o Loyaghe or MacWalter is contre; 
 Murkrybyry improperly and usurpedly 
 called Heither Ormond,' i.e., Upper 
 and Lower Ormond. — State Paper 
 Office. 
 
 'The Queen to the L. Deputy in 
 1595 — 'Whereas there is an indictment 
 presented in the Co. Tipperary for a 
 slaughter of some of the Cantwells by 
 Sir C. O'Caroll the said Sir Charles has 
 made complaint that the loss of his 
 life is intended by means of that in- 
 dictment laid in Tipperary, where he 
 is mortally hated in regard of divers 
 spoils between his country of Elye and 
 the County Palatine ; the trial is to 
 be suspended until the difference of 
 title betwixt the Earl of Ormond and 
 Sir C. O'Caroll be determined whether 
 Elye be in the co. Tipperary or not.' 
 
 On the 20th of July, 1600, Carew 
 
 writes : ' No hour passeth within this 
 Kingdom but some place or other pro- 
 duceth slaughters. This last week Sir 
 Ch. O'Carroll (a good servant of her 
 Majesty's) was murdered by one of his 
 kinsmen. Four of the O'Carrolls are 
 in competition for the lordship of that 
 country. Before this case be decided 
 it will cost much blood ; but therein 
 the State is nothing indemnified,' 
 
 77/i? Four Masters thus speak of 
 O'Carroll's death : ' O'Carroll, i.e., Cal- 
 vach, the son of William Odhar, son of 
 Ferganainm, son of Maolruny was killed 
 in July by some petty gentlemen of the 
 O'Carrolls and O'Meaghers. This 
 Calvach was a fierce and protecting 
 man, a strong arm against his English 
 and Irish neighbours, and a knight in 
 title and honour by authority of the 
 Sovereign.' 
 
 There was a Cian O'C. living at this 
 time, who is savagely satirized by 
 O'Daly in verses which begin thus : 
 ' Cian O'Caroll and his spouse are a 
 pair that never forgot inhospitably.' 
 As O'Daly seems to have been em- 
 
MEATH. 89 
 
 Countrie hath bene often Spoyled by the Enimie, and himself 
 much Solicited and partlie threatned to enter into Rebellion. 
 This Countie of Elie or O'Carrells Countrie is bounded with 
 Ossory and a part of the Ouens Countie to the South, with 
 Ormond to the West with Delvyn M c coghlan to the North, and 
 with the Mountayne of Shewblowne and a part of Fercall to the 
 East, It hath Castles of some importance divers but the chief is 
 Limevadie. 5 
 
 MEATH. 
 
 This Countie hath his name of Medium the Middle part a and 
 contayneth properly but one Shyre under the name of Meath, 
 being in the beginning a portion appointed for the Kings 
 Demeasnes but long since divided into many barronies and 
 Counties, and now latelie in the tyme of King Henrie the 8 th 
 made Two Townes [Counties] East Meath and West meath. 
 And because 2 Iryshe Countries adjoining to these Shyres the 
 one belonging to the O'Reillies and the other to the O'Ferralls 
 be nowe converted to Shyre Grounde by the names of the 
 Countie of Cavan and Longforde, it is not amiss b to lay these 
 
 ployed by the English to put calumnies of the Realme, called thereof Media.' 
 
 in verse, his word could not injure — Campion. 
 
 Cian's character. The Irish name is Midhe. The great 
 
 s Limwaddon. — Dymmok. 'AtBally- plain of Meath was called Mag/i Breagh, 
 
 more and O'Carroll's countrie the or the Magnificent Plain ; it included 
 
 Queen hath under Captaine Shane most of the present counties of Meath 
 
 100 f., Capt. Lister 100 f., Sir Charles and Dublin. 
 
 O'Carroll 100 foote.' — Moryson, p. 43. b Keating says that the ancient King- 
 
 a ' A fifth plot defalked from every dom of Meath comprised the present 
 
 fourth part, lying together in the heart counties of Meath and Westmeath, 
 
 M 
 
90 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Two to East meath and West meath and so to contayne them 
 all four in this middle province, albeit by some these 2 last 
 Countries hath bene esteemed part of Ulster. 
 
 EAST MEATH. C 
 
 This Countie contayneth all the Land betweene Balerotherie 
 in the Countie of Dublin and the river of Boyne near Drogheda, 
 and then not farr from Drogheda extendeth itself over the 
 River and contayneth all the Land to the Border of Cavan and 
 to the half Barone of Foore and from thence in breadth to the 
 King's Countie and the Countie of Kildare. So hath it the Sea 
 to the East, the Countie of Cavan to the West, Westmeath and 
 the King's Countie to the South and South west, and the Countie 
 of Louth to the North. It is in all Cesses and impositions 
 double rated to any other Countie. d 
 
 and parts of Dublin, Kildare, King's 
 County, Longford, Brefney and Orgial. 
 c ' The ancient manuscripts are very 
 rich in topographical descriptions of 
 this district, and one of our oldest 
 coins is that of Aedh King of Meath. 
 In it were four palaces of note in 
 ancient times — Tara on the Boyne, 
 Tailten on the Blackwater, Tlachta on 
 the Hill of Ward, and Uisneach in 
 Westmeath. In its bogs are remains 
 of oxen, which for beauty of head and 
 horn might vie with the finest modern 
 improved breeds of England. The 
 peasantry are handsome, well made, 
 stout and healthy. The Meathmen 
 were very Irish in the last century, 
 used to boast that they spoke better 
 
 Irish, had more poets, minstrels and 
 men of genius, and had more energy 
 than the boors of Leinster, whom 
 they always defeated at hurling, box- 
 ing, wrestling and other athletic exer- 
 cises.' — Sir W. Wilde's ' Boyne] pp. 
 13, IS, 16. 
 
 d In 15 15 it was ' ordered that every 
 village and town in the barony of Kells, 
 that lay within six miles of the Wylde 
 Iryshe, be dycheyed, and hegeyed 
 strongly about the gates, of tymbre, 
 after the manner of the Co. of Kildare 
 for dredde of fyre of their enymyes.' 
 
 In 1478, the Parliament of Dro- 
 gheda, decreed at the prayer of A. 
 Tuite gentleman — That, ' Whereas 
 there is an open road for the Irish 
 
EAST MEATH. 
 
 91 
 
 It hath Townes 
 
 Drogheda 
 Aboy [Athboy] 
 Kelles 
 Trim 6 
 
 Walled. 
 
 Navan 
 Dowlick 
 
 market Townes/ 
 
 enemies of the King between Rath- 
 connyll and Queylan to enter Meath 
 for the destruction thereof, a trench be 
 made a mile in length.' Again in 1480 
 at Naas a Parliament decreed — ' That 
 it is very necessary for the safeguard 
 of the King's subjects of his County of 
 Meath, that a tower or pile of the 
 new fashion should be built on the 
 extreme frontier of the old march, 
 not only in resistance of O'Conchie 
 [O'Connor] but also for the chastise- 
 ment of the Berminghams.' 
 
 e In 1584 Draper, Parson of Trim, 
 writes to Burghley to urge the erection 
 of a University or at least a grammar 
 school in Trim. He says — ' It is in 
 a most fresh and wholesome ayre, full 
 of very fayre Castles and stone houses, 
 and hath in it five fair streets and the 
 fairest and most stately Castle in Ire- 
 land. The Abbey and friary will be 
 easily bought of the owner Edw. Cu- 
 sack of Lesmollen ; your suppliant will 
 freely give a Friary having stanche 
 walls with a pleasant backside. 
 
 The country round aboute is very 
 fruitful of corn and cattle yeldinge be- 
 sides plentifull store of firewood and 
 turfe — a very good and sweet fewel. 
 
 Lastly the town is in the myddest of 
 the English Pale and well and strongly 
 walled about ; a thing that will draw 
 learned men and be great safety to the 
 whole company of studentes ; for your 
 Honor knoweth wheresoever the Uni- 
 versity be founded, the town must of 
 necessitie have a good wall, else will 
 no learned men go from hence, or any 
 other place thither, neither they of the 
 country send their sons to any place 
 that is not defensible and safe from the 
 invasion of the Irishe.' — Dean Butler's 
 'Trim,' p. 290. 
 
 f The Members for Meath in 1585 
 were R. Barnwall of Crickstown and 
 J. Netterville of Dowth ; in 16 13 Hus- 
 sey, Baron of Galtrim and Barnwall of 
 Robertstown. The Members for Trim 
 in 1585 were Hamon and Guyre, in 
 1613 Sir T. Ashe, and Sir Roger Jones; 
 the Members for Athboy in 1585 were 
 Browne and Ferrell of Athboy ; and 
 in 1 6 13 Moore and Browne, gents, of 
 Athboy. 
 
 The Members for Kells in 1585 — 
 Fleming of Stevenston, N. Daxe, and 
 P. Plunket of Kells; in 1613 O. Plun- 
 ket and G. Balfe gents., of Kells. 
 
 Members for Navan in 1585 — Wakely 
 
9 2 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 // hath many 
 Trim, the Queries, 
 Killynee [Kyllyne] the Lords 
 
 of it, 
 Dunsany the Lords of it, 
 Trivleston [Trimleston] the 
 
 Lords of it, 
 Rathmore, 
 Meylaughe, 
 Moygare, 
 Newcastle, 
 
 Castle-towne of Athboy, 
 Jesucellin, 
 Ardmollan to [ 
 
 Bedlowston to S r To. Bedlow, 
 Stackallan, 
 Slane the Lords of it, 
 Moymet to Ja. Dillon, 
 Balldungan to the L. of Hoth, 
 Galtrim to the Baron of it, 
 
 Statelie Castles 
 Castle Jordan to M r - Gifford 8 
 Arbracan to the Bishop of 
 
 Meath, 
 Cutmollen, 
 Dullerston, 
 Gillranston, 
 Gormanston to the Viscount 
 
 thereof, 
 Colpe, 
 Murmudeye, 
 
 Platten to M r - Darsey [Darcey], 
 Dun more, 
 Beste, 
 
 Castle lamerby, 
 Crinton, 
 Moyvally, 
 Bective, 
 Celcarne, 
 
 The NoblcmeiP of ) The Lord Viscount Gormanstone his name 
 East-vieath j Preston his chief Hous Gormanston, 
 
 of Ballyburly King's Co., and Waring 
 of Navan ; in 16 13 P. Begg of Burrans- 
 town and J. Warren gent., of Navan. 
 
 E There are still many old, ruined 
 castles in Meath ; of which we find a 
 description in Sir W. Wilde's Boyne 
 and Blackwatcr, viz. — The castles of 
 Carbury, Kinnafad, Clonmore, Grange, 
 Carrig-Oris, Ticroghan, Trimblestown, 
 
 Trim, Nangle's and Talbot's castles, 
 Scurlogstown, Trubly, Assey, Rivers- 
 town, Athlumney, Liscarton, Dexter, 
 Dowth, Proudfootstown, Naul and 
 Termonfecken. 
 
 ''In the Barony of Dimboyne are — 
 Sir G. Fenton of Dunboyne, Pat. 
 Phippes of Roan, Jn. Delahoyde of 
 Bellander, Rich. Bremingham of Pace, 
 
EAST MEATH. 
 
 93 
 
 The Bishop of Meath his name Jones, 
 
 his chief Seat Arbraccan, 
 The Lord Baron of Killyen his name 
 
 Plunket his chief Hous Killyen, 
 The Lord Baron of Dunsany his name 
 
 Plunket his chief hous Dunsany, 
 
 Simon Rowe of Waringstone, Rich. Sale 
 of Salestowne, Alex. Barn wall of Luston, 
 Christ. Hollywoode of Herbertstown. 
 
 Rising out of the general Hosting of 
 Barony of Dunboyne — Phepo of Ro wen , 
 if he have freedom i armed horseman ; 
 Francis de la Hide i armed horseman. 
 
 Ratoathc. — Sir Pat. Barnwall of 
 Crickston, Baron Sedgrave of Killeglan, 
 Barnwall of Kilbrue, Th. Plunket of 
 Loughgoure, FitzWilliams of Duna- 
 inore, Rich. Ball of Feydorffe, Jn. Bir- 
 ford of Kilrowe, Js. Lee of Clonresse, 
 Pat. Lee of Licianstown, Jn. Sparke of 
 Ratowthe, Gellouse of Gelloustown, 
 Rich. Fowleing of Parsonstown, Dela- 
 hoyde of Dunshaghlin, 'and many 
 freeholders.' Rich. Reade of Rowes- 
 town, Th. Russel of Cookestown. 
 
 Rising out of Ratoath — Barnwall of 
 Kilbrye in person i armed horseman, 
 Berford of Kilrowe i ditto ; Ichers of 
 Dunshaughlin ; Talbot of Robertston 
 2 ; Weafy of the Blackehil 2 armed 
 horsemen. 
 
 Serine — Baron of Killeen, Sir Rob. 
 Dillon, Wil. Nugent, Baron of Serine ; 
 Pat. Tankard of Castletown, Pat. Bri- 
 migham of Corballies ; R. Caddell of 
 Dowstown ; R. Dillon of Serine ; Ed. 
 Penteny of the Cabbragh ; Nich. Cu- 
 
 sake of Ballimolchan, Rob. Cusake of 
 Geradstown, Rich. Cusake of Les- 
 mollen, Walter Porter of Kingstown, 
 Jn. Barnwall of Mouncktown, Jn. Barn- 
 wall of Cookstown, Mich. Barnwall of 
 Branstown, Nich. Dracot of Oder, Jn. 
 Dracot of , G. Harvy of Serine, 
 
 Wal. Evers of Tarraghe, Rob. Pentenie 
 of Jordanstown, Jn. Plunket of Clonard- 
 ran, Ellen Plunket of Kilcarne. 
 
 Rising out of Skreen — The Lord of 
 Killeen, the L. of Dunsany, and the 
 rest of the Plunketts 24; Nicholas 
 Nugent in person 3 ; M. Draycott 1 ; 
 Sir T. Cusack of Lismullen in consider- 
 ation of his absence but 3 ; Sir C. 
 Cheevers of Measton 4 ; Bath of Ra- 
 phesk in person 3 ; Kent of Daneston 
 2 ; Cusack of Gerardston 2 ; T. Dillon 
 of Riverston 3 ; P. Dillon 1 ; Tancred 
 of Castleton 1; The Portriff of Skryne 1. 
 
 Duleeke — L. of Gormanstown, L. of 
 Trimletstown, Justice Bath of Athcarne, 
 Rich. Caddell of the Naul, Rob. Cad- 
 dell of Herbertstown, Jn. Dracott of 
 Normanton, Geo. Darcy of Platten, 
 Rob. Preston of Rogerstown, Talbot 
 of Dardistowne, Rich. Bellame of Don- 
 akernie, Rich. Stanley of , Ed. 
 
 Tallon 'of the same,' R d Aylmer of Dol- 
 lardstown, Lawr. Tafe of Ardmolchan, 
 
94 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Lord Baron of Slane his name 
 Fleming his chief Hous Slane, 
 
 The Lord Baron of Tribleston his name 
 Barnwall his chief Hous Tribleston. 
 
 Jn. Chivers of Mastoston, Chr. Bath 
 of Rathfeigh, Js. Dillon of Ballgath, Jn. 
 Cusake of Cusingstone, Wal. Gowlding 
 of Pierstone, Pat. Moore of Duleek, R d - 
 Plunkett of the Boles, Th. Kent of Dains- 
 town, Th. Hamling of Smithstone, Pat. 
 Whyte of Flemington, the Corporation 
 of Dowleeke, Sir Jn. Bellew of Bellews- 
 town, Sir Ed. Moore ; Birt of Tullock. 
 
 Rising out — L. Viscount Gormanston 
 8 ; Darcy of Platten 3 j Talbot of 
 Dardiston 3 ; J. Ayhner 2 ; Caddell of 
 the Nail 2 ; Birt of Tullocke 2 ; Oliver 
 Darcy 1 ; Holde of Paynestown 1 ; 
 Hambige of Smithstown 1 j Bath of 
 Colpe 4 i. 
 
 Slane — Baron of Slane, Pat. Fleming 
 of Gernenstown, Garret F. of Logh- 
 bracan, Piers F. of Killarie, Rich. F. 
 of Rath-Reynolds, Edw. F. of Loben- 
 stone, Pat. Barnwall of Gernonstown, 
 Barnwall of Rowthstown, Walt. B. of 
 Calcestown, Rob. B. of Starallan, New- 
 terville of Dowth, Jn. Bath of Cashiel, 
 Ivers of Bingerstown, Stookes of Mit- 
 chellstown, Lord Lowth of the Carrick, 
 Rob. Mey of Slane, Geo. Fitzjones of 
 Slane, Jn. Botford of Protfortstone. 
 
 Rising out — Baron of Slane 6 ; Barn- 
 wall of Stackallen 4 archer horsemen ; 
 Barnwall of Roweston 2 armed horse- 
 men ; Netterville of Dowth 2. 
 
 Margallen — Wil. Fleming of Ste- 
 
 phenslone, Jn. Newterville of Castleton, 
 W. Veldon of Raffin, P k - White of Clon- 
 gell, Pat. Beg of Fleshillstone, Wil. 
 Garvey of Knightstone, Tallon of Wil- 
 kenstone, R. Plunket of the same, Th. 
 Darcy of Donmore, Th. Plunket of 
 Possickstone, Jn. Darcy of Rathoode, 
 Jn. Waffer of Kilboy, Hen. Rooe of the 
 same, Js. Veldon of Rathcon, Edmund 
 
 of the Corballies, Jn. Fitzjohn of 
 
 Plainstone, Js. FitzGarret of Drake- 
 stone. 
 
 Rising out — T. Fleming of Stephen- 
 stone 3 ; White of Clongell 2 ; Veldon 
 of Clongell 2. 
 
 Navan — Bishop of Meath, Baron of 
 the Novan, Js. Dillon of Moymet, Rob. 
 Rochfort of Kilbrid, Alex. Evers of 
 Rathtain, R d Bellew of Bellewestown, 
 Jn. Waffer of Gainstown, Js. Warren 
 of Philpottstown, Js. Hill of Aliens- 
 town, Jn. Eustace of Lescartan, R" 1 
 Misset of the same, Geo. Cusake of 
 Rathallrone, Chr. Netterville of Black 
 Castle, Steph. Blackine for Cowlneall- 
 ven, Warren of Churchtown, W. Fitz- 
 Garret of Ongestown, Pat. Manning of 
 Hatton, Rob. Fleming of Rathkenny, 
 Th. Teling of Mullagha, Th. Bath of 
 Ladin-Rath, Th. Ashe of Trim, Rob. 
 Hamon of the same, Js. Cusake of 
 Tullegharde, Jasper Staples of Hollan- 
 stone, Chr. Birt of Curghton, Darcie 
 
EAST MEATII. 
 
 95 
 
 Bar nets The Barnet of Navan his name Nangle 
 
 his hous at the Navan, 
 The Barnet of Galtrim his name Hussy 
 
 His Hous Galtrim, 
 The Barnet of Scryne his name Nugent 
 
 his house Scryne. 
 
 of Balreske, Sir. Jn. Dillon of Dorames- 
 town, Melcher Moore of Escherowean, 
 Th. Luttrell of Tankardstown. 
 
 Rising out — Bishop of Meathe 8 ; 
 the Lord of Trimberton 6 ; the Baron 
 of Navan 3 ; the Baron of Dillon 2 ; 
 Rochford of Kilbride 4 ; Michael Cu- 
 sack 2 ; Ivers of Racaghe 1 ; The 
 Prortriffe of Trim 3 ; the Portriffe of 
 Navan 4; Teeling of Mullagha 1 ; Hill 
 of Allcnstown 1 ; Misset of Laskerton 
 1 ; Eustace of Laskerton 1. 
 
 Kelles — Barnwall of Robertstown, 
 Betaghe of Moynealty, Hen. Mape of 
 Mape-Rath, Wil. Betaghe of Walters- 
 town, Drake of Drakerath, W m - Balf of 
 Ardloman, Plunket of Ardmath, Plun- 
 ket of Tath-Rath, Prountford of Mo- 
 rentstown, Th. Fitzjones of Franstone, 
 Hen. Garvey of Rossmine, Sir Pat. 
 Barnwall of Killineighnam and Mitch- 
 more, Alex. Plunket of Gibston, Js. 
 Erwarde of Randallston, Garret Plunket 
 of Preston, Garret Plunket of Irishton, 
 Edw. P. of Ball-Rath, Th. P. of 
 ThistleKeran, Plunket of Balnegin, P. 
 of Robinstone, P. of Bolton, Forde of 
 Fordston, Nic. Gillagh of Gillston, 
 Balf of Ballnegin, Ledwitch of Cook- 
 stone. 
 
 Rising out of Kells (or Kenlis) — 
 
 Alexander Barnwall 3 ; Everard of 
 Randalstown 2 ; Mape of Mape-Rath 
 1 ; Drake of Rathode 2 ; Betagh of 
 Moynaltie for his County 6 ; Ledwiche 
 of Cookstown 6 ; Fitzjohn of Fyans- 
 town 1 ; The Soffreign of Kenlis 2 
 archers. 
 
 Dece — Js. Hussey of Galtrim, Wal. 
 H. of Moylehussey, Rob. H. of Ball- 
 rodan, Martin H. of Curmollen, H. 
 of Muchardroms, H. of Cullendragh, 
 Boys of Gallgath, Geo. Garland of 
 Agher, Pat. Barnwall of Arolstone, 
 Rob. B. of Athshe, Barnwall of Killin- 
 essan and Athronan ' cum multis aliis' 
 Js. Fleming of Derpatrick, Allen and 
 Wiel of Knockmarke, Hen. Waring of 
 Waringston, Rich. Delahoyde of Moy- 
 glare, Baron Eliot of Balreske, Th. 
 Widder of Leemaraghstone, Jn. Cusake 
 of Troneblie, R d - Crumpe of Marshals- 
 town, Jn. Gilsten of Collmollen, R^ 
 Talbot of Achar, Hen. Usher L d - Pri- 
 mate of Armagh of Balstown, Wal. 
 Golding of Ballendel. 
 
 Moyfenragh — R d - Barnwall of New- 
 castle, Garret Weslie of the Dengan, 
 Pat. Lince of the Knocke, Hen. Dillon 
 of Little Frefan, Th. Lynam of Adams- 
 town, Rich. Misset of Bedlowstown, 
 Edw. Kindellane of Ballnekill, Peter 
 
9 6 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The chief Gentlemen 
 
 Plunket of Rathmore Plunket of Fathrath 
 
 Plunket of Ballioth Plunket of Felten 
 
 Plunket of Irishtoune Plunket of Castlekeren 
 
 Plunket of Longcrey Plunket of Armaghbeet 
 
 Plunket of Roses Plunket of Clonbrene 
 
 Plunket of Drombar Plunket of Dromsaurie 
 
 Plunket of Gybston Barnewall of Crickston 1 
 
 Lynam of Frefans, W m - MacEvoy of 
 Balleneskeagh, Edm. Keeting of Pos- 
 sickstown, Christ. Leins of Crobey, 
 Edm. Darcy of Clondaly, R d Gifford of 
 Castle Jordan, Sir Ed. FitzGerald of 
 Teighcroghan, Gerald FitzGerald of 
 Moylagh, Ed. Aylmer of the same, Pat. 
 Cusake of Clonmaghan, Hen. Burnell 
 of Castle Richard, Edm. Darcy of Jor- 
 danstown, Hen. Kinge of Ardnemollen, 
 Gregory Cole of Clonard. 
 
 Rising out of Dcece and Moyfenragh 
 — The Baron of Galtrim in person 4 ; 
 Barnwall of Antislon 2 ; De la Hide of 
 Moyglare 2 ; Westley of the Dengen 
 3; Goodall 2; B. Cusacke 1; Fleming 
 of Dirpatrick 1 ; Mercler Hussey 2 ; 
 De la Hide of Assye 1. 
 
 Lune — Rich. Plunket of Rathmore, 
 Pat. Begge of Moyagher, Martin Blake, 
 Js. Dowdall, Melchior Moore and 
 Robert Misset, all of Athboy ; Walter 
 Scurlocke of the Frame, Roger Dillon 
 of Ballenedramey, Jn. Rochfort of Ker- 
 anston, Rob. R. of Clonekevan, Wal 
 Lince of Donowre, Wal. Nangle of 
 Kildalkey. 
 
 Rising out of Lune — Lynch of Dun- 
 more 1 ; Rochford of Keranston 1 ; 
 The Portriff of Athboy 4 ; Bernaby 
 Sherlock 2. 
 
 Fowere — Plunket of Oldcastle, P. of 
 Newcaster, P. of Loughcrew, Chr. P. 
 of Clonebreny, P. of Ballinacaldde, P 
 of Thomastowne, P. of Drumsaurie, 
 Balf of Collmoolestone, Rob. Barnwall 
 of Moylaghoo, Tint (or Tuit ?) of Bal- 
 traseney, Js. Dowdal of Athboy ' for 
 Oliver Plunkett's lands in Ballegray ;' 
 Dardisse of Gleveckloan. 
 
 Rising out of Foivcr — The Plunkets, 
 24 horsemen; Balfeof Galmoweston 2; 
 Barnwall of Morlow 1 ; Tuite of Bel- 
 trastin 1. 
 
 The names according to baronies are 
 taken from Car. Cal. ' Perambulation 
 of the Pale' in 1596; the 'Rising out 
 of Meath' arc. 1586 is taken from ' the 
 Statistical Survey of Meath.' 
 
 1 There were 30 families named Barn- 
 wall who enjoyed considerable estates 
 in Meath and Dublin. Sir Patrick B. 
 of Crickstown brought 4 mounted ar- 
 chers to the general hosting of Tara ; 
 
EAST MEATH. 
 
 97 
 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Barnewall 
 Cusack of 
 Cusack of 
 Cusack of 
 Cusack of 
 Cusack of 
 
 of Kilbrew 
 
 of Moylaghe 
 
 of Roeston 
 
 of Gerlonstone 
 
 of Caufelston 
 
 of Aronston 
 
 of Flemingston 1 
 
 of Crackanston 
 
 of Robertston 
 
 of Staffordstone 
 
 Lismollin J " 
 
 Cufyngston 
 
 Gerardston 
 
 Rahalion [Rathlion] k 
 
 Ballunalheu 
 
 Cusack of Trubloy 1 
 Cusack of Cloneard 
 Cusack of Clomochain 
 Proteford of Protfordston 
 Tynt of Blayne 
 Loynes of Cuake 
 Caddell of the Nail 
 Caddell of Harberdston 
 Caddie of Doweston 
 I vers of Ratoryn" 1 
 Luttrell of Tancardston 
 Bed^e of Frencheston 
 Beedsre of Harriston 
 Whyte of Clongell 
 Rochforde of Kilbride" 
 
 he m. a dau. of Sir P. Barn wall of Turvey, 
 and had 5 sons and 3 daughters ; his 
 son Richard was m. to a dau. of Sir 
 Oliver Plunket of Rathmore, an- 
 cestor of Chief Baron Palles. 
 
 John B. of Flemington was m. to 
 Lord Howth's widow; he was a brother 
 of Sir P. Barnwall of Turvey ; he made 
 his will in this year 1598. — Lodge. 
 
 ' In 1598 Edward C. of Lismullen 
 sold the lands of the Augustinian and 
 Dominican Friars to Roger Jones. 
 These lands are still in the possession 
 of the Lords Essex and De Ros, re- 
 presentatives of Archbishop Jones. 
 
 Catherine Cusack of Cushinstown 
 m. Sir H. Colley of Castle Carbery. 
 
 k On the wayside cross of Nevins- 
 town there is an inscription in beautiful 
 black-letter character. What remains 
 
 of it runs thus : . . . . Armigeri, et 
 Margaretae Dexter uxoris ejus ac hcre- 
 dum eorum qui hanc crucem fecerunt 
 anno Domini 15S8, quorum animabus 
 propitietur Deus. Amen. 
 
 The armiger was found by Mr. J. 
 Huband Smith to be Michael de Cu- 
 sack, Lord of Portrane and Rathaldron, 
 who got with his wife Margaret Dexter, 
 the castle, town and lands of Rathaldron. 
 
 1 On the southern bank of the Boyne 
 we still find a remnant of the castle of 
 Trubly or Turberville, the ancient seat 
 of the Cusacks. It consisted of a 
 square keep with circular corner towers. 
 
 m Walter Evers of Bingerstown in 
 Meath was the cousin and executor of 
 Sir W m - Taaffe who distinguished him- 
 self fighting against O'Neill. — Lodge. 
 
 n Rob. R. of Kilbryde, ancestor of 
 N 
 
9§ 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Veldon of Raffinall 
 Veldon of Raffen 
 Newtervile 
 Drake of Drakerath 
 Porter of Kingstone 
 
 Wesley of Dingen 
 Wal of Blackhall 
 Bath of Rafeia 
 Justice Bath p 
 Bath of Dewleeke 
 
 Lord Belfield, brought 4 archers on 
 horseback to the general Hosting at 
 Tara in 1593 for the barony of Navan 
 and one for that of Ratoath ; he m. a 
 dau. of Chief Baron Sir Lucas Dillon, 
 and had 6 sons and 4 daughters. His 
 son and heir, John, was 23 years old in 
 159S; his sons-in-law were Sir W. 
 Dongan of Castleton Kildrought, and 
 Luttrell of Tancardstown in Meath. — 
 Lodge. 
 
 John Netterville of Douth was M.P. 
 for Meath in 1585 ; he died in 1601 ; 
 his brother Richard N. of Corballies 
 was a distinguished lawyer, and was 
 M.P. for Dublin in 1585 ; his wife was 
 a dau. of Sir J. Gemon of Kilmacoole 
 in Louth ; his son Nicholas, who was 
 18 years old in 1598, was made a Vis- 
 count in 1622, joined the Confedera- 
 tion of Kilkenny, was outlawed in 1642, 
 and died in 1654, leaving 8 sons, two 
 of whom were Jesuits, and four were 
 Confederate officers. The present Lord 
 is the 8 th Viscount. Richard N. was 
 reported by Sydney to Elizabeth to be 
 ' as seditious a varlet and as great an 
 impugner of English government as 
 any this Lande beareth.' He married 
 a dau. of Plunket of Dunsoghly ; he 
 died in 1607. — Lodge and Burkes 
 Peerages. 
 
 p The inscription on the Wayside 
 Cross of Athcarne runs thus — On the 
 front of the pillar — 
 
 'This Cross was builded by Jennet 
 Dowdall, late wife unto William Bathe 
 of Athcarne, justice, for him and for 
 herself, in the year of our Lorde God 
 1600, which justice deceased the xxv 
 of October 1599, and buried in the 
 church of Duleek, whose souls I praye 
 God take to his Mercie. Amen. 
 I.H.S.' 
 
 On the iaek—'Uiule Marie full of 
 Grace, oure Lord is with the. Haile 
 sweet virgin the blessed mother of God, 
 the excellent Queen of Heaven praye 
 for us poore soules. Amen.' — See 
 Paper of J.H.S. in Proceedings of R.I. 
 Academy. 
 
 In the village of Duleek stands a 
 remarkable Wayside Cross. The in- 
 scription on one side is — ' This Cross 
 was builded by Genet Dowdall, wife 
 to William Bathe of Athcarne, justice 
 of his Majesty's Court of Common 
 Plees, for him and her, anno 1601. 
 He deceased the 15 th of Oct. 1599, 
 buried in the church of Duleek ; whose 
 souls I pray God take to his mercie.' 
 On the other side of the Cross are 
 sculptured in relief figures of S 15, An- 
 drew, Catherine, Stephen, Patrick, 
 
EAST MEATH. 
 
 99 
 
 Bath beside Slane 
 
 Balf of Colmoleston 
 
 Balf of Fidorth 
 
 Balf of the Cleggs 
 
 Betaghe of Monaltie 
 
 Betaghe of Dunowie [Duna- 
 
 more] 
 Justice Dillon of Newton 
 James Dillon of Moynet 9 
 Bartholemew Dillon of r River- 
 
 ston 
 Dillon of Prowdeston 
 Dillon of Harbeston 
 Warren of the Navan 
 Warren of Warrenston 
 
 Penteney of Cabragh 
 Tancard of Castletoune 
 Tylen of Molashe [Molahae] 
 Hussey of Adrain 
 Hussey of Moylaghe 
 Delahide of Balankey 
 Delahide of Dunsoghley 
 Delahide of knockconor 
 Nugent of Kilcarne 
 Elmer of Dullerston 
 Field of Payneston 
 Kent of Daneston 
 Olivers of Moreton 
 Talbot of Robertston 
 Talbot of Daideston 
 
 Kieran, Magdalene, Jacobus, and 
 Thomas. 
 
 The bridge of Duleek was erected in 
 15S7 by \V m - Bathe and Genet Dowdall, 
 as appears from an inscribed tablet in- 
 serted in the battlement. — See Sir W. 
 Wildes ' Boyne,' p. 277. 
 
 q This Sir James D. of Moymet be- 
 came Earl of Roscommon in 1622 ; by 
 his wife, Miss Barnwall of Turvey, he 
 had 7 sons and 6 daughters ; his son 
 George was a Jesuit of great learning ; 
 his great grandson was the poet Earl 
 of Roscommon. — See Lodge. 
 
 The father of James was Sir Lucas 
 Dillon ; he was a distinguished lawyer, 
 and had great experience in military 
 and civil matters ; he was called by 
 Sydney mens fidclis Lucas. Elizabeth 
 conferred on him and his heirs the 
 
 office of Seneschal of the Barony of 
 Kilkenny West over the surname of 
 Dillon and other inhabitants thereof. 
 He m. a dau. of Chief Baron Bathe of 
 Athcarne and Drunconragh, and had 
 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lies buried 
 under a noble monument in Newtown ; 
 it is an altar tomb, on which are the 
 recumbent figures of Sir Lucas and his 
 lady, and it is adorned with the arms of 
 Dillon, Bathe, and Barnwall. — Lodge, 
 and Sir W. Wilde's ' Boy ne.' 
 
 ' Ancestor of Sir J. Dillon, Bart, of 
 Lismullen, Baron of the Holy Roman 
 Empire. Bartholomew was son of 
 Chief Justice Sir R. Dillon and m. a 
 dau. of Sir W. Sarsfield of Lucan ; he 
 was 25 years old in 1598 and distin- 
 guished himself against Tyrone — See 
 Lodge. 
 
IOO 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Talbot of Aofher 
 Tirrell of Johnston 
 Beerford of Kylbrowe 
 Bedlow of Bedlowston 5 
 Sale of Saleston 
 Hill of Allenston 
 Phepoe of the Rovan 
 Scurlock of Kilmarton 1 
 Lee of Clomesse 
 Fleming of Derpatrick 
 Fie. of Sedon 
 
 s Sir J. Bellew owned the manors of 
 Bellewstown and Duleek, etc. He was 
 in 1563 a Commissioner for the Pre- 
 servation of the Peace in Drogheda 
 and all Louth during the L. Deputy's 
 Expedition against Shan O'Neill. In 
 1584 he and his wife Ismay Nugent 
 built the bridge of Ballycorry in West- 
 meath where an Inscription still remains 
 stating them to be the founders, and 
 asking the Prayers of all who pass by. 
 He and Dame Ismay erected the East 
 window in the Church of Duleek ; and 
 also a 'Monument for their burial' in 
 Duleek churchyard. In 1598 he made 
 his Will, in which he says : ' To the in- 
 tent that my heirs may be and shall con- 
 tinue dutiful subjects to her Majesty 
 and her successors, Kings and Queens 
 of England and Ireland, my will is that 
 I demise . . . said Manors ... to my sons 
 Christopher, John, and Richard with 
 these conditions that whensoever and 
 as often as the said Christopher etc. 
 shall, or do imagine.practice, compass, 
 
 Fie. of Baligatlan 
 Fie. of Kilrory 
 Fie. of Stevinston 
 Fitz John of Franston 
 Dorran [Derran] of Derranston 
 Wafer of Grunston 
 Misset of Lascarten 
 Eustace of the same 
 Clinch of the Scryne 
 Arward of Randolfeston 
 Darcy of Dounmow 
 
 assent, go about, conclude, determine, 
 commit, deal or execute any treason 
 whatsoever, the Interest of such person 
 and his heirs shall cease . . .' 
 
 Sir John's brother, Richard of Stamen, 
 was M.P. for Dundalk in 1 585 ; he died 
 in 16 1 6. Sir Christopher B. of Bellews- 
 town m. a dau. of Sarsfield of Lucan, 
 and died in 16 10. He had 4 sons 
 and 2 daughters. His heir was 27 
 years old in 1598. His son Robert 
 owned Donemore. James B. was 
 Mayor of Dublin in 1598. — Lodge. 
 
 ' Barnaby Scurlock of Frayne in 
 Meath m. a dau. of Sir T. Nugent of 
 Moyrath, and died in 1633, leaving 4 
 sons and 6 daughters. Of this family 
 was Barnaby Scurlock, who was re- 
 ported to Elizabeth by Sydney as having 
 ' purchased more and builded more 
 than ever his father did; his chief mean 
 to get this was by being attorney to 
 your sister and yourself. From which 
 office he was displaced ; since which 
 time he never ceased to impugn Inglishe 
 
EAST MEATII. 
 
 IOI 
 
 Darcy of Plattin 
 Moore of Uskerower 
 Moore of Mooreston 
 Black of Athboy 
 Tallon of Wilkinston 
 Gerald of the Rath u 
 Map of Mapston 
 Map of Maprath 
 Hamlen of Smythston 
 Cromp of Muchalton 
 Foord of Foordston 
 
 Lynch of the knock 
 Eliot of Baliesko 
 Russell of Cookeston 
 Telines of Telinston 
 Dillon of Balinderomny 
 Cardiff of Flemingston 
 Ledwich of Cookeston 
 Bremingham of Corbally 
 Whyte of Flemingston 
 Foster of v 
 Usher of Balsound 
 
 government, and in especial your Ma- 
 jesty's Prerogatives.' Wherefore, when 
 Scurlock went to England, he was 
 imprisoned in the Fleet. — Lodge. 
 
 The castle of Scurlogstown was one 
 of the strongest built watch-towers of 
 the Pale — its massive and gloomy walls, 
 its tall towers and unbroken battle- 
 ments give it such a stern appearance 
 that in passing it one still expects to 
 hear the warders challenge from its 
 gate.— Sir W. Wilde's ' Boyne.' 
 
 u Sir Edw. FitzGerald of Tecroghan 
 in Meath m. Miss Barnwall of Turvey ; 
 his son, Sir Luke, m. a dau. of Viscount 
 Netterville. Sir Edward was a distin- 
 guished man. The Jesuit Father, Chris- 
 topher Holywood, under the now dc 
 plume of John Geraldine, dedicated to 
 his cousin (cognatus), Sir Edw. Fitz- 
 Gerald, his work De Meteoris, pub- 
 lished in 1613 — ' Oraatissimo Viro D. 
 Edwardo Geraldine de Teacrochane, 
 Equiti aurato, bonorum ac literatorum 
 patrono optimo . . . Cui,quaeso potiore 
 
 jure quam tibi debetur, qui multis mag- 
 nisque rebus, non sine multorum admi- 
 ratione, domi forisque praeclare gestis, 
 amplissima virtutis tuae testimonia 
 exhibuisti, ita ut Familiae Nostrae 
 Geraldinorum, post Illustrissimum 
 Heroem, Kildariae comitem, fatali 
 quodam nostro malo ereptum, lumen 
 et columen habearis.' 
 
 v Gerald Foster of Kilgrage — Usher 
 MSS. (E. 4, 33). Prountford of Mouns- 
 towne. — Car. Cal. From the Carew 
 and Clongowes MSS. we have the 
 names of about 250 gentlemen of 
 Meath. ' In Meath the son and heir 
 of Sir William Nugent was in Rebellion, 
 and the county, lying in the heart of 
 the Pale, was greatly wasted by the 
 Ulster Rebels, and many Castles lay 
 waste without inhabitants; but no Rebels 
 possessed either town or castle therein. 
 At Kells and Navan Lord Dunsany 
 has 50 horse and Sir G. Moore 25. 
 There are 1700 f. under Lords Audley 
 and Dunsany, Sir F. Conway and Sir 
 
102 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Harvey of Odder 
 Prenderfoote of v 
 
 Dracot of Marranston 
 Bysse of 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATH. 
 
 This Countie a contayneth all land from the red moore beyond 
 Aboy to the river of the Sheynen by delven M c Coghlan and in 
 bredth from the King's Countie to the Countie of Longford com- 
 prehending all M c Geoghaghans, M c Cawles, and Omelaughlines 
 Countries. So hath it the King's Countie East and South, the 
 Sheynen and part of the Countie of Longford West, and the 
 Countie of Cavan and part of the Countie of Meath north. b 
 Townes Mollingare governed by a Portrise, lately often 
 
 burned. 
 Market Townes Fower 
 
 Kilkenny West 
 
 Athloane 
 
 Ballimore 
 
 Castletoune Delvin 
 
 Rawyre 
 
 Del vi n (sic) 
 
 C. S* - Lawrence, Sir H. Dockora, Sir 
 J. Chamberlaine, Syney, Sydley, Atkin- 
 son, Heath, Nelson, and Hugh Reilly. 
 At Trim there are 50 h. under Sir 
 Griffin Markham, and 400 f. under Sir 
 C. Piercy, Orme, and Alford. At 
 Athboy 260 f. under Sir R. Moryson. 
 — Moryson, p. 43. 
 
 a Hall dismisses this county in half 
 a page, and then says — ' The limits of 
 our work will not permit us to describe 
 at length the counties which have no 
 very peculiar feature ; and we avail 
 ourselves of the opportunity presented 
 
 to us for supplying some information 
 concerning Irish music'! 
 
 b In 543 an Act of Parliament was 
 passed, in the preamble of which we 
 read, ' For the division of Methe into 
 two shires, (because) the shire of Methe 
 is great in circuit, and the west parte 
 thereof laid about and beset with 
 divers of the Kings rebells, and in 
 several partes thereof the King's writs 
 for lacke of ministration of justice, 
 have not of late been obeyed, ne his 
 Grace's lawes put in due exercise.' — See 
 p. 270 of Grand Juries of Westmealh. 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATII. 
 
 io- 
 
 Castles and (Killean the Lord of Delvins chief Hous, 
 good Houses \ Castle toune delvin belonging to him also, 
 Rawyre, belonging to the Earle of Kildare, 
 Tristinaughe, a faire Abbey belonging to Henrie 
 
 Pierce, 
 Waterston to one of the Dillons, 
 Tuiteston to William Tuit, and many others 
 belonging to the Several Surnames of 
 Nugents d Tyrrells f 
 
 Darcies 6 Daltons g 
 
 c Ancestor of Sir E. F. Piers, Bart., 
 of Tristernagh Abbey. This Henry P. 
 married a dau. of Dr. Jones, Protestant 
 Archbishop of Dublin, and had 4 sons 
 and 6 daughters ; he was a distinguished 
 traveller, and left behind him an ac- 
 count of his travels, which was placed 
 among ' the Ware MSS.' He became 
 a Catholic, and prevailed on some of 
 his children to embrace the same faith ; 
 one of his sons became a Franciscan, 
 and a grandson became a secular priest. 
 H. Piers d. in 1623. His father, W ra - 
 P., got 1000 marks for bringing in the 
 head of Shan O'Neil, who was mur- 
 dered by the Scots. — Burkt?s Peerage. 
 
 d Barony of Delvin. — Delvin the 
 chief town is possessed by the L. of 
 Delvin. His chief house is called 
 Clonin. Other towns are Dromcree, 
 Teghmon, and Ballenemonoe ; a great 
 sept of the Nugents inhabit this 
 barony. 
 
 The half barony of Fowre. — The 
 chief town, Fowre ; it is inhabited 
 by the Nugents, and the chief gentle- 
 
 man is the owner or heir of Corolans- 
 town. 
 
 Barony of Corkry. — Multifernan, 
 the chief town, is inhabited by the 
 Nugents, of whom the best is Richard 
 Nugent of Denewear. 
 
 The barony of Moyhassel. — Possessed 
 by the Nugents and Tutes, ' of whom 
 the principal is Clir. Nugent of Dardes- 
 ton, and Edw. Tute, late slain in Con- 
 naught, of Killenan.' — Car. Cal. p. 192. 
 
 e Barony of Fer billy. — Rath wire, the 
 chief towne, the Earl of Kildare's. 
 ' The Darcies be possessioners there.' 
 
 f Barony of Fcrtullagh. — -Inhabited 
 by the Tirrells, of whom Sir John 
 Tirrell is chief. His house is called 
 the Pace. Newcastle is held partly by 
 Rich. Nugent, and partly by Will. Tir- 
 rell FitzMorice. 
 
 e Bar. of Rathconrcd, called the Dal- 
 ton's country. — Chief town, Ballymore 
 Lough Swedy, Francis Shane's ; at 
 Dondonnell, Hen. Dalton ; at Milton, 
 the heirs of Rich. Dalton; Edm. Dalton 
 of Mollinmighan ; Peter Nangle of 
 
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 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Dillons, 11 Omelaghlins, k 
 
 Delamaies, IVPGeoghaghans, 1 
 
 Petits/ Coffies, 
 
 Hop's, M c Gawlies, k 
 
 Geraldins, O birnes. 
 
 Tuites, j 
 
 It hath many goodlie Loughes and marshes of freshe Water 
 of great quantities, whereof the greatest part fall into the 
 Sheynan, above Athloane and the rest into the River of 
 Brosenaghe which also falleth into the Sheynan beneath Ath- 
 loane not farr from Melick. 
 
 It hath no noble-men in it, but onlie the Baron of Delvin, 
 whose name is Nugent, and is under the Bishop of Meath as 
 Ordinarie thereof, whereunto is latelie united by Parliament the 
 little Bushoprick of Cloine M c Knoshe in Omeloughlines Countrie. 
 
 Bishopstown ; Francis Shane of Kil- 
 lare. — Car. Cal. 
 
 h Bar. of Kilkenny, called Maghery- 
 Cork or Dillon's country. — Kilkenny- 
 the-West, possessed by James Dillon, 
 son and heir to the late Sir Lucas 
 Dillon, Chief Baron. The inhabitants 
 for the most part are Dillons. Captain 
 Tibbot Dillon dwelleth at Killen- 
 faghney. 
 
 1 Barony of Mag/icry Demon. — In- 
 habited by the Petits, Tutes, and some 
 of the Nugents. The chief of the 
 Petits, called Thomas, at Irishetowne. 
 ' Tutestown, the best Tutes ; and 
 Welchetown, Edward Nugent's.' 
 
 ■> Bar. of Moyoise. — Chief inhabitants, 
 Tute of the Sunnagh, Piers of Tris- 
 cornagh ; R' 1 - Nangle of Ballycorky, 
 
 and Js. FitzGerald of the Laragh. — 
 See also notes (') and ( d ). 
 
 k Bar. of Clonlonan, called O'Molagh- 
 lin's country. — Chief towns, Clon- 
 lonnan, Newcastle, and Kilgarvan 
 possessed by the O'Molaghlins. Calry 
 held by Magawle ; ' the chief is Balli- 
 loghlow.' The Karne held by William 
 MacGawle, Brawne-O'Burney is an- 
 nexed to Athlaon — Car. Cal., p. 192. 
 
 ' Bar. of Moycasscll. — Inhabited by 
 the Magoghegans : Bryan at Donewer ; 
 Hugh, now sheriff, at Castletown ; Art 
 at Ballyconin ; Con at Syonan ; the 
 heir of Thomas at Larath ; and the 
 heirs of Rosse Magoghegan, who hold 
 Killuber, Moycassell, Lismoyne, Knock- 
 cosger, and the Abbey of Kilbeggan. — ■ 
 Perambulation of the Pale in 1596. — 
 Car. Cal. 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATH. 
 
 I05 
 
 Chief Gent, in Nugent of Moyrath" 1 
 Westmeath Nuo- of Carlandston" 
 
 Nug. of Dunnore 
 
 Nug. of Dromcree p 
 Nug. of the Disarf 
 Nug. of Colambre r 
 
 m Sir Christopher N. of Moyrath in 
 Meath and Farrow in Westmeath, was 
 son of Sir Thomas N. M.P. for West- 
 meath in 1 56 1 and of a daughter of Lord 
 Delvinjin 1601 he married MissLuttrell 
 of Luttrellstown, he died in 1619 and 
 was buried in Taghmon Church. His 
 son, Sir Francis, became a Capuchine 
 Friar; his son Sir Thomas, born in 
 1598, became a Baronet; his great 
 grandson, Colonel Sir Thomas N. fol- 
 lowed James II. to France. — Lodge, 
 and The Grand Juries of Westmeath. 
 
 " Edmond N. of Carlanstown in West- 
 meath, grandson of Sir Thomas N. 
 married first a d. of Lord Killeen and 
 secondly a Miss Cusack. His son 
 Robert became Confederate governor 
 of Westmeath in 1642. 
 
 Richard N. of Donour married in 
 1580 a dau. of Sir C. Barnwall of 
 Crickstown and died 16 16. On the 
 large stone in the wall of the Church 
 of Multifernan is the inscription — 
 
 " Sumptibus Jaco. Nugent 
 Filii Rich. Nug. de Don- 
 ower, qui ob. 18 Feb. Ao 
 Dni 1 61 5. W. N. B. N." 
 Richard's brother, Christopher N. of 
 Clonlost d. 1613 ; his eldest son James 
 was 25 years old in 1598. The pre- 
 sent M r - Nugent of Clonlost was High 
 Sheriff of Westmeath in 1855. 
 
 Sir Walter G. Nugent, Bart., of 
 Donore is maternally descended from 
 
 this family, his ancestor Piers Fitz- 
 gerald, Esq., having m. a sister of Sir 
 P. Nugent, second Baronet of Donore. 
 — Grand Juries of Westmeath, and 
 Burke's Peerage. 
 
 p Lavalin N. of Drumcree d. in 1610, 
 leaving six sons, the eldest of whom, 
 Nicholas, was forty years old and 
 married to a Miss Birmingham ; and 
 four daughters, one of whom was m. 
 to James Ledwyche of the Grange in 
 Westmeath. From this family are de- 
 scended the Nugents of Streamstown. 
 — Grand Juries of Westmeath. 
 
 q Edward N. of Dysert andTullaghan 
 was Knight of the Shire for Westmeath 
 with Edw. N. of Morton in 1585. He 
 married a dau. of the Great O'Connor 
 Offaley, and had two sons, Sir Robert 
 and Andrew, the latter of whom was 
 18 years old in 1598. From this 
 family are descended maternally the 
 O'Reillys of Ballinlough. 
 
 Sir Robert was seated at Ballybra- 
 nagh ; he had a pardon granted to 
 him in 1608, and dying in 1620 was 
 succeeded by his brother Andrew, who 
 was then 44 years old, and m. to a 
 dau. of O'Ferrall of Mornin. On the 
 death of John Nugent, Governor of 
 Tortola, the Nugent property passed 
 to his nephews Sir Hugh O'Reilly of 
 Ballinlough, and A. Savage of Porta- 
 ferry, both of whom assumed the 
 name of Nugent. The family is now 
 
 O 
 
 
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 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Nugent of Doneames 
 Nug. of the Carne 5 
 Nug. of moreton' 
 Nug. of Balrath 
 Nug. of Killaughe 
 Nug. of Ballneaghe 
 Nu£. of Balliconiell 
 Nusf. of Castlemollen 
 
 represented in the female line by Lord 
 Talbot of Malahide, Sir C. Nugent 
 of Ballinlough, and Colonel Nugent 
 of the Scots Greys, owner of Porta- 
 ferry. 
 
 r James N. of Coolamber, brother of 
 the 8th Lord Delvin, d. in 1603 ; his 
 heir, Edmund, then of full age, died 
 that year also. A member of this 
 family became Count de Valdesoto 
 and Major-General in the Imperial 
 service, another was murdered while 
 Commandant of Prague in 1720; 
 another was 26 years in the service of 
 Venice, General of its Troops in Dal- 
 matia, Governor of Verona, etc — 
 Lodge. 
 
 " A branch of the family of Drumcree. 
 — Lodge. 
 
 ' Edward N. of Morton was Knight 
 of the shire for Westmeath in 1585. 
 
 ■ Edward N. of Bracklyn d. in 
 1599 ; his wife was Ismay Barnwall. 
 From this N. was maternally descended 
 Field Marshal N. of Austria. N. of 
 Carlanstown was ancestor of Earl 
 Nugent. See in the Appendix an 
 account of some religious of that name. 
 
 T Descended from Lord DArcy, 
 
 Nugf. of Newcastle 
 Nug. of Bracklan" 
 Fitzsimons of Tallinall 
 Golding of Archertone 
 Frances Shaen of Ballimore 
 Whyte of Belletston 
 Dardrefe of Gibbonston 
 Darcy of Ratlen v 
 
 Viceroy of Ireland in 1324, whose 
 grandson, Sir Wm. D. of Flatten, 
 carried Simnel on his shoulders through 
 Dublin, after the coronation in Christ 
 Church. Another descendant of Lord 
 D. wrote The Decay of Ireland. 
 
 The attainders of 1642 present the 
 names of Nich. D. of Platten, who at- 
 tended the great meeting at the hill of 
 Crofty; D. of Ballymount co. Kildare, 
 and D. of Athlumney in Meath. 
 Among the attainted in 1691 were the 
 Darcies of Platten, of Porterstown, 
 and Corbetstown co. Westmeath. The 
 D. of Platten in 1598 was George D. 
 son of Christopher and a dau. of Sir H. 
 Draycot. George's grand-uncle settled at 
 Dunmow, and on the attainder and 
 forfeiture of the D. of Platten in 1696, 
 and on the extinction of that line, 
 George D. of Dunmow became the 
 head of the race ; in 1693 he was 
 declared an 'innocent papist;' he enter- 
 tained as guests on two successive 
 days Kings James and William ; and 
 is said to have pronounced his policy 
 in the lines — 
 
 ' Who will be King I do not know ; 
 But I'll be D'Arcy of Dunmow.' 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATH. 
 
 IO7 
 
 Darcy of Clonecollain 
 Tuit of Killenan 
 Tuit of Mollenlyeth w 
 Tuit of Sonnaghe" 
 Petit of Mollingare y 
 S r John Tirrell of the Pace 
 Tirrell of Baloebrack 
 Water moyle Tirrell of Fertul- 
 laghe 
 
 Mr. D'Arcy of Hyde Park, West- 
 meath, is the present representative of 
 the D. of Platten, and Dunmow. — 
 Westmeath Grand Juries. 
 
 w Theobald T. of Monilea, m. a 
 dau. of Aylmer of Lyons ; he died in 
 1632. 
 
 1 Oliver T. of Sonagh was b. about 
 1588, m. a dau. of Aylmer of Donadea; 
 he was made a Baronet in 1622. Sir 
 Mark A. H. Tuite is the 10th Baronet. 
 
 Walter T. of Tuitestown, grandson 
 (by his mother) of Sir Oliver, and 
 grandson (by his father) of T. of Moni- 
 lea, m. a dau. of O'More of Port Allen, 
 and had thirteen sons, eleven of whom 
 fell in the campaign of 1691. — Lodge, 
 Vol. iii., p. 37. From this Walter was 
 descended the famous French preacher 
 Father Nicholas Tuite McCarthy, 
 of the Society of Jesus. 
 
 7 William P. styled Baron of Mullin- 
 gar; his dau. was married to a son of the 
 Lord of Drumraney, and had a son Ed- 
 mund alive in 161 1. — Lodge, Vol. iv., 
 p. 170. 
 
 z There was also Edward T. of 
 
 Water Tirrell of Kilbride 2 
 M c Geoghaghan of Larra 
 M c Geog. of Robinstown 
 M c Geog. of Moyhassell 
 IVPGeog. of S. (sic) 
 M c Geog. of Kiltober 
 M c Geog. of Parres 
 Bryan M c Geoghaghan 
 
 Caversto\vn,and John T. of Clonmoyle. 
 Eight Tyrrels were attainted in West- 
 meath in 1691. 
 
 ' I could not obtain much infor- 
 mation respecting this family. The 
 Tyrrell property has long since passed 
 to other hands, and the name is here 
 extinct,' says the author of Grand 
 Juries of Westmeath, p. 317. 
 
 Sir John T. was 'the chief of the 
 Tyrrells ;' there was also William 
 Tyrrell FitzMorrice of Newcastle. — 
 Car. Cal., p. 192. Perhaps he was 
 the ' Captain Wiliam T. of the Irish,' 
 who was wounded at the battle of the 
 pass of Cashel, where part of Captain 
 Richard T.'s men were engaged. 
 O'Sullevan mentions a Water T., who, 
 with Thomas Plunket commanded 580 
 men at the battle of Rower, which 
 Desmond and M c Carthy fought with 
 Essex. One of the Tyrrells was suspected 
 of having been bribed to let Essex pass 
 unmolested through a defile. The 
 most distinguished of the T.'s was 
 ' Captain Tyrrell ;' Mountjoy wrote to 
 Cecil that, 'next to Tyrone he was the 
 most dangerous, being the most 
 
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 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 M c Geogaghan of Castletowne 31 
 
 efficient soldier, and of the greatest 
 reputation through all Ireland, and 
 better able to perform anything in this 
 country than any Captain they have ;' 
 O'Sullevan calls him a veteran soldier, 
 well skilled in war ; the Four Masters 
 style him ' Captain Tirial (Risderd mac 
 Tomais mic Risdeird).' See some de- 
 tails about him in the Introduction to 
 this book. 
 
 aa ' Mag Eochagain, Lord of Kinalea, 
 namely, Connla, son of Conor, son of 
 Laighne, son of Connla, son of Hugh, 
 died in 1588; his son Brian, and (his 
 grandson) Niall, the son of Ross, were 
 in contention with each other for the 
 Lordshipof the territory.' Niall'sbrother 
 was Captain Risderd (son of Ross, son 
 of Conla), the gallant defender of Dun- 
 boy, who was mortallywounded,andwas 
 slain while staggering to blow up the 
 beseigers and the beseiged. O'Sullevan 
 says of him ' Dux Ricardus M. vir 
 nobilis, cujus animi magnitudo cum 
 generis claritate de principatu conten- 
 debat.' 'So obstinate and resolved a 
 defence hath not been seene within this 
 Kingdome,' says the Pacata. Hib. p. 3 1 8, 
 Ed. 1633. 
 
 At one time the M.'s were chiefs of 
 Kinel Fiacha (the Barony of Moy- 
 cashel with parts of Moyashell, Rath- 
 conrath and Fertullagh) ; they had 
 various castles, the chief of which was 
 Castletown Geoghegan. In 1328 the 
 M.'s beat the English army, putting 
 3500 of them hors de combat. 
 
 Elizabeth directed a letter to her De- 
 puty, of which the following extracts are 
 of interest : — ' Whereas Conley Mac 
 Geoghegan... humbly submitted himself 
 . . . offering to surrender his estate for him 
 and his sequele...we...are pleased to 
 accept himas our liege man and faith- 
 ful subject... 1 " he is to deliver a full 
 and pleyne particular note and extent 
 of all the manors, castells, lordshipps, 
 lands, tenements, seigniories, rules, 
 rents duties, customs, and commodities 
 whereof he is seized at present,' etc. 
 — See Hardiman's lar Connacht. 
 
 Conly M. had by his third wife 
 (dau. of Lord Delvin), Hugh buid/ie, 
 ' the yellow,' who died in 1622, leaving 
 a son, Art of Castletown, from whom is 
 descended Mr. O'Neill of Bunowen 
 Castle, whose father changed the name 
 of Geoghegan to that of O'Neill. 
 
 In the "41 wars,' three M.'s lost 
 their lands in Kildare; Art M. lost 
 1500 acres and Castletown in Kinalea. 
 In the Council of the Confederates, 
 Doctor M. sat among the spiritual 
 peers ; in the Commons were Conly 
 and Charles of Donore, Edward of 
 Tyroterim, and Richard of Moycashel. 
 Conly was one of seven sons of Hugh 
 Buy M. by a dau. of W. Tyrrell of 
 Clonmoyle ; by the Act of Settlement 
 he was restored to his principal seat, 
 and to 2000 acres of land. The 
 Inquisitions of 1691 contain the Out- 
 lawries of the Mageoghegans of New- 
 town, Carrymare, Lougharlaghnought, 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATH. 
 
 I09 
 
 Bremingham of Milton 
 Bremingham of Balleuirton 
 Fitzgerrald bb of Am 
 
 Laragh, Donore, and Syonan. On the 
 magna panella in 1703 we find in the 
 Barony of Moycashel — Edrus and 
 Hugh Geoghegan de Castletown, Gent. 
 Bryan G. de Donore, Arm. Carolus G. 
 de Syonan, Gent. Rich. G. de Bally- 
 brechey,Gent. Jac. G. de Killour, Gent. 
 Jac. G. de BallydufFe, Gent. — Grand 
 Juries of Westmeath. 
 
 Sir R. Nagle, Bart, of Westmeath in- 
 herited the property of the last chief 
 of the Mageoghagans, from whom he 
 was maternally descended ; and had in 
 his possession a compact written in 
 Irish on parchment, and made by M. 
 chief of Kinalea, and The Fox chief of 
 Muinterhagan ; it is dated 20th Aug. 
 1526, and by it M. was to be Lord 
 over The Fox. It is is printed in Vol. 
 i. of /;-. Arch. Miscel. 
 
 bb There were sixty FitzGeralds at- 
 tainted in 1642; in Meath there were 
 six, including F. of Tecroghan and F. 
 of Rathrone. James C. Fitzgerald 
 Kenny, Esq., of Kilclogher, co. of Gal- 
 way, is the representative and heir 
 general of the F. of Tecroghan and 
 Rathrone. In 1691 seventeen F. 
 were attainted in Westmeath. F. of 
 Larah fought at the Boyne; after that 
 he went to France. A dau. of F. of 
 Pierstown (by his wife nee Miss F. of 
 Laragh) m. Dillon of Streamstown 
 and Killinynen, in the territories 
 of Dalton and Mageoghegan — Dillon 
 
 Fitzgerrald of 
 Dillon of A. cc 
 
 d. in 1640. — Westmeath Grand Juries, 
 and Lodge, Vol. iv., 159. 
 
 cc Edmund D. of the castle of 
 Ardnegragh m. a dau. of O'Farrell, 
 Lord of Callow, and had several sons, 
 who were distinguished in the Army, 
 Church, and State ; his brother, Garret 
 D. of Portlick Castle, was Captain of 
 an independent company ; his third 
 brother was Sir Tibbot, who became 
 First Viscount Dillon, of Castello Gal- 
 len. Tibbot commanded an indepen- 
 dent troop ; he was knighted on the 
 field in 1559, he mar. a dau. of Sir E. 
 Tuite of Tuitestown, and had 8 sons 
 and 1 1 daughters, ; his 4" 1 son, Thomas, 
 was born in the Tower of London; 
 the 5 th and 6 th became Franciscans ; 
 his 8 th and 9 th daughters became nuns of 
 S 1 . Clare and established a convent in 
 Gal way. Sir Tibbot died in 1624 at 
 so advanced an age that at one time he 
 saw assembled in his house of Killen- 
 faghey above a hundred of his de- 
 scendants. From him were descended 
 the famous D.'s, of the Irish Brigade, 
 ' tiom c'elebre dans les troupes Irelan- 
 daises,' says Voltaire; and Dillon, Arch- 
 bishop of Narbonne and 'Primate of 
 the Gaules.' — See Lodge, Vol. iv. 
 Colonel H. Dillon was M.P. for West- 
 meath in 1689, an( l had 15 officers 
 named Dillon in his regiment. 
 
 Gerald D. Lord of Drumrany, by 
 his wife, a dau. O'Conor Faly, had a 
 
I IO 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Dillon of Waterston 
 Dillon of Canerston 
 Dalton of Milton 
 Dalton of Dundanell dd 
 Dalt. of Mull ee 
 Dalton of 
 Hubert Dalton 
 Edmond Dalton 
 
 son James, a priest ; a dau. Bridget a 
 nun ; and a second son Thomas, who 
 married the sister of the I st Viscount 
 Dillon, and whose eldest son became a 
 friar, and whose second son, Gerald, 
 succeeded as Lord of Drumrany. 
 
 John D. of Low Baskin, grandson 
 of Dillon of Drumrany, married adau. of 
 Sir John Hugan of co. of Kilkenny, 
 Knt. and had two dau. and nine 
 sons ; his dau. Jane m. Dalton of 
 Dalystown who died in 1636; three of 
 his sons became priests. — Lodge, p. 
 152-168. 
 
 dd In 1636 died John Dalton of 
 Dundonell, son and heir of Hubert D. 
 He was the great great grandfather of 
 D' Alton, who published King James' 
 Army List, and other works, and who 
 had some of the ancestral property. 
 The attainders of 169 1 include 17 
 Daltons of Westmeath. This family 
 has given some distinguished officers 
 to the continental armies. — See King 
 James'' Army List, p. 376. 
 
 ee Of Mollinmighan. — See note ( e ) 
 
 " The Delamares had very exten- 
 sive property before 1641. Peter D. 
 served as Sheriff of Westmeath in 
 
 Delamaire'* of the Street 
 Ledwich of Ballinelock gg 
 Nangle of Ballinecorby hh 
 Nangle of Bishopstowne 
 Water Nangle 
 Walshe of Collanhroe 
 Evrell [Uriell] of Ballvomen 
 M c Gawlie" 
 
 1773; he died without issue in 1805. 
 He possessed the estates of Killeen, 
 Knightswood, and Rathlavanagh. — 
 Westmeath Grand Juries. 
 
 Theobald and William D. were among 
 the Catholic gentlemen of Westmeath 
 who signed a petition to the King in 
 1605. About 1407 Baron D. of Dela- 
 mare's country married a dau. of the 
 Lord of Drumrany. 
 
 KB Ledwich of Ballinalack was at- 
 tained in 1 69 1, and so was L. of 
 Knockmory ; the L. were benefactors 
 to the Abbey of Tristernagh. 
 
 hh Bally corky— Car. Cat. The At- 
 tainders of 1 69 1 comprise the Nangles 
 of Kildalky, Harberston, Navan, 
 Mayne, and Kilmihill. 
 
 a Of Balliloghlow— Car. Cal. Bally- 
 loughloe was for centuries the chief 
 seat of Magawley, Chief of Calry. 
 One vault of his castle still remains. 
 The late Count Magawley of Frank- 
 ford, King's Co. was the last of this 
 family that lived in Ireland. — Notes to 
 Lrish Topogr. Poems, p. xi. 
 
 The Emperor Charles VI. conferred 
 upon Field Marshal Magawly, who 
 married Margaret d'Este of Austria 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WESTMEATH. 
 
 I I I 
 
 W m - more M c Ga\vlie 
 Obirne kk 
 
 Edmond O'Brenan 11 
 Edmond O'Byrne 
 Dionise O'Byrne 
 Moore of Rosemeane 
 Phypo of Huskinston 
 Adams of Fower 
 
 the dignity of Count of the Holy- 
 Roman Empire, and the rank and 
 privileges of a grandee of Spain. The 
 direct male representative of this family 
 is Count Magawly-Cerati, whose 
 grandfather was regent of the Duchies 
 of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla 
 tire. 1812. — Burke's Peerage. 
 
 " O'Breen (dBraoin) was chief of 
 the territory of Brawney, which is now 
 a barony; he lived at the castle of 
 Creeve, in the barony of Clonlonan. — 
 See Jr. Arch. Miscel. Vol. i., p. 195. 
 
 1 The names of the Westmeath 
 Catholic Gentlemen annexed to the 
 Petition of 1605 were: Edw. Brenaent ; 
 Wil. and Rob. Moore; Richard, Lar- 
 kin, Edward, Nich., Walter, Christ, 
 and Rob. Nugent ; Theobald Dillon ; 
 J. Terrell; W. Browne ; J. FitzGerald ; 
 Garret Fay ; Edw. and Piers Ledwich ; 
 Th. Petit; D. Kyrane; Thomas and J. 
 Dalton ; Wil. and Theobald Delamare; 
 Piers Nangle and R.Golding. — Car.Cal. 
 
 It is surprising that we do not find 
 the names of Dease and Malone. In 
 ' Cusack's Book' written in 151 1, 
 there is in the 'Baronia de Fower' 
 Richard Dees of Turbitstown ; in the 
 
 Casies of Fower 
 
 Dungan of Fower 
 
 Freines 
 
 Hamons of Mollingare 
 
 Hacklee of Killallon 
 
 Porter of Porterston 
 
 Russell of Russellston™ 1 
 
 magna pattella of 1703 is found Jacobs 
 Dease de Turbottstowne, Gent. Malone 
 of Ballynahown married a dau. of Dal- 
 ton of Milltown ; his son Edmund m. a 
 daughter of Coghlan, Esq. in 1599; 
 they were ancestors of Anthony Malone, 
 a distinguished lawyer, and of Lord 
 Sunderlin. — Lodge, Vol. vii., p. 282. 
 
 The Malones were located in the 
 barony of Brawney and Clonlonan, and 
 eight of them are mentioned by the 
 Four Masters as Abbots or Bishops of 
 Clonmacnoise. 
 
 mm There was a Patrick Fox of Moy 
 vore in Westmeath, who had three 
 sons, Nathaniel, Teig, and Garrett; he 
 d. in 16 18. Nathaniel was Knighted, 
 and got the lands and Castle of Rath- 
 reagh, in Longford. A monument 
 erected to him in the church near his 
 Castle, bears the inscription : ' Hie 
 Jacet Nathaniel Fox de Rathreogh, 
 Armiger, Hujus templi fundator ; 
 imago, filius et haeres Patricii Fox de 
 Moyuor in comitatu Westmediae, Mili- 
 tis, qui uxorem habuit Elizabetham 
 filiam Walteri Hussy de Moyhussy 
 Armigeri; ex ea genuit 8 filios et 5 
 filias, e quibus 8 filii et tres filiae super- 
 
I 12 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Of this Countie all the Omelaughlines, nn all the M c Geogha- 
 ghans saving Two or three many of the Tirrells and M c Gawlies 
 and some of the Nugents are entered into Rebellion, they will 
 not all make above 400 Men, their chief head in any enterprise 
 is Capten Tyrrell, otherwise everie Companie is lead by the 
 chief of their own Nation. They wast all the Counties of West- 
 meath, King's Countie and Kildare, and Stop up the way 
 betwixt Dublin and Conaught, which in tyme will prove the 
 Loss of the province of Conaught. 
 
 O'Melaghlin was King of Ireland, 
 
 stites sunt; Patricius praedicti Nath. 
 Alius et haeres, uxorem habet Barba- 
 ram, filiam Nobilissimi Domini Patricii 
 Plunket, Baron de Dunsany; Idem 
 Nath. et Elizabetha in sancto conjugii 
 statu 25 an. vixerunt, et obiit apud 
 Rathreogh 2 Februarii, an. 1634 aet. 
 suae 46.' 
 
 His descendant is R. Fox, Esq., of 
 Foxhall in Longford. — See Westmeath 
 G. Juries. 
 
 nn The O'Molaughlines. — See note 
 ( k ) p. 104. In Westmeath, lying for 
 the most part waste, the O'Molaughlines 
 and the Magoghegines, many of the 
 Nugents, and some Geraldines, make 
 140 f. and 20 h; Capten Tyrrell 200 
 men, of whom 20 are horse. It is in- 
 habited by many great Septs, as the 
 O'Maddens, the Magoghegans, O'Mo- 
 laghlens and MacCoghlans, which 
 seeme such barbarous names. — Car. 
 CaL; and Moryson. Part III. p. 158, 
 Part II. p. 31. 
 
 but was deposed by Brien Boroimhe ; 
 the O'Melaghlins were one of the five 
 septs who had the privilege of using 
 the English lawes. In the time of 
 James I. the lands of O'M. were given 
 to Clanricarde and Blundell. In Dil- 
 lon's Infantry, in the time of James II. 
 there was a Lieutenant O'M. The 
 Four Masters record the names and 
 deeds of one hundred of this royal 
 family. The last entries are — 'Nial, son 
 of Phelim O'M.' tanist of Clan Colman, 
 a prosperous and warlike man, and the 
 best man of his age belonging to his 
 tribe, was (in 1553) slain by O'M.' 
 In 1557 'the castle of Rachra was de- 
 molished by O'M.; after which war 
 broke out between M c Coghlan and 
 O'M.' 
 
 There were 750 f. at Mullingar under 
 L. Delvin, Dillon, Mynne, Stafford, 
 Lionel Ghest, Winsor and Cooche. 
 
COUNTIE OF LONGFORD. II3 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF LONGFORD. 
 
 This Countie is a large quantitie of Land possessed by 
 a people called the O'Ferralls, 3 and was in former tymes 
 devided into 2, the Strongest of that Surname, the one which 
 possessed the South part thereof, call Offerrall Bwy, or yallew 
 O'Ferrall, the other Offerrall bane or Whyte Offerrall ; which 
 Two Surnames and Capitencies conjoined do make up this 
 Countie. It hath the River of Sheynen and part of the Countie 
 of Leitrim to the West, the Countie of Westmeath to the East 
 and South, and the Countie of Dublin to the North. There is 
 no Freeholders in it but the race of the O'Ferralls, saving of 
 late one of the Nugents and one of the Nangles, and of the 
 Dillons and Frances Shaen have_/ra; [Fee] farms and Leases of 
 religious lands. 
 
 They yeald to the Ouene for all ceasses ^200 by year 
 which was given to S r Nic. malbee and his heyres males. 
 
 a ' Longford, seu Anale, a numerosa O'F. Bane was Lord of Lower Annaly; 
 
 gente o'Pharoll colitur, e qua sunt duo the Clan Muircheartaigh O'F. of 
 
 dynastae ; alter ad austrum dictus Annaly ; Clan Alave O'F. of Moydow 
 
 o'Pharoll Boy, i.e., Flavus; alter ad near Sliev Goudry, the place of Inaugu- 
 
 septentriones, o'Pharoll Ban, i.e., Candi- ration of the O'F.; the Clan Hugh 
 
 dus. Angli autem inter illos admodum O'F. chiefs of Killoe.- — Cronellfs Irish 
 
 pauci, et illi jampridem ingressi.' — Families. 
 
 Letterpress prefixed to Jansoris Map T n 1615—17,904 acres were allotted 
 
 of Connavght, published in 1610. to strangers, 13,000 to members of the 
 
 When William O'F. died in 1445, O'F. families, and the rest, in parcels, 
 
 one chief, Rosse, was supported by the to old inhabitants. In 1641 the whole 
 
 Clan Murtogh, and Donal was put for- county, with the exception of the Castle 
 
 ward by the Clan Hugh, and Clan of Longford, and Castle Forbes, was 
 
 Shane; after much bloodshed Annaly seized by the O'F.; but at the close of 
 
 was divided between the two rivals. that war it was nearly confiscated and 
 
 About the middle of the 16th century distributed among new proprietors. — 
 
 there were five branches— The O'F. Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, in 
 
 Buidhe was Lord of Upper Annaly; the the Article on Longford. 
 
 P 
 
ii4 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Chief 
 
 Gentlemen. 
 
 Castles in this Countie? 
 
 Longford belonging to the Quene. 
 
 Granard belonging to S r Frances Shaen. 
 ( Offarrell Bwy. d 
 
 I Offarrell bane. e 
 ( Fergus Offarell/ 
 Uriall Offarrell, | 
 The B. of Ardagh, Rorie Offarrell, j 
 
 Terg Offerrall. 
 
 Sonnes to 
 Bwy. 
 
 O'Farrell 
 
 b The principal old castles which 
 remain, either in whole or in part, are 
 Granard, Tenalick, Castle-Cor, Rath- 
 cline, and Ballymahon. — Imperial Gaz. 
 of Ireland. O' Donovan, in his Letters 
 on the Antiquities of Longford, mentions 
 the castles of Mornin, Ardandra, Cam- 
 magh, Castlereagh, Moat Farrell, Bawn, 
 and Ballinclare.— MSS. R. J. Aca- 
 demy. 
 
 c He was Knighted in 1602 ; he was a 
 member of the sept of Clan-Shane 
 O'Farrell ; he obtained considerable 
 grants of land from the Crown, and 
 successfully exposed great corruption 
 in the Surveyors', Escheators', and 
 Patent Offices in Dublin. He was M. P. 
 for Gahvay in 1605. — O 'Donovan 's 
 Preface to Tribes of Ireland, p. 25. 
 
 d The representatives for Longford in 
 1585 were William O'F. Bane, and 
 Fachtna O'F. Boy. 
 
 e O'F. of Ballintober, son of O'F. 
 Bane, was married to a dau. of the 
 a d Viscount Mountgarrett. — Lodge. 
 
 ' In 1599 Fergus O'F. died, and his 
 death was the cause of lamentations in 
 his own territory.- — Four Masters. 
 
 The 3 rd L. of Upper Ossory, who 
 succeeded to the title in 1581, had a 
 son, Geffry of Ballyrahin, who married 
 a dau. of Fergus O'F. of Tenelick. — 
 Lodge. 
 
 A letter of Gerald Byrne to Sir J. 
 Perrott in 1590, gives us a vivid picture 
 of these old times, and of the son of 
 Fergus O'F. He says — ' Whereas you 
 asked me whether Fergus O'Ferral's son 
 hath been with that traitor Feagh 
 M'Hughe, it may please you to under- 
 stand that, I being from home, the 
 said Fergus his son came to my house 
 in harvest last, and not finding me 
 there went away and staid baiting his 
 horses in my way as I should return 
 homewards. When I saw the com- 
 pany of horsemen I made toward them 
 to see what they were, and I found 
 him and another horseman well fur- 
 nished with horse and armour, and a 
 harper riding upon a hacney with 
 them ; and asking whence they came 
 and whither they wolde, they said they 
 came from my howse, and wolde that 
 night lie at Morgh M'Edmond's howse, 
 a neighbour of mine, whose daughter 
 
COUNTIE OF LONGFORD. 
 
 115 
 
 Rosse Offerrall, 8 Sone andheyre to Offer- 
 rail bane, now in rebellion, and Usur- 
 peth the Captenship of the whole 
 Countrie by Tirons help. 
 Henrie Malbie's Sone. 
 Sir Frances Shaen. 
 Of this Countie some have followed Rosse Offerrall into 
 Rebellion, his nomber is about 200. 
 
 was married to Feagh M c Hugh's son. 
 From thence they would go to Feagh 
 M c Hugh's howse. There they tarried 
 certain days, and, at their departure, 
 Feagh gave Fergus his son a horse 
 which was taken by Feagh a littill be- 
 fore from Hugh Duffe M c Donnell, one 
 of the L. of Ormonde's tenants in a 
 prey.' 
 
 From Russell's Diary in the Car. Cal. 
 we find that on the 5 th of Feb. 1596, 
 'Phergus O'Farrell sent in the heads of 
 Farrell O'Banne's son and another 
 rebel.' 'June 20 the Lord of Delvine 
 sent in one of the O'F. a notable rebel, 
 who was taken and wounded by the 
 Nugents — he died of his wounds.' 
 
 ' Sept. 6 th the L. of Delvin sent in 
 three of the O'Farrells' heads.' 
 
 K Ross O'F. of Mornin, Chief of his 
 name, married a dau. of the I st Earl of 
 Roscommon. — Lodge. 
 
 In 1599 all the O'Ferrals were in re- 
 bellion, except two chief men of that 
 Family, and the Castle of Longford was 
 held by an English Warde, and the 
 Rebels were in number 120 foot. — 
 Moryson. 
 
 'In 1595 O'Donnell marched into 
 
 Longford or the two Annalys (the 
 countries of the two O'F.) though the 
 English had some time before obtained 
 sway over them, and one of the 
 English, Browne by name, was then 
 dwelling in the chief house of O'F. 
 The troops of O'Donnell set every place 
 in a blaze, and wrapped it in a black 
 heavy cloud of smoke. They took the 
 Castle of Longford, saved Brown and 
 his brother-in-law and their wives by a 
 rope ; but fifteen men of that country, 
 hostages whom Brown held, could not 
 be saved. Three other castles were 
 also taken by O'Donnell, and on these 
 occasions many were slain, of whom 
 one of the freeborn, Hubert O'F., who 
 was accidentally slain by Maguire. 
 
 'In 1597 an army was led by 
 Maguire at the instance of the O'Far- 
 rells to Mullingar, and they preyed the 
 country around them, pillaged Mullin- 
 gar, and set the town in a dark red 
 blaze. In 1598 O'Ruairc at the in- 
 stance of Ross O'F. Bane, proceeded 
 with his forces into Meath, and plun- 
 dered Mullingar, and the country from 
 Mullingar to Ballymore Lough Sewdy.' 
 — Four Masters. 
 
n6 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 This Countie hath never a Towne but Longford, which is 
 onlie a market Towne. h 
 
 h O'F., a Dominican, was made Bp. 
 of Clonfert by Pope Sixtus V. in 1587, 
 he died in 1602. O'F., a Franciscan, 
 was put to death in 1588. 
 
 In 1689 Roger and Robert O'F. 
 were Members for Longford, and 
 Roger O'F. was M.P. for Lanesborough. 
 Richard O'F. was a distinguished Com- 
 mander under Owen Roe, and Col. 
 Sir Connell F. of Tirlicken, and 
 Charles and Francis F. of Mornin 
 were in the Army of James II. Eight 
 of the Sept were attainted in Longford ■ 
 in 1691. In the year 1703 Marl- 
 borough wrote to the Duke of Ormond : 
 ' I give your Grace this trouble at the 
 request of my old acquaintance Briga- 
 dier Offarel.' A daughter of this Gene- 
 ral O'F. married the first Earl of 
 Effingham. 
 
 When O'Donovan, wrote his Letters 
 
 on the Antiquities of Longford, Connell 
 O'Farrell of Camlisk was the recog- 
 nised senior of the O'Farrells, and 
 retained fifty acres (free of rent) of the 
 original territory. The chief repre- 
 sentative of the name, at present, is the 
 Right Hon. R. More O'Ferrall of Balyna 
 in the Co. of Kildare, who has been a 
 Lord of the Treasury, Secretary to the 
 Admiralty, and Governor of Malta. 
 He was in 1851 Member for Longford 
 County, which is now represented by 
 his nephew, George Errington, Esq., and 
 by Major O'Reilly, who is a descendant 
 of Edmond, Chief of Breifny O'Reilly in 
 1598. His brother, John L. More 
 O'Ferrall, Esq., is D.L. for Longford, 
 and proprietor of Lissard, concerning 
 which historic spot consult O'Donovan's 
 Letters on the Antiquities of Longford, 
 in the Royal Irish Academy. 
 
COUNTIE OF CAVAN. 
 
 117 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF CAVAN. 
 
 This Countie of Cavan a contayned all the Lands called here- 
 tofore O'Reillies Countie [in the original the word seemeth to 
 be Omelie, but In my opinion b should be read O'Reilie, as 
 also in the names of the Chieftains], which was ever till Sir 
 John Perot's tyme under one Capten, was then divided into 
 fowre Lps. c and each subdivided into manie portions and Free- 
 holders, and no one of the 4 principall depending upon ether, 
 but all immediatelie upon the Quene. d The L. were Sir John 
 
 a In 1579 it was stated that ' never Clankoe). To Moylmore mac an 
 
 Prior, and his brother, the barony of 
 Rathnarome.' — Note in O'D.'s Four 
 Masters, p. 1809. 
 
 Sir W. Drury wrote to Walsingham 
 about the O'Reillies — ' In June 1579, 
 when I was staying at Sir Lucas Dillon's 
 howse seven miles from Kelles, four 
 German Barons came, who were visiting 
 Ireland, and said that after having 
 seen Galway, Limerick, and some other 
 post towns, they would go to Scotland. 
 I lodged them at Trim in Laurence 
 Hammond's house, sending Patrick 
 Barnwall, gent., with them as a com- 
 panion. While they and I were at 
 service the day after Whitson Sunday, 
 Orelie with his brother Philip and his 
 uncle Edmond and 30 horsemen well 
 furnished cam (unlooked for) to pre- 
 sent to me a submission in behalf of 
 himself and his whole countrie — to 
 have his people framed to English 
 mannors, his countrie made shere 
 ground, and subject to law under her 
 Majesty's writ. I thought it good to 
 honor with the title of Knighthoode. 
 
 writ was current in O'Reilly's countrie, 
 and it was almost a sacrilege for any 
 Governor of Ireland to look into that 
 territory.' — S. P., quoted by H. F. 
 Hore. 
 
 b The transcriber is right in this 
 marginal note. Dymmok calls it 
 'OReilie's country,' and says it 'con- 
 teyneth 30 miles in length and 30 
 in breadth.' 
 
 c i.e. ' Lordships.' Marginal note. 
 
 d In a Lambeth Manuscript we read 
 that — 'The Breny, now called the countie 
 of Cavan, hath been tyme out of minde 
 whollie in the jurisdiction of him that 
 for the tyme was O'Reillye, that is to 
 say Lord of the Countrie; but when 
 the partition was made by Sir H. 
 Sidney, the baronies were then divided 
 among the principal gentlemen of the 
 O'Reillies— viz., to Sir John O'R. and 
 his heirs the baronies of Cavan, Tol- 
 laghgarvy, Tolloconho, and Tolloha. 
 To Edmond O'R. and his heirs the 
 barony of Castlerahin. To Philip O'R. 
 and his heirs the bar. of Iniskine (now 
 
n8 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 5 98. 
 
 Amelie, e Edmond Amelie, Phillip amelie, and Hugh reaghe 
 
 But how straunge the view of these 
 savadges parsonadges (most of them 
 wearing glibbes and armed in mail with 
 pesantses and skulls and riding upon 
 pillions), seemed to o r straungersl leave 
 it to yo r wisdom to thinke of. And so 
 myself and the traine together with 
 these strangers and Oreighlie with his 
 company, being entertained with the 
 said Sir Lucas, we parted.' 
 
 e Sir John Ruadh O'R. was son of 
 the chieftain Hugh, who died in 1583 ; 
 he had two brothers Philip and Owen, 
 and four sisters who were mar. to Hugh 
 MacGuiness, Conor Maguire, Mac 
 Ferroll O'Reilly, and Plunket of Clon- 
 brene. This Sir John, ' by order out 
 of England, anno 1587, was made 
 Captain of Breny O'Reilly, and his 
 uncle Edmond was confirmed Tanist.' — 
 Note to Four Masters, p. 181 1. 
 
 Shan was Knighted at the English 
 Court in 1 5 85 ; and then he described the 
 extent and the rents of the five baronies 
 of the Breny; he complained that 'his 
 uncle Mulmore Mac Prior O'R. of 
 Clonmahon hath threatened Sir John's 
 tenants of Dowold-Donall, and their 
 said lands are waste, etc. O'R., by 
 ancient custom, had always out of the 
 five baronies xlv libr. each, as often as 
 he had any cause to cesse the said 
 baronies, either for the Queen's rents, 
 or for any charge towards O'Neil, or 
 other matter, which sometimes was 
 twice or thrice a yeare, and every time 
 xlv lib. to his own use besides the 
 charge of the cesse. Likewise all 
 
 manner of charges, that his son or his 
 men were put into by reason of their 
 beinge in pledge or attending in Dublin 
 or elsewhere for matter of the said 
 O'R. Item, all manner of fees, etc., 
 given to any learned counsell, solicitor, 
 or agent for the causes of the contry ; 
 out of every 8 pooles of lande through- 
 out the five baronies one fatt beeffe for 
 the spendinge of his house, one horse 
 for himselfe, one horse for his wife, one 
 horse for his son and heir with one 
 boy attending upon every horse, kept 
 through the whole five baronies yearly. 
 Item, to cesse upon the Mac Bradies, 
 the M c Enroes, the Gones, and the 
 Jordans, by the space of iii quarters of 
 a yeare yearly, one foteman upon every 
 poole, which the said surnames had, to 
 keep his cattle, to reap and bynd his 
 come, to thrashe, hedge and ditch, etc., 
 for the said O'R. Item, the said O'R. 
 had upon the Bradies, the Gones, the 
 M c Enroes and the Jordans out of 
 every poole of land yearly, thre quarters 
 of a fatt beeffe, and out of every two 
 pooles one fatt porke, and also the ces- 
 sing of strangers, their men and horses, 
 as often as any did come in friendship 
 to the country. Item, all charges for 
 workmen, stofe, and labourers, and 
 victualls for the building and maintain- 
 ing of his Castell of the Cavan ; the 
 duties of the town of Cavan as rent, 
 drink, etc., now taken and not denied. 
 — Sir John O'F.'s Answers to queries 
 of the English Commissioners in 1585. 
 — Careu< MSS. 
 
COUNTIE OF CAVAN. 
 
 119 
 
 Amilie; but so soon as S r John died, Phillip Amelie/ being the 
 third (and Edmond being for Age impotent), Usurped the Countie 
 and reversed all this division being chieflie sturred up thereunto 
 by the Earle of Tyrone, whom he thought Especiallie good to 
 draw into his Faction, because he was a Man of great courage 
 and of many followers, and who might have much annoyed the 
 Earle of Tyrone, if he had continued his Loyaltie. This Phillip 
 being slaine by one of Tyrone's Souldiers negligentlie, S r Ed- 
 mond 8 the old man enjoyeth the Government of the Countrie, 
 
 f In 1596 Philip O'R. was nominated 
 by O'Neill as O'R. over all Breifne', but 
 he was soon after accidentally slain 
 by O'Neill's people, and then Emann 
 son of Maelmora, who was senior to 
 the other two Lords, was styled O'R. — 
 Four Masters. 
 
 'In 1 60 1 Emann, the son of Mael- 
 mora, son of Sean, son of Cathal, died 
 in the month of April. He was an 
 aged, grey-headed, long-memoried man, 
 and had been quick and vivacious in 
 his mind and intellect in his youth. 
 He was buried in the Monastery 
 of S' Francis at Cavan, and his 
 brother's son, namely, Eoghan, son of 
 Hugh Conallagh, was elected in his 
 place. — Four Masters, p. 2243. 
 
 This Emann was chief of East 
 Breifny ; he was a member of the par- 
 liament of 1585. The Four Masters 
 record that in 1583 'Emann's brother 
 Hugh died; he was a man who had 
 passed his time without contests, and 
 who had preserved Breifne from the in- 
 vasions of his English and Irish 
 enemies ; he was buried in the monas- 
 tery of Cavan. The son of this O'R., 
 
 namely John Roe, then exerted himself 
 to acquire the chieftainship of the 
 territory, through the power of the 
 English, in opposition to Emann (his 
 uncle) who was senior according to 
 Irish usage. In consequence of this 
 the country and lordship were divided 
 between the descendants of Maoil- 
 mordha.' 
 
 Emann was elected chief in 1598. 
 So early as the year 1558 Emann and 
 his brother Hugh made a covenant with 
 the English Government ; and again in 
 1567, when they promised among 
 other things that they would pursue 
 their brother Cahier O'R., Owen O'R., 
 and Thomas O'R., 'nunc rebelles, et 
 eos ferro et flamma punire.' — Note to 
 Four Masters, p. 1804 to 1808, see 
 also p. 1997. 
 
 From Emann descend the O'R. 
 formerly of Heath House, Queen's Co.; 
 of Thomastown Castle in Louth ; of 
 Scarva in Antrim ; and the Count O'R. 
 of Spain; Miles W. O'R. of Knock 
 Abbey, is descended from him by 
 father and mother. Seventh in descent 
 from Emann was Count 0'R.,Generalis- 
 
120 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 who is assisted by the Sone of S r John Amelie who having slaine 
 one Mortaghe oge Cavanaghe that was upon protection, durst 
 not abide Trial, but fled to Tyrone with whom he hath remained 
 ever since. 11 These Amilies is a strong and valiant clan, they 
 are able to make 400 good Horsemen and some Footmen.' The 
 chief Freeholder under them is one M c brady. This Countie is 
 bounded with the Countie of Leytrim to the West, the Counties 
 of Fermanagh and Monaghan to the North, the Countie of 
 Eastmeath to the East, and Westmeath to the South. There 
 
 simo of His Catholic Majesty's forces, 
 Inspector General of infantry, Grand 
 Commander of the Order of Calatrava, 
 Captain General of Andalusia, Civil and 
 Military Governor of Cadiz, etc. 
 
 Emann married a dau. of the Baron 
 of Dunsaney, and had Cahir, John, 
 and Terence Neirinn (from whom O'R. 
 of Scarva) ; he married 2 ,y a dau. of 
 Baron Delvin, and had Myles, Farrell, 
 and Charles. His son John married a 
 dau. of Sir James Butler, and had a 
 son Brian, who d. in 1631, and was the 
 father of Maelmora, known as ' Myles 
 the Slasher,' a distinguished cavalry 
 officer of the war of 1641. 
 
 Emann had also two sons, Turlogh 
 Gallda (or the Anglicised) and Turlogh- 
 an-iarainn (or of the Iron). 
 
 Owen, who succeeded Emann as 
 chief, d. in 1601, and was succeeded 
 by Maelmora, the fourth son of Hugh 
 Conallagh,and last chiefof East Breifne, 
 who enjoyed that dignity till the Plan- 
 tation of 1609; he died in 1635. — 
 Note to O'D.'s Four Masters, p. 2240. 
 h Maolmora, another son of Sir John, 
 
 'a young man of fine person great 
 valour and ambition,' mar. a niece of 
 the Earl of Ormond, joined the Eng- 
 lish, was received with favour by Eliza- 
 beth, got a grant of lands in Cavan 
 under letters patent with the promise 
 of an Earldom. He was commander 
 of horse in the English service, and 
 was killed at the battle of the Yellow 
 Ford in 1598 while covering the 
 retreat of the English. — D'A/ton's 
 Army List, p. 925. 
 
 ' Moryson says this county was in 
 Ulster, and that ' the Orelyes in the 
 Brennyhad 800 f. and 100 horse.' 
 
 Dymmok writes, 'They are a stronge 
 nation, able to mafte of their own 
 sirname 400 horse ; they are sayd to 
 be aunciently descended from the Rid- 
 leys of England.' — Dimmok, p. 16. 
 
 This is an honour to which the 
 O'Reillies cannot pretend, as they are 
 'meere Irishe.' Their Celtic pedigree is 
 well known. Before the Normans 
 came to Ireland, warriors of that name 
 were slain in the years n 28, 1 157, 
 and 1161. 
 
COUNTIE OF CAVAN. 
 
 121 
 
 is no Towne in it but the Cavan k a market Towne wherein are 
 2 Strong Castles, Several small Castles, and the Several 
 dwellings of the Amelies, whereof there is none of name. 1 The 
 Bishop of Kilmore is Ordinarie both to Countie of Cavan and 
 Leytrim. 
 
 k In 1 5 9 5 an army was led by Maguire 
 and MacMahon into Breifny 0'R.,and 
 they quickly plundered that country, and 
 left not a cabin in which two or three 
 might be sheltered in all Cavan which 
 they did not burn, except the Monastery 
 of Cavan, in which English soldiers 
 were at that time. — Four Masters, 
 p. 1959. 
 
 1 According to Pynnars Survey, 
 dated 1618 — 'The Precinct of Clanchie 
 was allotted to Scotch undertakers ; it 
 contained 6000 acres ; in the Precinct 
 of Castlerahin 3900 to English, and 
 900 left to Shane MThilip O'Reilly, on 
 this he had an Irish House surrounded 
 by a bawn of Sodds. In the Precinct 
 of Tullaghgarry 2250 acres to English; 
 1000 acres called Itterry-outra to Mul- 
 morie MThilip O'R., he had a strong 
 bawn of Sodds with four flankers, and a 
 deep Moate, a good Irish house with- 
 in it — he hath made no estates. Cap- 
 tain Reley hath 1000 acres called 
 Lisconnor — all his tenants do Tlough 
 by the Tail. Mulmorie Oge O'R. 
 hath 3000 acres, and in it an old 
 Castle now buik up. He hath made no 
 estates to any of his tenants, and they 
 do all plough by the Tail. Captain 
 
 Richard Tirrell and his brother William 
 have 2000 acres called Itterrery. Upon 
 this is built a strong bawn of lime 
 and stone 80 feet square, 1 2 feet high, 
 with four flankers. He hath made no 
 estates. Maurice M c Telligh hath 3000 
 acres called Liscurcron. Here is a 
 bawn of sodds and in it a good Irish 
 House. In the Precinct of Loghtee 
 12,004 acres allotted to English under- 
 takers. 
 
 'In the Precintof Clonmahown 4500 
 acres to English; and Mulmory M c Hugh 
 O'R. hath 2000 acres called Commot, 
 and a strong house of lime and stones 
 40 f. long, 20 f. broad, three stories 
 high, and a bawn about it of Sodds. 
 He hath no estates. Philip M c Tirlagh 
 hath 300 acres and an Irish House 
 and bawn. In Tullaconchie 6000 
 acres to English. In Tullagha 4500 
 acres to English ; and Magauran, a 
 Native, hath 1000 acres.' 
 
 Dr. M c Dermot, in a note to the Four 
 Masters, says that 'It is estimated that 
 there are over 20,000 people named 
 O'Reilly in the Co. of Cavan.' I may 
 add that there are more priests of that 
 name than of any other Irish name; 
 they number about eighty. 
 
CONNAUGHT. 
 
 Connaught 1 contayneth all the Lands Circuited with the great 
 Ocean between the River of Earne near Asherow in Odonells 
 Countrie and the River of Sheynen, where it falleth into the Sea 
 beneath Limerick. It is in manner ane Hand, because to the 
 North and West it hath the Sea, To the South and West the 
 Sheynen, to the North-east the Lough and River b of Earne, 
 onlie a small piece between the Earne and the Sheynen leaveth 
 in that part not Circuited. 
 
 * 'A Description of the Province of 
 Connaught,' dated 'January, 16 12,' pre- 
 served in British Museum, and published 
 in Vol. 2 7 of the Archaeologia, says — 
 ' Connaght, by the antient division 
 amonge the Irish was accompted the 
 the fifte parte or Cocge of the Hand of 
 Ireland, and was then and is still called 
 by the name of Cocge Connaght, and 
 contynewed the name and stile of a 
 Kingdome in the posterity of Con Ked- 
 cagh, one of the three races discended 
 of Mylle Spaynagh whome all the 
 Cronicles of Ireland agree to be the 
 absolute conqueror of the whole island.' 
 
 ' Off this Cocge Conaght, a porcon 
 now called Thomond, lyinge towards 
 the Sowth, to the river of Shenan, 
 whether by gift or conquest hath beene 
 a long time possest by the O' Brians, 
 beinge discended of another race of 
 Mylle Spaynagh, whoe at this day 
 enioye yt. The earle of Thomond 
 beinge the Cheeffe of that name ; yett 
 it was helde within the government of 
 Connaght till the beginninge of his 
 
 Ma Hes raigne to gratefie the Earle of 
 Thomond. The Earle of Clanriccard 
 was contented it shold be divided from 
 the government of Connaght. 
 
 ' Until the beginning of the reigne of 
 Queen Elizabeth the ordinary Justice 
 of the Kingdome hadd little passage in 
 Conaght the English races remayninge 
 under the rule of the Bowrks, and the 
 Irishry under the Cheetfes of every 
 particular septe, the whole province 
 bearinge the name of the County of 
 Conaght — whereof there was one Sher- 
 riffe whom the people little respected, 
 at what time the said Queene erected a 
 presideall seat, and establyshed a Presi- 
 dent andCouncell for the administration 
 of justice within the province, and de- 
 vided yt into five shyers which ordinance 
 continues unto this time. 
 
 b ' The river of Ballashennagh and 
 the Loghe Ecarne.' — Description of 
 Connaght in 16 12. 
 
 c ' Leaveth that parte uninclosed. — 
 Dymmok. 
 
 ' It is a fruitful province but hath 
 
CONNAUGHT. 
 
 123 
 
 In Connaught are Six Counties, 
 
 Clare Maio 
 
 Galway Slego 
 
 many Boggs, and thick woods,' — Mory- 
 son, Part iii., p. 158. 
 
 ' The insurgent forces there in April 
 1599, were 3090 f. and 260 horse.' — 
 Car. Ca/., year 1599, p. 300. 
 
 ' Her Majesty has to keep a force of 
 2300 f. and 75 horse ; and such is the 
 waste and ruin, specially in grain, as 
 we are driven to victual most of these 
 companies out of her Majesty's store.' 
 — Nov. 5, 1597, Car. Cat. 
 
 The Queen's forces in 1599 were; 
 Horse — Earl of Clanrickard, 50; Pro- 
 vost Marshal, 10; Sir Theobald Dillon, 
 15 ; Captain Blunt, 12. Foote — E. of 
 Clanrickard, 100 ; E. of Dunkellin, 
 150; Sir A. Savage, 200 ; Sir Thomas 
 Burke, 100; Sir H. O'Connor, 100; 
 Sir T. Dillon, 100; Badbye, 150; 
 Plunket, 100 ; Mostian, 100 ; Tibot ne 
 Long, 100; Floyd, 150; Roper, 150; 
 Oliver Burke, 100; T. Burke, 100; 
 David Bourke, 100. Total, horse, 87 ; 
 foot, 1800. — Moryson. 
 
 In 1602 there were 151 h. and 2100 
 f. — Car. Cal. 
 
 Connaught was of all provinces ' the 
 most troublesome in 1588,' the most 
 out of order in 1601 ; 'being ever a 
 rebellious province of itself, the less 
 counties the governor hath to govern 
 the better, and hence Clare should not 
 be added to it.' — Car. Cal. year 1588, 
 p. 3 ; year 1601, pp. 49 and 174. 
 
 Leytrim 
 Roscoman. 
 
 Sir Conyers Clifford reported in 
 September 1597, that the total number 
 of men now in action is 2600 at least. 
 In April 1597, we are told that 'not one 
 of the six shires is free from revolt ; 
 Clifford with 21 companies of foot and a 
 half, besides horse, is not strong enough 
 to reduce them, for his companies are 
 weak, and O'Donnell tyranizeth over 
 most of these people at his pleasure.' 
 
 Sir Conyers Clifford, a brave and 
 good man, with 1900 foot under 25 en- 
 signs and with about 200 horse, was 
 defeated by 400 Irish under O'Rurke. 
 He was wounded, and was so indignant 
 at the flight of his men that 'he brake 
 in a fury away from Sir J. Mac Swine 
 and Capt. Oliver Burke's lieutenant, 
 who wanted to save him by taking him 
 off the field ; and alone he rushed on 
 the pursuers, in the midst of whom 
 after he was stroake through the body 
 with a pike ; he died fighting.' — Dym- 
 mok. 
 
 'The Irish of Connaught were not 
 pleased at his death, for he had been a 
 bestower of jewels and riches upon 
 them, and he had never told them a 
 faslehood.' — Four Masters. 
 
 ' In 1600 O'Donnell made an incur- 
 sion into Clanrickard and Clare, in 
 which he was joined by O'Rourke, 
 O'Connor Sligo, O'Connor Roe,M c Der- 
 mot, and M c William.'— Four Masters. 
 
124 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF CLARE. 3 
 
 This Countie beareth the name of the Castle of Clare belong- 
 to the Earle of Thomond. It contayneth Nine baronies b 
 
 a Carew writes to Cecil in June 1602, 
 ' The Earle of Thomond hath no other 
 suit in England but to annex Thomond 
 to Munster, which if he may not obtain 
 his heart is broken.' 
 
 ' In the county of Clare when I be- 
 held the appearance and fashion of the 
 people, I would I had been in Ulster 
 again ; for these are as mere Irish 
 as they, and in their outward form 
 not much unlike them ; but we found 
 that many of them spake good English, 
 and understood the course of our pro- 
 ceedings well. The best freeholders 
 next to the O'Briens are theM c Nemaraes 
 and the O'Laneyes, the chief of which 
 appeared in civil habit and fashion, the 
 rest are not so reformed as the people 
 of Munster.' — Sir J. Davis, Car. Cal. 
 May 1606. 
 
 b A Trinity Coll. MS., marked E. 2. 
 14, and the Carew MSS., vol. 611, give 
 the following account of Clare : — 
 
 It conteyneth whole Thomond being 
 in length from Leyme Concollen to 
 Killalowe 45 myles, and in bredth from 
 Lymericke to Beallaleynee 25 myles, 
 which of auncient tyme was devi'led 
 into 9 Troghkyeds or hundreds, and is 
 nowe appoynted to be conteyned in 3 
 Baronies. 
 
 The Barony of Tullaghnenaspule con- 
 teyneth Macnemaries als Mortimers 
 
 country by East ; the Baron of Inshy- 
 quyn and Donel Reogh mac ne 
 mare chief in the Same. The castles 
 are 38 in number. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 Donell Reogh, of Tullaghe 
 Edmunde O'Grady, of Toymegreene 
 Edmunde O'Grady, of Muyno 
 Donogh and ] of ffertan 
 
 Rory Macnemare j Garongharagh 
 Donell Reogh Macnemare, ffyckle- 
 
 nearly 
 Rorye Mac ne Mares Sons, Hand Cahir 
 Donogh Mac ne Mare, of Kilallowe 
 Muriertagh, Custos of Obriens bridge 
 The Baron of Inshiquin, of Castell 
 
 Loghe 
 Sohane ne Geyllagh, of Dunasse 
 Donel Roe, of Cullistecke 
 Teige oge M c Conmea, Neadennury, 
 Tirilogh M'Donel roo, Glanomra 
 Donel Reoghe, Sohort Castel in 
 Tirlagh Obrien, of Glanoradone 
 S°hida M c Rory, Moynengeanagh 
 S°hane M c Namares, Son of Moyin- 
 
 tallone 
 Donell Reogh, Tyrowanyn 
 S°hane M c Mahoun, Euaghhowleyne 
 S°hane M c Donell, of Beallakullen 
 Brian M'Donell Roo, Ballgarilly 
 Cornea M c Mahown, Ballmitlayne 
 Therle of Thomond, of Castell Callogh 
 Donogh M c Conoghor, Ahereynagh 
 ffymyn M c Laghlin, of Roscoe 
 
COUNTY OF CLARE. 
 
 I 2< 
 
 and 2 small Byshopricks, Killallo, and Kilfeneraghe, the former 
 subject to the Archbishop of Cashell in Mounster the Latter to 
 the Archbishop of Tooam. This Countie is situated between 
 two Bayes of Limerick and Galloway, the one to the East and 
 the other to the West the Countie of Galloway to the North 
 and the Sheynan to the South-east. It hath 2 market 
 
 ] and in each ane Abbey, 
 
 DonoghObrien, Ballychara 
 
 Donel M c S°hida Matagh, Granaghane 
 
 S°hane Omulhonery, Ballynegeyne 
 
 Donel M c Sohida, Ralahyn 
 
 Therle of Thomond, Rosmonagher 
 
 ffynnin M c laghlin, Legwaro 
 
 Donel M c Tege, Crathallaghmore 
 
 S°hane M c Nemare, Crathallaghmoello 
 
 Therle of Thomond, Bunratty 
 
 and of Cloynmoneagh 
 Donel M c ne mare, Crathallaghkell 
 Muriertagh Obrien, Dromloyne 
 Donogh Maglanchy, of Claynloghane 
 TegeMaglanchy, of Balleneclogh 
 Muriertagh Maglanchy, Nerlyn 
 Brien na fforiry, of ffynis 
 Macenery heny, of Ballenecraige 
 Donogh Obrien, of Raehavellayne 
 Tege M'Murrogh, Ballyconill 
 Donogh O'Gradey, Cloyne 
 S°han Mac mahown, Corballe 
 Donogh Maglanchy, Bodovoher 
 
 The Baronie of Cloynetherala con- 
 teyninge East Corkewasten. Tege 
 Mac Mahoone Chiefe in the Same, 
 Castles, 7. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 Tege Mac Mahown, of Dangen My- 
 burke 
 
 and of Cloynetheralla 
 
 Townes Inish and [ 
 
 Tege Oultagh, Ballymogashill 
 Coverey M c S°hanerey, Quaronenvyre 
 
 Cullan 
 Rory M'Mahown, of Kelkissin 
 Lysofine 
 Lysmieghan 
 Tirilogh Obrien, of ffomara 
 
 and of Tyriedagha 
 S°hane M c Nemara, Caeppagh 
 Edmund O'Grady, Sheriffe 
 
 Trugh 
 Rory Moell M c ffynnyn, Beallagha 
 
 The Barony of Dangen conteyninge 
 West Mac ne Mares Countrey. S°hane 
 Mac ne mare Chief in the Same. 
 Castles, 43. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 S°hane Mac ne mare, of Dangen 
 
 and of Croppoke 
 Tirilagh Obrien, of Croppoke 
 Sohane Mac ne mare, of Dangan breake 
 Donogh M c Murrogh Obrien, Qyynhi 
 Domea Mac Mahown, Dromollyn 
 William Nellan, Beallahanyn 
 Brene Obrien, of Castleton Nene- 
 
 nanogh 
 James Nellan, of Ballycaston 
 
 Ballyally 
 Conoghor Maglanthy, Ballycharelle 
 Mughane 
 
126 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Bonrattie the Earle of Thomond's chief Hous 
 Clare belonging to him also 
 Cowland 
 Principall Inchequin belonging to the Baron thereof 
 Castles Towne 
 
 Dunnas M r - Waterhous 
 Ballivaghan belonging to Sir Turloghe O'Bryen 
 
 and of Cahiracon 
 and of Ballamacollman 
 Derecrossan 
 Tege M c Coner Obrien, of Corubirig- 
 
 hane 
 Tege M c Muriertagh Cam, Dunegroek 
 
 The Baronie of Moyartha which 
 conteyneth West Corke-Wasken. Tir- 
 lagh M c Mahoun Cheife in y° Same. 
 Castles, 8. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles, 
 Charles Cahane, of Inyshkathyn. This 
 man by inheritance is called a Cour- 
 boe. 
 James Cahane, of Ballykette 
 Tirlagh M'Mahown, of Carrighowly 
 and of Moyartha 
 and of Dunlykill 
 
 Dunsumayn 
 So' Donell Obrien, Knight, Dunmore 
 and of Dunbeg 
 
 The Baronie of Tuogh Morey Conor 
 conteyninge Corkemroe. So r Donell 
 Obrien, Knight, Cheife in y e Same, 
 Castles, 23. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles, 
 O' Conor, of Inysdyman 
 So r Donell, of Glan 
 
 and of Ballighanyre 
 
 Tullowmore 
 Tege M c Murrogh, of ffante 
 
 Ballyngowne 
 Inshcovee 
 Ballighany 
 Ravine 
 Sir Donell O'Brien, of Beancoroe 
 Tege M c Murrogh, of Cahirmenayn 
 So r Donel Obrien, of Tullagh 
 Tege M c Murrogh, Leymenegh 
 So' Donell Obrien, of Dunegoir 
 Tege M c Murrogh, of Dumnycphellen 
 
 Knockefyne 
 Conogher Maghanchy, Tuomolyn 
 Tege M c Murrogh, of Ballenelakyn 
 and of Beallaghe 
 Loghbuligin 
 Kyhnua 
 So' Donell, of Dughe 
 
 and of Lyscanuire 
 
 The Baronie of Gragans conteyning 
 the countrey of Buren, O'Loghlen, 
 Cheife in the Same. Castles, 20. 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 Ologhen, of Cahirclogan 
 
 Lysiglysin 
 
 Cahiricnacty 
 
 Ballemoroghee 
 
 Moghenees 
 
 Glensteed 
 
COUNTY OF CLARE. 
 
 127 
 
 Men of Name 
 in this Count ie 
 
 Ologhlen, of Gragan 
 
 Glanoeynagh 
 
 Ballyveaghane 
 
 S°hanemokenes 
 
 Novknesno 
 
 Kynveare 
 
 Turlagh 
 
 Glancollayn 
 
 Killy 
 
 Nacapaghee 
 
 Castleton 
 
 Ballyheaghayne 
 
 Kreaghwill 
 
 Rugham 
 
 The Baronie of Tullagh Idea. So r 
 Donell Obrien, Knight, Cheife in the 
 Same. Castles, 24. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 The Baron of Inshiquin, Inshiquin 
 S or Donell, of Killinbury 
 Mahown M c brene O'brien, Bally- 
 crottry 
 
 Quarowduffe 
 Tirm c brayne 
 Tege M c Murrogh, of Bohneill 
 Muriertagh Garagh, Cahir Corkrayne 
 
 Rahe 
 Tege m c Murrogh, of Dromenglasse 
 Mahown Odea, of Beallnelykee 
 Mowghowny 
 Ogriffee, of Ballygriffee 
 Donogh Duffee M c Cosedin, of Bally- 
 
 haraghan 
 Therle of Thomonde, Moethrie 
 
 The Earle of Thomond his name Obryan. 
 The L. Baron of Inchiquin, his name in like 
 sort O'Bryen. 
 
 The Baron of Inshiquin, Dereowen 
 
 Manygriffane 
 Mahown Obrien, of Cloynenouayne 
 Dermot Obrien, of Cloyneseleherne 
 Owarovv negule 
 Owen M c S°wyne, Dunymulvihill 
 Carigentogher 
 Owen M c S D yne, Bealnefirvearnayn 
 Donell Moel Odea, Desert 
 Mahown the B. Sonne, Kilkidry 
 
 The Baronie Cloynerawde, contey- 
 ninge y e troghkied of Cloynrawde and 
 y e Hands. Therle of Thomonde, Cheife 
 in the Same. Castles, 19. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles. 
 Therle of Thomond, Clonrawde 
 and of Clare 
 and of Inish 
 The Baron of Inshiquyn, Killoyne 
 
 and of Ballevecoode 
 Conogher Maglanchy, Enenshy 
 Brene Duffe, of S°hally 
 Tege M c Murroghe, Moghoony 
 Tege M c Conor O'brien, Inishvacwo- 
 chny 
 
 and of Inishdaghrome 
 and of Inishnivar 
 M c Gylerervgh, of Craigurien 
 
 Tirviglay 
 M c Graigh, of Uandvecraigh 
 Tege M c Conor, of Beallchoricke 
 The Baron of Ibrikan the 
 
 Earle of Towmond's \ Moyobrakan 
 eldest Sonne 
 
128 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Two Byshops 
 S r Turlogh 0'Bryan c 
 M c ne marre Reaghe d 
 M c Mahon e 
 
 M c ne marre feu d 
 George Blunt of Dunas 
 
 Therle of Thomond, Cahir Rivish 
 Tege Mac Conogher, Tromra 
 Tege Mac Murrogh, Dunogane 
 
 There are 8 Baronies, 79 parish 
 churches, and 172 castles, and 8 
 Abbayes. 
 
 The Abbayes and Religious Houses are 
 Th abbay of Clare possessed by S or 
 Donell and Tege M c Cono r his 
 brother. 
 
 Inish by James Nellan. 
 St. John's a nunrye by 
 y e Baron of Inshiquyn. 
 
 Corkomoree. 
 Hand Chanens by Therle 
 of Thomonde. 
 
 Kiltena. 
 
 Quynhye, occupied by 
 ffreers. 
 Th abbey of Insh Cronan. 
 
 From Car. Cal, year 1601-1603, p. 
 472, it appears that this Description 
 was written by Sir T. Cusack in 1574. 
 c In 601 Sir Torlogh's son and heir, 
 Teig, was mortally wounded fighting 
 against the English ; he was taken care 
 of by his enemy and kinsman, Lord 
 Dunkellin ; but soon died and ' was 
 buried successively at Loughrea and 
 Athenry.' ' He was expert at every 
 warlike weapon, of remarkable energy, 
 agility, mildness, comeliness and hospi- 
 
 tality.' In 1602 Torlogh and Conor 
 O'B. were driven out of the castles of 
 Derryowen and Ballyanchaislen by the 
 Earl of Thomond. Torlogh escaped, 
 but the chieftains Conor and Brian 
 O'B., with their followers, were hanged 
 on trees in pairs face to face. In 1602 
 Torlogh, grandson of Bishop O'B. was 
 slain by Burke of Derrymaclachtny. — 
 Four Masters. Morogh O'B. of Duagh 
 lived at this time, and had a son mar. 
 to a dau. of Edward O'Hogan. — Lodge. 
 
 d ' The two Mac Namaras, if the 
 countrie were quiet, might live like 
 principal Knights in England.' — Syd- 
 ney's Letters, fol. vol. i., p. 102. ' Mac 
 Conmara Fionn (John son of Teig) d. 
 in 1602 ; his son Donnall took his 
 place.' — Four Masters. 
 
 e Teig Caoch M C M., Lord of West 
 Corcabhascin, captured an English 
 ship in 1598, which put in near his 
 Castle of Carriganchobhlaigh (Carriga- 
 holt) ; he also took back Dunbeg, one 
 of his own castles, from a Limerick 
 merchant who 'held it in lieu of debt;' 
 in 1599 he was driven out of his terri- 
 tory by Lord Thomond; he then joined 
 the Earl of Desmond, assaulted by 
 night Thomond's son, Donnall, wound- 
 ed him, slew many of his people 
 and imprisoned him. In 1602, being 
 asked by O'Sullevan for a loan of 
 
COUNTY OF CLARE. 
 
 129 
 
 Ogardie 
 Oneyland s 
 O'Laughlin 
 Oclanchey h 
 
 his ship to send to Spain for assist- 
 ance, he refused, sent his son and 
 other guards to defend it, and when 
 O'Sullevan approached in a boat to 
 seize it, Teig, who was with him, called 
 to his men to fire on O'Sullevan, and 
 was accidentally shot by his own son. 
 ' There was no triocha-chead (barony) 
 of which Teig was not worthy to be 
 Lord, for dexterity of hand and bounty, 
 for purchase of wines, horses and lite- 
 rary works. Mortagh M C M. of Cno- 
 canlacha d. in 1598.' — Four Masters. 
 
 'Slain in 1599 by Turlogh O'Brien, 
 whose lands he held. 
 
 g James O'N., who kept open house, 
 d. in 1599. 
 
 h Baolach M c Clancy of Cnoc-Finn d. 
 in 1598 ; he was fluent in Latin, Irish 
 and English ; was M.P. for Clare in 
 1585. Also Maolin Oge M'Brody, 
 who in 1563 succeeded his brother as 
 Ollav of Hy-Bracan and Hy-Fearmaac, 
 d. at Ballybrody in 1602. There was 
 no one in Eire who was, together, a 
 better historian, poet, and rhymer than 
 he. — Four Masters. 
 
 O'Daly had a white house at Finny- 
 vara, 'great its wealth, bestowing 
 without folly ; it were a sufficiently 
 loud organ to hear his pupils reciting 
 the melodies of the ancient schools.' — 
 Tribes of Ireland. 
 
 George Cusack f 
 Edward Mostyne 
 Edward Whyte 
 M r - Waterhous. 
 
 Dermot O'Dea of Tully O'Dea was 
 killed in 1598; Hugh O'Hogan was 
 slain in 1597, in a battle between the 
 O'Briens and the Clanwilliam Burkes ; 
 ' he was by no means the least distin- 
 guished son of a chieftain for goodness 
 and wealth.' — Four Masters. 
 
 In 1585 the 'Lords spirituall and 
 temporall, chieftains, gents, &c, of 
 Thomond were — Donogh Earle of Tho- 
 mond; Murrough lord baron of Inchie- 
 quin; the Reverend fathers in God, 
 Mauricius Bishopp of Kyllalowe ; 
 Daniell elect bishop of Kyllmnoraghe; 
 Donogh O'Horane dean of Kyllalow; 
 Daniell Shinnaghe, deane of Kyllfi- 
 noraghe; Denis, arch-deacon of the 
 same; Sir Edward Waterhouse of 
 Downassee, krit.; Sir Tyrrelagh 
 O'Brien of Ennestyvey, knt. ; John 
 JVFnemara of Knappock, otherwise 
 called M c Nemarra of Westcloncullun ; 
 Donell Reagh M c Nemarragh, of Gar- 
 rowelagh, otherwise called M c Nemar- 
 raghe of East Cloncullin; Teige 
 M c Mahoune of Clonderralae, otherwise 
 called M c Mahoune of Castle-Corko- 
 waskin; Tyrrelaghe M c Mahoune of 
 Moyurtye, chief of his name in West 
 Corkowaskin ; Moriertagh O'Brien of 
 Dromeleyne, gen. ; Mahowne O'Brien of 
 Clondevvan gen.; Owny O'Laughleine 
 of the Gragans, otherwise called 
 
 R 
 
130 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 In this Countie the Earle of Thomond's Brother, called 
 Teag O' Bryan," and some few with him are in rebellion. 
 
 O'Laughlene; Rosse O'Laughlin of 
 Glancollum-Kyllie, tanest to the same 
 O'Llaghlen; Mahone and Dermott 
 O'Dae of Tullaghadae, chieffe of their 
 names; Connor Mac Gilreoghe of 
 Cragbreane, chieffe of his name ; Tyrre- 
 laghe MacTeig O'Brien of Beallacorege, 
 gen. ; Luke Bradey sonne and heire of 
 the late bishopp of Meath; Edward 
 White of the Crattelagh, gen. ; George 
 Cusacke of Dromoylen, gen.; Boetius 
 Clanchie of Knockfynney, gen.; John 
 M c Nemara of the Moetullen, gen. ; 
 Henry O'Grady of the iland of Inche- 
 cronan, gen. ; Donnogh M c Clanchie of 
 the Urlion, chieffe of his name; 
 Donnoghe Garraghe O'Brien of Balle- 
 cessye, gen. ; Connor O'Brien of 
 Curharcorcae, gen. ; and George Fann- 
 ing Limerick merchant.' — See lar-Con- 
 nacht, p. 358. 
 
 ''He had 600 f. and 50 horse in 
 1599, and not one castle there kept for 
 the Queen.' — Moryson. 
 
 Teig had mar. Slaine, dau. of 
 Teig O'Brien, of Smithstown, son of the 
 1 st Earl of Thomond, and by her was 
 father of Tirlogh of Ballyslattery, 
 Colonel Morogh, and Dermot ' the 
 Good.' — Hist. Memoir of the O'Briens, 
 p. 496. 
 
 In 1598 Teig took the Bridge of 
 Portcroisi, the castles of Cluain, and 
 Sgairbh. In 1599 eight companies of 
 English and Irish soldiers were march- 
 ing from Kilkeedy, through Bealach an 
 Fhiodhfail (Rockforest), Teig's people 
 attacked them ; more of the Queen's 
 people were slain, but the Irish lost a 
 gentleman named Dermot Roe O'Brien. 
 Teig then made peace with the Queen, 
 and dismissed his hirelings ; and the 
 English and Irish besieged and took 
 the castle of Cahirminane belonging 
 to Tirlogh O'Brien, whose brother 
 Dermot was slain at Rockforest. — Four 
 Masters. 
 
COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY. 
 
 131 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY. 
 
 This Countie contayneth a great quantity of Land lying in 
 a manner Square between thomond and maio, South and North 
 between the Sheynen and the Sea East and West. It hath the 
 River suck and the Countie of Roscoman to the Northeast 
 thereof. 
 
 This Countie hath three Byshopricks 
 Tooam one Byshoprick 
 Clonfert a Byshoprick upon the Sheynen 
 Kilmacoughe a Byshoprick in Oshaghnes 
 Countrie 
 Corporal Galloway 3 exceeding fayre and well built 
 
 Townes Athenrie b all ruined saving the Wall 
 
 a A proper neat city. — Campion. 
 The townsmen and wemmen present 
 a more civil show of life than other 
 towns of Ireland do. — Lord Justice Pel- 
 ham. Noe towne in the three nations 
 (London excepted) is more consider- 
 able for commerce. — H. Cromwell and 
 Privy Council quoted by Hardiman. 
 The Description of Connaught of the 
 British Museum, dated 1612, which 
 seems identical with that of the Lam- 
 beth MSS. written by Sir Oliver St. 
 John in 16 14, says — ' Galway is small 
 but all of fayer and stately buildings ; 
 the fronts of their howses towards the 
 streets, being all of hewed stone, upp 
 to the topp, and garnyshed with fayer 
 battlements in an uniform cowrse, as 
 if the whole towne hadd beene builte 
 
 upon one modell. The merchants are 
 riche and great adventurers at sea. 
 They keepe goode hospitality and are 
 kind to strangers, and in their manner 
 of entertaynement and in fashioning 
 and appearllinge themselves and their 
 wives doe most preserve the ancyent 
 manner and state of any town that ever 
 I sawe. The towne is built upon a 
 rocke envyroned almost with the sea 
 and the ryver, compassed with a strong 
 wall, and good defences, after the aun- 
 cient manner, and such as with a fewe 
 men it may defend itself against any 
 army.' 
 
 b ' Eight miles from Galway, elder 
 than yt, built by the English, whiles 
 they hadd their swords in their hands, 
 and kept themselves close in garryson. 
 
132 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 59§. 
 
 The principall Merchants and Citizens in 
 
 both are 
 Linches d 
 
 Now it hath a very small and poore 
 habitacion and people. Yet the walls 
 stand still large in compass and very 
 strong and fayer.'— Z><\r<r/v/V. of Con. 
 1612. 
 c The chief families or ' tribes ' were 
 
 ' Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Dean, 
 
 Darcy, Lynch, 
 Joyes, Kirwan, Martin, Morris, Skerret, 
 
 French.' 
 
 From 1590 to 1609 there were 7 mayors 
 and 16 bailiffs named Lynch ; 4 mayors 
 and 5 bailiffs named French ; 3 mayors 
 and 4 bailiffs named Martin. The 
 Mayor of 1598 was Nicholas Kir- 
 wan Fitz-Denis ; the Bailiffs were 
 Marcus and Nat. Blake. The Mem- 
 bers for Galway in 1585 were P. Lynch, 
 Yonoke Lynch, and Robuck French. 
 In 1518 the Corporation enacted that 
 — ' If any man should bring an Irish- 
 man to brage or boste upon the toune 
 to forfeit i2d. That no man shall oste 
 or receive into their houses any of the 
 Burks, M c Williams, the Kellies. nor no 
 cepte elles on pain of £5, that nether 
 O ne Mac shall strutte ne swaggere 
 thro' the streets of Galway.' — Hardi- 
 tna/is Galway, p. 201. 
 
 Names of Galway Jurymen in 1609 : 
 Lynch FitzEdmund, alderman ; Browne, 
 alderman ; 2 Kirwans, 3 Lynches, 2 
 Bodkins, 1 Blake, Athie, Martin and 
 Bige, merchants J Teig Ballaghe, shou- 
 maker; M c Follane,brogmaker; M c Cogh- 
 
 lane, weaver; O'Many, cottner; Shoy, 
 taylour; Nolan, goldsmith ; MTnylley, 
 glower ; O'Mollhane, cooper ; Duff, 
 O'Fodaghe and Loghlin, fishermen. 
 
 d Ninety Lynches were Mayors from 
 1274 to 1654, and not one since. 
 John L. made Bishop of Elphin by 
 Elizabeth in 1584, surrendered the see 
 in 161 r, 'lived a concealed and died a 
 public papist,' is buried in St. Nicholas' 
 Church. — Hardimaris Galway, p. 235. 
 The Royal Visitation of 1615 says : 
 Wee found in Galway a publique 
 schoolmaster named Lynch, placed 
 there by the citizens, who had a great 
 number of schollers not only out of 
 that Province but also out of the Pale 
 and other parts resorting unto him. 
 We had daily proof during our continu- 
 ance in that city how well his schollers 
 profitted under him, by verses and 
 orations which they presented to us. 
 We sent for that schoolemaster before 
 us, and seriously advised him to con- 
 form to the Religion established, and 
 not prevailing with our advices, we 
 enjoyned him to forbear teaching: and I, 
 the Chancellor, did take a recognizance 
 of him and some others of his Kins- 
 men in that city, in the sum of .£4°° 
 sterling, that from thenceforth he would 
 forbear to teach any more. — lar-Con- 
 naught, p. 215. 
 
 Nich. L, Mayor, had 12 sons; the 
 
COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY, 
 
 *33 
 
 Blakes e 
 
 Martins f 
 
 Frenches 8 
 
 eldest, Henry became Mayor, M.P. 
 and a Baronet and was ancestor of Sir 
 H. Lynch Blosse. Sir Henry d. in 
 1633 leaving ^500 for the marriage 
 portions of ' poor maydens of the birth 
 of Galway, for ever,' the Linches and 
 then the Martines to be preferred. — See 
 Will in lar-Connackt, p. 36. 
 
 Lynch of Shruel lived with much 
 splendor . . . was grandfather Fr. Do- 
 minick L. the learned Regent of the 
 College of St. Thomas Seville. Dr. J. 
 Lynch, Archbishop of Tuam in 1674, 
 said that, ' Since the time of St. Patrick, 
 the L. always preserved the Catholic 
 faith.' Dominick L. in 1580 built the 
 west side of the Town Hall at his own 
 expense and founded a free school. — 
 See Irish Arch. Miscel., Vol. i., 
 P- 48, 55- 
 
 e Blake of Ardfry was father of Sir 
 R. B., Speaker of the Supreme Council, 
 and ancestor of Lord Wallscourt. 
 Blake FitzWalter, Mayor in 161 1 and 
 1630, became a Baronet in 1622, is an- 
 cestor of Sir V. Blake of Menlough. 
 Nicholas B., merchant, d. in 1620, own- 
 ing Kilturroge etc. and lands around 
 Athenry. 
 
 'Francis M., merchant, d. 1615 seized 
 of Ballyglasse, etc. in Mayo. Robert 
 M. d. 1622 seized of several lands in 
 Iar-Connaught. 
 
 * R. French d. 1628 possessed of the 
 
 Darcies h 
 Skerrets' 
 
 castles of Dongendrick, Menlagh, 
 etc. in Iar-Connaught. Patrick F. 
 of the Castle of Monivea, d. 1630. 
 Oliver Oge F. was Mayor in 1597 ; his 
 wife, ne'e Joyce, was called Margaret 
 na Drehid, Margaret of the Bridges, as 
 she built stone bridges all through Con- 
 naught. — lar-Con. p. 41, and Hardi- 
 maits Galway. 
 
 h Dorseys were Mayors in 1602 and 
 161 4, and Bailiffs in 1602 and 1608. 
 On Darcy's vault in the Franciscan 
 Abbey we read — 'Epitaphium D. Ja- 
 cobi Darcy Majoris, Connaciae Praesi- 
 dis, Galviae Praetoris etc. Qui ob. an. 
 1603 
 
 Hie Amor Heroum, Decus urbis, Nor- 
 ma Senatus, 
 Mensa peregrini, pauperis area jacet. 
 
 This tomb was repaired by the de- 
 scendants of James Darcy in the year 
 1728. Pray for the dead.' This was 
 Darcy Riveach (the swarthy); his 7th 
 son, Patrick, born in 1598, was a 
 famous lawyer and a member of the 
 Confederate Council. 
 
 1 Edmund S., head of the race, owned 
 the castle of Ath-cin or Headford in 
 1641. Skerrets were Mayors in 1594 
 and 1605. Brownes were Mayors in 
 1574, 1575 and 1609. Bodkin in 1610 ; 
 Kirwans in 1598 and 1608; Mareis 
 (Morris?) in 1588. In the Church of 
 St. Nicholas there are tombs with the 
 
134 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Principall Meleeke belonging to the Quene 
 
 Castles Portumno to the Earle of Clanrickard 
 
 Balliloughreaghe, the Earle of Clanrickard's 
 
 chief Hous 
 Ouran belonging to him also 
 Letrim to the Earle's eldest Sone 
 Goorte 
 
 Dunlaghlen, to one of the Odallies k 
 Longfoord 
 
 Clonfert to the Bishop thereof. 
 Ballineslo to Capten Brabazon's Sone 
 The Castle of Teaquin belonging to one of the 
 
 O'Kellies 1 
 The Castle of Athenrie belonging to the Lord 
 Bremingham 
 
 inscription, ' Pray for the Soule of 
 Alderman Dominick Browne and his 
 Posterity, who dyed in 1576.' 'Here 
 lieth the Bodys of Richard Browne, 
 his son Matthew Browne and their 
 children — God rest their souls. Amen. 
 1635.' ' Moriertha O'Fiemagh, and his 
 wife Kate Kernanigonohiv, and his 
 brother Teig Og. An. 1580.' — Hardi- 
 man's Galway, p. 268. 
 
 k ' Donnall O'Daly, a gentleman, who 
 had command of a party of soldiers 
 on the English side, in 1589 fell fight- 
 ing against the Burkes of Tirawly.' — 
 Four Masters. In 1641 Lieutenant 
 Dermot O'D. with 3 companies of foot 
 and 30 musketeers defended the Castle 
 of Tirellan against the insurgents — a 
 brave officer, grandson of Dermot O'D. 
 
 of Lerra Co. Galway, gent, who in 1578 
 obtained from Elizabeth the lordship, 
 castles and lands of Lerra. — Hardi- 
 man's Galway, p. 112. 
 
 'Hy-Many or CKell/s country 
 comprises the baronies of Athlone and 
 Athcarnan in Roscommon, and of Tia- 
 quin, Kilconnell and Killian in Galway. 
 In 1585, Hugh O'K. of Lisdallon in 
 Roscommon, who was chief, renounced 
 the title of O'Kelly. His Tanist, 
 Teig M c William O'K. of Mullaghmore, 
 was chief in the baronies of Tiaquin 
 and Kilconnell ; and Teig's rival for 
 the Tanistship was Conor Og O'K., 
 of Killian barony. Under Teig was 
 O'Mannin of Mynloch (whose castle, 
 says O'Donovan, was lately destroyed 
 by lightning) ; under Conor was 
 
COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY. 
 
 135 
 
 Men of Name 
 
 The Castle of Donemone and Turlevaghan be- 
 longing to him also m 
 The Cabboyhe belonging to Frances Shayn 
 The Abbey of Kilconnell belonging to the 
 
 Ouene 
 The Earle of Clanrickard 11 his name is Burke 
 The L. Brymingham his name is Bremingham 
 Sir Hubert M c Davie° his name is Burke Mac- 
 koogh 
 
 O'Concannen of Kiltullagh. — Hy-Many 
 p. 18; far- Con., p. 320. 
 
 m ' Brymegham' 's Country, or Barony 
 of Donemore ; ' Ullick, earle of Clan- 
 rickard ; Edmond Brymidgham, lord 
 barron of Athenrie ; Tibbot boy M c Jo- 
 nen, of Tobberkeoghe ; Donyll O'Hig- 
 gin, of Killelona ; J. duffe Brymidgham, 
 of Feartemore ; R. Fowlle, of Fearte- 
 more ; W. Brymidgham, of Miltoun. 
 
 n The Baronie of Clare. 
 John Burke FitzThomas, and M c Crea- 
 mon, chiefe in the same. 
 
 Gents and Castles. 
 
 Therle of Clanricard, Clare ; Ullig 
 Keogh, Dromghriffin ; J. Lynch fitz- 
 William, Yowhule ; Tybbot Lyogh, 
 Loscananon ; M ac Walter, called Thomas 
 M c Henry, Ballendufife ; Moyler M c 
 Shean, Cloynebow ; Walter Fitz-Ab, 
 fitz-Ed., Masse ; N. Lynch, Anagh- 
 coyne ; H. fitz-Edmond, Leagkagh ; 
 M'Reamon, Cloghenwoyr ; Ullig M c 
 Reamon, Castle Hackett; Walter Burke, 
 JCilnemanegh j M c Walter's sept, Ca- 
 
 hermorise ; Moyler M c Reamon, Anagh- 
 kyne ; Wil. Grana M c Ric, Cloghran ; 
 Redmund M c Moyler M c Roe, Bealclar- 
 home ; Redmund M c Walter, Aghkyne; 
 Ullig M c Richard, Comor ; W. Gaynard, 
 Carigin; Meyler M c Rickard, Taw- 
 magh ; R. Burke, Corofifyny ; J. fitz- 
 Ambrose, Anbale ; Thomas Balue, 
 Qworanonyn; Th. Ballagh, Beallabean- 
 chere ; J. Burke fitz-Thomas, of Ballin- 
 dere, and of Deremaclaghlyn ; Murrogh 
 M'Swyne, Kyleskiegh ; Edmund Owh- 
 ny, Achrym ; Walter Boy, Grange ; J. 
 oge fitz-John fitz-Ed., Carnan ; R. 
 Burke fitz-Tho., Beallena ; Tirlagh 
 Caragh M c Swyne, Cahirnefieke ; Ffoxe's 
 castle. Cas, 33.' — Division of Con- 
 naught in 1586. Brit. Mus. See lar- 
 Con., p. 148. 
 
 o <M at Davy£s Countreye.' 
 'Sir Hubert Bourke M c Davie, of 
 Glenske, Knight ; Davie M c Edmond, 
 of Kilcroan ; Thomas M'Henrie, of 
 Ballyme ; R Betaghe, of the Cregg ; 
 Hobert buy M'Edmond, of the Moate; 
 Shane M c Ullick Bourke, of Rahenile, 
 
i3<5 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 The several Houses of the Burches p of Ley- 
 trim Of Clonrickard. 
 
 A great Sept of the O'Kellies 1 whereof are 
 manie Houses. 
 
 The Omaddens q 
 
 otherwise called M c Walter, chiefe of 
 his name Shane M c Ullicke, of Kil- 
 mogher, all having lands or holdings 
 within the barony of Bellamoe and 
 M ac Davie's Country by the east the 
 river of Succke in the countie of Ros- 
 common.' — lar-Con. 
 
 p ' There are more able men of the 
 surname of the Burkes than of any 
 name in Europe.' — Sir J. Davies, Car. 
 Cat. an. 1606, p. 465. 
 
 Country of Clanrickard. 
 
 Ulick, Earl of Clanrickard, the Lord 
 Baron of Leitrim ; R. Bourke, of Deny 
 M'Laghny, esquire ; Sherone M c 
 Knowge, of Killenedyaine, otherwise 
 M c Kowge ; Ullick Carraghe M'Hub- 
 bert, of the Dissharte, called M c Hub- 
 berte ; Hubbert M'Edmund, of Gort- 
 nemackin ; Johnesone, of Binmore ; 
 William Mostonne, of the Downe ; 
 Shannock M c William Roe, of the 
 Naile, called MacWilliam Roe ; Walter 
 Wall, of Droghtye, chiefe of his name ; 
 Redmond Dolphine, of Rarroddy, 
 chiefe of his name ; H. M c Swine, of 
 Cloghervanae ; O. M c Swine, Kiltul- 
 lage ; Oene Mantagh O'Heine, of 
 Downgorye, called O'Heine ; Connor 
 Crone O'Heine, taneste to the said 
 O'Hiene; Hubbert boy Bourk M c 
 
 Redmond, otherwise M ac Edmond ; 
 D. O'Shaghnes, of Gortynchgory ; J. 
 O'Shaghnes, of Ardmollyvan, compet- 
 tytors for the name O'Shaghnes ; N. 
 Follane, of the Newtone ; E. M c Ullick 
 Bourke, of Ballily ; R. M c William, of 
 Rahale; Shane Oge Bourke, of Man- 
 nyne ; Brian ReoghM c Kilkelly, of 
 Cloghballymore. — far-Con., p. 323. 
 
 q O Madden" s Country. 
 
 'Donyll O'Madde, of Longford, 
 otherwise called O'Madden ; Owen 
 Balluff O'M., of Lusmagh ; Cogh O'M. 
 of Killyan ; Edmond M c Downy, of 
 Rathmore ; Donyll M'Brasill, of Dry- 
 owen ; Cathall Carragh O'Madden 
 . . . having lands and holdings within 
 the barony of Longford, otherwise 
 called Syllanmuighie.' — lar-Con. p. 32 1. 
 
 In 1596, when the Deputy sum- 
 moned O'Madden's Castle, Cloghan, 
 to surrender, the ward answered that 
 if all his soldiers were Deputies they 
 would not yield, and about 186 
 persons were killed in the Castle, or 
 around it. Among them were these 
 chiefe men — O'Madden, of Cor- 
 glogher ; O'M., of Kineghan; two 
 O'M., of Tomaligh ; two O'M., of 
 Clare Madden; O'M., of Clare. 
 In 1602 O'M. attacked O'Sullevan 
 
0'Shaghnes r 
 Frances Shaen. 
 
 COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY. 
 
 Oflagherties 5 
 Thomas Dillon, Justice of Conaught. 
 
 o/ 
 
 Beare, who was marching through 
 O'Madden's country to the north. In 
 1611 Donnell O'M., of Longford, Co. 
 of Galway, 'captain of his nation,' left 
 his manor and castle of Longford, etc., 
 to his son. — Hy-Many, p. 150. 
 
 ' Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy of Gort- 
 Inchigory ; 'he used to have 280 reap- 
 ers in harvest ; ' his fourth son, Sir 
 Dermot, d. in 1606, seized of the ter- 
 ritory of Kinalea, or O'Shaughnessy's 
 country, which he left to his heir Gilli- 
 duffe O'S. — Hy-Fiacrach, p. 379. 
 
 ' A rich and noble family.' — Des- 
 cription of Connaught in 1 6 1 2. 
 
 5 ' The barony of Ballenehence, con- 
 taining the ii Conymares, viii myles 
 long and vi broad ; Murrogh ne doo 
 O'Flarty, chief in the same. 
 
 Gentlemen, and their Castles, viz. : — 
 
 Donnell Ecowga, Ballenehense ; Ed- 
 mund Oflartie, Kyllindowne ; Edmund 
 M c Hugh, A new Castle ; Ochaghy, of 
 Lettermellan ; Donell Ecowga, Bono- 
 wyn ; Tege ne Buly, of Arddearee ; 
 Miles M c Tibbot, Reynivylie ; Castles, 
 7 — Division of Connaught in 1586 ; 
 far-Con., p. 93. 
 
 'The Country of the O'Fflahertyes 
 called Eyre-Conaght in 1585, S r Morogh 
 ne doe of Aghnenure, otherwise called 
 O'Fflahertie; Donell Crone O'F., of 
 the Cnocke, competitor for the name 
 
 of O'Fflahertie ; Teig ne Boolye (na 
 buile), of the Arde, otherwise called 
 O'Fflahertie of both Con o Marrice ; 
 Owine fitz-Donyell Coghie O'F., of 
 Bonowen ; Moroghe O'F., of the sam ; 
 Roger O'F, of Moycullen ; Danyell 
 M c Rory O'F. of the Ovvre ; Rory O'F. 
 and Danyell, his brother, sonnes to 
 Moroghe ne Mooe ; MThomas ; M c 
 Connor ; O'Halloran ; M c Cahill Boy 
 M c Donoghe; and M c Enry ; Lynche, of 
 the Ballaghe; Browne, of Beamy; Mar- 
 tyne, of Gortetleva ; Martyne, of Bally- 
 erter; Linche, of the Dengine; Marcus 
 Linch fitz-Nichollas, of Furboghe ; and 
 Patrick ffrence, of Curcholline. 
 
 'The barony of Muckullen, in 1586, 
 Murrogh ne doe, chief. 
 
 Gentlemen and Castles (20) viz.: — 
 
 Rory O'Flahairte, of Muykullen ; Mur- 
 rogh ne doe, of Nowghe, and of Ach- 
 neuir (Aghnenure) ; T. Colman, of 
 Mynlagh (Menlo); Jonick O'Halorane, 
 O'hery ; O. O'Halorane, Bearne (Bar- 
 na) ; D. Lynche, Tyrellan ; R. Skeret, 
 Short Castle (Castlegar) ; Donell oge 
 O'Hologhan, Qwarown Brown (Car- 
 robrown) ; W m - and Redmond M C W°- 
 Ffiegh, Kellyn; Redmond MThomas, 
 Ballymuritty ; Redmond Reogh, Bal- 
 lindully ; Richard Beg, Cloynecanyn ; 
 Darby Augny, Lysacowly ; J. Blake 
 fitz-Ricard, Kiltullagh ; J. Blake fitz- 
 
 s 
 
138 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The 3 Hands of Arien' are in this Countie within a Ken- 
 ninge of the Towne of Galloway. 
 
 This Countie is in a manner unpeopled by reason of the 
 Spoyles committed in the last Rebellion, partlie by the rebell 
 and partlie by the Souldier, and the great famine that followed 
 thereupon, which hath so wasted this countie that scarce the 
 
 Ricard, Kiltorogh ; Thomas Blake, 
 Ballemicro ; Thomas and John Blake, 
 Turlagh ne sheamon ; Muriertagh 
 O'Conor, Tullekyhan ; M. Lynch, 
 New Castle.'— far-Con. pp. 252 & 311. 
 
 O'Flaherty, of the Castle of Moy- 
 cullen, d. in 1599, and was succeeded 
 by his son Hugh, who was the last 
 chief of his name, and d. in 1631, 
 leaving a son, aged two years, who be- 
 came the famous Irish Antiquary. A 
 considerable part of the Castle of Agh- 
 nenure still remains. 
 
 'The barony of Ross or Joyce's 
 country contains the Joyes, Walshes, 
 Partrish (Partry) lands ; M'Thomas 
 and MTybod chief in the same. 
 
 Gaits, and their Castles, viz. : — 
 MacThomas, Castlekirke; Murrogh 
 ne dow, Ballynonagh; M c Envile, Ballen- 
 esleo; Albe M c En vile, Cloynlaghell ; 
 R. M'Moyler Joy, Castlenew.' Titus 
 B. xiii. fo. 399. — Division of Connaught 
 in 1586. 
 
 1 In 1588 the Mayor and citizens of 
 Galway petitioned Elizabeth in favour 
 of Morogh MTurlogh O'Brien, and 
 said that ' he and his ancestors under 
 the name of M c Teig O'Brien, of Arran, 
 were captains or lords of the Islands of 
 
 Arran, until of late he was expulsed by 
 the usurping power of the O'Flaherties.' 
 In 1575 Morchow MTirrelagh M c 
 Donill, chiefe of his nacion, called 
 Clanteige, of Arran, claimed the an- 
 cient custom of connow and meales 
 due to him and his ancestors, i.e., for 
 two days and nights in Galway. The 
 ' Gentlemen of the isles in 1575 were, 
 besides this captain, Eturgh, Morowe, 
 M'Morchowe, Meeagh, MTirrelagh, 
 M'Morchowe, MTirrelagh Oge, and 
 M c Brene.' This clan descended from 
 Brian Boromhe. — See Bardimans Gat- 
 way, pp. 207 and 52. 
 
 Teig an t-sleive (of the mountain) 
 O'Fahy and 8 gentlemen of the name 
 had fee-simple property in the barony 
 of Loughrea in 16 17. There were the 
 O'Lynes, of Ballinvoggan, Lisnagree, 
 and Lehergen, in the bar. of Kilconnell, 
 they were proprietors of handsome 
 estates, and looked on themselves as 
 Firbolgs. E. O'Horan, of Carrowan- 
 meanagh ; R. O'Horan, of Carrowan- 
 clogha, on which stood a castle ; and 
 others of the name in the bar. of 
 Leitrim. In the bar. of Dunmore, the 
 Lallys, of Tullaghnadaly, Ballynaba- 
 naby, and Lisbally, paid chief rent to 
 Lord Bermingham ; from the Lallys of 
 
COUNTIE OF GALLOWAY. 
 
 139 
 
 hundereth men or Hous is to be found now that was Several 
 years ago. There is in Rebellion some of the Kellies and 
 Burkes" and Omaddens, and in a sort all the Countie saving 
 the Towne of Galloway and the Earle of Clanrickard and some 
 of his Friends. 
 
 Tullaghnadaly descend the Counts 
 Lally, of France. 
 
 In the bar. of Leitrim, M c Cnavin, of 
 Cranog MacCnaivin 3 the head of the 
 Clan, Hugo M c Nevin, alias M c Kelly, 
 having joined the insurgents, was 
 hanged in 1602 ; there were 8 other 
 gentlemen of the name ; the last sup- 
 posed head of the clan was D r M c Nevin, 
 of 1798 celebrity. — Hy- Many pp. 36, 
 28, 88, 182, 68. 
 
 John Donelan, son of the Protestant 
 Archbishop of Tuam, lived at Bally- 
 donelan. John's brother became Lord 
 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; 
 and his grandson, John, erected the 
 stone cross of Kilconnell, which is said 
 by the country people to bow when a 
 Donelan is taken by it to the grave ; it 
 bears the inscription — ' Orate pro D. 
 Johanne Donelano, ejusque familia, qui 
 hanc crucem erigi fecit a.d. 1682.' — 
 Hy-Many, p. 172. 
 
 In 1594 Dermoid Duff O'Halloran, 
 gent, of Bearna, for a certain sum of 
 money, 'dedit, concessit, barganizavit 
 to Edmund Halloran, Merchant, of 
 Galway, all his maneria, dcminia, cas- 
 tra, etc., of Rinemoyly,' etc. In the 
 same year John O'Halloran, of Gal- 
 way, 'piscator,' gave to A. Martin, 
 merchant, omnia manerium, castrum, 
 
 etc. . . . boscos, suboscos . . . montium 
 ... in villis, campis, et hamletis de 
 Rynvile. — far-Con. p. 255. 
 
 In the bar. of Kilconnell were Brian 
 M c Cooleghan, of BallyM'Couleghan, 
 and seven other proprietors of that 
 name. In the bar. of Clanmacnowen 
 O'Coffey owned 4 cartrons of land. — 
 Hy-Many, p. 184, 84. 
 
 In the bar. of Kiltartan, and chiefly 
 in the parish of Dawros Kinvara, there 
 were 13 persons of the name O'Heyne 
 in 1641. The Four Masters record 
 the death of O'Heyne, of Lydegan, 
 in 1594; he left a son, Hugh Buy 
 O'H. There was a Knougher Crone 
 O'Heyne, of Ledygan, gent., 100 years 
 old and upwards in 161 5, and O'Heyne, 
 of Killaveragh, aged 80. — Hy-Fiach- 
 rach, p. 378 and 405. 
 
 "In 1599 the sons of Redmond Na 
 Skoab,uncle to the Earl of Clanrickard, 
 300 f. ; in Sillanchie, four sons of 
 Owen O'Madden, who was lately killed 
 in action, 50 f. ; in Iar-Connaught the 
 Joyes, M c Donoghe, and the Flaherties, 
 140 f. In 1598 John Burke, 'Baron 
 of Leitrim,' led some hundreds of 
 O'Neil's soldiers, fighting through Con- 
 naught, Leinster and Munster. — Car, 
 Cal., p. 300 ; and Four Masters. 
 
140 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF MAYO. 
 
 This Countie a contayneth all the Land of M c William Euter, b 
 and the Lands of the Omaylies, c Clandonels, d M c Morice, 
 M c Jordan, M c Custologhe and the [ ] ; this Countie 
 
 hath in the Sea certain Hands both Fertile and most comodious 
 
 * In 1574 the chiefs of the baronies 
 were M c Moris in Crossbwyhin, M c Moris' 
 Country; in Kilvean Wm. Burk Fitz- 
 John, E. Burke Vaghery, and the Clan 
 Jonyns ; O'Maley in Murisk ; Richard 
 en-Iren in Burres ; M c Vadin in Kuner- 
 more (Envyremore) ; John M c 01iverus 
 or M c William, and M c Vadin called 
 Baron Barret, in Many (Moyne) ; 
 M c William Burk, and MThilipin in 
 Burrisker; M c Jordan or Baron D'Exeter 
 in Beallalahane ; M c Costello othenvise 
 Baron Nangle in Beallahaunes. — Car. 
 Cal. 1601-1603, p. 474 and 450. 
 
 In 1587 ' M c Costello his country' 
 was inhabited by Sir Theobald Dillon 
 and his tenants. — far-Con. p. 340. 
 
 Sir Theobald m. a daughter of Tuite 
 of Tuitestown ; he saw assembled at 
 one time in his house of Killenfaghny 
 above one hundred of his descendants. 
 — Lodge. 
 
 b ' I found M c William verie sencible, 
 though wantinge the English tongue, 
 yet understanding the Latin. . . . 
 Surely, my Lords, MacWilliam is well 
 wonne, for he is a great man ; his Land 
 lyeth along the West North West Coast 
 wherein he hath manie goodlie Havens, 
 and is Lord of a Territorie of three times 
 
 as moche Land as the Earl of Clan- 
 ricarde is. 
 
 'O'Maylle came likewise with him, 
 who is strong in galleys and seamen. 
 
 'AlsoMacPhatenorBarrett,MacIvyle 
 Staunton, Macjordan or Dexter, Mac 
 Custelo or Nangle, MacMorris or Pren- 
 dergast . . . all five have been Englishe, 
 which everye man confesseth, but also 
 Lordsand Barons in Parliament, as they 
 theim selves affirme,and surely they have 
 lands sufficient for Barons, if they might 
 weeld their owne quietlye. But so base 
 and Barbarous Barons are they now, that 
 they have not three hackneyes to carry 
 them and their train home. There 
 were with me many more of lower 
 degree and no deeper of wealth, as the 
 Chiefe of Clanandros and Mac 
 Thomyn ; both they, and many more 
 Barretts, Cusacks, Lynches (Lynottes), 
 and of sundrie English surnames now 
 degenerate.' — Sir H. Sydney, in 1576. 
 
 c By inquisition taken a.d. 1607, it 
 appeared, that Owen O'Maly, chief of 
 his name and nation, and his ancestors, 
 had chief rents, of barley, butter, and 
 money, out of several lands within the 
 barony of Murrisk ; that he was seised 
 of the Castle of Cahir-na-mart (now 
 
COUNTIE OF MAYO. 
 
 141 
 
 for Shipping, for which purpose both Inglyshe and Strangers had 
 Intercourse there. It hath the Ocean to the West and North, 
 the Counties of Sligo and Roscommon to the East and the 
 Countie of Galloway to the South. 
 
 The most part of this Countie is possessed by the Burkes, c 
 whose Capten they commonlie call M c William. They are many 
 of the name and Stoute men able to make in tymes past before 
 the Warr consumed many of them 1 500, the rest of the Countrie 
 is inhabitted by the M c Jordans, M c Custulaghes, and the rest above 
 Specified, who be dependers upon M c William, and in a manner 
 
 Westport), the castle and island of 
 Cairo wmore, etc., in right of tanistry; 
 and that he, as chief, ought to have, as 
 his ancestors had 'all fines for blood- 
 shed, all skins of animals killed, or to 
 be killed, within that barony.' — Iar- 
 Con. p. 58. 
 
 'The O'Mallies and O'Flaherties pur- 
 posed with 600 men, whom they had 
 gathered, to invade Kerry.' — Carew to 
 Privy Council, May 2, 1601. — Car. Cal. 
 The O'Mallies are celebrated in several 
 Irish poems as expert seamen, as the 
 sea-gods of the West. Graine O'M., 
 mother of Tibbot ne long, first Viscount 
 Mayo, was renowned for her bravery at 
 sea. The O'M. were chiefs of the two 
 Ualls, i.e. baronies of Murrisk and 
 Borrishoole. O'Dugan says, ' A good 
 man there never was of the O'Malleys, 
 but he was a seaman.' 
 
 d The Lord Deputy wrote to the 
 Council in 1576 — ' Out of the Countye 
 of Maio came to me to Galway first 
 seven principall men of the Clandonnells, 
 for everye of their seven Linagies one, 
 
 of that surname, inhabiting that Countye, 
 all by profession mercenarie soldiers by 
 the name of Galloglas ; they are very 
 stronge, and moche of the wealth of the 
 countrie is under them ; they are able 
 to go where they will, and with the 
 countenaunce of any meane Lorde of 
 Force, to make Warre with the Greatest. 
 I won MacWilliam Ewghter's chief force 
 from him in getting these Clandonnells.' 
 
 * The Burkes of Mayo were 'noble of 
 mind and of good courage,' and with 
 the O'Flaherties were considered ' the 
 greatest nation, and possessing the 
 strongest country of any people in 
 Ireland ; ' and were joined with the 
 O'Rorkes and O'Connors — forming a 
 league of the 'proudest, wildest, and 
 fiercest clans.' — L. Deputy to Walshing- 
 ham in 1589. 
 
 In 1586 the Bourks, very badd and 
 loose people, very hardlye continued 
 themselves two years together within 
 compass of obdyence. The sons of 
 Edmund Bourk of Castlebar were seven 
 in number ; he was an oulde man, a 
 
142 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 his Vassals. They are whollie out in Rebellion saving one 
 principall man called Tibbotnelong/ 
 
 There are no Townes in this Countie of any importance, but 
 
 competitor for the MacWilliamshippe, 
 a most badd member to the state, and 
 his wife as bad as himself. — Docwra's 
 Narrative, p. 214. 
 
 'There are more able men of the 
 surname of Bourke than of any name 
 wheresoever in Europe.' — Sir J. Davis 
 in 1606. — Car. CaL, p. 465. 
 
 In 1589 the Lower Burkes of Tirawly 
 went on their defence, beat the English 
 and Irish under Brown at Bealach and 
 Diothruibh, slaying Brown, Donnell 
 O'Daly an officer, and Redmond oge 
 Burke of Benmore Castle, Galway ; 
 then they were joined by the sliocht of 
 Oliverus Fitzjohn Burke of Tirawly, 
 by the Clan Donnell Galloglach, etc. ; 
 they ravaged Connaught by day and 
 night during the spring. 
 
 In 1595 Tiboid Burk (son of Walter 
 Kittagh son of John, son of Oliver, son 
 of John) laidseige to Belleek Castle 
 near Ballina, took it, beat and pursued 
 Captains Bingham, Foal, Mensi and 
 Tuite (son of W" 1 Boy Tuite) slaying 
 Foal, Mensi and Tuite. Then, as Clan 
 William Burk were at variance concern- 
 ing the Lordship of the territory, 
 O'Donnell nominated Tiboid chief in 
 presence of the forces of O'Donnell and 
 Clanwilliam. 
 
 In 1 601 Walter (son of the late M c 
 William Burke) was shot in a battle 
 near Ennis. Up to the spring of this 
 year Lord M'William and Tibot-na- 
 
 Long were at peace, but then the 
 descendants of Ulick and Tibot-na- 
 Long chose as M'William, Rickard 
 Burke, the son of Deamhan an Chor- 
 rain (' Daemonis Falcati Alius ' says 
 O'SuIlivan, or, as Docwra puts it, ' the 
 Devil's Hook son'). But O'Donnell's 
 M c William at Michaelmas got help from 
 him, came back, beat his rival, and the 
 sliocht Ulick Burke and Tibbot-na- 
 Long, in a fierce battle, in which they 
 were mindful of their ancient grudges 
 and recent enmities, and in which 
 Rickard was slain. — Four Masters. 
 
 This Tiboid, the last M c William, 
 retired to Spain, where his son Tiboid 
 was made Marquess of Mayo ; he had 
 seven brothers — Oliver of Iniscoe ; 
 Ulick Ruadh of Crossmolina; John an 
 i-sleibhe (of the Mountain); William 
 Fada (the Tall) of Castlelacken . . . 
 Lodge. — ' Viscount Mayo.' 
 
 ' M c William was in action with 600 
 foot and 60 horse. Tibbot na Long, 
 ' of the ship,' so called because he was 
 born at sea, was son of Sir Richard an 
 Iarain (of the iron) and the famous 
 Graine ni Maille, dau. of Owen 
 O'Malley of the Owles. His brothers 
 Walter and Edmond were slain by the 
 English. He defeated and hanged his 
 brother-in-law, O'Connor, whowas going 
 to join the English interest ; in 1599 he 
 with his followers maintained 600 f. and 
 60 horse against Elizabeth ; at the 
 
COUNTIE OF MAYO. 
 
 H; 
 
 many good Havens and fayre Castles belonging to the Gentle- 
 men before named, whereof the chief is Castlebury Ardenery 
 Belike, and the Castle of | ] belonging to the 
 
 Earle of Ormond 
 
 battle of Kinsale he fought on the 
 English side; got, with his step-brothers 
 Morogh and Donall Ikeggie O'Flaherty, 
 a re-grant of his lands, was member for 
 Mayo in 1613, became Viscount Mayo 
 in 1626. He married a dau. of O'Con- 
 nor Sligo. He had 4 sons — Miles, 
 David, Tibot Jtivcagh (the strong) of 
 Cloghans, and Rickard (called Iron 
 Dick). His daughers were mar. to 
 O'Conor Dun, O'Flaherty of Aghna- 
 murra, Burke of Castlehacket, and 
 Burke of Turlogh. — Lodge. — 'Viscount 
 Mayo.' 
 
 In 1597 he undertook with the aid of 
 her Majesty's forces to banish Tibbot 
 M c \Valter, the now M c William ; for re- 
 ward to have M'William's lands, and in 
 lieu of the name of M c William to have 
 a title, etc. 
 
 In 1597, the people of Mayo (except 
 W°- Boork of Shroul, his son Oliverus 
 M c Shane, and his brother Edmond, 
 W m - Boork FitzRichard who fled into 
 Munster, and M c Morrice) in number 
 1500 men in action. Tibbot ne Long 
 with the Devil's Hook and others had 
 put in pledges. MacWilliam is in 
 action, in July last lost 200 of his men; 
 at his late coming his brother Thomas, 
 equal in mischief to himself, was slain, 
 and one of the chief commanders of 
 the Clandonnels, with 30 or 40 of his 
 
 men — their heads sent to me by Tibbot 
 ne Long. M'William's forces, with 400 
 out of O'Donnel's country amount to 
 700. — Car. Cal., year 1597, p 265, 
 270. 
 
 The chief men in 1585 were — Sir 
 Richard Bourke of the Newton, 
 knight, otherwise called M c William 
 Eughter — Walter Kettagh Bourke of 
 Bealycke and Crossmalyene — Bourke 
 of Ardnery — E. Bourk M c 01iver of 
 Ropa — Barret of Ross, otherwise called 
 M c Padin, chief of his name — Barret of 
 Ballasseekery — Myly M c Evily of Ken- 
 turk, otherwise called M'Evily, chiefe of 
 his name — Bourke of Castlebar, tanest 
 to the said M c William Eyghter — Bourke 
 of Ballenecarrae, otherwyse called the 
 blinde abbote — Moyler B. of Castle 
 M c Kerra — Tybbott Reoghe Bourke of 
 Boherfayne — Evagher M c Jordan of 
 Bellalahen, otherwise called M c Jordan, 
 chief lord of the barony of Bellalahan or 
 Gallen — Moyller M c Jurdan of the New- 
 castell — Walter Leaghe M c Stevane 
 of Corran M c Stephane — Jordan M c 
 Thomas of Ballahaghe — R. M c Moryse 
 of the Bryse, otherwise called M c Mory- 
 she, chiefe of his name — M c Moryshe of 
 Castell M'Geralte — Walter M c Erydry 
 of Castell-Reoghe — William Bourke of 
 Shrowell — Bourke of Conge — R. oge 
 Bourke of Cloynecashell — Molaghlyne 
 
i44 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF SLIGO. 
 
 Sligo* contayneth all the Lands betweene the River of 
 Earne and the plaine of Conaught by the Skirts of the Moun- 
 tains of Ballibyan and Curleges to the river of the Boyle in 
 M c Dermots Countrie and from thence North west by the River 
 of Moyne which divideth the Countie of Maio from the Countie 
 of Sligo. So hath it the River of Earne to the East, Maio to 
 the West, the Sea to the North, and the Countie of Roscomon to 
 the South. 
 
 O'Mayle of Belclare, otherwise called 
 O'Mayle, chiefe of his name — Teige roe 
 O'Mayle of Cahairenemart — Ouan 
 O'Mayle of the same — Dermot M c Arte 
 of Clare— Gilleduffe M c Gibbon of Bally- 
 nekellye — R. oge M c Gibbon of Glan- 
 kyne — Sherrone M c Gibbon of Lackane 
 — fitz Symons of Dunmacknynye — 
 Walter MThillipyne of Brehe, other- 
 wise called MThillypyne, chiefe of his 
 name — Ferraghe M c Tirrlage roe of 
 Carrickmadye — E. oge M'Gibbon of 
 Derrymacgornan — W. Bourke of Tor- 
 rane — R. oge M'Tomyne of Ballicroen 
 — Barret of Dowlaghe — J. Browne of 
 the Neyle — Barret of Kyrenan — Caree 
 of Downmacknyny. — Iar-Connaught, 
 P- 33 1 to 338. 
 
 a ' It hath of auncyent or new Eng- 
 lish none ; off Irishie — O'ConnorSligoe, 
 the M c Donoghes, the O'Dowdes, the 
 O'Haraes, the O'Hartes, some of the 
 M'Swynes and others.' — Description of 
 Connaught in Arckaol, vol. 27. The 
 Lord Deputy reported in 1576 that 
 O'Connor ' hath under his Tyranny 
 
 O'Dowd, two M c Donoghes, two 
 O'Hares and Agare, and yet he himself 
 trybutarie to O'Donnell. They be all 
 men of great lands, the countye is well 
 inhabited, and ritche and more haunted 
 with strangers than I wish it were.' — 
 See Iar-Con. p. 300. 
 
 ' The lords and chieftains in the year 
 1586 were — Sir Donyll O'Connor of 
 Sligo, knight ; Pheolyme O'Harte of 
 Ardtarmon, otherwise called O'Hart, 
 chief of his name; O'Connor of 
 the Grawndge ; Edmond O'Dowey 
 (O'Dowda) of Killglasse, otherwise 
 called O'Dowey, chief of his name ; 
 Hubert Albenaghe of Rathly ; Breene 
 M'Swyne of Ardneglas ; Dowdy of 
 Castle-Connor ; Cormocke O'Harry 
 (O'Hara) of Cowlany, otherwise called 
 O'Harey buy, chief of his name; 
 Ferral O'Harry of Ballinefennock, other- 
 wise called O'Harry reoghe, chief of 
 his name; O'Harry of Tulwy; 
 O'Harey of Cowlany; Ferrdorraghe 
 MTJonoghe of Cowlea, otherwise 
 called M'Donoughe Tyrreryll, chief of 
 
COUNTIE OF SLIGO. 
 
 145 
 
 It hath in it no Towne but Sligo, a Sea towne with a 
 Haven, which the Castle Shot. 
 Principall \ Sligo belonging to the Quene. 
 Castles ) Baller b belonging also to the quene. 
 
 belonging to O'Donnell who claimeth a 
 chief rent of ^240 per Annum out of 
 O'Connor Sligoes Country. 
 
 It is 
 
 Bondrois 
 Belike 
 
 The chief L. of this Countie is O'Connor Sligoe. c 
 
 his name ; M c Donogh of Ballyndowne; 
 IVPDonogh of Cowlwonye ; M c Donoghe 
 of Clonemahyne ; Cene M c Hughe of 
 Bryckleawe ; Croftone of Ballymote ; 
 Goodman of Taghtample ; Manus 
 Reoghe of Rathmollyne ; Manus 
 M'Teig buy of Lysconnowe ; Mac 
 Swyne of Loughtnevynaghe ; Uryel 
 Garrey of Moye, otherwise called 
 O'garry, chief of his name ; Rory 
 O'Garry of Kearrowercogh ; Manus 
 M c Bryene Reoghe of Levally. . . . Sir 
 Donill O'Connor shall have the castles 
 of Sligo in the barony of Carbry, and 
 Meynlagh in the bar. of Magherylenye, 
 etc. In the bar. of Corran Carmac 
 O'Harry Buy shall have his castle of 
 Cowlany, Ferragh Carragh O'Harry 
 reogh his castle of Ballinefenock or 
 Ballyharry; Hugh M c Donoghe shall 
 have land in the bar. of Corran remov- 
 ing from Ballymote ; in the bar. of 
 Tirrerel Ferdoragh M'Donogh of Cow- 
 lea, and M'Donogh of Cowlwony 
 Castle ; in the bar. of Tirrereagh 
 Edmond O'Dowd his castle of Kyl- 
 glasse, his cousin and heir apparent 
 Davy O'Dowd of Castle Connor ; 
 Urrel O'Garry his castle of Moygarry, 
 
 John O'Crean his house or town of 
 Ballynegare. — lar-Connaught, p. 340 to 
 
 345- 
 
 b Ballymote had belonged to the Queen 
 for the space of thirteen years, but in 
 the summer of 1598 it was taken by its 
 rightful inheritors the Clan Donogh of 
 Corran, namely, Tomaltach and Cathal 
 Dubh M'Donough. In autumn they 
 sold the castle to O'Donnell for ^400 
 and 300 cows. — Four Masters, p. 2076. 
 Maurice M c Donogh of Tirerill was 
 slain in Breifney-O'Rorke in 1598 as 
 he was carrying off a prey, and then 
 Conor M'Donogh of Ballindoon was 
 appointed MacDonogh. — Four Masters. 
 c ' Donogh O'Conor Sligo, after his 
 return from England in 1596, proceeded 
 on behalf of the English to reduce 
 Connaught; was joined by the Clan 
 Donough of Collooney, and had Bally- 
 mote in his power. The O'Harts also 
 adhered to him, for they had always 
 been faithful to the man who held his 
 place ; and they began to threaten the 
 Kinel-Connell. But O'Donnell plun- 
 dered their territory; and in February 
 1597, he defeated O'Conor Sligo who 
 had mustered an army of English and 
 
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146 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 most inhabitted by men of his name, and few Vassals the chief 
 whereof is called Odood. d This Countrie is in a manner Subject 
 to the Quene, yet are Rebells but against their Will, for their 
 chief L. O'Connor being in Suite for the Lordship of Sligo in 
 England 7 years and the Rebellion beginning long before he 
 
 Irish and was marching on Sligo.' How- 
 ever in that year O'C. Sligo with the 
 help of his brother-in-law, Tibbot na- 
 Long, twice beat M c William out of 
 Mayo, and soon after, having joined 
 Tibbot and Sir Conyers Clifford, he was 
 severely wounded in a smart skirmish 
 with O'Donnell's cavalry. Towards 
 the end of the year he went to 
 England and remained there to the end 
 of 1598. He went with Essex on his 
 hosting through Munster, then joined 
 Clifford in Connaught, reached Col- 
 looney Castle (belonging to M c Donogh 
 of Tirerrill) the only castle which held 
 out for O'Conor Sligo. It was deemed 
 impregnable ; O'Donnell besieged him ; 
 Clifford going to his relief with 1900 foot 
 and 200 horsewas beaten by O'Donnell, 
 and lost his life in August 1599. 
 O'Conor Sligo submitted and was 
 reinstated in his territory by O'Donnell, 
 and got from him ' a countless deal of 
 cows, horses, etc., of corn and other 
 necessaries to replant and inhabit his 
 territory, after it had been a wilderness.' 
 In 1600 he joined O'Donnell in his 
 invasion of Gal way and Clare ; in 1601 
 for dealings with the enemy O'Donnell 
 imprisoned him in Lough Esk. 
 Donogh's brother, Dermot O'Conor 
 was a distinguished captain of Con- 
 
 naught buonaghes serving in Munster 
 in 1600 with 1400 men, and 'knoweth 
 not better how to spend his time than 
 to be resident where he gaineth so 
 much ; is grown to such reputation 
 that he could bring 2000 more, were the 
 Munster chiefs able to give them con- 
 tent' Dermod took O'Sullevan More 
 prisoner out of Munster ; he himself 
 was soon after, while going to join the 
 English, attacked near Gort and hanged 
 by Tibbot na-Long. — Four Masters and 
 Car. CaL, p. 401, 491. 
 
 Dermot had married the sister of 
 Elizabeth's Earl of Desmond. 
 
 d 'O'Dowda of Tireragh (Dathi son of 
 Teig) was slain by one of the queen's 
 soldiers in one of his own castles in 
 Tireragh of the Moy; his brother Teig 
 Buy was made O'Dowda by O'Donnell 
 in 1595 — they were 7 brothers. Dathi 
 had mar. Miss Lyons, who became suc- 
 cessively wife of O'Dowda, of Sir L. 
 Ghest, of W m - May and of FitzMorrice 
 FitzGerald. Her son Dathi O'Dowda 
 was ordered to be brought up in the 
 English religion and habits by Lionel 
 Ghest. Sir R. Musgrave, in his narra- 
 tive of the Irish rebellions, states, that 
 this family counted 25 castles on their 
 lands, " and they have a burying place 
 appropriated to them in the Abbey of 
 
COUNT1E OF LEYTRIM. 
 
 147 
 
 cou'd end his Suite, O'Donnell tooke the best of the Countrie 
 Prisoners and to this day detaineth them, and thereby con- 
 streyneth their followers to obey him at his pleasure, all the 
 foresaid Castles be in O'Donnell's hand savinsf Slieo which was 
 demolished by O'Donell 4 years ago, and since not re-edified. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF LEYTRIM. 
 
 This Countie was erected by Sir John Perrott, 3 beino- 
 before a parcell of the Countie of Sligo; it contayneth all 
 O'Rorkes Countrie b called Breany Ororke also part of 
 
 Moyne, where may be seen the gigantic 
 bones of some of them, who have been 
 very remarkable for their great stature, 
 as one of them exceeded seven feet in 
 height." Mac Firbis was hereditary his- 
 torian to O'Dowd, held the rod over 
 O'Dowd at his inauguration, and drank 
 at the banquet even before the acknow- 
 ledged senior of the race. Ciothruadh 
 and James M c Firbis and their cousin 
 John Oge built the Castle of Lecan in 
 Tireragh in 1560. Ciothruadh had a 
 son Ferfeasa. In 1672 Duald M c Firbis, 
 the last of these hereditary antiquaries 
 of Lecan, was murdered.' — Hy-Fiach- 
 rach, p. 407. 
 
 a 'An Indenture was made in 1585 
 betwixte Perrotte, Lord Deputy Gene- 
 rail of Ireland, for and on the behaulfe 
 of the Queene's most excellent Majesty 
 of the one partye, and John, bishop of 
 Kilmore — Lysaghe, bishop of Ardaghe 
 
 — SirBriane O'Royrke of Dromahire,knt. 
 — Cahall M c Connor — Carragh Magran- 
 nyll of Inishmurryne, otherwise called 
 Magrannell of Moynishe, chiefe of his 
 name — Tirlaghe M c Molaghline oge 
 Magrannyll of Dromarde, otherwise 
 called Magrannyle of Clonmologhlyne, 
 chief of his name — Tyrelaghe Magaw- 
 ryne of the Largine, chief of his name — 
 Teige oge Maglanchie of Rossclogher, 
 chief of his name — Owyne M c Phelline 
 O'Royrke of the Garre — Rory M c Enawe 
 of Inyshimylerye, chiefe of his name — 
 Melaghlyne M c Owyne M c Murrye of 
 Loghmoyltagher — Farrell M c Ternan of 
 Cloyloghe — Bryan M c Loghlyne of the 
 Fayhee — Phelyne Glasse of Clon- 
 corycke — Wonye MacSheane O'Royrke 
 of Lloghnecouhye, and Tyernane 
 O'Royrke of Dromahyre of the other 
 parte. 
 
 b ' Wytnesseth, that wheare the whole 
 
148 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 M c Gwyres, and lying upon the West part of Lough Earne and 
 the Countie of Moynterrolis bordering upon the Countie of 
 Longford and M c Slenayes d Country near Bundras So as Leytrim 
 hath the Countie of Sligo to the North the Sheynen to the West 
 and South-West, the Countie of Longford South and part of the 
 Countie of Cavan to the East. It hath neither Townes nor Castles 
 of importance but such as be raised saving the Castle of Leytrim. 
 This O'Rorke 6 is the base Sone of the last Ororke appre- 
 hended in Scotland and Executed in Ingland who ever since his 
 
 territory called O'Royrk's country, com- 
 prehendeth Breny O'Royrke, both the 
 Moynteroly es, the Largan, Cowleovlyne, 
 Kinaloghane and the Dartry.' — lar- 
 Connacht, p. 346. 
 
 c ' M c Guynies landes lyinge.' — Dym. 
 
 d ' MacGlanes Cuntrie lyinge on Bon- 
 droies.' — Dymmock, p. 20. 
 
 e This O' Rourke was Brian-na-Samh- 
 thach, or Brian Oge. In T590 he 
 spoiled everything belonging to the 
 English, in Leitrim, when his father 
 was driven out of his territory. In 
 1591 his father, Brian-na-Murtha O'R. 
 was hanged in London, refusing to be 
 tried by a jury, and refusing the minis- 
 trations of the Protestant Archbishop 
 of Cashel, who was a pervert priest. 
 Sydney had pronounced this Brian- 
 na-Murtha the ' proudest man that 
 ever he dealt with in Ireland.' ' No one 
 of his tribe for a long time excelled him 
 in bounty, hospitality, in giving rewards 
 for panegyrical poems, and in sumptuous- 
 ness, in numerous troops, in comeliness, 
 in firmness, in maintaining the field of 
 battle.' His son Brian in 1 593 attacked 
 
 Sir G. Bingham of Ballymote, burned 
 Ballymote, and thirteen villages around 
 it. In 1597 he joined O'Donnell 
 and helped him to drive back the 
 English army. In 1598, being annoyed 
 with O'Donnell for having plundered 
 O'Connor Roe, and being at variance 
 with his own brother Teig about the 
 partition of their territory, O'Rourke 
 formed a friendship with Clifford and 
 the English. But soon, on account of 
 O'Donnell's persuasion and threats he 
 joined O'Donnell, then plundered 
 Mullingar and all around it ; and made 
 a second raid on that country. — Four 
 Masters. On the 15th August 1599, 
 he defeated at the Curlieus 1900 foot 
 and 200 horse who were led by the 
 gallant Sir C. Clifford.— Tracts relating 
 to Ireland, Vol. II., p. 47. 
 
 He went to Kinsale with O'Donnell 
 in 1601. He died at Galway in 1604, 
 and was buried in Rosserilly. He was 
 ' the battle prop of the race of Aedh 
 Finn, the star of valour and chivalry, 
 the brave protecting man who had never 
 suffered Brefney to be molested in his 
 
COUNTIE OF LEYTRIM. 
 
 149 
 
 his Father's Execution hath bene a Rebell, saving a little time 
 this last Sommer when upon a discord betwixt him and 
 O'Donnel fearing Least O'Donnell should reject f the Lawful Sone 
 of the last Ororke to be Capten of the Countrie whom he hath in 
 Custody and so displace him, he submitted himself to the State, 
 but so soon as that controversie was composed he revolted againe, 
 and since hath returned a great Enemie to the State, Spoyling 
 and Wasting Especially the Counties of Longford and West- 
 meath; he is able to make of his owne men about 100 Horsemen 
 and about 300 Footmen. g 
 
 time, a sedate and heroic man, kind to 
 friends, fierce to foes.' — Four Masters. 
 
 f Elect, rede. In 1604, Teig O'Rourke 
 only legitimate son of Sir Bryan O'R., 
 got a grant of various lordships and 
 manors in Leitrim. This Teige was 
 ' Lord of Breifny, a man who had ex- 
 perienced many hardships while defend- 
 ing his patrimony against his brother, 
 Brian Oge ; a man who was not 
 expected to die on his bed, but by the 
 spear or sword ; a man who had fought 
 many difficult battles, and encountered 
 many dangers while struggling for the 
 dignity of his father, until God permit- 
 ted him to obtain the Lordship, died 
 in 1605, and was interred in the Fran- 
 ciscan Monastery of Carrigpatrick, i.e. 
 Dromahare.' — Four Masters. 
 
 In 1 60 1 Teig was sent by O'Neill 
 with 800 men into Minister, and Red- 
 mond Burke with 600 men. 
 
 s According to the Carew MSS. 
 O'Rourke's forces consisted of 600 f. 
 and 60 horse. 
 
 The territory of the Magranails or 
 Reynolds comprised Mag-Rein or the 
 southern and level portion of the Co. 
 of Leitrim. The late Squire Reynolds 
 who was murdered at Sheemore was the 
 last head of this family ; his dau. is Mrs. 
 M'Namara, of Lough-Scur House. 
 
 The last entry in the Annals of 
 Loch Ce tells us that in the year 1590 
 ' a Saxon army entered Dartry, or 
 Maglancy's country; O'Rourke and 
 Maglancy were in a fortified camp in 
 the district before them ; when Mag- 
 lancy was leaving O'Rourke's camp, his 
 enemies encountered him, viz., Mael- 
 sechlain Maglancy and another part of 
 the army under Maglancy; and they 
 killed him and eight persons with him, 
 and his head was sent to Athlone.'-- 
 Annals of Loch Ce. 
 
 O'Rodachans or O'Rodys were Com- 
 harbas of St. Caillin in the Church of 
 Fenagh ; they had several remarkable 
 relics in their possession before Crom- 
 well's time, viz., bells, sacred standards, 
 
150 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF ROSCOMAN. 
 
 Roscoman 3 contayneth all the plaines of Conaught, beginning 
 at the Abbey of Boyle nere the mountaines of the Cirlewes 
 and Stretching along by the Sheynen to the River of the Suck. 
 And so it hath the Sheynen to the East and South, the Countie 
 of Sligo to the North, and the Counties of Galloway and Maio 
 to the West. 
 
 This Countie is under the Diocese of the Bishop of Elfin, 
 and the Townes are Roscomon, re-edified by Sir Nich. Malbie 
 and the ruined Towne of Elfin.' 1 
 
 the shrine of St. Caillin. A very re- 
 markable bell, called Clog-na-righ or 
 Bell of the Kings, and an ancient 
 vellum MS. are still preserved. The 
 Coarbs or Herenach families looked 
 on themselves as of the rank of gentle- 
 man, and not mere ' Antiquaryes.' 
 
 O'Roddy of Crossfield, hereditary 
 comharb of Fenagh Monastery, was 
 grandfather of Teig O'Roddy, who was 
 an eminent Irish scholar and a great 
 patron of Irish literature. — See Irish 
 Arch. Miscellany, p. 115. 
 
 In 1696 were attainted the O'Rourkes 
 of Galovrea, of Carnegreve, of Lallagh 
 and of Dungebb, all in Leitrim. Several 
 members of this family have held high 
 command in the armies of France, 
 Austria and Russia. In Russia there 
 is a Prince O'Rourke. — D' Alton's Army 
 List. 
 
 * A Jury finds at Roscommon in 
 the year 1607 that — 'Roscommon 
 
 extendeth from Athlone to Lahaghne- 
 lahareebane, near and on this side of 
 Beallanafadd, 33 miles, and from 
 Beallaleige at the river of Sheanon to 
 Owenmore, near Coystullath, 16 miles. 
 . . . Item that it consisteth of fower 
 barronyes and a halfe, viz. Athlone, 
 Rosscommon, Boyle alias Moylagh 
 (Moylurg) and the half barony of . . .' 
 —far-Con. pp. 353, 355. 
 
 b Terra in planiciem plerumque por- 
 recta, fertilis, et quae numerosa pascit 
 armenta, adhibitaque mediocri cultura 
 fruges benigne producit . . . Sub 
 Curlew montibus ad Sineum flumen est 
 Bar onia Boile ubi MacDermot rerum 
 potitur ; ad Succum Baronia Balin- 
 Tobcr, ubi O' Conor Dun plurimum 
 potest, cui adjacet Elphin, sedes Epis- 
 copalis. Inferiusest Roscoman, (J Conor i 
 Roo Baronia, in qua est oppidum pri- 
 marium, castro olim munitum, sed 
 aedificiis culmeis tectis ; et magis ad 
 
COUNTIE OF ROSCOMAN. 
 
 151 
 
 The Principall 
 
 Castles are: — Roscomon I , , . ., ^ 
 
 A ., , belonging to the Ouene. 
 
 Athloane ) . ° ° ^ 
 
 St. John's, belonging to Mr. Goodman. 
 
 Balinesloe, belonging to Capt. Brabazon's Sones. 
 
 austrum ' KeUiorum Baronia, Athlone, 
 a praecipuo oppido nominata, quod 
 suum habet castrum, et praesidia, et 
 pontem e vivo saxo pulcherrimum 
 quern Elizabetha Regina construendum 
 curavit.' — Letter-press affixed to Jans- 
 sonius' Ancient Map of Connaught. 
 
 ' The country is of excellent soyle ; 
 under O'Chonnor Donne's rule are 
 O'Byrne and Offlun ; under O'Chonnor 
 Roe is O'Flanigan ; under MacDermot 
 is MacManus.' — Sydney's Letters, Vol. 
 I., p. 104. 
 
 It was divided into six baronies 
 in 1574, viz., Muikarnayn — Shane ne 
 Moy Brene, O'Kelly and O'Naghten, 
 chief in the same; Athloyne — O'Kelly, 
 O'Fallon, M c Cogh, O'Murye and M c 
 Edmund, chief; Ballintubber — O'Con- 
 nor Dun, O'Flyn, and O'Flanigan, 
 chief; Manaster Buille — M c Dermot, 
 and the sept of Owen M'Dermot, chief; 
 Tireone — O'Birne and O'Hanly, chief; 
 Roscommon — O'Connor Roe and 
 O'Hanly, chief.— Car. Cat. 1601-1603, 
 
 P- 475- 
 
 'The Lords, Chieftains, etc., of 
 Moylurge, alias M c Dermott's countrye 
 O'Connor Roe's countrye, and O'Con- 
 nor Dune's countrye,' who in 1585 
 came to an agreement with Perrott, 
 were — Hugh O'Connor of Ballintobber, 
 
 otherwise called O'Connor Dune, chiefe 
 of his name ; Fergonanym O'Hanley of 
 Knockensheigh, chiefe of his name ; 
 Teig M'Towmultagh of Croghan ; 
 Towmultagh Oge of Ballinkillen ; 
 Towmultagh M'Hugh of Dromehar- 
 lagh ; Oene Ernney of . . . Ferrall 
 M c Dermonde Roe, chiefe of his name ; 
 Connor Oge M c Dermod of the . . . 
 Taneste; Cahall Oge M c Mulmory of 
 the Eaden ; Mulmory M c Dermod, gald, 
 chief of his name ; Duwaltagh M c Toolie 
 O'Connor of Bracklone ; Cahall M c 
 Toolieof Castlereagh; Feagh O'Ffloyne 
 of Sleavline, chiefe of his name ; Calloe 
 O'Floyn of the Cladaghe ; Turrelagh 
 Keaghe M c Swiny Knocknetaghty; Teig 
 O'Connor Roe, chiefe of his name ; 
 Hugh M c Tirrelagh Roe of Clonybyrne ; 
 Breene O'Flanegan of Ballaoghter, 
 chiefe of his name ; John Crofton of 
 Canvoe ; ... of Ballingilly ; Edward 
 White of Ballinderry.' — far-Con. p. 352. 
 O'Connor Dune had under him 
 O'Byrne, O'Hanlie, O'Fflynne, etc., in 
 the barony of Ballintobber. Teig 
 Oge O'Connor Roe had under him 
 O'Flanegan, M c Brenan, etc., in the 
 baroney of Roscommon ; he lived in 
 the castle of Bealnemully ; his Tanest 
 was Hugh M c Tirrelagh Roe, who lived 
 in the castle of Clonybirne. Connor 
 
152 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Ballintabler, c Athleag, belonging to the H eyres of 
 S r Nicholas Lestrang-e in Suffolk in Insdand. 
 Men of name : — 
 
 The Bishop of Elfin Oconnor dun d 
 
 Oge M c Dermod, mentioned above 
 as Tanest, lived at Incheaghochar. 
 Theobald Dillon had Carrowe-Riogh 
 in the barony of Ballintobber and 
 Bally M c Moroghe and Bally-ne-shie in 
 the barony of Boyle. There were also 
 Clifford of Calae ; Cavanaghe of New- 
 town castle, and Morgan of Artagh. — ■ 
 See lar-Coti. pp. 35 6, 357. 
 
 c Belonging to Sir Hugh O'Connor 
 Donn. Baile-an-tobair or Baile-tobair- 
 Brighde, in the barony of Castlereagh, 
 was taken by Sir Edward Fitton in 
 1571. In 1581 O'Coinnegan, an emi- 
 nent cleric and keeper of a general 
 house of guests, wished to be buried at 
 the mound of Baile-an-Tobair. ' Diar- 
 maid O'Connor Donn, the man who 
 subdued his enemies the most, and who 
 plundered and destroyed his adversaries 
 the most, of the race of Turlogh Mor 
 O'Connor, died in 1587, was buried in 
 Baile-an-tobair, under the protection of 
 God and Brigid, after he had been 
 thirty-five years in sovereignty.' — See 
 Annals of Loch Ce. 
 
 d Hugh, 9th O'Connor Donn, mar. a 
 dau. of Bryan na Murta O'Ruarc. His 
 eldest son, Charles, mar. a dau. of Vis- 
 count Bourke of Mayo. His son Hugh 
 of Castlereagh mar. a dau. of Lord 
 Dillon and died in 1635. His son, 
 Captain Bryan Ruadh of Corrasduna, 
 
 mar. Mary, dau. of O'Connor Ruadh of 
 Castleruby. There is nothing remark- 
 able concerning O'Connor Donn in the 
 Carew Calendar. He d. in his Castle 
 of Ballintubber in 1627. — See Memoir 
 of the O'Connors by Roderic O'Con- 
 nor, Esq., p. 62 and 80 ; also, Lineal 
 Descent of the O'Connors, by R. 
 O'Connor, Esq. 
 
 The Four Masters, p. 2145, say that 
 the famous leader of Connaught buo- 
 naghes, Dermot 0'Connor(son of Dual- 
 tach son of Tuathal), was ' a gentleman 
 of the house of O'Connor Donn.' But 
 Archdall's Lodge says he was a brother 
 of O'Connor Sligo, and brother-in-law 
 of Tibot-na-long. — Lodge, vol. iv., p. 
 237. We have given an account of 
 him at p. 146. 'O'Connor Donn, who 
 had been for a long time imprisoned by 
 O'Donnell, was set at liberty by him 
 on the 4th Dec. 1597, after having 
 given him his full demand ; and he 
 solemnly bound himself to be for ever 
 obedient to O'Donnell, by guarantees 
 and oaths of God and the Church ; and 
 he also delivered up to him as hostages 
 for the fulfilment of this, his own two 
 sons, the heir of O'Beirn, the eldest 
 son of O'Hanly, the heir of O'Flynn, 
 etc' However, O'Connor Donn was 
 on the English side in 1598. — See Four 
 Masters, pp. 2047 and 2125. 
 
COUNTIE OF ROSCOMAN. 
 
 '53 
 
 Oconnor Roe e 
 
 M c Dermott f 
 
 O'Birne 8 
 
 O'Flanegane 
 
 0'Hanlie h 
 
 O'Kellie 1 
 
 In 1597 Dubhaltach O'C. died. 
 His two sons Con and the son of Der- 
 mot made an irruption into Glinske, 
 the castle of MacDavid, and took preys ; 
 but on their return the son of MacDavid 
 defeated them, slew Con O'C. and Mul- 
 rony M c Dermott and many other gen- 
 tlemen. — Four Masters. 
 
 ' Hugh Mirgagh O'Connor of Castle- 
 ruby was nth O'Connor Ruadh in 
 1596. He is ancestor of the O'Connors 
 of Tomona and Ballagh in Roscommon. 
 His uncle Teig was 10th O'Connor 
 Roe, was M.P. in 1585, was hanged in 
 1592, and his sons were hanged in 
 1588 and 1595. In 1616 a jury finds 
 that Hugh Mirgagh O'Connor was 
 seised of Castlerone, Corneboy, etc. 
 Hugh's brother was John O'Connor of 
 Clonfree. — Memoir of the O'Connors, 
 Appendix, p. ix. ; also p. 79. 
 
 Hugh O'Connor Roe with his muster, 
 and M c Dermot with his people joined 
 O'Donnell in his raid into Clanrickard 
 and Thomond in 1600 ; and in 1596 
 they joined him in his march against 
 General Sir J. Norris. However, these 
 chiefs formed 'a league of friendship' with 
 Sir Conyers Clifford in that year 1596 ; 
 O'Donnell in consequence plundered 
 O'Connor Roe's territory in 1597, 'al- 
 though O'C. Roe's position was secure 
 and intricate, and he had near him a 
 fastness, into which he could send his 
 
 cattle,' etc. O'Donnell took all the 
 cattle and plundered and burned all his 
 country. — Four Masters, 1 ^. 2195, 2003, 
 2037. 
 
 ' Teig MTJermot, chief in 1585, 
 being too old to attend Parliament, sent 
 his relative, Bryan of Carrig MacDer- 
 mot, to represent the sept. This Bryan 
 was chief in 1602 ; his wife was dau. of 
 O'Connor Sligo. Bryan MTJermot of 
 Moylurg d. in 1592, 'and there was no 
 one like him of the M c Dermots to 
 succeed him in the chieftainship.' Conor 
 M c Dermot is given by the Four Mas- 
 ters as chief of Moylurg in 1596, 1597, 
 and 1600. In 1600 and 1601 M c Der- 
 mott joined O'Donnell in his march 
 against General Norris, and against the 
 English at Kinsale. — Four Masters, pp. 
 2041, 2195, 2275. 
 
 B O'Beirne, chief of O'Briuin-na-Sinna, 
 a beautiful district between Jamestown 
 and Elphin. Carbry O'Beirne was chief 
 in 1 585, and is said by the Four Masters 
 to have attended Perrot's Parliament. 
 Mr. O'Beirne, of Dangan-i-Beirne, 
 possesses some of the old property, and 
 is head of the race. — O' Donovan. 
 
 h His territory comprised the parishes 
 of Kilglass, Termonbarry, Cloontuskert 
 etc. — O' Donovan's Notes to Topog. 
 Poem, p. xli. 
 
 1 In 1585, among the chieftains in the 
 Roscommon part of Imany were Hugh 
 
 u 
 
154 
 
 M c Garrot k 
 
 M c Edmond' 
 
 and divers freeholders 
 
 of ech surname 
 Henrie Malbie 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Divers of the Nugents, and 
 
 Tuits, and Dillons 
 The Heyres of Sir Nicholas 
 Strange and Capten Bar- 
 bazon. 
 
 This Countie is also all wasted m that Scarce in XX Miles 
 shall a House be seen all are in a sort Rebells saving Hugh 
 
 O'Kelly (otherwise O Kelly) of Liscal- 
 hone ; and Shane ne Moy O'K. of 
 Criagh (now Creagh) ; Shane O'Nagh- 
 ten of Moynure ; Donogh O'Murry of 
 Ballymurry, and Covaghe O'Fallon of 
 Milltowne. The ruins of O'Fallon's 
 castle are still to be seen. — Hy-Many, 
 p. 19. 
 
 k In 1585 lived Connor MacGeraghte, 
 otherwise called MacGerraghte. 
 
 In 1585 lived Teig M c Owen of 
 Gallee, otherwise called M c Edmond. 
 He was of the sept of O'Kelly ; his 
 ancestor William O'Kelly built the castle 
 of Gallee or Gaille on the margin of 
 Lough Ree, where it still stands. — See 
 Ic7/--Co/i.,]>.^i8, and Hy-Many, pp. 103, 
 1 04. There were also of Gallee — Teig 
 Colle M c Connor, and Ferdoragh 
 M c William Carragh. 
 
 In 15S7, obiit Shane O'Naghten, 
 seisitus, in jure Capitaneatus, de duobus 
 quarteriis, in Les Ffaes de Athlone, 
 alias O'Naghten's cuntry. Duo quar- 
 teria sunt in occupatione Connori 
 O'Naghten filii antedicti Joannis. 
 O'Naghten was the senior of all the 
 Hy-Many. In 1604 a grant was made 
 to Jane ON. (widow of Robert O'N. of 
 Mynure in the Fae"s, Co. of Roscom- 
 
 mon, killed in the wars) of the wardship 
 of John O'N., son and heir of said 
 Robert. The present head of the fa- 
 mily is E. Naughton, Esq., of Thomas- 
 town Park in the Faes. Of this stock 
 were Baron O'Naghten, who attended 
 the Prince of Hesse Homburg when he 
 married Princess Elizabeth. — Hy-Many, 
 p. 176. 
 
 m In 1566 Sydney wrote Elizabeth — 
 'We passed M c Dermott's country, 
 Occonnor Roe's country, O'Connor 
 Dune's country, and encamped near 
 your Majesty's Castle and Monastery 
 of Roscommon, leaving for twenty miles 
 of length as fruitful and pleasant a 
 country as is in England or Ireland, all 
 utterly waste through the wars of 
 Occonnor Duneand Occonnor Roe, and 
 we suppose the breadth to be equal in 
 manner with the length ; which Castle 
 of Roscommon, as we perfectly per- 
 ceived and were surely advertised, was 
 guarded witha ward put into it by Occon- 
 nor Dune ; nevertheless they offered 
 us no injury lying by them, neither were 
 we able to do them any.'— -Journal of 
 the R. Hist, and Arch. Assoc, of Ireland, 
 Jan. 1870, p. 23. 
 
COUNTIE OF ROSCOMAN. 
 
 155 
 
 O'Connor Roe" but there is neither Inglysh nor Irysh left for the 
 rebell or Souldier to Spoyle or prey upon. 
 
 ° ' Roscomen in 1597. — All the 
 Kellys in Imany between the Suck and 
 the Shannon were in rebellion. AVhen 
 O'Donnell came into the country, Fe- 
 riogh M c Hugh O'Kelly of Moycarnan, 
 and the Kellys of Twoaleagh revolted ; 
 some fled to the North, some to 
 O'Ruark's country. Donnell O'K. of 
 Lysdallon, Edmund O'K., and Donogh 
 Baccho O'K. of Culnegire, Kedogh O'K. 
 of Cloghin, and Redmond O'Fallon of 
 Myltown were never in action. O'Con- 
 nor Roe, O'Birne, O'Hanly, O'Flani- 
 gan were in action. MacDermot with 
 150 followers revolted at the coming of 
 O'Donnell. The M c Dermot Roes live 
 about the Abbey of Boyle ; but their 
 followers are in action with O'Ruark. 
 Con M c Dwaltogh O'Conor, cousin-ger- 
 
 main to O'Connor Don, pretending to 
 be chief of that name, revolted ; he was 
 slain in action by Feagh Boork, son of 
 Sir Hubert MacDavy Boork, with 16 
 others, including Mulrony MacDer- 
 mott.' — Car. Cal. 1597, p. 269. — Sir 
 Conyers Clifford's Declaration. 
 
 In Roscommon O'Connor Dun, 
 MacDermon, O'Brien, 0'Hanlye,0'Fla- 
 mergan, the MacSwynes, MacHugh, 
 Duff Dalie, O'Kellye had in 1599, 500 
 foot and 30 horse. The rebells' forces 
 in all Connaught are 3090 foot and 230 
 horse. — Dymmok, p. 28. 
 
 The Connaught Fastnesses were ' The 
 woods and boggs of Kilbigher ; Killcal- 
 lon, in MacWilliam's contry; Killaloa, 
 in the county of Leitrim ; the woods and 
 boggs near the Corleas.' — Sir G. Carew. 
 
MOUNSTER. 
 
 Mounster* being of all the provinces most commodious for 
 the Soyle, Havens, Rivers, and Townes is devided into the 
 counties of 
 
 Waterford Limerick 
 
 Cork Tipperarie 
 
 Kerrie and Desmond 
 
 " In the Pacata Hibernia, published 
 in 1633, there are maps of Munster, 
 Cahir, Askeaton, Glynn, Carrigafoyle, 
 Castle Mang, Limerick, Limerick Castle, 
 Kinsale, Hallibolyn, Beare, Dunboy, 
 Castle-ni-Park, Muskrey, Cork, and 
 Youghal. 
 
 Spencer says of Ireland and specially 
 of Munster, with which he was ac- 
 quainted — ' And sure it is a most beau- 
 tiful and sweete countrie.' Sir H. 
 Sydney wrote in 1566 — ' I have known 
 Munster as well inhabited as many 
 counties are in England, yet a man may 
 now ride 40 miles and fynde no house 
 standing nor any manurance of the 
 earth.' 
 
 In 1584 the towns and villages were 
 ruined and but one in thirty persons 
 was left alive. Desmond's lands were 
 ' replenished with wood, rivers, and 
 fishings.' — Sir V. Browne. ' If y' honor 
 did vewe the commodious havens and 
 harbours, the bewtie and commoditie 
 of ye river Shenan, you w d say that you 
 have not in any region observed places 
 
 of more pleasure nor a river of more 
 commoditie . . . the people of Munster 
 be the most docile and reformable of all 
 others.' — Pelham's Letter in 15 So. 
 
 ' The Irish did account Mounster to 
 be the Key of the Kingdome, both by 
 reason of the Cities and walled Townes 
 (which are more than in all the Island 
 besides), the fruitfulnesse of the Country 
 being reputed the Garden of Ireland, 
 and the commodious harbours lying 
 open to France and Spain.' — Pac. Hib. 
 p. 1, Ed. 1633. 
 
 On 23rd Apr. 1600, Mounster is 
 compared by Sir H. Power, in his 
 report to Carew, to ' a man diseased 
 of a languishing and incurable sicknesse, 
 the Head so sore, and the Heart so 
 sicke, that every member refuseth his 
 naturall office ; it was never more dis- 
 tempered. All the inhabitants of the 
 countrey are in actual and open rebel- 
 lion, except some few of the better sort, 
 yet even all their tenants, Friends, 
 and Followers, yea, for the most part, 
 either their Sonnes or Brothers, pub- 
 
COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 157 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 Waterford contayneth all the Land between the River of the 
 Suer which falleth into the Sea beneath Waterford and the River 
 
 lickly professed in this develish action — 
 as, for example, the Lord of Cahir, Cor- 
 mock M c Dermond Lord of Muskry, 
 Gerald Fitzjames Lord of the Decies, 
 McCarthy Keugh. The Rebells are 
 absolutely Masters of the field, and her 
 Majesty's Forces here garrisoned in 
 Cities and walled Townes were in con- 
 dition little better than besieged. Fur- 
 thermore the Cities and walled Townes 
 are so besotted and bewitched with 
 Priests, Jesuits and Seminaries, that 
 they are ready upon every small occa- 
 sion to rise in arms against our soldiers, 
 and minister all underhand ayde and 
 succour unto the Rebells.' — Pac. Hib. 
 
 PP- 3i- 32- 
 
 ' Nations of Munster chiefly noted 
 as procurers of mischief : — The MacSy- 
 his, MacSwynes, and the Leries. In 
 Kerry and Desmond — the Clantey 
 M c Gagh, and the Stacks, saving Morrice 
 Stack and his brothers. They are 
 closely allied one with another. Teig 
 M'Owen's sons of Drissane are noto- 
 rious malefactors, the elder Owen 
 MTeig excepted. They are supported 
 by Cormac M c Dermody Lord of Mus- 
 krie ; their mother, one of the Swynes. 
 O'Sulevan More and O'Sulevan Bere 
 
 continue faithful subjects. The Knight 
 of Kerry, Thomas FitzMorris, and John 
 O'Connor Kerry, " sworn to one ano- 
 ther and intended to become subjects 
 when they find an opportunity." 
 
 ' Certain men sworn to continue in 
 rebellion — The Lord FitzMorris, Tho- 
 mas Oge of Ardnagreagh, E. Hussey of 
 Balynahowe, Owen M c Moriartie of 
 Skart, Cahir M c Brien of Traly, Thomas 
 Fitzjohn of Ballykely, heir of Ballykely. 
 
 ' Cormock Oge faithful; CahirO'Kal- 
 lahane alias Cahir Modurhte, dwelling 
 by Moaloe to be maintained in his 
 possessions, at least till these rebellions 
 be assuaged — an instrument meet to be 
 employed. 
 
 'Trusted instruments in Kerry — Moris 
 Stack and his brothers, John Rice, 
 Donel Faries, Richard Rice. 
 
 ' To be trusted in Cork — Cormock 
 Oge and his brother Teig, Miles Roch, 
 James Nagle and his kinsmen, W. Ma- 
 lafont, Patrick Miagh of Kinsale, T. 
 Fleming of Belguolan, Cormock Daly, 
 Moris Roch, Cahir M c Donoghe.' — 
 Car. Cal. year 1596. 
 
 'The provincial rebels are no less than 
 7000 able weaponed men. Florence 
 M c Carthy, by his friends and followers, 
 
158 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 of Youghall called the great Water and includeth the Mountain 
 Countrie called the Decies a the Bishoprick of Lismoore ad- 
 joining to the whit Knights Countrie Called Clongibbon. So 
 hath it the Sea to the East Suer to the North part of the Coun- 
 ties of Tipperarie and Limerick to the West, the great Water 
 and part of the Countie of Cork to the South. 
 
 will be the strongest and of greatest 
 force of any Traitor in Munster ; in so 
 much that 1500 of her Majesty's forces 
 must of necessity be employed against 
 him ! 
 
 ' The entire province was disaffected ; 
 with sufficient worldy wisdom the great 
 Lords continued subjects in show, but 
 their followers were in action with Fitz- 
 Thomas ; the walled towns were cor- 
 rupted; and the open country was wholly 
 in the possession of the Geraldines 
 and shut against the Queen's loyal sub- 
 jects. 
 
 ' Wee can neither looke, nor hope for 
 any assistaunce from the Lords of the 
 countreys, who are onely in personal 
 shewes subjects, as the Lo. Power, the 
 Loi of Dunboyne, Lo: Roche the Lo 
 of Cahir, Cormac M'Dermott chief of 
 Muskerry. M c Charty Reough chief of 
 Carrebry, Garrald Fitz James chief of 
 the Deasyes, Patrick Condon, O'Cal- 
 loughan, and all others (except the Lo 
 Barry who of late hath don good service) 
 being assured from the rest to receive 
 no ayde for her Matie with their forces, 
 the most of them having either their 
 brothers or next kinsmen in actuall 
 rebellion. Florence M c Cartie (if he 
 continue in this disloyall course, w ch he 
 
 hath begonn, (whereof as yet we have 
 no other hope) by his friends namely, 
 both the O'Sulyvans, M c Fynnen, the 
 Carties of Desmond, O'Donnevan, 
 O'Crowly, O'Mahon Carbrey, O'Mahon 
 Fin, sundry of theSeptesof the Carthies 
 of Carbery, the M c Swynes, most of the 
 Carties of Muskerry, all the Carties of 
 Dowallo, O'Keefe, M c Awlye, and many 
 of the O'Callaghans with his and their 
 followers and kinsmen who before weare 
 better disposed by their outward affec- 
 tions, will be the strongest, and of 
 greatest force of any traytor in Moun- 
 ster ; in so much that 1500 of her Mats 
 forces must of necessitie be employed 
 against him.' — Lifeof Florence M'Carthy 
 Mbr, pp. 249, 259, 260. 
 
 ' The Munster people are Spanish in 
 heart, Popish in religion, and infinitely 
 discontented. If the gentlemen could 
 agree upon a leader, they would declare 
 themselves in action.' — Car. Cal. 
 
 a ' Called the Denes, the Bishoprick 
 of Rismore united to the sea of Water- 
 ford, Prendergast's lande, who was one 
 of the first conquest and a most famous 
 capten. The White Knightes cuntry 
 called Clangibbon.'— Dym. O'Brics, 
 O'Felans, and Fitzgeralds, were suc- 
 cessively lords of the Deisi. 
 
COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 '59 
 
 It hath Castles 
 and Townes 
 
 Waterford b 
 Lismore 
 Dungarvan b 
 Clonmell c 
 The Bishop of Waterford and Lismore d 
 
 b ' Waterford and Dungarvan full of 
 trafique with England, France and Spain, 
 by means of their excellent good haven.' 
 — Campion. 
 
 ' Waterford is properly builded, and 
 very well compact, somewhat close by 
 reason of their thick buildings and nar- 
 row streets. The citizens through the 
 intercourse of foreign trafic in short 
 space attaine to abundance of wealth. 
 The soil about it is not all of the best, 
 by reason of which the aire is not very 
 subtile ; yea nathelesse the sharpness 
 of their wittes seemeth to be nothing 
 dulled by reason of the grossenesse of 
 the air. They are, as students, preg- 
 nant in conceiving, quick in taking, and 
 sure in keeping ; very heedie and warie, 
 loving to looke before they leape, cheer- 
 ful in their entertainment of strangers, 
 hearty one to another, nothing given to 
 factions. They love no idle benchwhis- 
 tlers nor luskish faitors. The men are 
 addicted to trafick, the women to spin- 
 ning and carding. As they distil the 
 best Aqua vitag, so they spin the choic- 
 est rug in Ireland. The citie was never 
 dusked with the least freckle of treason, 
 and therefore the city's arms are decked 
 with the words ' Urbs Intacta? — Sta- 
 nikurst, p. 24, Ed. 1586. 
 
 In 1583 the militia of Waterford 
 consisted of 300 shot and 300 billmen, 
 that of Clonmel 40 shot and zoobillmen, 
 that of the barony of Decies 20 shot and 
 200 billmen. — Cox, Hib. Anglicana. 
 
 c In 1600 Whyte, a lawyer, was elec- 
 ted sovereign and was as much Romish 
 as any of the other magistrates of Mun- 
 ster towns. Father Thomas Whyte, 
 S.J., a native of Clonmel, was founder 
 of the Irish College of Salamanca, and 
 was its Rector in 1602. — Car. Cat. 
 'Clonmel a well built and well-kept town 
 upon the river of Sure, is more haunted 
 of Jesuits and priests than any other 
 towne or city within this province, which 
 is the cause we found the burgesses here 
 more obstinate than elsewhere. For 
 when the Lord President did gently 
 offer to the principal inhabitants that he 
 would spare to proceed against them 
 then, if they would yield to conference 
 for a time, and become bound in the 
 meantime not to receive any Jesuit or 
 priest into their houses, they peremp- 
 torily refused.' — Sir J. Davys in Car. 
 Cat. an. 1606, p. 475. 
 
 d Vide infra The Bishops ; this was 
 Mulmury, or Myler M c Grath, who was 
 Archbishop of Cashel. 
 
i6o 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Vid Analect 
 Catholic, in 
 Hiber. 
 2 nd edit. 161 7 
 P. 68 For an 
 Account of the 
 penitent death 
 of this chief 
 Justice/ 
 
 Chief men The L. Power 6 baron of Carroughmore 
 Sir Nicholas Walshe* chief Justice of 
 
 the common Pleas. 
 The H eyres of Fitzgerrald Late Vis- 
 count of Derie g and Baron of Dro- 
 man. 
 
 'Vide infra The Peers. ' Only in 
 personal shows a subject.' 
 
 f Tunc mortuus est Nicholaus Valois, 
 insignis haereticorum in Ibernia judex, 
 qui quod se haereticum, et in Ibernos 
 saevum ostenderit, apud Anglos 
 magnum dignitatis locum obtinuit. 
 Senescens, appropinquantemque mor- 
 tem timens, Catholicae ecclesiae mise- 
 ricordiam implorando impetrat. — O'Su- 
 levan Beare, Hist. p. 333, Ed. Kelly. 
 
 g Recte Decies. ' The Lord of Desies, 
 James, son of Gerald, son of John, son 
 of Gerot Mdr of Desies, son of James, 
 son of Gerot Earl of Desmond, died in 
 1 58 1.' — Four Masters. 'Gerald Fitz- 
 James, Chief of the Deasyes only in 
 personal shows a subject.' — Car. Cal. 
 an. 1600. 'Mrs. Alyson Dalton 
 petitions the Queen in 1600, says 
 she is a poor widow with eight 
 orphans, driven out of Ireland, had 
 defended her castle of Knockmoan 
 for two years at her own charge, prays 
 to be allowed 20 warders and 4 horse- 
 men in the Queen's pay. Garret Fitz 
 James, her spiteful neighbour, was 
 
 bound in ^500 for the loyalty of his 
 base brother, Thomas Fitzjames, to 
 whom was committed her castle of Cap- 
 poquin, but he treacherously razed the 
 castle, whereby said bond is forfeited.' 
 The Privy Council decide that the de- 
 mand about the forfeiture of the bond 
 may be granted when the country is 
 reduced to obedience. — Car. Cal. year 
 1600. p. 396. In 1600, Elizabeth's Earl 
 of Desmond writes to Cecil that ' the 
 Lord of the Decis' came to him. Sir 
 Gerald FitzGerald Lord of Decies died 
 in 1553, seized in fee of the baronies 
 of Curraghmore, Rosmire and Ath- 
 meane, the manor of Dromanagh, the 
 mountain and castle of Slygan, and the 
 Grange in Old Parish, in all over 4000 
 acres. His grandson, Gerald Fitzjames, 
 mentioned above, was son of Sir James 
 Lord of Decies and Elena, dau. of 
 M c Carthy Reagh. He mar. I st a dau. 
 of Lord Poer, 2 ly a dau. of Lord Barry. 
 Dying without issue he was succeeded 
 by his cousin, John FitzGerod Gerald, 
 whose mother was dau. of Butler of 
 Derryloskan. Sir John by a dau. of the 
 
THE COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 161 
 
 Divers other 
 Howses of 
 
 Powers' 1 
 
 Wises' 
 
 Aylewards k 
 
 White Knight was father of John Oge 
 who was aged 18 in 1598. John Oge's 
 son was 'brought up in piety' by the fa- 
 mous Colonel Sankey, mar. a dau. of 
 Lord Power, and then a dau. of the 
 Earl of Clancartie. He had no son ; 
 his daughter's son, Earl Grandison, put 
 an inscription on his tomb in the church 
 at Youghal. 
 
 h 'The prisoners in Waterford jail for 
 the most part were natives of that shire, 
 of which there were very few that were 
 not bastard imps of the Poores and 
 Geraldines of the Decies, which two 
 septs do overspread all that county.' 
 — Sir J. Davys in 1606, Car. Cat. 
 
 There were Power of Culefin, P. of 
 Culroe, P. of Balinecurry. — ArchdalPs 
 Lodge, Ed. 1789, vol. ii., p. 305. 
 
 ' Powers Country may be well com- 
 pared with the best ordered country in 
 the English Pale.' — Sir H. Sydney's 
 Letter, 27th Feb. 1575. 
 
 James Wyse, of the Manor of St. 
 John, died in 1596. His son, John, 
 was 26 years old in 1598 ; his son 
 Thomas was Mayor, and Nicholas, She- 
 riff of Waterford in 1605. Of this 
 family was M. Wise, S.J. In the 
 Franciscan Monastery is the tomb of 
 Thomas Wise and Mabelle Walshe, 
 ' Religione ac pietate, necnon in pau- 
 peres charitateconspicuorum.' Thomas 
 Wise died in 1604. 
 
 k Aylward's castle of Fatlock was 
 
 Walshes' 
 
 Maddons m 
 
 Waddings" 
 
 beautifully situated near Passage. John 
 Aylward had known Cromwell in Lon- 
 don, and was informed by him that his 
 castle would be spared if he would pre- 
 tend conformity in religion ; Aylward 
 held his faith, and lost his castle by 
 siege. — Ryland, p. 7 2. In John's Street 
 is an ancient spacious house belonging 
 to Sir Peter Aylward's family, over the 
 chimney-piece of which, in the great 
 room, the family arms are curiously cut 
 in stone ; they are also cut on each side 
 of the street gate. 
 
 1 The Walshes were Mayors in 1407, 
 1578, 1 60 1, 1602, and at other times. 
 Pilltown was the estate of the W. ; there 
 Judge VV. lived, the supposed author 
 of the forged commission in favour of 
 the Irish in Charles the First's time. 
 The Holy Ghost Hospital was founded 
 in 1545 by Patrick Walsh, ' in order 
 that the master, brethren, and the pool 
 may pray for our prosperity while we 
 live, and for our souls when we shall 
 depart this life, and for the souls of all 
 our progenitors, and for the prosperity 
 of said hospital, and for the soul of 
 Patrick Walsh, and for the prosperity 
 of Catherine Sherlock his wife, and for 
 her soul and for the souls of all the 
 faithful.' — Ryland, p. 190. 
 
 m Richard Madan was Mayor in 1599; 
 James M. in 1583 ; William M. in 1380. 
 
 n Thomas Wadding was Mayor in 
 1596. ' He holds a chief office under 
 
l62 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I59S. 
 
 Sherlocks 
 
 Prendergrasses p 
 
 Geraldines q 
 
 the Crown in the Co. of Waterford, and 
 dwells in that city, a busy fellow inclined 
 to breed dissension, allied in these 
 parts.'— Carew MSS. 608. 'The 
 Mayor of Waterford, which is a great 
 lawyer, one Wadding, carrieth the 
 sword and rod, as I think he should do, 
 for her Majesty ; but he nor his sheriffs 
 never came to church sithence he was 
 mayor nor sithence this reign, nor none 
 of the citizens men nor women nor in 
 any town or city throughout this pro- 
 vince.' — Letter written by Dr. Lyon in 
 1596. 
 
 Thomas W. mar. Mary Walsh, and 
 had three most distinguished sons, 
 Jesuits — Peter, Professor of Divinity at 
 Louvain, Antwerp, Prague, and Gratz, 
 and Chancellor of the Universities of 
 Prague and Gratz, and author of several 
 books ; Michael, a distinguished Pro- 
 fessor of Theology, Rector of the Se- 
 minary of St. Jerome, Puebla, of the 
 College of St. Ildefonse. Mexico, of the 
 College of Guatemala, of the College of 
 St. Ildefonse, Puebla, renowned for 
 learning and sanctity; he wrote a re- 
 markable work on ascetic Theology ; 
 Luke, a Professor of great fame in Spain, 
 consulting Theologian of the Inquisition, 
 Lecturer on Jurisprudence in Madrid, 
 etc., ' quern sit minis aequifarare fossis,' 
 as a Spanish writer says of him. 
 
 Thomas' brother, Walter Wadding, 
 had two celebrated sons — Ambrose, a 
 
 Nugents r 
 Whytes 5 
 Mandevils' 
 
 Jesuit Professor in the University of 
 Dilingen, and Luke, the great Francis- 
 can. Their kinsman Richard W., an 
 Augustinian, was a famous professor in 
 Coimbra, and their cousins, Paul Sher- 
 lock, S.J., and Dr. French of Ferns, were 
 men of great name. — See Harold's Life 
 of Luke Wadding, and De La Requerds 
 Memoir of Michael Wadding, S.J. 
 
 The Sherlocks filled the office of 
 Mayor in 1462, and often afterwards. 
 Paul S. was Mayor in 1594 ; John S. in 
 1606 ; and Walter in 1614. 
 
 p The Prendergasts, I believe, were 
 of Tipperary ; they are given in Smith's 
 List as of Waterford. 
 
 q FitzGerald of Femane. 
 
 ' Nugent of Cloncoskeran Castle. 
 
 " John White was Mayor in 1414 ; 
 Thomas W. was Mayor in 1598. In the 
 cathedral, on a flat stone, are the words 
 ' Hie jacent Patricius White filius Jo- 
 hannis, quondam civis Civitatis Water- 
 fordiae, qui obiit, et Anastacia Grant, 
 ejus uxor, quae obiit x. die Octobris 
 a.d. 1592.' Thomas W. of Clonmel, a 
 Jesuit, was Rector of Salamanca at this 
 time ; he was the first to found an Irish 
 College on the Continent. Stephen W. 
 of Clonmel, who afterwards became one 
 of the most learned men in Europe, was 
 a Jesuit novice in 1598. See a memoir 
 of him by Dr. Reeves, and another by 
 the Bollandist, Pere de Buck. 
 
 1 In the time of Edw. IV. there was 
 
COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 163 
 
 Condemns" 
 Craghes" 
 
 Brownes w 
 
 Dobins* 
 
 Leas y and Lees' 
 
 a grant from T. Mandeville and Anas- 
 tace his wife to Earl Maurice of Des- 
 mond. — Car. Cal. 1589-1600 p. 104. 
 
 I find no men tion of this name in Smith 
 or Ryland, except in this passage of 
 Smith : — ' The principal inhabitants of 
 the county in the reign of Elizabeth 
 were the Aylwards, Browns, O'Briens, 
 Bracks, Bourks, Condons, Creaghs, 
 O'Connerys, Daltons, Dobbins, Eve- 
 rards, FitzGarretsorFitzGeralds, O'Feo- 
 lains, FitzTheobalds, Leas or Leaths, 
 Maddens, Mandeiuls, Merrifields, Mor- 
 gans, O'Maghers, M'Henricks, Nugents, 
 Osbornes, Poers, Prendergasts, Roch- 
 fords,Sherlocks,Tobins, Walls, Walshes, 
 Waddings, Wyses, Whites, etc' There 
 were a captain, a lieutenant, and an 
 ensign named Mandeville in Butler's 
 Regiment. — See King Jamef Army List. 
 " Ryland states that ' a family of the 
 Co. of Waterford assumed, with unac- 
 countable reluctance, the name of Con- 
 don in place of MacMajoke.' 
 
 * In the parish of Modeligo are the 
 remains of some ancient castles of the 
 Magraths. The castle of Sledy was 
 built in 1628 by Philip M c Grath, as 
 appears from a date on a chimney-piece 
 with the words ' Philippus M c Grath.' 
 In the Abbey of Dungarvan is a tomb- 
 stone with the inscription, ' Donald 
 M c Grath 1400.' The castle near Dun- 
 garvan belonged to this family ; the 
 Abbey was founded by them also. The 
 
 only old monument of the church of 
 Lismore which has escaped the ravages 
 of time, is their highly ornamented tomb, 
 with an inscription that can be only 
 partially deciphered — 'Johes M c Grath 
 . . . uxor. . . Katherina Thorne. 1548.' 
 There was a Daniel M c Grath, Esq., of 
 Mountain Castle, whose dau. married 
 one of the Powers of Curraghmore. — 
 See Lodge, vol. ii. p. 306. 
 
 w M. Browne was Mayor in 161 2. 
 In the Franciscan Monastery is a tomb 
 with the inscription ' Hie jacet Robertas 
 Lincol filius Gulielmi civis civitatis Wa- 
 ter for diae, qui obiit A.D. 1630, et uxor 
 ejus Margarita Browne quae obiit ..." 
 The inscription on the Rice monument 
 shows that Rice's wife was Catherine 
 Browne. Rice was six times Mayor 
 from 1471 to 1488. Ignatius Browne, 
 a distinguished Jesuit, who founded the 
 Irish College of Poictiers, was born in 
 Waterford in 1630. 
 
 1 Laurence Dobbyn was Mayor in 
 1460, and Patrick D. in 1589. Whit- 
 fieldstown Castle was the seat of W. 
 Dobbin at the time of Petty's survey. 
 
 y Laurence Lea of Waterford became 
 a Jesuit in 1604. N. Lee was Sheriff 
 in 1575 and 1580. 
 
 z Perhaps this should be Tews. Under 
 the tower in the Franciscan Friary is a 
 highly laboured monument with the in- 
 scription, t Hicjacent Johannes Tew, filius 
 . quondam civis civitatis Waterford, 
 
164 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Chief \ Dongarvan, aa the queries 
 Castles j The hooke bb 
 
 qui obiit 1597 . . . ejus uxor . . . 1599.' 
 The following inscriptions in the Friary 
 give names omitted in our MS.—' Hie 
 jacet Johannes Skydye, civis quondam et 
 Major hujus civitatis Waterfordiae qui 
 obiit 1 64 1, et Johanna Whiteejus uxor . . . 
 Hie jacet Franciseus Lumbard filius 
 Nicolai . . . obiit A.D. 1590, et Katerina 
 Walshe, uxor ejus, quorum Animabus 
 propitictur Deus. Amen.' There is 
 also a tombstone highly decorated of 
 Agnes Lumbard, wifeof Edward Walshe; 
 of Thomas Meyler and his wife Isabella 
 Walsh ' re/igionepe . . . aepietatenon pau- 
 peres.' J. Tew and Patrick Meyler 
 were Sheriffs about this time. The first 
 Mayor of Waterford was W. Lumbard, 
 m J 377 ; J- Lumbard was Mayor in 
 1603. Dr. Peter Lombard was a theo- 
 logian of European reputation, and was 
 made Primate of Armagh in 1601. He 
 was born in Waterford in 1554; his 
 family, closely allied to the Whites and 
 Waddings, gave many bright ornaments 
 to both Church and State. He was 
 educated by the famous Rev. Peter White 
 of Waterford, called ' the happy school- 
 master,' on account of his marvellous 
 success in teaching. — See Lombard's 
 De Regno Hiberniae Commentarius, 
 edited by Dr. Moran, p. v. 
 
 In the churchyard of Newcastle, near 
 Tramore, is the tomb of Ronan of Hac- 
 ketstown, a celebrated doctor who d. 
 in 1626, and of his wife Anastatia De- 
 vereux, who d- in 16 14. In Carrickbeg 
 
 is a monument to Giraldus Wale de 
 Cuilmuck — nobilis, Caterina Comeford; 
 these Wales lived in the castle of Cool- 
 namuck, which is still possessed by the 
 family. A Jesuit named Walter Wale 
 lived in 1598. At Churchtown is the 
 inscription, 'Hcrelieth. IHS. oneBoutlr. 
 Fis. Gerott. of Bolendisert. And His Wif. 
 Johan. Fis. Richads. Ano. 1587.' 
 
 Add Hore of Shandon, whose de- 
 scendant Colonel Hore was M.P. for 
 Waterford in 1689, when two others of 
 thefamily were members for Dungarvan. 
 In the ' French Church ' is the old 
 monument of Michael Hore, merchant 
 of Waterford ; also a monument to M 
 Grant, who d. in 1626. T. Grant was 
 Sheriff in 1546; Matthew Grant was 
 Mayor in 1640. 
 
 There was a respectable family named 
 Gough of Kilmanahan ; N. Gough was 
 Mayor in 1435 an( i I 44 I > ar >d Sir Ed- 
 ward Gough in 1600. Members of the 
 family of Strong were Mayors in 1431, 
 
 1434, 1485, i5 6 °, *S* 1 , ^S 8 - Pa ul 
 Strong was Mayor in 1597 ; in 1607 
 Tho. Strong was Mayor and Rob. Strong 
 Sheriff. Among the Waterford gentle- 
 men in 1592 was ' Eu. Roche.' — Car. 
 Cat. A. Briver was Mayor in 1587 ; 
 and a namesake of his was a Jesuit. 
 Patrick Morgan was Mayor in 1593, 
 and there was a Waterford Jesuit of that 
 name, about that time. 
 
 ™ A very strong castle. — Camden. 
 
 bb Perhaps Crook, near Passage, which 
 
COUNTIE OF WATERFORD. 
 
 165 
 
 Moncollop cc 
 Kilmanahim dd 
 Kilm c Thomas ee 
 Ardmore ff 
 
 Clovey hh 
 Dermebeer" 
 Domano kk 
 Carraehmore" 
 
 The passage a foot at the mouth of the River 
 Pilton gg Cappahun mm 
 
 had belonged to the Knights of St. 
 John, and in 1565 belonged to A. 
 Power. 
 
 cc Macollop consists of a large round 
 tower, and several square towers flank- 
 ing its intermediate base ; it was made 
 a ruin by Cromwell in 1640. — Par/lam. 
 Gazetteer of Ireland. 
 
 dd Opposite Knocklofty. 
 
 ee Belonging to Power, in whose de- 
 scendants the surrounding property is 
 still vested. 
 
 " " Urbem Lissimorpertransit flumen 
 Avenmor, Ardmor cernit ubi concitus 
 aequor adit." — Necham, quoted by Cam- 
 den. 
 
 Smith in 1774 wrote that there was 
 ' the stump of a castle, and not long 
 since was a much larger one there, 
 which was taken down.' A family 
 named Mirnen had property here from 
 the year 1197 to 1745, when they sold 
 it. — Smith, p. 49. ' The Mirnyneswere 
 remarkable for their longevity, enjoyed 
 an estate often pounds a year conveyed 
 to them by 4 lives above these 400 
 years, notwithstanding the Insurrections, 
 etc. They never changed their name ; 
 once only wanted one heir in a direct 
 line, which was supplied by a colla- 
 teral branch. It is said the present 
 
 possessor, being 80 years old, never saw 
 Youghal nor any other town, nor will be 
 courted to it.' — Dynelys Tour in 1687. 
 
 Rg Belonging to the Walsh family. 
 
 hh Clonea or Clough. Clonea, a castle 
 of the FitzGeralds of Decies, is one of 
 the most perfect specimens of the forti- 
 fied residence. Clough was built before 
 the invention of firearms ; it is called in 
 Gougk's Camden an ancient square 
 castle. 
 
 " Perhaps Darinlar Castle, which 
 stands on the land of the Earl of Glen- 
 gall, ' a tower protected by four circular 
 castles, that projected beyond the cur- 
 tain.' — Pari. Gaz. of Ireland. 
 
 kk The Lord of Decies owned Dro- 
 mana ; he was descended from the 7 th 
 Earl of Desmond. In 1561 FitzGerald 
 of Dromana became Baron of Dromany 
 and Viscount Desses. When he died 
 without issue, his brother, Sir James 
 FitzGerald of Cappagh, came to live at 
 Dromana ; Lord Stuart de Decies owns 
 the property, and is descended (mater- 
 nally) from the FitzGeralds. The 
 greatest portion of the old castle was 
 destroyed by fire. See note % . 
 
 " Curraghmore, Lord Power's. 
 
 mm The FitzGeralds built the castle 
 of Cappoquin. 
 
t66 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Kilmadin nn Strangally pp 
 
 Balleconchin 00 Shyan qq 
 
 ThisCountiein the late Rebellion of Desmond was least infected 
 with treasons, yet much Spoyled by the Souldiers that lay in 
 Garrisone there, and at this day some few are rebellion without 
 any man of name to be their head. There belongeth more 
 Ships" to the Cittie of Waterford and Wexford than to all Ireland 
 besides. 
 
 nn Power's, ' boldly erected on the 
 banks of the Suir,' now gone to 
 decay. 
 
 00 There was a castle in the parish of 
 Ballycashen. 
 
 pp In the neighbourhood of Tallow 
 were several castles, the chief of which 
 was Strancally, belonging to the Des- 
 mond family. In the 28th Eliz. James 
 Fitzjohn Gerrot of Strancally was at- 
 tainted, also his son Gerrot Fitzjames. 
 
 qq In 28 Eliz., Maurice M c Gerrot 
 M c enEarla of Shean was attainted. 
 There were also the castles of Temple- 
 michael, Ballyheney, Lismore, Knock- 
 moan, Cloghlack, Conagh, Cullen, 
 Castlereagh, Ballyclough, Feddens, and 
 Cloncoskeran (belonging to the Nugent 
 family), Ballycavoge (of the Walshes). 
 — See Smith, Ryland, and Parliam. 
 Gazetteer of Ireland. 
 
 " 'Between the rivers Broadwater and 
 Suire extends the very pleasant and 
 fruitful county of Waterford . . . Water- 
 ford for wealth and resort may be ranked 
 the second city in Ireland.' — Camden. 
 
 ' The gentle Swire, that making way 
 
 By sweet Clonmel adorns rich Waterford.' 
 — Spencer. 
 
 'A rich and well inhabited city, es- 
 teemed second to Dublin.' — Mory son's 
 Itinerary, p. iii. ch. 5. 
 
 Waterford was famous also for its in- 
 tellectual wealth at the close of the 16th 
 century — the six Waddings (four of 
 whom were Jesuits), the Lombards, 
 Sherlocks, and Comerfords, Whites, 
 and Walshes, shed lustre on their native 
 city. The Annuae literee of the Society 
 of Jesus (1641-1651) says: — ' Water- 
 fordia, magnorum ingeniorum fecunda 
 parens, prioribus annis suppeditavit 
 Societati doctissimos viros, quibus illus- 
 travit non caeteras modo Residentias 
 Missionis, sed et alias quoque Provin- 
 cias Societatis in Hispania, Germania, 
 Belgio, atque ipsis Indiis.' — Literae 
 Annuae Provinciae Hibemiae, published 
 in Rome, cirea 1654. 
 
 N.B. — The information, contained in 
 the notes without a reference, is taken 
 from Ry land's and Smith's Histories of 
 Waterford. 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 167 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 Cork contayneth all the lande adjoining to the Sea from the 
 River of Youghall, to the Bay of the Dingle and the River 
 Margne 3 ioining to the Countie of Kerrie, comprehending the 
 Counties of Kerrie Wherrie, b Kinnalo, Garvy Roe's Countrie, d 
 the Bishoprick of Rosse, the Country of Carbere on both sides 
 
 8 'Maigne, the cuntryof Kerrywherry, 
 Kilaloa, Barry-Roe's cuntry, the Bishop- 
 ricke of Ross, the cuntry of Carbrye on 
 both sydes the leape, O'Mahons and 
 Ordriscalls cuntry. The Bantry, O'Sil- 
 vian bent, O'Silvian more, and all Des- 
 mond ; all which lie along y e coaste. 
 In the middle of the shire lyeth Muskry, 
 devided betweene Sir Cormoc and Sir 
 Dermot mac teig Clancark, allso 
 O'Challagon, O'Heift, Mac Auly, Mac 
 Donoho, followers of the erle of Clan- 
 car, and includeth the landes of the 
 two viscounts Barry and Annoy.' — 
 Dynunok. The variantes here would 
 show that our MS. was written later 
 than Dymmok's account, as it speaks 
 of the sons of Sir Cormac and Sir Der- 
 mot M c Teg. 
 
 b Kerricurihy (Ciarraighe-Ciiirche) 
 12 miles long by six broad, contains 
 Passage, Monkstown, and Crosshaven ; 
 it belonged to Maurice, brother of the 
 15th Earl of Desmond. — Pari. Gaz. 
 of Ireland. Monkstown Castle or 
 Castlemahon belonged to the Archde- 
 
 kens or Mac Odos. John Archdeken 
 of Dromdony and Monkstown had a 
 son John, who restored the castle ; the 
 date 1636 is on the mantlepiece of the 
 principal chamber. The tomb (with 
 inscription) of this John A. is in the 
 old ruin of Tcampul Oen Bryn. — Win- 
 dele's South of Ireland, p. 180. 
 
 c Kinnalea, 13 miles long by 7 wide, 
 is south of Kerricurrihy ; it belonged 
 to the Desmonds ; in it are Inishannon 
 and Tracton, etc. The gentlemen of 
 Kinnalea in 1592 were Long, Bostock, 
 Barries alias Barricok (sic, perhaps 
 Barry Oge), Golde, Robinson, Graunte, 
 Leoffm Meade, Awlie O'Flinne, Sars- 
 field, Fleming, Roche, Roold, Cogan, 
 Mac Shane, FitzMoris Roche, White, 
 Risserd, Fitzwilliam Roche, Piers 
 Golde. — Car. Cal., an. 1591, p. 64. 
 
 d ' Barry Roe,' in the margin; at one 
 time the O'Cowigs had seven castles 
 in this district, viz., Dundeedy, Dun- 
 owen, Duneen, Dunore, Duncowig, 
 Dungorley, and Dunworley. — Smith's 
 Cork, Book ii. ch. 3. 
 
1 68 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 the Leap, e Omahoun/ and O'Driscals Countries. 8 The 
 Bantrie h of beer, O'Sullivant, More, and all Desmond, and 
 which lie along the Coast. Also in the middle of this Shyre 
 Liyeth Muskerie' now in some Sort devided between the Heyres 
 of S r Dermot and S r Cormack Clancarties, also Ocallogan, k 
 
 e A romantic ravine at the head of 
 Glandore Harbour. Carberie belonged 
 to M c Carthy Reagh. 
 
 f O'Mahony's country, the present 
 barony of Kinnalmeaky. 
 
 e Corca Laidhe. Their territory was 
 co-extensive with the diocese of Ross ; 
 but in 1615 they owned only the seven 
 parishes, which constitute the rural 
 deanery of Colleymore and Colleybeg. 
 They had the castles of Gleann, Bear- 
 chain or Castlehaven, Lough-Hyne, 
 Ardagh, Baltimore, Dunnangall, Dun- 
 an-oir, Rincaliskey, and Sherkin. — See 
 p. 143 of Miscell. of Celtic Society. 
 
 h Bantry and Bearra form the south- 
 west portion of the Co. of Cork. The 
 lord of Bantry was Sir Owen O'Sullevan ; 
 the lord of Bearra was his nephew, the 
 famous Donnell O'Sullevan. 
 
 ' O'Sullivan Beare's countrey con- 
 teyneth 160 ploughlandes; McCarthy 
 More claymeth there Risinge out, the 
 findinge of 50 Galleyglas, the geavinge 
 of the Rodd, and to the value of ^40 
 a yeare in spendings and refeccons. 
 The countrie of Clanlawras [in O'Sul- 
 levan Beare's country] conteyneth 32 
 ploughlands.' — MacCarthy Mor, p. 31. 
 
 O'Sullevan's forces, as given by 
 Carew, are stated in Miss Cusack's 
 History of Cork — O'Sullivan Bere, 30 
 
 companies ; Owen O'Sullevan's sons in 
 Bantry, 80; M c Fineen Duff, 30 in Bere 
 and Glanarought; Clanlaura, 30 in Bere 
 and Bantry; the Coubrey, 40 in Bere; 
 O'Sullevan Mor, 60 in Dunkerron ; 
 M c Gillicuddy, 100 in Dunkerron; 
 M c Crohan, 40 in Iveragh. The Eger- 
 ton MSS. give the various branches as 
 O'Sullevan Mor, O'Sullevan Bere, 
 M c Fineen Duff, M c GiIlicuddy, and the 
 O'Sughrues. — Hist, of Cork, by the Nun 
 of Kenmarc, p. 332. 
 
 1 ' Muskeray, a woody tract, in which 
 the name of Cormac Mac-Teg is 
 famous.' — Camden. 
 
 k Conor O'Ceallachain, called 'Conor 
 of the Rock,' was lord of Poble Hy 
 Ceallachain, (i.e., the parishes of Clon- 
 meen and Kilshanig,) owned Drumneen 
 Castle, ' the ruins of which still present 
 an august appearance.' His Tanist or 
 heir elect was Shan M c Teig. In 1690 
 the Earl of Barrymore wrote to the 
 Duke of Wirtemberg — ' I have received 
 a humble petition on behalf of Colonel 
 M c Donogh, chief of the country called 
 Dunhallow, and of another chieftain 
 of a country called O'Callaghan. They 
 will bring with them a thousand men, 
 and at least seven or eight thousand 
 cows.' This was Colonel Donogh O'Cal- 
 laghan. — U A/ton's Army List, p. 867. 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 169 
 
 O'Kief,' M c Auley, m and M c Donoghe, n followers to the late Earle 
 of Cloncare and including- also the Lands of the Two Viscounts 
 Barrhy and Armoy. p So this Countie is bounded with the Sea 
 East, South and South east, with the Mountains of Slewlogher to 
 the West, and partlie with the great Water and partlie with the 
 Countie of Limerick to the North. This Countie being the 
 greatest in the Realm have bene tollerated to have Two Sheriffs, 
 
 ' Art Oge O'Keeffe, b. in 1547, in- 
 augurated in 1583, d. 1 6 10; mar. a 
 dau. of M'Carthie of lniskeen. His 
 sons were Daniel of Ballymacquirk, 
 Donogh of Cuilbeggan, and his suc- 
 cessor Manus of Dromagh, who was 
 ' chief of his nacion,' and was b. in 
 1567. Art Oge owned the castles of 
 Dromagh, Du-Ardgil, Drumtariff, and 
 Drumsicane. Dixon Cornelius O'Keeffe 
 of Dublin, Barrister-at-law, is of this 
 family. — See Tribes of Ireland, and 
 D' Alton s Army List. 
 
 m Of Castle Mac Auliffe, near New- 
 market. The territory of Mac Auliffe, 
 or Eas-Ealla, was the land between 
 Newmarket and the boundaries of the 
 counties of Limerick and Kerry. The 
 head of this family, who had been born 
 to a handsome estate, was weigh-master 
 in the market-house at Kenmare in 
 1840. — Tribes of Ireland, p. 66. 
 
 Among the gentlemen pensioners in 
 the Spanish army in 1606 were John 
 M'Awly, M c Awly's son, Conogher 
 M'Awly his brother, Dermod M c Awly of 
 Clan Awlye, and W m M'Auliffe, all 
 from Cork. — Car. Cat., an. 1606^.397. 
 
 * Lord of Duhallow, of the McCarthy 
 
 race, built such a strong and large for- 
 tress at Kanturk, that Elizabeth's 
 council ordered the work to be stopped. 
 See a description of it in Smith's Cork. 
 In 1598 Elizabeth wrote to the Presi- 
 dent of Minister — ' If M c Donnaght will 
 serve us against Derby M c Owen, who 
 takes the title of M c Carthy More, we 
 will bestow upon him the country of 
 Dually.'— Car. Ceil, p. 286. 
 
 Lord Barry's lands are Barries- 
 Court, Inchinibakye, Castell-Lions, 
 Botevant and Liscarrall in Orrery, 
 Timologe, Rathebarry and Lislie in 
 Ybaune ; total, 392 plowlands ; also 
 he has the use of three-parts of every 
 freeholders' lands within these manors, 
 which amount to 1000 plowlands. — 
 Car. Cal. 
 
 The gentlemen of Orrery in 1592 
 were — Barry alias M c Shian, Lumbard, 
 Eily Barry of Bregoge ; P. H. Rirragus 
 (?). Chillister, Miz of Lessfricken, Byrn, 
 Nangle, Dalie, Rallaghan M c Owen.— 
 Car. Cal, p. 64. 
 
 p .forte Fermoy, the Barony of Fermoy, 
 Roche's country, a beautiful territory. 
 It is called the ' country of fine roads ' 
 by the Bard Ruadh O'Daly. 
 
170 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 the one particular in Desmond, the other in the rest of the 
 
 Countrie, and this without any Ground in Law, but by discretion 
 
 of the L. Deputies, the inconvenience thereof being espied it 
 
 hath been of late thought good that one Sherriff should for 
 
 Kerrie and Desmond, and so Two Sherriffs in one Countie 
 
 against Law taken away. 
 
 Cities and Corke q a walled Cittie with a good Haven. 
 
 Toivnes Clone ) . , 
 
 •d r J Bishopncks ruined. 
 
 Youghall 5 a Haven toune walled. 
 
 q ' Cork is of an oval figure, sur- 
 rounded by walls, environed and inter- 
 sected by the river, which is passable 
 only by bridges ; and consisting of one 
 straight street, continued by a bridge. 
 A little trading town of great resort and 
 eminence, but so beset by rebellious 
 neighbours as to require as constant a 
 watch as if constantly besieged, and the 
 inhabitants not daring to trust their 
 daughters to marry in the country, are 
 all somehow related.' — Cam da:. 
 
 'At this day (1575) the citty of Cork 
 is so encumbered with unquiet neigh- 
 bours of great power, that they are 
 forced to watch their gates continually, 
 to keep them shut at service time, at 
 meales, from sunneset to sunne rising; 
 nor suffer any stranger to enter with his 
 weapon, but to leave the same at a 
 lodge appointed. They walk out for 
 recreation at seasons, with strength of 
 men furnished ; they match in wedlock 
 among themselves.' — Campion, p. 96. 
 
 Some Cork families are mentioned 
 
 in the following monuments, etc., men- 
 tioned by Windele: — 
 
 In Shandon Churchyard is the tomb 
 of Stephen Coppinger of Ballyvolane, 
 ' chief of the name,' erected by his wife, 
 nee Goold ; he was born in 16 10. 
 
 Inscription on a chalice — ' Dna 
 Margareta Sarsfield me fieri fecit pro 
 fribus minoribus de Shandon, Anno 
 Domini 1627, orate pro ea, et pro 
 marito ejus Waltro Coppinger.' 
 
 J. White the elder by his will in 
 1582 directs his body to be buried in 
 S 1 - James' Chapell, Christ Church, 
 'where mine ancestors lye.' 
 
 Tomb (date 1584) of J. Coleman 
 and his wife Anstace M c Donnell — 
 Windele, p. 56. 
 
 Tomb of Walshe and his wife An 
 Goaghe, with Templars' ensigns, 1592. 
 — Windele 's South of Ireland. 
 
 ' ' Ross, formerly of great resort, but, 
 since a bar of sand has been thrown up, 
 it is deserted.' — Camden. 
 
 s 'Youghall — no large town indeed, 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 171 
 
 Kinsale' in like sort. 
 
 Buttevant" ane inland Towne belonging to the Viscount 
 
 Barrhy. 
 Moyallo," a fayre market Towne unwalled belonging 
 to the L. President, where he maketh his Residence. 
 Tallow. Tallowyhe, a market Towne upon the great Water. 
 Principal Viscount Buttevant" or Barrhy, his name is Barrhy, 
 Men. his chief hous Buttevant. 
 
 Viscount Armoy w or Roche, his name Roche, his 
 
 chief Hous Armoy. 
 L. Courcy, w his name so. 
 
 but encompassed with walls of an ob- 
 long form, with a commodious harbour, 
 with a key fortified. The fertility of 
 the neighbouring country so invites 
 merchants, that it is much resorted to, 
 and has for its chief magistrate a mayor.' 
 — Camden. 
 
 ' A seaport town scituate at the ftbot 
 of high rocky mountains, upon the 
 mouth of the Blackwater.' 
 
 In the church there is an ' altar 
 tomb ' of Piers Miagh, who died in 
 I ^33i a gcd 43. On it is a Latin In- 
 scription with a Latin Distich, and there 
 were also the following words in Eng- 
 lish (which are now effaced) : — ' Pray 
 for the Founders hereof, Piers Miagh 
 Fitzjames of Yoghal, Alderman, and 
 Phillis Miagh alias Nagle, his onely 
 wife, who made this monument for their 
 last lodging in this world.' 
 
 In the Portingal Chapel are the tombs 
 of the Youghal merchants, Edw. Cop- 
 pinger, who d. in 1624, and R. Nagle. 
 
 who died in 1605. — Dynelfs Tour. 
 Adams, whose tombstone is in the 
 Churchyard of St. Mary's, was born in 
 1588, when Raleigh was Mayor, and 
 he d. in 1715, aged 126 years. — Note 
 to Dynelfs Tour, by Rev. S. Hayman. 
 The image of the Blessed Virgin, 
 which formerly belonged to the Do- 
 minican Convent of Youghal, has the 
 inscription — ' Orate pro anima Onoriae 
 filiae Jaeobi de Geraldine, quae me fieri 
 fecit, an. 161 7.' — IVindeie, p. 81. 
 
 ' See the Map of Kinsale, and the 
 account of its siege in Pacata Hibemia. 
 "Wadding wrote, circ. 1640, 'The 
 town had been large and frequented, 
 is now reduced. Two illustrious fa- 
 milies, the Barrys and Lombards, had 
 their residence here.' — Miss Cusaek's 
 Cork, p. 490. 
 
 v Had belonged to the Earls of Des- 
 mond. It was defended by two castles. 
 "' Vide infra among the Peers and 
 Bishops. 
 
I 72 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The B. w of Cork, Clone and Roscarbery. 
 S r Owen M c Carte reaghe. x 
 S r Thomas Barrhy oge. y 
 S r Owen O'Sullivan. 2 
 
 " ' In 1593, Mag Carthaigh Riabhach 
 (Owen M c Carthy Reagh) Tighearna or 
 Lord of Carbery, died. He was a sen- 
 sible, pious, and truly hospitable and 
 noble-minded man. Donal, son of 
 Cormac na h-Aoine, took his place.' 
 Owen had been inaugurated in 1575. 
 — Annals, years 1576, and 1593. Owen, 
 who was described by St. Leger as ' a 
 notorious papist who would be in re- 
 bellion if he dared,' wrote to Elizabeth 
 in 1583 that he had contributed .£7497 
 out of his territory to crush the Des- 
 monds. On the 23rd Dec. 1587, he 
 wrote from his 'Lodgings atWestmystre' 
 to the Lord Treasurer that he had spent 
 all the money he had deemed enough 
 to bring with him, asked a loan of 
 ^200 or ^300, which he 'will pay in 
 Ireland to the Lord Deputy.' In the 
 postscript he asks 'a Loan of one fortie 
 ponds to refreshe me theis holydays.' 
 — McCarthy Mor, pp. 19 and 99. Owen 
 had three sons, but his nephew Donal, 
 ' the eldest relative of the blood,' suc- 
 ceeded by Tanistry. Owen's sons, 
 Donogh Mael, and Finin, commanded 
 400 of the insurgents in 1602. — Car. 
 CaL, 268 and 404, an. 1602. 
 
 Sir Owen's dau. Evline was the wife 
 of Sir Finin O'Driscoll {infra, note aa ). 
 
 y The country of Barry Og (or 
 •young Barry') was Kinalea, in which 
 
 was his castle of Rincorran near Kin- 
 sale. — See Annals, pp. 2269, 2271, 
 and 2 16 1. 'Barry Oge, and the bar- 
 ren's brother John in the Muskry com- 
 mand 120 foot, and 30 horse.' — 
 Dymmok. 
 
 "Sir Owen O'Sullevan Beare; O'Sul- 
 levan Mor is mentioned, infra. Owen, 
 in 1598, was negotiating a marriage 
 between his dau. and Donal, base son 
 of the Earl of Clencar, whom he tried 
 to get elected McCarthy Mor; in 1594 
 he died, and his nephew Donall became 
 Lord of Beare, though Owen's son had 
 ' the best part of Beare and Bantry.' — 
 McCarthy Mor, pp. 27, 37, 134. 
 Owen's son Owen, and his other sons 
 were on the English side at the siege 
 of Dunboy, as they laid claim to the 
 Lordship of Beare. Young Owen was 
 Lord of Ban trie in 16 15 ; he d. in 161 7; 
 he was nephew of Lord Barry, and 
 brother-in-law of Sir Cormac M c Carthy 
 of Muscry, of Sir Nicli. Browne and 
 O'Sullevan Mor. His cousin Donal 
 Lord of Beare, after the defeat of Kin- 
 sale, held out against overwhelming 
 odds ; and his castle of Dunboy was so 
 heroically defended by M'Geoghagan, 
 that Carew in the Pacata says that 
 ' so obstinate and resolved a defence 
 had not been seen in this kingdom.' 
 When Donal was deserted by his allies. 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 173 
 
 S r Fyn 0'Driscall. aa 
 
 The Sones of S r Dermott and S r 
 
 Cormack bb M c Teig. 
 
 he set out with 400 men and 600 women 
 and children from Glengariff on Dec. 
 31, 1602 ; and fought his way through 
 the Barries, the Butlers, the Burkes of 
 Clanricard, and on the 16th of Jan. 
 reached O'Rourk's Castle of Leitrim, 
 with his numbers reduced to thirty-five 
 people. He was assassinated in Madrid 
 in 16 1 8. — Miscel. Celt. Soc. p. 403, and 
 Preface to the Historic, Catholica, ed. by 
 Dr. Kelly. His cousin, the Historian, 
 Philip O'Sullevan Beare, says of him — ■ 
 ' Obiens annum 57 agebat. Erat vir 
 plane pius et largus maxime in pauperes 
 et egenos. Duobus vel tribus Missarum 
 sacris quotidie interesse solebat, longas 
 ad Deum et Superos quotidianas preces 
 effundens . . . Erat procerus et ele- 
 gans statura, vultu pulcher' — p. 338. 
 The Annals, p. 2291, say he was 'the 
 best commander in Munster, for wis- 
 dom and valour ; ' and the Pacata Hi- 
 bernia (book iii. chap. 17) tells of 'his 
 brave charge (at Aughrim) on our men, 
 who were more in numbers than the 
 rebels, in the which Captaine Mai by 
 was slaine, upon whose fall Sir T. Burke 
 and his Troopes, fainting with the losse 
 of many men, studied their safeties by 
 flight, and the rebels, with little harm, 
 marched into O'Rourk's Country.' 
 
 aa O'h-Eidirsceoil. Sir Fineen O'Dris- 
 coll, chief of Collymore in 1585, 
 was living in 16 14. There is an Irish 
 poem on his death by Teig O'Daly. 
 
 From it we learn that his 'eye was rapid;' 
 ' his hand early in seeking the heavy 
 weapons;' 'histongue powerful.' Hisson 
 Conor was a Captain, and his grandson 
 Conor was an ensign in Spain. Fineen 
 mar. a dau. of Sir Owen M c Carthy 
 Reagh ; his son mar. a dau. of Donal 
 Mac Owen Mac Swyne of Muskrie. 
 His grandson Conor Og was killed in 
 a naval fight between the Spaniards and 
 Turks in 1619. In 1601, ' Donogh 
 O'Driscoll delivered to the Spaniards 
 his castle of Castlehaven; Sir Fineen 
 O'D. (who never had been tainted with 
 the least spot of disloyaltie) rendered 
 to them his castle of Donneshed at Bal- 
 timore and his castle at Donnelong.' — 
 See Miscell. Celt. Soc. and Pac. Hib. 
 
 In 1602 Carew took and burnt Lit- 
 tertenlis, a castle belonging to the 
 Traitor Sir Finyn O'Driscoll's son. 
 ' Fynin's three sons abroad are ready to 
 skip to Ireland and do mischief.' 
 
 Collymore contains 63 ploughlands, 
 the Lord whereof is O'Driscoll More ; 
 Collybeg is O'Driscoll Oge's land, and 
 contains 34 ploughlands. — Car. Cal., 
 year 1599, p. 353. 
 
 bb Sir Dermot and Sir Cormac were 
 brothers — their sons were enemies. 
 
 ' Cormac Mac Taige, Lord of Mus- 
 kery, a comely-shaped, bright-coun- 
 tenanced man, who possessed most 
 whitewashed edifices, fine built castles 
 and hereditary seats of any of the 
 
174 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 M c Donaghe. 
 
 descendants of Eoghan Mor, d. in 1583. 
 The people were at strife after his 
 death ; some supported Callaghan, son 
 of Teig, on account of his seniority ; 
 others joined Cormac, son of Dermot, 
 who sought the chieftaincy on account 
 of his father's patent ; others supported 
 the young sons of the deceased Cormac 
 MTaig. — Annals, an. 1583. In 1597 
 Brown writes to Burleigh — ' There has 
 been muchmurderingamong themselves 
 (the M'Carthies of Muskery) about 
 their lands.' The sons of Sir Dermot 
 were Cormac and Teig M c Dermot ; 
 the sons of Sir Cormac were ' Charles ' 
 or Cormac Oge, and Teig M c Cormac. 
 
 Cronelly, and Windele in his South 
 of Ireland (p. 228) mistake Cormac 
 M c Dermot or M'Dermond for Cormac 
 MTeig. 
 
 ' The Captain or Lo. of Muskery 
 hath two sonnes, and a brother called 
 Teigh Mac Dermonde, and Charles, 
 sonne of Sir Cormac Teigh, last Lo. of 
 Muskerry.' ' The countrey of Mus- 
 kerie is very large, wherein five other 
 countreis are conteyned ; he claymeth 
 of them risinge out; M'Carthy Mor 
 claimeth here the keapinge of thirtie 
 galleglass, and findinge of him for a 
 certen tyme.' — McCarthy Mor. 
 
 ' The septs of the Carties themselves 
 (with their Followers and Dependants) 
 were known to bee no lesse than 3000 
 able men. The rest were no less than 
 45°° strong. CormackeMTJermondwas 
 Lord of Muskerry, a populous, a rich, 
 
 and a fast Countrey,' — Pac. Hib. , p. 131. 
 During the siege of Kinsale there was 
 a young gentleman of the Carties, Teg 
 Mac Cormock, son to that well-deserv- 
 ing gentleman, Sir Cormack Mac Teg, 
 who, being of the President's Troope 
 of Horse, combined with the Enemie, 
 stealing away his Horse and Hackney.' 
 He writes from Carrigifuky, June 1602, 
 to ask remission of his offences which 
 he committed 'not to hurt her Majestie, 
 but to recover against my Cosen Cor- 
 mock Mac Dermody some means to 
 maintain my decayed estate, and still 
 likely to be suppressed by his greatnesse, 
 who will by no means give me a portion 
 of land to live upon.' 'This young man 
 bearing no good will to Cormock Mac 
 Dermody, his Cosen, Lord of Muskerry,' 
 makes some communications true or 
 false. Whereupon Carew resolved to 
 seize Cormock's castles of Blarney, 
 Kilcrea, and Macrumpe. Sir C. Wil- 
 mot and Captaine Harvie, with a ser- 
 geant and 24 foote, make shew of going 
 to hunt the Bucke neare the castle of 
 Blarney. This castle ' is four piles 
 joined in one, seated on a maine rock, 
 and so free from mining, the wall 18 
 foote thicke, and well flancked at each 
 corner to the best advantage. Sir C. 
 Wilmot asked for wine and usquebagh 
 (whereof Irish gentlemen are seldom 
 disfurnished). But the Warders, whether 
 out of the jealous custom of the Nation 
 in general (which is, not to admit any 
 strangers in their master's absence to 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 175 
 
 0'Kief. dd 
 
 0'Gallogan. dd 
 
 come into their castles), neither Sir Char- 
 les (though he much importuned to see 
 the roomey within) nor any of his com- 
 pany were permitted to go into the gate 
 of the castle, nor hardly to looke within 
 the gate of the Bawne.' Cormac himself 
 was invited to Cork and imprisoned. 
 
 Cormack consented to hand over his 
 castle of Blarney ' to Captain Taaffe, 
 in whom he reposed much trust, so that 
 no others might have the custody 
 thereof. His castle of Kilcrey sur- 
 rendered to Cap. Slingsbie ; but Mo- 
 crumpe, seated in the heart of Muscrey, 
 surrounded with woods and bogs, could 
 not be gotten without the countenance 
 of an Armie.' Cormock escapes from 
 his prison in Cork, and Wilmot is 
 ordered to raise the siege of Macrumpe ; 
 the castle took fire while a pig was 
 singed, and the warders trying to cut 
 their way to the woods, were killed to 
 the number of 50. As Cormack's 
 children and wife were prisoners, he 
 did not wish to fight, and begged to be 
 pardoned, and he was pardoned for 
 good reasons — as he was the strongest 
 man of followers in Munster, his Coun- 
 trey reached even to the walls of Cork ; 
 he had been only a Jugling Traytor ; 
 not to forgive him 'might have bred 
 newbroyles,and protracted the warres of 
 Mounster ad infinitum.' ' Her Majesty 
 might have got his land,' which, 'in the 
 opinion of all wise men, would have 
 proved too dear a purchase.' 
 
 'Owen Mac Teig of the Drisshan, 
 a Carty of Muskerry, and his Cosen, 
 Owen Ologh M'Swiney, led Bagnall and 
 his forces to Tirrell's quarters at night, 
 which were surprised, 80 men killed. 
 Tirrell, who with his wife had to run 
 away half-naked, lost 50 horse and 
 hacknies, 1000 cowes, sheep and gar- 
 rans, great store of arms and baggage ; 
 only 17 of our men hurt. 'Tirrell 
 rageth in fury against the inhabitants of 
 Muskerry, burning their corn and cab- 
 bines and putting them to the sword, as 
 he thought that Cormock had contrived 
 this plot.' — Pac. Hit., 599, 634, 641. 
 
 " Two of the M c Carthies claimed to 
 be M c Donogh: Dermod M c Owen, who 
 seems to be meant here, and Donogh 
 M c Cormac of note ( E6 ) infra. I regret 
 that I could not find any pedigree of 
 the M c Donogh Carthies. These ' two 
 Chiefs,' as the Annals call them (p. 
 1S37), were at strife for the Lordship 
 of Duhallow, namely, Dermot (son of 
 Owen, son of Donogh an-Bhothair, son 
 of Owen, son of Donogh), and Donogh 
 (son of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, 
 son of Donogh).' They could not be 
 nearer than third cousins. O'Sullevan 
 Beare says of them (pp. 196 and 199), 
 ' Dermysius et Donatus Mac Carrhae 
 de Allae principatu lite contendentes 
 judiciis regiorum judicum stomacha- 
 bantur. Allae principatus competitores 
 conspirarunt.' See note ". 
 
 'The i st is the countrey of M c Donoc- 
 
176 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 M c Awlie. dd Fynen" M c Cartie. 
 
 hoe (called Duallo) vv c h hath w'hin it 
 thre other countreis, O'Chalachan's 
 countrey. He claymeth in these coun- 
 treis the gevinge of the Rod to the 
 chieffe Lords at their first entrie, who 
 by receivinge a whit wand at his hands, 
 for which they pay him a certen dutie, 
 are thereby declared from thenceforthe 
 to be Lords of those countries. He 
 claymeth allso that they are to rise out 
 wth him when he makes warre ; to 
 maintaine for him seaven and 20 Galle- 
 glasses. — State Paper given in the Life 
 of Mac Carthy Mor. 
 
 dd See supra notes "• '• m . M c Awly 
 was 'very inward with O'Neill.' About 
 1602, Sir F. Barkley, 'finding good cause 
 and fitt opportunity to plague Mac 
 Awley (and his Tenants who, under 
 protection, relieved the broken-hearted 
 rebels) harassed all the countrey of 
 Clanowlie, and took from thence 1000 
 Cows, 200 Garrans, besides Sheepe 
 and other spoyle, and had the kill- 
 ing of many traitors.' — Pac. Hib., p. 
 
 " Finghin Mac Carthaigh, ' M c Carthy 
 More,' and Chief of Carbery. See his 
 Life and Letters, by Mr. M'Carthy Glas, 
 and a short sketch of his extrordinary 
 career in the Appendix. He was the 
 most powerful of Irish chiefs, after 
 O'Neill and O'Donnell. This Finghin 
 or ' Florens Mac Carthy myt be both 
 M c Carthy More and M c Carthy Rewe, 
 and thereby become farre greater in 
 
 Munster than ever was Desmond, and 
 greater then any man in all Ireland, that 
 hath ben in this age, for O'Sulivah More 
 and O'Sulivan Bere they do depend on 
 Mac Carthy More ; The O'Driscoes 
 do depend on Mac Carthy Rewe. The 
 Lords of Muskry and Duallow, being 
 both great territories, are of the Mac 
 Cartyes, and depend upon that chieff 
 house, and so do divers other pettie 
 Lords of smaller territories, all w ch do lye, 
 the one upon the other from Cork, 
 above sixty miles together westward, 
 upon the very uttermost p ts of Spayne.' 
 — Report on Florence in 1595, sup- 
 posed to be by Popham. — See McCarthy 
 Mor, p. 135. 
 
 ' These that follow are allyd, and 
 have matched with the House of Clan 
 Kartie : — A Syster of the late Earle of 
 Desmonde married to the Earle of Clan 
 Kartie. A Syster of James Fitz Maurice 
 was married to Sir Donoghe M c Carty, 
 by whom he had issue, Florence and 
 his brother. Corm' M c Dermode, now 
 Lo. of Muskerys Mother was another 
 Syster of the saide James Fitz Morrice 
 the Traytor. The Lo. Roche married 
 a third Syster of the said James, by 
 whom she hath a sonne and a daughter; 
 which daughter is married to Mac 
 Donoghe, now Lord of Dowalla. 
 
 'The Seneschall is married to a 
 daughter of the said James Fitz Morrice.' 
 — Notes for Her Majesty in 1588. — 
 AP Carthy Mor, p. 42. 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 Donell pipe ff M c Cartie. 
 
 Ml 
 
 Fineen wrote to Burghley in 1595 — 
 ' Where Yor Lo p hath enquired who 
 was heir of the said contrey of Carbery 
 — as for my parte I know not a more 
 lawfull heir than myself, seeing Law 
 doth allow custome as well in Englande 
 as in Ireland, and that custome hath 
 bene ever inviolablie kept there ; and 
 yo r Lo p shall fynd me more coniform- 
 able than Donell Pypy himselfe, or 
 Dearmed McCarthy, or Donogh Oge 
 McCarthy, or Donogh M'Owen McCar- 
 thy, or Florence M c Owen or any other 
 of the Cept.' 
 
 'A not of such as are Lordes of Cun- 
 tries being Finnin Mac Card's kinsmen 
 and followers of the Earls of Clancarte 
 within Desmond and the Co. of Cork 
 adioining upon Desmond : — 
 
 Finnin's 
 
 Teg- Aunt ' S 
 
 Sonns. 
 
 O'Sullevan Mooar, married unto Fin- 
 nin's Sister. 
 
 O'Sullevant Bear. O'Donnaogh-Glan. 
 
 Mac Gillo Cuddie. Mac Crehon. 
 
 Mac Gillo Newlan. MTJonnelL. 
 
 Hugh Cormok of Dungwill. 
 
 Clan Dermond. Clan Lawras. 
 
 Hugh Donill Erik. M c Finnin. 
 
 M c Finnin Duff. Clan Teige Kettas. 
 
 M c Donogh Barret. M'Cawlef. 
 
 O'Kiffe. O'Kelahan. O'Dale. 
 
 With many others, and alied by him- 
 selfe and his wife unto most of the 
 
 noblemen in Ireland.' — M' Carthy Mor, 
 
 p. 152. 
 
 O'f the 160 castles built in Cork, 26 
 were erected by the M c Carthies. — 
 J Vin dele's South of Ireland. 
 
 Irish Forces in Desmond. 
 
 Horse. Gallo- Kerne, 
 glas. 
 
 Mac Carthy More, Prince of that 
 
 portion . . . . 40 160 2000 
 Mac Carthy Reagh, Lord of 
 
 Carbry . . . .6080 2000 
 
 Donogh Mac Carthy of Dowallie 24 80 200 
 
 Teig Mac Cormac of Muskry . 40 80 200 
 
 O'Keefe 120 100 
 
 M'Awliffe . . . . 80 o 60 
 
 O'Donovan . . . . 6 o 60 
 O'Driscolls of Collimore and 
 
 Baltimore . . . .60 200 
 
 O'Mahon of Ivaghe . 26 o 120 
 
 O'Sullevan Beare and Bantry . 10 o 200 
 O'Donough More of Lough 
 
 Lene 12 o 200 
 
 O'Mahoni of Brin . . . 46 o 100 
 
 O'Dwyre of Kil-na-Managhe . 12 o 100 
 M c Teig M'Plilip of Kilna- 
 
 loghengarty . . . . 6 o 40 
 
 The last two were not followers of 
 Mac Carthy. — Carew, quoted in M' Car- 
 thy Mor, p. 9. 
 
 ' These are of Carbery, of Florence 
 his countrie, his followers, cosens, 
 and kinsmen. Donell M c Carty, al s 
 M c Carty Reogh; Donogh Oge O'Cullen, 
 Reynold Oge O'Hurley th elder; Teigh- 
 en-orsie M c Carty; Kyrone M c Moragho 
 M c Sweynie ; Teig Oreigan ; Moroghe 
 M'Dermod Oreigan, Dermod, John, 
 and Donell, sonnes to the said Morgho. 
 Teigh MTJonnell Icrooly al s Branagh ; 
 Owen M c Dermodie M c Donnell Cartie.' 
 — AP Carthy Mor, p. 103. 
 
 " Donal-na-Pipe M c Carthy Reagh, 
 
1 7 8 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Donaghe M c Cormack. sg 
 Patrick Condorn. hh 
 
 Lord of Carbery, first cousin and great 
 enemy of Florence, who was, as 
 Tanist, to succeed him. He pledged 
 himself in securities of .£10,000 to 
 Florence, not to interfere with the Irish 
 custom of Tanistry. He was son of 
 Cormac na-h-Aoine ; he was elected 
 McCarthy Reagh in 1593; he mar. a 
 sister of the 'Sugaun,' Earl of Desmond; 
 he d. in 161 2. In 1606 he succeeded 
 in getting his castles of Kilbrittain, etc., 
 and his lands settled on his children, 
 thus robbing his Tanist and his 
 sept. His mother was a dau. of the 
 Lord of Muskery; his sisters were mar. 
 to Butler of Kilcash, Butler of Shian, 
 M c Donogh Lord of Duhallow, Fitz- 
 Gerald Lord of Decies, and M'Carthy 
 of Inniskeen, Chief of Slught Donogh. 
 His son mar. a dau. of the White 
 Knight ; his dau. were wives of Lord 
 Barry, McCarthy of Dunmanway, and 
 M c Carthyof Ballykay. In 1600 M c Car- 
 thy Reagh betrays Florence. ' The 
 said Florence asked M c Carthie Reaugh 
 (they twaine standinge in the windowe 
 in Kilbrittaine Castell next to the sea) 
 what course he would take ? M'Carthie 
 made answer that he proposed to 
 houlde, as he had done, on her Majesty's 
 side. Florence made answeare and 
 said, take heede what you do ! the 
 Queene is not able to overcome us : 
 trust not in the English, for they are 
 not sound among themselves, and the 
 
 Councill is divided, and no man knoweth 
 it better than I do ; and be suere that 
 the Irish will prevaile,' etc.— AP Cartliy 
 Mor, p. 239, and Cronelly. 
 
 85 See note ( cc ). He was killed in a 
 skirmish in Connaught in 1 601, say the 
 Annals, which call him MTJonough, i.e., 
 Donough Mac Cormac Oge, M c Cor- 
 mac. — p. 2231. 
 
 There were also the Mac Carthies of 
 Ballea, of Cloghroe, of Mourne or na 
 Mona; Teig-an-Fhorsa M c Carthy Duna 
 of Gleanacroim, who i° mar. a dau. of 
 M'Swiney, Constable of Thomond, and 
 2 a dau. of Rory M'Sheehy. — See 
 McCarthy Mor, and Cronelly s Family 
 History. 
 
 Ilh In 1582 the Seneschal of Imokilly 
 and Gilla-Patrick Condun made a raid 
 into Roche's country, slew his sons 
 Redmond and Theobald, and a great 
 number of the chiefs of their people 
 and of their chief constables. Theo- 
 bald's wife seeing her husband mangled, 
 shrieked dreadfully, 'so that she died 
 that night alongside the body of her 
 husband.' In a second raid, at All- 
 hallowtide, the Seneschal and Patriccin 
 Condun slew two other sons of Roche, 
 and only fourteen weaponed men of 
 the territory outlived the engagement ! 
 — Annals, p. 1777. 
 
 In 1 600, Mac Hawghe Condon, 
 chiefe of a small country, submitted to 
 the Queen. In 1601, O'Donnell de- 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 179 
 
 John Fitz Edmond.'' 
 Seneshall of Imokellie. kk 
 
 sires Fineen McCarthy to commend 
 him to Patrick Condon. — Pac. Hib., 
 pp. 62 and 302. In 1591, the gentle- 
 men of Condon's countrey were, Ed- 
 mond Gangahe; Edmond Og Condon; 
 Patrick C. ; Walter C. ; Wm. Edmond 
 C. ; and Edmond M c John C; Richard 
 Condon alias M c Maoge, Piers Gold, 
 and Fynne Monsloe. — Car. CaL, p. 
 64. 
 
 In 1598, Cecil writes — 'Certain un- 
 dertakers are clamouring for the lands 
 of Condon ; let this chief be told that 
 his land shall be safe from them.' — 
 M l Car thy Mor, p. 168. 
 
 ' Condon was brother-in-law of Lord 
 Barry, who in 1605 informed Lord 
 Salisbury that Condon was descended 
 of the ancient English, his ancestors 
 maintaining their lands since the con- 
 quest, and was near allied to ancient 
 English in general in the Province of 
 Munster.' Strange to say, Condon's 
 son, David, was a friend of Florence 
 McCarthy, the enemy of his uncle 
 Barry, and with the Earl of Thomond 
 and others was surety for him 'in ^250 
 a-piece.' — Car. CaL, 1605 ; MCarthy 
 Mor, p. 399. The second Earl of 
 Desmond mar. a dau. of Lord Condon. 
 Patrick Condon of Ballymac-Patrick 
 mar. Honora, sister of David Lord 
 Barry, who lived in 1598. — Lodge, vol. 
 i., pp. 63 and 293. 
 
 In 1 59 1, William, son of Gerald C. 
 
 of Cork-beg sold his property to John 
 FitzEdmond de Gerald of Cloyne ; 
 near Corkbeg House are the remains 
 of Condon's castle. — Windele's South of 
 Ireland, p. T97. 
 
 In 1605, David C. describes himself 
 to the Secretary of State as ' Chief of 
 his sept, of as noble a house of English 
 race as most in Ireland, and by birth 
 Baron of Ballyderrowen ; the Lords C. 
 had frequently been summoned as 
 Barons to Parliament— his ancestors 
 had never matched but with Earls or 
 Barons.' 
 
 " I cannot make out who he is, from 
 the Geraldine Documents, or Calendar 
 of Carcw Papers. Perhaps he is the 
 Geraldine under note ( kk ). 
 
 " See supra note ( hh ). Gentlemen of 
 the barony of Imokillie in 1592 — John 
 FitzEdmond Gerrald ; R. Condon ; J. 
 Ca X rew ( ms mark) ; Edmund X Su- 
 pell (his mark) ; Redmond Maguier ; 
 Mastine X M c Pieris (his mark) ; Ed- 
 mond Power; Gerott X Condon (his 
 mark). — Car. Cat. In 1602, 'William 
 M c Shane, the Seneschal's son of 
 Imokilly,' emigrated to Spain, after the 
 battle of Kinsale. The daughter of 
 James FitzMorris mar. John FitzGerald, 
 Seneschal of Imokilly, and 2 ly Sir Ed- 
 mond, son and heir of Sir J. FitzGerald 
 of Cloyne and Ballymaloe. In 1565, 
 ' Gerald Fitz James M c Sleyney, Captain 
 of his nacion in Imokilly and true Lord 
 
l8o STATE OF IRELAND ANNO T598. 
 
 John Fitz Edmond" of Clone. 
 
 of Rostellan, sold unto John Fitz- 
 Edmond James de Geraldinis his manor 
 of Rosteilan.' — Windek, p. 199. 
 
 The 8 th and last Seneschal of Imo- 
 killy was John FitzEdmund FitzGerald ; 
 he married the dau. of James Fitz- 
 Mauriceof Desmond, 'the Arch Traytor.' 
 His son Edmund was twelve years old 
 in 1598. His sisters were married to 
 Condon of Corkbeg, Sir John Fitz- 
 Edmond, and R. M c Brien M c Shee ; his 
 illegitimate son was in Spain in 1602. — 
 Geraldine Documents in Kilk. Jour, of 
 Arch. 
 
 " ' A man very famous for his learn- 
 ing and liberall hospitality in enter- 
 taining of strangers.' — Pac. Hib.,-p. 63. 
 
 A ' Bastard Geraldine, a man of 
 great authority, commissioner of the 
 peace and quorum, and trusted and em- 
 ployed in causes of State; he has ^1000 
 revenue; has made show of religion and 
 loyalty and affection to the English ; 
 but of late has been discovered a hippo- 
 crite and a traitor ... as rebellious and 
 hateful heart towards the English as 
 any Desmond or Tyrone.' — Justice 
 Saxey in 1597, Car. Cat. In 1600, 
 O'Neile wrote to Edmond Fitzjohn and 
 Thomas Fitzjohn, ' to come to himself 
 and fight for your conscience and the 
 right. And if you do not, be well 
 assured by the will of God that O'Neylle 
 will come and sojourn with you for a 
 time ; ' and O'Neille ' utterly spoiled 
 him.' — Car. Cat., 1600, pp. 363 and 364. 
 
 FitzEdmund was Fyneen McCarthy's 
 godfather. — Careii^ in McCarthy Mor, 
 p. 268. After the victory of Kinsale 
 the Lord Deputy, the night that he left 
 Cork, lodged at Clone, a towne and 
 manor house sometime belonging to 
 the bishop of that See, but now passed 
 in Fee-farme to Master John Fitz-Ed- 
 mond, who gave cheereful and plentiful 
 entertainment to his Lordship and all 
 such of the Nobility, Captaines, and 
 gentlemen, and others as attended upon 
 him — the Deputy did honour him with 
 the Order of Knighthood to requite his 
 perpetual loyalty, etc. — Pac. Hib., p. 
 
 5°3- 
 
 FitzEdmond mar. a dau. of Lord 
 
 Barry; died in 1612, aged 82. His 
 monument, with effigies, is in Cloyne 
 cathedral. He had four brothers ; his 
 sisters were married to Lord Inchiquin 
 and Owen M'Donal O'Sullevan. His 
 family vanished with his great-grand- 
 son. 
 
 His epitaph runs thus — 
 
 Epitaphium Johannis de Geraldinis 
 
 Militis. 
 
 Anno Domini 161 1. 
 
 Hie situs est miles magni de stirpe 
 
 Giraldi, 
 Aeterna cujus Patria laude sonat, 
 Hospitio Celebris, doctrina clarus et 
 
 arm is ; 
 Digna fuit virtus nobilitate viri. 
 Omnipotens animam rapiat miseratus 
 
 in nltmn 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 1S1 
 
 The White knight mm called Fitzgibbon. 
 
 S r Thomas of Desmonds Sone, nn latelie made Earle of 
 
 Desmonde, Capten of the Rebellion in Moun- 
 
 ster raysed in October last. 
 
 Dura haec exanimum marmora cor- 
 pus habet ; 
 Illius et gesta in pace, et quam plu- 
 
 rima bello 
 Te doceant vivi, lector amice vale. 
 
 Obiit prsedictus Eques anno setatis 
 85, die vero mensis Januarii 15, anno 
 Dni 161 2. Sub hoc etiam marmore 
 requiescit filius cum patre qui immatura 
 morte patri praeivit iter anno aetatis 43, 
 die vero mensis Martii 10, anno Dni 
 161 2. — See Geraldine Documents in Kil. 
 Jour, of Arch. 
 
 mm Edmond FitzGibbon alias the 
 White Knight, had 400 foot and 30 
 horse in 1599 against the English. — 
 Car. Cal. He is marked ' very dan- 
 gerous' in 1588. 
 
 In 1600, Carevv writes — 'The White 
 Knight hath sent sundry messages to 
 me promising to submit and to be an 
 honest man. A more faythlesse man 
 never lived upon the earthe ... if 
 anything do move him to keep his 
 promise, it is the internal malice be- 
 tween James M c Thomas and him, 
 which is irreconciliable.' He was a 
 Geraldine, a born follower of Fitz- 
 Thomas Earl of Desmond, and brother 
 of his wife ; and yet he betrayed him, 
 and took him prisoner in Slewgrott. 
 And Carew says — ' I protest I do not 
 know any man m Minister but himself 
 
 by whom I might have gotten him.' 
 The White Knight got ^1000 for his 
 service. 
 
 ' The name of the White Knight shall cease, 
 and his race ; 
 His castle down fall, roof and rafter ! ' 
 
 Aubrey cle Vere. 
 
 In 1604, the King orders Edmund 
 Fitzjohn Oge Gibbon, alias Gerald, 
 called the White Knight, to be restored 
 to his ancient blood, and to hold in fee- 
 farm for ever of the King, Ould Castle 
 Town, and Michell's Town in Cork ; 
 and, as he hath good scope of land, 
 ... to be countenanced with the style 
 of Baron of Clangibbon. — Car. Cal. 
 
 There was also FitzGibbon of the 
 half barony of Kilmore, near Charle- 
 ville — ' David an-Chomhraic (of the 
 combat) FitzGibbon, Lord of Coill-mor, 
 died in 1582.' — Annals. 
 
 See more about those FitzGibbon s 
 in the Geraldine Documents, Kilk. Arch. 
 Journal, 4th series, p. 609. 
 
 ™ ' That Archtraitor and usurping 
 Earle' of Desmond, writes Carew, was 
 the most mightie and potent Geraldine 
 that had been of any of the Earles of 
 Desmond his predecessors ; for he had 
 8000 men well armed under his com- 
 mand at one time.' — Pac. Hib., pp. 
 250, 251. See notes ( mm ) and infra un- 
 der 'the Earls.' He had a brother John ; 
 
182 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 159S. 
 
 Justice Gold, 00 second Justice of Mounster. 
 O'Sullivan more. pp 
 
 Also sundrie other of meaner sort, as — 
 Barrhies. qq Waters. 
 
 Condoms. Flemings. 
 
 and a cousin in the Tower who was set 
 up as Elizabeth's Earl of Desmond. 
 
 There was also a Geraldine seated at 
 Prughus, between Charleville and 
 Tullylease. — Tribes of Ireland, p. 69. 
 Also FitzGerald of Broghill— ' Red- 
 mund FitzGerald, Lord of Tuath-Bro- 
 thaill, was executed in 1596 at Cork 
 for . . . insurrection.' — Annals, p. 1997. 
 
 00 James Gold, according to Chief 
 Justice Saxey, 'is Second Justice of 
 Munster and Recorder of Limerick ; 
 he stands indicted seven times of seve- 
 ral high-treasons which for several years 
 have been smothered, but lately revealed 
 to me by Hugh Cuffe, Esquire.' — Car. 
 Cal., 1597, p. 211. 
 
 There was Philip Gold in Kinalea, 
 and Piers Gold in Condon's country. 
 
 pp See under Kerry and supra note (*). 
 
 qq In 1585 the members for Cork 
 were Norries, Cogan, and T. FitzEd- 
 mond; for the city, Miagh and Sarsfield; 
 for Youghal, Coppinger and J. Collen ; 
 for Kinsale, Galway and Roche. In 
 1652, there were in the city of Cork 38 
 Goolds, 30 Roches, 22 Tyrries, 19 
 Galways, 18 Meads, 18 Coppingers, 11 
 Sarsfields, 11 Martels, 8 Morroghs, 5 
 Skiddies, 5 Ronaynes ; the others were, 
 Walters, Creaghs, Meskills, Fagans, 
 
 Lombards, Verdons, Lavallyns, Whytes, 
 Hores, etc. 
 
 Thirty-nine Gallways, 34 Skiddies, 
 30 Golds, 29 Roches, and 25 Tyrrys 
 were Mayors of Cork. — See List of 
 Mayors in Hist, of Cork, by the Nun 
 of Kenmare. 
 
 Temp. Henry VI., the Wynchedons 
 (or Nugents) were the chief family, 
 their head, ' Chief of his nacion,' lived 
 at Aughavarten Castle (which is now a 
 fine ruin 52 feet high), near Carrigaline. 
 The Goolds and Sarsfields had also 
 'Captains of their nacion.' — Windele's 
 South of Ireland, pp. 6 and 196. 
 
 The County Jury of 1576 were — 
 ' Martell of Martellston ; Tch s Barry of 
 Donboige; Mallefunte of Courteston; 
 Hoare of Money; O'Mahowny of O'Ma- 
 howne's castle ; Skiddie of Frissell castle ; 
 M c O\ven of Drishane ; O'Herlihie of 
 Ballycorny ; James Oge Rooch of 
 Knyvre ; Cogan of Ballenecourtey; 
 Fynen M c Cormac of Bellem c lashy, 
 gentlemen.' — M'Carthy Mor, p. n. 
 
 The Jurors who acquitted W m - Mead, 
 Recorder of Cork in 1603, when the 
 Government wanted to find him guilty 
 of High Treason: — 1. Richard Fitz- 
 David Oge Barrie of Robertstown, Ar. 
 2. Thomas Fitzjohn Gerald of Res- 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 183 
 
 Meaghes. 
 Skiddies." 
 Barrots. 55 
 Nugents." 
 
 tellan, gent. 3. W m Power of Shan- 
 garry, gent. 4. Gregorie Lombart of 
 Bottevant, gent. 5. David Nogle 
 (Nagle) of Mondaumny, gent. 6. 
 Myles Roche of Killeahie, gent. 7. 
 Donell O'Donvaie alias O'Donvan of 
 Castle Donovane, gent. 8. J. Ronane 
 of Youghill, gent. 9. Nich. Galwane 
 of Youghill, gent. 10. Mohenus 
 JVTShehie of Killinetworragh (Kilnat- 
 oora), gent. 11. W" Hadnett of 
 Ballyvoady. 12. Donogh Moel (Moyle) 
 M c Carthy of Fiall, gent. Meade was 
 accused of refusing to recognise James 
 I., and ' of levying war.' The Jurors 
 who were present at the indictment of 
 Meade previously were — O'Solivan of 
 Carrig, gentleman; Teig M'Cormac 
 Carty of Ballea ; Tailor of Mallow ; 
 T. Gaukaghe of Ishinegreagh ; Garret 
 Boy Barry of Ballyncourty ; John Barry 
 alias M c Adam of Rathcormac; T. Barry 
 alias M c Adam of Ballycloghie ; Edmund 
 M c Shane M c Edmund of Ballynecorry ; 
 Hyde of Carrigyneady ; Cahir O'Cal- 
 laghan of Dromynive; W m - Mallesant 
 of Killeaghie (Malefont?); Bryan 
 M c Owen of Cloghdoe ; Redmund Mag- 
 ner of Aghaddy; Teig M c Dermod 
 M'Donnell of Knockilly; Garret Barrie 
 of Ballyregan, gentlemen.' — Car. CaL, 
 1603, p. 68. 
 " In 1596, d. Andrew Skiddie, pos- 
 
 Goldes. uu 
 Russells. 
 Galloways. 
 
 sessed of the 'North Abbey of the Friars 
 of Shandon.' Skiddy's Castle, on west 
 of North Main Street, built by John 
 Skiddyin 1445, was demolished in 1785. 
 On a bell in Trinity Church is inscribed 
 — 'Andrew Skiddie, Mayor — R. Pen- 
 nington made me in the yeare of our 
 Lordei62i.' See infra Elinor Roche, 
 tice Skiddy. In 1594, R. Skyddye 
 was ' Chaplain of our Ladye Chapel;' 
 in 1536, Reen ny Skiddy was held by 
 R. Skyddy, 'chief of his nacion.'— 
 Windele, p. 181. 
 
 ss Barret, the ' chief of his nacion,' 
 owned the strong castle of Ballincollig 
 and the castles of Carrigrohan and 
 Castlemore (which are now ruins). 
 Wm. B. of Ballincollig, 'chief of a 
 small countrye,' submitted in 1599.' — 
 Windele, pp. 252-6. In 16 12, Andrew 
 Barret was M.P. for co. Cork. In 
 1588, John Fitzjames Barrett, Prior of 
 St. Stephen's by Cork, to Wm. Kyent 
 of Corck, Sheareman, and Honory ny 
 Learie his wife, two beds of the garden 
 situate in the Nard, to hold for 50 
 years, at the rate of two pence yearly. 
 The prior puts ' his mark.' — Windele. 
 
 " Of Ahamartha, castle still standing, 
 see note ( qq ). 
 
 uu See note ( 00 ). 
 
 Ronayn of Ronayne's Court. A 
 chimney-piece bears the inscription — 
 
1 84 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Roches. vv 
 
 Chief Undertakers™ in this Countie: — 
 Sir Thomas Norries xx L. President. 
 
 'Morris Ronayn, and Margaret Gould 
 builded this house in the yeare of our 
 Lorde 1627, and in the 3 yeare of 
 Kinge Charles, Love God and Neigh- 
 bors, M.R. (I.H.S.) M.G.' 
 
 T. Ronayne of Ronayne's Court was 
 Mayor of Cork in 1630. This family 
 became extinct in 1798, and the repre- 
 sentative in the female line is Sarsfield 
 of Ducloyne. 
 
 In 1536, Cogan was 'Lord of the 
 Manor of Bernyheylye in the counties 
 of Kerrycurihy.' 
 
 vv Vide Lord Roche. The Roches 
 had in 1652 two castles, 'the Golden 
 Castle ' inside, and ' Short Castle ' out- 
 side the walls of Cork. There is in 
 Christ Church the old Roche tomb with 
 the words still visible — 'Jacobus Roche. 
 Also a tomb of 'Morris Roche Fitz- 
 James, Alderman, and his only wife, 
 Elenor Roche, alias Skiddy, this being 
 their last dwelling ; ' date 1634. 
 
 There is an anonymous inscription 
 on another tomb in Christ Church — 
 
 ' God's peace bee with yow my tow 
 good shisters, Ellinor and Margarite. 
 a.d. 1624.' — Windele, p. 56. 
 
 A stone, which belonged probably to 
 St. Peter's Church, has the initials 
 I.H.S. 'circled with a glory,' and the 
 inscription — ' Made at Cork i anno 
 dni. 1586 xxiii. June. 
 
 ' SH)g sucrreo name, © ILntB, 
 (Encrtabc foitfjin mg brcst, 
 Sttfj therein ootfj consist 
 fHg fatal ano nnln rest.' 
 W1V Character of certain English 
 settlers. 'They are freed from three of 
 the greatest dangers : first, they cannot 
 meet in all that land (Ireland) any 
 worsse than themselves; secondly, they 
 neednot feare robbing, for, that they have 
 not any thing to lose ; lastly, they are not 
 likely to rune in debte, for that there is 
 none will trust them.' — Description of 
 Ireland in 1589 by R. Payne, a Settler. 
 ' I have just caus to be agreavd that 
 Her Majesty is abused with such under- 
 takers, I associated with sutch com- 
 panions, and an honourable accion 
 disgraced with such lewd, indiscreet, and 
 insufficient men. . . . My dislike of the 
 proceedings hear hath drawn upon me 
 the enmitea of Sir V. Brown, Sir E. 
 Denny, and others of that sorte, that 
 measure conscience by commodite, and law 
 by lust:— Sir W. Herbert to Burghley 
 in 1588, given in McCarthy Mor, pp. 
 
 5 1 , 52- 
 
 " In June 1599, General Norreys, 
 while, charging at the head of his 
 cavalry, the troops of Burke of Castle- 
 connell, at Kilteely, was pierced through 
 helmet and brain by John Burke, a 
 Connaught gentleman. On the 5th 
 March 1600, Maguire, in a cavalry 
 
COUNTIE OF CORK. 
 
 I8 5 
 
 Hugh Cuff. 
 
 S r Walter Raleigh. 
 
 S r Christofor Hatton's heyre. 
 
 S r Warrham S'- Leger's"" heyre. 
 
 S r Ric. Greenfield's H eyres. 
 The most of the Iryshe Gentlemen of this Countie are 
 latelie entered in Rebellion, having the Noblemen and chief 
 Captens of everie nation. The nomber of their Forces I 
 know not. 5 ' 3 ' 
 
 Castles* 2 and Howses of name are many belonging to the 
 
 skirmish, 'strake Sir Warham St. Leger 
 through the brain.' 
 
 In 1598, Spencer was burned out.of 
 Kilcolman Castle, and one of his 
 children perished in the flames. In 
 the following year he died in London 
 'for lack of bread.' This 'gentle,' 
 poet had written a work to urge the 
 wholesale starvation of the Irish, and the 
 burning of their homesteads and crops. 
 Undertakers in Cork in 1589. 
 @ id. the acre. 
 
 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Hugh Cuffe . 
 
 
 12000 
 
 Arthur Hyde 
 
 
 6000 
 
 Phaare Beacher . 
 
 
 12000 
 
 Hugh Worthe 
 
 
 12000 
 
 Sir W. St. Leger and 
 
 Sir R. 
 
 
 Grynfield . 
 
 
 12000 
 
 Arthur Robyns 
 
 
 4000 
 
 George Robynson 
 
 
 4000 
 
 Mr. Read . 
 
 
 3000 
 
 ™ See supra. The 
 
 ' Sugaun 
 
 ' Earl 
 
 had 8000 men well armed under his 
 
 command. — Pac. Hib., 
 
 p. 251. 
 
 
 In 1599, according to Moryson, 
 Edmond FitzGibbon, the 
 
 White Knight, had . 400 f. 30 h. 
 James FitzThomas, ' Earl 
 
 of Desmond' . . 250 f. 30 h. 
 The Lord of Dowallough . 200 f. 8 h, 
 Barry Oge, and Lord Barry's 
 
 brother in the Muskerye 120 f. 3 h. 
 Davy Burke in the Carbrye 500 f. 
 O'Sulevan Beare, O'Sulevan 
 
 More's country, and Der- 
 
 mot M c Owen usurping the 
 
 name of McCarthy More 500 f. 6 h. 
 
 The Lord President reported that 
 'between March and November 1600, 
 he had slain 1200 weaponed men, be- 
 sides husbandmen, women, and children? 
 — Life of McCarthy Mor, p. 315. 
 
 " 'There were 160 castles in Cork. 
 
 Castles in Muskry in 1600. — Blar- 
 ney, Kilcrea, Mocrompy, Carrignavar. 
 Castle ny Hinshy with Cormack's 
 mother, Castlemore and Carrignamuk 
 with Callaghan M c Teg, Carrigdrohid 
 
 2 A 
 
i86 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Countrie and to the under- 
 takers, the chief whereof is Moyallo, latelie Builded by S r 
 Thomas Norries, L. President of Mounster. 
 
 with Sir Cormac M c Teg's widow ; 
 Donogh M c Cormoc of Cloghphilip ; 
 Owen Loghie M c Swyne of M c Shane- 
 glasse ; Brian M c Owen Loghie of 
 Cloghda ; O'Lery of Carrinecorragh 
 and Carrigneyleghe ; Owen M c Teg 
 Cartie of Carrigfalcaghe, Drissan, and 
 Carrigepookie ; Finin M'Donal Oge 
 Cartie of Downdererige. Septs of the 
 Carties in Muskry — Clan Cormac Oge, 
 Slucht Decan, Slught Tuonedrum, 
 Slucht Cloghroe, the Sept of Clanfad- 
 daghe, Sept of Shane Killie. Septs of 
 Freeholders — O'Lery and O'Mahons. 
 The 'followers' were — Riordens, Moro- 
 hoes, Clancallogans, M c Swynes. 'The 
 countries' were — O'Healies, O'Herlies, 
 O'Long, O'Cronin ; Hegans (brehons), 
 Aulyves or O'Levies (surgeons), O'Dal- 
 lies (rimers), O'Donins (chroniclers). — 
 Car. Ceil., an. 1600, p. 152. 
 
 In Carbrie in 1599 were — M c Carthy 
 V: cogh of Kilbrittain, etc. ; O'Mahon 
 Fun (Fionn) of Evaugh ; O'Driscoll 
 Mor of Collymore, and O'Driscoll Oge 
 of Collybeg; O'Donovan of Clancahell; 
 O'Dally of Munster-Vary ; O'Crowly 
 of Killshallow; O'Murrihie of Bally- 
 widdan ; O'Mahon Carbery of Kinal- 
 meaky (escheated). — Car. Cat., year 
 
 !599> P- 35 1 - 
 
 O'Learys owned the castles of Dun- 
 darierk, Carrigafooky, Carrignaneela, 
 
 Drumcarra, and Carrignacurra (pos- 
 sessed by Dermod Oge O'Leary in 1 588, 
 and said by Smith to be 100 f. high). 
 The pass of Keim-an-eigh separated the 
 territory of O'Leary (Ibh-Leary) from 
 O'Sullevan's lands. 
 
 In 1600, the O'Learies, to the num- 
 ber of 100, attacked the Carties of 
 Carbery, and after a sharp skirmish, 
 O'Lery, Head of that Sept, was slain, 
 and 10 other the chiefe of his family, 
 with some more of lesse note.' — Pac. 
 Bib., p. 171. O'Mahony's castle and 
 his lands of Kinalmeaky for several 
 miles on both sides of the Bandon 
 river were granted to Beecher and 
 Grenville. 
 
 The M c Swineys built Castlemore 
 circa 1598. They lived at the Castle 
 of Cloghda, a solid keep 40 feet high 
 with projecting battlement. They 
 owned also Mushanaglass, and Castle 
 M c Dermod Oge. — Windele. 
 
 Castle Donovan or Sowagh, a tall 
 square keep with crenellated battle- 
 ments, and projecting defences at the 
 angles. Donal O'Donovan of this 
 place got a regrant from James I. by 
 English tenure of this castle, and a 
 large extent of territory. Copious 
 and curious details about this O'Dono- 
 van, Chief of Clancahill, are given in 
 the Annals and Hy-Fiachra. 
 
COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 I8 7 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 This Countie a properlie contayneth onlie that Land which 
 Lyeth between the River of Mayne and the Sheynen, and 
 
 * Desmond is a parcel of the countrie 
 of Kerry, and is divided into three 
 baronies and a half, viz., Magonny, 
 Iuragha, Dunkerran, and the half barony 
 of Glanaroghto. In the north side it 
 is bounded by the river Mang, which 
 doeth divide Desmond from the rest of 
 Kerry. The south part doeth bound 
 with certain mountains of Bear and 
 Bantry, beginning from Kilmallocko- 
 shista, and continuing to O'Leary and 
 O'Donovan's lands in the Co. of Corke 
 in the mountain of Sleughlogher, and 
 are divided by the head of the rive of 
 Blackwater ; the rest of Desmond is 
 bounded by the main ocean sea. 
 
 The chief castles were the Palace, 
 Bally Carbry and Castle Logh. — Careiu 
 MSS., quoted in M-Carthy Mor, p. 
 221. 
 
 There are in the Lambeth Library 
 some maps of the baronies of Kerry 
 which were made circ. 1598. In them 
 the following places are marked : — 
 
 I. ' Island of Dariry (Valentia) and 
 haven of Bealinche and Beginnis — 1. 
 Slucht Cormack's land. 2. Part of 
 Sluch Donnell Brick's land. 3. Part 
 of Earl of Clancar's land. 
 
 II. ' Half barony of Glaneroght — 
 1. MTyneen's lande. 2. PartofM c Gil- 
 licuddies' land. 3. Lands of Niddin 
 Clan Tiege Kittagh. 4. Clandermot's 
 land. 5. A quarter of the Bishop of 
 Cork's land. 6. A Sept of the O'Sule 
 van Beare. 7. Another Sept of the 
 O'Sullivan's. 8. O'Griffin's lande and 
 part of the Prior of Inisfallen's land. 
 9. Philip O'Sullivan's land. 10. 
 M c Fineen Duff's land. 
 
 III. 'Barony of Iveragh — 1. O'Sul- 
 livan Mor's lande. 2. Slught Donell 
 Brick's land. 3. Slught nyne Rud- 
 derie's lande. 4. Part of McCarthy's 
 lande in Donell McCarthy's possession, 
 |J« Priory of Ballinskelligs. 5. Lands 
 of Ballycarbery, in Brown's possession. 
 6. Clan Crohan's lande. 7. Slught 
 Cormac of Dunguile's lande. 8. Slught 
 Owen Mor of Coshmang's land. 9. 
 Clandonell Fin's land, and part of Earl 
 of Clancarthy's land, in Donnell M c Car- 
 thy's possession. 10. Lands of Bally- 
 carbery, in Denny's possession. 
 
 IV. ' Barony of Magonihy — 1. Glan- 
 fleske or O'Donoghoe Glan's lande. 2. 
 Onaght or O'Donoghoe Mdr's, and 
 Slught Owen Mor's lande, now Browne's 
 
i88 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 includeth the most part of the mountaine of Shewroyher, 
 which mountaine being the most Easterlie part of this Countie, 
 boundeth it upon the Counties of Limerick and Corke to the 
 East, upon the Sheynen to the North, upon the Sea to the West, 
 and the River of Mayne to the South. 
 
 seignory lande. 3. Kilegy, part of the 
 Earl's lande, now in Donal M'Carthy's 
 possession. 4. Castle Lough, part of the 
 Earl's lande. 5. Part of M c Fineen's 
 land. 6. Slught Fineen Duffe'slande. 7. 
 Slught Murry's (Moriarty's) land. 8. 
 Slught Cormock of Dunguile's land. 
 9. Clandonnell Fin's lande. 10. Part 
 of M c Crohan's lande. 11. Killorgan 
 and other landes of Conways. 12. The 
 Knight of Kerry's lands. 13. Lands 
 of the Abbey of Killaha. 
 
 V. 'Barony of Dunkerron — 1. M'Gil- 
 licuddy's land. 2. M c Fineen's land. 
 3. The Priory of Ahamon's land. 4. 
 O'Sullivan Mor's lande. 5. Slught Cor- 
 mock of Dunguile's land (M'Carthy's). 
 6. Part of the Earl of Clancor's land, 
 in his wife's possession.' — Miss Hick- 
 son's Kerry Records, p. 254, 2nd series. 
 
 O'Donochoe More's countrey of 45 
 ploughlands is now in M c Carthy More's 
 hands. The Lord of Cosmaigne's 
 countrey of 84 ploughlands in his hands 
 also. The Lord of Kerslawny's coun- 
 trey, otherwise called Slight Cormak, 
 conteyneth 35 ploughlands, whereof 
 some are in the He of Valentia. 
 M c Carthy Mor claymeth there the 
 geaving of the Rodd, Risinge out, the 
 findinge of 40 Galleyglas, and to the 
 
 value of jQnp stg. a yeare in spendinge. 
 
 The countrey of [Mac] Gelecudde' 
 contayneth 46 ploughlands. He claym- 
 eth there Risinge out, thegevinge of the 
 Rodde, the findinge of 30 Galleyglas, 
 Risinge out and to the value ,£20 a 
 yeare in spendinge. 
 
 Mac Fynin's countrey in Glenaraught 
 contayneth 28 ploughlands. M c Carthy 
 Mor claymeth the givinge of the Rodd, 
 the findinge of 15 Galleyglas, Risinge 
 out, and to the value of ,£24 yearly in 
 spendinge. 
 
 The countrey of Clandonoroe con- 
 tayneth 24 ploughlands. M c Carthy 
 More claymeth theare risinge out, and 
 it is in the Erie's hands by Her M* 5 
 Gyfte. 
 
 The eleventh is the countrey of 
 O'Donocho Glan (O'Donoghue of 
 Glenflesk in Kerry). He hath there 
 no other dutie but onlly six and fortie 
 shillings fourpence of yearlie Rent. 
 The countrey conteyneth 20 plough- 
 lands. 
 
 The twelfth is the countrey of Clan 
 Dermonde. It conteyneth 28 plough- 
 lands. He claymeth Risinge out, the 
 keepinge of 16 Galleyglas, and in yearly 
 spendinge to the value of ^40. 
 
 'The countrey of Loughlegh or 
 
COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 189 
 
 Principall Ardfert. 
 Townes Dingley, b a walled Towne. 
 
 Traley. 
 Castles" Hand belonging to S r Will m Harbert. 
 
 Castle mayne to the Quene. 
 
 Carrigfoyle c to John O'Connor. 
 
 Teignitowin contains 32 ploughlands. 
 M'Carthy Mor claymeth it to be ex- 
 cheated to him for want of heirs right 
 and legitimate. — McCarthy Mor, p. 32. 
 
 b ' The chief towne in all that part of 
 Ireland. It consisteth of one main 
 street, hath gates, as it seemeth at ether 
 end to open and shut as a town of war, 
 and a castle also. The houses are very 
 strong built, with strong thick walls and 
 narrow windows, and like unto castles ; 
 and all the houses in the town were 
 burned and ruined by the Earl of Des- 
 mond . . . There remaineth yet a 
 thick stone wall, that passeth overthwart 
 the middle of the street, which was a 
 part of their fortification ... we had 
 good muttons, though less than ours in 
 England, for 2 shillings or 5 groats a 
 piece ; good pigs and hens for 3 pence 
 a piece. We were entertained at the 
 Sovereign's house, one of the four that 
 withstood the Earl of Desmond.' — 
 English Narrative written circ. 1598, 
 given at p. 235 of Hist, of Kerry, by the 
 Nun of Kenmare. 
 
 Concerning Dingle, Hakluyt's Chro- 
 nicle, edited in 1599, says — 'That part 
 is full of great mountaines and hills from 
 whence came running down the pleasant 
 
 streams. The natural hardness of that 
 nacion appeareth in this, that their 
 small children runne usually in the win- 
 ter up and down barefootte and bare- 
 legged with many a times only a mantle 
 to cover them. The chiefe officer of 
 the town they call their Souvereyne. 
 In 1585 it got the same privileges as 
 Drogheda. In 1592 R. Traunt was 
 Sovereign of Dingle, the other gentle 
 men in or near it were Stephen Rice, 
 Conway N. Browne, Pattinson (agent to 
 Denny), Gerot Duff Stack, N. Traunt, 
 and O'Sulevan Beare. 
 
 Dingle belonged to Knight of Kerry. 
 He was beaten by Wilmot at Ballina- 
 howe (a place belonging to Edmund 
 Hussey), and he lost Dingle and the 
 Castles of Gregorie and Rahinane. 
 
 Trant and Hussey were members for 
 Dingle in 1613, and the Trants, Rices, 
 and Husseys monopolised the repre- 
 sentation till 1641. — Miss Hickson, 
 p. 158. 
 
 There were 12 or 13 castles in the 
 one small barony of Carcaguiny, and 
 there must have been much more than 
 30 in all Kerry; perhaps there were 90. 
 — A writer in the Kilk. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 e ' Carrigafoyle, chief seat of John 
 
190 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Lixnaw d to the L: thereof. 
 Tarbert to the Quene. 
 Ardfert d to the L: of Lixnaw. 
 Traley to S r Edward Denny e 
 Ingland. 
 
 in the court of 
 
 O'Connor Kerry, who owned also the 
 Castle of Ardee.' — Smith's Kerry. 
 
 This was John na-Cathac (or of the 
 conflicts), son of Conor O'Connor and 
 Honoria, a dau. of the 2 d Earl of Tho- 
 mond. He d. in 1640, leaving no sur- 
 viving male issue by his wife, a dau. of 
 O'Sullevan Mor ; his sister Ellen mar. 
 FitzMaurice of Ballykiely; his daughters 
 mar. the Knight of Glynn, Oliver Dela- 
 hoyde, and Ulick Roche. — Hist, of 
 Kerry, by Nun of Ken ma re, p. vii. 
 
 However, Fineen M'Carthy Mor 
 repeatedly calls O'Connor his nephew. 
 Carrigafoyle was the ' strongest castle in 
 all Kerry.'— Car. Cat.,p. 412, year 1600. 
 
 d 'Also Listowel. Ballykeely belonged 
 to James FitzMaurice, Castle Drum to 
 Moriarty, Dunkerron to O'Sullivan 
 Mor, Dunloe to Daniel O'Sullevan, 
 Dingle to Hussey, Gallerus to the 
 Knight of Kerry, Cahir Trant to Trant.' 
 — Smith's Kerry. 
 
 ' The O'Connells were Constables of 
 the Castle of Ballycarbrey, near Cahir- 
 civeen, for M c Carthy Mor. Richard 
 O'Connell, ancestor of "the Liberator," 
 fought against the Earl of Desmond, 
 surrendered his estates, and obtained a 
 regrant of his lands. He mar. a dau. 
 of M c Carthy of Carrignamult, in Co. of 
 
 Cork ; his son Maurice was High Sheriff 
 of Kerry.' — The Nun of Ken ma re, p. x. 
 e Ned Denny, as Lord Grey calls him 
 in his despatch, distinguished himself at 
 the head of his company at Fort del- 
 Ore, in Nov. 1580. In the Sep' of 
 that year he wrote, ' The service here in 
 boggs, glumes, and woods might better 
 fit mastives than brave gentlemen that 
 desire to win honour.' Yet he got the 
 honour of Knighthood at Fort del-Ore, 
 and a claim on the Desmond estates. 
 His epitaph is in Waltham Abbey — ' He 
 took his deadly sicknesse in the service of 
 his countrie, and died the 13th of Feb. 
 1599.' — p. 141 of Kerry Records. 
 1 See infra, the 'Peers 'and 'Bishops.' 
 A map of Munster in 1 608, dedicated 
 to Cecil, has appended to it — 'Lists of 
 men of note : — M c Fineen at Ardtully, 
 M'Eligot at Ballymac Eligot, John 
 M c Ulick at Castle of O'Brenan, M c Shane 
 at Mornigane, Donel M c Fun at Tybrid, 
 MacGellecudde at Boddesmeen, Donell 
 M c Moriertagh at Castle Drym, M c Tir- 
 logh at Balingown, M c Gray at Tarmin 
 M c Gray, Fitzjohn de Lickfournea, 
 FitzMoris at Lixnaw, Brown at Brown- 
 ogh, Herbert at Clonnmillane, Hussaye 
 at Castle Gregorie, Trant at Caer Trant, 
 Thomas Oge at Ardnagragh, Gray of 
 
COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 191 
 
 Priiuipall The Baron of Lixnaw f commonlie called the 
 Men L: Fitzmorrice, his name is PatrickFitz- 
 
 gerrald, his chief Hous Lixnaw. 
 The Bishop of Ardfert/ 
 Fitzgerrald s Knight of Kerrie. 
 
 Liscahane, Raymond Oge.' — Kerry 
 Records, p. 281, 1st series. 
 
 The English descent in Kerry, given 
 by Carevv : — 'Lixnaw, Knight of Kerry, 
 Bishop of Ardfert; Hussey, Chief of his 
 name; Hores, Rices, Browne, John Oge 
 of the Island and his sept ; M c Henrys. 
 Mere Irish: — Moriertaghs, O'Conor 
 Kerrie, MacHeligots.' 
 
 In 1592, in the 'barony and half ba- 
 rony of Clanmorris lived Pa. Lyksnaw, 
 and John X Piers (his mark) ; in the three 
 baronies of Trughnacmye, Brownlon- 
 clone, and Offerbuye, and the barony 
 of Corcaguinny, were — Rich. Trantte 
 ("suffrain" of Dinglecouishe), John 
 FitzEdward Gerald, M. Brown, Stephen 
 Ryce, Gerald FitzMorish, R. Pattinson 
 (agent for Denny), J. Traunt, Jenkyn 
 Conway, Gerott Duff Stack, T. X M c Ed- 
 mond (mark), J. M c Thomas M c X Shane 
 (mark), Moris M c X Ulick (mark), John 
 X M c Ulick (mark), R. Trauntt, M. 
 Traunt, John Morish, Nich. Brown, 
 Owen O'Suilevan X olios O'Suilevan 
 Beery (his mark), Dermod X O'Swile- 
 van (his mark).' — Car. Cat., year 1592. 
 
 s William FitzGerald, 9th Knight of 
 Kerry, living in 1599, was of Rathannan 
 and Inismore ; had married a lady, of 
 the family of Tobyn, who was widow of 
 
 Morogh M c Shee. He was son of John 
 the 8th Knight, and of Shela, dau. of 
 O'Suilevan More. His brothers were 
 Maurice, Patrick, Gerald, of whom 
 Maurice was in the service of Spain in 
 1605. His sisters' husbands were — 
 FitzGerald Oge of Kilmacow, and Teig 
 O'Driscoll. From him is descended the 
 Knight of Kerry, qui nunc est.' — Gcral- 
 dine Documents in the Kit. Jour, of Arch.; 
 and Pedigree in the Records of Kerry. 
 
 ' The Lord FitzMaurice hath some 
 200 foot. TheKnight of Kerry hathjoo, 
 and a dozen horsemen on a sudden, and 
 100 foot more on 3 or 4 days' warninge. 
 He is my cousene, . . . but the hard 
 usage of my nephew, O'Conor of Kerry, 
 doth make a great number loathe to be 
 persuaded by me.' — Flor. M'Carthy 
 Mor ; see his Life, p. 291. 
 
 In 1600, Wilmot, Governor of Kerry, 
 being conducted to the Quarter of the 
 Knight of Kerry in the night, killed 
 40 of his men, took 500 cowes, 200 
 garrans, two moneths' provisions of 
 meale and butter for his soldiers. 
 Thereby being disfumished of all his 
 provision for his followers, he submitted; 
 Thomas Oge, of the Island, and Donal, 
 son of O'Suilevan Mor, followed his 
 example. — Pac. Hib., 652. 
 
192 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Traunts h of the Dingle. 
 
 Nic: Browne.' 
 
 James oge Perce. k 
 
 The Stackes, 1 a great name. 
 
 h The members for the borough of 
 Dingle in 16 13 were Thomas Trant 
 and Michael Hussey. See supra about 
 the Trants. 'One Traunt of the 
 Dingle went to Spain with O'Sullivan 
 Beare's son after the battle of Kinsale.' 
 — Pac. Mb. 
 
 The Rices were a distinguished 
 Dingle family. About 20 of them for- 
 feited in 1 64 1, in the barony of Cor- 
 caguiny. Piers Rice of Dingle owned 
 'a perty castle' in 1580; Dominick R. 
 of Dingle d. in 1592, and his son had 
 livery of his estates in 1603. Stephen 
 R. of Ballinruddel was with Daniel 
 O'Sullevan of Dunlogh, M.P. for 
 Kerry in 1613. His broken grave is 
 in Dingle churchyard, with the inscrip- 
 tion (now fast becoming illegible) — 
 ' Stephen Rice, Esquire, lies here, 
 Late Knight of Parliamente ; 
 A happie life for fourscore yeare 
 
 Full virtuously he spente. 
 His loyal wife, Helena Trante, 
 
 Who died five years before, 
 Lies here also — Lord Jesus grante 
 Them life for evermore. 
 MDCXXIL' 
 — The Nun of Kenmare' s Kerry, p. xxiii. 
 
 Also, there were men of note, named 
 'TheFerritorand Hubbers.' — Car. Cal., 
 1603, p. 452. 
 
 In Ballyoughtra churchyard there is 
 a tombstone with the inscription — 
 
 'I.H.S. Nagle. P tt L M Terry 1551. 
 A" L" Ferriter 1642. . . . Pray for us.' 
 — Kerry Records, 1st ser., p. 259. 
 
 In 1 64 1 Lady Kerry wrote — ' To my 
 very loveing friend, Mr. Piers Ferriter, 
 at Ferriter's towne,' asking him to leave 
 ' Florence M c Fineen and the rest of 
 that rebellious crue.' — Nun of Kenmare, 
 p. 246. This Piers wrote an Irish 
 Coaine on the Knight of Kerry, which 
 has been translated by Crofton Croker. 
 
 1 Sir Nicholas Browne, ' of Molahaff,' 
 ancestor of the Earl of Kenmare, son 
 of Sir V. Browne, and Thomasine, dau. 
 of Sir N. Bacon, Keeper of the Great 
 Seal. He mar. a dau. of O'Sullevan 
 Beare; he d. in 16 16. — See a great 
 deal about him in Life of M'Carthy 
 Mor. Sir Nicholas' daughters mar. 
 two sons of O'Sullevan Mor. — Nun of 
 Kenmare. 
 
 k In the articles between the Govern- 
 ment Commissioners and the Lord 
 Fitz Morish, and the gentlemen of the 
 country of Clanmorris in 1592, the 
 only names are ' Pa. Lyksnawe ' (Lord 
 of Kerry) and 'John X Og e piers ' ( his 
 mark). I presume James was his 
 brother, and that they were Fitz 
 Maurices. — Car. Cal., p. 67. 
 
 1 ' Nations chiefly noted as procurers 
 of mischief in Kerry and Desmond : 
 
COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 193 
 
 Mr. Conway. 
 
 McKelgot." 
 
 The Clantey M c Gagh and the Stacks, 
 saving Morrice Stack and his brothers. 
 Meet instruments to be employed in 
 Kerry — Morrice Stack and his brothers, 
 John Rice, Donal Faries, R. Rice. — 
 Car. Cal., 1596, p. 203. 
 
 In 1603, 'M c Morris himself, Gerrott 
 Roe Stacke, Donal O'Swillivan More, 
 Hussey the Scholar,' were blockaded in 
 the castle of Ballingarry in Clanmorris. 
 
 ' Maurice Stack, a man of small 
 stature but invincible courage, with 50 
 men, surprised by scale the castle of 
 Liscaghan, put the ward to the sword, 
 burnt Ardare and other towns. Before 
 this none of her Majesty's forces had 
 been seen in Kerrie. The country 
 was strong in men, and full of victuals, 
 yet this undaunted spirit of Stack (a 
 native of that countrey), with a hand- 
 ful of men attempted the enterprize.' 
 
 Maurice was invited to dine by Lady 
 Lixnaw in her husband's castle of Beau- 
 liew, at which time her brother, Donal 
 O'Brien, brother of the Earle of Tho- 
 mond, was with her. The young lady 
 cried out unto Dermond Keugh M c Cor- 
 man, W m - O'donichan, and Edmund 
 O'heher — ' Doe you not heare him 
 misuse me in words ? ' Whereupon 
 they with their skenes murdered him. 
 — Pac. Hib., pp. i2i, 122, 143, 144. 
 
 m See in the Kerry Records some 
 details about the Conways. Browne 
 and Denny and Herbert, and these six 
 gentlemen were adventurers or under- 
 
 takers. Sir W ra - Herbert speaks of his 
 fellow-undertakers in no complimentary 
 terms — as 'men who measure con- 
 science by commoditie and law by lust.' 
 Undertakers in 1589 in Kerry and 
 Desmond, @ 8d. per acre. 
 
 Acres. People. Rent. 
 
 Sir Valentine Brown 6000 20 j£ioo 
 Sir Edwd. Denny . 6000 ,, 100 
 
 Sir William Herbert 
 
 and Sir Charles 
 
 Herbert . . 18,000 „ 300 
 
 " M c Eligott or M c Gillicuddy. In the 
 parish of Ballymac Elligot there were 
 three castles of the M c Elligotts — Carrig- 
 nafeela, Arabella, and Bernagrillagh. 
 In 1613 the lands of Ulick M c Eligott 
 attainted were given to Sir T. Roper. 
 A Colonel Roger M c Elligott com- 
 manded a Kerry regiment in England 
 under James II. — Nun of Kenmare and 
 D' Alton's Army List. 
 
 There was also a ' M c Gillicuddy, 
 Lord of the Reeks.' Donogh M c Der- 
 mot O'Sulevan, alias M c Gillycuddy of 
 Bodevysmine was slain in the Desmond 
 wars ; his territory was granted to Ed- 
 mund Barret in 1595, who conveyed 
 them to Edward Hussey; and in 1598 
 Hussey conveyed them to ' Donogh 
 MTJermody, alias M c Gillycuddy of 
 Bodenesmeen. Donogh had a son 
 Conor of Castlecurrig, who mar. a dau. 
 of John Crosby (alias M c Crossan), 
 Protestant Bishop of Ardfert. Conor 
 had for his second wife a dau. of Daniel 
 
194 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Mr. Grey. 
 Mr. Spring. 
 John Burtall. 
 John Middelton. 
 
 Oconnor Kerrie. 
 
 and many other meane 
 Freeholders. 
 
 Oge Carty of Dunguile ; in 1630 he d. 
 by shipwreck. — Mac Gillicuddy Papers, 
 p. xviii. 
 
 There were also Thomas Oge of 
 Ardnagreagh, Hussey of Ballynahowe, 
 Owen M c Moriarty of Skeart, M c Brien 
 of Tralee, Fitzjohn of Ballykely. — See 
 supra, p. 157. 
 
 Over a niche in Muckross Abbey is 
 inscribed on a slab — 'Orate pro Donaldo 
 MacFinin, et Elizabetha Stephens, O. 
 An° 1631. Q.S.H.F.F.'— Windele, p. 
 
 434- 
 
 "See in the Historia Catholica of 
 O'Siillevan Beare an account of the 
 sufferings and heroism of O'Connor 
 Kerry in his march from Munster into 
 O'Rorke's country. T/ie Annals, p. 
 2095, say that 'in August 1599 was 
 slain the son of Conor Ciarraighc 
 (Donagh-Maol, son of Conor, son of 
 Conor, son of John) by a party of the 
 soldiers of the Earl of Desmond, 
 namely, by the sons of Manus Oge 
 M c Sheehy. This was a great loss, for 
 O'Conor himself (i.e. John) was his 
 ally in war, as was his brother, this 
 Donogh, and all who were in their 
 territory.' 
 
 There was also Hore of Castle- 
 gregory, in the 'barony of Corcaguiny ; 
 he was lampooned by Aenghus O'Daly. 
 
 In 161 2 the collectors in the baronies 
 for the building of Tralee were V. 
 Browne for Magonihies, Hardinge for 
 Iveragh, John O'Conor of Eraght, 
 Croneen for Clanmaurice, Bowdler for 
 Trughenackmie, MTinnan for Glen- 
 erought, Daniel O'Sullivan for Dun- 
 kernan, W m - FitzGerald for Corcaguiny 
 or Letterogh. 
 
 Jurors at Tralee in 1622 — MTJon- 
 nell of Castle Dunn, Coursey of Bally- 
 ronan, Roche of Lachabane, Offaly of 
 Lisnagoun, O'Callaghan of Ballyvidane, 
 Morris of Urly, Garret Oge Brennagh 
 of Ardfert, Owen Oge Carthy of Drom- 
 keare, Moore of Cauncaum, Trante of 
 Dingly Coist, M c Cormac of Litter, 
 M c Crohan, Fitzjames of Litters, 
 M'Owen of Ballingamboon, Mac An- 
 drew of Ardfert, M c Donogh Cullen of 
 Ballybristine. — Nun of Kcnmare, pp. 
 
 239, 2 43- 
 
 Though mentioned only under Cork 
 in our MS., the chief men in Kerry 
 were M c CarthyM6r and O'Sullevan Mor. 
 
 An inscription carved on a chimney- 
 piece preserved in a house attached to 
 Dunkerron Castle in Kerry runs thus — 
 'IHS. Maria Deo Gratias. This 
 work was made the nth of April 1596, 
 by Owen O'Sulivan More, Sily Ny 
 Donogh Mac Carthy Rieogh.' 
 
COUNTIE OF KERRIE. 
 
 '95 
 
 This Countie is in a manner all out in Rebellion, the Inglyshe 
 almost being expelled ; their nomber is about 300 men. 
 
 This Countie was a Countie Palatyne to the Earle of Des- 
 mond, and in that tyme no small hinderance to the Govern- 
 ment of Mounster, by reason the Liberties and Royalties thereof 
 falling to a man of small discretion caused him to be insolent 
 above measure, forbidding the L: President and Councill of the 
 province to have any dealings within this Jurisdiction, and this 
 was the verie ground and caus of his rebellion and utter over- 
 throw — which evidentlie teacheth what may ensue when 
 Princes do bestow places of Justice (as Justiceships or Sherrif- 
 ships) or great priviledges upon any man for himself and his 
 posteritie, Seeing no man can assure that his Posteritie shall 
 be capable thereof. 
 
 There also are graceful figures sup- 
 posed to be likenesses of O'S. and his 
 lady in ' mere Irish ' costume. The 
 lady is dressed in a long close-fitting 
 gown, which covers the feet, and her 
 headdress is something ' stunning.' — 
 Mr. Dunoyer in Kilk. Jour, of Arch., 
 March 1859, p. 291. 
 
 O'S. Mdr lived at Dunkerron Castle, 
 acknowledged the suzerainty of Mac 
 Carthy Mdr, was his hereditary Mar- 
 shal, and ruled over 960 square miles of 
 territory. The lesser septs, who owed 
 fealty to O'S. Mdr, were the O'S. of 
 Beara, Bantry, Cappanacuss, Ardea, 
 Tomies, and the Mac Gillicuddy of the 
 Reeks. Their castles of Carriganass, 
 Dunboy, Reendeshart, Ardea, Dun- 
 
 kerron, Cappanacuss, and Dunloe, are 
 in more or less preservation, and attest 
 the power of a race whose boast is 
 conveyed in these lines — 
 ' Nulla manus tarn liberalis 
 Et generalis atque universalis 
 Quam Sullevanus. ' 
 
 — Kilk. J. of Arch., March 1859. 
 
 Owen of Dunkerron had four 
 brothers — Dermod, m. to a dau. of 
 Owen M c Carthy Reagh ; Boghe, m. to 
 a d r of O'Donovan ; Conor, m. to a 
 d. of the Knight of Glynn ; Donal, 
 m. to a d. of O'Leary (widow of Mac 
 Gillicuddy). He had two sisters m. to 
 O'Sullevan Beare and the Knight of 
 Kerry. Owen's son, Donal, mar. i st a 
 d. of the White Knight, and 2 d a d. of 
 Lord Kerry. 
 
196 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 This Countie contayneth all the Lands from the mountaine 
 nere to the red Shard a joining to the Countie of Corke, to the 
 Sheynen as well above Limerick as beneath in manner as far as 
 Carrigfoyle, and from Slewlogher, a the mountaine that devideth 
 it from Kerry, to the farthest part of M c Bryan O'Gonogher's 
 Countrie : So hath it Tipperarie to the East, Slewlogher to the 
 West, the Countie of Corke to the South, and the Sheynen to 
 the North. 
 
 Limerick b a fayre Walled Cittie upon Sheynen. 
 
 a Redsherd . . . the farthest part of 
 Mac Bryan Ogannogh's cuntry, and 
 comprehendeth in yt Glanwillim, 
 Canolokerry alias the Knight of the 
 Vallyes cuntry, and Cosmoy.- — Dym- 
 mok. 
 
 Limericke hath in it the Knight of 
 the Valley, William Burcke, Mac-Ibrine 
 Ara, part of the White Knight's lands, 
 Cosmay, O'Braics, and upon the edge of 
 Kerry the greene Knight, alias the 
 Knight of Kerry. It hathe Kilmallocke, 
 lately sacked by James FitzMaurice,and 
 Limericum coasting on the sea, hard 
 upon the river Shannon, whereby are 
 most notably severed Mounster and 
 Connaght. — Campion, pp. 3, 4. 
 
 There is two very rich countries called 
 Kennory and Conelogh, both within 
 the Co. of Lemericke,and they are called 
 the Gardenes of the lande, for the va- 
 riety and great plenty of all graine and 
 
 fruites; and also there is more plenty 
 of venison, fish, and foule than else- 
 where in Ireland, altho in everie place 
 there is great store. This land belonged 
 some time to the Knight of the Valley, 
 who for high treason was executed in 
 Lemerick.' — Payne's Description of Ire- 
 land in 1589. 
 
 Ireland beares good corneof all sortes, 
 in particular the county of Limerick. — 
 Dynelfs Tour. 
 
 b See a map of it in the Pacata Hi- 
 bcrnia. 'We passed by Kilmalocke, a 
 good corporate town, overasweetand fer- 
 tile cuntry, unto the city of Limerick, 
 which is indeed a town of castles, com- 
 passed with the fairest wall that ever I 
 saw, under which runs the goodly river 
 of the Shannon, which makes it a haven 
 for ships of good burden. Though it 
 stands above three score miles from the 
 sea, yet such is the sloth of the inhabi- 
 
COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 197 
 
 Principall Killmallock, 5 a Walled inland Towne. 
 Toivnes. Adare, d 
 
 Rakeall, | 
 
 j markett Townes. 
 
 tants, that all these fair structures have 
 nothing but sluttishness and poverty 
 within.' — Sir J. Davis, see p. 469 Cal. 
 S. P., 1606. 
 
 ' The building of Limericke is sump- 
 tuous and substantial.' — Stanihurst, p. 
 
 25- 
 
 The Privy Council wrote to Carew in 
 1600 — 'We perceive by the Lord De- 
 puty's writing, and your own opinion, 
 how necessary it is to bridle the inso- 
 lence of the town of Limerick.' — Car. 
 Cal., pp. 384 and 403. 'It was kept in 
 check by the Castle in 1603; its people 
 rescued, in 1604, a priest who had 
 been arrested by warrant of the Lord 
 President of Munster; 200 and more 
 of the burgesses were indicted in 
 1606 for not coming to church.' — Car. 
 Cal. 
 
 The Mayor in 1598 was James Cron- 
 well. David Cronwell was Bailiff in 
 1 56 1, and George Cromwell in 1 5 74, and 
 James Cromwell in 1586. The Bailiffs 
 in 1598 were Roche and Bourke. In 
 1597 Fitzjordan Roche was Mayor,and 
 men of that name were Mayors in 1499, 
 and often after. Stephen Roche was 
 Mayor in 1601, and Philip R. in 1602. 
 Among the mayors and bailiffs from 
 1588 to 1608 were — Galway, Roche, 
 Creagh, W. Rice, Woulf, Bourke, 
 Stackpol, Stretch, Fox, Arthur, White, 
 Comyn of Parke, Fanning, Waters, 
 
 Sexten, Myeagh, and Hally. The Mem- 
 bers for the city were, in 1585, Arthur and 
 White ; in 1613, White and Counsellor 
 James Galway. In 1594, 'a hundred 
 tall men were sent to ye north, under the 
 leadinge of David Woulfe, capte.' — 
 Lcnihan, pp. 700 and 741. 
 
 'I saw in a Grammer schoole in Lime- 
 rick one hundred and threescore schol- 
 lers, most of them speaking good and 
 perfit English, for that they have used 
 to conster the Latin into English.' — 
 Payne's Description, p. 3. 
 
 c Formerly the seat of the Earls of 
 Desmond. The Members for this 
 borough were, in 1585, T. Verdon and 
 Hurley; in 1613, H. Verdon and P. 
 Kearney. The churches contain sculp- 
 tured monuments of the Geraldines, 
 Verdons, and Halys ; and tombstones 
 of the White Knights and the Bur- 
 gatts. 
 
 The houses, built of hewn stone, 
 were three stories high, and ornamented 
 with embattlements, and tasteful stone 
 mouldings. — Pari. Gazetteer. 
 
 d In 1599 it was a town of the Earl 
 of Kildare's, ' in the midst of bogs and 
 woods.' Essex had to rebuke his sol- 
 diers for ' going so coldly on ' against 
 Desmond's men at Adare. — Car. Cal., 
 304. For six days Desmond skirmished 
 with Essex's army, and ' cut off great 
 numbers of his men.' 
 
igS 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Arny. e Carrigmlyhe. 
 
 Crome/ Loughyn. k 
 
 Askton, 5 belonging to Capt. Barcley. 
 Carrigigonell, h to Bryan Duff. h 
 
 e Perhaps Owney, now Abington. 
 There are here monuments to Sir E. 
 Walshe, who d. in 16 18; to O'Ryan, 
 who d. in 1632 ; and to Barry, who d. 
 in 1633. 
 
 'Belonged to Earl of Kildare. It 
 was held in 1600 by Piers Lacy, and 
 ' gave great annoyance to the subject 
 being seated at the entry into Conne- 
 logh.' It was taken by Carew in 1600. 
 Car. Cal. 
 
 e Anciently chief house of the Earls of 
 Desmond. Its castle was pressed by 
 the Irish in 1599, but was, with the loss 
 of many men, revictualled by Essex. — 
 Car. Cal., pp. 304, 305. 
 
 See a map or sketch of this castle in 
 the Pacata Hibcrnia. 
 
 h Carrigogunnell, now one of the lar- 
 gest and most romantic ruins of its class. 
 The Harleian MSS. contain a pedigree 
 of ' Brian Duff O'Brien, of Carrigconnell,' 
 who was living in 1615. His cousin, 
 Morough O'Brien, 'the most renowned 
 and noble of the heirs of Carrig OgCon- 
 nell and Aherlagh,' was slain by the 
 English in 1577. — See Annals, 1577. 
 
 ■ Perhaps Cahirconlish, which be- 
 longed to the Burkes of Brittas. 
 
 k It may be Loughgur, or Glyn, which 
 is in Irish Clochgleanna. The An- 
 nals tell how, 'In July, 1600, the Presi- 
 
 dent and the Earl of Thomond set out 
 from Limerick. The castle at which 
 this great host gathered was one of the 
 castles of the Knight of Glyn ; it is situ- 
 ated in Glean-Corbraighe, from which 
 it received the name of Cloch-Gleanna, 
 and the Knight the appellation of 
 ' Ridire-an-Ghleannal . . . They re- 
 duced it in two days, and slew a score 
 or two of the Knight's people, together 
 with some women and children. Some 
 of the President's and Earl's men were 
 also slain by the warders. In 1601 the 
 Knight of Glin (Edmond, son of Thomas) 
 was with O'Donnell in his famous march 
 to Kinsale. — Annals, pp. 2175, 2275. 
 
 See a map of the castle of Glyn in 
 the Pacata Hibemia. Of Loughgur 
 Carew says, ' I marched to Bruff, a 
 castle held since the war by the traitor, 
 Piers Lacy, to annoy the passage be- 
 tween Kilmallock and Lymerick. Find- 
 ing it of good strength, and accommo- 
 dated to annoy the traitors in the castle 
 of Logherr, I placed a ward in it. Owen 
 Groom, a stranger of the north, to whose 
 charge Desmond had referred the castle 
 of Loughgerr, at the approach of our 
 army, delivered it to Ulick Browne, a 
 freeholder of the country. The castles 
 of Loughgerr and Bruff, thus possessed, 
 give better liberty to the cattle of Kil- 
 
COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 199 
 
 Principall Shenet. 1 
 
 Castles. Castle connell m to the L: Burke. 
 Newcastle" to Jordan Roche. 
 Ballynitie." 
 
 Robertstoune p to S r Edward Fitton. 
 and divers others belonging to the undertakers, 
 which were Howses belonging to the Earle of 
 Desmond and his followers. 
 Chief Men. The Bishop q of Limerick. 
 
 The L: Burk q of Castle connell. 
 Richard Burke r of Castletowne. 
 Burk of Carrig/ 
 
 mallock (which is the greatest prey 
 pertaining to any town in Ireland) to 
 graze abroad.' 
 
 'As the Earls of Kildare took their 
 war-cry from the castle of Crom, viz., 
 Crem-abu, so the Desmonds took theirs 
 from Shanid Castle, viz., Shanid-abu. 
 The hill of Shanid is still crowned with 
 a Cyclopean fort, and with the ruins of 
 Shanid Castle. — Pari. Gazetteer. 
 
 m Hibernice, Caislean-ui-Conaing. 
 
 " It had belonged to the Desmonds. 
 Jordan FitzGerald Roche was Mayor 
 of Limerick in 1580 and 1588. 
 
 It belonged to the O'Briens. 
 
 p Ballyrobert Castle belonged to the 
 M c Clanchys. From 1593 to 1600, the 
 castle and lands of Rathmore were held 
 from Maurice Shighane by James Oge 
 Leo, who joined the rebels. — Car. Cat., 
 p. 449. 
 
 The castle of Ballycalhane was the 
 chief residence of the Pursells of Kenry. 
 
 Ballyalinan Castle belonged to 
 M c Sheehy, Chief Constable of the 
 Geraldines, who d. in 1601 ; the castle 
 of Lisnacullen belonged also to his 
 sept. 
 
 q Vide infra ' Peers and Bishops.' 
 
 r The following Limerick Burkes 
 flourished about this time : — Richard 
 Burke FitzRichard of Cahirconlish 
 Castle ; John B. FitzRichard of Brittas 
 Castle ; his mother was Onore ni Mul- 
 rian; his wife'a dau. of Sir G. Thornton ; 
 his brothers, Theobald and William, 
 lived at Cahirconlish. Oliver Burke of 
 Kilpeacon Castle d. in 1592, leaving a 
 son, David FitzOliver B. Richard B. 
 lived in Lismolane. — Limerick Inqui- 
 sitions in Royal Irish Academy. There 
 was also a Richard Oge B.of Drumkeen, 
 who d. in 1596, and is ancestor to Lord 
 Downes and Hussey Burgh. 
 
 The Lambeth Carew MSS., No. 635, 
 give in 1570 Sir William and Sir Richard 
 
200 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Lacie of B. s 
 
 Lacie s of Ballingorie. 
 
 Lacie 5 of the 
 
 Burghe, Lo. of Clanwilliam; Burke of 
 Limerick; Lord Burgh of Castleconnell. 
 John Burke of Brittas was ' pietate, 
 et aliarum virtutum ornamento non ob- 
 scuruSjSacerdotumpatronusclarissimus.' 
 — CFSullevan. ' He was of good strength, 
 both in castles and followers.' — Car. 
 Cal., 1600, p. 400. 
 
 He was hanged in 1607 for 'rebel- 
 lion,' i.e., for hearing Mass and wishing 
 to keep a priest in his house. While 
 in Dublin he had given the greatest 
 edification to his keepers by his spirit 
 of prayer and mortification. ' Vir pien- 
 tissimus.' — Fr. Holiwood, in a letter 
 dated Nov. 27, 1606. 
 
 s Bruffe and Bruree, Ballinagarde and 
 Ballingarry. The De Lacies were a race 
 of warriors. I find in the Inquisitions — 
 Piers L. of the castles of Bruffe and Derry- 
 clogh, half-brother of Burke of Brittas, 
 at Adare entered into rebellion in 
 1578, and was slain in 1601, July the 
 23rd. His mother was Honore Ni 
 Mulrian ; Eddie Lacie of Bruree 
 claimed to be his heir. Also there 
 were Eddie FitzWalter L. of Ballina- 
 garde, and David L. of Goreston. 
 
 The Gentry and Freeholders of Owney 
 in 1570 were — Wm. Leashe of the 
 Browfe, and his young son, William; 
 David Leashe, Alleshaighe ; James 
 Fitzmaurice Leashe of the Clewhir. 
 
 The Gentry and Freeholders of Con- 
 
 nellogh — Edye Lacye of the Browery, 
 Piers Purcell of -the Croagh, John Lacy 
 of Ballingarry, Wm. Lacy of Ballin- 
 deryhly, the Walls and others. — Lam- 
 beth MSS. 
 
 At this time (1597) Davie Lacie, with 
 hisbrotheren, Pierce, Ulick, and William, 
 played the rebels, being once pardoned. 
 Davie was after killed in service ; Pierce 
 was hanged at Limerick; Ulick and 
 William were hanged at Kilkenny. — 
 McCarthy Mar, p. 148. 
 
 In 1 601 was slain in battle near 
 Armagh, Piers Lacy (Hibemice Piers 
 Oge Dole's), Lord of Bruff, 'equally 
 illustrious,' says Mageoghegan, ' for his 
 virtueas forhisbirth,and one of the most 
 zealous defenders of Catholicity.' The 
 ruins of his castle are still visible. Of 
 his family were the famous Lacys of 
 the Russian and Austrian armies. 
 
 In 1598 Piers L., 'Vir animi p'.enus 
 nee eloquentiae inanis,' persuaded 
 O'More to march into Munster; he 
 commanded at Adare, and slew Plun- 
 ket for not attacking Essex in a defile. 
 He was one of the officers who rescued 
 the Earl of Desmond from Castle Ishin. 
 After Desmond's capture he went to 
 O'Neill.— O'Sulleiwi. 
 
 Moryson mentions the death of this 
 ' Arch-rebell from Munster.' He was 
 exempted from all pardon by Elizabeth. 
 — Car. Cal. 
 
COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 20I 
 
 Roch' of Lickdowne. 
 Hurley of Knocklig." 
 M c Bryan v of Connaghe. 
 M c Kennedie M c Bryan. v 
 M c Bryan rath. Q'Bryan. v 
 
 'This castle belonged about this 
 time to the family of Archbishop 
 O'Hurley. 
 
 u In Irish, Cnoduinga. Knocklong 
 Castle is now a ruin. T. O'Hurley of 
 Knocklong was M.P. in the Parliament 
 of 1585. His son Randal built Ballina- 
 carrig Castle, Cork, and mar. the dau. 
 of O'Collins, a Chief in Carbery. His 
 son Maurice d. arc. 1632. His monu- 
 ment in Emly bears a long Latin in- 
 scription — ' Perillustris Dominus D. 
 Mauritius Hurlaeus, Armiger, Monu- 
 ment. Hoc sibi, suisque charissimis 
 conjugibus Graniae Hoganae et Graciae 
 Thorntonae, . . . posuit elaborarique 
 fecit. A.N.D.L. 1632.' Then follow 
 eight distichs in his praise — • 
 ' Hie jacet hospitii columen, pietatis asylum 
 Ingenio clarus, clarus et eloquio,' etc. 
 
 In 1583 Archbishop O'Hurley was 
 tortured and put to death in Dublin; 
 in 1609 Edmund and Randal Hurly, 
 notwithstanding their minority and de- 
 fect of clerical orders, got from James 
 I. the Chancellorship and Chantorship 
 of Emly Cathedral. — Patent Rolls. 
 
 In 1606 Morice Hurly drew Red- 
 mond Purcell into a castle of his, and 
 then brought the English on him, and 
 they executed him by martial law. Red- 
 mund was a cousin-german of the 
 
 Baron of Loughmoe. — Car. Cal, p. 
 471. 
 
 " There was Donnell M c Brien of 
 Crosse, whose dau. was wife of Teig 
 O'Hogan; Tirlagh M c Kennedie M C B. 
 of Callough; Donal M C B. of Pallice 
 Greyney, whose son Moroughue Oge 
 was bom in 1600 ; Moriertagh M C B. of 
 Trian Mona, and his brothers Tirlagh, 
 Conogher M c Conogher, and Kennedie 
 M C B. — Inquisitions. The Annals say 
 that Mac-Briain Occuanach, i.e. Morier- 
 tagh, son of Torlagh, son of Moriertagh, 
 went to the Parliament of 1585. This 
 M'Brian Cuanagh was seated in the 
 barony of Coonagh, where the ruins of 
 his splendid mansion are still to be seen 
 at Castletown. In 1598 the sons of 
 this Moriertagh joined O'More. — An- 
 nals, p. 2079. 
 
 However, Carew informs us that in 
 1600 he 'took a castle of one of the 
 Bryans, called Ballytarsny, 8 miles 
 from Limerick, a place of no less 
 strength and worth than Loghgerr, and 
 upon good pledge delivered it to the 
 safe keeping of M c Bryan O'Gonough.' 
 — Car. Cal., p. 400. 
 
 w Brian M c BrianO'BrianofGarraneny 
 Manna slain in 1600. Brian O'B. of 
 Ballyclogh Castle joined the Desmonds ; 
 but in 1598, being at peace with the 
 
 2 c 
 
202 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Knight of the Valley," Fitzgerrald. 
 
 English, he was slain by Redmund 
 Purcell, an insurgent. There was O'B. 
 of Ballygean; O'B. of Afherlae; O'B. of 
 Palliebeg. — Inquisitions. The chief 
 of the O'B. lived at the castle of Car- 
 rigunnell. — See note h . The Annals 
 say that in 1580, James of Desmond 
 was slain by the Lord of Pobble-Brien 
 and Carrigogunnell, i.e., by Brian Dubh, 
 son of Mahon ; and that in 1585 the 
 Lord of Carrigogunnell and Fasach- 
 Luimnighe, i.e., Brian Dubh, son of 
 Donogh O'Brien, attended Parliament. 
 
 The pedigree of Brian Duff O'B. of 
 Carrigogunnell, who lived in 1615, is 
 among the Harlcian MSS. In 1584 
 'A grant was made to Brien Duffe O'B. 
 Mac Donagh of Carrigogynnell, chief 
 of his nacion in Pobelbrien and Lord 
 of Pobelbrien (upon his surrender) of 
 all and singular Manors, Lordships, 
 Castles, etc. ... to hold to the heirs 
 male of his body, remainder to his 
 brothers, Teig, Mathew, alias Mahowne, 
 Dermond, Donalde, and Cnogher O'B. 
 ... to find 3 sufficient horsemen, well 
 furnished with horse and armour, with 
 three hackneys for the said horsemen, 
 with their apparel, and 6 footmen, alias 
 shott or kerne, either galloglas.' — Rolls 
 Office, Dublin. See Lenihan, pp. 76 
 and 114. 
 
 x See note k . O'Sullevan calls him 
 Edmundus Geraldinus, Eques Auratus 
 Vallis, and says he joined O'More in 
 1598, and joined O'Sullevan and Tir- 
 
 rell after the defeat of Kinsale. He 
 was lampooned by the ' Red Bard,' 
 who says of him and his brothers that 
 ' after being killed, they survive ; you 
 will find their track to Rathkeale ; do 
 not seek them except in time of fairs.' 
 He means that they are marauders. 
 The Annals call him Ridire-an-Gleatida 
 (Emany Mac Thomais), and say that 
 he was with O'Donnell in his famous 
 march from O'Maher's countrey to 
 Owney, 'the greatest march with car- 
 riage that hath been heard of; an 
 unreasonable infinite long march, in- 
 credible, but upon my reputation it is 
 true,' says Carew. 
 
 In 1600 he was exempted by Eliza- 
 beth from the general pardon, by the 
 name of ' Edmond FitzThomas Fitz- 
 Gerald, commonly called The Knight 
 of the Valley.' — Car. Cal., p. 502. 
 His son and heir, Thomas, emigrated 
 to Spain after the battle of Kinsale. 
 The Knight, 'though he saw the canon 
 ready to place on his castle, and his 
 son in my hands threatened to be pre- 
 sently executed, would not yield. In 
 winning his castle of Glann, in 1600, 
 we lost 1 1 soldiers, whereof one ensign 
 and 2 1 hurt. Captain Flower had four 
 wounds, and the lieutenants of the 
 Earl of Thomond and Sir H. Power 
 were hurt. Of the enemy of all sorts, 
 80 slain. His son being an infant (for 
 humanity's sake), I did commiserate.' 
 — Carew in Car. Cal. 
 
COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 203 
 
 Purcell y of the crook. 
 Several Freeholders of the Purcells, y 
 Supples, 2 Walshes, aa Obirnes, bb 
 Ryans, cc Fyants, dd Verdons, ee Roches," 
 
 y Among the ' Freeholders of Conne- 
 logh' in 1570, was Piers Purcell of the 
 Croagh. In the vicinity of Croagh are 
 the remains of Amigan Castle, and the 
 castle of Cappa. The ' Red Bard ' 
 lampoons the Purcells thus — ' The 
 Kenry men, hard, hissing griffins. 
 Hungry, lean-bodied — a begrudging 
 horde. All their infants are ill-favoured; 
 before baptism they speak, ordering 
 scanty food for the labourer.' Their 
 chief residence was the castle of Bally- 
 calhane in the barony of Kenry. In 
 1595 there was Purcell of Ballincarrigy. 
 Among the open friends to the Earl of 
 Desmonde were 'the Purcells of the 
 Crowghe, the Supples, Chacies, Lacyes, 
 Hurleyes, Brownes, Rory M'Shane, all 
 the Shees.' — Car. Cal., 1601-1603. 
 
 In 1581 David Oge P., son of David 
 of the Lake, son of Thomas, son of 
 John, son of Thomas, son of Philip, 
 son of the Knight, defeated a body of 
 Englishmen near his castle of Ballycal- 
 hane ; to avenge which the English 
 commander of Adare slew 150 women 
 and children in and around that castle. 
 David was afterwards taken by 
 M c Mahon, and ' the heroic soldier ' 
 was put to death in Limerick. — Annals. 
 Supple of Kilmocua joined Des- 
 mond. — Inquisitions. Also S. of Bal- 
 lenetubbred. — Car. Cal., 1592. 
 
 aa The chief of them was Sir Edmond 
 Walshe, whose tomb is in Owney ; but 
 he will be given under Tipperary. 
 Perhaps this name is meant for Nashes. 
 There were John FitzDavid Nash and 
 his brother of Ballycullen killed in re- 
 bellion in 1581 and 1583. James and 
 Philip N. of Ballycolla Castle lived 
 circ. 1598 ; also Redmond Oge N. of 
 Sesherra, and James Oge N. of Ballone- 
 kaherrogh. — Inquisitions. 
 
 bb Perhaps O'Briens. Anniver O'Brien 
 of Skehannagh was slain in 1601. — 
 Inquisitions. See also note ". Another 
 O'Brien lived at Gortboy. 
 
 cc O'Mulrian of Clonkine. — Inqui- 
 sitions. One of the gentlemen of the 
 Co. of Limerick in 1592 was Connour 
 O'Mulrian. There is in Abington a 
 monument to W m ', chief of the O'Ryans, 
 who d. in 1632. See under Tip- 
 perary. 
 
 dd Called 'Plants' in the list of 1570. 
 James Ffante of Ffantestowne, 'inter- 
 fecit et murderavit Patricium Ffante,' 
 circ. 1598. 
 
 ee A Verdune was Mayor in 1553; 
 there is a monument of this family in 
 Kilmallock. 
 
 " Jordan, Dominick, Stephen, and 
 Philip R. were Mayors in 1588, 1597, 
 1601, and 1602. 
 
204 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Whytes, gg Sheerhes, hh Arthures, H 
 
 E James and Robert W. were Mayors 
 in 1595 and 1569. 
 
 The ' Mayor's Stone,' near the cross 
 of Killeely, outside Thomond Gate, has 
 the inscription — 
 
 ' This Paving was wh 
 Oly ended at the 
 Charges of the Corpo 
 Ration, James Whit 
 E Fitzjames Esquir 
 Being Maior Anni Di 
 MDCXXXVIII.' 
 
 hh M c Sheehy of Ballenerogie ; M C S. 
 of the castle of Ballynoe ; M C S. of 
 Ballym c Kery, and Curraghmore. — In- 
 quisitions. -The M C S. were hereditary 
 galloglasses to the Desmonds, and had 
 their chief residence at the strong castle 
 of Lisnacullia, in the parish of Cloonagh. 
 - — See O Donovan in Ulsi. Jour, of 
 Arch., No. 22, and Annals, p. 28. 
 
 'MurtaghOge MacS. and his brothers 
 Rorie and Edmund, from the cradle 
 inclined to mischief, as all that sept 
 hath been, being oft apprehended and 
 imprisoned, and having broken prisons 
 (Murtagh at Limerick, Rory at Kil- 
 kenny), after many favors went into 
 oppen accion. Murtagh was marked 
 by nature ; he had a strong arm, a 
 desperate villanie, and a skilful tar- 
 geteer. He was taken in a wood 
 killing of porkes, and making provision 
 to entertain the rebels of Leinster. 
 Being brought to Cork and arraigned, 
 evidence was given against him that he 
 had prayed, spoiled and murdered 
 
 about fourscore English families. Sen- 
 tence was given that he should have 
 his arms and his thies broken with a 
 sledge, and hang in chains. So he 
 was executed without the north gate of 
 Cork an° 1597. Rory was killed by an 
 Irish kerne ; and Edmund was killed 
 by an Englishman at the spoil of Kil- 
 kolman.'— McCarthy Mor, p. 148. 
 
 " Dr. Arthurs' father, William, d. in 
 1622, aged 60. His person was hand- 
 some, symmetrical and upright his 
 form ; a long beard graced his cheeks ; 
 courteous, polite, mild of eyes, of 
 voice, of aspect, munificent, clement 
 and kind, the prayers of all bless him. 
 Far from him was wrath, treachery, 
 malice, and the crime of odious avarice; 
 a worshipper of faith and of God, 
 estimable for guileless simplicity. His 
 generous house was open in hospitality 
 to foreign exiles. He married in 1587 
 Anastatia Rice, who was mother of a 
 numerous offspring, long abstained 
 from meat and wine, and d. in 1640, 
 aged 70. — Dr. Arthur, quoted by 
 Lenihan, p. 368. 
 
 James Stackpole had a son Bar- 
 tholomew, who mar. in 1636 a dau. of 
 the famous Dr. Arthur of Limerick, 
 He gave his fiancee 25 wedding presents, 
 amongst which were a small goulde 
 cross, a goulde ring weighing 22 carats, 
 2 small gould rings, 5 carats each . . . 
 i payer of Spanish leather shoes. — 
 Arthur MSS. 
 
COUNTIE OF LIMERICK. 
 
 205 
 
 Sir George Bowcher, Sir Edwd. Fitton, 
 
 Sir W'" m - Courtney, with divers others of the 
 
 Burkes/ Lacies, 5 Geraldines, jj Shees, hh 
 
 Foxes, kk Jordans, Fannings. 11 Of the undertakers, 
 
 s Thomas M c Shane FitzGerald, alias 
 Thomas Cam, of Clenglish, mar. a dau. 
 of M'Carthy of Muskerry; he is an- 
 cestor of FitzGerald of Castle Ishin, 
 Co. Cork. He had the castle of 
 Gortnitybured. — Inquisitions. 
 
 tt Fox of Ballyheward.- — Inquisitions. 
 Edmund Fox was Mayor in 1605. 
 u Often Mayors arid Bailiffs. 
 In St. John's Church there was, anno 
 1763, a monument with figures of 
 the Twelve Apostles sculptured in stone, 
 and the inscription — 
 
 ' Thomas Power, quondam Civis Lime- 
 ricensis, et ejus uxor Joanna Rice hoc 
 monumentum haeredibus suis con- 
 struxerunt, in quo ambo sepeliuntur. 
 Ora pro eis pius lector. 
 
 Quisquis eris qui transis, 
 
 Sta, perlege plora, 
 
 Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es. 
 
 Pro me, precor, ora. 
 
 Hoc finito, A. D. 1622.' 
 In Broadstreet there is an inscription 
 on a chimneypiece — 
 
 Petrus Creagh Filius Andrae et 
 Elionora Rice uxor ejus 
 Curarunt extrui has Aedes 
 A suis Haeredibus in timore 
 Amore et favore Numinis diu Possi- 
 dendas viventibus 
 I.H.S. 
 
 1640. — Lenihan. 
 
 Geoffry Galway, Mayor of Limerick, 
 
 a man who had spent many years in 
 
 England in studying of the common 
 law, and returning to Ireland about 
 three years since, did so pervert that 
 citie by counsell and example, that he 
 withdrew the mayor, aldermen, and 
 generally the whole citie from coming 
 to the church, which before they some- 
 times frequented. About a year ago 
 he prevailed on the maior to disarm 
 the soldiers, whereby a gapp was open 
 to him to induce a massacre of his 
 Majestie's forces. Galway was fined 
 ^400 for this by Carew. — See Pac. Hib. 
 
 Twelve of the name of Harold were 
 Mayors, and 8 either Bailiffs or 
 Sheriffs. Daniel Harold, Esq., of 
 Limerick is of this family. 
 
 Edmond Sexten owned the Convents 
 of St. Mary and St. Francis, given to 
 his grandfather, Edmond Sexten, by 
 Henry VIII. In 1636 he was buried 
 in the ancestral tomb in St. Mary's, 
 with 'all the solemnitie that the countie 
 made and could afforde.' — Lenihan, 
 
 P- 657- 
 
 Also O'Madden of Knocktorine, 
 slain in 1598. M c Keough of the 
 castle of Cloneleiffe; M c Canny of the 
 castle of Drombanny ; O'Riardon of the 
 castle of Tholowie, and O'Riardon of 
 Rostemple ; Dondon of the castle of 
 Ballystine; Teig M c Clancy of Roberts- 
 town, killed at Glynn in 1600; Strich 
 
206 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Sir John Outrich. mm Capt. Barcley. 
 
 Capt. Collam. Mr. Billinglesloy. mm 
 
 George Thornton, provost Marshall of Mounster. 
 The most part of the Irish are joined together in this Re- 
 bellion, especiallie such who either themselves or whose Parents 
 lost their Lands by the Earle of Desmond's rebellion. 11 " 
 
 of the castle of Rathward, and Stritch 
 of Gort Veaghan ; England of the castle 
 of Englandstovvn, whose father was 
 hanged for rebellion, his mother was 
 Unie Ni Donell Clancie ; Mahowne 
 M c Da of Kilmede and Atheveghan ; 
 Browne of Camus, in rebellion, ancestor 
 of Marshal Ulick Browne, the opponent 
 of Frederick the Great; Liston of 
 Skehanagh; Bugget of Buggedstown; 
 Donal Barry of Ballygeybeg d. in 161 2; 
 his son Dowle Barry's monument is in 
 Owney; O'Hynowrane of Muskry; 
 O'HynowranejO'RiodialligheofBallen- 
 nodiallighe; Wale of Listordan; M. 
 FitzEdmund Hubert of Rathkielly, and 
 Hubert of Ballycooghane ; Hubert of 
 Camoye; M c Thomas of Pallice; Fitz- 
 William of Dromeard ; Donogh M c Wil- 
 liam Oge of Glenstille, who murderavit 
 Rochford, a Limerick merchant ; 
 M c Grath of Galbally; R. Oge Cusshine 
 of Liscorroge; E. M c Allister Gavin of 
 Ballynerine, who rebelled in 1584; 
 Leo of Thollovine; John Crom Fitz- 
 Nicholas Sarsfield of Amogane; Woulfe 
 of Williamstowne. — Inquisitions. Raw- 
 ley of Ballingowley, O'Heyne of 
 Cahirelly, M'Mahown of Cragan, Wall 
 of Cloghtreade, Fitzjohn of Balline- 
 mong, FitzEdmund of Gilliterstown, 
 
 M c Tighe of Tuogh. — Lenihan, p. 138. 
 
 Gentlemen of Connyloughe in 1592: 
 — Suppell of Ballenetubbred, Thomas 
 M c Eae, Doole M c Mulmurry, David 
 Lacie, R. Wale, J. Lacie FitzDavid, 
 P. Lalor, Morys Cooswill, M c Henry, 
 Cartrill M c Gerrott, J. FitzThomas 
 MThillipp, Gerrott Liston, J. Nashe, 
 Wm. Oge England, David Barrie, 
 Moriertagh M c Morghe, J. Russell. 
 Among the gentlemen of Limerick 
 county there were besides — E. Miaghe, 
 Oliver Bourke, Conor O'Mulryan, J. 
 Verdon (Sheriff), J. Golde, Stephen 
 Sexten, M c Brene X O'Gonaghes (his 
 mark), T. Yong, Jordan Roche, J. 
 Monsloy,T. FitzEdmond, Wm. M c Rick- 
 ard, T. Brown, T. Fitz William, E. 
 Whytte, Moroghe X M'Brene (his 
 mark), Redmond FitzWilliam. — Car. 
 Cal., p. 67. 
 
 mm Sir H. Outred of Maghawnagh d. 
 in 1599. 
 
 In 1589 Billingely, Oughtread, 
 Barkley, Courtney, and Trencher got 
 12,000 acres each in Conclogh at 4d. 
 an acre. — McCarthy Mor, p. 17. 
 
 nn ' In Limbricke Piers Lacy, with 
 the M c Shees, Clanwilliam (Burkes), and 
 other septs, 300 f. and 15 horse in 1599.' 
 — Car. Cal., -p. 300. 
 
COUNTIE OF TIPPERARIE. 207 
 
 THE COUNTIE OF TIPPERARIE. 
 
 This Countie is devided into Two Counties, the one called 
 the crosse of Tipperarie, the other the Countie of the Libertie 
 of Tipperarie, which is a Countie Palatyne belonging to the 
 Earle of Ormond. In the Countie of the Crosse the Quene a 
 appointeth yearlie a Sherriff as her onlie officer. The Countie 
 Palatyne is ruled by a Constable [Seneschal], a Justice, and a 
 Sherriffe, all three appointed by the Earle of Ormond. 
 
 These two Counties of the Crosse and of the Libertie of 
 Tipperarie are so mingled together, as no plat or card can be 
 made to shew any apparent division, but by observation and 
 Custome whereby the Inhabitants do know the one from the 
 other. The whole countie ioyntlie comprehendeth all the Land 
 from Callan, in the Countie of Kilkenny, to b the [ ] of 
 
 ] Westward, and from Emelie, which was the 
 
 a 'The Queene maketh the Shriff A document of the 16th century in 
 
 her head officer. The Palatyne is Kilkenny Castle states that, ' Kilkenny 
 
 gouerned by sceneschall Justice, a and Tipperary counties being joined 
 
 shriffe, and divers other meaner officers, together under one capteyn, have rated 
 
 which two counties lye onelie by obser- themselves to bear for their defense 
 
 vation and custome.' — Dymmok. each "three score beds (every bed a 
 
 b ( ' 
 
 ' To Mac O'Brien O'Gannogh's horseman and 2 kerne), 8 score sparys 
 
 cuntry in the county of Lymrike, of galoglas (i.e., 6 score sherts of mayle, 
 
 O'Mulrean's cuntry, Mac Brian Ara, the rest is allowed to the capteynes and 
 
 O'Downie's cuntry, upper and nether their men to carry their armor)." The 
 
 Ormond, Constinagh, Cosehi, Muskry total monteth to 60 horse, 120 kerne, 
 
 whirke, a great part of Harlow, and by and 120 galoglas for Kilkenny, and the 
 
 ancient division O'Carroll's cuntry, lykenombrein Typperary.' — Kilk.Jour. 
 
 Elye, though he disclaim from yt.' — of Arch., year 1855, p. 234. 
 
 Dymmok. ' Tipperarie, which is now the only 
 
208 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Seat of a Bishop, to Conshilaghe, the West part whereof belong- 
 eth to this Countie, the rest to the Countie of Kilkenny, and so 
 contayneth the Countries of Omulryans, Odwyers, upper and 
 nether Ormond, a part of Conshelaghe, Cosheshany, Muskry 
 Wherke a great part of Arklo, and all onaught. It extendeth 
 from Tobragney (a Well) in the South, to the Field of Breynd 
 in the North 40 Miles, and from east to West some 32 or 33 
 Miles. The Quene hath reserved only the Tryall of Treasons 
 
 Countie Palatine, is made a receptacle 
 to rob the Countries about it, by meanes 
 of whose privileges none will follow 
 their stealthes, so as it being situate in 
 the very lap of all the land is now made 
 a border, which how inconvenient it is 
 let every man judge.' — Spenser, p. 46. 
 
 The Baronies in the Co. of Tippcrary, 
 
 and what Septs inhabit them in 
 
 1600. 
 
 Lower Ormond — The three O'Kene- 
 dies. Upper Ormond — M'Teg of the 
 Kenedies, whose chief house is Badine- 
 doghie; in it is also the castle and abbey 
 of Nenaghe, the Earl of Ormonde's 
 lands ; the O'Mares, the Hegans, the 
 Hogans. 
 
 Owney CMulrian (part of this ba- 
 rony is in the Co. Limerick) — O'Mul- 
 rians. In this barony is the abbey of 
 Owney, Sir Edmond Welshe's house, 
 which was built by the White Earl of 
 Ormond. 
 
 Kilnemanaghe — O'Duire, descended 
 from the O'Briens. 
 
 Ikerim — O'Magher and the Earl of 
 Ormond's castle of Roskrey. 
 
 Eliogortie — -Parcel, Baron of Lough- 
 may ; Cantwell of Mocanke. It hath 
 in it the abbey of the Crosse, Thurles 
 Castle, and Templemore, the Earl of 
 Ormond's lands. 
 
 Slewardie — Sir James Oge Butler, 
 Fanning, Cantwell, Leffar, Mariner. 
 
 DowArra — M c BrienArra,descended 
 from O'Brien of Tomond. 
 
 Eliagheand Killinaghlohart — M c Wal- 
 ter Burke in Eliagh, Donogh Mac 
 Shaneglasse O'Mulrian. 
 
 East Clanwilliam — The Burkes of 
 Muskrie, the Burkes of Onaught, the 
 Burkes of Coshnaie, part of the O'Briens 
 of Arloghe. 
 
 Comshey (part in Co. Kilkenny) — 
 The Tobins. 
 
 Middlethird — Butler, Baron of Dun. 
 boyne, the Hackets, Stapletons, and 
 Mocleere. 
 
 Cantred of Clonmel — -Butler, Baron 
 of Cahir, the Prendergarsts, the Powers, 
 and M c Craghes. — Car. Col., p. 513. 
 
 Freeholders of Crosse Tipperary in 1 600. 
 
 Cantred of Middlethird — Everard 
 
 of Kilmocley, Butler of Morestowne- 
 
COUNTIE OF TIPPERARIK. 
 
 20Q' 
 
 to herself in the Countie of the Libertie, all other crymes and 
 actions which are tried and decided before the Earle of Ormond's 
 officers. 
 
 Chief Toivnes 
 in this Countie. 
 
 Cashell, d well walled. 
 
 Kirke, Butler of Garriarde, Mockler of 
 Ballynattine, Stapleton of Thurles-beg, 
 Hackett of Marshalstown, Hacket of 
 Ballycomuske, Malladg Carran of Bur- 
 densgrange, Meagher of the same, 
 T. FitzRichard Stapleton of Leynaghs- 
 town, E. Stapleton of Garranpheccard. 
 
 Slevardaghe — Piers Butler Fitz James 
 of Ballinonetie, J. Laffane of Greys- 
 towne. 
 
 Eliogertie — Purcell of Kilcaske, Pur- 
 cell of Burres-Lieghe, Stapleton of 
 Kilcloine, Hugh O'Meagher of Kil- 
 oskehane, Conogher O'Meagher, D. 
 O'Meagher, and P. O'Meagher of the 
 same. 
 
 Cantrcd of Clonmel — T. Butler of 
 Ballehymicknie, Lord Baron of Cahir, 
 Butler of Cloghecullie, P. Butler of 
 Knockenamine, E. Butler Fitzjohn of 
 Mullaghenonie, T. Butler of Tample- 
 Ehennie, Prindergaste of Ballyvorish, 
 Prindergast of Grandg, P. of the same, 
 P. of the Pregnanes, P. of Kilvynnine, 
 P. of Carrigetearhie, P. of Rath O'Kel- 
 lie, Keating of Ardfinnane, E. White 
 of the same, M c Donoghe of the same, 
 Eustace Englishe of Cloghemenecode, 
 Eustace English of Rahine, Mansfield 
 of Loghtogherie, Keating of Mores- 
 town e, Donoghowe of Blackcastle, E. 
 Mocler of Ballycurrine, Sherlock of 
 
 Clearichanstowne, Geoffrey Mockler of 
 the same, T. Butler FitzEdmond of 
 Rathnelowre, T. Butler Fitzjohn of 
 Rathenuskie. 
 
 Clanwilliam — Wm. Ryane of Sel- 
 chod, J. Hiffernane of Lattine, M. 
 Hiffernane of the same, O'Hiffernane 
 of the same, Pilline of Duncomyne, 
 Burke of Kilbeckane, (O'Dwyer) of 
 Kilnemannaghe, J. O'Dowyre of Ballin- 
 garrane. — Car. Cal., p. 480. 
 
 c Vide the last note on this county. 
 
 d ' It is said 100 castles are visible 
 from the Rock of Cashel. ' — Kilk. Jour, 
 of Arch., an. 185 1, p. 465. 
 
 ' We passed from Limerick to Cashell 
 over the most rich and delightful valley 
 in Ireland for the space of 20 miles. 
 In Cashel we found only one inhabi- 
 tant that came to church, for even the 
 Archbishop's own sons, and sons-in- 
 law, dwelling there are obstinate recu- 
 sants. We indicted more than 100 in 
 this poor town. The cathedral is a 
 fair ancient structure, on a high hill.' — 
 Sir J. Davys in 1606 — Car. Cal., 475. 
 The Will of Cantwell of Moycarkey, 
 Esq., dated 1618 — 'I recommend my 
 soul to Almighty God, to be placed in 
 ye bosome of Abraham ; and do will 
 my body, after my decease, to be buried 
 in St. Patrick's Church at Cashel, in 
 
 2 D 
 
210 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Clonmell, e > 
 Fedart, f ) 
 
 well walled. 
 
 mine ancestor's tombe there.' — Jour, of 
 Kilk. Arch. Soc, May 1859, p. 320. 
 
 In the old cathedral of Cashel there 
 is a small shield, upon which are the 
 arms of Boyton — ' three spur rowels ' 
 — with the name of Boyton in old 
 English letters inscribed upon it. Also 
 the tomb of O'Kearney, the lord of 
 many manors in the neighbourhood, 
 who d. in 1460 ; his direct descendant, 
 David O'K., was Archbishop of Cashel 
 in 1602. The O'K. lived at the castles 
 of Killusty, and Barretstown, at Cap- 
 paghmore, and Knockinglass. 
 
 e ' A well built and well kept town. 
 Being in the liberty, is more haunted 
 with Jesuits and priests than any other 
 town or city in this province, which is 
 the cause we found the burgesses more 
 obstinate here than elsewhere. The 
 Lord President did gently offer to the 
 principal inhabitants not to proceed 
 against them if they would yield to 
 conference for a time, and become 
 bound in the meantime not to receive 
 any Jesuit or priest into their houses ; 
 they peremptorily refused.' — Davys. 
 See Car. CaL, year 1606, p. 475. 
 
 f Tombs in the Abbey of Fethard : 
 'Hie jacent Thaddeus O'Meagher de 
 Ballidin, et Anastatia Purtia ejus uxor, 
 qui me fieri fecerunt, 20 Maii anno Salu- 
 tis 1600.' The present representative of 
 that family is Mr. O'Meagher of Fethard. 
 
 In the market house, which had in 
 former days been a monastery, there is 
 
 the inscription — ' Dama Everardus, 
 alias Roche, relicta Joannis Everardi 
 Junioris haec insignia erexit . . . qua? 
 obiit xii Aug. 1646.' She was the d. 
 of Roche of Ballinard Castle, near 
 Fethard. The noble mansion of the 
 Everards is converted into a barrack. 
 A few years ago the only representative 
 of this once illustrious house was a 
 little servant girl living in Mullinahone. 
 The Roches of Ballynard Castle have 
 also disappeared. 
 
 ' Hie jacet R. Heiies qui obiit xxix 
 Dec. 1615 ; cujus perdillectus fater, 
 Thomas Heiies, etiam uxor ejus Anas- 
 tasia Archer me fieri fecerunt' 
 
 'Orate pro animabus Edmondi Tobin 
 de la Briscelagh, gen. Margarae Tobin 
 uxoris ejusdem, Thomae Tobin, filii et 
 haeredis ipsius, et Joanae Tobin alias 
 Marrenel, uxoris ipsius Thomae, qui hie 
 jacent, et me fieri fecerunt 
 
 Anno Doni 1634.' 
 
 Briscelagh was the residence of the 
 Tobins at Kylenagranagh ; its founda- 
 tion is still visible and is called Sean- 
 cloch, ' the old stone.' 
 
 ' Hie jacet Bemardus Kearney Burgi 
 de Fiderdiae, Filius Mauritii Kearney 
 Burgi ibidem, qui Bernardus obiit an. 
 1682 aet. 38, Cujus uxor Katherina 
 Kearney alias Dwyer me fieri fecit an. 
 Dni 1687.'— Kilk. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 Bryan O'Kearney, S.J., was probably 
 of the Kearney family that preserved 
 St. Patrick's Crozier. From their pos- 
 
COUNTIE OF Tiri'ERARIE. 
 
 21 I 
 
 Men of 
 
 Name} 
 
 Carrig, s well walled. 
 
 Emelie, \ 
 
 Tipperarie, \ Wast. 
 
 Holicrosse, ) 
 The Earle of Ormond 1 Butler. 
 The L. of Caer 1 Butler. 
 
 The L. of Dunboyne* Butler. 
 The Arch Bishop' of Cashell. 
 
 session of this valuable relic they were 
 called O'Kearney Baeu/a, or Kearney 
 Crux. This relic was in the possession 
 of Bryan O'Kearney of Fethard, who d. 
 in 1765. He was the last of the male 
 line of the O'Kearney Crux family, 
 and he sold the remnant of their 
 estates to the ancestor of the present 
 Lord Lismore. 
 ' Hie jacent Ricardus Wale de Rath 
 
 kynny, 
 Generosus, et Catherina Wale alias 
 Carran filia. Mathiae Carran de 
 Mobarnane ejus uxor . . . 
 Quorum animabus orate ad Dominum. 
 Datum ultimo Februarii, Salutis 1635.' 
 - — Kiik. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 s In the Church of Carrick is a flat 
 stone with the inscription — ' Here 
 lieth entombed the bodie of Thomas 
 Butler, Esq., sonne to the R. Hon. th' 
 Erie of Ormond and Ossory, who died 
 being Sheriffe of the Co. of Typerary 
 the 12 Jan. 1605.' 
 
 On an altar-tomb at Ballyneale, near 
 Carrig-on-Suir, is the inscription — 'Hie 
 jacet Philippus Quemerford, quondam 
 collactaneus Comitis Ormoniae cum 
 
 uxore sua Margarita Shea A. Dni 1630. 
 Qui obiit 10 Juni.' It bears the 
 arms of Comerfcrd and Shea. — Kilk. 
 Jour, of Arch., year 1862, p. 10. 
 
 At Ballintemple, near Carrick-on- 
 Suir, is a monument on which a hand- 
 some floriated cross with the legend 
 in raised letters — ' Here lyeth J hone 
 Boutlr FitzGeroit of Bolendesert, and 
 his wyf Johana FitzRicardi Ano 1587 
 ] to be made.' Up to 1654 
 the Butlers owned Bolendesert, and the 
 (now ruined) castle of Ballinclohy. 
 
 The other tombstone has the legend 
 ■ — ' Hie jacet Dons Carolus Everardus 
 filius Gabrielis Everardi filii Joannis 
 Everardi de Fethard, Equitis aurati et 
 quondam Justitiarius Regis Banco, hie 
 quoque jacet uxor ei' Catherina Wale 
 filia de Gulielmo Wale de Cuilnemuc. 
 Orate pro animabus suis [ ] Mali 
 
 1643.' 
 
 The Everards owned large posses- 
 sions near Fethard, and also Burntcourt, 
 near Clogheen ; they may now be con- 
 sidered extinct. 
 
 b See at note b , two very full lists. 
 
 1 See infra ' Peers and Bishops.' 
 
212 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Barronet of Loghmie k Purcell, and many 
 Gentlemen depending upon these Noblemen, 
 as the 
 
 Butlers. 1 Cantwells." 1 
 
 Purcells. k Kennadies." 
 
 k In 1598 'the Lord of Clonmel- 
 Third and Cahir, and the Baron of 
 Luachmhagh (Loughmoe), with many 
 others of the young Butlers, joined in this 
 war of the Irish.' — Annals. The mag- 
 nificent ruins of Loghmoe Castle and 
 mansion are still visible. A Baron 
 Purcell of Loughmoe and his son were 
 killed at Aughrim. — Rawdon Papers, 
 p. 351. Thomas P., Baron of Lough- 
 moe, had a dau. mar. to Butler of Bally- 
 nodagh and Moyaliffe, and a dau. mar. 
 to John, brother of the 2 d Lord Dun- 
 boyne. Theobald, son of Richard, 
 ' Baron of Loughmoe,' mar. a dau. of 
 the 2 d Lord Dunboyne. — -Lodge, un- 
 der Lords Carrick, Mountgarret, and 
 Caer. 
 
 There was a Piers Pursell of Kil- 
 nesier. — Inquisitions. 
 
 1 Butlers of Ardmayle Castle, of 
 Ballykyrin. — Inquisitions. B. of Bally- 
 boe, B. of Rouskagh, B. of Shanbally- 
 duffe, B. of Cabragh. Sir James B. of 
 Lismallen and Clonamelchon, mar. a 
 dau. of the Earl of Ormond, and had a 
 son who, in 1628, became Viscount 
 Ikerrin ; B. of Kilmoyler and Bella- 
 carren. — Lodge. 
 
 Sir Walter B. of Kilcash, nephew of 
 10 th E. of Ormond, with some gentle- 
 men of Tipperary, defeated Redmond 
 
 Bourk, and forced him to fly to Spain ; 
 in this action Sir Walter was wounded. 
 He mar. a dau. of L. Mountgarret ; he 
 became 11 th Earl, and d. at Carrrick 
 in 1632. On account of his devotion 
 to the Blessed Virgin, he was called 
 ' Earl Walter of the Rosaries.' He had 
 three sons and nine daughters. His 
 sons-in-law were Power of Monagha- 
 largy in Tipperary, son of Lord Power; 
 Butler, Viscount Ikerrine; Butler of 
 Grellagh, son of Lord Dunboyne ; Bag- 
 nal of Dunleckney; Sir E. Blanchville 
 of Blanchvillestown, and Richard 6" 1 
 Earl of Clanrickard. — Lodge. 
 
 Piers B. of Ballynenodagh or Moya- 
 liffe, son of W. Butler, and a dau. of 
 M c Brien Ogonagh, d. in 1627, and was 
 buried in the Abbey of Holy Cross. 
 His wife was a dau. of the Baron of 
 Loghmoe ; his sisters were m. to 
 O'Dwyer of Dundroney in Tipperary, 
 to Sherlock of Mothe in Waterford, to 
 Esmond Baron of Limbrick in Wex- 
 ford. — Lodge. 
 
 The Lord of Slewardagh, i.e., James 
 Butler, d. in 1600. — Annals, p. 2185. 
 
 m C. of Athassell. — Inquisitions. 
 
 " O'Kennedy of Ballyloghyappull. 
 
 Teig M'Rorie M c Maneny O'K. of 
 Ballyrushane, O'K. of Annagh Castle, 
 Belafinvoy Castle, Kyriagh Kearowe, 
 
COUNTIE OF TIPPERARIE, 
 
 21 
 
 Odwyrs. 
 
 Burkes. p 
 
 Englyshes. q 
 
 Loughshearnes. 
 Whytes. r 
 
 Brackagh, Lackin, Curraghmoririn, 
 Ballygibbon, Caragharnine, Ballycoly- 
 tan, Ballyhinikyne, Delysinclonty, 
 Knockmelura. — Inquisitions. All these 
 were ' in accion.' 
 
 'MTeig of Ormond, i.e., Conor of 
 the Harbour, son of Teig, grandson of 
 Mahon Don O'Kennedy, d. in 1583, 
 a ready tranquil, domestic man without 
 reproach. Philip, son of Dermot O'K. 
 of Ropalach, was then styled M c Teig. 
 The son of M c Coghlan, an intellectual 
 youth, on his first assumption of chivalry, 
 was slain by the son of Kennedy 
 Finn in 1583.' In 1588 (Bryan) 
 O'Kennedy Finn d., upon which 
 Owny, son of Donogh Oge, and Gilla- 
 duffe, son of Dermod, were at strife 
 about the Lordship; at length the terri- 
 tory was divided equally between them, 
 and the name was conferred on Owny. 
 In 1599 Sean, son of Giolla Dubh, son 
 of James O'Kennedy from Ballingarry- 
 Knocshiena in Ormond, was slain by 
 Hugh, son of Morogh O'Kennedy from 
 Ballyquirk. O'Kennedy Finn (Owny) 
 of Ballyhough in Lower Ormond d. in 
 1599, and Gilla Dubh O'K. was then 
 styled the O'Kennedy Finn.' — Annals. 
 
 O'Dwyers of Torrehie, Kilnecree, 
 Cwillo-Cotta. — Inquisitions. 
 
 O'Duibhidhir of Coill-na-manach d. 
 in 1594, and his son Diarmaid took his 
 place. O'D. joined O'More in 1598. 
 
 — Annals. 'In 1600 Redmond Burke 
 with 600 men entered Odwire's countrie 
 to burn and prey the same. Odwire, 
 having assembled as many men as that 
 short warning would permit, fell upon 
 one of his Divisions which consisted of 
 200 foot; of them he slew 120 and 
 many hurt. In revenge whereof Burke 
 entered a second time into the said 
 countrie where he slew Man, Woman 
 and Child, burnt all the houses (castles 
 excepted), and drove away all the 
 Cattle of the countrie.' — Pacata Bib., 
 
 P- 59- 
 
 p Burkes of Banshagh Castle; R. Liagh 
 B. and J. Moel B. brothers, of Shanganagh 
 and Pollaghbeg; B. of Drominagh, B. 
 of Drangan, J. Oge B. of Fehertagh, 
 David B. FitzWilliam of Ballinesillagh, 
 B. of Bellankoaly, Thos. B. FitzWilliam 
 of Swyfine, B. of Ballydare, B. of Las- 
 sinagh. — Inquisitions. In 1583 'John 
 Carragh B., heir to Cois-Suir (in Clan- 
 william), who had been in rebellion, 
 went and seized all the cattle of the 
 Adare ; the warders pursued him, and 
 while with his small body of horse he 
 was charging them, he was shot through 
 the helmet. His people carried off the 
 prey, but John was taken and hanged 
 in Limerick.' — Annals. 
 
 q E. of Cloghemenecode, E. of Ra- 
 hime in 1600. — Car. Cal., p. 480. 
 
 r Of Clonmel— See Co. of Waterford. 
 
214 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Ryans. s 
 
 Bryans,' 
 
 and divers Religious Houses. 
 
 * D. Mac Shaneglasse O'Mulrian 
 of Graigeneskie, Loughlin MTeig 
 MThomas Finn O'M. of Bollibane, 
 O'M. of Craig. — Inquisitions. In 1598 
 the O'Ryans joined O'More. — Annals. 
 
 In the Abbey of Owney there was a 
 monument of the Head of this race 
 who died in 1632. The inscription 
 was — 
 Noblissimus Dns Gulielmus Rian Pa- 
 
 trije suae 
 De Ownii, necnon antiquae Rianorum 
 
 familiae Caput 
 Et Princeps, sibi, uxori et liberis suis 
 
 hanc sepulchri 
 Molem erigi curavit' 
 
 — See the rest in Dynely's Tour. 
 
 1 Mac-I-Brien Ara d. in 1601 ; his 
 sons were Donogh, Mortogh, Bishop 
 of Killaloe, Torlogh Carrach, Teig na 
 buile, Morogh na Tuath. — Memoirs of 
 the <J Brians, p. 546. The castles of 
 Ballina, Casteltown and Cnoc-an-Ein- 
 Finn belonged to them. — Annals, p. 
 1835, note. 
 
 ' In 1592 More O'Carroll, wife of 
 Mac-I-Brien Ara, died — she had spent 
 a good life, without reproach. 
 
 ' Mac-I-Brien Ara, i.e., Torlogh, d. 
 in 1601. There was no other lord of 
 a territory so old as he on the night he 
 died. He was an active, warlike man, 
 who had led his followers in safety 
 from every territory into which he had 
 gone, and seldom had any troops who 
 had entered his territory escaped from 
 
 him scathless : a man who had de- 
 fended the rugged and hilly district, 
 which he possessed, till his death. He 
 was interred in his own fortified resi- 
 dence of Baile-an-Chaislen.' — Annals. 
 
 There were also M c Brien Roe of 
 Tornonyne, O'Brien of Lahesheragh, 
 O'B. of Killmostully, whose wife was 
 Slany Ni Vrick. — Inquisitions. 
 
 In the Abbey of Owneythemonument 
 to Sir E. Walsh (spoken of under note 
 b ) bears the figures of Saints Peter and 
 Bernard, of the Blessed Virgin, and St. 
 Mary Magdalene. He d. in 161 7, as 
 appears by the Hexasticon Chrono- 
 logicon in raised letters on it — 
 ' Jam sexcenti mille annis septemque 
 
 decemque 
 Virgo ex quo enixa est immaculata 
 
 Deum . . . 
 Edmundus Torquatus eques, vir max- 
 
 imus armis, 
 Major at hospitio, nee pietate minor.' 
 — Dynely. 
 
 A tomb at Dangan has — 'Hicjacet 
 Thadeus Geankagh O'Meagher, gene- 
 rosus, qui obiit 19 Dec. 1627 cujus 
 animae propitietur Deus.' O'Meagher 
 lived at Drumsaileach, near Roscrea. 
 
 In 1602 the most distinguished 
 branch of the Mac Egans lived in the 
 castle of Coillte Ruadha or Red-Wood, 
 in the parish of Lorrha, in the neigh- 
 bourhood of which the head of that 
 branch still retains a small patrimonial 
 estate.' — Hy-Many, p. 168. 
 
COUNTIE OF TirrERARIE. 
 
 215 
 
 All the Erles of Ormond. 
 
 Chief Castles Carrig, 
 are — Thurles, 
 
 Templemore, 
 
 Kilshelshane, 
 
 Roscree, 
 
 Kilfekle, 
 
 Caer u beloncrino- to the L. thereof. 
 
 I find in the Annals the following 
 entries about the O'Meaghers and 
 M c EgansandO'Hogansof thisperiod: — 
 'The son of O'Meachair (John of the 
 Glen) d. in 1592. In 1601 the Con- 
 naught Burks were surprised in 
 O'Meachair's country by the Butlers, 
 and many of them were slain "through- 
 out their tents and booths." In 1601 
 Cairpre Oge M c Egan, ensign to the son 
 of the Earl of Ormond, was slain in 
 the attack on Rincorran. In 1602 
 Donogh M c Egan of Killte-roe was 
 killed while attacking O'Sullevan on 
 his passage across the Shannon. Ogan 
 O'Hogan of Ard-Croine d. in 1598 ; he 
 had four brothers — Conor of Ardcrony, 
 John Prior of Lorha, Gillapatrick, 
 Erenach of Lorha, and William. His 
 pedigree is given in MTirbis. Ogan's 
 brother, " John, Prior of Lorha, was 
 slain by a party of the O'Kennedies in 
 J 599- " — Annals. 
 
 Also the O'Hogans of Knockme- 
 lora, Ballyhynkyne, and Gortneskehy ; 
 O'Maghers of Killballyhin, Ballyfoline, 
 Gurtyn M c Philip, Towmenagh, Dan- 
 gensallagh ; O'Carroll of Cowleowen- 
 leane Castle, in Eli O'Carroll ; O'Clery 
 
 of Fydden ; Cosmeagh M'Egan of 
 Agheway ; M. M c Gerald Prendergast 
 of Ballybeg, P. of Leackymack, P. of 
 Newcastle; the M c Gillfoyles of Bally- 
 styanch and Gortnebeist ; Keating of 
 Gormanstown Castle, killed fighting 
 against Essex ; the Conways, Youngs, 
 and Sails of Cashel ; the M c Craighs of 
 Downans and Ballynecourty ; O'Foger- 
 tie of Monroe Lististie ; Roche of 
 Cranagh ; the Stapletons of Rathlegty 
 and Drom ; O'Carran of Burretstown 
 Castle ; Moncell of Moglasse ; Moclear 
 of Moclearstown ; O'Hiffernan of Kill- 
 morie ; Tobin of Poulecapple. — Inqui- 
 sitions. Tobin of Cumshinagh mar. to 
 dau. of Lord Mountgarret ; Prendergast 
 of Newcastle. — Lodge. 
 
 Gerald Grace, called Marcach or the 
 Horseman, of Carney, Co. Tipperary, 
 and of Ballylinch and Legan Castles, 
 Co. Kilkenny, d. in 1618, and was in- 
 terred in Jerpoint Abbey ; his mother 
 was a dau. of Lord de Decies ; his son, 
 Oliver, called Skevach or the Hand- 
 some, d. in 1625.- — Memoirs of Family 
 of Grace. 
 
 ■ See a map of it in Pacata Hibernia. 
 'It is a place of greater strength than 
 
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 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Loghmo to the Barronet thereof. 
 
 So this Countie hath Waterford on the South, Limerick 
 directlie on the West, Cork South West, Thomond or Shenan 
 Northwest, and Lough Degert upon the Sheynan, being in 
 length 30 Miles to the North. 
 
 Of this Countie v the most are in Rebellion, especiallie the 
 younger Brethern, and all the Dependers, althoughe the eldest 
 keep in shew of obedience. 
 
 any other in this kingdom, and of great 
 consequence.' It was besieged and 
 taken by Essex in 1599. — See descrip- 
 tion of the place and siege in Car. Cat., 
 p. 302. 
 
 v Carew writes to Mountjoy in 1601 
 — ' I thought good to discover to you 
 the distempered state of Tipperary and 
 Kilkenny. Keddagh O'Magher hath 
 gathered 300 rogues together, and doth 
 many outrages. In Osserie the Baron 
 of Upper Osserie's nephews are entered 
 into rebellion. In Kilkenny the 3 rd son 
 of Viscount Mountgarret and some of the 
 Graces ransacked that country, and do 
 join with Keddaghe O'Magher; and 
 lastly 200 men under the leading of T. 
 Butler, a bastard son to Sir Edmond 
 Butler, are drawing into Tipperary to 
 assist Kidagh O'Magher. As this up- 
 start rebel is in my Lord of Ormond's 
 liberty (who by his good will did never 
 like to have her Majesty's forcesto inter- 
 meddle within his liberty), I have 
 written to his Lordship to undertake 
 the service, or to leave it to me. The 
 
 poison of rebellion rests nowhere in 
 Munster but in my Lord of Ormond's 
 country. As long as he liveth I look 
 for no good establishment in those 
 borders ... his council about him 
 will evermore abuse him, and under 
 his authority will give impediments 
 to all good proceedings.' — Car. CaL, 
 102. 
 
 Forces in Tipperary in 1599 — The 
 Baron of Cahir and James Butler his 
 brother, with their followers and depen- 
 dencies, 300 f. and 1 2 horse ; the White 
 Knight, 400 f. and 30 h. ; Raph Purcell, 
 Baron of Loughmey, with his followers, 
 200 f. 6 h.; Cahir M c Shane Glasse 
 O'Mulrian, and the rest of the O'Mul- 
 rians, 30of. 60 h. ; Keadaghe O'Magher, 
 60 f. 30 h. ; Brian Oge O'Kennedie, 
 Hugh O'Kennedie, with the rest of the 
 O'Kennedies in Ormond, 500 f. 30 h. ; 
 Redmund Burke, pretending himself 
 Baron of Letrym, and his bonoghs, 
 300 f. 20 h. ; William Burke Fitzjohn, 
 with the rest of the Burkes of Clan- 
 william, 200 f. 4 h. — Car. CaL, p. 299. 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 21 7 
 
 THE NOBLEMEN 1 OF IRELAND. 
 
 Gerrot Fitzgerrald Earle of Kildare, Baron of Offallie, his 
 eldest Sone is L. Baron of Offallie. The first creation of this 
 Earldome was an 13 15 — 9 Edw d . 2 d . b The first Erie of 
 Ireland by creation. Sir Thomas Butler c knight, L. Butler 
 Viscount of Carrick and Gaurane Earle of Ormond and Osserie, 
 
 a ' By conference with certaine gen- 
 tlemen attendants on Sir H. Sidney, 
 Lord Deputie (who excelleth in that 
 knowledge), I tooke notice of the most 
 noble English families in Ireland, which 
 here ensue with their surnames as they 
 stand at this present.' — Campion, 1571. 
 b One record, that I have seene, 
 nameth a Geraldine the first Earle of 
 Kildare in anno 1289; but another 
 saith there dyed a Geraldine the fourth 
 Earl of Kildare in anno 13 16. The 
 family is touched on in the Sonnet of 
 Surrey, made upon Kildare's sister, 
 now Lady Clinton — 
 
 ' From Tuscane came my Ladye's worthy race, 
 Fair Florence was sometimes her ancient 
 seate ; 
 The western Isle, whose pleasant shore doth 
 face 
 Wilde Cambre's cliffes, did give her lively 
 heate.' — Campion. 
 
 William 13"' Earl of Kildare was 
 drowned in 1599. — See supra, p. 46. 
 His two base brothers, called ' Bastard 
 Geraldines,' were 'in accion' in 1599. 
 — Car. Cal. 
 
 c Called by the Annals (an. 1560), 
 ' Thomas, son of James, son of Piers 
 Roe, son of James, son of Edmund.' 
 O'Sullevan styles him, 'Thomas Butler, 
 cognomine Niger.' He was io lh Earl 
 of Ormond and 3 d Earl of Ossery ; was 
 son of the 9* Earl and of Joan, dau. of 
 the 11 th Earl of Desmond; born in 
 1532, and d. in 1614 ; was brought up 
 as ' playmate and bedfellow' of Edward 
 VI., distinguished him at the battle of 
 Musselburgh, against Wyat as ' Lieu- 
 tenant of the horsemen,' against the Scots 
 of Ulster, the O'Briens of Thomond, the 
 O'Mores; took the Earle of Desmond pri- 
 soner and killed 46 of his captains, 800 
 ' notorious rebels,' and 4000 of his private 
 soldiers, and was Lord High Marshal 
 of England, and Captain and Lieutenant 
 General of the Army in Ireland. He 
 was 'a man of great parts, admirable 
 judgment, vast experience and pro- 
 digious memory, very comely, and of 
 black complexion ; he was called by 
 the Irish, Dubh or the Black Earl, and 
 by Elizabeth, her black husband. The 
 
 2 E 
 
2l8 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 L. of the Libertie and regalitie of Tipperarie, L. High Treasurer 
 of Ireland, and one of the Right Honorable Order of the Garter, 
 his Eldest Sone is Viscount Thurles. The Second Earle by 
 
 flower of his country, he kept the 
 greatest house, and used the most hos- 
 pitality of any in the kingdom, and for 
 his valour, wisdom, liberality, and virtue 
 was greatly honoured not only in England 
 and France, but . . . and was com- 
 monly taken by them to be a pattern 
 of true honour.' — Archdall in note to 
 ' Lord Mountgarret,' v. 4. 
 To him Spenser wrote — 
 
 ' But where thyself hast thy mansion, 
 
 There indeed dwell faire Graces many one, 
 
 And gentler nimphs, delights of learned wits. 
 And in thy person without Paragon 
 
 All goodly bounty and tine honour sits.' 
 
 This ' true honour ' shines in his letter 
 to Burghley, who proposed to him a 
 way of capturing Desmond by treachery. 
 ' My Lord, I wol never use trcchery to 
 any, for it wol both toche her highness' 
 honor to moch, and myne owne credit, 
 and who so ever gave the Queene ad- 
 vise this to write is fitter to execute 
 such base sarvice than I am. Saving 
 my du/ye to her Majestic, I ivo/d L weare 
 to have revenge by my sivord 0/ any man 
 that thus pcrsuadctli the Queene to wryte 
 to me.' — See Life of Mac Carthy Mor, 
 
 V- 3 2 9- 
 
 When Elizabeth asked him to use his 
 intimacy with Hugh O'Neill to entrap 
 him, he wrote to Burghley — 'I have 
 been employed by her Ma tic in manie 
 services ... all which (I thank God) 
 I have performed without using un- 
 
 honest or filthy practices; if my thanks 
 shall be to be put to execute trechery, 
 my fortune is bad, and the service much 
 better for such as devised the same, 
 than for me, that never had, thank 
 God, a thought of any such matter. I 
 protest before God, etc' — See ' The 
 Taking of the Earl of Ormond' in 
 Kilk. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 Davis writes in 1606 — ' My Lord of 
 Ormond hath lain at Carrick ever 
 since his last weakness, because the 
 feast of St. George fell out on the Easter 
 holidays. I was not suffered in any wise 
 to depart until I had seen him do honor 
 to that day. He was not able to sit 
 up, but had his robes laid upon his 
 bed, as the manner is.' — Car. Cal., 477. 
 
 Sir Bernard Burke says, this Black 
 Earl ' was the first of his family who 
 conformed to the Church of England;' 
 however, he was a Catholic for the last 
 nine years of his life. About the 29th 
 of Nov. 1604, two Jesuits of his county 
 palatine were with him (cum languente 
 Comite) ; they were Fathers Walter 
 Wale and Bryan O'Keamey, of 'the 
 devilish clergy of Tipperary'; in April 
 1605 Fr. Wale alone was with him, as 
 all obstacles had been broken down — 
 ' non sine toiius Hiberniae gaudio.' In 
 October it was announced that Fr. 
 Wale had gained the sick Earl to God 
 some months previously; and in June 
 1606, he could not be used for general 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 219 
 
 creation but first by his place of Tresurership his first Creation 
 was 1327 an e I st Edw d . 3 d . 
 
 The Earle of Desmond 3 created the same year, his name 
 
 missionary work— 'quod principi cui- 
 dam viro sit necessarius.' Fr. Wale's 
 companion and uncle, O' Kearney, wrote 
 thirty discourses (Triginta Discursus) 
 on the death of this Earl, which were 
 preserved in MS. in the Archives of 
 the Gesu, Rome. — Let/as (penes me) 
 of Fathers Hollywood, O'Kearney, and 
 Wise, written in 1605 and 1606 to 
 their Father-General Acquaviva. O'Sul- 
 levan's Historia, Dr. Lynch's Alithino- 
 logia, and Hibcrnia 'Dominicans, mention 
 his conforming to the Catholic Church. 
 
 d The following were the children 
 of Gerald the 15 th Earl of Desmond, 
 who was slain in 1583, and whose 
 lands of 800,000 acres were divided 
 among English adventurers — 1° James 
 the 16 th Earl (the Queen's Earl) who 
 died in 1601 ; 2" Thomas ; 3 Margaret 
 m. to Dermod O'Connor of Connaught ; 
 4° Joane m. to Dermod O'Sullevan 
 Bere ; 5 Catherine m. i st to Viscount 
 Fermoy, 2 dly to Sir Donel O'Brien; 
 6° Ellen m. i st to Sir Donogh O'Connor 
 Sligo, 2 d to Sir R. Cressy, 3 rd to Ed- 
 mond Lord Dunboyne, she died in 
 1 660. Their mother, the Countess, 
 was a daughter of Lord Dunboyne; she 
 re-married with Sir Donogh O'Connor 
 Sligo, and died in 1636. 
 
 Their uncle, Sir Thomas Roe, had 
 been recognized as 15 th Earl by the 
 Government, but was ousted by his step- 
 
 brother, Gerald. Sir Thomas had 1° 
 a son James, who was elected and by 
 right 16 th Earl in 159S; he was the 
 Suga)n Earl. He mar. first a d. of 
 Lord Cahir, secondly a d. of Lord 
 Power ; 2 a son of Gerald, a Count in 
 Spain; 3 John, living in Spain in 16 15 
 as Conde de Desmond ; his wife was a 
 daughter of Comerford of Danganmore ; 
 his son Gerald was Conde de Desmond, 
 and was killed in Germany in 1632. 
 4° Ada m. to Donogh, second son 
 of the 7 th Mac Carthy Reagh ; 5 
 Margaret m. to the 8 th M'Carthy 
 Reagh. 
 
 James Paderagh, illegitimate son of 
 the 15 th Earl of Desmond, mar. a d. of 
 Wall of Culnamuc, and had four sons, 
 Maurice, James, John, and Maurice 
 Fitzjohn, who were all living in the 
 year 1598.— ' Unpublished Geraldine 
 Documents,' Kilk. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 James FitzThomas was rightful Earl 
 of Desmond in 1598. In 1598 he 
 wrote — ' To my very good Lo. and 
 Cosen the Erie of Ormond — I have 
 be'n in England from my Father claim- 
 ing his inheritance of the House of 
 Desmond, which is manifestlie known 
 to be his righte ; Her Matye promised to 
 do me justice upon the decease of my 
 uncle, who was then in accion. Ever 
 since my uncle's decease I could gett 
 no hearinge concerning my inheritance 
 
220 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Fitzgerrald, his hous extinct, his Sone is Viscount Desmond. 
 Richard Burk Erie of Clonrickard and Baron of Dunkellyn, 
 
 of the Earldome of Desmond, but have 
 bestowed the same upon divers under- 
 takers to disinherite me for ever . . . 
 seeing no other remedie, I will follow 
 by all means I may to maintain my 
 right, trusting in the Almightie to fur- 
 ther the same.' — Life of M' Carthy M6r, 
 p. 177. 
 
 He writes to the King of Spain in 
 1599 — 'I have drawen the sword for 
 the recovery, first of Christ's Catholike 
 religion, and next for the maintenance 
 of my owne right, wrongfully detained 
 from me and my father who was lawfull 
 heir to the Earldome of Desmond ; for 
 he was the eldest sonne to James my 
 grandfather, who was Earle of Desmond; 
 and for that Uncle Gerald (being the 
 younger brother) usurped the name of 
 the Earle of Desmond in my father's 
 true title,' and being ' annoyed by the 
 wicked English-prosecuted wars, was 
 slaine and his country planted with 
 Englishmen.' — Pac. Uil>., p. 253. 
 
 This James M c Thomas and his father 
 sided with the English against ' uncle 
 Gerald,' were the rightful owners ac- 
 cording to English (though not by 
 Brehon) law of 800,000 acres of land 
 which the English undertakers had 
 seized on, and consequently they must 
 have been 'usurping and titulary Earls,' 
 and they were 'extinct,' to use the word 
 of our MS. 
 
 Carew writes to Elizabeth, June 3, 
 
 1601 — ' I thank God for it, I now have 
 at length, by means of the White 
 Knight, gotten into my hands the bodie 
 of James FitzThomas,that Archtraytour 
 and usurping Earle, whom for a present 
 I will send to your Majestie with the 
 best conveniencie and safetie I may find.' 
 He was (says Carew, or his Secretary) 
 within one year before his apprehen- 
 sion the most mightie and potent 
 Geraldine that had been of any of the 
 Earles of Desmond his predecessors . . . 
 he had 8000 men well armed at one 
 time.- — Pac. Hib., p. 250. 
 
 The son of ' uncle Gerald ' wrote to 
 Cecil from the Tower — ' I am yong, yet 
 olde in miserye; I have never, since 
 my infancy, breathed out of prison.' 
 He was physicked frightfully at the 
 expense of the Government — perhaps 
 to carry off the Geraldine poison out 
 of his system. — See the bill for 'boluses, 
 juleps, glisters,' etc., in Life of McCar- 
 thy MSr, p. 4S8. He was sent from 
 the Tower to Ireland as Earl, set up 
 against James M c Thomas. However, 
 some about Elizabeth said — ' Yea, but 
 he maie proove a rebell hearafter ; ' 
 and Cecil says to Carew — 'Whensoever 
 you fynd any cause toe doubt him, 
 never feare to laie holde of him ... he 
 will never much lyke an Irish lyfe, for 
 he is tender and sicklye, but time will 
 shewe.' 
 
 He reached Kilmallock on a Satur- 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 22 1 
 
 his Eldest Sone is Baron of Dunkellyn* created by K. H. 8 th . 
 Donogh 0'Bryan f Erie of Thomond and Baron of Ibrackan, 
 his Eldest Sone is Baron of Ibrackan, created 1550 an i° 
 Edw. 6 th . 
 
 day; the people crowded round him. 
 ' Although he had a guard of soldiers 
 which made a lane for him, the con- 
 fluence was so great as he could hardly 
 make his passage. The next day he 
 went to church, and all the way his 
 countrey people used loud and rude 
 dehortations to keep him from church 
 ... he was railed at and spet upon, 
 and thenceforward would walke as 
 little regarded as any private gentle- 
 man . . . his Religion bred this coynesse 
 in them all, if he had been a Romish 
 Catholike, the hearts and knees of all 
 degrees in the Province would have 
 bowed to him.' — Pac. Hib., p. 163. 
 
 e Ulick, 3 rd Earl of Clanrickard, m. a 
 dau. of Burke of Tullyra. He d. in 
 1 60 1. His son John was made Vis- 
 count Burke of Clanmories; his son 
 Edmund of Kilcornan was ancestor of 
 the Redingtons of Kilcornan, and of 
 the Burkes of Greenfield, Co. Galway. 
 
 This Ulick, son of Richard, son of 
 Ulick of the Heads, was sedate and 
 just judging, of a mild, august and 
 chief-becoming countenance, affable in 
 conversation, gentle towards the people 
 of his territory, fierce to his neighbours, 
 and impartial in all his decisions ; he 
 had never been known to act a feeble 
 part on the field of danger from the day 
 
 he had first taken up arms. — Annals, 
 1601. His son and heir, ' Richard of 
 Kinsale,' so called for having contri- 
 buted more than any one to the 
 English victory at Kinsale, m. the 
 widow of Essex ; he became Earl of 
 St. Albans. He killed an English 
 nobleman in a duel for speaking dis- 
 paragingly of Ireland, and he would 
 have been killed himself had he not a 
 reliquary on his breast, given him by 
 the Jesuit, Fr. Gerard. — See Fr. Ger- 
 ard's Narrative. See ' Earl Ulick's 
 Tailor's Bill of the year 1578,' in Kilk. 
 Jour, of Arch. 
 
 f Donogh O'Brien, 4 th Earl of Tho- 
 mond, called the Great Earl, a person 
 of distinguished courage, conduct, 
 loyalty, and worth, highly-esteemed by 
 Elizabeth and James I. He was 
 brought up at Court, and was of the 
 Privy Council to both these Princes; 
 had a principal share in the victory of 
 Kinsale, and in 1605 was made Presi- 
 dent and Commander-in-Chief of 
 Munster. He d. in 1624; by his first 
 wife, a dau. of Lord Fermoy, he had a 
 dau. who was married to Cormac 
 M c Carthy, heir of Lord Muskerry ; by 
 his 2 d wife, a dau. of the 1 i th Earl of 
 Kildare, he had Henry and Bryan, 
 successive Earls of Thomond. 
 
222 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Erie of Cloncare b^ron of valentia, created by this Quene 
 1565 ; his Erldome extinct for want of Issue male, his name was 
 M c Cartie. g 
 
 Teig, a brother of Donogh, was long 
 imprisoned in Limerick, but escaped. 
 In 1599 he was committed to prison 
 by his brother, but escaped again, and, 
 with the O'Briens, M c Namaras, etc., 
 had 600 f. and 50 h. serving against 
 Elizabeth. He had three sons, of 
 whom Turlogh lived at Ballyslattery. 
 His sons-in-law were the i8 tlJ Lord 
 Kerry, 2 d Lord Dunboyne, and Tur- 
 logh Roe M c Mahon. 
 
 The Earl's brother, Daniel of Moy- 
 artie and Carrighychoulta, received 
 many wounds in the wars of Ireland, 
 for which he was knighted and received 
 considerable grants of lands in Clare, 
 and particularly those of Teig Reagh 
 M c Mahon of Thomond. He lived to 
 see the Restoration of Charles II.; and 
 for his own services and those of his 
 children at home and abroad, was 
 created Viscount Clare in 1662. He 
 mar. a dau. of the 16 th Earl of Des- 
 mond. His descendant, Lord Clare, 
 received nine wounds at the head of his 
 famous dragoons, fighting for the French 
 at Ramillies in 1706. — See Lodge. 
 
 Florence McCarthy says of Lord 
 Thomond in a letter to Carew — ' Com- 
 mend me to theGreat Boar of Thomond.' 
 Lord Hunsden praises him for his 
 ' true nobleness of character.' How- 
 ever, he kept his brother Teig in prison 
 in Limerick, though the following went 
 
 security for him, and Mountjoy thought 
 them sufficient, viz., the Lord Bishop 
 of Killalowe, the Lord Burke of Castle- 
 connell, Turlogh Roe M c Mahound of 
 Clonderralagh, Lord Thomond's 
 brother-in-law. That my Lord of Tho- 
 mond refuseth to join with you in 
 setting him at liberty argueth, in my 
 conceipt, a desire in his Lordship to 
 carry a more hard hand towards his 
 brother than the State may in course 
 of justice suffer . . . his son shall re- 
 main a pledge, for which purpose I 
 have written to the Council at Dublin. 
 — Mountjoy in Car. Cat. 
 
 B ' Onora, Countess of Cloncar, was 
 wife, sister and daughter of an Earl, 
 ever of verye modest and good de- 
 meanure, though matched with one 
 most disorderlye and dissolute.' — Sir 
 W. Herbert's Letter, an. 1588. Jlf Car- 
 thy A/or, p. 45. The Earl of Clancar 
 d. in 1596. ' Donal, son of Donal, son 
 of Cormac, son of Teig, usually styled 
 Mac Carthy Mor. His only child 
 Ellen mar. Fineen, son of McCarthy 
 Reagh, and all thought he was the heir 
 of Donal M c Carthy Mdr.' — Annals. 
 This Earl was an Irish poet, and wrote 
 some pious things ; but his life was not 
 edifying, it seems. His base son Donal 
 claimed to be M c Carthy Mdr, and was 
 so recognized until Tyrone got Florence 
 McCarthy elected. — See under Kerry 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 223 
 
 Rorie Erie of Tyrconnell, h created an c i°. 
 
 Hugh O'Neall Erie of Tyrone baron of Dunganon, created 
 Erie An" 1586; his eldest Sone is baron of Dunganon. He 
 chalenged the Earldome from his Grandfather, Con O'Neall, 
 whom K. H. 8 created Earle of Tiron, restrayning his authority 
 within the Countie of Tyrone, which was afore spread through- 
 out the most part of Ulster. This Con had divers Sones 
 Legittimat, and one Illegitimate named Mathew, who was for 
 many years reputed to be the Sone of one Kelly of Dundalk a 
 Smyth ; But the Woman, which was Wife to this Smyth, and 
 mother to the foresaid Mathew, at her departure confessed to a 
 Priest (as then the manner was), and Swore the Same before 
 
 and Cork. ' A dower was given to the 
 Countess, in 1598, of a third of the late 
 Earl's castles,' etc. In 1598 Norreys 
 wrote — ' The base son of the Earl 
 opposeth himself to Darby M c Owen 
 M c Carthy for the Earldom; but they 
 agree both to be Traitors to her Matye.' 
 
 The Bastard was a dashing soldier, 
 ' the Munster Robin Hood,' the terror 
 of the undertakers; was secretly en- 
 couraged by his father. He and the 
 Earl of Desmond with 2500 men 
 attacked Essex near Adare, and made 
 Munster too hot for him. — See O 1 Sul- 
 la'an's Historic), and the Life of M' Car- 
 thy Mor for an account of this Donal. 
 
 h ' The King to the Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, Sep. 4 1603 — To grant to 
 Rorie O'Donnell and heirs male of his 
 body the Co. of Tirconnell, with re- 
 mainders to his brother Cafferie O'Don- 
 nell, and his cousin Donel Oge 
 M c Donel O'Donell . . . Rorie O'D. to 
 
 renounce all claims upon Sir Cahir 
 O'Doherty's and O'Conor Sligo's coun- 
 try, and to be raised to the dignity of 
 Earl of Tirconnell in tail male, with 
 remainders of like estate to his brother, 
 Caffery O'D.'— Car. CaL, p. 80. 
 
 He left Ireland with Tyrone, and d. 
 in Rome, where his tomb is to be seen 
 in the Church of St. Peter in Montorio. 
 ' He was a brave, protecting, warlike 
 man, and had often bea:-. in the gap of 
 danger with his brother Red Hugh. 
 He was a generous and truly hospitable 
 lord, to whom the patrimony of his 
 ancestors did not seem anything for his 
 spending and feasting parties; he did 
 not place his affections on wealth and 
 jewels, but distributed them among 
 those who needed them, whether mighty 
 or feeble.' He died in Rome on the 
 28th of July 1608, 'after exemplary 
 penance,' etc. — Annals. After the 
 battle of Kinsale he commanded his 
 

 2 24 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Witnesses, that her Sone Mathew, reputed to be the Smythes 
 Sone, was the Sone of Con Oneall, whereupon Con O'Neall 
 accepted of him as of his Sone, and adopted him into the Familie 
 and name of O'Nealls, to whom his pretended Father procured 
 from H. 8 Legitimation, and being elder than the Ligittimat 
 Children, was preferred to them in Succession to the Earldome, 
 and made baron of Dunganon. But the Legittimat disdayning 
 that a bastard should be preferred to them, conspired against 
 him and Slue him, The eldest of whom, named Shane O'Neall, 
 usurped the Authoritie and Title of O'Neall, and kept it during 
 his Life, whom Ouene Eliz. continuallie did prosecute to have 
 placed this man as Successor to his Grand Father, which at 
 Length she performed, and was for her princelie favor verie 
 unworthily by him requited. 
 
 VISCOUNTS. 
 
 S r James Barrhy, k L. Barrhy, baron of Ibaun, Viscount 
 Buttevant. 
 
 brother's followers. He was a bold ' See under the Co, of Tyrone, and 
 and dexterous swordsman, as his brave in the Introduction, some account of 
 cousin and enemy, Nial Garve (himself this ' Archrebel,' Hugh of Tyrone. 
 ' vir animo magno et audaci,') had k ' The Barry Mdr, who was in cap- 
 reason to know. O'Sullevan, p. 220, tivity in Dublin, d. in 1581 ; he was of 
 describes an extraordinary fight be- the true stock of the Barry Roes, yet 
 tween him and two horsemen on one had in the beginning no hope of ob- 
 side, and 8 English foot on the other, taining even the title of Barry Roe. 
 He slew all the English, and for a long But God bestowed upon him the chief- 
 time he fought with their brave leader, tainship both of Barry Maol and Barry 
 and, not being able to pierce his corse- Roe, and he was elected chief over the 
 let, he held him under water till he sept of Barry Mdr when the true heirs 
 drowned him. of that chieftainship became extinct. 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 225 
 
 Sir David de la Rup, L. Roch, Baron of Poulescastle, Viscount 
 
 of Armoy. 1 
 Christofer Preston, L: Baron and Viscount of Gormanstone." 1 
 
 His son David was afterwards called 
 ' The Barry ' by the Earl of Desmond, 
 and his second son was lord over the 
 Barry Roes." — Annals, p. 1753. 
 
 He was first on the side of the 
 Desmonds; but he flung himself on the 
 English side afterwards. He was a 
 deadly enemy of Florence M c Carthy, 
 in whose 'Life' will be found many 
 letters of Barry's. 
 
 This David Fitzjames Barry Vis- 
 count Buttevant and Barrymore, suc- 
 ceeded his father in 1581 ; his eldest 
 brother was deaf and dumb, and died 
 in 1622; his brother William lived at 
 Lislee ; his three sisters were m. to 
 Viscount Fermoy, O'Sullevan Beare, 
 and Condon of Ballymac-Patrick. In 
 1599 Lord Buttevant, that his brother 
 John might be subject to the Crown of 
 England, gave him and his heirs male 
 the manors, castles, etc., of Liscarroll, 
 Ballymacow, etc. He d. at Barry's 
 Court in 1617. His son David mar. a 
 d. of Lord Poer; his sons-in-law were 
 Gerald FitzGerald of the Decies, 
 Browne of Mulranken in Wexford, John 
 son of Lord Poer, Thomas Earl of 
 Ormond, Tobin of Cumshinagh, Co. 
 Tipperary, and Sir J. FitzGerald of 
 Ballymaloe, Co. of Cork. — Lodge. 
 
 ' Recte Fermoy. ' As for the Lord 
 Roche, if I have any judgment in me, 
 I do not think any nobleman within 
 
 the province of Munster to be more 
 assured to the Crown of England, 
 which all his actions do manifest; for I 
 have not the company of any one of his 
 rank so much as of himself; and there- 
 fore the Viscount is much wronged.' — 
 Careiu in 1602; Car. Cal., p. 409. 
 
 Carew wrote in 1600, that 'he was 
 only in personal show a subject' 
 
 However, his base sons became 
 'Robin Hoods' in 1597. 'L. Roche 
 that now is (158S) hath mar. the syster 
 of Finyan McCarthy's mother, by which 
 kindred Finyan is strongly allied. By 
 her, who was a syster of James Fitz- 
 Morris, he had a son, and a dau. mar. 
 to M c Donoghe Lord of Dowalla.' — St. 
 Leger's Letter in Life of Mac Car thy Mbr. 
 
 'The Roche, i.e., Maurice son of 
 David, d. in 1600, a mild and comely 
 man, learned in the Latin, Irish, and 
 English languages. His son David 
 took his place. '• — Annals, p. 2187. 
 
 The castle at Castletown Roche was 
 the chief seat of Roche. There is (or 
 was) a stone near the parish church 
 with the inscription — ' Orate pro bono 
 statu Domini Maurici Roche Vicecomes 
 de Fermoy et Dominae Elionoriae 
 Mauricii et pro anima ejus Anno 
 Domini 1585.' — Pari. Gaz. of Lreland, 
 under Castletown Roche. 
 
 m 'Whereunto is lately annexed the 
 Barony of Loundres, their ancestor, 
 
 2 F 
 
226 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 S r Richard Butler," Viscount of Mountgerat. 
 
 S r Morrice Fitzgerrald, Viscount Dessie and baron of Dromane, 
 
 extinct without Issue male. 
 Eustace, Viscount of Baltinglas and L: of Kilcullen, extinct by 
 
 attainder. 11 
 
 LORDS. 
 
 Lord Bremingham,' 1 Baron of Athenrie. 
 
 then Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
 was made Knight in the field by Lionel 
 Duke of Clarence, Lieutenant of Ire- 
 land.' — Campion. Christopher was the 
 4 th Viscount, and succeeded in 1559, 
 and was succeeded by Jenico, whose 
 brother Thomas was created Viscount 
 Tara. 'Young Viscount Gormanston 
 was committed to the Castle in 1605 
 for contriving with Sir P. Barnwall and 
 others a Petition of the Pale in favour 
 of freedom of religion. His brother 
 was an officer in Tyrone's Regiment in 
 the Netherlands.' — Car. Cal. 
 
 n See supra, p. 67. 
 
 Edmund 2 d Viscount Mountgarrett 
 m. a dau. of the i st Baron of Upper 
 Ossory; in the Parliament of 1559 he 
 represented Carlow; in 1602 he was 
 buried in Kilkenny Cathedral ; he had 
 8 sons and 8 daughters. 
 
 Richard, his son and successor, 
 was 20 years old in 1598, when he 
 sided with O'Neil, his father-in-law ; he 
 joined the Confederates in 1642, and 
 
 died in 1652, and though dead was 
 exempted by Cromwell's Act of Par- 
 liament from pardon for life or estate. 
 He lies buried under a handsome 
 monument in the Chancel of St Canice. 
 He had 3 sons and 5 daughters. 
 
 His brother Theobald of Tynehinch 
 m. a dau. of FitzGerald of Queen's Co. ; 
 his sisters were m. to Walter Earl of 
 Ormond ; Shee of Upper Court ; Mor- 
 gan M c Bryan Cavanagh, Chief of the 
 Sept, called Sleight Dermot, of Polo- 
 monty in Carlow; to O'Connor; to 
 Daton of Kilmodalin in Kilkenny; to 
 O. Grace of Carney in Tipperary, son 
 and heir to Gerald Grace of Liegan ; to 
 Viscount Galway ; to O'Farrell of Ballin- 
 tobber, son of O'Farrell Bane of the 
 Annaly. — Archdall. 
 
 The Keep of Mountgarrett's castle, in 
 Wexford, near New Ross, is still in a 
 tolerable state of preservation. 
 
 See supra ' Waterford,' p. 160. 
 
 p See supra, p. 45. 
 
 q Now degenerate and become meere 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 227 
 
 Fleming" baron of Slaine. 
 
 Plunket s baron of Killeyne. 
 
 S r Christofer Nugent,' Baron of Delvin. 
 
 S r Christofer S'- Laurence," L: of Hoth. 
 
 Irishe, against whom his ancestors 
 served valiantlyin An. 1300. — Campion. 
 Edmund, 15 th Baron, sat as the 
 aunciaitcst Baron of Ireland in the Par- 
 liament of 1585. He mar. a sister to 
 Sir Roger O'Shaghnessie, and had three 
 sons, Richard, Meyler Buy, and 
 Thomas Duffe. 
 
 Richard the 16 th Baron, born in 
 1570, died in 1635, and was buried in 
 the Abbey of Athenry. The 2 2 d Baron 
 lived at Turlovaughan, near Tuam, in 
 the year 1754. 
 
 Meyler Buy Bermingham of Con- 
 nagher got from his brother, the 16 th 
 Baron, in 1595, Dalgan and other lands 
 in the Barony of Dunmore. He m. a 
 dau. of Mac Jordan of Tobrachan, in 
 Mayo, and had 7 sons. Thomas Duffe 
 B. mar. a dau. of Burke of Clochrooke. 
 — ArchdalPs Lodge. 
 
 ' A Lord Slane betrayed Archbishop 
 O'Hurley arc. 1584; in 1597 a Lord 
 Slane sent to the Lord Deputy the heads 
 of two rebels; in 1605 a L. Slane 
 signed the ' Petition of the Papists of 
 the Pale.' — See Car. Col., an. 1597 
 and Cal. of S. Papers, 1605. 
 
 s 'This family came of the Danes, 
 whereof they have as yet special monu- 
 ments.' — Campion. Christopher, 9 th 
 Lord of Killeen, mar. a sister of Dillon, 
 i 5t Earl of Roscommon; in 1598 he 
 
 was made ' Knight Marshall of the 
 Camp;' he d. in 1613, leaving Lucas 
 Mor, I s ' Earl of Fingal; Patrick, Catho- 
 lic Bishop of Meath, who d. in 1679; 
 and Nicholas, a lawyer. — Lodge, under 
 Lord Dunsany. 
 
 Christopher, 9 th Baron, was made 
 Captain of Slewght William in Annaly 
 in 1565; was ordered in 1567 to help to 
 extirpate the O' Mores, sons of Ferrass 
 M c Rosse, and to lead in person 150 
 kerne, 10 horsemen, and 50 boys of his 
 own choice; in 1580 was sent a prisoner 
 to the Tower on suspicion of corres- 
 pondence with the Leinster Insurgents ; 
 in 1593 brought 20 horsemen to the 
 hosting at Tara, with the Nugents, his 
 kinsmen. For his ' valorous services ' 
 he got, in 1597, forfeited lands in 
 Longford and Cavan. He had m. 
 Mary, dau. of the 11 th Earl of Kildare, 
 by whom he had six sons and six 
 daughters. He died in Aug. 1602. — 
 Lodge. He d. a prisoner in Dublin 
 Castle, to which he was committed on 
 a charge of having assisted Tyrone. 
 His son was first Earl of Westmeath, 
 about whom consult Fr. Meehan's 
 Flight of the Earls. 
 
 u Rede Sir Nicholas, the father of 
 Christopher. He was the 21 st Lord, 
 who d. in 1606 ; he brought 6 archers 
 on horseback for Howth, and 1 for 
 
228 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 O'Bryan/ baron of Inchequyn. 
 Barnwall™ Baron of Tribleston. 
 Butler,* Baron of Caer. 
 
 Killester, to the hosting at Tara. His 
 son Christopher, 2 2 d Baron, served 
 as a colonel of foot under Essex and 
 Mountjoy. Camden tells us that this 
 Christopher was one of the friends who 
 accompanied Essex on his visit to 
 Nonsuch, and that he offered to kill 
 Lord Grey, an enemy of Essex, and 
 then to kill Cecil at the Queen's Court. 
 — See The Flight of the Earls for a 
 sketch of this nobleman's career. 
 
 v Dermot, 5 th Baron, was 4 years old 
 in 1598. His son Morogh became 
 famous as Earl of Inchiquin; his father, 
 Morogh, was slain in 1597 by O'Don- 
 nell's soldiers, while trying with the 
 English army to cross the Erne. He 
 was, by order of O'Donnell and the 
 Catholic Bishops of Deny and Raphoe, 
 buried with reverence and honour in 
 the Franciscan Monastery of Donegal, 
 having been previously buried by the 
 Cistercians in their Monastery of As- 
 seroe — the reason was that the Baron's 
 ancestors had been buried in the Fran- 
 ciscan Monastery in his country. — 
 Annals, pp. 2027, 2047. 
 
 Dermot mar. a dau. of Sir Edmund 
 FitzEdmond of Cloyne. In the Life 
 of Lady Falkland, whose husband was 
 Lord Deputy in 1622, I find that, 'In 
 Ireland she grew acquainted with .my 
 Lord of Inchiquin, an exceeding good 
 Catholic, and the first (at least knowing 
 one) she had yet met. She highly 
 
 esteemed him for his wit, learning, and 
 judgment, though he were but about 
 nine-and-twenty years old when he died. 
 Her Lord did the same, admiring him 
 much as a man of so sincere and 
 upright a conscience, that he seemed to 
 look on whatever was not lawful as not 
 possible ; he did somewhat shake her 
 supposed security in esteeming it law- 
 ful to continue as she was.' — Life of Lady 
 Falkland, p. 23. 
 
 w Peter, 6 th Baron of Trimlestown, d. 
 on Good Friday 1598; his mother was a 
 dau. of Taylor of Swords ; by his wife, 
 a sister of Lord Delvin's, he had a son 
 Robert, the 7 th Lord, who was 24 years 
 old in 1598, and mar. to Miss Talbot 
 of Dardistown. Peter, in his will, left 
 ^10 to be divided among poor priests 
 and friars, and 40J. to Bishop Brady. 
 Sir P. Barnwall of Turvey, Dublin, was 
 one of a family of 18 children ; his wife 
 was a sister of Marshal Bagnal ; his son 
 became i st Viscount Kingsland ; his 
 sisters were wives of Lords Dunsany, 
 Roscommon, and Howth ; of the 
 Knights Fitzgerald of Tecroghan, 
 Draicot of Momington, and Masterson 
 of Ferns, of Thomas and John Finglas 
 of Westpalston, Stanihurst of Corduff, 
 Delahyde of Moyglare, and R. Beling. 
 — See Lodge, vol. 5, p. 46. See the 
 curious Barnewall monument in Lusk. 
 
 x ' Theobald Butler, Lord of Cahair- 
 Duna-Iascaigh and Trian-chluana-meala 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 229 
 
 Courcy, y L: Courcy. 
 
 L. Burke z of Castle-conell. 
 
 (Cahir and Clonmel-third), d. in 1596 ; 
 a bounteous man, he had the largest 
 collection of poetical compositions of 
 almost all the old English of Ireland ; 
 his son Thomas took his place.' — An- 
 nals, p. 1997. The sisters of Thomas, 
 4* Baron, were mar. to Butler of Bally- 
 boe and Sir Cormac McCarthy of 
 Blarney ; his brother James Galdie was 
 engaged in the risings of 1598 and 
 1 64 1 ; his castle of Cahir was besieged 
 and taken by Essex. He mar. a sister 
 of Lord Mountgarrett. — Lodge, vol. 6, 
 p. 219. His brother Edmund lived at 
 Cloghcully. 
 
 ' Mr. Piers Butler of Knock-in-anama, 
 w ch is his chefe house. He is son to 
 the Lo: of Caher, and brother to the 
 Lo. of Caher that now is ; his liveing 
 stands in the com" of Tipperary. nere 
 the towne of Clounmell.' — Florence 
 McCarthy; see his Life. He was 
 deeply concerned in the rising of 1598, 
 and Carew was anxious to seize his 
 person and his castle. 
 
 y ' Curcy, Baron of Ringrone, now 
 reduced by the fluctuation of human 
 affairs. ' — Camden. 
 
 Gerald de Courcy, 17 th Baron of 
 Kinsale, son of the 16 th Lord, and Seive, 
 dau. of MacCarthy of Dowallagh, suc- 
 ceeded in 1535; at the siege of Boulogne 
 he commanded an Irish Regiment 
 under Henry 8, and for his bravery was 
 knighted by the King on the field, 
 under the Royal Standard displayed, 
 
 the most distinguished manner of 
 receiving Knighthood ; but by his 
 great expenses in serving the Crown 
 he considerably lessened his estate. 
 He died at a very advanced age in 
 1599; his wife was dau. of Cormac 
 M c Donogh McCarthy of Carbery; Mary, 
 his only child, m. Donogh O'Driscol. 
 
 John, 18 th Baron of Kinsale (was 
 son of Edmond Oge of Kilnaclone, and 
 his wife, dau. of Dermod M c Teig 
 O'Hurley, Chief of his Sept), succeeded 
 in 1599 ; fought on the English side at 
 Kinsale ; m. a dau. of O'Cruley of 
 Carbery, Chief of his Sept ; and he died 
 in 1628, and was buried in the Abbey 
 of Timoleague. — Lodge. 
 
 1 In 1 59 1 Lord Castleconnell was 
 slain. 
 John Bourke, Lord Castleconnell, was basely 
 
 slain 
 By Captain Arnold Crosby, for they twain 
 Resolved to fight ; but Crosby stops, demurs — 
 Prays Castleconnell to take off his spurs, 
 And as he stooped, yielding to his request, 
 Crosby most basely stabbed him in the breast; 
 Gave twenty-one, all dreadful wounds — base 
 
 act! 
 And Crosby's only hanged for the horrid fact. 
 — Davis's Annals of Limerick, quoted 
 by Mr. Lenihan, p. 121. 
 
 ' In the days that Essex was storming 
 Cahir-Duine-Iasaigh (1599), Sir T. 
 Norris came to Kilmallock, and was 
 in the practice of scouring the hills of 
 Limerick every other day to see whether 
 he could kill or capture any enemies. 
 He fell in, near Kilteely, with Thomas 
 
230 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Eustace 33 Viscount of Baltinglas and L. of Kilcollen, 
 
 extinct by attainder. 
 Patrick Fitzgerrald bb baron of Lixsnaw. 
 M c Kilpatrick cc baron of upper Ossyry. 
 
 Burke, son of Theobald, son of William, 
 son of Edmond of Castleconnell, neither 
 being in search of the other. Thomas 
 was on horseback at the head of 100 
 Irish foot ; he was attacked by Norris, 
 who slew 20 of his people, but Norris 
 was mortally wounded. 
 
 ' Dermot O'Connor led some of 
 O'Neill's soldiers into Munster in 1600. 
 When the Baron of Castleconnell 
 (Richard, son of Theobald, etc.), heard 
 of Dermot's arrival in Owney and 
 Clanwilliam, he and his brother Thomas 
 mustered horse and foot of his own and 
 the Queen's people, and fought Der- 
 mot from the Monastery of Owney to 
 the bridge of Bun-briste. As the Baron 
 and his brother advanced with pride 
 across the bridge of Bunbriste in front 
 of their own forces, they were put to 
 the sword. A cause of lamentation ; 
 for though they were young they were 
 manly in renown and noble deeds.' — 
 Annals, pp. 2115, 2145. 
 
 "* Vide supra note p . 
 
 bb 'Mac Maurice of Kerry, i.e., Pa- 
 trickin, son of Thomas, d. in 1600, in 
 the prime of life, after having joined 
 the Earl of Desmond in the war. It 
 was a cause of lamentation that a man 
 of his personal form, blood, and hos- 
 pitality should thus die in his youth ; his 
 son Thomas took his place. Patrickin 
 
 in 1590 succeeded his father, who was 
 the best purchaser of wine, horses, and 
 literary works of any of his wealth at 
 that time.' — Annals, pp. 1893, 2177. 
 
 This Patrickin, 17 th Lord Kerry, was 
 b. in 1 541 ; was sent as a hostage to 
 Queen Mary; bred at the English Court, 
 was favoured by Elizabeth, but getting 
 leave to see his father in 1561, he took 
 up arms against the English ; in 1599 
 he was at the head of 500 foot and 30 
 h. He died of grief at seeing the 
 English take one of his castles, and he 
 was buried with his uncle, Donal Earl 
 of Clancarre, in the Franciscan Friery 
 of Irrinlagh. By his wife, dau. of Lord 
 Fermoy, he had 3 sons and 2 dau. ; the 
 daughters were m. to O'Sullevan Mdr 
 and the son of M c Carthy Mdr. His 
 son Thomas, born in 1574, mar. a sister 
 of the Earl of Thomond; at his father's 
 death was promised pardon on con- 
 dition that he would perform such 
 service as would deserve them, but he 
 absolutely refused, because ' it stood 
 not with his conscience;' after that he 
 retired to the North, and came to Kin- 
 sale as a commander in O'Donnell's 
 army. After the defeat of Kinsale, he 
 was beaten out of his castle of Lixnaw. 
 He was pardoned by King James, and 
 in 1630 d. and was buried in the 
 Chapel and Tomb of St. Cormac 
 
THE NOBLEMEN OF IRELAND. 
 
 23I 
 
 Plunket L: Baron drt of Dunsany. 
 Butler ee Baron of Dunboyne. 
 L. Power Baron ff of Corrao/hmore. 
 Plunket L. Baron of Louth . gg 
 
 M c Cullenan. He was married, first to a 
 dau. of the Earl of Thomond, 2 ly to a 
 dau. of Lord Poer of Curraghmore; and 
 he had 7 sons and 4 daughters. — 
 Lodge. 
 
 cc See p. 79. He succeeded as 3 rd 
 Baron in 1581 ; he m. a dau. of Patrick 
 O'More of Leix, head of that Sept, or, 
 as some say, a dau. of Ruary O'More, 
 and had issue 5 sons and 2 daughters. 
 His sons were, i° Teig, who m. a dau. 
 of Sir E. Butler of Tullow ; 2° John of 
 Castletown ; 3 Geoffry of Ballyraghin, 
 m. to a dau. of Fergus Farrell of Tene- 
 lick, in the Co. of Longford, who was 
 widow of Sir J. O'Reilly ; 4 Bryan of 
 Water Castle ; 5 Edmund of Castle 
 Fleming. His dau. Catherine m. (in 
 1592) Eustace of Newland, in Kildare; 
 and his dau. Joan m. the heir of Lord 
 Dunboyne. 
 
 dd Patrick, 7 th Lord, 'a person of 
 learning, and a patron of learning and 
 learned men.' — Stany hurst. In 1601 
 he commanded a company of Irish in 
 English pay; took away 1600 cows 
 from M'Mahon, but being attacked by 
 140 men, he lost the prey and 50 men, 
 'but not one good subject.' His wife 
 was 11 th dau. of Sir C. Barnwall. — 
 Lodge. 
 
 ee James, 2 nd Lord ; by his first wife, 
 a dau. of Lord Upper Ossory, he had 
 
 5 sons and 3 daughters ; by his 2 d wife 
 (a dau. of Lord Thomond), he had 6 
 sons and 3 daughters. 
 
 " Richard, Lord Poer, mar. to a dau. 
 of Lord Buttevant, d. in 1607 ; his son 
 and heir was killed by the White 
 Knight. His father, whose wife was a 
 dau. of the 15 th Lord Desmond, was 
 thus spoken of by Sir H. Sydney in 
 
 1575:— 
 
 ' I lodged at Corraghmore, the house 
 that the Lord Power is Baron of, where 
 I was so used with such plenty and 
 good order entertained (as adding to 
 the quiet of all the country adjoining, 
 by the same people called the Power 
 Country), it may well be compared 
 with the best ordered country in the 
 English Pale. And the lord of the 
 country, though he be of scope of 
 ground a far less territory than his 
 neighbour is, yet he lives in shew far 
 more honourably and plentifully than 
 he or any other whatsoever he be of 
 his calling that lives in this province.' 
 
 se ' On the western face of the Barons- 
 town Cross, beneath a figure of St. 
 Patrick, we read — " I pray you, St. 
 Patrick, pray for the soules of Oliver 
 Plunket Lord Baron of Louth, and 
 Dame Jenet Dowdall, his wife. This 
 cross was builded by Dame Janet Dow- 
 dall, late wife unto Oliver Plunket, 
 
23: 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 L: Savage Baron of 1 * 
 
 Lord Baron of Louth, for him and 
 herselfe, in the yere of Our Lord 
 God" . . .' 
 
 Underneath a rude image of St. 
 Peter on the east side — ' I pray you, 
 St. Peter, pray for the soules of Oliver 
 Plunket,' etc. On the back is the 
 ' Hail Mary.' 
 
 This Oliver was the 4 th Lord ; he 
 died in 1607; his 2 nd wife was a daugh- 
 ter of Dowdall of Termonfeighan ; by 
 his first wife, a dau. of Marshal Bagenal, 
 he had 5 children.' — See Lodge and 
 Sir IV. Wilde's Boyne and Blackwater. 
 
 hh Lord of Ardes. See p. 10. 
 
 Campion adds — ' Mac Suretan, Lord 
 of Deseret, whom Sir H. Sydney called 
 
 Jordan de Exeter. This was Lord in 
 the time of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 
 An. 1361 — now very wilde Irish.' Mac 
 Costilaghe, L. Nangle, whom Sir H. 
 Sidney called the Angulo, now very 
 Irish. Mac William Burke, Lord of 
 Eichter, Connaught, now very Irish. — 
 Campion. 
 
 Baronets. 
 Saintleger, of Slemarge, meere Irish. 
 Den of Pormanston, waxing Irish. 
 FitzGerald of Burnchurch. Welleslye 
 of Narraghe. Hussee of Galtrim. St 
 Michell of Reban. Marwarde of 
 Scryne. Nangle of the Navan. — Cam- 
 pion. 
 
THE BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS. 
 
 : JO 
 
 THE NAMES OF B.— AND ARCH-B.— 
 
 The Archb. of Armagh, Primat of all Ireland, his name is 
 
 Henrie Usher. a 
 The Archb. of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, his name is Thomas 
 
 Jones, b now L. Chancellor. 
 The Archb. of Cashel. c 
 
 a Bom in Dublin; Abp. (1595-1613). 
 He had sons, Richard and Luke ; to 
 Luke 'he had disposed of his Arch- 
 deaconry of Dublin.' He was in great 
 Honour and Repute among all Pro- 
 testants. — Ware. 
 
 b Recte Adam Loftus, b.in Yorkshire; 
 Abp. (1567-1605), and Jones suc- 
 ceeded. Nominated Abp. of Armagh 
 1561, at the age of 28 ; Abp. of Dublin 
 in 1567; Lord Chancellor (1578-1605). 
 By his wife, Miss Purdon of Lurgan- 
 Race, Louth, he had 20 children — 1. 
 Dudley, of Rathfarnham Castle, which 
 was built by the Abp. 2. Edward, Ser- 
 geant-at-Law and Knight, who d. at siege 
 of Kinsale. 3. Adam, a captain of horse, 
 killed in Byrne's country in 1599. 4 
 and 5 — Henry and Thomas, twins. 
 Thomas was of Killyan, Co. Meath ; 
 was Constable of Wicklow Castle in 
 1596; he m. a sister of Piers Hartpole 
 ofCarlow. His daughters were — 1. Isa- 
 bella, m. to W°- Ussher, Clerk of the 
 Council. 2. Anne, m. to Sir H. Colley 
 of Castle Carbery, Blount of Kidder- 
 
 minster, and Lord Blayney. 3. Cathe- 
 rine, m. to Sir F. Berkeley of Askeaton, 
 and H. Berkeley, Esq. 4. Martha, 
 m. to Sir T. Colclough of Tinterne 
 Abbey. 5. Dorothy, m. to Sir J. 
 Moore of Croghan. 6. Alicia, to Sir 
 H. Warren of Warrenston or Ballybrett. 
 7. Margaret, to Sir G. Colley of Eden- 
 derry. — Archdall's Lodge, vol. 7, p. 246. 
 
 His ' great qualities were something 
 tarnished by his excessive Ambition 
 and Avarice. For, besides his pro- 
 motions in the Church and his publick 
 employments in the State, he grasped 
 at everything that became void, either 
 for himself or Family.' — Ware. 
 
 c Miler Magragh, born in Fermanagh, 
 ex-Franciscan, Abp. of Cashel, and 
 Bp. of Emly (1570 to 1622); he had 
 also Waterford and Lismore in com- 
 mendam (1582-1589, and 1592-1607). 
 In 16 1 1 he got a coadjutor, W" 1 Knight, 
 who soon after ' appeared Drunk in 
 publick, and thereby exposed himself 
 to the scorn and derision of the People;' 
 ' and returned to England.' Magrath 
 
 2 G 
 
234 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 The Archb. of Toam. d 
 
 THE BISHOPS. 
 The B. of Meath and Clonem°knois, his name is e 
 The Bishop of Derry, his name is Montgomerie.' 
 The B. of Ardagh, Draper/ 
 
 made the most scandalous wastes and 
 alienations of the Revenues and Manors 
 belonging to his See. He erected a 
 Monument for himself in his Cathedral, 
 with the strange inscription written by 
 himself — 
 
 ' Venerat in Dunum primo sanctissimus olim, 
 Patricius, nostri gloria magna soli, 
 Huic ego succedens, utinam tarn sanctus ut ille, 
 Sic Duni primo tempore Praesul eram. 
 Anglia ! lustra decern sed post tua sceptra 
 
 Colebam, 
 Principibus placui, Marte tonante, ruis. 
 Hie, ubi sum positus, non sum, sum non ubi 
 
 non sum ; 
 Sum nee in ambobus, sum sed utroque loco. 
 1621. 
 
 Dominus est qui me judicat. 1 Cor. 4. 
 Qui stat, caveat ne cadat. ' — Ware. 
 Called 'Meillmorre M c Cragh,' by 
 Tyrone; 'an ex-Friar, an avaricious 
 and unprincipled man, and a most 
 unscrupulous waster of the patrimony 
 of the Sees under his administration ; 
 held 4 bishopricks and a great number 
 of benefices in various dioceses. He 
 m. Amy, dau. of O'Meara of Lisany, 
 Co. Tipperary, and had issue — Tur- 
 logh, Redmond, Bryan, Mark, Mary, 
 Cicely, Anne, and Eliza. His sons, or 
 at least some of them, relapred to 
 Popery.' — Cotton's Fasti. 
 
 d Nehemiah Donellan, born in Gal- 
 way, bred at Cambridge, Abp. from 
 1595 to 1609, when he voluntarily 
 resigned. — Ware. 
 
 e Thomas Jones, b. in Lancashire ; 
 Bp. (1584-1605). His monument in 
 St. Patrick's Cathedral has the inscrip- 
 tion — ' Thomas Jones, Archiepiscopus 
 Dublin, Primas et Metropolitanus Hi- 
 berniae, Ejusdem Cancellarius . . .' 
 
 Margareta, ejusdem Thomae Uxor 
 Charissima obiit decimo quinto Decem- 
 bris, Anno a partu Virginis 1618. Jones 
 had 6 children ; his son, Sir Roger of 
 Durhamstown, Westmeath, was made 
 Viscount Ranelagh in 1628; his 
 daughters were mar. to Uomville, Clerk 
 of the Hanaper, and Piers of Trister- 
 nagh, Westmeath. — -ArchdalFs Lodge, 
 v., p. 301. 
 
 ' He laid the Foundation of a fair 
 estate.' — Harris's Addition to Ware. 
 
 ' Vacant in 1598; Dr. Montgomerie, 
 b. in Scotland, was Bp. from 1605 
 to 1610, as well as of Raphoe and 
 Clogher. 
 
 B Vacant in 1598. Robert Draper, 
 Rector of Trim in 1598, Bp. of Ardagh 
 and Kilmore (1603-16 12). — Ware. 
 
THE BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS. 
 
 235 
 
 The B. of Kilmore, g the same man hath both. 
 
 The B. of Clogher/ united with Derrie. 
 
 The B. of Doune, his name is D. Tod. h 
 
 The B. of Connor, h the same man. 
 
 The B. of Raboo/ united to Derrie. 
 
 The B. of Dromore, h united to Downe. 
 
 All these are under the Archbishop of Armagh. 
 
 The B. of Glandelagh, annexed to the Archb. of Dublin. 
 The B. of Kildare, his name is Pilsworth.' 
 The B. of Femes, his name is M r Ram. k 
 The B. of Ossorie, his name is 1 
 
 h Recte John Charden of Devonshire, 
 Bp. (1596-1601), had been a noted 
 preacher. John Todd, ' Doctor of 
 Divinity, Dean of Cashel, who had 
 been a Jesuit, was Bp. (1606-1611); 
 but being called to Account for some 
 Crimes he had committed, he resigned, 
 and a little after died in prison in Lon- 
 don of Poyson, which he had prepared 
 for himself.' — Ware. 
 
 1 Recte Daniel Neylan, Rector of 
 Iniscorthy in Killaloe Diocese; Bp. 
 (1583-1603). Pilsworth, b. in London, 
 was Bp. from 1604 to 1635. In 1591, 
 out of 50 benefices in Kildare, 4 were 
 vacant and in the bishop's possession, 
 22 were usurped by laymen; 24 were 
 enjoyed by 22 incumbents, of whom 
 one 'commorat in Anglia,' and 12 were 
 pluralists who held livings in other 
 dioceses.— See MS., T.C.D., E. 3, 14, 
 quoted by W. Maziere Brady. 
 
 Pilsworth ' was determined to have 
 a share in the spoil by leaving his 
 
 Bishoprick poorer than he found it.' — 
 Harris's Addition to Ware. 
 
 k Recte Hugh Allen, b. in England, 
 Bp. (1582-1599). 
 
 ' He made long Leases of the Manor 
 of Fethard, and of many other Farms, 
 reserving very small Rents to his See. 
 But Thomas Ram, who was afterwards 
 Bishop, recovered the Manor,' after a 
 long suit, and by giving a lease of 
 Whitechurch to Allen's son for 2 1 years. 
 Bp. Allen also leased in Fee 1500 acres 
 to Sir H. Wallop, Vice-Treasurer, and 
 the Parsonage of Carne for 6 1 years to 
 N. Kenny, Clerk of the First-Fruits, 
 who suffered him to detain money for 
 which he was bound to account to the 
 Exchequer, and which Ram was forced 
 to pay. — Harris 's Ware. 
 
 Thomas Ram, born in Windsor, was 
 Bp. (1605-1634). 
 
 1 John Horsfall, b. in Yorkshire, 
 Bp. (1586-1609). 
 
236 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The B. of Leighlin, united to Fernes. k 
 
 All these be under the Archbishop of Dublin. 
 
 The Bishop of Waterford m and Lismore. 
 
 The B. of Corke," and Clone and Ross Carbery. 
 
 The B. of Ardfert, his name is Crosbie. 
 
 The B. of Limerick, his name is Adams. p 
 
 The B. of Emelie, m annexed to the Archb. of Cashel. 
 
 The B. of Killallow, q his name is O'Bryan. 
 
 All these be under the Archbishop of Cashel. 
 
 m Vide note c . 
 
 n Wm. Lyon of Chester, Bp. (1583- 
 16 1 7), Vicar of Naasin 1573. A prelate 
 of an active and liberal spirit. In the 
 palace grounds in Cork was found a 
 flagstone with the inscription — ' This 
 house was builded in anno 1589 by — 
 Welleam lion, an Englis man born 
 beshop of Cork, Clon-an-Ross, and this 
 tomb was erected in anno dni. 1597,' 
 etc. His portrait is in the see-house 
 of Cork. He d. at Cork at a very ad- 
 vanced age. — Cotton's Fasti. 
 
 Nich. Keenan, Bp. (1588-1599). — 
 Ware. John Crosby, Bp. (1600-162 1) 
 m. the dau. of O'Lalor of Queen's Co.; 
 he had two sons ; his daughters were 
 mar. to M'Elligott, M c Gillicuddy, 
 Stephenson of Dunmoylin in Limerick, 
 and Collum. Crosby was ancestor of 
 the Earls of Glandore. — Lodge, vol. iii., 
 
 P- 327- 
 
 p Recte John Thornburgh, of Salis- 
 bury, Bp. ( 1 593-1 603), performed many 
 eminent services to the Crown after his 
 advancement to the See of Limerick, 
 which were the cause of his subsequent 
 
 promotions ; he was ' well furnished 
 with Learning, Wisdom, Courage, and 
 other as well Episcopal as temporal 
 Accomplishments, beseeming a gentle- 
 man, a Dean, and a Bishop. He had 
 great skill in Chimistry, by which it 
 was thought he attained to so great an 
 Age, arriving at his 89 th year.' He was 
 translated to Bristol, and then to Wor- 
 cester, where there is a monument to 
 him with a curious inscription, begin- 
 ning thus — ' Denarius Philoso-phorum. 
 Dum spiro, spero.' 
 
 Adams of Middlesex was Bp. (1604- 
 1625.) On his tomb is inscribed — 
 
 ' Bernardus jacet hie en Adamus, Episco- 
 pus olim, 
 
 Omnia non vidit Solomonis, et omnia vana. 
 
 A Bishop once here Bernard's Bones remain; 
 
 He saw not all, but saw that all was vain. 
 
 Sufficient God did give me, which I spent ; 
 
 I little borrowed, and as little lent. 
 
 I left them whom I loved enough in store — 
 
 Increased this Bishoprick, relieved the Poor.' 
 
 q Maurice O'Brien, b. in Arra, Bp. 
 
 (1570-1612), received the profits of the 
 
 See six years before his consecration ; 
 
 he voluntarily resigned a year before 
 
THE BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS. 
 
 237 
 
 The B. of Kilmacow/ 
 
 The B. of Elfin, 5 his name is Linch. 
 
 The B. of Athcourie,' Vacant. 
 
 The B. of Clonfert, r his name Linch. 
 
 The B. of Maio, annexed to Toam. 
 
 The B. of Killallo, 1 Vacat. 
 
 These be under the Archb. of Toam. 
 
 So the BB. of Ulster and Meath be under the Primat of 
 Armagh, the BB. of Leinster under the Archb. of Dublin. The 
 BB. of Mounster under the Archb. of Cashell. The BB. of 
 Conaug-ht under the Archb. of Toam. 
 
 his death. — Ware. This Mortogh had 
 two sons, Torlogh and John. — Memoirs 
 of the O'Briens, p. 547. 
 
 r KilmacduaghandClonfert. Stephen 
 Kerovan, b. in Galway, Bp. (15S2- 
 1602). Roland Linch, b. in Galway, 
 Bp. (1602-1625.) The Members of 
 the Royal Visitation say, '(Linch), Bp. 
 of Clonfert and Kilmacduach and 
 Clonfert hath dealt so fraudulently and 
 perversely with us, that we cannot give 
 the least Credit to his relation. We 
 have undeniable Evidence that upon 
 his first Promotion, Clonfert was es- 
 teemed worth ;£i6o per Ann., and 
 Kilmacduach .£100. But now the 
 
 Bp. hath returned us a Roll in Writing, 
 in which he makes the value of Clon- 
 fert only ^40, and Kilmacduach only 
 ^24, but gives us no account how this 
 happened.' — Harris's Ware. 
 
 s John Fitzjames Linch, b. in Gal- 
 way, LL.B. of Oxford, Bp. (1584-161 1), 
 educated at Oxford; 'by Alienation?, 
 etc., so wasted and destroyed it (his 
 See), that he left it not worth 200 Marks 
 a year. It is said he lived a concealed 
 anddieda "Publick Papist.'" — Harris's 
 Ware. 
 
 ' Achonry and Killala. Owen O'Con- 
 nor, b. in Ireland; Bp. of Killala 
 ( 1 591-1607.) — Ware. 
 
2 3 8 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 THE HAVENS OF IRELAND. 
 
 Loughfoyle." 
 Oulderflecte. b 
 Carrickfergus, a wild road. 
 Strangford. d 
 Arg-las, barred. 
 Carlingford, 6 barred. 
 Dundalke/ barred. 
 Skerries, g dangerous for many 
 
 rockes covered at ful Sea. 
 Rushe, a Creeke. 
 Malahide. 
 
 Havens. — 3rd vol. S.P., Henry 8, 
 year 1543, p. 446. 
 
 a In O'Donnell's countrey. 
 
 b A good haven in the Irishe Scottes 
 countrey. The Banne in Maccryllie's 
 country. 
 
 c Knockfergus, a good haven and 
 yours. 
 
 d A good haven. 
 
 e A good haven. 
 
 f A creek. 
 
 E Skyrries, a good rode. Howthe, 
 Dalkey, Wicklow.— Dean Nowel, MS. 
 
 h Limerick, very good, but much 
 hindered by certen Yrishmen bordering 
 on either syde. 
 
 ' Galway, very good. 
 
 J ' Inver, commonly called the broad 
 
 Hah, g a road. 
 The Sheynen, h and 
 
 many places therein. 
 Galloway.' 
 The lies of Arran the 
 
 outer, 
 broad HavenJ 
 Inisbafin. j 
 Moyne. 
 Sligo. 
 Calbeg. 
 
 haven; so it is broad within three hun- 
 dred sayle may roade here without 
 annoying one another. The fyshing is 
 good and plentyfull for Codd, Lynge, 
 Hearinge, etc. But the entry is such 
 that a Poortie with artillery on the south 
 side may sinke any vessell.' — Descript. 
 of Connaught in 16 12. 
 
 ' Ince Bofin, the land of Saints, Tirke 
 Mayne, and Clere, are under the rule 
 of O'Malley; they are very pleasant and 
 fertile, plenty of woode, arabell grounde, 
 pasture and fishe. and a very temperate 
 ayer.' — Apothecarie St?iitk, anno 1561. 
 See his MS. published in Ulster Jour, 
 of Arch. Inish Bonn is called Inish 
 Potin in Nowel, and Arran is called 
 Arinnenewe 
 
THE HAVENS OF IRELAND. 
 
 239 
 
 Lough Sulley. 1 
 
 Youghall, p good at half Tide. 
 Cork." 
 
 Kinsale, good at all tymes. 
 Rosse Carbery. 
 Baltimore/ 
 Valentia. 
 Dingle. 5 
 
 The best of these Havens have no toune nere them as 
 Calbeg, Loughsully, 0-Lderfleet,etc. 
 
 Dalgoy, 1 a wild road. 
 
 Wicklo," 1 for small Vessels 
 
 Arcklo, m for the same. 
 
 Passage." 
 
 Dungarvan. 
 
 Rosse." 
 
 k Lough Swilly. Also Assero, Shepe- 
 haven, Northerborne, in O'Donnell's 
 country. 
 
 1 Dalkey ? 
 
 m But a creek. 
 
 n Waterford and Rosse, very good. 
 
 A barred haven. 
 
 p A good haven. 
 
 q a good haven. 
 
 ' Wallentimore, good in Ohetheris- 
 calle's country. Beare Haven in O'Suly- 
 ivan's country, very good. 
 
 s Crook Haven and Dyngell Creek, 
 in Machartie's country. Nowel calls 
 Dingle, ' Dangyr Ighois.' 
 
 Also ' Wexford badde, Drogheda 
 badde, Lambay Ylonde a good rode 
 for all manner of windes.' — St. Leger 
 
 to Henry 8, 6th April 1543 — State 
 Papers. 
 
 In addition to these, Nowel' s MS. 
 has — ' Ardglasse Loghuen, Kilkele, 
 Kilcloghir, Holmpatrick, Dublin, To- 
 malag, Kierie, Derrie, Downemore, 
 Downeshead, Downelong, Artlanan, 
 Croghan, Dunburie, Ballineskelligy, 
 Tralee, Cassane, Inniskae, Belalem, 
 Glanemagh, Ballywhyghan, Kinwarre, 
 Dowrig, Woran, Roskain, Killenkillie, 
 Rathsilben, Burske, Belaclare, Balala, 
 Ardroute, Ardenoch, Ardremakow, 
 Rosbare, Kilgholm, Kalbaly, Rabran, 
 Bierweis our, Burwis Qare, Bunveis 
 nowe, Fattra Kattra' !!— Nowel s MS., 
 written before 1576. See a long de- 
 scription of the Connaught Havens in 
 vol. 27 of the Archaeologia. 
 
24O STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 A NOTE OF THE REVENUES AND CASUALTIES 
 
 OF IRELAND. 
 
 The old Rents and of the Countie of the Cittie of 
 
 Revenues of the several 
 
 counties here mencioned Dublin 
 
 Of the Countie of Dublin 
 
 Kildare 
 
 Meath - 
 
 Longford 
 
 Westmeath 
 
 Drogheda 
 
 Roscommon 
 
 Galloway 
 
 Louth 
 
 Antrym 
 
 Cittie of Limerick 
 
 Corke - 
 
 Dublin - 
 
 Kilkenny 
 
 Westmeath 
 
 Clare 
 
 Louth - - - 
 
 Kings - - - 
 
 Roscomon 
 
 Galloway 
 
 Longford 
 
 Sligo 
 
 Reg - 
 
 Drogheda 
 
 Downe 
 
 Maio 
 
 Kerry . - 
 
 ^218 
 
 15 
 
 2 
 
 174 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 164 
 
 17 
 
 8 
 
 37 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 137 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 79 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 939 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 394 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 447 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 814 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 150 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 102 
 
 17 
 
 7 
 
 209 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 r 
 
 35 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 4 
 
 53 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 76 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 91 
 
 17 
 
 
 
THE REVENUES OF IRELAND. 24 1 
 
 Rents and Revenues of Cavan 
 
 the Q. Lands and poss. 
 
 in Ireland both Spirituall O'CarTel's Countrie 
 
 and Temporall in the .,... 
 
 Sevevall Counties thereof. -K.llua.re 
 
 Catherlagh 
 
 Limerick 
 
 Wexford 
 
 Tipperary 
 
 Waterford 
 
 Meath - 
 
 Corke 
 
 £16 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 972 
 
 12 
 
 1 1 
 
 107 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 3ii 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 430 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 252 
 
 16 
 
 4 
 
 305 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 1729 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 310 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 Summa totalis - - -,£8236 14 7 
 
 Rents reserved to the O'Carrel's Countrie 
 
 Cjuene, for territories and 
 
 Lands resigned to her Corke - - - - 
 
 and taken back from her 
 
 again. Galloway 
 
 Roscomon ... 
 
 King's Countie 
 
 Limerick ... 
 
 Province of Ulster 
 
 Fercale in the King's Countie - 
 
 A Composition made by King's Countie 
 S r Henrie Sidney for ,_. _ , _ 
 
 Bonnaught money. WeXIOrd L-OUntie 
 
 For certen Personages let to the 
 B. of Meath 
 Severaii Compositions Composition for Mona^han 
 
 made by Severaii Dep. _ . . r i ti i 
 
 with the Country for Composition of the rale 
 
 easing them of the Cesse /-. •. • r r^ \ ,. 
 
 of Soldiers and provision Composition of Conaught 
 for the Dep hous. Composition of Mounster 
 
 Chief Rents in Mounster 
 Undertakers' Lands per Annum 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 21 
 
 1 1 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 O 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 187 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 53 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 
 194 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 84 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 761 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 2008 
 
 
 
 
 
 3864 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 1007 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 876 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 5615 
 
 
 
 
 
242 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 The Ouene's casualties which is Yearlie uncertaine. 
 
 Subsidies of Temporall Lands 
 
 the xx of the clergie 
 
 The Office of the 
 
 Fines for Homages 
 
 Fines for Liverie 
 
 Fines for alienation 
 
 Fines for relief 
 
 Fines for Leases for term of 
 
 Years 
 Fines for Ecclesiasticall causes 
 Fines for Pardones 
 The Sherriffs Accompts 
 Forfeitures of Recognizances 
 Office of the First Fruits 
 
 Office of the Clerke of the 
 Crowne 
 
 Office of the Clerke of the Starr 
 Chamber 
 
 Office of the Clerke of Facul- 
 ties 
 
 Office of the Prerogative 
 Court 
 
 Customs of all kinds of Mer- 
 chandize brought or carried 
 out 
 
 Imposts of Wines let to S r 
 Henrie Broncard for ^2000 
 
 yearlie 
 
 Note that the Irish Pound or Shilling is lesse by the 4 th 
 part than the Inglysh, as the Irysh pound is but 18^. Ster., the 
 Irish Shilling yd, Ster. 
 
 The Summe of the Ordinarie receats by the half year, out 
 of the Revenues and Impost is ^24,952 45-. Irish. 
 
 A Note of the Yearlie Payments issued out of 
 
 THE REVENNUES. 
 
 To the Officers of the Exchequer 
 To the Officers of the King's bench 
 To the Officers of the common Pleas 
 To the Officers of the Chauncerie 
 
 £1188 13 o 
 
 543 6 8 
 
 206 7 9 
 
 628 14 5 
 
THE REVENUES OF IRELAND. 243 
 
 To the Officers attending the L. Dep. and coun- 
 sail Sitting in the Starr chamber within the 
 Castle of Dublin - - - ■ ^133 6 8 
 
 To the Collectors and Controllers of the Customs 
 
 of Dublin and Drogheda - - - 40 o o 
 
 To the Clerk of Works, his Fee - - 34 vj viij 
 
 The Fees of divers Constables of Castles within 
 
 Ireland - - - - 286 vj viij 
 
 Annuities and pensions granted either for Service 
 or upon favour, some during Life, some during 
 the parties' good behaviour, or during the prince's 
 pleasure, paiable out of the Revenues and not 
 out of the treasure ... 
 
 To the Officers of the Countie of Wexford 
 
 To divers Officers attending the State 
 
 Expens .... 
 
 The Sume of all Issues and Disbursments 
 
 The particulars of these reckonings, and of the disburs- 
 ment of the rest of the Revenues may appear in a Book by 
 itself, and also the issuing of the Treasure that cometh out of 
 I ngl. extending everie of these late years to ;£ 120,000 in the 
 Entertayment of the L. Dep. or Justices. 
 
 The L: Lieutenant. 
 
 The L: President of Mounster. 
 
 The Knight Marshall. 
 
 The Threasurer at Warrs. 
 
 All the Officers of the Field and the Sergeant 
 
 Maior. 
 M r of the Ordinance and his Officers. 
 Minister M r Controller and commissaries. 
 
 2835 
 
 vj 
 
 U 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 
 
 76 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 283 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 6322 
 
 5 
 
 
 
244 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Campe, M rs 
 
 Corporalls of the Field. 
 
 86 Capitens with their Lieutenante, Ensignes, Ser- 
 geants, Dromes and Fifes, and 
 
 Trompeters, with Eight Thousand Souldiers, Horse 
 and Foote. 
 
 Besides for Severall Wards in the Castles of 
 
 Dublin, Knockfergus, 
 
 Catherlaghe, Athloane, 
 
 Marreborrow, Duncanon, 
 
 Phillipstowne, Carlinford, 
 
 Laughlin, Fearnes, 
 
 Trim, Dondrome, 
 
 Dungarvan, Castle and Abbey, besides 
 
 Castle mayne, many Pensioners and 1 2 
 
 Limericke, Alme. 
 
 Names of the Councill of Ireland. 
 
 S r Arthure Chicester, L. Dep. 
 
 Thomas Jones, L. Chancellor. 
 
 S r James Ley, chief Justice. 
 
 S r Thomas Butler Knight Earle of Ormond Vi. 
 
 Earle of Clanrickard, President of Conaught. 
 
 Dod Bishop of Meath. 
 
 S r Henrie Davies, L. Davies, L. president of Mounster. 
 
 Rich: Wingfield Knight Marshall of Ireland. 
 
 Thomas Ridgwae Knight at Warrs. 
 
 S r Nicholas Walshe, Justice of the common pleas. 
 
 Sir Humphry Winch, chief Baron of the Exchequer. 
 
 S r Anthony S' Leger, Master of the Rolles. 
 
 Sir Oliver S' John Knight, M r of the Ordinance. 
 
THE COUNCILL OF IRELAND. 
 
 245 
 
 S r Henrie Harrington. 
 S r Edward Brabazon. 
 S r Oliv. Lambert. 
 S r Henrie Dowcra. 
 S r William Godolphin. 
 S r Francis Stafford. 
 The Bishop of Downe. 
 
 S r James Fullerton. 
 S r Rich. Morrison. 
 S r Henrie Power. 
 S r Gerrot Moore. 
 S r Adam Loftus. 
 S r Geffrey Fenton. 
 S r Richard Cooke. 
 
246 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Sir Arthur Chichester's Instructions to Sir James Ley 
 and Sir John Davys, touching the Settlement in Ulster. 
 Sept. 1608. — See Cal. of Irish S. P., an. 1608, p. 55. 
 
 Cavan. — See p. 117, supra. 
 
 The Cavan is a spacious and large county, very populous, and the people 
 hardy and warlike. The Chief of them are the O'Realyes (O'Reillys), of which 
 Surname there are sundry Septs, most of them cross and opposite one unto 
 another. By the division and Separation among themselves, the whole county, 
 which heretofore made their dependancy upon the chief of the Sept by the name 
 of O'Realye, may with the- more facility and assurance be divided into parcels, 
 and disposed to several freeholders, who, depending immediately upon the King, 
 will not fear or obey their neighbours, unless some one or two be made so power- 
 ful as to overtop and sway down the rest ; and therefore care must be in the 
 Settlement of this country, that the greatest part of the people have their depen- 
 dancy immediately from the King, and as little upon the Irish lords as may be 
 without apparent hindrance to the plantation. 
 
 The natives of that County are not able in worth nor people to inhabit and 
 manure the half thereof. 
 
 The books of Survey and other collections will disclose the chief pretenders 
 to the lands in each barony, and in smaller circuits, who may be provided for as 
 shall be directed, or as they (the commissioners) shall think fit, if it be left to 
 their discretion. 
 
 The principal place to be cared for is the town of Cavan, which wishes to 
 be made a corporation, and a ballibeto of land (if it may be) to be laid unto it 
 out of the barony of Cavan. The Castle there is to be likewise reserved, and 
 the like allotment of land to be made for the maintenance thereof. 
 
APPENDIX. 247 
 
 Belturbet is likewise by situation a fit place to be strengthened by a ward 
 or other residence of civil people. 
 
 The barony of Cavan (except Cloughouter) may be disposed in demesne 
 and chiefry to young Mulmorie O'Relye, the grandchild of Sir John O'Relye. 
 There are many freeholders in the barony, as the Bradies, and M'Cabies, and 
 others, who will expect a good portion ; but Mulmory, the head of the house, 
 must get land out of other baronies or chief rents, as his father was slain in the 
 Queen's service, and he is descended by the mother from the house of Ormonde. 
 
 Fermanagh. — See p. 24, supra. 
 
 Fermanagh cannot be divided as the Cavan, by reason of Connor Roe 
 Maguyre, who has a patent of the whole country passed unto him in the late 
 Queen's time, but upon conference and advice had with him by the Deputy and 
 Council for the settlement of his kinsman Cow Connaught (Couconaght) Maguyre, 
 and of that country, he was content to submit himself to their order for a new 
 division, upon which three baronies of the seven were allotted to him, the said 
 Connor Roe, with a promise of letters for the same, which in his (Chichester's; 
 opinion were meet to be passed to him with a clause to make a competent number 
 of freeholders of the natives of that county, and with reservation of rent to His 
 Majesty. 
 
 The other four baronies were intended to Cow Connaught Maguyre, and 
 are now in the hands of his brother Bryen, but divers gentlemen inhabit there- 
 upon, who claim a freehold in the lands they possess. It is to be considered and 
 resolved by the Lords whether any part thereof shall be bestowed upon the 
 pretenders to the freehold, or on the brethren and Sept of Cow Connaught, and, 
 namely, on Tyrone's grandchild, son to Hugh Maguyre, slain in Munster. 
 Bryen is a proper and active young man, and has a younger brother. These 
 will be stirring and keep out if they be not cared for or restrained, and so will 
 the freeholders with them, and the child when he comes to be a man. There- 
 fore, either they must be provided for and settled, or the new plantation must be 
 made strong and powerful to keep them in awe and subjection, which will 
 require great charge and foresight ; and to remove them with their followers and 
 tenants to other countries will be found somewhat difficult. 
 
 Henry and Con O'Neale, sons to Shane O'Neale, are now seated in this 
 county upon lands which they took from Cow Connaught Maguyre, to which 
 certain freeholders pretend title. If the King think them worth the cherishing, 
 they must be seated in something in this county or Armagh, or else removed 
 
248 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 clear out of Ulster; and if his Majesty could assume or purchase a Signory in 
 Munster, it were good sending them thither ; they are civil and discreet men, 
 especially Harry, and have each of them 4s. a-day pension from His Majesty. 
 
 In this county there is neither town nor civil habitation. Iniskellin is the 
 fittest place, in his opinion, for the Shire town, and to be made a corporation. 
 
 Donegal. — See p. 29, supra. 
 
 This has been so bangled by the Earl of Tyrconnell by sales, mortgages, 
 and underhand conveyances, that he (Chichester) can make no certain demon- 
 stration thereof, only this is certain, Enishowen is come unto the King by 
 O'Dogherty's attainders. Glanfyne and the greatest part of Monganagh was 
 promised to Sir Neale O'Donnell, whereof he might have had letters patent, but 
 he neglected to take them out, expecting greater quantities and pretending title 
 to the whole country, which he (Chichester) thinks will hardly satisfy his 
 ambition ; but his case is such at this time that he will seem satisfied with a 
 small portion, so he be assured of his life and liberty. Can say nothing of him 
 until the pleasure of the King or the Lords of the Council be signified touching 
 his arraingment or enlargement. His son is a dangerous youth, of whom, and 
 of Caffer Oge O'Donnell, he (Chichester) has declared his opinion to them, 
 together with the briefs and sundry examinations and voluntary confessions made 
 against them. 
 
 Divers gentlemen claim freeholds in that county, as namely, the three Septs 
 of the M c S\vynes, Bane (Banagh), Fanaght, and Doe, O'Boyle, and O'Galchare 
 (O'Gallagher) ; but these men passed over their rights (if any they had) to the 
 Earl (as it is said) which he got from them cautiously and by unworthy duties ; 
 in whose behalf his Majesty is to signify his gracious pleasure, and he (Chichester) 
 is sure every of them has more land than they and their Septs will be able to 
 manure and plant in any civil and good fashion these 40 years, albeit peace 
 did continue among them ; and they are for the most part unworthy of what they 
 possess, being a people inclined to blood and trouble, but to displant them is 
 very difficult. If His Majesty dispose the land to strangers, they must be very 
 powerful to suppress them. Suggests that if his pleasure be to continue them in 
 what they claim, the lands may be divided into many parts and disposed to 
 several men of the septs, and some to strangers or some others of this nation, 
 leaving none greater than another, unless it be in a small difference to the now 
 chiefs of the name. If this cours displease the said chiefs, it will content many others, 
 who will be good ties upon them if by Justice they be supported accordingly. 
 
APPENDIX. 249 
 
 There are divers other places within this county fit to be reserved for the 
 King's Service and to bestow upon civil and well chosen men, some of which 
 are already possessed by Wards and garrisons, as namely, the Deny, Lyffor, 
 Ballishanon, Dunegall, Castle Doe, and Culmore. . . . 
 
 Coleraine. — See p. 28, supra. 
 
 This county is of small circuit, containing only three baronies, two of which 
 are not so large as the barony of Dungannon. It has been of long time 
 attempted for parcel of Tyrone. The chief septs that inhabit it are the O'Cahanes, 
 and under them the O'Mullanes, Magilliganes, and M'Closkies. The Earl of 
 Tyrone made challenge unto this country, as passed unto him by letters patents, 
 and required Sir Donell O'Cahane, the now chief of that name, to give him ,£200 
 a year, in consideration of his challenge, but being unable to make him payment 
 of so much, in respect of the waste and riotous expenses otherwise, he yielded 
 one of the baronies up to the Earl in lieu of the ,£200, which the Earl possessed 
 at the time of his flight ; and albeit it is thought that neither Tyrone nor 
 O'Cahane had any good and lawful estate in that country (the right being in the 
 King by the Statute 1 1 Elizabeth), yet it is his duty to declare that the whole 
 country (the castle of Annogh with a good quantity of lands thereunto annexed, 
 and the Bishop's and Church's rights excepted) was promised to the said Sir 
 Donell O'Cahane upon his submission in the year 1601, by the Lord Mountjoy, 
 then Lord Deputy ; and in confirmation hereof a custodiam was passed to him 
 under the Great Seal. He is now prisoner in the Castle of Dublin. 
 
 In this county they neither hold ward nor keep men upon the King's 
 charges. If Sir Donell O'Cahane be found unworthy of the King's favour by 
 reason of his treasonable practices and misdemeanours, then is that country in 
 the King's hands. The principal places to be cared for within this county are 
 the Castles of Annogh, Lemavadie, Colerayne, and Downgeuyne (Dungiven), 
 albeit most of them are ruinous and out of repair. If Sir Donnell O'Cahane be 
 enlarged, or if, upon his trial, he escape the danger of the law, two parts of that 
 country will not content him, nor, he thinks, the whole ; but whatsoever becomes 
 of him, good consideration must be had of his brother, Manus O'Cahane, Manus 
 ut Quyvally O'Cahane, and some few others whom he (Chichester) has found 
 honest in those last troubles, and before. . . . 
 
 Tyrone. — See p. 25, supra. 
 The great sept of this county is come to the King by the attainders of the 
 Earl of Tyrone and his Sept. In this county they hold the forts of Mountjoy, 
 
25O STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Omey, and the ruinous castle of Dungannon by the King's garrisons and wards ; 
 upon the division and settlement of the county, other places must be found out 
 and strengthened for a time, as, namely, about the Clogher, where lies the 
 country of Sir Cormac O'Neale, another in the Glynnes of Glancomkeyne, the 
 Slute Artes (Slught Airta) country, and two or three other places. . . . 
 
 The chief Septs of this country are the O'Neales, and under them the 
 O'Donnoles, O'Hagganes, O'Quynes, O'Delvynes (O'Devlins), O'Corres, the 
 Clondonells, the Melans, and other septs, which are warlike people and many 
 in number, and must be provided for or overmastered, without which they will 
 not be ruled nor removed. 
 
 Has delivered the possession of the Newtown, with some three ballibetoes 
 of land, to Tyrlowe and Neale M'Arte, the children of Sir Arte O'Neal, in respect 
 of the good service they did against the traitor O'Doghertie and the relief they 
 gave the Lyffer upon the burning of the Derry. . . . Thinks this sufficient 
 for them, but they do not. If the King will be pleased to reserve the town of 
 Straban, which stands within the lands now assigned to them, and give them a 
 greater scope on the other side, he thinks it best for his Service, ■ for divers 
 Scottislimen will plant there and make it a pretty town, albeit it was all burnt 
 to the ground by O'Doghertie. . . . 
 
 Downeganon (Dungannon) to be made a corporation. 
 
 Armagh. — See p. 19, supra. 
 The state of this county is much like that of Tyrone, and possessed by the 
 same Septs, especially for as much of it as appertained to the Earl of Tyrone, 
 which is the greatest part of the country. The rest belongs to the Lord 
 Primate, and either is passed to Sir Tyrlogh and Henry O'Neale, and Sir Henry 
 Oge O'Neale, lately slain in the service against O'Dohertie, or is Sir Oghy 
 O'Hanlon's, who lately surrendered his interest to the King upon promise to 
 have it repassed to him ; which would have been performed before this time, if 
 he had sought it, and would have permitted certain freeholders to take letters 
 patent, and to hold immediately of the King as he promised. He is an old, 
 lame man, of weake judgement, married to a sister of Tyrone's, who is as malicious 
 and ill-affected to the King's government and country's reformation as her 
 brother. She rules the old man. His only legitimate son was in rebellion with 
 O'Doghertie, and is now hid and relieved by his friends in that country. The 
 old man must be provided for as long as he lives. Hopes that after his death 
 there may be no more O'Hanlons — he means as lord over the rest, but that that 
 country may be disposed to the best affected of the sept and to other civil men. 
 
APPENDIX. 25I 
 
 The chief of this country under the Earl of Tyrone was his base brother, 
 known by the name of Arte M'Barron, who is yet living, and claims the greatest 
 part of the country of O'Neale, of which he is possessed. He has three sons with 
 the Archduke, of whom two are captains. These youths, the sons of the Earl, 
 and the children of Sir Cormock M'Barron, Sir Tyrlowe M'Henry, and Sir 
 Henry Oge O'Neale, will kindle a new fire in those parts at some time or other, 
 if they be not well looked to or provided for in some reasonable measure. 
 
 They are to declare to the Lords that there is a son of the Earl of Tyrone, 
 of some seven or eight years old, and another to Caffer O'Donnell, brother to 
 the Earl of Tyrconnell. Has committed them to the charge of two of the 
 captains in Ulster. Should gladly receive directions to dispose of them, and in 
 his opinion, the best course will be to send them to some remote parts of 
 England or Scotland, to be kept from the knowledge of friends or acquaintance. 
 
 The countries known by the name of M'Cann Country and Braslowe 
 (Bresilagh) are within this county, which are possessed principally by gentlemen, 
 who claim the freehold thereof. They would gladly be tenants or freeholders to 
 the King, and would pay a good rent to His Majesty. 
 
 Sir Tirlagh M c Henry wants to enlarge his possession of land of the Fues ; 
 it would be well to give him part of Toghrighie, if that will make him and his 
 sons honest. Care to be had of Henry Oge O'Neile's children, of Con M c Tyrlowe 
 and his brethren, who without such care are like to break out ; and of Owine 
 More O'Neale, more for his honest simplicity than for any harm he is like to do. 
 The O'Hagans, O'Quinns, and Clandonnells were never better than tenants and 
 followers of the Earl of Tyrone. 
 
 Many, of the natives in each county claim freehold in the land they possess; 
 and albeit their demands are not justifiable by law, yet it is hard and almost 
 impossible to displant them. 
 
 The people must be drawn from ' creatinge,' and settle in towns and 
 villages, and build houses like those of the Pale, and not cabins after their 
 wonted manner. — The L. Deputy Chichester, Cat. I. S. Papers, 1608, p. 55. 
 
 Sir R.Jacob (Sol. Gen.) to Salisbury, April 1609: — ' The only thing that 
 keeps them (the Ulster men) in subjection is the want of arms, for all their 
 weapons are brought into the King's store. But they want no men, notwith- 
 standing the late wars, the famine and the great plague that was amongst them ; 
 for there are 5000 booked in Tyrone and Coleraine ; 4000 in Armagh ; 6000 in 
 Tirconnell; and in other counties 3000 ; in others, 4000 — so that in all that pro- 
 vince there are at the least 20,000 men of the sword.' — Cal. of I. S. P., p. 197. 
 
252 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Kildare. — See supra, p. 46. 
 
 THE NAMES OK THE LORDS, KNIGHTS, COMMONS, AND OTHER OFFICERS IN THE 
 COUNTY OF KILDARE ON THE 28TH OF JUNE 1608. 
 
 Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. — Gerald Earl of Kildare; William 
 Bishop of Deny. 
 
 Names of the Knights and Justices of the Peace. — R. Wingfield, G. Cowly, 
 W. Sarsfield, G. Aylmer, R. Greame, G. Grearne, J. FitzPiers FitzGerald, E. 
 Blany, R. Digby, Knights ; Allen of St. Wolstons, Sutton of Tipperaiy, Sarsfield 
 of Surnings, Sarsfield of Tully, Nangle .of Ballysax, Dallway of Castleton Kil- 
 drought, Lye of Rathbryde, Bartholomew Long of Dyrr, Meyres of Tullaghgrory, 
 Rider (Archdeacon of Meath), Allen of Kilheele, Eustace of Castle Martin, 
 Bellinge, Aylmer, FitzGerald of Laccagh, FitzGerald of Allen, Wogan of Rath- 
 coffy, Downton, and Stokes, Esquires. 
 
 Names of the Coroners. — FitzGerrald of Osberstown, FitzGerrald of Blackball. 
 
 A T ames of the Sovereigns and Prozvsfs of the Towns. — Sheale, Sovereign of the 
 town of Kildare ; Aysh, Provost of the town of Naas ; Smith, Provost of the town 
 of Athye ; Atwell Batwell, Provost of the town of Kildrought ; Turlagh Doyne, 
 Provost of the town of Rathmore ; Peppard, Provost of the town of Leixlip ; 
 Dowlin, Provost of the town of Kill ; Browne, Provost of the town of Woghterard. 
 
 Names of Constables. — Gilbert Sutton of Ardre, Allen of Bishoppscourt, Higgs 
 of Cottlandstown, Sherlocke of Sherlockstowne, Eustace of Blackwood, Bath of 
 Clane, Bellowe of Clougeswood, Eustace of Kylmorry, Dod of Connall, Myssett 
 of Harberston, Gerrald FitzBryan of Ballysymon, Jacob of Srowlane, Segerson of 
 Halveston, Danyell of Castle Dermott, Dowdall of Killen, Piers Brymingham 
 of Garisker. 
 
 Names of the Jurors for the Lord King. — Barony of Sault. — Fyan of Leixlip, 
 Gerrald Wellesley of Kildrought, Patrick Tipp of Tippston, Walsh of Moretown, 
 Ayshe of Furnaghts. 
 
 Barony of Naas. — Eustace of Mullaghrash, Patrick Sanders of Newton 
 o'More, Hasquin of Little Rath, Browne of Newton o'More, Sherlock of Naas, 
 Kenna of the same, Latten of the same, Kelly of the same, and Walter Archbold 
 of the same. 
 
 Barony of Clane. — FitzGerrald of Grages, Rochford of Newton o'Clane, 
 FitzGerald of Ballandsox, FitzGerrald of Tymoghe, Wogan of Downings, Roch- 
 ford of Clane. 
 
 Barony of Ikethy and Woghtcrcay. — Eustace of Clongoswood, Aylmer of 
 Little Cappoth, Walsh of Cloncurry, Roe of Brangastowne. 
 
APPENDIX. 253 
 
 Baiony of Connally.—Wogan of Newhall, Goulding of Haubertston, Fitz- 
 Gerrald of Pinchers Grange, Eustace of Siggenston. 
 
 Barony of Ophaly. — FitzGerrald of Brownestowne. 
 
 Barony of Norragh and Rcbon. — Walter Wellesley of Norragh, Wellesley of 
 Blackehall, Eustace of Blackrath, Eustace of Crookestovvne, Eustace of Collbins- 
 towne. 
 
 Barony of Kilkullin. — Dougan of Tuberngan. 
 
 Barony of Killta and Moonc. — FitzEdmond of Birton, Gerald FitzBrian of 
 the same, Eustace of Moone, FitzGerrald of Bealan. 
 
 Barony of Carbry. — Brymingham of Donfort, Brymingham of Mucklane, 
 Brymingham of Garisker, Brymingham of Grange, Brymingham of Longwood, 
 Brymingham of Russellswood. 
 
 Carlow. — See supra, p. 52. 
 
 THE COUNTY OF CATHERLOGH, THE 4TH JUNE 1608. 
 
 Lords. — Theobald Lord Viscount Butler of Tullagh ; Thomas Lord Bishop of 
 Laughlyn and Fearnes. 
 
 Knights. — Colclough, Maisterson, and Hartpoole. 
 
 Esquires. — Morgan M c Brian, Davells, Wale, Bagnall, Eustace, Gerald 
 M c Mortagh, Donell Kavanagh, Harman, Hartpoole, Bryan MTJonnogh. 
 
 Coroners. — Broune of Cloughchricke, Tomyne of Clonygagh. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Catherlogh. — William Gorst of Carrickstowne. 
 
 Barony of Idron. — Donell O'Rian of Tomgarrough, Owen Byrne of Ballyrian. 
 
 Barony of St. Molyn. — Morris Kavanagh of Ballybracke, Donnough O'Neyle 
 of Kiltarry. 
 
 Barony of Fort. — Rowry O'Nolan of Kilbracan, O'Nolan of Ballymoge. 
 
 Bailiffs Arrant. — Hugh Leaugh for the Barony of Catherlogh, D. Barron for 
 the Barony of Idrone, W. Moyhill for the Barony of Fort, James M c Teig Ser- 
 geant of Raville ; Edmond Ower Sergeant, Sergeant of St. Moylyne. 
 
 Freeholders. — Barony of Idrone. — George Etherunton of Rahellin, Birne of 
 Aha, Cahir MTeig of Knockscurr, Bime of Oldtowne, Walshe of Tomand, Der- 
 monde Kavanaugh of Rahedin, M c Gerrald of the Rath, Turlough Birne of 
 Kilm'lapock (sic), Edmond MTirlough of Kilree, Cahir M c Donell Reough of 
 Ballycromgan, Donell Roe M c Dermott of Baldinge, Teig O'Rian of Balliellen, 
 Donough Kavanaugh of Kilconyney, Dermott Kavanaugh of Ballifenyne, David 
 M c Mortagh of Clowater, Phoores (sic) M c Cavell of Kilgreany, Donough 
 M c Garrott of Bordduffe, Garrat M c Morris of Kilgreaney, James M c Richard 
 
254 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Ballough of the Bunes, Donough M c Morrough of Bally William Roe, Fagon of 
 Dunlockney, Birne of Seskinrem, M c Garratt of Balliteige, Geere of Kilamonine, 
 Carron of Rathduffe, M c Donnough of Knockroe, Mortagh Kavanaugh of Kil- 
 kallatin, Thomyne of Ballydarmyne, Donell Fyn of Boreduffe, Walter Butler of 
 Balliteigbeaugh, Patrick Morphue of Bollintollin. 
 
 Barony of Catherlogh. — Wale of Pollardstowne, Cooke of Staplestowne, Fer- 
 donough Gormagan of Gruangfort, Birne of Ballilowe, Dermott M c Shane of 
 Balliterney, Birne of Ratroge, Birne of Moyhill, Birne of Teurelan, Arspoll of 
 Freerstowne, Everson of Clough. 
 
 Barony of Fort. — Barry of Rarusb, Morrough Birne of Straugh, Teige Nolan 
 of Ballicallie, Donogh Nolan of Ballihemoge, Mortagh M c Garrott of Myssell, 
 Donell M c Hugh of Shangarry, Donell Nolan of Kilayne, Donnough Morrough 
 of Carricknestayne, Patrick M c Shane of Ballitample, Donnough Roe of Kilbreede, 
 Cooke of Kilcoole. 
 
 Barony of Ravill. — Butler of Clomore, Leyn of Shroughbooe, Leyn of 
 Lesenevae, Grace of Browalstowne, Mortagh Birne of Bennecerry, Birne of Balli- 
 duffe, Dermott Owen of Killelongart, Teige O'Gormagan of Ardriston, David 
 M c Simon of Culliebege. 
 
 Barony of St. Moylyne. — Shane M c Dermott of Ballihemoge, M c Sheron of 
 Ballybege, M c Dermod of Lefallygan, Edmond Collatan of Ballicranigambege, 
 Piers Collatan of Tennecarricke, Dermond M c Donell of Ballycramgain castlayn. 
 
 Kilkenny. — See supra, p. 67. 
 
 THE COUNTY OF KILKENNY, 9TH JULY 1608. 
 
 Names of the Lords as well Spiritual as Temporal. — Thomas Earl of Ormond 
 and Ossory, Richard Lord Viscount Mount Garrett, Theobald Lord Viscount 
 Tullagh ; John Bishop of Ossory. 
 
 Names of Knights and Justices of the Peace. — Sovereigns for the Town of 
 * Kilkenny. — Richard Shee, Knt. ; Jacob Butler, Esq. ; Richard Butler, Knt. ; 
 
 Robert Roth, Esq. ; Mannering, Esq. ; Richard Deane, Deacon of Kilkenny ; 
 Helias Shee, Esq. ; Gerald Grace, Patrick Archer, Walter Walsh, Nicholas 
 Cleere, Thomas Denn, Robert Grace, David Serment, Piers Butler, Walter 
 Archer, Henry Shee, John Butler Rector of Callan, Thomas Stronge, Esquires. 
 
 Names of the Coroners. — FitzGerrald of Gurtin, Waton of Growe, Shortall of 
 Ratharding, Walsh of Kilkregan. 
 
 Names of the Constables of the Barony of Gawran. — Redmond Bleachfield of 
 Rathgarvan, Purcell of Cloghla. 
 
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APPENDIX. 255 
 
 Constables of the Baronies of /groin, Ida, and Iberton. — FitzGerrald of Gurtin, 
 Aylward of Aylwardstown. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Iverke. — Walsh of Kilkregan, Daton of Kil- 
 modally. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Kclls. — Walsh of Doumogan, Howlinge of Kilry. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Claragh. — John de Rochford of Kilary, George 
 St. Leger of Woncestowne. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Knocktofer. — Power of Knocktofer, Faing of 
 Croambeg. 
 
 Constables of the Barony of Shillckyr. — St. Leger of Tulleghabroeg, Fitz- 
 Gerrold of Barntchurch ; Archdecon, constable of Galmoy. 
 
 Constables of Fasagh de Myn and Odoghe. — Robnett Purcell of Foulksrath, 
 William O'Brena of Ballyhomyn. 
 
 Barony of Gawran. — Blanchfield of Blanchveldstoune, Purcell of Ballyfoell, 
 Butler of Old Aboy, Butler of Nogha, Tobyn of Lyrath, St. Leger of Clogha, 
 Blanchveld of Milton, O'Ryan of Ullard, Power of Powerswood, Fanninge of 
 Bally M c Cloghny, Tirlagh O'Rian of Barne Vedan, Piers M c Henry Roe O'Rian 
 of Thomnebaghy, O'Rian of Ballymorough, Milerus Payen of Ballynebally, 
 Shortall of Leghrath, Shortall of Brownesborne. 
 
 Igroin, Ida, and Ibercon. — Gall of Gallstowne, Butler of Anaghes, Freny of 
 Ballyraddy, Forstall of Forstalltowne, Daton of the same, Fortstall of Killred, 
 Walsh of Ballycre, Forstall of Carrignegany, Walsh of Carrignory, Grace of 
 Kilrmdony. 
 
 Barony of Overke. — Grant of Corlod, Grant of Portneholl, Daton of Gran- 
 gowin, Daton of Bally M'Crony, Walsh of Listroley. 
 
 Barony of Kerlis. — Butler of Rossnarowe, Butler of Rogerstowne, Howling 
 of Damynbeg, Tobyn of Killollegha, Tobyn of Rosscommon. 
 
 Barony of Shillecher. — FitzGerrald of Barntchurch, Comerford of Ballybir, 
 Forstall of Kilferagh, Comerford of Earlstowne, Mothell of the same, Raged of 
 Waleslogh. 
 
 Barony of K7iocktofer. — Walsh of Corbally, Purcell of Kilkerell, Walsh of 
 Ballaghbregan, Walshe of Knockmoella, Walshe of Ballynerowly, Grace of 
 Aghviller. 
 
 Barony of Cranagh. — Shortall of Ballylorka, Drylin of Kilberagha, O'Roerk 
 of Boresheis, Shortall of Purcellstiers, Grace of Cowle Ishell, Smith of Clastnoe, 
 Butler of Woucestowne. 
 
 Barony of Fasagh, Denny, and Idogh. — O'Brena of Rathcally, Purcell of 
 
256 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Esker, Purcell of Lysmayne, O'Brena of Uskertye, Farr M c Donnogh of Crogh- 
 toncle, Duffe of Crint. 
 
 Wexford. — See supra, p. 57. 
 
 THE GRAND PANELL OF THE COUNTY OF WEXFORD, 25TH JULY 160S. 
 
 Justices of the Peace. — Thomas Lord Bishop of Fearnes and Leighline, Sir T. 
 Colcloigh, Sir Dudly Loftus, Sir R Mastersonne, Sir L. Esmond, Sir W. Sinor, 
 Knights; Butler of Bellabow, Esq. ; Devroux of Ballinagir, Morgan Kavanagh, 
 Nicholas Kennay, Escheator ; Donull Kavannagh, Brown of Malranckan, Esq. ; 
 Arthur Kavannaigh, Esq. ; Murcus FitzHarvie, FitzHarvie, Dermott Kavannaigh, 
 John Broune, Sovereign of Wex ; Duffe of Cosse, Dode, Furlonge, Witty of 
 Balleteg, Itchinghane, Dormer, Dale, Mastersonne, Furlonge, Alene, Devroux of 
 Dipper, W. Talbot, R. Talbot, Esquires. 
 
 His Majesty's Cormiers. — Hammond Stafford of Balleconnor, Rowsetor of 
 Brigbargye, Hugh Ballaigh ALDonaigh Oge of Killconky, Roche of Btianstoun, 
 Sinot of the Rahen. 
 
 The Constables of the Barony of Forte. — Wadinge of Balleroghy, Elyot of 
 Rathshillane. 
 
 Constables of Baigre. — Witty of Nimestoune, Devroux of Newcastle. 
 
 Barony of Shilbirne. — Redmond of the Hall, FitzHarvie of Witchurch. 
 
 Barony of Bantry. — Hoar of Bellaborow, Sutone and Scurlok. 
 
 The Portreves of Towns. — Furlonge, Portrief of Banno ; Morgan M c Rory, 
 Portreve of Taman ; Ketinge, Portreve of Federt ; Hea, Portreve of Clomem. 
 
 The Gentlemen of Fotherde. — Chevers of Killiane, gent. ; R. Esmond of 
 Johnstone, Rochford of Tagomane, Manton Synot of Ballebrennan, Robert 
 Synot of Balehorron, Cod of Castletowne, Codd of Baleenfane, Codd of Cloess, 
 John Stafford of Fursetime, Walshe of Polranctan, Hane of the Hill, Hane of 
 Sladde, Walshe of the Buss, Turner of Belleushen, Synott of Ballegerce, Synot 
 of Rathdownny, Devroux of Maglas, Witty of Balmacussen, Butler of Butlers- 
 towne, Ketinge of Balemakeyan, Sigen of Sigenstoune, Hare of Redestoune, 
 Frinss of Balletorie, Symotte of the Growgane, Hare of Harestoune, Esmond of 
 Rathlonnane, FitzNicholl of Balecowanne, Rochford of Petettestoune, Hoar of 
 Ionoclestoune, Ketinge of Balebeg, Wadinge of Asoalye, Synot of Gracekyrock, 
 Derraigh O'Drycane of Remotestoune, White of Crommer, Synot of Ballohell, 
 Synot of the Berlagh, Codd of Balmakeyrie, Stafford of the Gragene, Gentlemen. 
 
 The Gentlemen of the Barony of Bargie. — FitzHarvie of Kilkevan, FitzNicholl 
 of Balehartie, Ketinge of Baldenestoune, Hammond Chevers of Balesestene, 
 
APPENDIX. 257 
 
 Rowsetor of Tomger, Ketinge of Rosselletoune, Nevell of Tallokenaye, Barrie of 
 Barriestoune, DevToux of the Woodgrage, Devrox of Caregeschurche, Broune of 
 Holdhall, Broune of Rathronarie, Broune of Gragrobben, Tibald Roche of Kill- 
 mannane, Wittie of Gentestoune, Prendergast of Sanshill, Hare of the Blackhall, 
 Devroux of Coskayll. 
 
 The Gentlemen of the Barony of Shilmalyce. — Synnot of Fawlestoune, Synnot 
 of Rosgarlande, Hoar of Ballesweillan, Rowsetor of Slevey, Hare of Cronwall, 
 Hoar of the Poill, Meyler of the Dirr, Hoar of Muchwodd, Furlonge of Carg- 
 mannan, Furlonge of the Blackhall. 
 
 Barony of Bantrye. — Butler of Clonkeraigh, Furlonge of Daviestoun, Scurloh 
 of the Balgan, Severaigh O'Doyrane of the Chaple, Dowloun M c Moigh of 
 Ballegobbane, Dermot Ower M'Moigh of the same, Edmond M c Arte of Bole- 
 bann, Arte M c Bren of Tample Wodekann, Teg M c Morrishe Ley of Killovany, 
 Caier M c Edmond of Rathepodenboy. 
 
 The Barony of Shilbime. — Ketinge of Dungavestown, Luffane of the Sladd, 
 Witye of Dongalpe, Sutone of the Prisugard, Prendergast of Balleforanch, Sutone 
 of the Old Courte, Sutone of Balesope, Gent. ; Ketinge of Galleystone. 
 
 The High Constables of the Barony of Ballaighene. — Synot Fitzjames of 
 Ballevelle, Connell M c Donnell Evallo of . . . 
 
 The Gentlemen of the same Barony. — Synot of the Owlorte, Donnill M c Arte 
 of Tobberlomunaugh, Phelan M c Mahon of Balleshemes, Teg M c Mawen of 
 Balerowane, Owen M c Arte of Tintubber, Synott of Babberdargh, Morishe Lacy 
 of Tomlaine, Teg M c Miertargh of Lougherbege, James M'Brann of Balevek, 
 Synott of Ballensar, Synot of Cowledoynge, Donull Dayrane of Killensu, Lisurgh 
 M'Teg of Cloane, Cair M'Moriertaigh of the same, Cormack M c Donnell of 
 Olortleighe, Edmond M c Arte of Balemute, O'Doyrane of the Dirr, Fardairaigh 
 M c Dermott of Ballena, Sawle O'Doyrane of Tentober, Mortaigh O'Doiran of 
 Clondae, Shane O'Doyrane of the same, Caier O'Doyrane of Blemony, Synot of 
 Garrevadden, Dermott O'Doyran of the Davanargh, Donull O'Doyran of the 
 same, Donull M c Donnaigh Tusker of Dondrom, Oyn M'Enn of Rahendarg, 
 Gerald MTnnes of the same, Edmond Reaigh of Claranclariss, Dermott Reaigh 
 of Ballemony Terrelaigh M c Oyn of the Courte, Synot of Balemoigh, Eff M c Phe- 
 lim Art of Kilmannaigh, Oron M c Bran of Ballegresaigh, Shane O'Doyrane of 
 Rainduf, Moraigh M c Adin of Baletrasine, Eff M c Urt Bry of Monclough, Teg 
 Reagh of the same, Moraigh Reagh of Cloanatty, William M c Teg of Ballegowan, 
 Phelim M c Donull of Garreden, Donnaigh M c Moriertargh of Balegore, Gerald 
 M'Moraigh of Balevolo, Terrelaigh M c Moriertagh of the same, Synot of Bale- 
 
258 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 more, Moriertaigh Duf M'Moraigh of Balera, Cair M c Donaigh of Banickard, 
 Caier M c Rosse of Ballenellok, Phelim M c Ynnes of Ballevodick, Brenn M'Ynnes 
 of the same, Synot of Balenosky, Geer of Garrenusky, Griffin M c Moriertaigh of 
 Teighm, Colloigh M'Moriertaigh of Ballevalle, Ef M c Durlaigh of Ballegrand, 
 Peppard of Glaskarge, Patrick M c Phelin of Monalstrum, Waffer of Balemony, 
 Caier M c Ef of Corranvredy, William M c Edmond of Remremond, Caier Row of the 
 Rahine, Edmond M c Carr of Tomduff, Thomas Boy of Ballegerall, James M'Oyn 
 of Rathnetesky, Dermot Boy of Moumecloigh, David Mor Phelin of Ascongeray, 
 Redmond MThelin of Balemees, Thomas M c Shane of Moymmer, Mortie Nur 
 of Ballencurre, Thomas Finne of Ballewallken, Terrelaigh MThelin of Ballelosk, 
 Broy of Killtynnen, Morraigh Mor of Kilbride, Shane Banne of Clowrann, Teg 
 M c Dary of the Slaune, Brassell O'Bolger of Ballevalter, Dermot O'BoIger of the 
 same, Donagh M c Gerott of Ballerah, Edmond M c Moraighe of Balleheyne, Der- 
 mot M c Yllrem of Balegufnndowe. 
 
 The High Constables of the Barony of Gwery. — John Brassell of Balecargin, 
 Teg M c Gerote Gill Patrick MThoms of Balehedin. 
 
 The Gentlemen of the Barony of Gwery. — Hugh Bellaigh M c Dermot of 
 Balle, Edmond Duf MTJermot of Lunnaigh, Donnaigh Oge M'Dermot of 
 Balleolouagh, Terrelaigh M c Creen of Balebane, Colloigh M c Keen of Cal- 
 lonok, Teg Bellaigh M c Donnaigh of the Cloane, Art M c Donnell Ban of the 
 Balekestan, Gillpatrick M c Donill of Killpatrick, M c Donill of Cowbrodd, Oyn 
 M c Donill Bane of Killpatrick, Gillpatrick Oge M c Lisaigh of Mongaroe, Walsh of 
 Clonranye, Donill Reaigh, M c Phelim of Killmehell, Donnaigh M'Gerrot of the 
 same, Moraigh M c Brene of Rathperise, Gerot M c Donill Owr of Ballegolen, Art 
 M c Donnaigh Oge of Ballenrana, Donill M c Donnaigh of . . . Fairdarraigh 
 MTrane of Ballekargy, Moraigh Duff of Balleege, Braune M'Ynnes of Cor- 
 ratobbann, Gerot M c Donull of Kildowdy, Gerot M c Oyn of the same, Edmond 
 M'Caier of the Cullentraigh, Gerot M c Caier of Balle Arte, Lisaigh Duff M'Ynnes 
 of Bellegarie, Phelin M c Moriertaigh Bwy of Killnehell, Terrelaigh Buie M'Kenee 
 of Ballemont, Teg M c Miertagh of Rosmaynock, Dyn M'Mousseoge of Ballerayne, 
 Edmond M'Brene Bwy of Ballecarall, Morishe MTJonull of Illanstrassock, Art 
 Owr M'Moroighe Oge of the Creagh Baleraen, Gerot M'Moroighe Oge of the 
 Creegh, Terrelaigh M'Moroighe Oge of the same, Eff M'Thomas Oge of Ballentee, 
 Gerald M'Edmond of Coaleshill, Dermot Owr M c Shemmone of the Gesr, Ed- 
 mund M'Moriertaigh of Ballenrath, Moraigh M'Cormicke of Tomcoyle. 
 
 The High Constables of the Barony of Starrowalshe.— Synot of Ballevall, 
 Moriertaigh M'Donull of Ballenrayse. 
 
APPENDIX. 259 
 
 Tlu Gentlemen of the Barony of Starrowalshe. — Dowlen M c Brenn of Tiscorre, 
 Owen Donull of Toram Dire, Richard M c Donull of Garesinotte, Arte M c Caier 
 of Babbarne, Arte M c Donull Owr of Killcowlen, Bren MTJonill Owr of Mar- 
 shallston, Gillpatrick M c Malaghlyn of Ballebockran, Moraigh M c Artmore of 
 Straghmor, William M c Donill Owr of Kowllungiste, Morishe M c Donill Owr of 
 Marshalstown, Farganman M c Moriertaigh of Asconghin, Donnaigh Ballaigh of 
 Monganestone, Donnell M c Ef of Davestoune, Edmond M c Gerot of Baledigane, 
 Shane Duff M'Shemes of Ballelosch, Shane Reaigh of Balledegane, Dorlough 
 M e Ko\vllse of Cromok, Teg M c Oyn Mor of the same, Art McMoriertaigh of 
 Clonyardom, Gerotte M c Ynnes of Manglisse, Donull M c Brenne of Balleouddane, 
 Dermot Reaigh of Ballecullaigh, Dermot M c Phersone of Mayne, Phersone, 
 Robert M c Breene of Rosseharde, Nicholas M c Edrnond of the same. 
 
 Copia Vera. 
 
 Per Walter Talbot, Gierke of the Crown and Peace in the County of Wexford. 
 
 Endorsed by Carew — Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Constables, Jurymen, &c, 
 within the Counties of Kildare, Catherlough, Kilkenny, and Wexford, in 
 anno 1608.- — Abridged from Car. Cal., an. 1608, pp. 23-35. 
 
 Wicklow. — See supra, p. 40. 
 ' Thence (from Wexford) we came to Wicklow, where there appeared such a 
 multitude of the natives of that country, that it seemed strange that so many 
 souls should be nourished in these wild and barren mountains.' — Sir J. Davis, in 
 Car. Cal., an. 1606, p. 16. 
 
26o 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 PRESENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FAMILIES 
 
 OIF 159S. 
 
 Families of 16 th century. 
 
 LOUTH.- 
 
 Plunket, 4* Baron of Louth. 
 
 Sir J. Bellew of Willystown, M.P. for 
 Louth in 1637. 
 
 Gernon of Killencowle d. in 1613; 
 from his brother, Richard Gernon of 
 Gernonstown, descends 
 
 Sir Garret Moore of Mellefont, whose 
 father settled in Ireland. 
 
 Sir W. Taaffe, who distinguished him- 
 self in lighting against O'Neill. 
 
 Peter Taaffe of Pepparstown. 
 
 Down.- 
 
 Russell of Quoniamstown and Bally- 
 
 strew, m. Miss Fleming of Slane ; he 
 
 d. in 1605. 
 Patrick Savage, 'Lord of Little Ards,' d. 
 
 in 1603. From his brother descend 
 Sir E. Chichester, brother of Sir Arthur, 
 
 who was Lord Deputy in 1604. 
 Sir Moses Hill came in 1573; was 
 
 Governor of Olderfleet Castle. 
 Captain Needham, a settler. 
 Pottinger, a settler. 
 Ward, a settler in 1570. 
 
 Antrim. - 
 Brian Mac Felim O'Neill, Chief of 
 Clannaboy, and Senior of the Kinel- 
 Owen ; m. i° a dau. of Magennis, 2 
 a dau. of Brian Carrach O'Neill. 
 From his son, Shane M'Brian of 
 Edenduffcarrick, now Shane's Castle, 
 who d. in 161 9, descends 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 -See p. 4. 
 
 The 13 th Baron of Louth. 
 
 Lord Bellew of Barmeath, Louth ; Sir C. 
 
 Grattan Bellew, Mount Bellew, Galway. 
 Gernon of Hammondstown, Louth, and 
 
 Athcarne Castle, Meath. 
 
 The Marquess of Drogheda, Moore 
 
 Abbey, Kildare. 
 The io ,h Viscount Taaffe of the Castle 
 
 of Elixhaw, Bohemia. 
 Taaffe of Smarmor Castle, Louth. 
 
 -See p. 6. 
 Count Russell of Killough ; Dr. Russell, 
 
 President of Maynooth. — Ulster J. 
 
 of Arch. 
 Savage (now named Nugent) of Porta- 
 
 ferry; and Savage of Ballymadun. 
 The Marquess of Donegal; and Lord 
 
 Templemore. 
 The Marquess of Downshire ; and 
 
 Viscount Dungannon. 
 Earl of Kilmorey, Morne Park, Down. 
 Sir H. Pottinger of Mount Pottinger. 
 Viscount Bangor, Castle Warde, Down. 
 
 -See p. 13. 
 
 O'Neill of Ballymoney, Co. Down, a 
 farmer, who, since the death of Vis- 
 count O'Neill, is head of the Kinel 
 Owen. The present Lord O'Neill 
 of Shane's Castle is of the family of 
 Chichester. — Donovan' s Four 
 Masters, p. 1678. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 26l 
 
 Families of 1 6tli century. 
 
 Hugh Oge O'Neill of Shanescastle 
 joined Tyrone; his son Brian, Lord 
 of the Feeva, is ancestor of 
 
 O'Neill of Mullaghgane in the Feevagh. 
 
 Sorley Boy McDonnell m. a dau. of 
 O'Neill I st Earl of Tyrone, and had 
 five sons ; his eldest son was Sir 
 James Lord of the Route and 
 Glynnes. His second son was Sir 
 Randal I st Earl of Antrim. — O' Dono- 
 van's Four Masters, p. 1896. 
 
 Grogan or Geoghegan of Antrim. His 
 son settled in Wexford. 
 
 Cahal O'Hara of the Route, owner of 
 Loghgiele, Legan-lic and Crebilly. 
 
 Shane Dhu M c Naughtone came to Ire- 
 land in 1580 as Secretary to McDon- 
 nell. 
 
 Dalwaye, who came in 1573, and was 
 Mayor of Carrigfergus in 1592. His 
 nephew is ancestor of 
 
 J. Dobbs came to Ireland with Sir H. 
 Docura in 1596. 
 
 Captain Upton came in 159S. 
 
 Armagh. - 
 Donnell Mac Canna, Chief of Clan- 
 brassil. 
 
 O'Neill of the Fews. 
 
 Sir W. Caulfield, brother of the famous 
 Sir Toby Caulfield, a settler. 
 
 Dawson, a settler temp. Eliz. 
 
 Vesey came temp. Eliz. ; his son be- 
 came Archdeacon of Armagh. 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gt/i century. 
 C. H. O'Neill (Clannaboy) Blessington 
 Street, Barrister-at-law. 
 
 J. F. O'Neill Lentaigne, of Tallaght, 
 Co. Dublin, maternally. 
 
 From Sir James descended Sir Randal 
 M c Donnell, Colonel of the Irish 
 Brigade, who d. in 1740, when the 
 property fell to his brother John. 
 From the i st Earl of Antrim descend 
 (maternally) the Earl of Antrim, and 
 Armstrong-M c Donnell of New Hall, 
 Clare, and the Marquess of London- 
 derry. 
 
 Grogan Morgan of Johnstown Castle, 
 Wexford, represented by Lord Mus- 
 kerry, and the daughters of the Earl 
 of Granard. 
 
 O'Hara of Cleggan. 
 
 Sir E. Macnachten, Bart., Dunderrane, 
 Antrim. 
 
 Dalway of Bella Hill, Carrigfergus. 
 
 Dobbs of Castle Dobbs. 
 
 Viscount Templeton, Castle Upton, 
 Antrim. 
 
 -See p. 19. 
 The late Major Mac Cann of Louth 
 
 was his representative. — (J Donovan's 
 
 Notes to Tribes of Ireland. 
 The Right Hon. R. More O'Ferrall of 
 
 Balyna, Kildare (maternally). — MS. 
 
 Pedigree of O Moore, by the last 
 
 OMoore. 
 Earl of Charlemont, Castle Caulfield, 
 
 Armagh. 
 Lord Cremome of Dartrey, Monaghan. 
 Viscount De Vesci, Abbeyleix, Queen's 
 
 Co. 
 
262 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Monaghan. — See p. 23. 
 Families of i6tk century. Representatives in the lgtli century. 
 
 Colonel Sir E. Blayney came in 1598. Lord Blayney, Blaney Castle, Mona- 
 ghan. 
 
 Fermanagh. — See p. 24. 
 Hugh Maguire, the famous general Hugh Maguire, who mortgaged Tempo; 
 of O'Neill's cavalry, and Chief of his eldest son, Constantine, was 
 Fermanagh, got two bullets in his murdered in 1834, leaving a son. 
 
 breast in 1599 from Sir Warham St. His second son, Brian, a brave 
 
 Leger, ' whom he strake into the officer and famous fire-eater, left 
 
 brain.' Hugh's brother, Cuconnacht, several sons, who are sailors in coal 
 
 d. in 1608, leaving a son Brian, who vessels sailing between Dublin and 
 
 was restored to a part of his pro- Wales. — O'Donovan's Annals, p. 
 
 perty called Tempodessel, now 2366. 
 
 Tempo. 
 Archdall, a settler temp. Eliz. Archdall of Castle Archdall, Fer- 
 
 managh. 
 Sir Basil Brooke, Elizabethan officer. Sir V. A. Brooke of Cole-Brook, Bart., 
 
 Fermanagh. 
 Barton came with Essex. Barton of Clonelly, Co. Fermanagh ; 
 
 B. of Grove, and B. of Rochestown, 
 Tipperary ; B. of Straffan, Kildare. 
 
 Tyrone. — See p. 25. 
 None. 
 
 Coleraine or Derry. — See p. 28. 
 
 O'Kane of Dungiven. O'Kane, gardener to Mr. Bruce of 
 
 Donnhiel, Londonderry. — O'Dono- 
 van's Annals, p. 1829. 
 
 Donal O'Cahan, Chieftain in 1598. Kyan of Ballymurtagh, Co. Wicklow. 
 
 O'Carolan of Culkeragh Castle. Cardan of Dublin. — Cronelly. 
 
 Donegal. — See p. 29. 
 
 Nial Garbh O'Donnell Baron of Lif- O'Donnell of Ross, in Mayo, 'The 
 
 ford, who was proclaimed O'Donnell O'Donnell,' an officer in the 88 th 
 
 arc. 1602 ; imprisoned in the Tower Regiment ; and Sir R. O'Donnell, 
 
 from 1608 to 1628, where he died. Bart., Newport. 
 
 Hugh Buidhe, next brother of Nial O'Donnell of Larkfield, Co. Leitrim. 
 
 Garbh ; one of his descendants was 
 
 a Field Marshal of Austria, who 
 
 commanded at the battle of Torgau. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 263 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 
 Con Oge O'Donnell, another and 
 younger brother of Nial Garbh, was 
 slain in 1601 by Hugh Roe O'Don- 
 nell's soldiers, who were besieging 
 the castle of Donegal, which was 
 defended by Niall Garbh. 
 
 John, brother of Sir Cahir O'Docherty, 
 Chief of Inishowen. 
 
 Captain Paul Gore, a settler. 
 
 M'Clintock, a settler temp. Eliz. 
 Wray of Carnegilla, a settler 
 Eliz. (?). 
 
 temp. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 O'Donnell of Castlebar. The Duke 
 of Tetuan, in Spain. Graf O'Donell 
 von Tyrconell. — O' 'Donovan's Appen- 
 dix to Four Masters, pp. 2378 to 
 2420. 
 
 Lieutenant-General Sir R. Doherty, 
 son of Doherty of Coolmoyne, Tip- 
 perary. 
 
 Sir St. George Gore, Bart., of Manor 
 Gore, Donegal. 
 
 M c Clintock of Drumcar, Louth. 
 
 Wray of Oak Park, Donegal. 
 
 Dublin. — See p. 37. 
 
 The 21 st Baron of Howth d. in 1606. 
 
 Archbold of Dublin or Naas. 
 
 Bellew of Weston. Compare note e 
 
 at p. 39. 
 Blacknie of Rickenhore. 
 
 Luttrell, of Luttrelstown, whose male 
 line ended in the 3 rd Earl of Car- 
 hampton. 
 
 Alderman Alexander Palles of Dublin, 
 whose descendants in Dublin and 
 Cavan were attainted in 1641. He 
 d. in 1603. 
 
 Sir Christopher Plunket of Dunsoghly. 
 
 Sarsfield of Lucan. 
 
 Walter Segrave of Cabra, Lord Mayor 
 in 1588 ; d. in 162 1. His son John 
 was m. to a dau. of Alderman Fagan 
 about the year 1598. 
 
 Sir R. Talbot of Malahide. 
 
 J. Talbot of Templeoge. 
 
 J. Ussher, Mayor of Dublin in 1561 ; 
 d. in 1600, leaving a son, Sir William 
 of Donnybrook. 
 
 The Earl of Howth (the 30 th Baron). 
 Archbold of Davidstown, Kildare. 
 Stronge-Hussey of Westown, Dublin 
 
 (maternally). 
 Blackney of Philipstown, late of Bally- 
 
 ellen. 
 Luttrell Saunderson of Northbrook 
 
 House, Hants ; and Sir S. H. Stuart 
 
 of Hartley Mauduit, Hants. 
 Palles of Mount Palles, Co. Cavan, 
 
 father of Chief Baron Palles. 
 
 Dunne of Brittas and Dunsoghly (ma- 
 ternally). 
 
 Colthurst Vesey of Lucan (maternally). 
 
 O'Neill Segrave of Cabra, Dublin, and 
 Kiltimon, Wicklow. 
 
 Lord Talbot de Malahide. 
 Talbot of Mount Talbot, Roscommon, 
 and Talbot-Crosbie of Ardfert, Kerry. 
 Ussher of Eastwell House, Galway. 
 
264 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Dr. Loftus, Protestant Archbishop of 
 Dublin, came to Ireland circ. 1562, 
 and d. in 1605. He had 20 children. 
 
 Daniel Molyneux, Ulster-King-of-Arms 
 in 1586, whose father came to Ireland 
 
 • in 1576; he m. a dau. of Sir W" 1, 
 Ussher. 
 
 Simon Purdon of Tallaght. 
 
 J. Rider, Dean of St. Patrick's, and 
 afterwards Protestant Bishop of 
 Killaloe. 
 
 Representatives in the igth century. 
 
 Loftus of Ballycummin, Co. Dublin, 
 descends from the Primate's son, 
 Sir Thomas ; and the Marquess of 
 Ely (maternally) from his son, Sir 
 Dudley of Rathfarnham. 
 
 Sir Capel Molyneux, Bart, Castle 
 Dillon, Armagh. — Burke s Peerage. 
 
 Purdon of Tinerana, Clare ; Purdon of 
 
 Lisnabin, Westmeath. 
 De Rvthre of Williamstown, Kildare. 
 
 WlCKLOW.- 
 
 Byrne of Ballintlea m. a dau. of Byrne 
 of Ballycurbeg. 
 
 A son or grandson of J. Byrne of Bal- 
 linacor settled at Killany, in Louth, 
 circ. 1600. 
 
 OToole. 
 
 J. Rochford of Aghery, father of Colonel 
 Prime-Iron Rochford, who was exe- 
 cuted in 1652. 
 
 Sir E. Brabazon, M.P. for Wicklow in 
 1585; became Baron Brabazon in 
 1616 ; d. in 1625. 
 
 Sir E. Wingfield, a distinguished Eliza- 
 bethan officer. 
 
 -See p. 40. 
 
 Lord de Tabley ; Miss Byrne of Cabin- 
 teely ; Mr. O'Byrne, author of The 
 Naval Biography. 
 
 Byrne of Lisnawilly, Louth ; Byrne of 
 Allardstown. 
 
 O'Toole of Buxton, Co. Wexford. 
 Rochford of Cloughgrenane, Carlow. 
 
 The Earl of Meath, Kilruddery, Wick- 
 low ; Brabazon of Mornington ; 
 Brabazon of Rath House. 
 
 Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt, 
 Wicklow. 
 
 Kildare.- 
 
 Thomas FitzGerald, brother of the 14 th 
 Earl of Kildare, whose monument is 
 in the church of Walton-upon- 
 Thames. — Archdall. 
 
 Aylmer of Lyons. 
 
 Sir Gerald Aylmer of Donadea, son of 
 George A. of Cloncurrie, and grand- 
 son of Richard A. of Lyons, was a 
 Baronet in 1621. 
 
 -See p. 44. 
 
 The 4 th Duke of Leinster, of Carton, 
 Kildare (who is 23" 1 Earl of Kildare); 
 Lord de Ros of Strangford, County 
 Down. 
 
 Aylmer of Deny House, Tipperary ; 
 Aylmer of Painstown, Kildare. 
 
 Sir G. Aylmer, Bart., of Donadea 
 Castle, Kildare; Aylmer of Walworth 
 Castle, near Darlington ; and (per- 
 haps) Aylmer of Courtown, Kildare. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 265 
 
 Families of 16th century. 
 
 Sir H. Cowley of Castle Carberry, 
 grandson of Walter Cowley, Solicitor- 
 General of Ireland in 1537. 
 
 W" 1 Eustace, brother of the 3 rd Viscount 
 Baltinglass, who rebelled in 1583 ; 
 m. Miss Ashe of Great Fornaughts, 
 Kildare. 
 
 Lattin of Morristown-Lattin. 
 
 Whyte of Leixlip d. in 1599, leaving a 
 
 son aged 16. 
 Wolfe of Forenaghts. 
 Burrowes m. a dau. of Sir A. Savage of 
 
 Rheban, and 2 ly , in 1585, a Miss 
 
 Eustace of Gilltown. 
 Dr. Meredith, Protestant Bishop of 
 
 Kildare in 1589. 
 
 R. Weldon, came temp. Eliz. ; his son 
 Walter was of St. John's Bower, 
 Kildare. 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gt/i century. 
 
 The Earl of Mornington, of Dangan 
 Castle, Meath ; the Duke of Wel- 
 lington ; Lord Cowley. 
 
 Eustace of Robertstown, Kildare, who 
 claims the title; Eustace of Corbally, 
 Queen's Co. 
 
 Mansfield of Morristown-Lattin; Lattin 
 Thunder of The Lodge, Westmeath, 
 both maternally. 
 
 Whyte of Loughbrickland, Down, Cap- 
 tain of H.M.S. the Warrior. 
 
 Wolfe of Bishop's Land, Kildare. 
 
 Sir E. Burrowes, Bart., of Gilltown, 
 Kildare. 
 
 Sir E. Meredith, Bart., Madaleen, Kil- 
 kenny ; Sir H. Meredith, Bart., of 
 Carlandstown, Meath. 
 
 Sir A. Weldon, Bart., Rahenderry, 
 Kildare. 
 
 Carlow. — See p. 50. 
 
 Butler of Cloughgrenan, who became a 
 
 Baronet in 1628. 
 Doyle of Clonmoney (?). 
 Morgan Kavanagh of Borris, who d. 
 
 in 1636. 
 Kavanagh of Ballyleigh. 
 
 Drought of Co. Carlow, arc 1600 ; they 
 seem to have been in Ireland since 
 the 13th century. 
 
 Sir E. Butler, Bart., of Garryhundon, 
 
 Carlow. 
 Sir F. H. Doyle, Bart. 
 M c Morough Kavanagh of Borris House, 
 
 Carlow. 
 Kavanagh of Bauck, near St. Mallins, 
 
 Carlow. — OP Donovan's Four Masters, 
 
 1839, note. 
 Drought of Lettybrook, King's Co. 
 
 Wexford. — See p. 57. 
 
 Cheevers of Ballyhaly. 
 
 Devereux of Ballybarna in 1598, de- 
 scended from Devereux of Balmagir. 
 
 Sir L. Esmonde of Johnstown com- 
 manded in 1 60 1 a troop of 150 horse 
 and foot ; he became Lord Limerick 
 in 1622. 
 
 Cheevers of Killyan, Gal way. 
 
 Devereux of Ballyrankin House, Wex- 
 ford. 
 
 Sir J. Esmonde, Bart., of Ballynastra, 
 Wexford. — Sir B. Burke; but see 
 above, arc p. 255. 
 
 2 1, 
 
266 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 
 N. Forde of Coolgreany d. in 1605. 
 
 Hore of Pole Hore. 
 
 Hore of Harperstown m. in 1607 adau. 
 of Keating of Kilcoan. 
 
 Kenny of Kenny's Hall, Royal Com- 
 missioner, Escheator and Feodary 
 General in 1596; he died in 1621. 
 
 Lambert of Ballyhire, who d. in 
 1631. 
 
 A. Peppard of Glascarrig, grandson of 
 Patrick Peppard of Louth. 
 
 Rossiter andDevereux, 'ancient houses, 
 whose heiress, Letitia Little,' m. the 
 ancestor of 
 
 Stephen Synnot, son of Synnot of Bally- 
 tramon. 
 
 Talbot, Clerk of the Crown for Wex- 
 ford, m. a dau. of Bolane of Talbots- 
 tovvn, Wexford; and his son m. a 
 dau. of Sir W. Synnot of Ballyfarnage. 
 
 Bryan Tenche of Mullinderry. 
 
 Captain Paul Gore settled temp. Eliz. 
 
 Rev. T. Ram came in 1599; 
 
 Bishop of Ferns in 1605. 
 Swan came with Essex in 1599 
 
 he was 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gth century. 
 Forde of Seaforde, Down. 
 Hore of Pole Hore. 
 Hore of Harperstown, Wexford. 
 
 Kenny of Kilclogher, and Kenny of 
 Correndoo, in Galway ; Kenny of 
 Ballyforan, Roscommon. 
 
 Lambert of Caruagh, Wexford. 
 
 Peppard of Cappagh House, Limerick. 
 
 Sir W. Sarsfield-Rositer-Cockburn, 
 Bart., of Cockburn, Berwickshire. 
 
 Synnot of Ballymoyer, Armagh. 
 
 Talbot of Castle Talbot, Co. Wexford. 
 
 Tenche of Ballyhaly House, Wexford. 
 
 The Earl of Arran, Saunderscourt, 
 Wexford; Sir G. Gore-Booth, Bart., 
 of Lissadill, Sligo; Gore of Woodford, 
 Leitrim. 
 
 Ram of Ramsfort, Wexford. 
 
 Swan of Baldwinstown, Wexford. 
 
 Kilkenny. — See p. 67. 
 
 The 2 d Viscount Mountgarret. 
 
 Richard Baron, alias FitzGerald, the 
 Baron of Burnchurch. 
 
 Bryan of Bawnmore. 
 
 E. Butler, i st Lord Galmoy, son of 
 Butler of Duiske Abbey. 
 
 Gerald Grace {Marcach or the Horse- 
 man) d. in 1618; his son Oliver 
 (Sciavach or the Handsome) d. in 
 1626; his grandson lost 17,000 acres 
 of land under Cromwell. 
 
 The 14" 1 Viscount Mountgarret. 
 
 Sir Henry P. T Baron, Bart., Baron 
 Court ; Baron of Carrig Baron. 
 
 Bryan of Jenkinstown, Kilkenny. 
 
 Garret Butler of Garrendenny, Queen's 
 Co., who claims the title. 
 
 Sir W. Grace, Bart., of Grace Castle, 
 Kilkenny ; Grace of Mantua, Ros- 
 common. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 267 
 
 Families of 16//1 century. 
 Purcell of Rathetam. 
 
 Sir R. Shee of Upper Court and Goran 
 d. in 1608. 
 
 Elias Shee of Clanmore, brother of Sir 
 Richard. 
 
 Sir G. Flower, a distinguished Eliza- 
 bethan officer, appears to have settled 
 in Kilkenny. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 
 Purcell of the Little Island, Waterford, 
 who bears the name of Purcell- 
 FitzGerald, and is seated at Boulge 
 Hall, Suffolk. 
 
 From his son Lucas descends Shee of 
 Cloran ; from his son Marcus comes 
 Power O'Shee of Sheestown, Kil- 
 kenny, and Gardenmorris, Waterford ; 
 Colonel Count O'Shee in France. 
 
 Sir G. Shee, Bart., Dunmore, Galway. 
 
 Viscount Ashbrook, Castle Durrow, 
 Kilkenny. 
 
 Queen's County. — See p. 73. 
 
 FitzPatrick, 3 rd Lord of Upper Ossory, 
 m. a dau. of O'More. 
 
 Barnaby O'Dunne of Brittas, Chief of 
 Iregan, d. in 1614. 
 
 O'Lalor of Desert, brother of the Chief 
 of that name. His son or grandson, 
 the Confederate Major, Jeremiah 
 Lawlor, settled in Tipperary arc. 
 1666 ; he d. in 1709, aged 83. 
 
 Calbhach O'More, uncle of the Chief, 
 Owney M c Rory O'More, petitioned 
 Elizabeth for his country of Leix ; 
 he was transplanted to Balyna, the 
 property of the Delahoyds of Kildare. 
 In 1600 he m. a dau. of Scurlog of 
 the Frayne, Co. Meath. 
 
 Pigott, who got a grant of Dysart in 
 1562, had a son, Sir A. Pigott of 
 Dysart. 
 
 Cosby of Stradbally Abbey, whose 
 father and brother were slain at the 
 battle of Stradbally Bridge, fighting 
 against the O'Mores. 
 
 Brereton got in 1594 grants of Shana- 
 mullen, etc. 
 
 FitzPatrick of Grantstown Manor, 
 Queen's Co. ; Baron de Robeck of 
 Gowran Grange, Kildare (maternally). 
 
 Dunne of Brittas, Queen's Co. ; Doyne 
 of Wells, Wexford, is said to be of 
 the same stock. 
 
 Lalor of Cregg, and (maternally) Power 
 Lalor of Long Orchard, in Tipperary. 
 
 Right Hon. R. More-O'Ferrall of Balyna, 
 Kildare, great grandson of James, 
 the last O'More, who d. in 1779.— 
 MS. History of the O'Mores, written 
 in 1775 by the last O'More, whose 
 only child m. Richard O'Ferrall, 
 Esq., of Ballinree, Longford. 
 
 Sir C. Pigott, Bart., Knapton, Queen's 
 Co. 
 
 Cosby of Stradbally Hall, Queen's Co. 
 
 Brereton of Carrigslany, Carlow. 
 
268 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 16th century. 
 Sir C. Coote of Castle Cuffe served 
 against O'Neill. 
 
 King's County 
 Brassil Fox of Kilcoursey, Chief of his 
 name, m. a dau. of Mac Geoghegan 
 of Castletown ; he died in 1639 ; he 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 
 Sir C. Coote, Bart., of Bally fin, Queen's 
 
 Co.; Sir C. Coote, Bart., Dublin. 
 
 . — See p. 81. 
 
 Fox of Kilcoursey, King's Co. 
 
 was nephew of 
 who d. in 1600. 
 Mac Cochlain. 
 
 Hubert : The Fox,' 
 
 O'Carroll. 
 
 ' Cahir, Maurice and John O'Connor 
 were the last who obtained the chief- 
 tainship in 1600.' One of these, 
 says Sir B. Burke, was ancestor of 
 
 O'Molloy of Fircale. 
 
 Briscoe m. Eleanor Kearney of Scraghe, 
 near Tullamore ; from an inscription 
 over the door of the now ruined 
 castle of Scraghe, it seems he built 
 that castle in 1588. 
 
 Sir J. Moore of Croghan Castle, whose 
 father settled at Croghan. 
 
 L. Parsons, brother of Sir William the 
 Lord Justice. 
 
 Meath. - 
 Preston, 4 th Viscount Gormanston. 
 Plunkett, 9"' Lord Killeen. 
 
 The last chief died 40 years ago, and 
 his estates passed to the Dalys and 
 Armstrongs. — (7 Donovan's Notes to 
 the Annals, under the year 1585. 
 Mr. Coghlan, near Castlebar, Mayo, 
 is head of one of the most respect- 
 able branches. — Notes to Tribes of 
 Ireland. 
 
 The late Marchioness of Wellesley, 
 whose grandfather in America was 
 the undoubted head of that name. — 
 Notes to Annals, an. 1585. 
 
 O'Connor of Mount Pleasant, who d. 
 in 1 818. His daughters m. the Earl 
 of Desart, Tuite of Sonna, and Rev. 
 B. Morris, whose descendant is now 
 O'Connor Morris of Gortnamona or 
 Mountpleasant. 
 
 O'Molloy of Clonbela, King's Co.— 
 Notes to Annals an. 1585, and Tribes 
 of Ireland. 
 
 Briscoe of Riversdale, Westmeath. 
 
 Earl of Charleville (maternally). 
 
 The Earl of Rosse, Parsonstown, King's 
 Co. 
 
 -See p. 92. 
 13 th Viscount Gormanston, Meath. 
 The Earl of Fingal, Killeen Castle, 
 Meath, 19 th Lord Killeen. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 269 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Plunkett, 8 th Lord Dunsany. 
 
 Barnwall, 6 th Baron of Trimlestown, 
 
 d. in 159S, and was succeeded by 
 
 his son Robert. 
 Aylmer of Balrath. I think he was a 
 
 son of ' Elmer of Dullardstown,' 
 
 Meath. 
 Sir Patrick Barnwall of Crickstown. 
 
 Bath of Knightstown. 
 
 Cheevers of Macetown— perhaps recte 
 
 Moreton. 
 Cromp of Muchalstown. 
 
 R. Cusack, 14 th Lord of Gerrards- 
 town, d. in 1632 ; his tomb is in 
 Killeen Church. 
 
 D'Arcy of Dunmow m. a dau. of 
 Brandon of Uundalk. 
 
 Dease of Kilrue. 
 Dillon of Lismullen. 
 
 Drake of Drakerath. 
 
 Patrick Everard of Randalstown d. in 
 1611. 
 
 John Netterville of Dowth, M.P. for 
 Meath in 1585, d. in 1601, leaving 
 a son, who became Viscount Netter- 
 ville. 
 
 Plunket of Rathmore, born in 1563, m. 
 a dau. of Dillon of Moymet. 
 
 Honourable Martin Preston m. in 1584 
 Alison Herbert. 
 
 Richard Read of Meath, who d. in 
 1631. 
 
 Dr. Jones, Protestant Bishop of Meath 
 from 1584 to 1605. 
 
 Teeling of Mullagha. 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gt/i century. 
 The 16 th Baron Dunsany, Dunsany 
 
 Castle, Meath. 
 The i6 ,h Baron of Trimlestown, Turvey, 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 Lord Aylmer, Baron of Balrath. 
 
 Sir Reginald Barnwall, Bart, of 
 Crickstown ; seat, Grenanstown, 
 Meath. 
 
 Sir H. De Bathe of Knightstown, 
 Meath. 
 
 Cheevers of Killyan, Gahvay. 
 
 Crumpe of Co. Kerry. — See Miss 
 Hicksoiis Records of Kerry. 
 
 Cusack of Gerardstown; seat, Abbe- 
 ville House, Dublin. Barker of 
 Dunboyne, Meath (maternally). 
 
 D Arcy of High Park, Westmeath ; and 
 (maternally) DArcy Irvine of Castle 
 Irvine, Fermanagh. 
 
 O'Reilly Dease, Charleville, Louth. 
 
 Sir J. Dillon, Bart., Lismullen, 
 Meath. 
 
 Drake (late) of Roristown, Co. 
 Meath. 
 
 Everard of Randalstown. 
 
 Viscount Netterville. 
 
 Lentaigne of Tallaght, Dublin (ma- 
 ternally). 
 Preston of Ballinter, Meath. 
 
 Read of Wood Parks, Scariff. 
 
 Viscount Ranelagh. 
 
 Captain Teeling, Leitrim Rifles, late of 
 the Pontifical Zouaves. 
 
270 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Westmeath, 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 The 14 th Baron of Delvin d. in 1602 ; 
 his son became Earl of Westmeath 
 in 1621. 
 
 Dease of Turbotstown. 
 
 Sir Patrick Fox of Moyvore, of the 
 
 elder branch of the O'Caharnys or 
 
 Foxes, d. in 161S. 
 Magawly of Calry. 
 Mageoghegan, Chief of Kinaleaghe. 
 
 Nugent of Carlandstown d. in 1599. 
 Nugent of Clonlost d. in 16 13. 
 Nugent of Coolamber. 
 
 Nugent of Donore m. in 1580, a dau. 
 
 of Barn wall of Crickstown ; he d. in 
 
 1616. 
 Nugent of Dysart succeeded his brother 
 
 in 1620; his wife was dau. of O'Fer- 
 
 rall of Mornin. 
 
 Tuite of Sonagh, born circ. 1588, made 
 
 Baronet in 1622. 
 Sir E. Packenham came with Sydney 
 
 in 1576; his grandson had the lands 
 
 of Tullynally, Westmeath. 
 Captain Piers came to Ireland in 1566; 
 
 got 1000 marks in 1569 for bringing 
 
 the head of Shane O'Neill ; got the 
 
 Abbey of Tristernagh. 
 Captain Pollard of Essex's army came 
 
 in 1598 or 1599. 
 
 — See p. 102. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 
 The Earl of Westmeath, who is 23 rd Baron 
 of Delvin ; seat, Pallas, Co. Galway. 
 Also Count Nugent of Killasonna, 
 and Prince Nugent of Austria ; ma- 
 ternally the children of Lord Greville 
 of Clonyn. 
 
 Dease of Turbotstown. 
 
 Fox of Fox Hall, Longford. 
 
 Count Magawly-Cerati. 
 
 O'Neill of Bunowen Castle, Co. Galway, 
 whose real name is Mageoghegan; 
 maternally, the late Sir R. Nagle of 
 Jamestown. 
 
 Maternally, the Duke of Buckingham. 
 
 Nugent of Clonlost. 
 
 Maternally, J. Conmee, Esq., Kings- 
 land, Co. Roscommon. 
 
 Sir Walter Nugent of Donore, ma- 
 ternally. The name of his family 
 was FitzGerald. 
 
 Count Nugent of Ballynacorr, West- 
 meath (maternally) ; Nugent of 
 Portaferry, and Sir C. Nugent, Bart., 
 of Ballinlough. 
 
 Sir M. Tuite, Bart., of Kilruane, Tippe- 
 rary ; Tuite of Sonagh, Westmeath. 
 
 The Earl of Longford, Packenham 
 Hall, Westmeath. 
 
 Sir E. F. Piers of Tristernagh Abbey, 
 Westmeath, 8"' Baronet. 
 
 Pollard Urquhart of Castle Pollard, 
 Westmeath. 
 
 O'Ferrall of Ballinree, &c. 
 
 Longford. — See p. 113. 
 
 Right Hon. R. More O'Ferrall, Balyna 
 House, Kildare, and Ballinree, 
 Longford. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 271 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 O'Farrel of Mornin. 
 
 Sir Francis Shaen (O'Farrell). 
 
 The Edgworths settled circ. 1583. 
 The brother of Edgworth, Bishop 
 of Down and Connor, was ancestor 
 of 
 
 Representatives in the igth century. 
 Maternally, O'Farrell of Dalystown, 
 
 Galway ; and Nugent of Ballinacorr, 
 
 Westmeath. 
 Maternally, Kirwan of Castlehacket, 
 
 Galway. 
 The Edgeworths of Edgeworthstown 
 
 and Kilshrewly, Longford. 
 
 Cavan. — 1 
 Edmund O'Reilly of Kilnacrott, 
 Chieftain, who d. in 1601. 
 
 O'Reilly, whose descendant was Hugh 
 O'Reilly of Ballinlough, Westmeath. 
 
 Nugent of Enagh, Cavan, son of Nugent 
 of Rathwire, Meath. 
 
 Sir Oliver Lambert came with Essex, 
 became Baron of Cavan in 1617. 
 
 Hamilton of Coronary. 
 
 See p. 117. 
 
 O'Reillys of Heath House, Queen's 
 Co.; of Knock Abbey, Louth; Count 
 O'Reilly of Cuba ; O'Reilly, Attor- 
 ney-General in Jamaica ; O'Reillys 
 of Baltrasna and Scarvagh. — O' Dono- 
 van's Notes to Annals, year 1601. 
 
 Sir Charles Nugent, Bart., of Ballin- 
 lough, Westmeath. 
 
 Nugent of Bobsgrove, Cavan. 
 
 The Earl of Cavan ; Lambart of Beau 
 
 Park. 
 Hamilton of Abbotstown, Dublin. 
 
 O'Brien, 5"' Baron of Inchiquin. 
 Brady of Tomgrany. 
 James Butler of Shanagollen. 
 Comyn of Kilcorney. 
 FitzGerald of Rynana. 
 
 Hickie, near Killaloe. 
 MacMahon, Chief of Corcabhascin. 
 
 Finin Mac Namara of Rosroe d. in 
 
 1 60 1. His son Shioda was ancestor 
 
 of 
 His son Convea Reaghof Clonmoynagh 
 
 and Ardclony, who d. in 1625, was 
 
 ancestor of 
 
 Clare. — See p. 124. 
 
 The Duke of Leinster (maternally). 
 
 Brady of Myshall Lodge, Co. Carlow. 
 
 Butler of Ballyline, Co. Clare. 
 
 Comyn of Woodstock, Galway. 
 
 Sir A. FitzGerald, Newmarket-on-Fer- 
 gus, Clare. 
 
 Hickie of Killelton, Kerry. 
 
 Coppinger of Barryscourt, Cork (ma- 
 ternally). — Tribes of Ireland, notes. 
 
 M c Mahon, Marshal, President of the 
 French Republic, is of this race. 
 
 Mac Namara of Ayle, Clare. 
 
 Maj or M'Namara Bouchier (maternally). 
 
272 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Mac Namara, of a junior branch of 
 
 the ' Eastern M c Namaras.' 
 O'Brien of Carraduff, whose son Donal 
 
 lost his lands in 1652. 
 O'Brien of Duagh. 
 
 O'Briens of Leaghmenagh and Dromo- 
 land. 
 
 O'Brien, son of Sir Tirlough O'Brien. 
 
 O'Hogan of Cross. 
 O'Loghlin. 
 
 O'Molony of Kiltannon, whose grand- 
 son was Bishop of Limerick in 1687. 
 
 Cuffe, merchant of Ennis, and nephew 
 of Hugh Cuffe, who got 6000 acres 
 of the Desmond lands. 
 
 Lewin settled in Ireland in 1586. 
 
 Galway.— 
 Ulick, 3 rd Earl of Clanrickarde, d. in 
 
 1601. 
 Edmund Burke of Kilcornan, son of 
 
 the 3 rd Earl of Clanrickarde. 
 The 13 th Lord Athenry d. in 1614. 
 
 Athy of Galway. 
 
 Robert Blake of Ardfry, father of the 
 
 Speaker of the Supreme Council. 
 Andrew Blake of Cummer and Bally- 
 
 glunin. 
 V. Blake FitzWalter FitzThomas, 
 
 Mayor of Galway in 161 1 ; a Bart. 
 
 in 1622. 
 Blake, Mayor of Galway in 1564, m. a 
 
 dau. of Valentine French. 
 
 Representatives in the 19th century. 
 
 Mac Namara of Ennistymon. — (7 Dono- 
 van's Notes to Annals, year 1585. 
 
 O'Brien of Ballynalacken. 
 
 (Maternally) Marshal MacMahon, 
 President of the French Republic. — 
 Cronelly's Irish Families. 
 
 Lord Inchiquin of Dromoland ; Staf- 
 ford O'Brien of Blather wicke, Nor- 
 thamptonshire. 
 
 O'Brien of Glencolumkille, Clare. — 
 O' Donovan's Notes to year 1585 of 
 the Annals. 
 
 O'Brien of Ballynalacken, Clare (ma- 
 ternally). 
 
 O'Loghlin of Newtown ; Sir Colman 
 O'Loghlen is a junior branch. — 
 O'Donoz'an's Notes to Annals, an. 
 
 The Molonys of Kiltannon and Gra- 
 nahan, Clare. 
 
 Ross-Lewin of Ross Hill, Clare. 
 
 ■See p. 131. 
 The Marquess (15 th Earl) of Clan- 
 rickarde, Portumna, Galway. 
 (Maternally) Redington of Kilcornan. 
 
 Bermingham of Dalgan, Galway ; and 
 (maternally) Lords Howth and 
 Clonbrock. 
 
 Athy of Renville, Galway. 
 
 Lord Wallscourt, Ardfry, Galway. 
 
 Blake of Balglunin, Galway ; and Sir — 
 
 Blake, Bart., of Langham, Suffolk. 
 Sir V. Blake, Bart., of Menlo, Galway. 
 
 Blake of Renvyle, Galway. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 2 73 
 
 Families of 1.6th century. 
 
 Blake, son of Marcus Blake of Galway, 
 
 bought lands in Mayo from David 
 
 O'Kelly of Dunamona; he d. in 
 
 1633. 
 FitzRichard Blake of Kiltullagh Castle, 
 
 Mayor of Galway in 1578. 
 Bodkin, Sheriff of Galway in 1570, was 
 
 father of John Bodkin. 
 Browne of Barna m. a dau. of Sir 
 
 Morogh O' Flaherty; he d. in 1596. 
 
 His son Oliver is ancestor of 
 His son Geoffrey ancestor of 
 
 His son Thomas. 
 
 His son James. 
 
 His son Andrew. 
 
 Ulicke Burke of Castlehacket, son of 
 
 John Burke, and Miss O'Kelly of 
 
 Mullaghmore. 
 Burke of Glinsk, Lord of Clanconow. 
 
 Burke of Gortenacuppoge. 
 
 Burke of Meelick. 
 
 Theobald Butler of Cregg. 
 
 D'Arcy Riavagh (the swarthy) Vice- 
 President of Connaught, d. in 1603. 
 His monument is in the Franciscan 
 Abbey, Galway. 
 
 Thomas Dillon of Clonbrock in Gal- 
 way, and Curraboy in Roscommon, 
 Chief Justice of Connaught, d. in 
 1606. 
 
 William Dolphin of Turoe. 
 
 Redmond Dolphin of Brackloonmore. 
 Fonte, Mayor of Galway. 
 
 Ffrench of Castle Ffrench. 
 
 French of Monivea Castle d. in 16 18. 
 
 French of Mulpit. 
 
 Patrick Kirwan of Cregg. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 Blake of Ballynafad, Mayo. 
 
 Blake of Kiltullagh, and Blake of Cregg. 
 Bodkin of Annagh, Galway. 
 Browne of Kilskeagh, Galway. 
 
 Lord Oranmore and Browne ; Browne 
 
 of Browne Hall, Mayo. 
 The Brownes of Newtown, Ardskea, 
 
 and Cooloo. 
 Browne of Tuam. 
 Browne of Moyne. 
 Burke of Ower. 
 
 Sir J. L. Burke of Glinsk, 1 1* Baronet ; 
 also Burke of Knocknagur. 
 
 Sir T. J. Burke of Marble Hill (alias 
 Gortenacuppoge), 3 rd Baronet 
 
 Burke of Elm Hall, Tipperary ; Burkes 
 of Slatefieldand St. Cleran's, Galway. 
 
 Butler of Cregg. 
 
 D'Arcy of Newforest , D'Arcy of Well- 
 fort, and D'Arcy of Kiltulla, all 
 in Galway. 
 
 Lord Clonbrock of Clonbrock, Galway. 
 — See ArchdalFs Lodge,vo\.\v., p. 138. 
 
 Dolphin of Turoe, and Dolphin of 
 
 Danesfort, Galway. 
 Dolphin of Corr, Galway. 
 Geoffrey Fonte d. in 18 14, aged 104, 
 
 the last of the race. — Hardiman. 
 Lord Ffrench of Castle French, Galway. 
 French of Monivea Castle, Galway. 
 St. George of Tyrone House, Galway. 
 Kirwan of Bawnmore. 
 
 2 M 
 
274 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Families of 16th century. 
 Edmund Airgid Kirvvan (2 nd son of 
 
 Patrick Kirwan of Cregg) d. in 1608. 
 Martin O'Quirivane of Tobercaoch (Blind 
 
 Well). 
 Lawrence of Ballymore, whose father 
 
 settled in that place, m. in 1603 a 
 
 dau. of Garret Moore of Breeze, 
 
 Mayo. 
 Martin of Ross ; his son Jasper d. in 
 
 1630. 
 Martin of Tullyra. 
 In 1578 O'Daly of Killymore got a 
 
 grant of the manor of Larha ; his 
 
 sons were Teig and Donough. 
 O'Donelan, Protestant Archbishop of 
 
 Tuam, 'though neverin Holy Orders.' 
 
 Murrough na d'Tuagh O'Flaherty, 
 
 'Chief of all the O'Flaherties ' in 
 
 1598. 
 O'Halloran of Barna. 
 O'Kelly of Aughrim Castle. 
 Hugh Caoch O'Kelly of Mullaghmore, 
 
 Chief in 159S. 
 Conor na Gearbhach O'Kelly of Gal- 
 
 lagh, sub-chief of Hy-Many, d. in 
 
 1612. 
 Donall O'Madden. 
 
 Gilladubh O'Shaughnessy. 
 
 Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy, who d. in 
 1606. 
 
 Skerret. 
 
 Blakeney, who settled temp. Elizabeth. 
 
 Representatives in the igf/i century. 
 
 Maitland-Kirvvan of Dalgin, Mayo, and 
 Gelston Castle, N.B. 
 
 Kirwan of Blindwell, and perhaps Kir- 
 wan of Moyne. 
 
 Lawrence of Lisreaghan. 
 
 Martin of Ross House, Galway. 
 
 Martin of Tullyra Castle, Galway. 
 Daly, Lord Dunsandle, of Dunsandle, 
 Galway. 
 
 The Donelans of Ballydonelan, ofHills- 
 wood, of Sylane and Peter's Well, 
 and of Killagh, all in Galway. 
 
 O'Fflahertie of Lemonfield, Galway. — 
 O' Donovan's Notes to year 1585 of 
 Annals. 
 
 Lynch of Barna, Galway, (maternally). 
 
 Kelly of Newtown. — Hy-Many. 
 
 Kelly of Castle Kelly, and Count 
 O'Kelly of Montauban. — Hy-Many. 
 
 Count Conor O'Kelly of Ticooly, for- 
 merly of Gallagh, Co. Galway. — 
 O' Donovan's Hy-Many. 
 
 Madden of Streamstown. — Notes td 
 Annals, an. 1585. (Maternally) 
 More-O'Ferrall of Ballyna.— MS. 
 Account of the O 'Mores, by James, 
 the last of the O' Mores. 
 
 Mr. Bartholomew O'Shaughnessy of 
 Galway. — O' Donovan. 
 
 The late Catholic Bishop of Killaloe ; 
 Sir W. O'Shaughnessy of Calcutta ; 
 the late James O'Shaughnessy of 
 Clongowes, Kildare ; R d - O'Shaugh- 
 nessy, Esq., M.P. for Limerick. — See 
 O 'Donovan's Annals. 
 
 Skerret of Finvara, Clare ; Skerret of 
 Athgoe Park, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Blakeney of Abbert, Castle Blakeney, 
 Galway. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 275 
 
 Mayo. — See p. 140, 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Bingham of Castlebar, whose father, 
 
 the Governor of Sligo, was killed in 
 
 1596. 
 Bourke of Moneycrower. 
 Richard Ruadh Bourke of Rathroe 
 
 Castle, Inniscoe, and Carrowkeel, 
 
 m. a dau. of M c \Villiam. 
 Browne of the Neale, High Sheriff of 
 
 Mayo, whose grandson was made a 
 
 Baronet in 1622. 
 
 Sir C. Dillon of Bealalahin, son of the 
 
 i st Viscount Dillon. 
 Shane M c Costelloe of Castlemore, 
 
 Chief, m. in 1586 a dan. of O'Kelly 
 
 of Screggs, Roscommon. 
 Edmund M c Jordan, Chief in 1586. 
 O'Higgins of Moyna. 
 O'Malley (son of Brian) of Morska 
 
 Castle. 
 O'Malley (Edmund), nephew of Grana- 
 
 uille O'Malley, b. 1579, d. 1651. 
 Captain Atkinson, Elizabethan officer. 
 
 Representatives in the ig/h century. 
 
 The Earl of Lucan, Castlebar, Mayo ; 
 
 Lord Clanmorris, Newport, Mayo. 
 
 The Earl of Mayo, Co. Kildare. 
 Bourke of Carrowkiel ; Bourke of Cur- 
 raghleagh. 
 
 Lord Kilmaine of the Neale; Marquess 
 of Sligo, Westport, Mayo ; Browne of 
 Breafy, now Sir C. M. de Beauvoir, 
 Johnstown, Dublin ; Browne of Ma- 
 nulla ; Browne of Raheens, Mayo. 
 
 Viscount Dillon, Loughglynn, Ros- 
 common. 
 
 Costelloe of Edmundstown, Mayo. 
 
 Jordan of Rosslevin Castle, Mayo 
 
 Higgins of Westport. 
 
 Sir W. O'Malley, Bart., Rose Hill, Mayo. 
 
 O'Malley of The Lodge, Co. Mayo. 
 
 Atkinson of Rehins, Co. Mayo. 
 
 Sligo. — See p. 144- 
 
 Donal O'Conor-Sligo. 
 
 O'Crean of Annagh. 
 
 Dathi O'Dowda, son of Dathi (slain in 
 1594) and nephew of O'Dowda, 
 elected by O'Donnell in 1595. 
 
 The last Chief, General O'Conor-Sligo, 
 d. in 1756 ; the last Lady of the 
 House of Hapsburg erected a monu- 
 ment to him in the Church of St. 
 Gudule, Brussels. The present 
 senior of the race is a fanner. The 
 descendants, maternally, are M c Der- 
 mot of Coolavin, and O'Connor- 
 Donellan of Sylane. 
 
 Crean-Lynch of Clogher House, Mayo 
 (maternally). 
 
 O'Dowda of Bunnyconnelan, 43 rd in 
 descent from Eochaidh, Monarch of 
 Ireland in 358. — Hy-Fiachra, pedigree 
 by Donovan. 
 
276 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 16th coilury. 
 Cormac O'Hara of Coolany m. a dau. 
 
 O'Gallagher; he d. in 161 2; his 
 
 son Teig was High Sheriff in 1608. 
 Sir Tibbot Dillon of Costello Gallen, 
 
 Sligo. 
 French of Gortrassy, and Sessueman 
 
 Castle, Co. Sligo, m. a dau. of O'Con- 
 
 nor-Sligo ; he d. in 1624. 
 Patrick French obtained an estate from 
 
 Donagh O'Conor-Sligo. 
 George Bingham, Governor of Sligo 
 
 in 1596. 
 Dodwell settled at Tanrago circ. 1590. 
 
 Leitrim.- 
 
 Magrannell of Magh-Rein, Chief of his 
 name. 
 
 O'Rourlc. 
 
 O'Rourke of Dromehaire. 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gth century. 
 O'Hara of Annaghmore, Co. Sligo 
 (maternally). 
 
 Viscount Dillon of Loughglynn, Ros- 
 common. 
 Lord de Freyne, Co. Roscommon. 
 
 French of Cloonyquin, Co. Roscommon. 
 Lord Clanmorris, Newbrook, Mayo. 
 Dodwell of Glenmore. 
 
 -See p. 147. 
 
 The last head was Squire Reynolds, 
 who was murdered at Sheemore, Co. 
 Leitrim. His dau. is Mrs. M c Na- 
 mara of Lough Scur House. — Tribes 
 of Ireland, p. 35. 
 
 Prince O'Rork of Russia. 
 
 O'Rourke of Ballybollen, Co. Antrim. 
 
 Roscommon. 
 
 Brian M c Dermot of Carraig Locha Ce M c Dermot, ' Prince of Coolavin.' 
 (now Rockingham). 
 
 O'Beirn, Chief of Tir-bruin na Sinna. 
 
 Sir Hugh O'Conor Don of Ballintubber, 
 b. in 1541, submitted in 1581, d. in 
 1632. He mar. a d. of Sir Brian 
 O'Rourke. 
 
 O'Conor Roe. 
 
 Rory O'Kelly of Aughrane, Lord of 
 the Manor of Screen, and High 
 Sheriff of the Co. of Roscommon in 
 1590, m. a dau. of O'Kelly of Belana- 
 more, or of M c Edmond of Gaille, 
 and had two sons — Wm. Reagh and 
 Captain Colla. Wm. Reagh's sons 
 entered into Holy Orders. Colla d. 
 in 1615 ; his descendants are 
 
 O'Beirn of Dangan-I-Beirn in the same 
 territory. — 0' Donovan. 
 
 O'Conor Don; O'C. of Mount Druid, 
 of Dundermott, and of Milton. — Cf. 
 Memoir of the G' Connors, by R. 
 O'Connor, Esq., also The Annals. 
 
 O'Conor Roe of Tomona ; O'Conor 
 Roe of Lanesborough. 
 
 Kelly of Castle Kelly ; Count Conor 
 O'Kelly, officer of Grenadiers in 
 France, 43 rd in descent from Maine 
 Mor; Thomas L. Kelly, Esq., of 
 Gardiner Street, Dublin. — See Tribes 
 and Customs of Hy-Many for an 
 account of the Roscommon families. 
 
AfPENDIX. 
 
 277 
 
 Families of i6t/i century. 
 O' Kelly of Athleague. 
 Conor Na Garvach O'Kelly of Gallagh. 
 
 Captain Anthony O'Mulloy, called the 
 "Green Mulloy,' got land in Ros- 
 common early in Elizabeth's reign ; 
 had a son, ' the Great Mulloy of 
 Uchterthera,' Governor of Roscom- 
 mon. 
 
 Moylin O'Mulconry of Tullon, ' The 
 O'Mulconry,' m. a dau. of Teig 
 O'Flanagan, Caencloin. 
 
 O'Nachtan, Chief of the Fews in the 
 barony of Athlone. 
 
 J. Crofton of Ballymurray, Auditor- 
 General. 
 
 Sir J. King of the Abbey of Boyle. 
 Lyster of Milltown Pass. 
 
 Representatives in the igf/i century. 
 
 Kelly of Glencarra, Co. Westmeath. 
 
 Conor O'Kelly of Ticooly, 42 nd in de- 
 scent from Maine Mor. 
 
 Mulloy of Hughstown, Co. Roscom- 
 
 Sir J. Conroy, Bart, of Bettifield, Ros- 
 common, and Pennant Hall, Mont- 
 gomeryshire. 
 
 Naughton of Thomastown Park. — Hy- 
 Many, p. 71. 
 
 Baron Crofton of Mote Park, Ros- 
 common ; Sir M. Crofton, Bart., of 
 Mohill House, Leitrim ; Sir Malby 
 Crofton, Bart., of Longford House, 
 Sligo. 
 
 Viscount Lorton ; Earl of Kingston. 
 
 Lyster of Lysterfield. 
 
 Waterford. 
 
 Lord Power. 
 
 The Lord FitzGerald of Decies. 
 
 Aylward of Fathlegg. 
 
 Edward FitzGerald of the Little 
 Island. 
 
 FitzGerald of Gurteens. 
 
 Grant of Ballygrant. 
 
 Walter Mansfield (perhaps originally 
 Mandeville) m. a dau. of the Lord of 
 Dromana. 
 
 Richard Nugent of Cloncoscraine, de- 
 scended from the 2 nd Baron of Delvin. 
 
 Power of Ballyhane. 
 Power of Clashmore. 
 
 Wise of of the Manor of St. John. 
 
 The Marquess ofWaterford (maternally). 
 
 Lord Stuart de Decies (maternally) ; 
 Mansfield of Morristown-Lattin, Co. 
 Kildare (maternally). 
 
 Aylward of Shankhill Castle, Co. Kil- 
 kenny. 
 
 Purcell FitzGerald of the Little Island 
 (maternally). 
 
 FitzGerald of Turlough Park, Mayo. 
 
 Grant of Kilmurry, Co. Cork. 
 
 Mansfield of Morristown-Lattin, Co. 
 Kildare. 
 
 Sir J. Nugent Humble, Bart, of Clon- 
 coscoran (maternally). — See Lodge, 
 vol. i., p. 221. 
 
 Power of Belleville Park. 
 
 Earl of Huntingdon of Clashmore (ma- 
 ternally). 
 
 Wise of the Manor of St. John ; General 
 Henry Wise of America. 
 
278 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Families of 1 6t/i century. Representatives in the 1 qt/i century. 
 
 Captain Drew of Kilwinny, settled Drew of Drewscourt, Co. Limerick. 
 
 circ. 1598. 
 Osborne of Ballintaylor. Sir W. Osborne, Bart., of Beechwood, 
 
 Tipperary. 
 
 Cork. 
 
 Lord Barrymore. 
 
 Lord Courcy, 18 th Baron of Kinsale. 
 
 Earl of Desmond. 
 
 Wm. Barry of Lislee (son of Viscount 
 
 Buttevant, who d. in 1582), mar. 
 
 Selah ny vy Carry; he d. in 1594; 
 
 had a son James. 
 Garret Barry of Leamlary m. Miss 
 
 M c Carthy of Tuadrommeen ; his son 
 
 John Laidir (the Stout) m. Miss 
 
 Nagle of Moneanimie. 
 Barry of Lisnegar and Rathcormack, 
 
 styled ' Mac Adam Barry.' 
 Burke of Clogher, near Castletown- 
 
 Roche. 
 S. Coppinger of Bally volane d. in 1620. 
 
 T. Coppinger, Alderman of Cork in 
 16 10. 
 
 Creagh of Cork m. in 1557 a grand- 
 dau. of Waters, who aided Perkin 
 Warbeck; he d. circ. 1601 ; his son 
 m. a dau. of G. Archdeken ; he d. 
 in 16 1 4, leaving a son who m. Miss 
 Roche of Poolnalong Castle. 
 
 Duggan of Mount Infant, barony of 
 Duhallow. 
 
 FitzGerald of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan. 
 
 Smith-Barry of Foaty. 
 
 29 th Baron of Kinsale. 
 
 A descendant of an Earl of Desmond 
 put to death in Elizabeth's reign, is 
 said now to be a brogue-maker in 
 Kerry. — Dynely's Tour, circ. 1689. 
 Maternally, the Duke de Choiseul- 
 Praslin, and the Right Hon. J. Fitz- 
 gerald, who d. in 1835, aged 93, were 
 descended from the 16" 1 Earl of 
 Desmond. 
 
 James Redmond Barry, who claims to 
 be Viscount Buttevant. — See his 
 Case in House of Lords, 1825. 
 
 Barry of Leamlara. 
 
 Barry of Ballyclough, who claims to 
 be senior to the Barrymore family. 
 
 The famous Edmund Burke, and his 
 descendant Haviland Burke. 
 
 Coppinger of Ballyvolane and Barry's 
 Court ; C. of Middleton. 
 
 Coppinger of Leemount 
 
 Creagh of Hermitage, and (maternally) 
 Brazier-Creagh of Creagh Castle. 
 
 Cronin-Coltsman of Glenflesk Castle 
 (paternally). 
 
 (Maternally) Uniacke Penrose Fitz- 
 Gerald of Corkbegg and Lisquinlan. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 279 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 
 French of Cork, who d. 165 1, leaving 
 a bequest to the poor of St. Finn 
 Barr's Church, which is still paid 
 from property belonging to the 
 family. 
 
 Galwey of Lota, descended from Gal- 
 wey of Dundannion Castle. 
 
 Gould of Cork. 
 
 Lysaght of Mountnorth, of the Race 
 
 of O'Brien. 
 Mac Awliffe of Castle Mac Awliffe, 
 
 near Newmarket. 
 
 M c Carthy of Carbry. 
 M c Carthy of Drishane 
 Honora M C S weeny. 
 
 Castle m. 
 
 Cormac M c Carthy of Blarney Castle, 
 Lord of Muskerry, d. in 16 16. 
 
 Teig-anFhorsa M c Carthy, L d - of Glean 
 an Chroim. 
 
 Wm. MacCotter m. Miss Hodnett. 
 
 Meade of Ballintobber, M.P. for Cork 
 in 1585 ; his son, Sir John, m. a dau. 
 of Sarsfield, i st Viscount Kilmallock. 
 
 Conogher O'Callaghan of Clonmeen, 
 Chief in 1598, m. a dau. of Tirlagh 
 M c Swiny ; his son's only child Ellen 
 m. O'Callaghan of Drumaneen. The 
 last head of this race, O'Callaghan 
 of Kilgorey, who d. in 1791, was 
 grandfather of — 
 
 Donal I I O'Donovan, 40 th Chief of 
 Clancathal in 1584, lived in the castle 
 of Rahine, rebuilt Castle Donovan 
 in 1628, as appears by an inscription 
 there. He lived to the year 1639 ; 
 his I st wife was Helena Barry of 
 Lislee. By his z d wife, a dau. of 
 M c Carthy Reagh, he had 7 sons; 
 some say he had 1 1 sons. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 French of Cuskinny, Queenstown. 
 
 Galwey of Lota. 
 
 Sir H. V. Gould, Bart., of Oldcourt ; 
 
 Goold of Rosbrien, Limerick. 
 Lord Lyle of Mountnorth. 
 
 Mac Awliffe, though born to a hand- 
 some estate, was weigh-master in 
 Kenmare in 1840; he was head of 
 this clan. — Tribes of Ireland, p. 66. 
 
 Count M c Carthy of Toulouse. 
 
 The late Alexander M c Carthy, M.P. 
 for Cork; M c Carthy O'Leary of 
 Coomlegane. 
 
 M c Carthy of Carrignavar. 
 
 M c Carthy Duna of Cork ; M c Carthy 
 Glas of Dunmanway. — Cronelly. 
 
 Sir J. L. Cotter, Bart., of Rockforest. 
 
 The Earl of Clanwilliam ; Meade of 
 Ballintobber; and Meade of Bally- 
 martle. 
 
 Father O'Reilly, S.J. ; the Earl of Ken- 
 mare; Mr. Dease, M.P., and Major 
 Dease. Theeldestdau.(Mrs.O'Reilly) 
 is erroneously said, in Burke's ac- 
 count of the Dease family, to have 
 d. unmar. See a description of her 
 husband's tomb, p. 544 of Zenihan's 
 Hist, of Limerick. Lord Lismore 
 and O'Callaghan of Cadogan repre- 
 sent junior branches. 
 
 J. O'Donovan, the great Irish scholar, 
 descended from the eldest son, Donal ; 
 O'Donovan of Montpellier from his 
 son Teig ; O'D. of Cooldurragha, in 
 the parish of Myross, from his son 
 Donogh; Lieutenant O'D. of Cork 
 City, from Captain Richard ; O'D. 
 of Lisheens House, and O'D. of 
 Ardahill, from Keudagh. — CfDono- 
 vatis Notes to the Annals. 
 
280 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 16th century. 
 
 Diamaid an-Eich (of the steed) O'Dono- 
 van of Gortineeher, parish of Droma- 
 league. 
 
 Donal Oge Na Carton O'Donovan of 
 Cloghatrabally Castle, 41 st Chief of 
 Clanlochlain in 1580, surrendered 
 and received a regrant of his pos- 
 sessions in 1616 ; d; in 1629. 
 
 O'Driscoll Mor, Chief of Collymore. 
 
 O'Mahony of Fonn Iartarach, in the 
 
 South-West of Carbery. 
 Kean O'Mahony, Chief of Kinalmeaky, 
 
 with his 7 sons removed to Kerry. 
 O'Sullevan Mor. 
 
 Murtagh O'Sullevan Mor. 
 
 Rory O'Sullevan Mor of Drominage 
 Castle, m. Julian M'Carthy of 
 Drishane. 
 
 O'Sullevan of Cappanacus, from whose 
 house the O'Sullevan Mor was elected 
 in case of failure of the elder branch. 
 
 John Purcell of Pullen, 'of the Croagh 
 line of the Purcells of Loughmoe.' 
 
 Roche of Castletown. 
 
 Roch of Tourin and Cregg, m. in 
 1566 Miss Fitzgerald of Kerry- 
 currihy; he d. in 1635 ; he had 5 
 sons, George, Maurice, David, John, 
 and Ulick. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 O'Donovan of O'Donovan's Cove, in 
 West Carbery. 
 
 — Donovan, Esq., of Wood Street, 
 Dublin, Solicitor; Donovan of Bally- 
 nore and Clonmore, Co. of Wexford. 
 — Appendix to Annals, pp. 2430 to 
 2483. 
 
 W m - O'Driscoll (son of Denis, son of 
 Florence), who d. in 1581, 'was of 
 noble countenance, and in pitch of 
 body like a giant.' A. O'Driscoll, 
 J. P., of Skibbereen, of 'boundless 
 hospitality,' d. in 1849, 'while in 
 gaol for debt to a wine merchant.' 
 The last known Chief was Conor 
 O'Driscoll, called 'the Admiral.' — 
 O 'Donovan. 
 
 O'Mahony of Dunloe Castle. 
 
 O'Mahony of Dromore Castle, and 
 
 Castle Quin. 
 O'Sullevan of Tomies, near Killarney, 
 
 in the last century. 
 Sir E. Sullevan, Bart., of St. Leonards 
 
 House, Berks. 
 Sullivan of Curraghmore, Limerick ; 
 
 Sullivan of Wilmington, Isle of 
 
 Wight. 
 O'Sullevan of Prospect, near Kenmare, 
 
 who is probably head of the race of 
 
 O'Sullevan. 
 John Mathew Purcell, Esq., of Burton, 
 
 Co. Cork, 8 th in descent.— MS. 
 
 Pedigree by General Creagh. 
 Roche of Cranagh Castle, Co. Kil- 
 kenny; Wm. Roche, Esq., Solicitor, 
 
 Dublin; and (maternally) Grehan of 
 
 Clonmeen, Co. Cork. 
 Roch of Woodbine Hill, Waterford. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 >Sr 
 
 Families of 1 6t/i century. 
 Sarsfield of Sarsfield Court. 
 Sir R. Smith of Rathcogan. 
 
 Supple of Aghadoe. 
 
 J. Uniacke, of the Geraldine family, d. 
 
 in 1623 ; was succeeded by his 
 
 cousin, Uniacke of Ballyhubbert, 
 
 from whom 
 Thomas Uniacke of Youghal, m. Miss 
 
 Fitzgerald of Lisquinlan. 
 
 Wallis of Curryglas, who d. in 1630. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/i century. 
 
 Sarsfield or Doughcloyne. 
 
 Smith of Headborough, Waterford, and 
 (maternally) Moore of Ballinatray, 
 Waterford. 
 
 Sir W. De Capell-Broke, Bart, of Oak- 
 ley, Co. Northampton, and Aghadoe, 
 Cork (paternally). 
 
 Uniacke of Mount Uniacke ; Uniacke 
 of Curragheen. 
 
 Uniacke of Woodhouse, Waterford, 
 and Sir J. C. Judkin Fitzgerald of 
 Lisheen, Tipperary. 
 
 Wallis of Drishane Castle. 
 
 SETTLERS. 
 
 Aldworth of Short Castle, near Mallow, 
 father of Aldworth, Vice-President 
 of Munster. 
 
 Beecher. 
 
 Francis Bernard. 
 
 R. Boyle, who became ' the Great 
 Earl of Cork;' he d. in 1643. 
 
 Cook settled before the reign of Eliza- 
 beth, and Edward Cook was a 
 resident in Cork long before 1641. 
 
 M. Cox settled at Kilworth. 
 
 Captain Crofts came to Ireland in 1596; 
 
 settled at Bandon; his wife 'placed 
 
 a cross to his memory in the church 
 
 of Kilbrogan, which is still in a good 
 
 state of preservation.' 
 Daunt of Gortgrenane and Tracton 
 
 Abbey in 1595. 
 Dunscombe settled in Cork tire. 1566. 
 Captain Fermor. 
 Heard of Bandon came with Sir Walter 
 
 Raleigh. 
 Arthur Hyde, first settler, had a son, 
 
 Sir A. Hyde of Carrigonede. 
 
 Aldworth of Newmarket. 
 
 Sir H. Wrixon Beecher of Ballygiblin 
 
 (maternally). 
 The Earl of Bandon. 
 The Earl of Cork; the Earl of Shannon. 
 
 Cook of Castle Cook, Cork; Cook of 
 
 Cordangan ; and Cook of Kiltinon 
 
 Castle, Tipperary. 
 Sir F. H. Cox, Bart., of Dunmanway, 
 
 Co. Cork. 
 Crofts of Velvetstown ; Crofts of 
 
 Churchtown. 
 
 The Daunts of Gortgrenane, Fahalea, 
 
 Tracton Abbey, and Kilcaskan. 
 Dunscombe of Mount Desert. 
 Farmar of Dunsinane. 
 Heard of Pallestown, Kinsale. 
 
 Hyde of Creg, late of Castle Hyde. 
 
 2 N 
 
282 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 16 th century. 
 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Norreys, 
 
 Lord President of Minister. 
 Sir H. Power, general in 1598, was 
 
 son of Sir H. Power, Master of the 
 
 Horse in Ireland. From his brother 
 
 descends 
 St. Leger, President of Munster. 
 J. Ware settled in Cork in 1588. 
 
 Representatives in the igt/1 century. 
 Sir C. Jephson-Norreys, Bart., Mallow- 
 Power of Hill Court, Hereford. 
 
 Viscount Doneraile. 
 Ware of Woodfort. 
 
 Kerry. 
 
 Conor Mac Gillicuddy, 'Lord of the 
 
 Reeks.' 
 Jeffry O'Connell, Lord of Ballycarbery, 
 
 was High Sheriff of Kerry ; he d. in 
 
 1635- 
 John, son of Conor O'Conor-Kerry, of 
 
 Carrigafoyle Castle. 
 
 Jeffery O'Donoghue of Killagher and 
 
 Glenflesk, attainted in 1603. 
 Trant of Cahir Trante, Dingle. 
 Patricin Mac Maurice, 17 th Lord of 
 - Kerry, b. in 1541, d. in 1600. 
 Fitzgerald of Rathannan, ' Knight of 
 
 Kerry,' whose wife was a dau. of 
 
 O'Sullevan M6r. 
 FitzMaurice of Cosfeale or Duaghna- 
 
 fealla. 
 Hussey of Dingle Castle or Daingean- 
 
 ni-Hushy, Castle Gregory, and Castle 
 
 Minard. 
 Rice of the Dingle. 
 
 Captain Annesley, Munster undertaker. 
 Sir T. Blennerhassett. 
 
 Sir N. Browne of Rosse, son of first 
 settler, m. a dau. of O'Sullevan Beare. 
 
 Chapman, cousin of Sir W. Raleigh, 
 got lands in Kerry. 
 
 Crosbie, Protestant Bishop of Ardfert, 
 mar. a dau. of O'Lalor ; the Earl of 
 Ormond wrote to Cecil that his 
 name was Mac Crossan. 
 
 Mac Gillicuddy of the Reeks. 
 O'Connell of Darrynane. 
 
 O'Connor-Kerry, 
 Lodi in 184S. — 
 
 O'Donoghue of 
 
 Daniel O'Connell 
 
 Commandant of 
 
 Tribes of Ireland. 
 The O'Donoghue ; 
 
 Prover, Cheshire. 
 Trant of Dovea, Tipperary. 
 Marquess of Landsdowne, 25 th Lord 
 
 of Kerry ; also the Earl of Orkney. 
 ' The Knight of Kerry,' Valentia. 
 
 FitzMaurice of Duagh House. 
 Hussey of Dingle. 
 
 Count Rice of the H.R. Empire. 
 
 Viscount Valentia. 
 
 Sir R. Blennerhasset, Bart. ; and Blen- 
 
 nerhasset of Ballyseedy. 
 The Earl of Kenmare. 
 
 Sir Montague Chapman, Bart., of Kil- 
 lua Castle, Westmeath. 
 
 Sir E. W. Crosbie, Bart., of Mary- 
 borough—seat, Bray, Co. Wicklow; 
 Crosbie of Ballyheige Castle ; and 
 (maternally) TalbotCrosbieof Ardfert. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 283 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Sir E. Denny, undertaker, of Tralee. 
 Colonel Gun settled early in Elizabeth's 
 
 reign. 
 Hickson, Rector of Killiney. 
 Orpen, whose sisters mar. O'Donoghue 
 
 of Ross and McCarthy Mdr. 
 Raymond. 
 
 Representatives in the 1 gt/i century. 
 Sir E. Denny, Bart., of Tralee Castle. 
 Gun of Rattoo ; Gun of Ballybunnion. 
 
 Hickson of Fermoyle House. 
 Orpen of Killowen. — Vide Miss Hick- 
 son's Kerry Records. 
 Raymond of Killmurry. 
 
 Limerick. 
 
 Arthur of Limerick. 
 
 Edmond Bagot of Bagotstown Castle, 
 
 m. a dau. of Burke of Brittas in 1545; 
 
 he d. in 1630. 
 Burke of Ballinagard, near Limerick. 
 Burke of Ballyvomeen or Ballynaguard. 
 
 Burke of Castle Connell and Drum- 
 
 sallagh. 
 Burke of Drumkeen. 
 
 Piers Creagh of Adare, M.P. for the 
 
 city of Limerick in 1639. 
 Edmund Fitzgerald, 'The Knight of 
 
 Glin,' m. a dau. of McCarthy Reagh. 
 Thomas Fitzgerald, Lord of Clenglish, 
 
 m. a dau. of Cormac M'Dermot 
 
 M c Carthy of Muskerry ; he d. in 
 
 i635- 
 Maurice Hurley of Knocklong Castle 
 
 m. Gursell Hogan, and was father of 
 
 Sir Thomas Hurley. 
 J. Kearney of the Co. of Limerick 
 
 settled at Garretstown, Cork, early 
 
 in the 17th century. 
 Mahony Mac Keogh of Cloonclieve had 
 
 a son John of Castle Troy. 
 Naish of Ballycullen. 
 Donogh O'Grady of Kilballyowen, m. 
 
 a dau. of Browne of Camas ; in 1 6 1 2 
 
 he settled his estates on his sons, 
 
 Darby, Morogh, and Brien. 
 Donogh O'Quin of Kilmallock, whose 
 
 son mar. the heiress of O'Riordan. 
 
 Arthur of Glanomera, Co. Clare. 
 Bagot of Ballymoe, Galway ; Bagot of 
 Kilcoursey, King's County. 
 
 Burke of Prospect Villa, Cork. 
 Haviland Burke (maternally). 
 
 Sir R. De Burgo, Bart. ; and Burke of 
 
 Thornfield. 
 Hussey de Burg of Dromkeen and 
 
 Donore; Lady Clonmel, and Lady 
 
 Seaton. 
 Creagh of Dangan, Co. Clare. 
 
 FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, Glin Castle, 
 
 Co. Limerick. 
 Sir G. FitzGerald, Bart., of Castle 
 
 Ishen, Cork. 
 
 Conway Hurly of Tralee, Kerry. 
 
 Cuthbert-Kearney of Garretstown, Cork 
 (maternally). 
 
 Keogh of Kilbride, Carlow. 
 
 Naish of Ballycullen. 
 
 The O'Grady of Kilballyowen ; Vis- 
 count Guillamore ; O'Grady of the 
 Grange. 
 
 The Earl of Dunraven. 
 
284 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Families of 1 6th century. 
 Stephen Sexten of Limerick. 
 J. Evans, a settler in Limerick. 
 E. Seymour, whose son was Mayor of 
 
 Limerick in 1659. 
 Stokes, an officer, whose son John of 
 
 Dummoylan was living in 1622. 
 
 Representatives in the \t)th century. 
 The Earl of Limerick (maternally). 
 Baron Carbery of Cork. 
 Seymour of Castletown, Queen's Co. 
 
 Stokes of Mount Hawk, Kerry. 
 
 Tipperary. 
 
 The 2 d Lord Dunboyne m. a dau. of 
 the Earl of Thomond, and had a son, 
 Edward of Clare, Co. Tipperary. 
 
 Piers Putler, 3 rd son of the 3 rd Baron 
 of Cahir. 
 
 Sir W. Butler of Kilcashe, who became 
 11 th Earl of Ormond. 
 
 Sir James Butler of Lismallon, whose son 
 was made Viscount Ikerrin in 1629. 
 
 D'Alton of Grenanstown. 
 
 Hely of Gertrough ? 
 
 Morres of Knockagh, whose son John 
 was made a Baronet in 1632. 
 
 Donal Connachtach Mac-I-Brien-Arra. 
 
 Donogh O'Carroll of Buolebrack, m. a 
 dau. of O'Kennedy of Ormond. 
 
 Donogh O'Fogarty of Inchy O'Fogarty, 
 Fishmoyne and Ballyfogarty. 
 
 Bryan O'Kearney of Knockanglass, b. 
 1534, d. 1623 ; his wife was a dau. 
 of Win. Butler of Ballynadlea; his 
 son Patrick, b. 1561, m. a dau. of 
 Teig Currane of Mohearnain. 
 
 O'Mulrian, Chief of Owney. 
 
 Ryan of Ballymackeogh. 
 
 Power of Barrelstown. 
 
 Prendergast of Newcastle-Prendergast. 
 
 John Stapleton of Thurlesbeg, m. Sarah 
 
 M c Egan. 
 Cromwell Lee d. in Ireland in 1601. 
 Osborne settled in 1558. 
 
 The 15 th Baron of Dunboyne, Bally- 
 vannon, Co. Clare. 
 
 Family of the late Earl of Glengall. 
 
 Marquess of Ormonde, who is 21 st Earl 
 of Ormonde. 
 
 Earl of Carrick, Mount Juliet, Kil- 
 kenny. 
 
 Count D'Alton of Grenanstown. 
 
 Earl of Donoughmore. 
 
 Viscount Mountmorres of Castle 
 Morres, Kilkenny; and Viscount 
 Frankfort de Montmorency. 
 
 O'Brien of Kincora Lodge, Killaloe. — 
 C Donovan. 
 
 Father T- O'Carroll, S.J., of Clongowes 
 Wood.— MS. Pedigree of O'Carroll 
 of Ardagh. 
 
 Lenigan of Castlefogarty (maternally). 
 
 Kearney of Blanchville, Kilkenny ; 
 Kearney of Ballinvilla, Mayo. 
 
 O'Ryan of Bansha House ; and Ryan 
 of Inch are chief representatives. 
 
 Ryan of Ballymackeogh. 
 
 Sir R. Power, of Kilfane, Bart. 
 
 Viscount Gort (maternally). 
 
 Sir F. Stapleton, Bart., Grey's Court, 
 Oxfordshire. 
 
 Lee of Barna, Tipperary (?) 
 
 Osborne of Newtown-Anner. 
 
APPENDIX. 285 
 
 THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS. 
 
 See p. 233. 
 
 Armagh. — Edmund Magauran (Mag Shamhraidhiti) was Primate from 1587 
 to 1593, when he was slain by the English while hearing the confessions of 
 wounded soldiers. He was succeeded (1601 to 1625) by Dr. Peter Lombard, 
 who in 1598 was sent to Rome as the representative of the Universities of 
 Louvain and Douay. Lombard was a man of great genius and piety. — See a 
 memoir of him, and a list of his works, by Dr. Moran, Bp. of Ossory. Dr. 
 Lombard was succeeded by the celebrated Franciscan, Dr. M'Cawel. 
 
 Clogher. — Dr. M c Bardill was Bp. in 1592, and Dr. Mathews or M c Mahon 
 in 1509. 
 
 Down and Connor. — Connor O'Devany (O'Duiblieanaigk) Bp. from 1582 
 to 161 2, when he and his chaplain, Fr. O'Lughairen, were hanged, drawn, and 
 quartered in Dublin. O'Sullevan says he was ' omnium virtutum ornamento 
 fulgens doctrinam eruditus, ingenio comis . . .' The Four Masters call him a 
 'chaste, wise divine, a perfect and truly meek man;' and they add that no 
 prisoner of Irish blood could be got by the promise of his life to act as execu- 
 tioner. The Bishop's friend, Fr. Hollywood, S.J., says that this ' sanctus 
 Antistes, non multo ante caperetur, nomina ad nos, diemque obitus transmisit 
 eorum Episcoporum, et sacerdotum omnium, quos, a morte Primatis Creagh, in 
 hoc regno novit a Protestantibus peremptos, eum in finem ipsorum uti res gestas 
 investigaremus . . .' — Fr. Hollywood's Letter to Fr. Acquaviva. 
 
 Kilmore. — Richard Brady, Bp. from T580 to 1607, 'vir sanctus,' arrested 
 thrice, once cruelly beaten and flung as dead into a brake of briars. 
 
 Dromore. — Patrick Maccual, Bp. from 1576 to — 
 
 Raphoe.— Nial O'Boyle (CrBuitlhil) Bp. in 1591 ; imprisoned in 1598, d. in 
 1611, says Dr. Brady; but the Annals give the 6th Feb. 1612. 
 
 Derry. — Redmund O'Gallagher (O ' Galc/wbliair) Bp. from 1569 to 1601, 
 when he was slain by the English in O'Kane's country. 
 
 Ardagh. — Rev. J. Gafney was V.G. in 1597. 
 
 Dublin. — In 1587 there was an Archbishop, name unknown; in 1600 Dr. 
 de Oviedo was Archbp., succeeding 'Donald of happy memory.' Dr. Mathews 
 
2 86 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 or M c Mahon, 'vir virtute et religione insignis,' was Abp. from 161 1 to 1623. 
 R. Lalor was Vic. Gen. of Dublin, Kildare, and Ferns from 1594 to 1606. 
 
 Ossory. — Dr. Strong Bp. from 1582 to 1602. He remained in disguise in 
 Ireland ; but at length had to retire, and he d. at Compostella. His successor 
 was the celebrated David Rothe (1618-1650.) 
 
 Kildare. — Dr. Ribera of Toledo, Bp. from 1587 to 1605 ; but, it seems, he 
 never came to Ireland. The Rev. J. Latin had extraordinary powers from 
 Dr. Lombard in 161 1. 
 
 Cashel. — Vacant in 1598; Dr. O'Kearney was Abp. from circ. 1604 to 1624. 
 He was a man of great zeal, and he lived for years in disguise, and often had to 
 hide in the woods, as appears from his letters and those of his brother, Bryan 
 O'Kearney, S.J. He d. Aug. 14th, 1624, in an Irish Monastery near Bordeaux. — 
 Letter of his nephew, IF. Wale, S.J. 
 
 Cork and Clovne. — Dermod Mac Craghe, Bp. from 15 So to circ. 1602. 
 O'Sullevan calls him ' Mac Carrhus, vir integerrimus et clarissimus ; . . . disertus 
 atque sapiens.' He professed Theology some years at Louvain, and was 
 remarkable for a prodigious memory. He wrote an Irish catechism. Fr. 
 Purcel, O.S.F., calls him, 'Graius vir valde prudens et in rebus agendis versatus.' 
 The Pacata Hibcrnia tells us that in Nov. 1600 'the Earle of Desmond and 
 Dermond Mac Craghe were surprised in a poor ragged cabbin in Drumfinmm 
 woods;' but escaped. Carew wrote to Cecil on the 18th of June 1601 — 'I 
 am promised for jQioo to gett Bishoppe Craghe.' On the 24th April 1604 
 Fr. Holywood, S.J., writes to Fr. Gen. Acquaviva — 'Hactenus visum fait nostris 
 cum cousilio Episcopi Corcagicnsis piae fiiemoriee . . .' This shows that Dr. Mac 
 Craghe was dead before this date. 
 
 Ross. — Owen Mac Egan, integerrimae et innocentissimae vitae sacerdos, 
 Doctor S 31 - Theol* -1 Bp. elect of Ross, was slain in battle in 1602. — See 
 (J Sulla'an. 
 
 Killaloe. — Conor O'Mulrian, Bp. before 1579, and after 16 15. 
 
 Limerick. — Conor O'Neill, Bp. in 1591 ; he was then in Spain. 
 
 Tuam. — Marianus O'Higgin was Abp. circ. 1597. His successor was the 
 celebrated Dr. Corny, O.S.F. (1608-1629). whose epitaph at Louvain says he 
 was ' pietate, prudentia, doctrina maximus.' He wrote some works on Theology, 
 and an Irish book called The Mirror of Christian Life. His friendship for 
 Jansenius carried him too far. 
 
 Achonry. — Owen O'Hairt, O.S.D., Bp. from 1562 to 1603, when he d. 
 aged 100 years; he had been among the Fathers of the Council of Trent in 1563. 
 
 Clonfert. — Teig Q'Ferral, O.S.D., Bp. from 1587 to 1602, when he d. of 
 
APPENDIX. 287 
 
 old age at Kinsale, after many years spent in preserving the Faith. — See Rothis 
 Processus Martyrialis. 
 
 Kilmacduagh. — Malachy O'Molony, Bp. from 1570 to 1610. I presume he 
 is the 'Bishop Muldowny' in Connaught, to whom Langton of Kilkenny went 
 in 1588 to get a dispensation to marry his cousin, Lettice Daniel. — See Langton 
 Documents in Kill;. Journal of Arch. 
 
 These details have been taken from the works of Dr. O'Renehan, Dr. Brady, 
 Dr. Moran, Dr. Kelly's ed. of (JSullcvan, De Burgo, and the Rev. J. C. Meehan 3 
 also from Calendar of S. Papers, and a few contemporary letters. 
 
 1592, 28 July. — A memorial of sundry things commanded by her Majesty to 
 be well considered by the Lord Deputy, &c. '. . . Through the whole Realm, yea 
 and in the English Pale, there are Jesuits and seminarie Priests, all labouring 
 to ... in many places openly maintained and followed, and in some places — 
 namely, the English Pale — secretly maintained in the houses of some noble 
 persons, and in many gentlemen's houses partly disguised in apparel of serving- 
 men . . .' 
 
 1 st. In Ulster is one Redmundus O'Galligher, Buisshopp of Dayrie, alias 
 Daren, legate to the Pope and Custos Armaghnensis, being one of the three 
 Irish Buishoppes that were in the Councill of Trent. This Buishopp used all 
 manner of spiritual jurisdiction throughout all Ulster, consecrating churches, 
 ordaining priests, confirming children, and geving all manner of dispensations, 
 ryding with pomp and company from place to place, as it was accustomed in 
 Queen Mary's days. And for all the rest of the clergy there, they use all manner 
 of service there now, as in that time ; and not only that, but they have changed 
 the time according to the Pope's new invention. 
 
 The said B. O'Galligher hath been with divers Governors of that land upon 
 protection, and yet he is suffered to enjoy the Buishoprick and all the aforesaid 
 aucthorities these 26 years past and more. 
 
 Likewise one Cornelius M c Bardill, Buishop of Clogher these 22 years past, 
 ys not yet reformed, nor compelled to yield any obedience to her Ma ,ys lawes, 
 though he hath been divers times before diverse governors. 
 
 There was one Rapotensis Bishop who died three years since, used the like 
 authority there sithens he came from the Councill of Trent, being with divers 
 Governors, and never brought to acknowledge his duty to her Ma ,y - 
 
 In O'Reilly his country, being thirty miles or thereabout from Dublin, is 
 Richard Braday, Buishopp of Kilmore, and although there is a kind of custodium 
 granted to a priest there in her Majesty's name, yet he is in the possession, using 
 
288 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 all manner of jurisdiction therein, although the country is governed by English 
 laws and officers. 
 
 In the same Ulster ar at the least at this day, more than 16 monasteries 
 wherein are divers sorts of fryers and munks . . : using their habit and service 
 as in Rome itself is used. 
 
 In Munster are — 1° Doctor Creagh, B. of Cloyne and Cork, who came into 
 Ireland in the time of the late Rebellion of the E. of Desmond, being in action 
 of rebellion with him. He is kept in the country these n or 12 years past 
 without pardon or protection, and altho he appeare not in any publicque 
 assembly where Englishmen be present, yet he useth all manner of spiritual juris- 
 diccions within the whole province, being the Pope's Legate, consecrating 
 churches, making priests, confirming children. ... It is well known that this 
 Creagh is one of the most dangerous fellowes that ever came to this land, con- 
 tinued there longest of any of his sort, and hath done more harm already there 
 within these two years than Dr. Saunders did in his time ... he draweth the 
 whole country to disloyalty, his credit is such. 
 
 There is one James Karney, supposed Bp. of Imley, that came over from 
 Rome last year. 
 
 There is one Sir Teig O'Swyllivan, an ernest Precher of Popery, still preaching 
 from house to house in Waterford, Clonmel, and Fethard, and in the country 
 about these townes. 
 
 There is one Dr. Thomas Rachtor, born in Fethard, and lately come from Roome. 
 
 There is a seminary born at Cashel, named W m - O'Gorhye, who came with the 
 said Buishop and Doctor the last yere. 
 
 There is one J. O'Clearie, a seminarie, who came with the foresaid company 
 the last yeare, and brought a dispensation for the town of Galway for the killing 
 of the holy Spaniarde. 
 
 J. Buenagh of Fethard, lately come from Rome, a seminarie, dwelling at 
 Fethard and thereabouts. 
 
 Sir W m - O'Cherohy, a seminarie, lately come from Rome, and now dwelling 
 at Clonmel, Cashel, and Fithard. 
 
 Sir Conly M c Ni Marie an ernest precher, semynarie. 
 
 Morice Keating, seminarie, chapleyn to the said Dr. Creagh, one of his 
 ordinarie messengers to great men when occasion requireth. 
 
 Sir Donogh Oge O'Nahane, one of said Dr. Creagh's chapleins. 
 
 Piers Kelly, ordained by Dr. Creagh. 
 
 Rory M f Cragh, very familiar with Dr. Creagh. 
 
 J. Morrice, priest reconciled to Papystry. 
 
APPENDIX. 289 
 
 R. Gyanan, priest, took upon him the ministry once, now reconciled to 
 papistry by Dr. Creagh. 
 
 Morice Ohillane, priest, one of the chieftest mayntainers Dr. C. hath in the 
 whole Knight's country. 
 
 At Clonmel, Garret Reken and Sir Walter. At Cahir, Darby Calavan. 
 
 At Cashel, Patrick Yonge, dwelling always with Nicholas Haly. 
 
 At Boyton Rath, Sir Dyonis, priest. At Kilternan, Philip Stackbolde. 
 
 In Waterford, Rich. Eneas. At Loghonoy, Mat. O'Dellany. 
 
 At Kilkenny, G. Power, also Patrick Oholen, dwelling with R. Rothe. 
 
 Sir Donogh O'Casshey, Chancellor of Limerick, according to Romish 
 institucions. 
 
 Other priests are— Rory O'Fahy, Thomas Coherey, Morice O'Hownim, 
 Richard Bowdrave. 
 
 Certein rich merchaunts and good gent, within the citye of Waterford do 
 specially relieve and mainteyne seminaries and massing priests :— 
 
 i° J. Sherlock, who hath been Mayor the last yere, doth retain in his howse 
 one Dr. Teig O'Swillivan, a Jesuyt seminary, which priest hath divers times 
 preached publicly in the house of one W™- Lyncolle and other places in the citye 
 and country, and also in Clonmell. 
 
 P. Graunt Fitzjames of Waterford, merchaunt, and Rich. FitzNicholas of 
 the same, merchaunt, do retain by them both one Sir David, priest of Kilmallock. 
 
 J. Leay FitzNicholas, P. White, R. Comerford, and J. Browne fitzHenry of 
 Waterford, merchaunts, do by them retain one Sir Morren, priest. 
 
 Belle Butler, wife unto T. Comerford of Waterford, merchaunt, who is 
 himself in Spain these 12 months, and one J. Myller, and J. Whyte FitzWilliam, 
 merchaunts, do retain one Sir John White, priest. 
 
 T. Porter and J. Miller of Waterford, merchants, do retain in their house 
 Teig O'Cane, priest. 
 
 Richard Agnes, priest, reteyned by the whole city in general, who doth dwell 
 in the new building of Alexander Brewers of Waterford, merchaunt, who some- 
 times professed religion, and now revolted. 
 
 Thomas Wadding, counsellor att lawe, doth reteine in his howse one Kealinge, 
 a priest. 
 
 Richard Power, gent., is very willing and able to inform on such matters. 
 
 Abridged from State Paper in Kilk. Jour, of Arch, year 1856, p. 81 ; see 
 
 other Lists of Catholic Clergymen in Cat. of S. Papers, Ireland (1606-1608); and 
 
 in the Kilkenny Journal, Aug. 22, 1874. 
 
 2 o 
 
CATALOGUS IBERNORUM IN SOCIETATE, 1609. 
 
 {Ex Archiv. Soc. Jesu, Romae!) 
 
 
 Provincia. 
 
 Aetas. 
 
 In Socto- 
 
 Gradu9. 
 
 In Ibernia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Christophorus Holivodius 
 
 Dublinen. 
 
 5° 
 
 25 
 
 4 vot. 
 
 P. Thomas Sheyn 
 
 Clonmell. 
 
 46 
 
 25 
 
 3 » 
 
 P. Barnabas Carnaeus 
 
 Cassilien. 
 
 42 
 
 20 
 
 4 » 
 
 P. Nicolaus Leynich 
 
 Clonmell. 
 
 4 3 
 
 23 
 
 3 „ 
 
 P. Andreas Mulron 
 
 Clonmell. 
 
 46 
 
 29 
 
 4 ,, 
 
 P. Patricius Lenanus 
 
 Medensis 
 
 48 
 
 13 
 
 
 P. Walterus Waleus 
 
 Cassilien. 
 
 35 
 
 13 
 
 
 P. Mauritius Wisaeus 
 
 VVaterforden. 
 
 44 
 
 15 
 
 
 P. Jacobus Everardus 
 
 Fetharden. 
 
 34 
 
 12 
 
 
 P. Robertus Nugentius 
 
 Meden. 
 
 28 
 
 8 
 
 
 P. David Galvaeus 
 
 Corcagen. 
 
 3° 
 
 5 
 
 
 P. Joannes Gerottus 
 
 Dublinen. 
 
 56 
 
 30 
 
 4 „ 
 
 P. Jacobus Saulus 
 
 Cassil. 
 
 3° 
 
 2 
 
 
 P. Thomas Kiranus 
 
 Conacen. 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 • 
 
 P. Thomas Briones 
 
 Kilken. 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 
 P. Joannes Barnevallus 
 
 Meden. 
 
 33 
 
 10 
 
 
 P. Henricus Cusacus 
 
 Dublinen. 
 
 26 
 
 4 
 
 
 P. Robertus Bathaeus 
 
 Meden. 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 
 In Lusitania. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Cornelius Rocha 
 
 Toumen. 
 
 40 
 
 10 
 
 
 P. Petrus Nash 
 
 Fetherden. 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 Andreas Nolanus 
 
 Galven. 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 
 Joannes Morus 
 
 Meden. 
 
 27 
 
 9 
 
 
 Robertus Queitrotus . ) 
 
 Robertus Coutinus 
 
 Robertus Birnus . J 
 
 
 20 
 
 4 
 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 23 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 Gulielmus Crevaeus 
 
 Cassilien. 
 
 
 4 
 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 2gi 
 
 
 Provincia. 
 
 Aetas. 
 
 In Soctc 
 
 Gradus. 
 
 Lusitania — Continued. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joan. Bap u Dugin 
 
 Ostrien. 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 
 Michael Barick 
 
 Rossen. 
 
 24 
 
 3. 
 
 
 Michael Cantuel 
 
 Tipperar. 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 Gualterus Lincaeus 
 
 Galven. 
 
 
 
 
 Edoardus Clams 
 
 Waterforden. 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 
 In Belgio. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Thomas Halaeus 
 
 Kilmaloc. 
 
 30 
 
 4 
 
 
 P. Joannes Birmingamus . 
 
 Galven. 
 
 36 
 
 2 
 
 
 P. Isacus Briverus 
 
 Waterforden. 
 
 34 
 
 1 
 
 
 P. Petrus Wadingus 
 
 Waterforden. 
 
 26 
 
 8 
 
 
 P. Henricus de Simone . 
 
 Dublinen. 
 
 42 
 
 18 
 
 4 vot. 
 
 Michael Geraldinus 
 
 Dublinen. 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 
 In Italia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joannes Lombardus . ) 
 Thomas Comefortius . J 
 
 Waterfor. 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 
 Odoardus Barnewallus . 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 2 3 
 
 5 
 
 
 Georgius Geraldinus 
 
 Meden. 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 
 Robertus Netervillus . 
 
 Meden. 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 
 Joannes Shaeus 
 
 Kilken. 
 
 28 
 
 5 
 
 
 Gulielmus Malonus 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 23 
 
 3 
 
 
 Jacobus Morganus . ) 
 Nicolaus Nugentius . j 
 
 Meden 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 Bartholomeus Hamlinus 
 
 Meden. 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 Georgius Galtromus 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 Stephanus Gouldaeus . 
 
 Corcagien. 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 In Hispania. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Jacobus Archerus 
 
 Kilken. 
 
 64 
 
 36 
 
 4 vot. 
 
 P. Richardus Conuaeus . 
 
 Rossen. 
 
 37 
 
 17 
 
 
 P. Thomas Vitus 
 
 Clonmell. 
 
 52 
 
 15 
 
 Coad. 
 
 Spirit* 
 
 P. Stephanus Vitus 
 
 Clonmell. 
 
 34 
 
 13 
 
 
 P. Richardus Valesius 
 
 Waterfor. 
 
 27 
 
 11 
 
 
 P. Gulielmus Bathaeus 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 44 
 
 12 
 
 
 P. Stephanus Mortyns (qu. Mortius?) 
 
 Waterfor. 
 
 25 
 
 8 
 
 
292 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 
 Provincia. 
 
 Ac l. is 
 
 In Socte. 
 
 Gradus. 
 
 Hispania — Continued. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Gulielmus Morganus . 
 
 
 26 
 
 8 
 
 
 P. Jacobus Valaeus 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 9 
 
 
 P. Jacobus Comefortius 
 
 ► 
 
 Waterfor. 
 
 26 
 
 9 
 
 
 Patricius Sherlocus 
 
 
 2 5 
 
 
 
 Gulielmus Vitus 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 8 
 
 
 Michael Wadingus 
 
 > 
 
 
 22 
 
 5 
 
 
 Joannes Laeus 
 
 
 Killcen. 
 
 26 
 
 11 
 
 
 Jacobus Butlerus 
 
 
 Rossen. 
 
 3° 
 
 10 
 
 
 Richardus Carricus 
 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 28 
 
 5 
 
 
 Jacobus Gripeus, or Griphus 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 24 
 
 5 
 
 Coadiutor 
 
 In Superiore Germania. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ambrosius Wadingus . 1 
 Laurentius Laeus . / 
 
 Waterf. 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 
 In Austria. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Florentius Morus 
 
 Ultanus 
 
 57 
 
 
 Coad. 
 Spirit" 
 
 In Gallia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Richardus Datonus 
 
 Kilken. 
 
 3 C 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 P. Richardus Comefortius 
 
 Waterf. 
 
 3° 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 In Paraguaria. 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. Thomas Fildeus 
 
 • 
 
 Limbricenjis 
 
 62 
 
 38 
 
 
 'Ego, Talbotus Gualterus n. Dublinii 1562, patre Gulielmo Talboto viro 
 nobili (adhuc superstite) ? matre Maria Bermingham (in D" 0, defuncta).' — 10 
 Maii 1595. 
 
 ' Batheus Gul. Dublinii n. 1564 a Joanne, Judice, et Eleonora Preston.' 
 'Barnwall Joan. n. 1576 in Comitatu Medensi, a Roberto nobili Domino de 
 Stacallan et ab Alsona Brendon.' 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 29; 
 
 "VVadingus" Petrus, Waterfordiensis .n. 1581 a Thoma, et Maria Valesia, 
 nobilibus. 
 
 ' De Burgo Thomas, Limericensis n. 1588 a Thoma, et Joanna Arthur. 
 
 'FitzSimon b Henricus, Dublinen. n. 1566 a Nicolao, Armigero seu primo- 
 genito Equitis Aurati, et senatore Dublinensi, et Anna Edgrave ' (qu. Segrave ?). 
 — Extracts from the Album of the Novitiate S.J. of Toumay, by Father 
 Morris, S.J. 
 
 'Carolus Leae n. 1545 in oppido Cluenensi Dioecesis Corcag. ; pater erat 
 Mauricius Leae Doctor Medicinae, mater Maria Chihi. 
 
 ' Nicholaus Sedgrave n. 1538, Dublinii a Jacobo Sedgrave qui exercebat 
 mercaturam, et Margarita Bath. 
 
 'Thomas Phildius c n. 1549 Limerici, Pater ejus Gulielmus Medicinae callebat, 
 Mater Geneth Creah, ambo nunc (1574) mortui. 
 
 a A Jesuit, author of several literary and 
 theological works ; called in SotwelVs Biblio- 
 theca, and in Smidl's Historia Provincue Bo- 
 hemia:, 'Vir in omni scientiarum genere 
 praestans ; ' professor of poetry, rhetoric, and 
 metaphysics at Louvain ; professor of theology 
 at Louvain, Antwerp, Prague, and Gratz ; and 
 for thirteen years Chancellor of two universities 
 at Prague. His brother, Michael Wading, S.J., 
 wrote, besides other works, a little book, on 
 which a distinguished professor of the Roman 
 College published a commentary in two large 
 folio volumes. M. Wading was professor of 
 belles-lettres and divinity, and also Rector in 
 four colleges of Mexico. Sketches of his 
 career are given by De la Reguera, and by the 
 Mexican Diceionario Universal, under the name 
 of 'Godines oWadingo.' A third brother, Luke 
 Wading, S.J., filled the first chairs of divinity 
 in Salamanca, Valladolid, and Madrid ; he is 
 called in the Literal Annua: of Toledo, 'Vir 
 ingenio Uteris eximie culto, . . . quemque 
 summis acquiparare possis ; quicquid doceret 
 scientia et auctoritate implebat, multifarie 
 eruditus.' He edited a posthumous work of 
 his cousin, Paul Sherlock, S.J. , and had some 
 works ready for the press when he died. Their 
 
 first cousin, Ambrose Wading, S.J., was elder 
 brother of the famous Franciscan ; he was pro- 
 fessor of theology at Dilingen University, and 
 superior of a seminary attached to it, where he 
 governed 150 chosen young religious sent from 
 40 monasteries of various orders in Germany. 
 Of him the Historia Provincice Germanitz 
 Sitperioris says, ' Cum juxta divinis humanisque 
 scientiis omnibus excelleret, longe tamen vir- 
 tutibus magis enituit.' 
 
 b Fr. FitzSimon is called in Wood's Athena, 
 ' A pillar of the Catholic Church, being es- 
 teemed a great ornament among them, and the 
 greatest defender of their religion of his time.' 
 See Quiver's Collectanea, and a memoir of Fr. 
 FitzSimon by E. Hogan, S.J., in the Irish 
 Ecclesiastical Record. 
 
 c Fr. Field spent fourteen years on the 
 Brazillian Mission, and about forty on the 
 Paraguay Mission, of which he may be con- 
 sidered the father and founder. — See Cordara's 
 Historia S.y., an. 1626; and Del Techo's 
 Historia Paraquaria. 
 
 Of the other Jesuits named in the catalogue, 
 Holiwood, Carney, Roche, Malone, N. Nugent, 
 R. Conway, Stephen White, and W. Bathe 
 wrote some works ; the life of Stephen White 
 
294 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 'Jacobus Barry n. 1552 in Civitate (Comitatu ?) Corcagiensi, Pater, Joannes 
 Barry, et mater Joanna Sanaghan vivebant de suis redditibus . . . propria 
 manu.' — Extracted from the Album of the Novitiate of St Andrea, Rome, by the 
 Editor of this Book. 
 
 WRITERS WHO LIVED IN THE YEAR 1598. 
 
 Laymen. — Walter Stanihurst, Michael FitzSimon, W. Quin, J. Talbot, R. 
 Stafford, H. Burnel, and Sir J. Ware, all of Dublin. R. Barnwall of Meath ; 
 Connel M c Geoghegan of Westmeath ; R. Rothe of Kilkenny ; Ludowick Barry, 
 Captaine Garret Barry, Philip O'Sullevan Beare, and Fineen M'Carthy M or of 
 Cork (see supra, p. 176). Dermot O'Meara of Tipperary, and T. Russel of 
 Munster (?) R. Bellew of Louth ; Dr. Neil O'Glacan and Cucogry O'Clerigh 
 of Donegal ; O'Mulconry of Roscommon ; O'Duigenan of Leitrim ; Darcy of 
 Galway, and Thadeus Dun. 
 
 Protestant Clergymen. — Drs. Donelan and Daniel, Archbishops of Tuam ; J. 
 Usher, Abp. of Armagh, and his brother, Ambrose, of Trinity College; J. Kerney, 
 Treasurer of St. Patrick's, and Thady Dowling of Kildare (was he a Protestant?). 
 
 Catholic Clergymen. — Dr. Lombard, Abp. of Armagh (see p. 285) ; Dr. 
 O'Devany, Bp. of Down ; Dr. Rothe of Ossory, and Dr. Tyrry of Cork ; J. Cop- 
 pinger of Cork ; Dr. Keating and T. Carve of Tipperary; J. Wadding of Wexford; 
 Dr. Piers of Westmeath; T. Messingham of Leinster; R. Stanihurst of Dublin, 
 who after his wife's death became a priest, and whose son was author of many 
 works. 
 
 Religious of various Orders. — H. Ryan and Daniel O'Daly (of Kerry), 
 
 called ' Polyhister ' on account of his great a great mathematician, made some improve- 
 
 leaming, has been sketched by Dr. Reeves ment in the Irish harp. Thomas White 
 
 and the Bollandist, V. de Buck. Hollywood founded the Irish college of Salamanca, 
 
 is mentioned with honour in the history of the James Archer was a very remarkable man. 
 
 University of Padua ; he was professor of the- R. Netterville was beaten to death by Crom- 
 
 ology in some Continental colleges, and after well's soldiers in 1649; and Dominick O'Collin, 
 
 four years in the Tower of London he became ex-colonel of heavy cavalry in the Wars of the 
 
 superior of his brethren in Ireland for twenty- League, ex-captain of the Port of Corunna, 
 
 three years. W. Bathe wrote a book on 'The who became a Jesuit lay brother in 1598; was 
 
 Arte of Music,' and other works. R. Nugent, hanged in Cork in the year 1602. 
 
APPENDIX. 295 
 
 Dominicans. O'Daly, says Baronius, became the admiration of Louvain, Madrid, 
 France, and almost all Europe. Wm. Furlong of Wexford, and Sebastian 
 Shortal of Kilkenny, Cistercians ; D. Malone of the order of St. Jerome, and 
 Pursell, a monk. 
 
 Order of St. Francis. — Dr. M c Caghwell of Down, Abp. of Armagh ; B. 
 O'Hosey, H. Chamberlain, H. Ward, and Michael O'Clery (the chief of the 
 Four Masters), all of Ulster; D. Mooney of Meath ; Miles of Drogheda ; R. 
 Rochford of Leinster ; Dr. Conry, Archbp. of Tuam ; F. Mathews of Cork ; T. 
 Strange and the famous Luke Wading of Waterford ; J. Ferral of Munster ; T. 
 Geraldine, F. Gray, M. Walsh, A. Hickey, and P. O'Connor. 
 
 Society of Jesus. — Wm. Bathe, Christopher Holywood, H. FitzSinipn, and 
 Wm. Malone of Dublin; R. Conway of New Ross; Wm. St. Leger of Kilkenny; 
 N. Nugent of Meath ; N. Comerford, P. Sherlock, Peter Wading, M. Wading, 
 and Luke Wading, all of Waterford; S. White of Clonmel; B. O'Kearney of 
 Cashel; J. Young of Cashel; M. Cantwell (?) of Tipperary; and Conor O'Mahony 
 of Co. of Cork; R. Fleming, R. Rochford, J. Houling, J. Clare. — See Ware's 
 Writers, Hibcrnia Dominicana, and Bibliotheque des Ecrivains de la Comfagnie 
 de Jesus. 
 
 IRISH COLLEGES ANNO 1598. 
 
 1. The College of Salamanca, founded by Father Thomas White, S.J., in 1582; 
 opened in 1592 by Fathers White, Archer, and Conway, S.J. 
 
 2. Trinity College, Dublin, opened in 1593. 
 
 3. Lisbon, founded by Fr. Houling, S.J., an. 1593. — Historia Soc. Jesu. 
 
 4. Douai, founded in 1594 by Dr. Cusack, a Meath clergyman. — See Ware's 
 Antiquities, ed. by Dr. Harris; Anderson's Native Irish, p. 79; and History of the 
 Irish Colleges on the Continent, published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record. 
 
 'From about the yeare 1555, as is well known, these late heresies oppressed 
 religion in our countrie, banished teachers, extinguished learning, exiled to 
 foreign countries all instruction, and enforced our youth either at home to be 
 ignorant, or abroad in povertie rather to glean eares of learning, than with leisure 
 to reap any great abundance thereof. Yet such as travelled to foreign countries, 
 notwithstanding all difficulties, often attained to singular perfection and repu- 
 tation of learning in sundrie sciences, to principal titles of universities, to high 
 prelacies, of whom some are yet living, some departed in peace.' — H. FitzSimon, 
 S.J., preface to his work, On the Masse. 
 
296 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON ULSTER. 
 
 Louth (see p. 3) stretches beyond Meath and the mouth of the Boyne, with 
 a very winding shore to the north ; has a soil fit for pasture, and so rich as 
 readily to answer the expense of cultivation. Drogheda, called by the English 
 Tredagh, a handsome populous town. — Camden. Killingcoole Castle (seep. 4) 
 has had many outworks and vaults running into one another, and is said to 
 communicate with Castle Derner, six furlongs off; Glass Pistol Castle remains 
 still. Castle Roche (see p. 5) is a noble ruin. — Gough. 
 
 Down (see p. 7) is an extensive and fertile country. Lecale, a rich country, 
 and its extreme point is called by sailors at present St. John's Foreland. Ardes 
 (p. n) is a peninsula, resembling a bended arm, being joined to the rest of the 
 island by a very narrow isthmus, as the arm to the shoulder. The soil is every- 
 where very kindly, except where in the middle, for near twelve miles in length, 
 extends a wet and morassy level. The shore is thick set with small villages. 
 Strangford (p. 12) is a safe harbour, where the river Coyn rushes with a great 
 fall of water into the sea. — Camden. Dundrum Castle (p. 12) is strong and 
 boldly seated on a rock, its ruins are of an irregular multangular figure, with a 
 fine round tower about 35 feet diameter within. Ardglass (p. 12) exhibits at 
 present a striking spectacle of its ancient strength and importance, being com- 
 posed of a number of castles and a ruined church. But what is most worthy of 
 attention is a long range of building in the castle style, 250 feet in length, in 
 breadth only 24 feet ; the thickness of the walls 3 feet. It was probably built 
 before 1381, if it be not more ancient. — Gough. 
 
 Antrim (p. 17), within two miles of Ballycastle, is a castle, and next it an 
 ancient building, called the Abbey, in which is the inscription — ' In Dei dei- 
 paraeque Virginis honorem illustrissimus ac noblissimus dominus Randolphus 
 McDonnell (p. 17), comes de Antrim hoc sacellum fieri curavit An. Dom. 1612.' 
 Dunluce castle belonged to the M c Guillans, who were dispossessed of it by the 
 M c Donnells in 1580. — Gough. 
 
 Armagh (p. 19) is, as I have been told by the Earl of Devonshire, Lord 
 Deputy, the most fruitful and luxuriant soil of all Ireland ; so that if any 
 manure be laid on it to improve it, it becomes barren as it were in resentment. 
 
 Monaghan (p. 23) is very mountainous and covered with woods. — Camden. 
 
APPENDIX. 297 
 
 Fermanagh (p. 25). — In its centre is the largest and most famous lake in 
 Ireland, Lough Erne, 40 miles in extent, covered with thick woods, and full of 
 inhabited islands, some of them containing 100, 200, and 300 acres. This lake 
 stretches not east and west, as described in the maps, but from south to north, 
 14 miles in length, and 4 miles in breadth ; it afterwards contracts itself like a 
 regular river for 6 miles ; on this part of it is Lnis-Killin, the principal fortress in 
 these parts. Thence it turns and spreads itself to the west, 20 miles in length, and 
 10 miles in breadth, as far as Belek, near which is a cataract and a most noble 
 salmon-leap. 
 
 Tir-Oen (p. 25) is rough, fruitful, and 60 miles long and 30 broad, divided 
 by the mountains called Slieve-Gallen into Upper and Lower. In it are 
 Dunganmn, the principal residence of the Earls, a handsomer house than is 
 common in this country, but has often been fired by its owners to prevent its 
 being burned by the enemy; also Ublogahell, where O'Neil, the haughty tyrant 
 of Ulster, used to be crowned in the manner of his country. Logh Eaugh 
 (p. 25) is a fine lake, well stocked with fish; the varied aspect of its banks, 
 shady woods, meadows covered with perpetual verdure, fields if well cultivated 
 extremely fertile, sloping hills, and the many brooks that run into it — all con- 
 spire to render it most pleasant and profitable. In Upper Tir-Oen is the castle 
 of Sfraban, a famous castle, inhabited in our time by Tirlogh Leinich O'Neil, 
 and some other castles of minor importance — which, as in other parts of this 
 Kingdom, are only high towers with narrow loopholes rather than windows, to 
 which adjoin apartments of turf covered with straw, having large courts sur- 
 rounded with ditches and bushes to defend their cattle from robbers. All the 
 glory or reputation of this county is derived from its lords, who exercise a kind 
 of tyrannical sovereignty, of whom two were Earls of Tir-Oen, viz., Con O'Neale 
 and Hugh, his son's son. — Camden. 
 
 Colrane (p. 28). — 'O'Cahan had in early life protected the troops of Elizabeth 
 against O'Donnell, had revolted from O'Neill in the height of his rebellion, and 
 made peace with the English, had appeared against Tyrone in a suit of law ; 
 and by the grossest injustice he and all dependent on him were deprived of every 
 inch of land they held.' ' The County of Colrane is O'Cahan's fruitful country. 
 We had a jury of Clerke or scholars for the jurors, 15 in number, of whom 13 
 spake good Latin, and, that very readily.' They were — 2 O'Cahans, 3 O'Mullens, 
 2 M'Atagarts, 2 M c Cawells, M c Evally, O'Heney, M c Redy, M c Gillegan, 
 M c Closkie, and O'Heny.— Ulster Jour, of Arch., No. 15, and Sir J. Davis' Letter, 
 in No. 16. 
 
 2 p 
 
298 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON LEINSTER, &c. 
 
 Dublin (p. 35) is a good corn country, abounding in all sorts of game, but so 
 bare of wood in many parts that they are forced to burn turf or English pit-coal ; 
 it is well stocked with towns and inhabitants, surpassing the rest of Ireland in 
 improvements, and in a peculiar neatness. Where the little river Bray falls into 
 the sea, a little higher up one sees Ould Court, an estate of the Walshes of 
 Carrickmain, of ancient nobility and numerous in these parts. Dublin City is 
 defended with strong walls, adorned with beautiful buildings and well peopled 
 with inhabitants. From the quays run very strong walls of hewn stone, defended 
 also on the south with ramparts, having six gates, which open into suburbs 
 extending a great way beyond them. On the west side are two gates — Ormond 
 gate and Newgate (which last is the public prison) — leading to a very long 
 suburb called St. Thomas's. — Camden. 
 
 A True Description both of the Citty and Citizens of Dublin, by 
 Barnaby Riche, Gent., in the Year 16 10. 
 
 He that had no other knowledge of the Citty of Dublin, but as it is described 
 by M. Stanihurst, in his Chronicle of Ireland, woulde thinke it to be far exceed- 
 ing in Statelinesse of building and in many other Commodities more then it is at 
 this houre, and yet I am sure that within these forty yeares that I have knowne 
 Dublin, it hath bin replenished with a thousand chimnies, and beautified with as 
 many glasse-windowes, and yet it maketh no such sumptuous shew. But (saith 
 M. Stanihurst), It dooth exceed in gorgeous buildings, in Martial Chivalrie, in 
 obedience and loyaltie, in largenesse of hospitalitie and in manners and civility. 
 First, for the gorgeous buildings in Dublin, there be Som other Townes in Ire- 
 land that do farre exceed it. And to speake truly, the buildings of Dublin are 
 neither outwardly faire, nor inwardly handsome : a ruynous kind of building, 
 neither convenient nor well cast : neither do I thinke, that either the Masons, 
 nor yet their Carpenters, are of skill to contrive any better. 
 
 For their Martial Chivalrie, I will not disavowe them, no doubt they have 
 able men among them, both of body & mind, but I beleeve there are better 
 Souldiers in Ireland, then any be in Dublin. 
 
 To speake the truth of Dubline as it deserveth. First, for the Towne it selfe, 
 
APPENDIX. 299 
 
 it is convenient enough, pleasantly seated, as wel for the serenity of the ayre as 
 for the pleasing walks that are round about the Citty. 
 
 The Cittizens themselves are wonderfully reformed in manners, in civility, in 
 curtesy : themselves and their wives modest and decent in their apparell (I 
 speake of the better Sort), and they are tractable enough to any thing, Religion 
 only excepted. 
 
 For their largenesse of Hospitalitie, I will not deprive them of their right : 
 They are bountifull enough of their meat and drinke, according to their abilities. 
 Now lastly, for their manners and civility, I confesse, Dublin is very well reformed, 
 since M. Stanihursi writ his Chronicle. And now hee cometh againe to speake 
 of the pleasantnesse of the scituation, and by seeming, he would make it a town 
 impregnable. But I thinke M. Stanihurst had little skil in the Art of Fortifi- 
 cation. Then he describeth it with so many Churches, with so many Chapels, 
 with so many streets, with so many lanes, with so many Gates, and with so many 
 Bridges, as I protest, I having knowne Dublin these forty yeares, yet know not 
 where to finde the one halfe of them he hath named ; and a great many of those 
 that are to be seen, when they are found, make but a sory shew in respect of 
 the Commendation he hath given. 
 
 To speake the truth, there are seuerall Citizens of Dubline that are very 
 wealthy & men of good ability, that haue there shoppes well replenished with 
 all sortes of wares, as wel Mercery as Grocery, & Drapery, both linnen & 
 woollen, & their is neither silk-man nor milliner in London, that can shew better 
 wares (for the quantitie) then some of those do that bee called Merchantes of 
 Dubline. But I am now to speake of a certaine kind of commodity that out- 
 stretcheth all that I have hitherto spoken of, & that is the selling of Ale in 
 Dubline a Quotidian commodity that hath vent in euery house in the Towne 
 euery day in the weeke, at euery houre in the day, & in euery minute in the 
 houre. There is no Merchandise so vendible, it is the very marrow of the 
 common wealth in Dubline : the whole profit of the Towne stands upon Ale- 
 houses, & selling of Ale. — Barnaby Riches Description of Ireland. 
 
 Carlow (p. 51) 'is rich and tolerably wooded. In these parts live great 
 numbers of Cavanaghs, good soldiers, famous horsemen, and still breathing the 
 spirit of their ancient nobility in their abject poverty. But as they cherish the 
 utmost inveteracy against each other, for I know not what murders committed 
 on both sides many years ago, they are continually destroying one another with 
 mutual violence and assassination.' — Camden. 
 
 Wexford (p. 56) is a town of no great size ; the county abounds with English, 
 still retaining the old English dress and idiom, though with a mixture of Irish. 
 
300 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Near Ferns, on the other side of the Slaney, live the Cavenaghs, Donells, Mon- 
 taghs, O' Moors, Irish families of turbulent dispositions, and among them the 
 Sinnots, Roches and Peppards, English families. . . . On this side the Slaney 
 the bulk of the common people are of English extraction. — Camden. 
 
 Cavan (p. 117). — The O'Reillys were, not long since, particularly dis- 
 tinguished for their cavalry. — Camden. 
 
 Galway (p. 131) is at least the third city in Ireland, being handsomely built 
 of hewn stone in a form nearly circular, and beautified with towers, frequented 
 by merchants, who with great ease and advantage supply it with the various 
 riches of land and sea. — Camden. 
 
 Maio (p. 140) is a fruitful and pleasant country, rich in cattle, deer, hawks, 
 and honey. — Camden. The castles in this county are very numerous, and all 
 square, says Goug/i, who gives the names of forty-five and the dimensions of six 
 of them. 
 
 Lcitrim (p. 147) consists entirely of mountains covered with luxuriant her- 
 bage ; it feeds so many cattle that within its narrow compass it counted at one 
 time above 120,000 head. Here rises the Shannon, that prince of Irish rivers, 
 which sometimes narrow, sometimes broad, by its various windings, washes 
 many counties. The principal families are O'Rorck, O'Murrey, Mac Lochleim, 
 Mac Glanchie, and Mac Granell, all downright Irish. — Camden. 
 
 O'Rorke's castle, near Dromahare castle, from what remains, appears to have 
 been strong and spacious, the windows still in being are high, narrow and dark. 
 The castles of Longfield, Cloncorrisk, and Castlebar, all of the O'Rorkes, are 
 still to be seen. Dungarbery castle seems to have been of some extent ; it was 
 built by Lady Elizabeth Clancy in the reign of Elizabeth. — Gough. 
 
 Limerick (p. 196) consists of two parts — that called the Upper one, in which 
 are the cathedral and castle, has two gates with handsome stone bridges with 
 battlements and drawbridges, one leading westward, the other leading eastward, 
 to which last adjoins a town walled round with its castle and outworks. — Camden. 
 
APPENDIX. • 3OI 
 
 EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1598. 
 
 I. — ' The Cessation .' 
 
 On the 29th of October 1597, the Earl of Ormond, by virtue of her Majesty's 
 letters, was made Lord Lieutenant-General of the army, and represented the 
 Queen's ' own person.' a On the 22 d of December he went to Dundalk, received 
 O'Neill's conditional submission, and his 'humble' petition. The Petition 
 asks, ' That all the inhabitants of Ireland may have free liberty of conscience, 
 or, at leastways, the benefit of her Majesty's law without being cumbered with 
 the law of reason.' ' For that the abuses of her bad officers hath been the begin- 
 ning of all this trouble, and that the Irishry cannot away with the rigour of law 
 upon every small occasion, their bringing up being but barbarous,' that Tyrone 
 may be made a county palatine. That her Majesty withdraw her garrison from 
 Tyrone ' and all other parts of the Irishry.' As there had passed an oath be- 
 tween O'Neill and all the Irishry that took part with him, that he would take no 
 agreement for himself unless every of them had pardon and his predecessors' 
 lands — he craves that the same may be granted, and that the Mores and Connors 
 (dispossessed in Q. Mary's time) may have a reasonable portion of their prede- 
 cessors' lands. b This was not a very humble petition made ' upon the knees of 
 his heart.' Mr. Brewer, in his Introduction to Vol. III. of the Carew Calendar,'' 
 writes, ' To Tyrone's honour be it said, on one point he remained unshaken. It 
 was required of him that he should not receive into his country any disloyal 
 person, but, upon notice being given, send them to the Governor.' To that 
 ' he agreeth, save only that he will not apprehend any spiritual man, that cometh 
 into the country for his conscience sake.' ' In all his conferences with the 
 
 a Car. Cat., pp. 296, 277. b Car. Cat., 2-ji,. c p- xlv. 
 
302 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 English authorities, and in his correspondence with his countrymen, liberty of 
 conscience, and regard for the Catholic faith were put foremost by Tyrone.' 
 Hence, when a Dublin Jesuit, Father FitzSimon, (a Palesman and no friend of 
 O'Neill), was imprisoned in time of cessation, O'Neill wrote, ' I do feel myself 
 more grieved, that any should be for his religion restrained in time of cessation 
 than if there were 100c preys taken from me. Wherefore, as ever you think 
 that I shall enter to conclude peace or cessation with the State, let him be 
 presently enlarged." 1 
 
 Ormond on his side proposed — 1° 'abstinence from war' eight weeks from the 
 date hereof ; Tyrone ' agreeth, provided the like be observed by her Majesty's 
 subjects towards himself and all in action with him.' He agrees to call out of 
 Leinster as many as were sent thither by his direction ; saving only, if any do 
 stay contrary to his commandment, that they be used no otherwise than as they 
 be with whom they tarry. He is contented that her Majesty's subjects shall buy 
 necessaries in Ulster, so as his men and dependants may have like liberty 
 among her Highnesses subjects, and he agrees that 'the Ulster men shall not 
 come in troops or great companies around, whereby to take meat and drink of 
 her Majesty's subjects by violence.' Restitution to be made of any prey or 
 fydragge taken out of the Pale to the Fues, Ferney or any other part of the 
 North, ' the same being trackted thither ' — the like course to be held for any 
 spoils taken from the Earl of Tyrone or his dependants by any of the army of 
 the Pale — he agreeth. c 
 
 These articles and O'Neill's petition seem to have been taken to England by 
 the Earl of Thomond. The Amials say, that ' shortly before Christmas the 
 Earls of Ormond and Thomond went into Ulster, when they and O'Neill and 
 O'Donnell passed three nights together at one place . . . and a peace was made 
 between the English and Irish on the oath of these Earls until May following. 
 The proposals . . . were dispatched to the Queen by the Earl of Thomond. 
 This Earl went to England in the beginning of January.' f 
 
 'After the concluding of peace from Christmas to May 1598, between the 
 Irish of Leathchuinn and the Earl of Ormond, the Irish of the North issued 
 orders to all the insurgents of JLeinster and Meath, namely, the Cavanaghs, 
 O'Conors, O'Mores, the Gavel-Rannal (O'Byrnes), the O'Tooles, Tirrels, and 
 Nugents, to desist for a short time from their acts of plunder and rebellion— and 
 they did so at the bidding of their Chiefs. The Earl of Ormond permitted them 
 
 d Mr. Brewer's Introduction to Vol. III. of e Car. Cal., pp. 275, 276. 
 
 Careiv Calendar, p. lvii. f Annala. 
 
APPENDIX. 303 
 
 to frequent Leinster, Meath, and the East of Minister, and to eat and drink 
 with the inhabitants) until news should come from England, in May, respecting 
 peace or war. By this instruction they continued traversing and frequenting 
 every country from Cill Maintain (the town of Wicklow) to the Suir, and from 
 Loch Gorman (Wexford) to the Shannon. It was not easy for the inhabitants 
 of these territories to bear their inordinate demands during this period.' g 
 
 In January the Lords Justices write, 'that they find cause of great distrust in 
 Tyrone, and that he receiveth letters from the King of Scots;' in the same 
 month Brounker speaks of ' the lamentable state of this accursed country — the 
 enemy is grown insolent and intolerable ; in discipline and weapons he is little 
 inferior to us ; the men of most spirit follow the rebels, and leave the rascals to 
 the Queen's service." 1 
 
 'The 18 th of Februarie, Brian Oge Orwarke (commonly called Ororke), Lord 
 of Letrym, submitted himself in a great assembly on his knees to her Majestie, 
 before Sir C. Clifford, Governor of Connaught ' (whom O'Ruarc defeated the 
 year after in the battle of the Curliews, in which Clifford was slain. — Editor). 
 ' He and his followers promised in all humblenesse to perform all duties to her 
 Majestie. . . . This goodly submission had all the same issue as followeth in 
 that of the famous Faith-breaker, Tyrone." The Carew Calendar gives 
 ' O'Rourke's fifteen Demands ' made on the 8th February, among which are — 
 ' that he may have his country, both spiritual and temporal, passed to him and 
 his heirs by patent ; that a gaol be built at Leitrim, and a ward of O'Rourke's 
 choice be maintained by the Queen to defend it ; that he may have warrant to 
 confer with gentlemen in rebellion, and that what he promises in behalf of her 
 Majesty be performed. All this was granted.' 
 
 The Irish Annals tell us that, ' O'Rourke (Brian Oge, the son of Brian, son 
 of Brian Ballagh, son of Owen) was angry with O'Donnell (Hugh'Roe, the son 
 of Hugh, son of Manus) because of his having plundered O'Conor Roe against 
 his wish, as we have written before ; and moreover he was not at all on terms of 
 peace with his own brother, i.e., Teige O'Rourke, the son of Brian, son of Brian 
 Ballagh (in consequence of a disagreement) about the partition of their territory 
 and land. Wherefore O'Rourke confederated and formed a league of friendship 
 with the Governor, Sir Conyers Clifford. O'Donnell was not pleased at hearing 
 this news, for the O'Rourkes had, from a remote period, been the friends of his 
 
 2 Annala, pp. 2045 and 2051. ' Moryson. 
 
 h Lift of McCarthy Mir, pp. 165 and 473. ' Car. Cal., p. 279. 
 
304 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 tribe, and he (the present O'Rourke) was his own kinsman, and he did not wish 
 to make an incursion against him or plunder his territory, as he would treat all 
 others in Connaught ; but he felt certain that he must needs plunder him unless 
 he should return to the confederacy of the Irish, for he (O'Donnell) was not at 
 peace with any one who was under the tutelage of the English. For a certain 
 time he privately solicited him to return, and at another time he menaced and 
 threatened to plunder his territory unless he should come back. O'Rourke con- 
 tinued to listen to those messages from the beginning of Spring to the May 
 following, at which time he went to Athlone and delivered up his hostages 
 to the Governor ; and they made (mutual) vows and promises to be faithful 
 to each other; but though the engagement was sincere (at the time), it was not 
 long kept.' k 
 
 ' On the 15th of March, at a meeting in Dundalk, the Lord Lieutenant-General 
 Ormond signified to Tyrone that her Majesty had been induced by his humble 
 submission to give pardon to him and all the Inhabitants of Tyrone upon con- 
 ditions following: — 1, that he renew his submission in some publike place; 
 2, that he promise due obedience of a subject, and not to intermeddle with the 
 Irish, but now leaving them to themselves, that they may become humble suitors 
 for their own pardons, in which case it is promised to them also ; 3, that he 
 disperce his forces, upon receit of his pardon, and dismiss all strangers, Irish, 
 Scots, or others ; 4, that he renounce the name and title of Oneale; 5, not to 
 intermeddle with her Maiestie's wriaghtes (so the Irish call the bordering lords, 
 whom the Ulster Tyrants have long claimed to be their vassals) ; 6, that he 
 build up again, at his owne charges, the Fort and Bridge of Blackwater, and 
 furnish the soldiers with victuals as he formerly did ; 7, that he deliver to the L. 
 Lieutenant the sonnes of Shane Oneale, who were her Maiestie's Prisoners till 
 breaking out they fell into his hands, and were imprisoned by him ; 8, to declare 
 all intelligence with Spaine, and leave it ; 9, that he receive a Sheriff for Tyrone, 
 as all other countries doe ; 10, that he put in his eldest Sonne for pledge, and at 
 all time come to the State, being called ; 1 r, that he pay a fine in part of satis- 
 faction for his offence, according to her Maiestie's pleasure ; 12, that he aid no 
 Rebell, nor meddle with the Inhabitants on the east side of the Ban, yet so as 
 he may enjoy any lands he hath there ; r3, that he receive not any disloyal 
 person, but send such to the chiefe governour.' 
 
 'To the 5th O'Neill says — he desireth nothing of the wriaghts, but such duties 
 
 k Annala, p. 2053. 
 
APPENDIX. 305 
 
 as they yielded since his grandfather's time. He refuseth the 7th, because he 
 had not those prisoners from the State. The 10th he refuseth, for the pledges 
 (in particular). For the nth he agreeth to a fine of 500 cowes, yet praying the 
 L. Lieutenant to be a means to her Maiesty for the remittal thereof. To the 
 last he agreeth, provided that he would deliver no man to the State, who came 
 to him for cause of conscience. . . . Hereupon at the instance of the L. 
 Lieutenant the Lords Justices caused Tyrone's pardon to be drawne, and sealed 
 with the great seale of Ireland bearing date the nth of April 1598.' 
 
 'Tyione received his generall pardon ; but, continuing still his disloyal courses, 
 never pleaded the same, so as upon his indictment in Sept. 1595, you shall find 
 him after outlawed in the year 1600.'' 
 
 The truce, which lasted till the 7th of June, was violated only once, that is, 
 when ' James (the brother of the Earl of Ormond), the son of Edward, son of 
 James, son of Pierce Roe Butler, and the son of Mac Pierce, sheriff of the county 
 of Tipperary, and many other gentlemen, proceeded precisely at Easter on an 
 incursion against Brian Reagh O'More, a gentleman of the Irish party, who was 
 passing Easter in Ikerrin ; but disaster and misfortune befell the assailants, for 
 many of their gentlemen, of their followers, and of their soldiers, were slain, and 
 James, the son of Edward Butler, was taken prisoner; but Brian Reagh delivered 
 him up in a week afterwards to the Earl of Ormond on account of the peace we 
 have mentioned, and after it had been ascertained that it was not by the per- 
 mission of the Earl this attack was made.'™ 
 
 2. — The War in Ulster. 
 
 'An answer arrived from England to the letters of O'Neill, O'Donnell, and the 
 other Irish chiefs in alliance with them. The Queen and the Council did not 
 consent to grant them the conditions they demanded ; and therefore the Irish 
 exchanged their peace for war, their quietness for turmoil, and their tranquillity 
 for dissension ; so that they rekindled the ancient flame of hatred in the summer 
 of this year.'" 
 
 So the Four Masters have written, but Moryson says that O'Neill's terms 
 were accepted, yet that he ' wanted not pretences to frustrate this late treaty.' 
 ' The Irish Kerne were at the first rude soldiers, so as two or three of them 
 were employed to discharge one Peece, and hitherto they have subsisted 
 especially by treacherous tenders of submission ; but now they were growne 
 
 1 Moryson, p. 23; Confer Car. Cell., p. 27S. " Annala, p. 2053. 
 m Annala, p. 2053. 
 
 2 Q 
 
306 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 ready in managing their Peeces, and bold to skirmish in bogges and wooddy 
 passiges ; yea, this yeare and the next following became so disasterous to 
 the English, and successful in action to the Irish, as they shaked the English 
 Government in this Kingdome till it tottered, and wanted little of fatal 
 mine. Tyrone wanted not pretences to frustrate this late treaty, and to 
 return to his former disloyalty, and the defection of all other submitties 
 depending on him followed his revolt. First he sent aid to Phelim Mac 
 Feogh, chief of the O'Byrnes, the sonne of Sir Feogh Mac Hugh (killed in 
 Sir W. Russel's time), to the end he might make the warre in Leinster against 
 the English.' 
 
 3. — Siege of the Fori of Blackwater. 
 
 ' Because the English Fort of Blackwater was a great eyesore to him, lying 
 on the cheefe passage into his Countrey, Tyrone assembled all his forces and 
 assaulted the same. But Captaine Williams with his company under him so 
 valiantly repelled the great multitude of assaylants with slaughter of many and 
 the most hardy, attempting to scale the fort (which was only a deep trench or 
 wall of earth to lodge some one hundred Souldiers) as they, utterly discouraged 
 from assayling it, resolved to besiege it afarre off, and knowing they wanted 
 victuals presumed to get it.' p Mcyson speaks disparagingly of this fort, which 
 is said by O'C/ery, in his life of O'Donnell, to have been 'a strong earthen fort, 
 with lighting towers, windows, and loopholes, and a garrison of 300 men.' 
 
 The assault mentioned by Moryson must have taken place in the year 1597, 
 as we know from Francis Cosbie that the day after it a ' Lord Deputy drewe 
 towards the forte and made an oration to the constable and soldiers.' That 'many 
 assaltes' were made 'to surprize ' the fort in 1598 is certain from the letter of the 
 L. Justices, of July 22 d , and from O'Sullevan's account, which I will here insert. 
 ' While O'Neill was besieging Portmore, O'Donnell, who had come to help him, 
 persuaded him to storm the place. Ladders high enough for the wall, and able 
 to hold five men abreast, were, in spite of the fire from the fort, placed against 
 the wall, but as the English, foreseeing the escalade, had deepened the trench, 
 most of the ladders were found too short, and the few men who gained the top 
 of the rampart were killed before they could be supported. One hundred and 
 twenty of the assailants were slain, and among them Morogh Cavanagh, a 
 Leinster gentleman, who had proved himself a stout soldier in the battle fields 
 o! Belgium.* 1 
 
 " Moryson, p. ;.i. " Moryson. q O'Sullevan's Hist. Cat!:, p. 188. 
 
APPENDIX. 307 
 
 This can scarcely regard the assault of 1597 mentioned by the Four Masters, 
 in which 30 were slain, or that described by Cosbie, in which over 34 were 
 killed. Cosby says that there were in the Fort ' Cap"- Will'" 5 -, with some ccc 
 soldiers . . . the valiantest men of Tiroane's forces undertooke to wynne the 
 same . . . gave a most wonderfull and bould assault, continuing the same very 
 long with great resolution, as well in their fighte as continuallye supplyinge of 
 fresh men in the places of the slayne, hurte, and wyckened ; and with great 
 lykelehoode they had wonne the same at that instant, if they had met with a 
 cravynne as they buckled w" 1 a man of worthe . . . Cap" Williams comforted his 
 soldiers . . . and therefore, said he, pull up your hearts ; for this hand of myne, 
 havinge a linstock therein, shall give fyer to this traigne, and both blowe youe 
 and myself up to the skyes rather than that these miscreants shall enjoy this 
 chardge of mine.' Upon which every man that was able to stand and hould a 
 weapon . . . cried out, ' We will die with honor to the last man.' The enemy 
 being advanced to the top of the wall and covetinge by all means to enter . . . 
 the ditches were filled with their dead corpses ; yet stood they to it right man- 
 fully . . . the two field peeces charged with muscet shot paid them their hyre 
 both comynge, stayinge, and retournynge ; and glad they were (although it is a 
 custome among them to carry away as many dead corpses and maimed men as they 
 may), yet for all their cunninge they left xxxiiii behind them in the ditches, w* 
 all their ladders, and some furniture for a witness they had come there ; but I 
 ensuer you that there was a nomber slaigne and hurte, that were conveyed away, 
 and very few of the warde either slaigne or hurte." 
 
 I thought it right to insert this description for the honour of the besieged and 
 the besiegers, though it relates to an assault immediately preceding the attempts 
 ' to surprize ' in T598. 
 
 Sir G. Fenton writes on the nth of June — 'The last truce expired the 7th of 
 this month, and within 2 days after Tyrone made this devesion of his forces ; one 
 parte he sent before the Blackwater, which he now holdeth invironed, swearing 
 by his barbarous hand that he will not departe till he carry the forte ; another 
 parte he thrust into the Brenny, and at this present assaulteth the castle of the 
 Cavan there, promising not to leave the place so long as he can gett a cow out 
 of the English Pale to feed his companies.' The Lords Justices write, June 17 — 
 ' The forte is blocked, the garrison consisteth upon 4 companies of foot.' Ormond 
 writes to Cecil, June the 18th — ' I confess hit is no small hartgrefe unto me to 
 hold the place I do, and to want the meanes whereby I shold be inhabled to 
 
 ' Abridged from Cosbie's Book on the Stale of Inland, Aug. 20, 159S. 
 
308 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 perform what I most desier. I protest to God the state of the scurvie 
 fort of blackwater, which cannot be longe held, doth more toche my harte 
 then all the spoyles that ever were made by traytors on mine owne landes. 
 This forte was always falling and never victualed, but ons (by myself), without 
 an armye.' 
 
 A spy gives this intelligence to Fenton — 'The 13th day I made an excuse 
 to goe into the forte, and the Capten tould me all his casse ; \v c h was that he 
 wold keepe the forte yet this moneth ; wch he may well doe ; for that he hath 
 gott of late into the forte 17 or iS of therles mares, w c h will serve him and his 
 company a good tyme. He prayith yo r Hon' to haste away the Queene's armye 
 to succor him, or else that he may know from you w'hin 20 daies whether he 
 shall make his composicion with therle or not. 
 
 ' Therle hath made great plashes betweene Armagh and the blackwater ; and 
 there he says he will fight w'h the m'sshall yf he come to vittell the forte. He 
 lyeth there stronge with as great an armye as ev r I saw in the north, and yet he 
 hath of late geven leave to O'Donnell, M c W m ', Maguire, and James M c Sorley 
 to go hoame into their countreys, and to be readie to come agayne when he 
 shall send for them.' 
 
 The LLs. Justices state, July 22 — 'The Forte is yet helde by that valyant 
 Gent" , Capten Williams, who commanded it ; althoughe Tyrone have lately lent 
 his whole forces to surprize it, and have lost many men still about yt, who have 
 blocked them in on all sydes of that fort ; yet . . . that Captain hath lately 
 issued forth, and, besides killing 2 or 3 principal men, lie hath gotten divers 
 horses and garrans of Tyrone's into the forte, which stande him and the garrison 
 in good steade of foode. Tyrone hath lyen before it above a month, plashing of 
 passes, and digging deepe hoales in the Rivers the more to distress the armye 
 that should come to releeve it, and has used many assaltes to gett it.' s 
 
 ' Cap"' Williams lying longe in that unhappye forte without any reliefe but 
 suche garrons and horses as he by pollicy could attayne unto for the suffycinge 
 of himself and hungry ward, acquainted the State with this their woeful misery ; 
 who, having regarde of their distresses, and the safety of that great bulwarke, 
 sent for the Lo. Lieutenant-Gen'- to Dublin ; where, after debating what course 
 ivas to be held, in the end concluded that Sir H. Bagnall should have the com- 
 mande of this expedicion." 
 
 The LL. Justices write — ' On the 2 d of Aug., upon conferment held in coun- 
 
 • See these letters in full in Kilk. Jour, of ' Francis Cosbie— See McCarthy Mir, 
 
 Arch., an. 1857 ; and in McCarthy Mor. p. 474. 
 
APPENDIX. 309 
 
 sell touching the revitlinge of Blackwater, the Marshal being present, sent for 
 expressly by the L. Lieutenant, sora of us were of opinion that the hazard were 
 too great. . . . But when we saw his Lo. and the Marshal stande so much upon 
 the honor of the service . . . we wished the L. Lieutenant to undertake the matter 
 in person, as his presence might drawe many of the nobilitye with their followers, 
 and might move Tyrone either from fear? or from som other respects to give 
 way to him. We and the Lo. Lieutenant had written to the Captain of the 
 Blackwater to consider how he might make his composition in tyme to the most 
 honour he could for her Ma ,y and best safety for himself; but the Marshal stayed 
 these letters. 
 
 ' His Lo. and the Marshall agreeing afterwards, his Lo. took upon him the 
 matters of Leinster, and left to the Marshal the accion of Blackwater." 1 
 
 The LL. Justices wrote a private letter, stating that ' it is well knowen to all 
 this table, how much against our advise the same (jorney to the Blackwater) was 
 undertaken. When we could not drawe his Lordship and the Marshall from 
 their purpose . . . we urged muche that his Lp. would himselfe undertake that 
 service. . . . Yet his Lordship, being unable or unwilling to indure that troble- 
 some jorney, answered us, that he himself could not be spared from the service 
 in Leinster.' v These Justices must have been bearing false witness against 
 Ormond; for that straightforward and fearless man wrote to Cecil — 'Sir, for that 
 I understand that the LL. Justices wrote over to you, after this disaster, that it 
 was not there act to send the Marshal, but that it was a plott sett down between 
 him and me, I have thoght goode for proofe of the contrary to send you the 
 inclosed notes, which I pray you to make known to Her Majestye.'" Her 
 Majesty, however, condemned Ormond, saying — ' In the arrival of Sir R. 
 Bingham, we knowe that you our coussin of Ormond, our Lieutenant, will 
 find great ease. It being neither fitt nor possible that you shold spend your 
 bodye in all services at all times ; and yet we must pleynely tell you that we did 
 much dislike that you did not attend the late accion ; for yt were strange to us, 
 when almost the whole force of our kingdom were drawn to a hedd, and a mayne 
 blow like to be stroken for our honor against the cappytall rebell, that youe, whose 
 person wold have better daunted the traytor, and would have carried with it 
 another manner of reputation, and strengthe of the nobilitie of the Kingdome, 
 shold employ yourself in an accion of less importance, and leave this to so meane 
 a commander.' 1 
 
 » LL. Justices, 16th Aug. " Ormond, Sep. 17— See M'Carthv Mir. 
 
 T Loftus and Gardener, Aug. 17. * Queen to LL. Justices, in Car. Cal. 
 
3IO STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 4. — ' The Jorney to the Blackivater.' 
 
 On the 2 d of August, the LL. Jus/ices write — ' It may please y r LL's. to 
 understand that uppon consideration had of the forte of Blackwater, w ch yet holdeth 
 out, as we are informed, thoughe with great extremetie, and comparinge likewise 
 the state of Leinster endaungered in ev ry parte by the rebells of the same province, 
 and aided by forces from Tyrone . . . Sir H. Bagnall, the Marshall, is now to 
 drawe into Ulster with parte of the armye, consisting upon 3500 foote by the 
 polle, and about 300 horse to revittle the Blackwater; and with another parte of 
 the armye, I, the L. Lieutenant-Gen'-, w* such few companies as remayne, am 
 to attend the prosecution in Leinster. The day appointed for the Rendevoues 
 for the Ulster armye is the 16th of this month, when all the companies are to 
 assemble at Ardye, and from thence to marche to the Xcwrie, and so to the 
 Blackwater ; the successe and accydents of w ch Jorney shall be advertised to 
 yo r Us. as they shall fall out, w ch we pray God to prosper to Her M ties - Honor 
 and the saffetie of the armye, onely we understand that Tyrone hath plashed the 
 waies and digged deepe holes with other trenches and fortifications to ympeache 
 the armye between Armaghe and the Blackwater.' 1 ' 
 
 The troops marched through Drogheda, Ardee, and Dundalk ; z and on the 
 1 2th of August they cam from the Newrie, a and reached Armagh on the 13th 
 without any loss other than the taking of Cap tn Ratcliff prisoner, and some 4 or 
 5 others cutt off in the straight between Dundalk and the Newrie, and who 
 straggled after the armye and did not march under the seffety thereof. 11 
 
 5. — Number and Quality of the English Army. 
 The Armye numbered 4000 foote and upwards, and 320 horse by pole, c the 
 most choice companies of foote and horse troops of the English Army, d and 
 the most loyal and best tried in war f but according to the Irish account the 
 numbers were 4500 foot and 500 horse/ A state paper of the time says that — 
 'In the end of April Her Majesty's army in Ireland was certified to be in 
 heads' — 
 
 
 
 Foote. 
 
 Horse. 
 
 Of English 
 
 
 2319 
 
 100 
 
 Of Pal erne n 
 
 
 1785 
 
 292 
 
 Meere Irishe 
 
 
 2478 
 
 129 
 
 English sent in July 
 
 
 2000 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 8582 
 
 521' 
 
 y Lords Justices' Letter in APCarthy Mir, p. 477. ■ Annala. => 111 Newse out of Ireland. 
 t> LL. Justices. c Ormond. d Moryson and Camden. 'Annala. f O'Sullevan. eS. P, 
 given in McCarthy Miir, p. 173. 
 
APPENDIX. 311 
 
 The best of these soldiers were sent to the north, and, to use the words of 
 Queen Elizabeth, 'almost the whole forces of Her Majesty's Kingdome were 
 drawen to a head, and a mayne blowe like to be stroken for her honor against 
 the cappytal rebell." 1 
 
 ' Bagnall was skilled in the art of war, as prudent as he was brave, cautious in 
 success, undaunted in disaster, less contumelious to the conquered than most 
 Englishmen, who are never sparing of their insults — he had few equals and 
 fewer superiors among the generals of his country. His army consisted of 4500 
 foot under 40 standards and as many captains, lieutenants, ensigns, and sergeants 
 (tesserarii), and of 500 horse under 8 standards led by Montague. The English 
 were all veterans, who had served under General Sir John Norris in France, or 
 had come from the Belgian fortresses, or had learned the soldier's trade in the 
 Irish wars. The Irish of Bagnal's army were somewhat more numerous, and 
 had often distinguished themselves in the service of the Queen. There were with 
 him also some young Irishmen of distinction, such as Melmorra O'Reilly (called 
 the Handsome on account of the rare beauty of his form and face), and Chris- 
 topher St. Lawrence, son of Lord Howth. All these soldiers were well armed ; 
 foot and horse were furnished with breastplates, the shot had heavy or light guns, 
 and swords, daggers, and helmets; and the whole host shone gaily in their 
 plumes, sashes or sword-belts, and other military trappings. The brass cannons 
 were on wheels and drawn by horses. There was an abundant supply of the 
 munitions of war; and horses and oxen carried plenty of bread, salt meat, cheese, 
 butter, and beer for the army and the fort of Portmore — while a great number of 
 drivers, sutlers, and foragers accompanied the baggage.' ' 
 
 6. — 1'iw Irish Army — O'NcilVs Address. 
 
 'When O'Neill had received intelligence that this great army was approach- 
 ing him, he sent his messengers to O'Donnell requesting him to come to his 
 assistance against this overwhelming force of foreigners. O'Donnell proceeded 
 immediately with all his warriors, both infantry and cavalry, and a strong body 
 of forces from Connaught to the assistance of his ally. The Irish of all the 
 province of Ulster joined the same army, so that they were all prepared to meet 
 the English before they arrived at Armagh. They then dug deep trenches in the 
 common road by which they thought the English would come.' 1 
 
 Leaving some men to keep the garrison in check, O'Neill, on hearing of 
 
 h Words of Elizabeth given in a S. P. pub- ! 'Suttevan, p. 19. 
 
 lished in the Kilk. Arch, ybiirnal. ' Annate, p. 2061. 
 
312 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 Bagnall's approach, marched to meet him, and took up his position a mile from 
 Portmore, and two miles from Armagh. As O'Donnell had brought 1000 Con- 
 naught men under M c William, and 1000 of his clansmen of Tirconnell, the 
 northern army rose to the number of 4500 foot and 600 horse ; but it was far 
 inferior to the English host in equipment, as it consisted of light armed horse 
 and infantry, with the exception of some heavy shot or musketeers. 1 ' 
 
 According to O'Clery's Life of Hugh O'Donnell, very few of the Irish were 
 armed as the English were, in comparison with whom they were 'naked;' but 
 they had enough of 'spears and broad lances with strong handles of ash, of 
 straight, keen-edged swords and thin polished battle-axes, but devoid of the 
 flesca and ecclanna which distinguished the English battle-axes — they also had 
 javelins, bows and arrows, and guns with matchlocks." 
 
 'When the chiefs of the North observed the very great danger that now 
 threatened them, they began to harangue their people to acts of valour, saying 
 that unless the victory was theirs on that day, no prospect remained for them 
 after it but that of being some slaughtered without mercy, and others cast into 
 prisons and wrapped in chains, as the Irish had been often before ; and that such 
 as should escape from that battle would be expelled and banished into distant 
 foreign countries ; and they told them moreover, it was easier for them to defend 
 their patrimony against this foreign people (now) than to take the patrimony of 
 others by force, after having been expelled from their own native country. This 
 exciting exhortation of the chiefs made (the desired) impression upon their people; 
 and the soldiers declared that they were ready to suffer death sooner than submit 
 to what they feared would happen to them.' m 
 
 The address given in Irish by O'Clery is thus translated by O'Donovan — 
 ' Brave people, be not dismayed or frightened at the English on account of the 
 foreign appearance of their array and the strangeness of their armour and arms, 
 the sound of their trumpets and tabours and warlike instruments, or their great 
 numbers — for it is absolutely certain that they shall be defeated in the battle of 
 this day. Of this we are indeed convinced, for you are on the side of truth, and 
 they are on the lie, fettering you in prisons, and beheading you in order to rob 
 you of your patrimonies. We have indeed a very high hope that this very day 
 will distinguish between truth, as Morann, the son of Maen, said in the celebrated 
 proverb : ni fuigbitear breiteain bus firiu catrae — there has not been found, there shall 
 not be found a truer judge than the battle-field, as we have heard from our poets, 
 who have instructed us from a remote period. 
 
 k O 'Sulltvan, p. 191. Supm, p. 34. ' Sec Aiuiala, p. 2068, vole. m Annate. 
 
APPENDIX. 3 i ^ 
 
 " Moreover it is easier to defend your own patrimony against a race of strangers 
 than to seek another's partrimony after being expulsed from your own native 
 country, which has been in your possession from the year of the world 3500 to 
 this very day." 
 
 'The gentlemen and chieftains said that what the princes had ultered was 
 true . . . the minds of the heroes, and the courage of the common soldiers 
 were raised, and the Cinel- Council, Cinel-Owen, Airghialla, and Ui-Ealhach- 
 Uladh were filled with fury, vigour and a desire of plying their arms, by the 
 harangues of their princes and true leaders ; and they promised to them that 
 they would not yield a foot, and that they would suffer death in that field sooner 
 than be defeated. 
 
 ' There was another cause for the exaltation of the minds of the youthful 
 soldiers. It was told to them that St. Bearchan, the prophet of God, had 
 prophesied that a battle would be fought at that, place against the Galls of Dublin 
 by a Hugh O'Neill and by the province in general, for he had promised that 
 the inhabitants of Ulster would come to his relief, and the Cinel-Connell in 
 particular. The heroes believed that the prophet of God would not tell a lie. 
 The person who first exhibited this prophecy was a certain famous poet of the 
 faithful people of O'Donnell, who accompanied O'Donnell on this expedition, to 
 excite and encourage him. His name was Fearfasa O'Clery. He asked what 
 was the name of that place, and, being told it, he said that St. Bearchan had 
 predicted a defeat of foreigners by a Hugh O'Neill, and that he had for a long 
 time a recollection of the prophecy, which the true saint had delivered ; and he 
 proceeded to harangue the heroes, as was proper for one like him, and he said, 
 reciting the words of St. Bearchan : 
 
 A ccath an Atha-buidhe 
 As lais tuitfe na danaii 
 Iar ndithughadh allmuireach 
 Bidh faoilidh fir o Thoraigh. 
 
 In the fight of Yellow-Ford 
 By him shall be slain the Danair (barbarians) ; 
 After the cutting off of the foreigners, 
 Shall rejoice the men from Tory.'n 
 
 7. — Marshal Bagnair s Address to his Soldiers. 
 Bagnal delivered an address to his soldiers before setting out from Armagh. 
 I give the substance of it from O'Sullevan — ' Soldiers ! I have selected you for 
 this enterprise, leaving the raw recruits to the my Lord of Ormond. We shall 
 
 " Annala, p. 206S, note. 
 
 2 R 
 
314 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 this day avenge the disasters of General Morris and Lord Borough ; the naked 
 rebels will run away the moment they will see our armed and veteran warriors, 
 and we shall secure all Ulster and a vast amount of spoils. Remember the 
 valour you displayed, under my leadership, in relieving Armagh and driving 
 O'Neill from his camp at Mullach-Ban. Whoever shall bring me this evening 
 the head of O'Neill or O'Donnell shall receive one thousand pounds, and you 
 all according to your services shall receive thanks and rewards from your General 
 and your Queen. Let us march on to victory.'" 
 
 8. — The March from Armagh. 
 On Mondaie the 14th of August, the Armie marched from Ardmagh, leving 
 there all the victualls and some munition p , the drink, women, and young persons, 
 horses, baggage, servants, and rabble q . They started before sunrise'. It was 
 concluded by the Counsell the day before, that the syxe regiments shoulde 
 marche in single bodies, till such time as they sawe each other engaged, and 
 then joyne in three bodies for eache others' releife if they found the grounde 
 answerable 8 , and turn out their wings, should they see cause'. Captains Lee 
 and Turner were commanded with a partie of men to lead the forelorne hope". 
 Colonel Percye having the Vanguard, theMarshal his second, should both join 
 and make one vanguard. Colonel Cosbie having the vanguard of the battle, 
 Sir Thomas Maria Wingfield his second, were appointed the like. Colonel 
 Cunie, then Sergeant Mayor having the vanguard of the rear, Colonel Billings 
 his second, were appointed the like. The Marshal, in respect that his regiment 
 had the vanguard, would go there, notwithstanding that he was advised by 
 Wingfield to come into the battle and leave the vanguard to him ; the like did 
 Cunie, but neither could persuade him. The battle was commanded by Wing- 
 field, the rear by Cunie. The horse were divided into three bodies ; the van- 
 guard led by Sir Callisthines Brooke, General of the horse ; the point by Capt. 
 Montague, Lieutenant General ; the rear by Capt Fleming, marching betwixt the 
 two rear regiments'. They marched severally, sum six or 700 paces between 
 each regiment", so far asonder as one of them could not second nor help 
 thother" ; for when the vanguard was charged they were within sight of our battel, 
 and yet not rescued till they were overthrown 7 . Suer the devill bewiched them 
 that none of them did prevent this gross error, whereof Ormond had warned the 
 Marshal to take especiall care z . 
 
 • O'Sullci'an, p. 192. i> Montague. q Annala. ' O ' Sullevan. s Colonel Byllinges. 
 
 ' Order given tn the Armye as well for their marching as in fighting. — Car Cal. n Colonel 
 Byllinges. v Car. Cal. "Mont.igue. 'Ormond. >'Taaffe. 'Ormond. 
 
APPENDIX. 315 
 
 g.—Th* ' Skirmish^ 
 The day was bright and serene, the sun was glancing on the corselets and 
 spears of the glittering cavalry, their banners waved proudly, and their bugles 
 rang clear in the morning air, when suddenly, about seven o'clock, from the 
 thickets on both sides of their path a volley of musketry swept through their 
 foremost ranks". The waye being harde and hillie ground within calliver shotte 
 of wood and bogge on both sides, which was whollie possessed by [500 beard- 
 less kerne a of] thennemy continuelly playing upon us, the army was fought 
 withal within half a mile of Armagh b , in the pace and thick woods beyond it on 
 the eastside c , and on the right hand side of the common highway in wich my 
 Lo. Borough passed to the Blackwater d ; and the skirmishe was maintained on 
 all sides up to the trenches, being two miles from Ardmarglv 5 . Bagnall, on ac- 
 count of the thickets, was unable to return the fire of these skirmishers or to 
 charge them with cavalry ; and he, with difficulty, brought his troops through 
 into a large plain, that stretched up to the Irish entrenchments. Here his 
 horsemen pursued the sharpshooters ; but were rolled over by the holes, which 
 O'Neill had got made, and concealed with brambles and grass, while those who 
 came to their assistance had to contend with the Irish light troops. Having got to 
 safer ground, he sent out skirmishers and heavy shot, who were encountered by 
 fresh troops of his enemy. His heavy cavalry armed with breastplates, and bear- 
 ing lances six cubits long, which rested on their right thigh, were again and again 
 charged by the Irish light horse, who threw at them darts three cubits long, and 
 carried lances more than six cubits in length, which they used only when sure of 
 their blow, and, when using, held poised by the middle over their right shoulders. 
 Bagnal's progress was often arrested by these light troops ; yet at eleven o'clock 
 he reached a spot not far from the Irish camp, where his way was flanked by bogs 
 and stopped by a ditch four feet high f . 
 
 10. — The Vanguard attacks the Trench. 
 
 After a myles marching thus (' played on ' by the Irish) we approached 
 thennemystrentch, 8 being a ditche caste infronteof our passage, amylelonge, som 
 five footte deepe, and four footte over with a thorn ey hedge on the toppe ; in the 
 middell of a bog som forty paces over our vanguard passed the trentch h , having 
 crossed over the ford at the first bog, where the saker was left without stay, and 
 
 " O'Sul/evan. b Car. Cat. p. 2go, and Kingsmill. c Moryson. d Taaffe. e The 
 
 two Kingsmills. ' O'Sullnan. s Now a drain crossing Anaka, at the foot of a hill on 
 
 which there is a ' sconce. ' See p. 316, and note 11. h Montague. 
 
3 l6 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 so forward'. The forelorne hope, led by Captains Lee and Turnor ' the great,' 
 and the vanguard possesst the trenche, and passed forward to a skons made 
 upon the top of the hill beyond the same ; where they remayned a pretty while, 
 and skirmish being hotlie entertained upon our reare, thennemy on horse and 
 foote chardg our companies and bett them back to the trench again, where they 
 were for the most parte all slaine, and their severall collors taken by thennemye j . 
 The vanguard was so distressed as they fell to runne, and were all in effect putt 
 to the sworde without resistance 1 *. To this question, what was the reason the 
 vanguard was not seconded, beeing possessed of the trenches ? Capt. George 
 Kinsmell, who was in the poynte saieth, that the Marshal's regiment, who was to 
 second the poynte (Percy's regiment), was in distance so far of, and hotly fought 
 withal, that they cold by no means com up to second them, whereby the whole 
 regiment was defeated, and all the captains slayne, Colonel Piercy and Capt. 
 George Kingsmell only excepted, who by a stand made by the horsse recovered 
 their second. What did the broken regiment, when you came to the second ? 
 Capt. Ceorge Kingsmell saieth, they joined with the marshal's regiment their 
 seconds, and put themselves in order, and charged agayne to the trenches, which 
 they won the second time and, for want of seconding by the Battayle, was 
 defeated as the first. This onset of the Irish is thus described by O'Clery and 
 the four masters. The English advanced vigorously until they sailled across 
 the first broad, deep trench, and some of them were killed in crossing it. The 
 Irish army then poured upon them vehemently and boldly, furiously and im- 
 petuously, shouting in the rear and in the van, and on either side of them. 
 The van was obliged to avoid the onset, bide the brunt of the conflict, and 
 withstand the firing, so that their close lines were thinned, their gentlemen 
 gapped, and their heroes subdued™. As the English shots reached farther than 
 the Irish, the Irish adopted this plan ; they scattered themselves around the 
 English on all sides, closed in on them, and fought at close quarters with the 
 Barbarians, drove in their shot and skirmishers from the flanks to the centre, and 
 forced the battalions in armour to move to the flanks, and thus by their fire, and 
 by the firm and compact order in which they were arrayed by their leaders, they 
 retarded the English advance, and finally rolled back their vanguard when it 
 reached the broad deep ditches in the plain of Belanahabuy". 
 
 ' Car. Cal. — The saker was a large cannon. 
 
 " The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker. 
 
 He was ih' inventor of, and maker." — Hudibras. 
 ' Lieut. -Taaffe. k Montagu. 'Declaration of Captains Ferdinando Kingsmyl and 
 
 George Kingsmill. m Annala. n O' deary's Life of O'Donnell, M.S. R. I. Academy. 
 
 The Ordnance Survey officers have mistaken the site of this battlefield. 
 
APPENDIX. - 317 
 
 1 1. — The Fighting of the Battayle, or 2nd Brigade. 
 
 What was the reason the Battayle came not up ? They say that the saker 
 being bogged, staied the Battayle so longe and thennemies gathered soe about 
 them in such multitudes as they cold not boothe second the vangard and save 
 the ordinance. Yet Cosbie, having the vauntgard of the Battayle, passed the 
 bog and left the saker". Wingfield coming thither made there a stand as well to 
 carry off the saker [which stuck fast in a forde ], as to attend the coming up of 
 the rear regiments, whom he doubted to be greatly engaged, for that he heard 
 them in great fights, and had no sight of them a long time before, by reason of a 
 hill betwixt them. Of this he went to acquaint the Marshal, thinking to find 
 the vanguard but a little before him, which could not then be seen by reason of 
 the hill, purposing to have it to make good that place, and that himself would go 
 with the battle to fetch off the rear ; but it was so far off as the Marshal sent to 
 them to make good their retreat to that hill where he stood, and returned with 
 Wingfield to the saker, which he then brought off by force of men, and went 
 again with the Marshal, thinking that the vanguard had been come up, which 
 was still advancing forward, and in all this time there was no sight of the rearV 
 The Marshal coming from the rear of the armye,* when the van was beaten 
 back, charged down with the battle,** and our horses which ivere in the 
 vantguard ; and in going down [having raised his visor***] he was slayne with a 
 shott through his forrhead ; after whose death, we that were on horseback found 
 no goinge where the rebells stood, by reason of a mayne bogge' Tyrone, pricked 
 forward with rage and envy of settled rancour against the Marshal, assayled the 
 English first line, and turning his full force against the Marshal's person, had the 
 success to kill him, valiantly fighting among the thickest of the rebels. 5 And as 
 an army deprived of its leader does not generally maintain the battlefield, the 
 General's people were finally routed by dint of conflict and fighting across 
 the earthen pits and broad, deep trenches, over which they had previously 
 passed — they were slaughtered, mangled, mutilated, and cut to pieces.' 
 
 At which time the Marshal was slain, the vanguard, either having received a 
 message to make a retreat, or overlaid with the multitude of the enemy, wheeled 
 about disorderly, which advantage the enemy took and brake them. Captain 
 Evans was shot. Much of our powther took fire, wherewith many of our men 
 were slain or hurt, and the rear of the battle disranked and routed" ; these two or 
 three barrels or fyrckens of powther spoiled many men and disordered others, 
 
 "The Kingsmills. p Montague. q Car. Cat., p. 280. Wingfield's account probably. 
 
 * recte from the Battayl, E. H. ** Qu. the poynte or his own regiment? *** O'Sulleran. 
 
 ' Taaffe. s Moryson, ' Annala. " Car. Cat. and Montague. 
 
3 I 8 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 and withall our great'speece did us much hurte, staying our marche at every 1 2 
 score ende v . After this explosion, the ground was enveloped in a dense, black, 
 gloomy mass of smoke for a considerable part of the day". The Rere of the 
 Battayle mayntained fight for the saker, which cold not be recovered by reason 
 yt was bogged, and the oxen killed that drew it", and the wheele broken y ; upon 
 which accident and the former defeatment the Sergeant Major and Montague 
 came to Wingfield, chief commander, the Marshal being dedd, and they deter- 
 mined to retreat to Armagh ; Cosby however, without orders, made an attack on 
 the enemy, and he was fetched off broken like the rest*. He advanced with his 
 Regiment for the saffegard of those that were broken, with whom he joining, and 
 the Rere of the Battayle remaining with the saker, for want of seconding his 
 regiment was lost with the rest of the vauntguard, and Cosby himself taken 
 prisoner*. 
 
 Cosby's charge is perhaps that referred to thus by Taaffe, Montague and 
 O'Sullivan in the following terms — After the Marshal's death, we that were on 
 horssback found no going where the rebells stood, by reason of a main bogg, 
 and neverthelesse our battel of foote went thither, where they lost the most part 
 of their shott, and four captains, and came by force of the enemy agayne b . 
 Notwithstanding the general's death 2 other regiments' passed over the trentch ; 
 the Battayle coming upp, two barills of powther took fire amongst them by 
 which they disranked, in the whieh whyle those 2 former regiments, being passed 
 the trentch, were for the most part putt to the sworde ; then by the helpe of our 
 horse, the enemies municion being well spente, we brought the rest into the 
 plain and so recovered Armaghe d . At the time of Cosby's attack O'Neill seems 
 to have been in some danger. He had to cope with the regiments of Percy, 
 Bagnal, Cosby and Wingfield, and the horse of Brooke and Montague, while 
 O'Donnell, M c Guire and M'Farley grappled with the foote of Cuiny and 
 Billings, and Fleming's horse. He was on horseback beside his troops, with a 
 guard of forty horse and forty shot. He ordered his shot to fire on the ap- 
 proaching English, and, having thus created some confusion in their ranks, he 
 charged with his forty troopers, while his pikemen advanced with a loud cheer, 
 and drove the English back in disorder about one o'clock in the day. O'Donnell's 
 opponents, seeing their comrades routed, broke and ran e . O'Donnell's oppo- 
 nents were the rear guard, commanded by Cuiney and Billings, and sup 
 ported by Fleming's cavalry. Here is an account of their fighting. 
 
 * Ormond, Taaffe. and the Billinges. w Annala, and O'Sullevan, * Billings. 
 
 y Taaffe. ' Car. Cal. and Billings. a Billinges. b Taaffl: 
 
 c i. e. Bagnal's and Cosbys. ■ Montague. e O'Sullevan. 
 
APPENDIX. 319 
 
 1 2. — The Rear ' in Great Fight.' 
 Wingfield, being come to his own regiment (from beside the Marshal), saw 
 the rear coming up, for whom he made a stand at the boggy ford, and went to 
 tell the Marshal of their coming, at which time he was slain f . The vann of the 
 Reare, Cuyny, being Sarjint Major, had; and the rear of all had Byllinge's. 
 So the other regiments marching, the Sarjint Major's regiment and the Reare 
 marched in one bodye to the forde, and at the forde the Sarjent Major's 
 regiment took the vann of the Reare, being his place. The rear noe sooner 
 recovered the hill beyond the forde towards the Blackwater, but the enemy 
 charged us with horse and foofe to the nomber of 2000 foote and 400 
 horse.* Having long entertained skyrmishe, and by reason of the great 
 nomber of the enemy's shott and horse coming so near and faste upon us, we 
 were forced four or fyve severall tymes to charge with our coullors in the heade 
 of the fight, by reason our shott was so beaten and our new men bringing the 
 rest into confusion^. Capt. Ferdinando Kingsmell, who was in Cuyny's Regi- 
 ment in the vantguard of the Rere, saieth that they were so hotely fought withal 
 by the force of O'Donnell, Magwyre, and James M c Sorley theire horse and foote, 
 that in an houre and a halfe they could not marche a quarter of a myle forward, 
 by which means they never understood in the rere of the Killinge of the Mar- 
 shal nor of the defeating of the former Regiments, until they came upp to fetch 
 oft" the Battayle, with whom theyjoined h . Being thus in fight, our Regiment 
 could not gain a butt's length in three quarters of an hourr The which the 
 horsemen of the Rere and the Sarjent Major's Regiment canne witnesse, who came 
 to second us which the enemy seeing quitted us'. Here was likewise fired in 
 the Rere 2 barrels of poulder to the great hurte and dismay of the Enemy, as 
 appeared by their cry at the sight thereof. When the enemy quytted us, 
 both regiments made tow 115 the Bogge, where being near upon the entrance of 
 the Boogge the Sarjent Maior's Regiment drue of the right hand, and the 
 Reare directly over the Boogge k . 
 
 13.— The Retreat. 
 Being no soner come over but the Sargent Maior gave Byllinges dyrection 
 to retreate, and make good the forde. And in our Retreate we garded the 
 dead bodye of the Marshal, and Sir Calystynes Brookes being hurte, and most of 
 the hurte men, besides the three peeces of ordynance, and the remainder of the 
 munycion. So being come near the forde we saw the enemye, both horse and 
 
 1 Car. Cat. * An exaggeration, clearly. g The Captains of Kingsmill's Regiment. 
 
 h Cap. F. Kingsmill. ' Captains of Billing's Regiment. ' The Kingsmills. Billings. 
 
320 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 foote, with the collours flying, which were taken from the Vanguard of all, 
 mynding to make good the Forde before us. Then we first having attayned 
 the forde made it goode. Then Smythe, one of the corporalls of the feilde, 
 came to Billinges, in the hearing of Cap"' Hawes, with direction to make good 
 a hill betwixt Armagh and the forde tyll such tyme as the rest came upp. The 
 which was performed ; and in our retreate tow ds the hill, the enemy's horse 
 coming to cutt betwixt us and Armagh, we shott off the biggest of the three 
 peeces of ordynance, which made thenemy to stande. So leving these our 
 knowledgments for that dayes' service under our handes, to which we will be 
 sworne, and pawne our lyves ; commending the same to yo r Lordship's judg- 
 ments to sensure according to our desartes '. This statement of Byllings, Hawes 
 and Feteplace can scarcely be reconciled with that of Montague, Lieutenant 
 General of the horse, that the " R ere stood, which, being hard sett to, retired 
 foully to Armagh" 1 ." The new men sent over for supplies, never offered to fight, 
 but, as their leaders say, ranne away most cowardlie, castinge from them their 
 armour and weapon as soon as they were charged ; few or none of them brought 
 backe their amies". By the reporte of all the officers, there ran away to the 
 Irish no less than 300 of the meere Irish, being Ulster and Connaught men, 
 and two Englishmen of the new supplies, who the next morning called to their 
 fellows, and told them the Erie would give them 20 s a peece for ymprest, if 
 they would serve him; and for all the rest of the new supplies we think the 
 better half of them is lost, for many of them were slayne without making 
 any resistance". Those soldiers that survived shamefully laid all the blame, 
 not on their own cowardice, but, as was usual in such cases, on the unskil- 
 fulness of their officers". However M r Moylmoora Reylie in presens of many 
 tryed his loyalty and valure; and so, God save me, did the rest of the 
 captains, as much as might be donn in so ill grounde, being wood and bogge 
 on either side of the marche unto the trenche q . This O'Reilly, sumamed 
 "The Handsome," by word and example strove to rally the fugitives, and 
 gathered some soldiers around him, chiefly men of his own blood ; but they, 
 being unsupported, were soon cut down, and O'Reilly, left alone, fell, fighting to 
 the last'. In one spot specially the carnage was terrible, and the country 
 people yet point out the lane where that hideous rout passed by, and call it to 
 this day The Bloody Loaning. 
 
 The Colonel and Captains of Bylling's Regiment; i.e. , Byllings, Hawes, and Feteplace. 
 m Montague. " Ormond. ° The Kingsmills. p Camden. 
 
 " Taaffe. ' 0' SulUiv. 1 ■ ' MdJtcl, . . 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 321 
 
 14. — Killed and Wounded. 
 The Irish obtained a great victor}' ; I term it great, says Moryson, since the 
 English, from their first arrival in that kingdom, never had received such an 
 overthrou as this, commonly called the Defeat of Blackwater; thirteen valiant 
 Captaines, and 1500 common souldiers, (whereof many were of the old com- 
 panies, which had served in Brittany under General Norreys) were slaine in the 
 field'. As the estimates of the English losses vary, I submit a tabular view of 
 them. 
 
 English Losses. — 
 
 ( Compiled from 
 
 the State Papers 
 
 etc.) 
 
 Captains slain — 
 20 or 23. 
 
 Lieutenants slain 
 — 9- 
 
 Ensigne Colours 
 Lost — 12. 
 
 Voluntarie Gen- 
 tlemen slayne — 4. 
 
 Captains slain. 
 
 Marshal Bagnal 
 
 Bagnal's 
 
 Bagnal's 
 
 M. Brooke 
 
 24 — O'Sullivan 
 
 Banke 
 
 
 
 Constable 
 
 23 — O'Duigenan 
 
 Bethel" 
 
 
 
 Harrington 
 
 21 — Lombard 
 
 Bourke" 
 
 
 SirG. Bourchier's 
 
 Poule 
 
 19 — Annala 
 
 Brooks 
 
 Lord Delvin's 
 
 
 
 16 — English 
 
 Elsden 
 
 
 Elsden's 
 
 
 Writers 
 
 Evans 
 
 
 Evans' 
 
 Soldiers slain. 
 
 Fortescu v 
 
 
 Eustace's 
 
 2 700 — Lombard 
 
 Foskew ' 
 
 
 Foskew's 
 
 2500 — O'Sullivan and Annala 
 
 Harvey 
 
 
 
 2000 — Montague, and "111 
 
 Hawes™ 
 
 
 
 News," and The King- 
 
 Henserve" 
 
 
 
 Mills 
 
 Henshawe" 
 
 
 
 not less than 1800 — Montague 
 
 Hushie 
 
 F. Kingsmill's 
 
 
 1 700 — O'Duigenan 
 
 Langhton 
 
 Sir H. Norrey's 
 
 Langhton's 
 
 1500 — Moryson & 
 
 Leigh 
 
 Leigh's 
 
 Leigh's 
 
 Camden 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Lieu' Massey 
 
 Morgan's 
 
 over 1000 — Taafe 
 
 O'Reilly 
 
 Col. Percy's 
 
 Colonel Percy's 
 
 855slayne(363Hurte)-S.Paper 
 
 Pettitt 
 
 Parker's 
 
 Pettitt's 
 
 Other Losses. 
 
 Radcliffe 
 
 
 
 1200 gold crowns — Lombard 
 
 Romney 
 
 
 
 All the baggage, all the drums, 
 
 Streete 
 
 Street's 
 
 
 34 colours, the Cannon, a 
 
 Turnor 
 
 
 Tumor's 
 
 quantity of arms — O'Sullivan 
 
 The first account of the battle runs thus : — 
 
 *' 1598, Aus 14. The 111 Newse out oflreland : the 12th of August they cam 
 from the Newry to Armaghe ; the 14th of August theye sete forwardes towardes 
 the Blackewaterwith 4000 footemenand 350 horses. Capt. Percy and Cap. Cosbey 
 led the firste regiment of foote being 2000 ; Cap. Percy was hurte, Cosbey 
 
 ' Moryson and Camden. 
 same name. 
 
 u Prisoners, says Taaffe. 
 Anthony Hawes escaped. 
 
 ' Perhaps different spelling of the 
 Perhaps the same person. 
 2 S 
 
322 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 slaine, and almoste all the regimente slayne. Sir H. Bagnall ledd the second 
 regiment being of 1000, he was shott in the hedd, slayne, and most of the regi- 
 mente. Sir Calistianes Brooke led the horses, being 350, was shott into the 
 belly, and thought to be slayne. About 2000 footemen slayne, and Cap. Cosbey, 
 Cap. Evans, Cap. Morgan, Cap. Turner, Cap. Leighe, Cap. Streete, Cap 
 Elsden, Cap. Banke, Cap. Petty, Cap. Henserve, Cap. Bethel, Cap. Fortescue, 
 Cap. Harvey, Cap. Molmarey Orrely, Cap. Bourke. W ra Bule Commesarey a 
 voluntarey slayne, James Harrington soone to Sir H. Harrington, Maximilean 
 Brooke taken or slayne, Mr Connstable a Vollintarey gentleman slayne"." 
 
 Lieutenant Taafe, who with Montague and the cavalry escaped from Armagh, 
 writes, two days after the battle — 
 
 'We lost 18 captains, and seeing there are soe many lost I thought fitt to 
 pray you to be a mean to my L. Lieutenant that I may have one of their 
 chardges, asshuring myself that very few will be sutors for the lyke. The 
 greatest in nombers of their soldiers that escaped is not 12 men to any one 
 company. 2 
 
 The victory cost the Ulstermen less than 200 men killed and more than 600 
 wounded 4 ; according to the English account the Irish lost i2o b or 300' or 7oc d 
 men, and among them 2 sons of Art M c Baron, 2 sons of O'Cahan, 2 leaders, 
 Maguire's son, the son of M c Kennagh of the Trough, and the son of Donell 
 M c Sorley's son. e 
 
 15. — The Siege 0/ Armagh. 
 
 By the help of our horse, thenemies municion being well spente, we brought 
 off the armye into the plaine and soe recovered Armaghe, where the capteins 
 resolved to refreshe their men with victualls and municion, and soe to marche 
 dyrectlie to the Newrie. In the meane tyme thenemies approached and fell 
 round on all all sides of us with their whole force. The capteins seeing 
 thinsufficiencie both in mind and means of ther men, and finding themselves noe 
 way able to returne, resolved that I [Cap. Montague] wold adventure with all 
 the horse in the night to break through them, and soe if I cold to passe to the 
 Newrie, then they had shuch a preportion of vittualls as wold kepe them viii 
 dayeg. In which tyme they hope yo r Lo (i.e. Ormond) will make some speedy 
 expedition to fetch them off, or ells O'Donnell and M c Guoire being also in want 
 of victualls wold returne hoame, and then they would see, if they could pass 
 away in one night to the Newrie ; or ells thenemie seeinge the horse gone might 
 be persuaded that they having a monethe or 2 victualls, which indeed was there 
 
 " Kill;. J. of Arch. ' Taaffe. a O'Sullcian. b Whitechurch. 
 
 c Taaffe. d Montague. ' Whihchurch and Taafft. 
 
APPENDIX. 323 
 
 but dispossed upon their first resolution, soe as they made account they 
 had not now left meatt for above ten daies at the uttermoste, that thenemy 
 cold not kepe together, hearinge by a prisoner that was taken that O'Donnell and 
 M c Gwier was then reddy to departe, I thought my lyfe well adventured to save 
 so many, attempted it, and cam away with sum vii score horse with som very 
 little loss, though they continually followed me, and at my passing out of the 
 campe gave me a great volley of shott. They have veray small store of muni- 
 cion, and ther Irish run continually to the rebells. I much feare they will 
 betray them ; for I was no sooner gone, but I might here them in very hot 
 skirmishe in the quarters, There remains of ours about 2500 in the church of 
 Armaghe'. 
 
 Montague did not escape so easily, it appears, for O'Sullivan says, that 
 Tirlogh O'Hanlon with part of O'Neill's horse pursued him, killed three of his 
 officers, and captured 200 horses; he adds that Captain Romley was slain the 
 next day while smoking a pipe by the road side. s The besieged and besiegers 
 continued to fire at each other for three days and three nights, and then the 
 English ceased, and sent messengers to say that they would surrender the fort [at 
 the Blackwater], if the warders were suffered to come to them, without wounding 
 or danger, to Armagh ; and that on their arrival they would leave Armagh itself, 
 if they were granted quarter and protection and escorted in safety into a secure 
 territory. The Irish held a council, and some of them said the English should 
 not be permitted to come out of their straitened position until they should all be 
 killed or starved together h . The LL. Justices on the 16th Aug., wrote to 
 O'Neill in ' favour of those distressed companies who remayne in the church there 
 away ting for soch comfort as men in so great calamity may expect.' They say — 
 ' We thought good upon this occasion to send to you in their behalfe, thoughe 
 wee think that in your owne consideration you will let them departe without 
 doing them any further hurte. We are to putt you in minde how farr you may 
 incense her Ma ties indignation towarde you, if you shall do any further distresse 
 to those companies, beinge as you know in cold bludd . . . Besides your 
 anncient adversarye, the Marshall, being now taken away, we hope you will 
 cease all further revenge towards the rest. . . .' 
 
 These Justices, who heard the news only at 9 o'clock on the 16th, wrote to 
 the Privy Council ' that the Irish know as well as ourselves that we are not hable 
 without presente succor out of England, to fetch off these companies cooped up 
 in the church of Armagh.' 
 
 Therle offered composition uppon these condicions — First, that we shold quit 
 
 1 Montague's Reporte, and his Litter to Ormonde, B O ' Sullevan. 
 
 h Sic. Annala, translated by O'Donova 
 
324 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 the Blackwater, leving there the collors, drumms and municion, the Cap 1 " having 
 left them onely their Rapiers and hacknies ; and, that beeing delivered, the whole 
 army with those men of the Blackwater shold marche away from Armagh with 
 all their carriage and hurte men to the Newrie or Dondalk, for performance 
 whereof pledges were putt in on both sides. For the Army the 2 cap" 5 Ferdinand 
 and George Kingsmell, and on Tirone's parte two of the Hagans the men of 
 most estimacion in this country, which of each part was accordingly performed. 
 Being pledges for the performance of the conditions Thearle gave [us] for the 
 reason that he offered the composition, that he was at ^500 charge by the daye 
 in keping his forces together to attend our Army ; and that he supposed we had 
 a moneth or six weeks victuall, in which tyme he knew, as he said, that forces 
 would lande in Loghfoyle, and therefore he thought it better to save that charge, 
 to gayne the forte of the Blackwater, and to bend himself to hinder the landing 
 of our forces in Loghfoyle, then by lyinge by us, with soe great charge to hazard 
 so many inconveniences as he feared he might otherwise fall into — Ferdinando 
 Kingsmill, George Kingsmill.' The Annala tells us that one of the conditions 
 was, ' that the English should not carry out of the fort meat or drink, armour, 
 arms or ordnance, powder or lead, or anything except only the captain's trunk 
 and arms, which he was at liberty to take with him. They consented on both 
 sides to abide by those conditions ; and they sent some of their gentlemen of 
 both sides to the fort [of Blackwater] to converse with the warders. k The yielding 
 of the fort followed, when the assaulted guard saw no Hope of Relief, but espe- 
 cially upon messages sent to Captain Williams from our broken forces retired to 
 Armagh, professing that all their safety depended upon his yielding the fort into 
 the hands of Tyrone, without which danger Williams professed that no Want or 
 Misery should have induced him thereto, 1 so he and his men had to depart in 
 doublet and hose only.™ 
 
 On the 23rd of Aug. the LL. Justices report that the Kingsmeales, being both 
 actors in the same, returned this day, assuring us that all the companies were 
 safely returned to the Newry with bagg and baggage and their collors displayed. 
 At the departing of the companies from Armagh it was agreed that they shold 
 march directly to Dondalk; but they, for som respects knowen to themselves, 
 breaking that agreement took their way immediately to the Newry, from whence 
 it will be veray hazardous to come by Dondalk by land, having to pass by the 
 Moyerye straite, which we heare Tirone hath manned to impeach their passage, 
 taking occasion, as it seemethe, in that they went to the Newry and not to Don- 
 dalk according to agreement. We are now in consideracion how to fetch them 
 
 ' 1 he Kingsmills. k Annala. ' Moryson, m Chamberlain to Carleton. — Domestic S. Papers. 
 
APPENDIX. 325 
 
 by sea from Carlingford, which though it may be thought not fully honourable, 
 for that heretofore yt hath not bein usuall ; yet for that the companies are pes- 
 tered with sundry hurte men ; and that they have much baggage, which other- 
 wise they cannot carry being utterly destitute of garrans and all portage over- 
 land, we dowte that this necessity will dryve us to fetch them off by sea." 
 After the departure of the English from Tyrone, O'Neill gave orders to rec- 
 kon and bury the gentlemen and common people slain, and they were found 
 to be 2500 slain, among whom was the General, with 18 Captains, and a 
 great number of gentlemen whose names are not given." 
 
 On the 23rd of Aug. Ormond says : We have heard that the companies are 
 come saffely to Dondalk over the Moyery without any impediment of thenemies 
 and I, the L. Lieftenant General, am now preparing to draw to the borders for 
 disposing of them p . He about the same time announced that the Castle of 
 Alderfleete ' standing upon the north seas towards Scotland,' had been taken, 
 and that he could not procure the liberation of Capt" Constable from 
 M'Sorley q . This M'Sorley was a Barbarian of handsome figure and dignified 
 bearing. On Friday, the 4th of Nov. 1597, he was asked to a parley by Sir J. 
 Chichester, Governor of Carrigfergus, and was treacherously attacked by him and 
 his officers ; but he killed 280, and wounded 30 or 40 of the English, slew 
 Chichester and his lieutenant and both his Serjeants, Capt" Mansell and his lieu- 
 tenant and both his Serjeants, Lieutenant Price with his Serjeants and drum. 
 Capt" s Merriman, Hill and Warte were wounded and Capt" s Constable and Banks 
 were made prisoners ; the heads of Chichester and Mansell were sent to O'Neill, 
 and their bodies to Capt. Egerton for burial p. 
 
 16. — The War in Leinster. 
 
 After (Clifford) the Governor of Connaught and O'Rourke had parted from 
 each other in peace, in May, at the town of Athlone, and when O'Rourke saw 
 that the English were not at this time more powerful than the Irish, he was afraid 
 that O'Donnell would plunder his territory; and therefore he came at the first 
 summons of O'Donnell, and did whatever was requested of him. This he did by 
 the advice of his people. Having confirmed his friendship with O'Donnell, he 
 proceeded with his forces, at the instance of O'Ferrall Ban, (i. e. Ross, son of 
 William, son of Donell) into Meath ; and they plundered Mullingar, and the 
 
 D Lords Justices and Ormond. "Anna/a. v Kilk. Jour, of Arch. 
 
 q Ulster fourn.of Arch., No. 19. ' Balcarres Papers. 
 
326 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 country from Mullingar to Ballymore-Lough-Sewdy a . About the 7th of June 
 O'Neill sent aid to Phelim Mac Feogh, chief of the O'Brians, to the end they 
 might make war in Leinster b . Six hundred soldiers arrived from England. On 
 reaching Dungarvan they marched to join Lord Ormond, and, as they passed 
 along the borders of Leinster, they were fought with by a party of the Irish of 
 that district, and lost 410 of their number 1 . Owney O'More went to Ulster to 
 obtain help from O'Neill. In his absence Brian O'More had several successful 
 combats with the English and their allies, the Anglo-Irish of Wexford, and took 
 from them 7 colours and 14 drums. d 
 
 To check Brian O'More a hosting was made by Ormond in the month of June 
 to proceed into Leix. His forces amounted to 24 companies of foot and 200 
 horse", [or 3000' men altogether or perhaps only 2000 foot and some horse*]. 
 In the evening he encamped on a hill on the borders of the territory. He was 
 informed that night that there were only a few to guard that territory ; and in the 
 morning following he ordered his brother's son, (i. e. James, son of Edward, son 
 of James Butler) to go, with 6 or 7 companies [or perhaps 1000 Irish and Eng- 
 lish foot h ] through the passes into the nearest head of the territory, to see whe- 
 ther he could perform any exploit. Although James was loth to go on that 
 expedition, early on Sunday morning ' he set out at the command of the Earl. 
 He found his path cut, deeply furrowed and barred by Brian Reagh O'More, who 
 had come with 150 [or 300 foot j ] soldiers to defend it on the same day. Fierce 
 and terriffic was the salute, which Brian and his forces gave James and his 
 soldiers k . As he was attacked in two columns, he was forced to leave his vantage- 
 ground, and with darts and shot he attacked, in open ground, the column in 
 which Butler was. He was shot himself; but his wound only made him fight 
 more fiercely.* The Anglo-Irish were attacked in front and in the rear, hemmed 
 in and surrounded, speared and shot ; in a short time bodies were left mangled 
 and pierced along the pass. A lamentable death occurred here — James, the son 
 of Edward, son of Pierce, son of James', son of Pierce — a man of whom greater 
 expectations had been formed than of any other of his age of the Butlers living 
 at that time [and who was a Catholic, was killed by two guhshot wounds**]. And 
 such of his men, as had not been cut off, returned as broken-shielded fugitives to 
 the Earl." 1 The second column, coming to the support of the first, was broken 
 
 a Annala, p. 2055. b Moryson. c Annala. d O'Sullcran. Perhaps the combat 
 
 mentioned by the Annala was one of these. ' Annala. ' Lombard. e O'Sullevan. 
 
 >> O'Sullman. ' 11 th 18 th or 25 th of June. > O'Sullrvan. k Annala. * O'Sitllrvan. 
 
 Annala. " Pierce," in O'Donovan's Version, is a mistake. •* O'Sitllrvan. 
 
 _ Annala. 
 
APPENDIX. 327 
 
 also.* Brian pursued the fugitives, slew many of them, and would have slain 
 more, if Ormond had not come up to fetch them off." Lombard says that the 
 O'Mores slew 1500 of their enemies. p Brian Reagh died of his wound within 
 four days, and his death would perhaps have been a crushing blow to Leinster 
 were it not for the opportune arrival of Owny O'More, immediately after the 
 battle. q 
 
 17. — Owny O'More and Tyrrell come to Leinster. 
 
 On that very day, after the fight, Owny, the son of Rory Oge O'More ; 
 Redmond Burke, son of John of the Shamrocks ; Dermond O'Connor, and Cap- 
 tain Tyrrell came and pitched their camp opposite the Earl's camp ; but he, 
 before noon of the next day, Monday, returned to Kilkenny, and sent his sol- 
 diers to their garrisons.' Owney had brought 1500 veterans s from O'Neill, and 
 three stout captains, Tyrrell, Burke and O'Connor. Redmond Burke was Baron 
 of Leitrim, son of Shan of the Shamrocks, son of Richard Saxonach, son of 
 Ulick of the Heads. With a party of his young kinsmen, all of the first dis- 
 tinction, he went to O'Neill to complain of the answer he received from his 
 father's brother, the Earl of Clanrickard : ' that if Redmond would be satisfied 
 with one mantle's breadth of his inheritance, he would not give him so much, as 
 a reward for war or peace.' O'Neill promised to assist him and gave him com- 
 mand of some hundreds of soldiers, with permission to plunder and devastate 
 any part of Ireland, which had any connexion or alliance with the English. 
 When he and his kinsmen left O'Neill, they went into the confederation of the 
 Irish of Leinster and remained with them during the summer.' 
 
 As, on the 2 d of August, the state of Leinster was endangered in ev^ parte by 
 the rebells of the province, aided by forces from Tyrone, who had sent forces to 
 several parts to assist the traitors there, and sturr up rebellion in Mounster, it 
 was concluded, says Ormond, that [the Marshall should draw to the North and] 
 I, the Lord Lieuten-Gen' with another parte of the armye should prosecute the 
 traitors of Leinster ; in whiche prosecution seven of the chefe traitors were, with 
 divers of there followers, putt to the sworde ; others also entering into rebellion 
 in Mounster were stayed by me." 
 
 18. — Ormond relieves Maryborough. 
 
 A great hosting was made by Ormond to place provisions in Portleix 
 (Maryborough). His army was met by Owny, son of Rory Oge, son of Rory 
 Caoch O'More ; by Redmond Burke and by Captain Richard Tyrrell, son of 
 Thomas Oge Tyrrell. Ormond lost more than the value of the provisions in 
 
 " O'SulUvan. ° Lombard, p. 167. p O'Su/tevan. q Annala. 'Lombard and Cox. * Annala. 
 
 u Ormond, Aug. 2 d and l8 ,h . 
 
328 STATE OF IRELAND 1 598. 
 
 men, horses and arms ; he was wounded and escaped with great difficulty." 
 O'Sullevan describes an attempt made by Ormond to provision Port Leix, as it 
 may be the one recorded by the Amiala, I translate it here. — 'As Owny O'More 
 besieged Portleix, Ormond went, with over 4000 horse and foot, to relieve and 
 re-victual it; he was attacked at the Black Ford by Owney at the head of 1400 
 men, and lost 600 soldiers, whose bodies he burned, lest his loss should be 
 known — the English being accustomed to hide their own dead and to expose in 
 public places the bodies of their foes. There were 60 Catholics killed and 80 
 wounded. Ormond, however, by sheer numbers passed on and provisioned the 
 fort." 
 
 1 9.— Successes of the Insurgents. 
 
 The LL. Justices report, on the 17th of Aug., that, in spite of Ormond's 
 authority, the Leinster rebells are exceedingly increased, and daily burning, 
 preying and spoiling the contrye, having already possessed themselves of all the 
 Queenes County, called Leix, some 3 or 4 castles at the most excepted, which 
 cannot long hold out. There they possess the lands so dearly bought by her 
 Majesty and her predecessors, and doe even in a peaceable manner enjoye the 
 goodes and cutt downe and gather the comes of thauncient English gent" of that 
 country. The lyke sturr have they already begon in Offaley, and the lyke ende, 
 in all lykelihood will they make there . . they do what they list without con. 
 trolm'. A great parte of the County of Kildare they have already spoyled and 
 burned, and daylie advertisem B we have of there entraunce into the County of 
 Dublin, and of there purpose, even this day, as we understand, to make heade 
 even towardes this citie ; to which God knoweth they may make an easie 
 approach ; yett have wee sett out this present morning the nomber of six or seaven 
 hundred of cittizens and others to ympeache their approache. This and worse 
 than we have said is the state of Leinster." Ormond was ready to make a roade 
 against one of these insurgents, Donill Spanaghe, [or Donal called the 
 Spaniard] when he heard of the M'shal's ill successes Donal had ravaged with 
 fire and sword a great part of Meath, because the people of that region would not 
 fight for the Faith. 2 
 
 20. — The Queen sends re-inforcetnents. 
 
 On the 12 th of Sep. Elizabeth writes— 'We make choice of Sir Richard 
 Bingham, whom we have appointed to be Marshal of that realm, to repair 
 thither. Hear him lovingly in all things concerning our service, wherein we 
 know that you, our cousin of Ormond, our Lieutenant, will find great ease in 
 
 Amiala. " O'Sullevan. x LL. Justices, Aug. 17. » Ormond to the Queen, Aug. 18. 
 
 1 O'Sidlrv.n. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 329 
 
 every way, it being neither fitt nor possible, that you shold spend your bodye 
 in all services at all tymes. . . It doth not a little trouble us to find such hard 
 effects of all things from thence, considering the notable supplies of men, trea- 
 sure and victuals more plentifully sent than ever heretofore. 2 For other thinges 
 past we have well observed, that all y r Jyorneyes and attemptes upon the Northe 
 have had these successes, that not only our armyes have come backe with losse 
 and doinge nothing, but in their absence other parts of our Kingedome have 
 been left to be spoyled and wasted ; and though the unyversalytie of the Rebel- 
 lion may be used as a reason for the mischiefe, yet it is almost a miracle that, 
 with the charges of an armye of eight or nine thousand men the provincial rebells 
 of Leinster and Wexforde and other places should not be mastered. 3 
 
 Bingham, sent over as Marshal, with re-inforcements [including 50 horse b ], 
 landed at Wexford, and on his march to Dublin was attacked by the O'Mores 
 and O'Connors, and lost most of his men ; he lost the remainder and his own 
 life, and a number of other soldiers in a fight with O'Donnell and O'Rorke in 
 Connaught. This statement of Lombard, who, perhaps, confounds Sir C. Clifford 
 with Bingham, is not borne out by any other writer ; on the other hand, 
 Camden tells us, that Bingham died as soon as he reached Dublin. d Sir Samuel 
 Bagnal [about the end of August] came over with 2000 foot and 100 horse, to 
 strengthen the Queen's Forces in the heart of the Kingdome ; the old companies 
 numbering 1050, drawne out of the Low Countries, were commanded by Bagnall, 
 Jephson, Bodley, Sidney, Foulke Conway, Pynner, Blaney, Tobey Caulfield, 
 Heath and Owen Tewder ; the new men were under Roe, Egerton, Bingley and 
 some new Captaines." This did not protect the heart of the Kingdom ; for we 
 find that O'Rourke made a hosting in the first month of autumn (i.e. from Sep. 
 23 to Oct. 23), and he did not halt until he arrived at Tyrrell's Pass, and the 
 Pass of Kilbride in Fertullagh [in the south of Westmeath]. He seized a prey, 
 and slew some persons at Tyrrell's Pass, and then returned home to his country 
 without wound or danger/ 
 
 21. — OMore Marches toivards Minister. 
 
 In the first month of autumn, [towards the end of September], O'Neill sent 
 letters to Leinster, requesting Burke, O'More and Tyrrell to intrust the guarding 
 of Leinster to some of their allies ; and to proceed, themselves, to make con- 
 quests, and to bring some of the adverse territories over to their cause, and 
 particularly to go into Munster, at the invitation of Thomas Ruadh, son of 
 
 z Car Cal. a The Queen to LL. Justices, Sep. 12, in Kilk. J. of Arch. 
 
 b S. P. in M c Carthy Mor., p. 173. c Lombard. a Yet Elizabeth speaks of him as 
 
 alive on the 1st Dec. Car. Cat., p. 2S5. " Morysmt. ' Anna'a. 
 
 2 T 
 
33° STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 James, son of John, son of the Earl of Desmond. They were persuaded and 
 encouraged to go by Sir Piers Lacy, a brave and eloquent gentleman of Mun- 
 ster; 6 and O'More, leaving the care of Leix to his brother Edmund, led 800 foote 
 and about 200 horse under Redmond Burke (Baron of Leitrim), and his brother 
 William, Dermot O'Conchur and his two brothers (Cairbre and Con), and 
 Captain Tyrrell.* When they marched into Ossory, the people came spon- 
 taneously to join them, except Mac Gillapatrick (i.e. Finin, the son of Brian, son 
 of Finin). They afterwards went to the northern extremity of Slieve Bloom, in 
 order to induce the Irish of East Munster and Westmeath to join them, namely 
 O'Molloy, and Connell, the son of Cahir O'Mulloy, M c Coghlan (John Oge, the 
 son of John, son of Art, son of Cormae), and O'Carroll (Calvach, son of William 
 Odhar, son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony). Although these chieftains had for 
 some time stood by their Sovereign, they were glad to obtain terms of peace from 
 these strange warriors, who were traversing their country. After agreeing upon 
 terms of peace with them the Leinster men turned their faces towards the two 
 Ormonds in Munster. h 
 
 22. — The War in Munster. 
 The Irish perceiving that the English had sustained many disasters in the 
 North, Connaught and Leinster, following the current of the present time, began 
 to dismaske themselves; and, being united in strict Combination, did verily 
 persuade themselves, that it would be very feasible to make themselves masters 
 of all Ireland, if the chiefe Lords of Mounster, with their friends and followers 
 would join with them. They did account that Province to bee the Key of the 
 Kingdome, both by reason of the cities and walled townes, (which arc more than 
 in all the Island besides), the fruitfulnesse of the Country, being reputed the 
 garden of Ireland, and the commodious harbors lying open both to France and 
 Spain." Early in October the O'Mores burst into Upper and Lower Ormond, 
 and from them they sought neither peace nor friendship, but proceeded to plun- 
 der them at once, on account of their enmity towards the Earl of Ormond. They 
 took five of the castles of Ormond, one of which, Druim-Aidhneach, on the 
 margin of the Shannon, Burke kept to himself, for waging war on Clanrickard 
 out of it. They remained for two or three weeks encamped in that country ; 
 and the spoils of the region bordering on the Suir were brought to their camp ; 
 and their Irish neighbours came to join in the same confederation with them. 
 Among those who joined were, O'Dwyer of Kilnamanagh i.e Dermot, the son of 
 
 * Annr.la and 0' Sullivan. • CrSuBevan. h Annala. a Potato Hibernia, p. 2. 
 
APPENDIX. 331 
 
 Chvny, son of Philip ; the sons of Mac Brian O'gCuanach, namely, the sons ol 
 Murtough, son of Turlough, son of Murtough ; the Ryans about Conor-na- 
 Mainge, the son of William Caech, son of Dermot O'Mulryan ; and the race of 
 Brian Oge of Duharra. After these Irish (septs) had formed a confederacy with 
 O'Neill's people, and after having induced (the people of) every territory into 
 which they came to join them, they marched with the rising-out of these districts, 
 at the instance of the sons of Thomas Roe, son of the Earl (of Desmond) into 
 the country of the Geraldines. They first went to the county of Limerick. The 
 President, Sir Thomas Norris, was at that time at Kilmallock, and when he per- 
 ceived that he was not able to contend with the Irish, he went to Cork, to avoid 
 them. They then proceeded westwards, across the River Maigue into Connello 
 and to the borders of Sliabh-Luachra and Gleann-Corbraighe. James, the son 
 of Thomas Roe (Fitzgerald), came to join them in Connello on this occasion ; 
 and John, b the second son of Thomas Roe, was already along with them, upon 
 these expeditions, for he had come to draw them into the country. At this time 
 they offered and sold at their camp a stripper, or a cow in calf, for sixpence, a 
 brood mare for threepence and the best hog for a penny ; and these bargains 
 were offered aud proclaimed in every camp in which they were. c 
 
 Chief Justice Saxey ' in lamentable wise advertiseth th r Hon rs Los : (the 
 Council) that about the 5 th of October 3000 rebells came (into Mounster) by 
 Arlough, and so into the com. of Limerick under the leading of John Fitz Thomas, 
 second sonne of Sir Thom s of Desmond, and of one Tirrell. Presentlie the said 
 John was proclaimed Earle of Desmond, who, as is said, took it upon him, if his 
 elder brother James would not ioyne with them, and assent to be proclaimed 
 Earle himself. They spoyled most of the country townes and villages within 
 that county. On Saturday morning, the 7 th , James Fitz Thomas came with 16 
 horse and 20 foot ; and the purpose of the traitors was to create him Earl of 
 Desmond at the hill of Ballioghly. d On the 8 th in the evening there came to 
 Ballingarrie, out of Rannallaghe, Cahir M c Hugh, brother of the late Feagh 
 M'Hugh, Thomas Butler, and others with 160 men, the rebells being then 
 uniting betwixt Rathkeale and Ballingarrie. 6 About which time the Vice-Pre- 
 sident had assembled the forces of the Province, with full purpose to encounter 
 with the traitors, finding the said forces to be in shewe able to equall the strength 
 of the enemy ; but albeit divers of the noblemen and chiefe gentlemen of the 
 provincewere then and there ready, as it seemed, to accompany the Governor 
 in this conflict ; yet at the very instant the most parte of the followers of the 
 noblemen and gent" went to the enemy. 5 Though O'More had sent him a letter 
 
 b 'James' is a mistake of O'Donovan's translation, 
 c Annala. d Saxey, in McCarthy Mor. e Weever to Cecil, 'Saxey, 
 
332 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 to challenge him to fight/ Norreys withdrew upon necessarie occasion/ and his 
 troops dispersed without so much as seeing the enemy 1 '; however, it seems he 
 did not retire unmolested, as the Irish kerne had some skirmishing with his rear 
 guard.' 
 
 When Ormond heard of the progress of these warlike troops, he set out with 
 all his cavalry and infantry for the County of Limerick, to meet them, and sent a 
 message to Cork, requesting the President to come to meet him at Kilmallock.* 
 He wrote also to the Earl of Desmond as follows — From the Campe at Cowlin, 
 Oct. 8. 1598, "James Fitz Thomas, Hit seemed to us most strange, when wee 
 herd you were combined and j oined with theis Leinster Traytors lately repayred 
 into Munster, considering how your father, Sir Thomas, always contenued a 
 dutifull subject, and did manie good offices to further Her Mat's service : from 
 which course if you should digresse, and now ioyn with these unnatural traytors, 
 we may think you very unwise, and that you bring upon yourself your own con- 
 fusion, vf* is thende of all traytors, as by daylie experience you have seene. 
 Wherefore we will that you do presentlie make your repair unto us, wheresoever 
 you shall heare of our being, to lay down your greefes and complaints, if you 
 have anie ; and, if you stand in any doubt of yourself, theis our letters shall be 
 for you and such as shall accompany you in your coming and returning, your 
 safetyes ; and further, on your drawing nere the place, where we shall be, we will 
 send you safe conduct for you, Thomas Ormond and Ossery.' 
 
 ' Given at the Camp of Cowlin 8 Oct. 1598. 
 
 ' We need not put you in mind of the late overthrowe of th' Erie your uncle, 
 who was plaged with his partakers by fire, sword and famine ; and be assured, if 
 you proceed in any traiterous actions, you will have the like end. What her 
 Mat's forces have done against the King of Spaine, and is liable to do against 
 ani other enemie, the world hath sene, to her immortal fame ; by which you may 
 judge what she is hable to do against you, or anie others, that shall become 
 traytors.' 
 
 Superscribed ' To James Fitz Geralde geve theis in hast." 
 
 Desmond answered thus — 
 
 "James: Desmonde to Ormond 
 
 R 1 Hon : I received your Lo s lettres, wherein your Lo. doth specify, that you 
 think it verie straunge, that I should join in action with these gentlemen of 
 Leinster. It is so that I have ever at all times behaved myself dutifully, and as 
 a true subject to her Ma'tie as ever laie in me ; and as it is well known to your 
 Lo. I have showed my willingness in service against my uncle and his adherents, 
 
 1 O'Sullei'an. g Moryson. h Camden. ' O'Sul'evan. * Anna/a. 
 
APPENDIX. 333 
 
 whereby I have been partlie a mean of his destruction. Before my uncle's 
 decease, it may be remembered by your Lo, I have been in England from my 
 Father, claiming title to his inheritance of the house of Desmonde, which is 
 manifestlie known to be his righte ; whereupon her Ma'ty promised to do me 
 justice upon the decease of my uncle, who then was in action, and have allowed 
 me a mark sterling per diem towards my maintenance untill her Matt's further 
 pleasure were known ; of which I never received but one year's paie ; and ever 
 since my uncle's decease I could get no hearing concerning my inheritance of 
 the Earldome of Desmonde, but have bestowed the same upon divers under- 
 takers to disinherit me for ever. Having all this while stayed myself, in hope 
 to be gratiouslie dealt withall by her Ma'tie, seeing no other remedie, and that 
 I could get no indifferencie, I will follow, by all the means I can, to maintaine 
 my right trusting in the Almighty to further the same. 
 
 My verie good Lo : I have seene so many bad examples in seeking of diverse 
 manie gentlemen bluddely false and sinister accusations cut off and executed to 
 deathe, that the noblemen and chief gentlemen of this Province cannot think 
 themselves assured of their lives, if they were contented to lose their lands and 
 living. As for example, Redmond Fitz Geralde, upon the false accusation of a 
 scurvey boy for safeguard of his life, was put to death, being a gentleman of 
 good calling, being three score years of age, and innocent of the crime charged 
 withall. Donagh M c Craghe also was executed upon the false information of a 
 villainous Kerne, who within a sevennight was putt to death within yor Lop's 
 Libertie of Clonmell, who took upon his salvacion, all that he said against the 
 said Donagh was untrue, that he was suborned by others. Of late a poore cosen 
 of ours, James Fitz Morrys of Mochollopa is so abominably dealt withall, upon 
 the false accusation of an Englishman accusing him of murder, who never drew 
 sworde in anger all the days of his life, and is manifestely knowen that he never 
 gave cause to be suspected of the like. Piers Lacy who was an earnest servitor, 
 and had the kiling of Rory M c Morrogho, and the apprehension of Morrogho 
 Oge till he left him in the gaol of Limerick ; and after all his services was driven 
 for the sauegarde of his leife to be a fugitive. To be brief with yo : Lo : English- 
 men were not contented to have our lands andjiving, but unmercifullie to seeke 
 our leives by false and sinister means under cullor of Lawe ; and. as for my 
 parte, I will prevent it the best I maie. 
 
 ' Committing yo : Lo : to God, I am yor Lo.'s loving Cosen, 
 
 ' Ja : Desmonde. 
 
 From the Camp at Carrigrone 12 Oct 1598.'^ 
 
 J A'ilk.Jour. of Arch. Unpublished Geraldine Documents. 
 
334 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 The day Desmond sent this letter from his camp, within four miles of Cork, 
 Ormond wrote to the Queen — -' At my coming to Munster I found that all the 
 undertakers, three or four excepted, had most shamefully forsaken all their 
 Castelles and dwelling plases before anie rebell came within sight of them and 
 left their castells with their munitions, stuff and cattell to the traytors and no 
 manner of resistance made.' 11 
 
 When the Irish army, who were encamped in the west of Connello, heard that 
 Ormond and Norreys were to meet at Kilmallock, they marched eastwards 
 towards Kilmallock and showed themselves to these lords ; the Earl and the 
 President agreed to avoid meeting them and turned towards Magh-Ealla 
 [Mallow]. The Irish pursued them to the gate of Magh-Ealla and proceeded 
 to provoke them (to battle), saying, that they could never wreak their vengeance 
 upon them better than now, when they were all (together) in one place. Not- 
 withstanding this, it was determined that the President should repair to Cork 
 and that the Earl should return to the territory of the Butlers. As the country 
 was left in the power of the Irish on this occasion, they conferred the title of 
 Earl of Desmond, by the authority of O'Neill, upon James, the son of Thomas 
 Roe, son of James, son of John, son of the Earl; and in the course of seventeen 
 days, they left not within the country of the Geraldines (extending) from Dun- 
 queen to the Suir, which the Saxons had well cultivated and filled with habita- 
 tions and various wealth, a single son* of a Saxon, whom they did not either kill 
 or expel. Nor did they leave within this time, a single head residence, castle, or 
 one sod of Geraldine territory which they did not put into the possession of the 
 Earl of Desmond, excepting only Castlemaine in the co. of Kerry, Askeaton in 
 Hy-Connell-Gaura, and Magh-Ealla (Mallow), in the co. of Cork. When these 
 agents of O'Neill had, in a short time, accomplished this great labour, they 
 took their leave of this Earl whom they themselves had appointed. O'More 
 and such part of the forces who adhered to him, set out for Leix ; Burke 
 and that part of the same hosting, over which he had command, proceeded 
 to Ormond ; and the Ulster troops who were along with these gentlemen 
 proceeded to their homes, not without wealth or booty acquired on this 
 expedition. Tyrrell remained with the Earl, who continued spending and 
 subjugating Munster, and gaining more and more people over to his side> 
 during the remaining two months of this year.' 
 
 k McCarthy Mor. * Moryson says they did not spare the daughters; but 
 
 his authority needs support. The Earl of Desmond wrote to Carew in 1601, "I defye any 
 English that can charge me with hindering of them in bodye or goods." ' Annala. 
 
APPENDIX. 335 
 
 23. — Result of the Inroad of the Leinster Men. 
 The Munster confederacy was joined by M c Moris, Baron of Lixnaw, Fitz 
 Gerald (the Knight of Kerry), Fitz Gerald (the Knight of Glynn), Fitz Gibbon 
 (the White Knight), by Dermot and Donogh McCarthy of Duhallow, Donal 
 son of McCarthy Mor, Condon, O'Donoghu of Onacht, and O'Donoghu of 
 the Glen ; by Lords Fermoy, Mountgarret, and Caher,™ and Purcell, Baron of 
 Lochmoe, with many young Butlers." The rebellion brake out like lightning," 
 disobedience had spread from the rural districts to the walled cities and post 
 towns : 200 of Ormond's soldiers had deserted to the enemy, who were an in- 
 sufferable, disdainful, insolent people ; p there was no county in Munster but was 
 impassable for any subject, especially for all who wore hose or breeches after 
 the English manner. q Unless Her Majesty shall royally undertake the prose- 
 cution, the Kingdom will be lost — there is nothing now left but Dublin and the 
 Port of Wexford' ; and the Queen takes it much to heart that with 10,000 men 
 she is in no part able to defend herself. 5 On the 4th of November Cecil writes — 
 ' The disease is general ; the religion bad ; the nobility discontented ; the sol- 
 diers beaten ; the discipline corrupted ; her Irishman an after game, except we 
 see a blot and enter and bind. Ulster a country so strong and so wild as never 
 conquered nor quiet ; wholly in rebellion except some scores (?) ; the climate 
 unwholesome ; the passages so difficult as my Lord Burgh — The General 
 Norreys never could look over the water ; good soldiers, well armed, and in 
 blood..' On December the 1st Elizabeth writes to the Council — ' We have 
 sent over great supplies, to our excessive charge; yet we receive naught else 
 but news of fresh losses and calamities. Although you have the great number 
 of 9000 men, we do not only see the northern traitor untouched at home, and 
 range where else he pleased, but the provincial rebels in every province, by 
 such as he can spare, enabled to give law to our provincial governors ; besides 
 that the Pale is not only wasted, but the walls of Dublin, (where our State is 
 seated), esteemed unsafe, and (as we hear) the suburbs thought a dangerous 
 lodging for some of our principal counsellors... we will send a sufficient force of 
 horse and foot out of England, strengthened with old soldiers of the Low 
 Countries.' On the 3 rd of Dec r she writes to the L. President of Munster — 'We 
 have understood how strange a revolt has happened in Munster. When the first 
 traitor grew to head, with a ragged number of rogues and boys, you might 
 better have resisted than you did, especially considering the many defensible 
 
 m 0' Sullivan. n Annala. ° Moryson. P Sir T. Norreys. 1 Sir N. Walsh. 
 
 'Wallop — an exaggeration. s Cecil. See McCarthy Mor., p. 181 . ' Cecil, in 
 
 Car. Cal., p. 523, 
 
336 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 houses and castles possessed by the Undertakers, who, for aught we can hear, 
 were no way comforted nor supported by you, but either from lack of comfort 
 from you or out of mere cowardice, fled away from the rebels on the first alarm." 
 We have sent over 2000 foot for your aid, and given orders to increase your 30 
 horse to 50, in sterling pay, and to send over another 100 horses. There are 
 some out or suspected, who might be used, on their claims for land being 
 granted, as good instruments against the capital rebels. Of such are the White 
 Knight, Condon, and Donogh M c Cormacke of the Dually/ 
 
 24. — Fighting in Thomond. 
 There was strife among some of the gentlemen of Thomond concerning the 
 division and joint-tenure of their territory lands. Among them was Teig, the 
 son of Conor, son of Donogh O'Brien, by whom the bridge of Portcroisi was 
 taken ; and although he was not the first who had attempted to take it (by 
 force) from Margaret Cusack, it was to him it finally fell. He also took the 
 castle of Cluain in Hy-Caisin, and the castle of Sgairbh, in the east of Hy-Bloid, 
 from the attorney of the Bishop of Meath's son. Among these was also Conor, 
 son of Donnell, son of Mahon, son of Brian O'Brien, who took Baile-an- 
 chaislein, in Upper Clann-Cuilein, from Mac Namara Finn (John, the son of 
 Teige, son of Cumeadha). Among them was Turlough, son of Mahon, from 
 Coill O'Flannchadha, who took from George Cusack Derryowen, at first the 
 patrimony of the sons of Auliffe, the son of Cian O'Shaughnessy. Mahon, the 
 son of Turlough Boy, obtained Coill O'Flannchadha. Among the same gentle- 
 men was Turlough, the son of Murrough, son of Conor O'Brien, from Cathair- 
 Mionain, and his kinsman, Dermot Roe, who joined in the war of the Irish. 
 Among them, moreover, was Teig Caech, the son of Turlough, son of Brian, 
 son of Donough Mac Mahon, who, about Christmas in this year, captured an 
 English ship, that had been going astray for a long time before. It happened to 
 put in at a harbour in Western Corca-Bhaiscinn, in the neighbourhood of 
 Carraig-an-Chobhlaigh. Teig took away this ship from the crew, and all the 
 valuable things it contained. It was not long after till Teig found the profit 
 very trivial, and the punishment severe. The same Teig took Dunbeg, one of 
 his own castles, from a Limerick merchant, who had it in his possession, in lieu 
 
 of debt." 
 
 25. — The War in Connaught. 
 
 Ballymote, which had been in the possession of the English, for the space of 
 
 " Lombard says 1800 of them and their followers sailed from Waterford in 18 vessels. The 
 poet Spenser was one of these exiles. ' Elizabeth's Letters, in Car. Cat. w Annala. 
 
APPENDIX. 337 
 
 thirteen years before this time, was taken this summer by its rightful inheritors, 
 the Clann-Donnough of Corran, namely, Tomaltagh and Cathal Duv. Governor 
 Clifford, and O'Donnell (Hugh Roe) were auctioning the castle against each 
 other, in offering to purchase it from the Clann-Donnough. The close of the 
 bargain was, that the Clann-Donnough gave up the castle to O'Donnell for a 
 purchase and contract in the middle month of the autumn. Four hundred 
 pounds (in money) and three hundred cows, was the price which O'Donnell 
 gave. In Autumn O'Donnell sent a body of forces from Tirconnell with Mac 
 William (Theobald, the son of Walter Kittagh, son of John, son of Oliver) into 
 Mac William's territory. He sent with him on this occasion O'Doherty (John 
 Oge, the son of John, son of Felim, son of Conor Carragh) with a great force. 
 They were scarcely noticed in any country through which they passed, until 
 they arrived in the Owles ; and it was in these (territories) the greater part of 
 the herds and flocks of all Mac William's country then were. They collected all 
 the cattle that were on the main land, outside the small islands ; and though 
 great was the collection of preys they made, they encountered no danger or 
 difficulty, save only the trouble of driving them off. And they returned safe to 
 their territories, i.e. Mac William to Tirawly, and O'Dogherty to Irishowen. 
 When O'Donnell had obtained possession of Ballymote in the middle of 
 Autumn, the Kinel-Connel sent their creaghts into the county of Sligo ; and 
 O'Donnell himself resided at Ballymote from the time it was given up to him 
 until after Christmas. O'Donnell (at this time) caused his forces to be mustered 
 in every place where they were : first, the Kinel-Connell, with all their forces, 
 came to him ; and next Mac William Burke (Theobald, the son of Walter 
 Kittagh), with all those who were under his jurisdiction ; and when these had 
 come together to O'Donnell, to Ballymote, (which was) precisely in the end of 
 December, he resolved to proceed into Clanrickard, although the inhabitants of 
 that territory were on the alert and on their guard ; such was their fear and 
 dread of him. He marched silently, and arrived unobserved at the gate of 
 Kilcolgan by break of day ; he then sent marauding parties in every direction 
 through the level part of Clanrickard ; one party went to the borders of 
 Oireacht-Redmond, and another to Dun-Guaire, in Coill-Ua-bhFiachrach. This 
 party who went to Coill-Ua-bh Fiachrach committed lamentable deeds ; they 
 slew the two sons of Ross, the son of Owny, son of Melaghlin O'Loughlin, 
 i.e., Turlough Boy and Brian. But a gentleman of the Clann-Donnell 
 Galloglagh, who was along with Mac William on that expedition, namely, 
 Hugh Boy Oge, the son of Hugh Boy, son of Mulmurry Mac Donnell, had 
 been slain on this occasiou by Turlough Boy, the son, before he himself fell. 
 By another party of O'DonnelPs people were slain the two sons of William, 
 
 2 u 
 
338 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 son of John (Burke) of Rinn-Mhil, and the son of Theobald, son of Dabuck, 
 from Uoire-Ui-Dhorahnaill, with his brother's son, Mac Hubert of Disert- 
 Cealaigh, namely, William, the son of Ulick Roe, son of Ulick Oge, was 
 taken prisoner by O'Donnell's brother, Manus, son of Hugh, son of Manus. 
 Although the Earl had great numbers of hired soldiers quartered in Clan- 
 rickard, O'Donnell carried off the immense spoils, heavy herds, and other 
 booty and property, which had been collected for him, without battle or con- 
 flict, until he arrived safe at Ballymote." 
 
 26. — Minor Events. 
 In March, Murtagh Cam, son of Conor, son of Mahon, son of Thomas 
 Mac Mahon of Cnoc-an-lacna [Co. Clare] died in the territory of East Corca- 
 Baiscin ; in Spring died Ogan son of John son of Melaghlin O'h-Ogain of Ard- 
 Croine. [A considerable portion of his castle is still to be seen at Ard- 
 Crony.] O'Cahan (Ruari son of Manus son of Donchadh son of John son 
 of Aibhne) died on the 14 th of April, and his son Donall Ballach was in- 
 stalled in his place. Baothghalach, son of Hugh son of Baothghalach, son 
 of Mortach Mac Clanchy, of Cnoc-fionn in Clare, died in April. He was 
 fluent in the Latin, Irish and English tongues. Dermot, the son of Edmund, 
 son of Rury O'Dea of Tully O'Dea was killed in the month of July by the 
 insurgents of Clare. Rickard, the son of John, son of Thomas, son of 
 Rickard Oge Burke of Doire-mic-Lachtna, died in August. Mac Donough 
 of Tirerrill (Maurice Caech, the son of Teig-an Triubhis) was slain in Briefny- 
 O'Rorke, as he was carrying off a prey ; upon which Conor Oge, son of 
 Melachlin from Baile-an-duin was appointed the Mac Donough. The Blind 
 Abbot, (i.e., Willian:, the son of David, son of Edmond, son of Ullick 
 Burke) who had styled himself M c William after the death of the last lord, 
 namely, Richard, the son of Oliver, son of John, did not happily enjoy his 
 title of lord, for he was expelled from his patrimony by Sir Richard Bingham ; 
 after which he went about wandering as an exile from territory to territory 
 until he died in Clan Cuilein (in Thomond) in the month of September ; and 
 he was buried in the abbey of Quin in the burial place of the Sil-Aedha The 
 M c \Villiam, who was lord at that time, was Theobald (the son of Walter 
 Kittagh, son of John, sen of Oliver) whom O'Donnell had nominated 
 M c William. Joan Cam, the daughter of the Earl of Desmond, namely of 
 James, the son of John, son of Thomas of Drogheda, died in winter, having 
 spent many years in widowhood after the destruction of her tribe, and the 
 worthy men to whom she had been successively espoused. y 
 
 * Annala. y Arranged and condensed from the Anna/a. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 •339 
 
 Some original Letters written in X598. 
 1. Articuli quidam cum Supplicatione S. SancF' nomine lbernorum Exulum 
 proponcndi* 
 
 Cum pro ea, Sanctissime Pater, quam Ecclesiarum omnium ex officio geris 
 solicitudine, non possit non esse gratum quicquid per quoscumque suggeritur 
 opportunum ad Religionem Catholicam ubivis locorum vel conservandam vel 
 instaurandam ; tanto gratius sit oportet quod ad hunc proponitur finem, quanto 
 magis et ii qui proponunt id officii debent pietati in patriam, et Sane 1 "" T. decet 
 id quod proponitur peculiari quadam cura habere commendatum. Quoniam 
 igitur impleri nunc advertimus quod ante annos centum supra mille D. Patricio 
 Aplo nostro legimus revelatum Iberniam quam tunc quidem ille in spiritu vidit 
 totam inflammatam christianse fidei et charitatis ardore, postea paulatim caligine 
 et tenebris usque adeo obducendam, ut exiguae tantum lucernae et rari tandem 
 superessent carbones vivi, iique cineribus involuti. Idcirco turn pietate in 
 patriam moti, turn spe ducti, quod (prout sequuta habet revelatio eidem Apostclo 
 nostro facta) ad splendorem et ardorem pristinum Ibernia postliminio reversura 
 sit, Nos ad oscula pedum Sanc tis T. humiliter prostrati articulos quosdam sive 
 puncta duximus proponenda, quorum consideratione Sanc tas T. et excitari possit 
 ad ea propius et pressius cogitanda quae ad salutem patriae nostrae pertinent, et 
 inclinari merito ad id concedendum, quod ad istum finem nos hie suppliciter 
 petimus. 
 
 Primus est, quod Maiores nostri, veteres Iberniae Proceres, tam insigni pietate 
 ac singulari in Sedem Apostolicam observantia fuisse commemorentur, ut post- 
 quam christianam religionem amplexi semel, Pontifici Romano, Christi Dni in 
 terris supremo Vicario, non solum tanquam Pastori totius Ecclesiae Christianae 
 sese submiserint, sed etiam Regionis suae dominium et imperium cesserint. 
 
 Secundus, cum circa annum Dni 1170 vicini Britanni et Angli Iberniam 
 invasissent eamque armis imperio suo subjicere molirentur, Iberni Proceres non 
 antea illis voluerunt se submittere quam Domini sui Romani Pontificis inter- 
 veniente auctoritate, misso ad id in Iberniam Legato Vivesio quodam, Rex 
 Angliae inauguraretur Iberniae Dominus. 
 
 Tertius, quamvis illo quidem tempore expedire videbatur ob multas causas ut 
 Regi Angliae concederetur dominium quoddam protectionis in Iberniam, tamen, 
 ex quo praesertim tempore Henricus VIII, Ecclesiae tandem rebellis factus, 
 usurpavit sibi titulum Regis Iberniae, tam noxium est Ibernis Anglicani dominii 
 effectum iugum, ut huic soli accepto sit ferendum, quod Ibernia ab Ecclesiae 
 gremio per schisma sit avulsa. 
 
 a From the reference to Trinity College and to the Irish Jesuits, this appears to have been 
 written between 1595 and 1598. 
 
34° STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 Quartus, quod licet per Anglicanae istius tyrannidis vim et coactionem 
 materialia passim templa in Ibernia haereticus occupet cultus et religio, tamen 
 Ibernorum animos, viva sua templa, possideat Deus, ut nulla sit in orbe Natio 
 (modo nota illi aut nominata sit unquam haeresis) quae pauciores habeat aut 
 infectos haeresi aut ad earn affectos. Et multi quidem, non obstante illius 
 tyrannidis terrore ac minis, Catholicam adhuc Religionem constanter profitentur; 
 caeteri vero plerique constantiam istam probant ad eamque propendent, et quic- 
 quid hie delinquitur ex sufficientis instructionis defectu proficiscitur. 
 
 Quintus, cum qui ex aliis nationibus pro fide Citholica exules in Catholicis 
 passim regionibus, assignata sibi habeant ex Sedis Apostolicae pia liberalitate 
 seminaria et scholas, in quibus aluntur, et qui inter illos juniores erudiuntur, sola 
 Ibernia, proprium Apostolicae Sedis patrimonium, beneficii huius non est par- 
 ticeps. Quod tamen si hactenus percepisset et hunc imprimis fructum retulisset, 
 quod submitti possent in Iberniam (ubi et liberius agerent quam in aliis quoquo 
 modo infectis haeresi et schismate regionibus) qui instructiores confirmando et 
 consolando, rudiores instruendo, lapsos revocando plurimum profuissent. 
 Deinde et alterum minus forte observatum sed non parvi aestimandum attulisset 
 fructum, nempe, ut qui Iberni Romam petunt, quippiam solicitaturi, non admit- 
 terentur nisi habito ab eiusmodi Seminario Nationis vitae suae et conversationis 
 testimonio ac commer.datione. 
 
 Sextus, cum Ibernia olim fuerit et religionis et disciplinarum schola eiusmodi, 
 ut et eruditionem in istis accipiendam soliti sint eo ex vicinis regionibus plurimi 
 confluere, et ex ipsa prodire multi ad religionem et eruditionem in exteris pro : 
 pagandas nationibus — hac gloria paulatim decidente sive per externorum 
 frequentes et feroces in Iberniam irruptiones, et grassationes, sive per domes- 
 ticorum Principum civilia et intestina bella, sive per alias simul concurrentes 
 occasiones et causas — certe Angli, Iberniae effecti Domini, utcunque in principio 
 correxerunt quaedam a christianae religionis instituto illic devia, postmodum, 
 quasi data opera, satagerunt ut Ibemos in ignorantiae et ruditatis barbara quadam 
 retinerent caligine, opportunum id ducentes ad illos tanquam sibi servos et 
 mancipia in subiectione continendos. Unde evenit ut Iberni, religioni Catholicae 
 affectu pio alioqui deditissimi, non satis fuerint instructi ad detegendam et repel- 
 lendam illam in religione corruptelam, quam aliquot iam lustris Angli qua 
 poterant vi et fraude conati sunt in Iberniam invehere. 
 
 Septimus, cum etiam vigente ad hue in utroque Angliae et Iberniae Regno 
 Catholica religione, videbatur hactenus caligo ista ignorantiae et rudidatis oppor- 
 tuna ad Ibemos retinendos Angliae subiectos, ab uno iam vel altero anno alia 
 inita est ratio et consilium, quo Anglia, quae se devovit haeresi, in eamdem 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 341 
 
 secum nassam Iberniam quoque trahat, atque ita illam arctius sibi reddat devinc- 
 tam, nempe collegii cuiusdam ampli et magnifici extructione iuxta Dublinium, 
 primariam Iberniae urbem, in quo a praeceptoribus Anglis haereticis Juventus 
 Ibernica in haeresi instituatur. Ex hoc collegio et institutione magnum imprimis 
 periculum Ibernis imminet, quia licet hactenus affectum eiusmodi per Dei 
 gratiam, et merita Sanctorum suae gentis, praesertim Apostoli nostri S. Patricii, 
 erga Religionem Catholicam et Apostolicam Sedem insitum sibi ostenderint 
 semper, ut is videri possit in nativam transiisse dispositionem, tamen, quia flexilis 
 valde eorum indoles, timendum merito, ne, deficientibus qui de Catholica reli- 
 gione instruant, haeretica doctrina serio seduloque inculcata affectum istum 
 immutet, et flexilem indolem ad se rapiat. Deinde ex periculi hums con- 
 sideratione tristitia magna et continuus dolor cum nobis turn cordatioribus in 
 Ibernia Catholicis, eo quod illic desint idonei ec sufflcientes homines, qui in 
 Catholica religione instruant, ac simul desiderium, velut parturientium, quo 
 optamus eiusmodi homines illuc submitti. 
 
 Quare Sanctississime Pater, Clementissime Domine noster, haec nostra et 
 populi nostri, imo vero tui iure optimo, voluntate paratissima offerentes tibi 
 vota, ad oscula beatissimorum tuorum pedum prostrati, imprimis optamus, et 
 Deum Opt. Max. rogamus, ut in diebus tuis, et in universo adimpleatur mundo 
 quod praedixit Isaias : " Venient et adorabunt vestigia pedum tuorum qui 
 detrahebant tibi ; " et peculiariter contingat genti nostrae, ut quam Henricus 
 VIII. Ecclesiae rebellis factus ab obedientia Clementis Septimi violenter avulsit, 
 Pastor bonus Clemens Octavus Ecclesiae compagi Iberniam postliminio restituat. 
 Deinde rogamus Clementissimam T. Pietatem, ut digneris Articulos et rationes 
 iam allatas attente considerare, ut quae vel ex iis vel ex aliis quibuscumque pro 
 salute Iberniae tuae Deus bonus cordi tuo inspiraverit, ea pro T. Pietate, pru- 
 dentia et officio executioni mandari satagas. Denique quia, Clementissimo Deo 
 conservante nobis semen, sunt nostrates quidam e Societate Jesu sacerdotes 
 idonei, qui in patria fructum faciant maximum, obsecramus humiliter, ut sicut ad 
 provincias alias ab haeresi reducendas, aut retinendas in Catholica religione 
 aliorum hactenus factae sunt missiones, sic ex istis sacerdotibus ordinentur aliqui 
 in Iberniam, albam ad messem region em, auspiciis tuis mittendi operarii. 
 
 Sanctitatis T. humM 1 "' Clientes Iberni pro Catholica Religione Exules hinc 
 inde dispersi. 
 
 Endorsed — Articuli noie Hybernorum S. S a proponendi. 
 
 2. — DeW III""' Sig" Cardinale Mat lei a N. R. P. Gnrale da Ferrara a 21 di 
 Maggio 1598. 
 
 Molto R come fratello. Diedi conto giermatina alia s" di N. S. della mis- 
 sione che la P la V" era risoluto di fare, quando cosi fusse piaciuto a S. B°°, 
 
342 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 d'alcuni PP. in Ibernia accio potessero ivi fare, quel frutto spirituale che dalle 
 loro mani si puo fermamente sperare. E si come la S. S ta gradi multo cotesta 
 buona volunta della P. V., cosi si contenta di concedere come la a quei PP. che 
 da lei saranno inviati in quel Regno, che possino in esso essercitare tutte le 
 faculta che da Sua B. sono state concesse o confermate ai PP. della Comp a che 
 sono andati in Inghilter e vuole Sua S ,a che questa mia lettera basti per 
 essecutione della presente concessione. 
 
 3. — Christopher Holiwood* S. J. to F. Aquxviv.i. 
 
 Admodum R de P r . Pax Chri. 
 
 Gratias habeo quantas maximas P. V" quod tantam de me curam dignatus 
 est habere. Patavium petam, Deo bene propitio, proxima hebdomada, ibi facturus 
 quod iubebit Provincialis donee aliter Paternitas V ra disposuerit. Scriptum est 
 ad me nullum esse in Hibernia qui habeat facultatem dispensandi cum Nobilibus 
 Catholicis, ad hoc ut possint, salva conscientia, retinere bona Ecclesiastica, quae 
 iam possident, donee Deus restituat pacem Ecclesiae. Videat P. V a an expe- 
 diat talem facultatem nostros, qui mittentur, habere. Certe expedit Ecclesiae 
 sua hoc tempore a Catholicis possideri ; nam illi erunt semper parati ea resti- 
 tuere, et interim aliquid quotannis pendere in pios usus insumendum : quod si 
 omnia Ecclesiae bona ab haereticis possiderentur, id redderet ipsorum con- 
 versionem multo difficiliorem et impedirit pacem Ecclesiae, nee quicquam 
 interim subsidii inde pauperes acciperent. Quod superest, oro D. opt. max. ut 
 P. V. incolumem et nostri memorem servet. Mediolani 10 Junii 98. 
 
 P. V. servus in X. minimus 
 
 Christophorus Holivodids. 
 
 Al m" R do in Chr° P. il Padre Claudio 
 
 Aquaviva Gnale della Comp a di Giesu a Roma. 
 
 4. — Letter of J. Archer? S.J. Aug. 10, 1598. 
 
 R do in X° P. Claudio Aquaviva, Praeposito G" Societatis Jesu, Romae, 
 Admodum R de in X° Pater, Pax Christi, etc. 
 
 Quas t. p. ad me dedit 14 Martii, has ego non ante Calendas Augusti accepi, 
 etsi ad patrem Henricum Fitz Symons tribus ante mensibus pervenerint, unde 
 facile perspicere potest occasionem tanti silentii. A tempore quo hue perveni 
 in tantis angustiis versatus sum, ut nihil de ratione mittendi per Angliam 
 didicerim, quam p. Fitz Simons, quem ad horulam tantum vidi, me docuerit. 
 Per Hispaniam plures misi cum pecuniis ad studiosos, et nullum omnino respon- 
 sum accepi. Unde hoc provenerit non aliter conjicere possum, quam quod 
 mercatores nostri literas ad me vel ex me transferre vereantur, eo quod status hie 
 maximo me prosequatur odio, et frequenti indagine, magno proposito pretio, me 
 
 b Of Artane Castle, Dublin. c Of Kilkenny. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 343 
 
 perquirat, ita ut in sylvis et latebris ut plurimum again, et regredi ad meos non 
 liceat eo quod mercatores in suas me recipere naves non audeant, quod certo 
 sciant quosdam in quolibet portu a statu designatos qui me opperiantur. 
 
 Attamen Societatis munia, prout possum, exercere non desisto ; bis mille 
 confessiones...excepi ; incultos et barbaros in fide instruxi ; quosdam, abiurata 
 haeresi, Ecclesiae reconciliavi, et personam unam nobilem, quae, ablegata 
 coniuge, scortum introduxerat, unde maxima dissensio inter principes viros 
 oriebatur, cum ilia in gTatiam redire feci ; sacramenta in Castris ministravi 
 quandoquidem cum subditis in Civitatibus versari non sit permissum. Mirum 
 est quantus erat concursus ex vicinis locis ut Sacrum audirent et peccatis 
 expiarentur ; hinc facile conjicere potest t. p. quanta sit spes uberrimi fructus si 
 plures e Societate mittantur. 
 
 De Missione cum nobi/ibus, praesertim aquilonaribus, egi, qui earn valde 
 expetunt, et maxime opus habent, homines inculti, barbari et plane rudes ; reli- 
 giosos tamen plurimum respiciunt. I Hi omnem operam et solicitudinem et 
 praedia quaedam illis designare pollicentur. Ex hac parte, valde inculta, 
 "excursiones ad reliquas cum maiore securitate et fructu fieri poterunt. Alii in 
 parte australi missionem quidem exoptant, patrocinium patrum assumere publice 
 non audent, sed fovere, et procurare ut nihil illis desit non renuunt. Maior 
 modo spes est uberioris fructus quam hactenus ob frequentes Catholicorum 
 victorias, unde fit ut haeretici ex multis locis migrare cogantur. 
 
 De reformatione Cleri tota difficultas erit ob eorum audaciam et inscitiam 
 ...Quapropter opus erit ut qui mittantur amp/am habeant Jurisdictionem, quam 
 solam illi respiciunt et reverentur, ad coercendam eorum insolentiam. Ex eorum 
 restauratione tota res pendet, quod ego compertum habeo, ex eo quod quidam 
 Cornelius Stanle Vic. Apos cus obnixe me rogavit, cum hue venirem ut illi assist- 
 erem in executione sui muneris in spiritualibus ; cui eo lubentius assensum 
 praebui, quod sperabam inde maiorem Dei gloriam et ingens animarum lucrum, 
 ut res ipsa testatur \ brevi namque tempore decern sacerdotes, ablegatis concu- 
 binis et schismate abiurato, ad meliorem frugem redegi ; quod sane efficere non 
 possem nisi fultus auctoritate et iurisdictione illius. Praeterea ad securitatem 
 conscientiarum illius nomine dispensavi cum quibusdam Catholicis pro fructibus 
 Ecclesiasticis, ab Haereticis perceptis, componendo cum illis pro quota aliqua 
 solvenda in subsidium Seminarii Hybemorum Salmanticae, quorum gratia hue 
 missus sum. In qua re non existimo me quicquam fecisse adversus Societatis 
 institutum, et quod non sit gratum Deo, et t. p. acceptum, cui in omnibus, ut 
 semper, meum subjicio judicium. Quod si liceret mihi accedere ad Superiores, 
 
344 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 nec illud ipsurn sine ipsorum iussu acceptarem ; enixe rogo t. p. ut nihil mali de 
 me suspicetur in hac nec alia re ex relatu aliorum, qui parum de me aut meis 
 actionibus compertum habent. Dicere non possem quantum rei Christianae 
 proficerem, si liceret mihi inter hominos publice versari, quod spero aliis fore 
 permissum eo quod cum adversariis nunquam sint versati, ut ego in Flandria et 
 alibi, nec eorum nomina statim sint cognita. Iter in Hispaniam cogito prima 
 occasione ex septentrionali parte, quo antea pervenire non potui, omnibus viis 
 interclusis. Haec sunt, R de Pater, quae de me et de missione scribere pro 
 ratione temporis potui; t. p. inveniet me semper fidelem, humilem etobedientem 
 Societatis filium. Raptim ex Castris 10 Augusti 98. 
 
 t. P. servus in X° minimus, 
 
 Jacobus Archerus. 
 5. — Nicholas Lcnich A S. J. to Fr. Duras, Sep. 25, 1598. 
 
 Ihus 
 Pax. X. Quoniam intelligo R. V™" cupidam esse aliquid andiendi ex multis, 
 quae Deus Opt. et Max., opera et industria nostrorum patrum, in Hybernia 
 operatur, ideo non immerito existimavi ad R. V. mittere eo quae accepi ex literis 
 Patricii Hamlii, sacerdotis et olim alumni huius Seminarii, scriptis ex Hybernia 
 12 Calendas Julii huius praesentis anni, ex Anglico idiomate quantum ego potui 
 Latino donatis. 
 
 Haud facile dictu est, quantus in his locis fructus constiterit ex opera Patris 
 Tacobi Archeri, uberior procul dubio futurus, nisi unum illud obstaret quod ex- 
 ploratores a Prorege constituti iam inde a primo Patris in Hyberniam ingressu, 
 in eum diligenter inquirebant : usque adeo ut ab hominum oculis, in quibus 
 versabatur, in latebras sibi confugiendum putaret : in quibus moratus tantum 
 temporis, quantum satis esset ad sui memoriam abolendam, rursus intermissa 
 studia instauravit, hodieque Societatis munia ita exequitur, ut ad fidem 
 Catholicam magnus haereticorum fiat accessus. Hie est alius ex eadem Societate 
 sacerdos e Flandria appulsus, cui nomen est Henrico Simonio,* qui non minori 
 cum fructu animarum saluti operatur, Deo illius conatus favente ; nam singulis 
 quibusque festis ac Dominicis diebus frequentem ad populum concionatur, tanto 
 cum animi ardore ut suimet ac suarum rerum oblitus videatur. Multi ab haeresum 
 coeno ad Christianae religionis splendorem convertuntur : utque alios prae- 
 termittam verae fidei communionem ingressos, Dublinii, in urbe totius Regni 
 metropoli, ubi Prorex sedem tenet, centum omnino sunt, qui praeterito anno 
 circa festum Paschatis resurrectionis pravo haereticorum more, rituque perverso 
 communicarunt : iidem tandem christianae doctrinae rudimentis probe instructi, 
 
 * Of Clonmel. • H. Fitz Simon, of Dublin. 
 
APPENDIX. 345 
 
 apud Patrem anteactae vitae maculas confessione eluerunt ; vita^que coelestis 
 Sacramento refecti, tantum pietatis specimen, fluentibus abundanter lacrimis, 
 praebuerunt, ut omnes in admirationem darentur. Ne tamen propter insolentem 
 multitudinem turbae fierent, non omnes uno die sacrum X' Corpus exceperunt ; 
 sed in duos bipartiti, priori sexageni posteriori vero quadrageni : qua in re 
 videre erat pium illorum certamen contendentium, utri prius divinum illud con- 
 vivium degustarent. Huius rei novitas fuit omnibus tam iucunda, ut multos 
 dies nullus nisi de ilia sermo haberetur, singulis immortales gratias Deo agenti- 
 bus, quod ab errorum tenebris in lucem veritatis traducti essent : unde prae- 
 cipuus in Deum honor et in Catliolicorum coetus utilitas redundabat. Cum 
 vero Catliolicorum numerus in dies augeretur, Patri visum fuit nobili in domo** 
 aram collocare, quo Catholici confluentes divinis rebus interessent. Quare, ut 
 maiorem in omnium animis ad pietatem affectum excitaret, aulam peristro- 
 matis excoluit, tapetibus instravit, et in medio aram posuit rebus omnibus ad 
 sacrificandum tam eleganter instructam, ut nulli cederet earum quae in istis 
 locis instructissimae visuntur. Curavit insuper, ut res divina cum omni vocum 
 nervorumque concentu celebraretur ; itaque, organa si excipias nullum ferme ex 
 musicis instrumentis requisieris : nablia, cytharae, testudines, et siqua reliqua 
 sunt, iucundissimam commiscebant harmoniam. Prius tamen quam Sacrum 
 solemni fieret apparatu ter celebratum est planiori ritu, et quidem sine ullo cantu 
 vocum, non tamen affectionqm, quae, in omnium animis adversus Deum 
 mirabiliter incensae, Dei coelitumque aures pertingebant ; quippe in singulis 
 Sacrifices Catholici bene multi coelesti pane pasti et incredibili divinae con- 
 solationis dulcedine perfusi, ita ut pro votis nunquam satis Deo gratias 
 decantarent. Stato Missae tempore de rebus divinis Pater sermonem instituit 
 tanta cum utilitate audientium quanta maxima esse poterat. Argumento [est] 
 quod demisso sacro plurimos in sodalitatem B. Mariae cooptaverit, quae ab 
 eodem patre instituta tam ibi quam apud alias primi ordinis familias magna 
 cum Sodalium frequentia efflorescit. Hinc facile erit intelligere quanta laetitia 
 omnium mentes eo die compleverit, siquidem quadraginta abhinc annis hoc 
 primum Sacrum solemni ritu peractum audierunt : quae omnia conjicienda 
 potius relinquo ac meditanda, esset enim opus immensum singula literis com- 
 plecti quae de horum Catliolicorum pietate ac perseverantia scriptu digna 
 videbantur. 
 
 Pater, ut omnium saluti consulat, varios quoquoversum excursus efficit, 
 adeo quidem prompto animo et expedito, ut sibimet omnem quiescendi facul- 
 tatem adimat, tanto flagrat desiderio suos adiuvandi concives. Quacumque iter 
 
 ** Probably Thomas Fagan's. See Fitz Simon's Letter, infra. 
 
 2 X 
 
346 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1598. 
 
 vel moram facit, statim de Deo sermones serit, patresfamilias de rebus docet, 
 quae ad reliquum vitae spatium in Dei amore ac timore transigendum re- 
 quiruntur. Illi praeceptis illius obediunt, mandataque cum sedulitate exequuntur, 
 ut merito eos dicas ad Christianam pietatem ex ammo proclives atque pro- 
 pensos esse. Praeterea duodecim pueros bene morigeratos, spectataeque indolis 
 et ingenii collegit in Flandriam mittendos, una cum aliquot virginibus, quae se 
 Deo perpetua virginitate devoverunt, ut suum nomen consecrent alicui familiae 
 Deo sacrae : nunc idoneam navigandi tempestatem Dublinii praestolantur, quam 
 fortunatissimam praecamur. 
 
 Igitur, Pater amantissime, si viginti habuerimus e Societate brevi temporis 
 spatio [ab] eis tota Hybernia ad veram fidem compelletur : cui nihilo magis 
 quam via? duce opus est. Quapropter cures diligenter oportet ut quotquot e 
 Societate nostra Hibernico aut Anglico sermone utentur hue mittantur, suam 
 hisce populis operam daturi, qui indies salutis suae avidiores existunt. Interim 
 unum illud admonitum te volo eos omnes in Regno impune, libereque vagaturos, 
 nemine eorum labores, exercitationesque perturbante. Denique ut scribendi 
 finem faciam perstringo breviter quod nuper cum haerelicorum ministris Patri 
 contigit. Prorex certior factus de iis quae a patribus, turn praesertim a p. 
 Henrico agebantur, publicam fidem pactus eum ad certamen cum suis ministris 
 de rebus divinis palam ineundum invitavit. Strenuus Christi miles non recu- 
 savit congressum, ad pugnam descendit. Illi, patrem ut agnoscunt, obstupescere ; 
 periculum vereri, negare insuper cum Jesuitis Seminariorumque alumnis 
 (quos nihilo differre putant) veluti cum impostoribus rem gerendam : imo 
 affirmare nefas esse quovis praesidio illorum studia fovere. Itaque fugere ante pug- 
 nam quam post illam victi discedere maluerunt : hinc eo maiorem ignominiae 
 notam subierunt, quo insolentius antea iactitabant, neminem esse in toto orbe, 
 nedum in Hybernia, qui posset suos inter disputandum impetus sustinere. 
 
 Catholici rem divinam audituri armis se muniunt, quibus se ac sacerdotes 
 tueantur. Antea enim haereticorum ministri quamplures exploraverunt domos, 
 siqua ornamenta vestiendis altaribus et sacerdotibus accommodata invenirent, 
 inventa abstulerunt ; nunc vero in idem periculum se inferre non audent, 
 metuentes ne ubi velint quaestum facere sumptum faciant. Et haec breviter ex 
 Uteris Patricii Hamlii. 
 
 Quid ergo praestolamur, pater amantissime, et cur stamus tota die otiosi, 
 siquidem Deus nos conducat in vineam suam, vineam iam maturam ad messem; 
 age igitur, pater mi, age inquam, ut quam cito plures amandentur operarii, ut 
 semen hoc in horreum Domini reponatur antequam pereat, devasteturque, et 
 summis a V. R. precibus contendo, ut me indignum et inutilem servum 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 347 
 
 dignetur inter caeteros huius sanctae et felicis missionis nominare, nam tanto 
 temporis intervallo turn a N. R. P. turn a praedecessor j R. V. illam expos 
 tulavi. Valeat R. V. in X. Jesu, et me [tuis] piis sacrificiis devotisque 
 precibus me committo. Ex Collegio D. Antonii Ollyssipone 25 Septembris 
 1598. 
 
 R. V ae fr. et servus in X°. Nicolaus Lenich. 
 R d ° in Christo Patri, Patri Georgio Duras Assistenti Societatis Jesu hae 
 dentur. 
 
 Endorsed — Fiat extractum et exhibeatur lll mo Protectori. 
 
 6. — H. Fitz Simon to F. General Aguaviva, Nov. 25. 
 Admodum R. P. Pax X s . Nihil mihi in votis prius est quam ut quae- 
 cumque circa nos gerantur intelligatis ; sed mora est a tabellariis, omnia enim 
 commercia hac rerum perturbatione cessarunt ut litems mittefe aut recipere 
 non sit facile. Adversarii congressum refugiunt non sine eofum confusione et 
 gaudio Catholicorum. Multas insidias instruxerunt, quas divina providentia 
 evasi, comprehensis cum ego evaderem aliis. Dublinia est primaria civitas 
 in qua tribunal regium et proregis sedes, et haereticorum sentina^ altera plane 
 Londinia. Hanc a sacerdotibus prodendam Senatui inculcant Angli Justiciarii 
 et iureiurando conformant, fecerunt fidem adeo ut fratrem frater proderet duos 
 producendo sacerdotes, utque senatus mulctam gravissimam proponeret qui- 
 buscumque sacerdotes foventibus, evolant omnes deserentes cathoiicissimam 
 civitatem. Hie exitus fuit, ut insontes probati sint sacerdotes et audaciores facti 
 Catholici ad terrores hujusmodi perferendos. Ego autem ab iis praemonitus fui 
 quorum intererat perscrutari aedes, quamvis vix satis mature, cum non prius 
 efferrem pedes quam adessent inquisitores. Tota aestate varias obivi regni partes 
 non sine operae praetio, sex revocatis haereticis, plurimisque schismaticis, et 
 auditis confessionibus ingenti numero. Singulis festis concionem habeo, ad 
 quam confluunt a vigesimo milliari non pauci non sine optato in aliquot fructu. 
 Jam autem excurrere non licet absque manifesto vitae periculo, ita digrassantur 
 hostes, qui quamvis catholicos se [ia e ] ctitent, non tamen aliud praeter nomen 
 habent, nee ferunt qui a nequitia coerceant, aut qui inscitiam corrigant ; sic 
 enim rapinis incumbunt, ut timeam praecipuam eas insurrectioni dedisse ansam, 
 et non aliud militibus manere stipendium. Arcerius noster tandem ad vos dat 
 litems, utinam perquas se purget. Implicuit enim se officio Vicarii Generalis, 
 ejus fultus auctoritate qui dubiam habebat potestatem quam etiam alteri con- 
 tulerat. Inde magna confusio, tantaque utqui ejus usi sunt opera in dispen- 
 sationibus aliisque id [generis]* incerti sint omnium. Ego sane nee augeo nee 
 
 « Corroded. * d is eaten, i and g are clear; possibly the word was " negotiis." 
 
348 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO 1 598. 
 
 minuo eius auctoritatem cum nihil de V. R. voluntate habeam compertum. Id 
 enixe supplico V. P., ut collectionum, quas ex tota corrasit Ibernia, aequi pars 
 Duacensibus Ibernis statuatur, qui flos studiosorum nostratium, et quorum 
 intuitu potiorem partem obtinuit. Ideo hoc requiro, quod privatis suis, Sal- 
 manticae, nimium studere passim judicetur. 
 
 Cum opinione omnium, et ipsorum expectatione haereticorum, diversa totius 
 reipublicae futura facies et conditio sit, consulere divino honori, aliqua Eccle 
 siastica beneficia praeoccupando, debemus. Tria autem nostris usibus accom- 
 modatissima animadverti. Primum Thomae Courtum in ipsa Dublinia, quod 
 aliquando Canonicorum Regularium fuit : secundum Abbatia S ,,ie Mariae quod 
 Bernardinorum : tertium Kilmainam quod equitum Melitensium. Haec etiam 
 posteriora duo in ambitu Dublinensi continentur. Si impetremus primum, 
 partem fructuum etiamnum ad nostros usus consequemur. Quod sane opus est, 
 cum recepto more nihil sacerdotibus erogetur praeter oblationes tempore 
 Sacrificii, et victum. Quare, salvo meliore iudicio, soli illi in principio hue 
 mittendi sunt quibus vel patrimonium vel amnitas ampla. Quantum ad 
 externa nova, tota haec patria licet non subiaceat proceribus qui insurrexerunt 
 eorum tamen incursionibus prostituitur ; pervolant enim impune, non minus 
 bonorum quam malorum bona diripientes. Ex iuvenibus qui Duaci studuerunt 
 cum unus in eos improvide incidisset, quod se Henricum Fitz Simon diceret, 
 habitus est benigne, dein dimissus. Venerantur externo cultu omnia veneranda, 
 sed opera eorum longe a Deo. Cum [ed*]ictum vetaret omnes, non exciperent 
 sacerdotes, mihi quamplurima diversoria patuerunt. Magna et periculosa lis inter 
 tres primates falsis rumoribus exoriebatur, quae omnes ad sanguinem mutuo 
 effundendum protrahebat, iamque facinus patrandum erat cum nocturno itinere 
 veredariis equis ad auctorem percurrendo, eumque ad palinodiam recinendum 
 inducendo malum diuino beneficio averterim. Feci, in aliis Societatis functioni- 
 bus, quidquid potui : minutiora per se concipiantur. De facultatibus verbum 
 nullum, deque erecta a me sub ratihabitione sodalitate. Omni animi demissione 
 vestras efflagito sive consolatorias in aestu laborum, sive mandatorias in finibus 
 terrae ut sim semper obedientiae Alius. Denique pari conatu contendo, ut 
 insignis benefactor noster, Dominus Thomas Faganus precibus totius Societatis 
 extraordinariis commendetur, et significatione gratae acceptionis a V. R tia hono- 
 retur. Meipsum eisdem, ut unico micro tanto instantius committo, quanto longius 
 absum ab influentiis caeterorum membrorum, quan toque pluribus obnoxius 
 periculis. Ex Ibernia 25 Novembris 1598. 
 
 V. R Uae tam promtus in X° servus quam humilis Alius — 
 
 Henricus Fitz Simon. 
 
 • Corroded. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 349 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY LISTS OF THE YEARS 1560,= i58s, b AND 1613. 
 
 Lords. 
 
 1560. 1585. 
 
 Earl of Kildare 2d 1st 
 
 Earl of Ormond and Ossory 1st 2d 
 
 Earl of Desmond 3rd — 
 
 Earl of Tyreone 3rd 
 
 Earl of Clanricard 5th 4th 
 
 Earl of Tomond 4th 5th 
 
 Earl of Clancare 6th 
 
 ViscountButtyvant 6th 7 th 
 
 ofFfermoy 7th 8th 
 
 Gormanston 10th 9th 
 
 Baltinglass nth — 
 
 Mountgarrett 12th 16th 
 
 LordBermingham ofAthenry 8th nth 
 
 Coursy 9th 12th 
 
 ofSlane 14th 13th 
 
 Lords. 
 
 1560. 1585. 
 
 Lord of Delvin 13th 14th 
 
 of Killeen 15th 15th 
 
 Howth 16th 16th 
 
 Dunsany 19th 17th 
 
 Trimleteston 17th 18th 
 
 Lixnaw or Kerry 18th — 
 
 Dunboyne 20th 18th 
 
 Upper Ossory 23rd 20th 
 
 Louth 2 1 st 2 1 st 
 
 Curraghmore 22d 22d 
 
 Donganyne — 23rd 
 
 Inchecoyne — ■ 24th 
 
 Burk of Connell ■ — 25th 
 
 Cahir — 26th 
 
 Shires — 1560. 
 
 1585. 
 
 Dublin— Fitz Williams de Holmpatrick R. Netterville 
 Finglas de Waspellistown Burnell 
 
 Meath — Sir Christopher Chever 
 
 P. Barnwall de Stackallan 
 Kildare — Eustace de Cradokeston 
 
 Flattesburie de Johnstown 
 Westmeath — Sir G. Stanley 
 Sir T. Nugent 
 Wexford — Hore de Harperstown 
 
 R d Synnot de Ballybrenan 
 Louth — Taf de Ballebragane 
 
 Dowdal de Glasspistell 
 South Louth ... 
 
 Carlo w— Sir W. Fitz Williams 
 
 Edmund Butler 
 Kilkenny— White, Gall 
 
 Tipperary — Sherlock, Grace 
 
 R. Barnwall 
 
 J. Netterville 
 
 W. Sutton 
 
 E Fitz Morric 
 
 Nugent de Disert 
 
 Nugent de Morton 
 
 Fitz Henry 
 
 Codd 
 
 Gerlone 
 
 More 
 
 Sir H. Wallop 
 
 G. Ffenton 
 
 Blanchville 
 
 Rothe 
 
 Butler 
 
 Everard 
 
 1613. 
 
 Sir C. Plunket 
 Lutteral of Lutterels- 
 
 town 
 Hussey, Baron 
 
 Gallrim 
 R. Barnwall 
 Talbot of Carton 
 Sutton of Tipper 
 C. Nugent 
 E. Nugent 
 Furlong of Horetown 
 Wadding 
 
 Verdon of Clonmore 
 
 Gernon of Strabane 
 
 Bagnal 
 
 M. Cavenagh 
 
 Grace 
 
 Shee 
 
 Butler of Kilcash 
 
 Sir J. Everard 
 
 » Compiled from Hardiman's Statute of Kilkenny, p. 135, 140. 
 Meehan's Fate and Fortunes of O'Neill, p. 522. 
 
 Arranged from Rev. P. J. 
 
35o 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Shires— 1560. 
 Cross of Tipperary 
 
 Waterford — Power of Comshen 
 
 P. Aylward of Faithlick 
 Cork 
 
 Kerry . . . 
 
 Limerick 
 
 Clare , 
 
 Down . . . 
 
 Antrim 
 
 Armagh 
 
 King's Co; 
 
 Queen's Co. 
 
 Connacie 
 Longford 
 
 Galway 
 
 Mayo ... 
 
 Roscommon 
 
 Sligo ... 
 
 Ferns . . . 
 Wicklow 
 
 Cavan ... 
 Coleraine 
 
 1585. 
 
 Archbold 
 
 Prindergast 
 
 R. Ailward 
 
 Sherlock 
 
 J. Norries, L. 
 
 President 
 Cogan Fitz Edmond 
 Fitz Gerald 
 
 Springe 
 
 T. Norris 
 
 R« Bourk 
 
 Sir Tir. O'Brene 
 
 Boetius Clanchy 
 
 Sir H. Bagnell 
 
 Sir Hugh Magennis 
 
 Berkly 
 
 Sha. M'Brien 
 
 Sir G. Bourchier 
 A. Waringe 
 Warham S' Leger 
 Harpoll 
 
 Ffaghny O'Fferrall 
 
 W m O'Fferrall 
 
 Le Straunge 
 
 Fr Shane 
 
 Williams 
 
 Brown 
 
 Sir R Bingham 
 
 Dillon 
 
 Sir V. Brown^ 
 
 Crofton, and 
 
 Marbury 
 
 Masterson 
 
 Synnot 
 
 Brabazon 
 
 Sir H. Harrington 
 
 Philip O'Reilly 
 Ed. O'Reilly 
 
 1613. 
 
 Butler of Cloghcully 
 Laffan of Greystown 
 Sir J. Gough 
 Power of Campier 
 M'Carthy of Logher 
 
 Barrett 
 
 O'Sullevan of Dono- 
 
 lough 
 Rice of Ballinruddall 
 Sir F. Barkley 
 Sir T. Brown 
 D. O'Brien 
 Berty Clancye 
 Sir J. Hamilton 
 Sir H. Montgomery 
 
 Sir T. Caulfield 
 Sir J. Bourchier 
 Sir F. Ruish 
 Sir A. Loftus 
 Sir H. Power 
 Sir R. Piggott 
 
 Connell O'Ferrall 
 John O'Ferrall 
 Sir W. Bourke 
 J. More 
 
 Sir Theo. Burke 
 Sir Tho. Burke 
 Sir O. S" John 
 Sir J King 
 O'Hara 
 M'Donogh 
 
 Byrne of Tynepark 
 Phelim M c Pheagh 
 
 Byrne 
 Sir O. Lambert 
 Fish 
 Baker 
 Rowlev 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 
 Shires — 1560. 
 
 1585. 
 
 1613. 
 
 Donegal 
 
 
 
 
 
 Vaughan 
 Steward 
 
 Fermanagh 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sir H. Folliot 
 Sir J. Davis 
 
 Lei trim... 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nugent 
 Reynolds 
 
 Monaghan 
 
 
 
 
 Sir E. Blakeny 
 Sir B. M c Mahon 
 
 Tyrone 
 
 ... 
 
 ... 
 
 Sir T. Ridgway 
 Sir F. Roe 
 
 Cities — 
 
 1560. 
 
 
 
 Dublin 
 
 Stanihurst... 
 
 Taylor 
 
 Bolton 
 
 
 Golding 
 
 Ball 
 
 Barry 
 
 Waterford 
 
 Wise 
 
 Sir P. Walsh 
 
 Sherlock 
 
 
 Strong 
 
 N. Walsh 
 
 Wadding 
 
 Cork 
 
 J. Miagh 
 
 J. Miagh 
 
 E. Tirry 
 
 
 Coppinger 
 
 Sarsfield 
 
 D. Tirry 
 
 Limerick 
 
 Fanning ... 
 
 T. Arthur 
 
 Galwey 
 
 
 E. Arthur 
 
 White 
 
 N. Arthur 
 
 Borough Towns. 
 
 
 
 
 Drogheda 
 
 Weston ... 
 
 Barn wall 
 
 Blackney 
 
 
 Burnell 
 
 Nugent 
 
 Beeling 
 
 Galway 
 
 Jonoke Lynch 
 
 Pe. Lynch 
 
 Sir W. Blake 
 
 
 Pe. Lynch 
 
 Jo. Lynch 
 
 G. Lynch 
 
 Knockfergus ... 
 
 Wingfield... 
 
 
 Hibbots 
 
 
 Waren 
 
 
 Johnson 
 
 Youghill 
 
 Walsh 
 
 T. Coppinger 
 
 E. Coppinger 
 
 
 Portyngall 
 
 Collen 
 
 Forrest 
 
 Kilkenny 
 
 Bethe 
 
 Roche 
 
 Archer 
 
 
 Archer 
 
 Shee 
 
 Langton 
 
 Wexford 
 
 Hassane ... 
 
 Pa. Furlong 
 
 Turner 
 
 
 R d Talbot „. 
 
 Pa. Talbot 
 
 R' Talbot 
 
 Ross 
 
 Heron 
 
 Duff 
 
 Fitz Henry 
 
 
 Dormer... 
 
 Bennett 
 
 Shee 
 
 Down ... 
 
 
 
 
 Armagh 
 
 
 
 
 Ussher 
 Conway 
 
 Kinsale 
 
 Sir J. Alen 
 
 Galwey 
 
 J. Roche 
 
 
 Agarde ... 
 
 Roche 
 
 D. Roche 
 
 Dundalk 
 
 C. More ... 
 
 Bellew 
 
 Cashel 
 
 
 Stanley 
 
 Bath 
 J. More 
 
 Ellis 
 
 351 
 
352 
 
 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Borough Towns — 1560. 
 
 1585. 
 
 1613. 
 
 Trim 
 
 ...Sir J. Parker 
 
 Hamon 
 
 Ashe 
 
 
 P. Martell 
 
 Gwire 
 
 Jones 
 
 Cashel 
 
 ... 
 
 Conway 
 
 Hale 
 
 
 
 Pa. Kerney 
 
 Sale 
 
 Fethard ... 
 
 ...Hacket 
 
 Nash 
 
 Everard 
 
 
 T. Nasshe 
 
 Wale 
 
 Hackett 
 
 Clonmel ... 
 
 ...Stridche .. 
 
 G. White 
 
 N. White 
 
 
 H. White 
 
 Bray 
 
 Bray 
 
 Kilmallock 
 
 
 Verdon 
 
 Verdon 
 
 
 
 Hurley 
 
 Kearney 
 
 Thomastown 
 
 ...Cosby 
 
 Sherlock 
 
 Robook 
 
 
 Cowlye 
 
 Porte 
 
 Porter 
 
 Le Naas ... 
 
 ...Draicot ... 
 
 Ja. Sherlock 
 
 Latten 
 
 
 Jo. Sherlock 
 
 Lewes 
 
 C. Sherlock 
 
 Ennestyock 
 
 ... 
 
 Power 
 
 W" Murphy 
 
 
 
 Archdeacon 
 
 Crichen Murphy 
 
 Kildare 
 
 ...Abelles 
 
 Wesly 
 
 Fitz Gerald 
 
 
 More 
 
 Shirgold 
 
 Farbeck 
 
 Mullingar 
 
 ...N. Casy 
 
 Pettit 
 
 N. Casy 
 
 
 Relyng 
 
 R. Casy 
 
 Hamon 
 
 Athenry 
 
 ...A. Brown... 
 
 Brown 
 
 S. Brown 
 
 
 Sir T. Cusack 
 
 Lynch 
 
 Bodkin 
 
 Carlingford 
 
 ...Radclief 
 
 Ap Hugh 
 
 Whitechurch 
 
 
 Jo. Neile 
 
 R. Neil 
 
 Hope 
 
 Navan 
 
 ...R. Waring 
 
 Wakely 
 
 Begg 
 
 
 Jo. [Wakel]y 
 
 Waringe 
 
 Warren 
 
 Athboy .. 
 
 ...More 
 
 Brown 
 
 More 
 
 
 Blake 
 
 Terrell 
 
 Browne 
 
 Kelles . . 
 
 ...Shiele 
 
 Fleming 
 
 Plunkett 
 
 
 Ledwiche... 
 
 Dax 
 
 Balfe 
 
 Ardee 
 
 ...W. Dowdall 
 
 Barnwall 
 
 Mathewe 
 
 
 Babe 
 
 J. Dowdall 
 
 P. Dowdall 
 
 Dengenchoishe 
 
 • . • ... ... 
 
 T. Trant 
 
 Trant 
 
 
 
 J. Trant 
 
 Hussey 
 
 Dungarvan 
 
 ...GifFord 
 
 obliterated 
 
 Roe 
 
 
 Chellyner... 
 
 
 Fitzharris 
 
 Callan ... 
 
 ... 
 
 Quemerford 
 
 Rothe 
 
 
 
 Branan 
 
 Haydon 
 
 Philipstown 
 
 ... 
 
 Frehan 
 
 Leycester 
 
 
 
 Williams 
 
 Phillips 
 
 Maryborough 
 
 
 obliterated 
 
 Sir A. Loftus 
 Barrington 
 
 Swords 
 
 
 obliterated 
 
 Blackney 
 Fitz Simons 
 
 Athy 
 
 ...Mothill 
 
 
 Sir R. Digby 
 
 
 Cussvn 
 
 
 Weldon 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 353 
 
 Borough Towns— 1613. 
 
 Charlemont 
 Antrim... 
 Belfast ... 
 Coleraine 
 
 Deny ... 
 Carlow... 
 Cavan ... 
 
 Belturbet 
 Ennis ... 
 Limavaddy 
 Mallow 
 Baltimore 
 BandonBridge... 
 Cloghnakilty ... 
 University of 
 
 Dublin 
 New Castle, near 
 
 Lyons 
 Donegal 
 Lifford 
 
 Bally shannon ... 
 Downpatrick ... 
 Newry... 
 Bangor 
 
 Killileagh 
 
 More. Fortescue. 
 Conway. Hill. 
 Sir J. Blennerhasset. 
 Trevelyan. O'Brien. 
 Wilkinson 
 Carey. Crewe. 
 Bere. Jacob. 
 Culme. Sexton. (W. 
 
 and T. Brady elected 
 
 in their stead). 
 Wirrall. Grimesdich. 
 Thornton. Bloode. 
 Sibthorpe. Downton. 
 Molyneux. Ware. 
 Crook. Biers. 
 SirR. Morison. Crowe. 
 Harris. Gosnold. 
 
 Temple. Sir C. Doyne. 
 
 Parsons. Rolles. 
 Crofton. White. 
 Blundel. Disney. 
 Gore. Cherry. 
 SirR. Wingfield. West. 
 Bassett. Leighe. 
 Sir E. Brabazon. Dal' 
 
 way. 
 Trevor. 
 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Newton in 
 Ardes 
 
 Le 
 
 Enniskillen 
 
 Tuam 
 
 Tralee 
 
 Gowran 
 
 Carrickdrum 
 
 rusk 
 Castlebar 
 Monaghan 
 Ballinakill 
 
 ... Sir G. Coningham, 
 
 Cartcart. 
 ... Atkinson. Fernham. 
 ,.. SirT. Rotheram. Pecke. 
 ... Blennerhasset. Dethicke. 
 . . . Staunton. Swayne. 
 
 , Griffith. Bellott. 
 
 Sir J. Bingham. Peyton. 
 
 Reeves. Cowley, 
 SirR. Ridgway. Brereton. 
 Roscommon... Marwood. Smith. 
 Boyle ... Cusacke. Meredith. 
 
 Sligo... ... Andrews. Southworth. 
 
 Clogher ... Watkins. Ferrar. 
 
 Dungannan ... More. Pollard. 
 Strabane ... Molyneux. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 Agher ... Birkinshaw. Scorye. 
 
 Tallaght ... Lowther. Parsons. 
 Lismore ... Boyle. Annesley. 
 Athlone ... S' John. Nugent. 
 Kilbeggan ... Sir R. Newcomon. 
 
 B. Newcomon. 
 
 Fethard 
 ford) 
 Enniscorthy 
 Wicklow 
 
 (Wex- 
 
 Loftus. 
 Fisher. 
 Usher. 
 
 Pemberton. 
 
 Perkins. 
 
 Esmonde. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 Epitaphs in the Franciscan Church of Montorio, Rome. 
 
 The Earl of Tyrone died in Rome, July 20, 1616, in the seventy-sixth year of 
 his age ; and was buried in the Franciscan Church of Montorio : his tomb bears 
 the simple epitaph — 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Hie. Quiescunt. 
 
 Ugonis. Principis. O'Neill. 
 
 Ossa. 
 
 2 v 
 
354 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 Epitaph of his son, the Baron of Dungannon. 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Hugoni Baroni de Donganan Hugonis Magni O'Neill Principis et Comitis 
 Tironiae Primogenito, Patrem et Rodericum Comitem Tkconalliae Avunculum, 
 pro Fide Catholica quam multos annos contra haereticos in Hibernia fortiter 
 defenderant, relictis statibus suis, sponte exulantes ad communem Catholicorum 
 asylum, Uibem Romam, pro sua singulari in Deum et Parentes pietate, secuto, 
 cujus immatura Mors spem de eo restaurandae aliquando in illis partibus 
 Catholicae Religionis, ob ejus insignes animi et corporis dotes ab omnibus, 
 conceptam abstulit, ac dicto Roderico avunculo fato simili absumpto conjunx- 
 it Occidit tarn suis quam totae curiae flebilis Nono Kal. Oct mdcix 
 Aetatis suae xxiv. 
 
 Epitaph of the O ' Donnells. 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Roderico Principi O'Donnellio, Comiti Tirconalliae in Hibernia, qui pro 
 Religione Catholica Gravissimis defunctus periculis in sago pariter et in toga 
 constantissimus cultor et Defensor Apostolicae Romanae Fidei, pro qua tuenda 
 et conservanda e patria profugus, lustratis in Italia, Gallia, Belgio praecipuis 
 sanctorum monumentis ; atque ibidem Principum Christianorum singulari amore 
 et honore Sanctiss. etiam P. ac D. Pauli PP. V. paterno affectu susceptus, in 
 maximis Catholicorum votis de felici ejus reditu, summum doloremsuis, et 
 moerorem omnibus in hac Urbe ordinibus immatura morte quam obiit III. Kalen- 
 das Sextiles anno salutis mdcviii. aetatis suae xxxm. Quern mox secutus 
 eodem tramite, ut eadem cum eo beatitute frueretur Calfurnius, Frater, 
 periculorum et exilii socius, in summa spe et expectatione bonorum de ejus 
 nobilitate animi quam virtus et optima indoles exornavit, sui reliquit desiderium, 
 et moestitiam coexulibus xvni Kal. Oct. proxime sequentis Anno Aetatis xxv. 
 Utrumque antecessit aetate et fati ordine frater primogenitus Hugo Princeps, 
 quem pie et Catholice pro Fide et Patria cogitantem Phillippus III. Hispa- 
 niarum Rex et vivum benevole amplexus, et in viridi aetate mortuum hono- 
 rifice funerandum curavit Vallisoleti in Hispania nil Idus Septembris 
 A. S. MDCII. 
 
APPENDIX. 355 
 
 The widow of this Calfurnius or Caffar O'Donnell was buried in the 
 Franciscan Convent of Louvain with this epitaph — 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Excellentissima. Domina. Rosa. O'Dogharty. 
 
 Dynastarum. Inisoniae. Filia. et. Soror. 
 
 Alti Sanguinis. Decus. 
 
 Morura. Temperantia. et Splendidis Conjugiis. Auxit. 
 
 Primum. nupta. Inclyto. Heroi. 
 
 D. Cafarro. O'Donnello. 
 
 Tirconnalliae. Principis. Germano. 
 
 Dein. Excellentissimo. Domino. Eugenio. O'Neillo. 
 
 Catholici. In. Ultonia. Exercitus. 
 
 Archistratego. 
 
 Utramque Fortunam. Experta. Et. Miseriam. Rata . 
 
 Coelum Studuit. Benefactis. Mereri. 
 
 Septuaginta. Major. Denata. 
 
 Bruxellis. i. Novembris. Anno mdclx. 
 
 Suo. Cum. Primogenito. Hugone. O'Donnello. 
 
 Praestolatur. Hie. Carnis. Resurrectionem. 
 
 In St. Marys Church, Clonmel. 
 No. i : — HicjacetTerrentius O'Donel qui obiit 4 Martii 1 583 eteius uxor Elena 
 White qua; obiit 24 Aprili 1591 Eorum filii qui hunc tumulum fieri fecerunt A D 
 1592 : quibus sit propitius Omnipotens. Amen. 
 
 No. 2: — Hie jacet Galfridus Barron qui obiit 22 Martii A. Dni 1601, et 
 Belina White uxor eius quse hunc tumulum fieri fecerit A. Dni. 1605 et obiit A. 
 Dni. 16 10 quorum aiabus propitietur Deus. 
 
 No. 3 / — Johannes gelido jacet hoc sub marmore Vitus ; 
 
 Charaque Johanna; conjugis ossa pias. 
 
 Bis Major, Went worth primum prorege, secundum, 
 
 Catholici subiens foedera martis obit. 
 
 26 Augusti 1643. 
 
 At St. Patrick's Well, Clonmel. 
 No- 4 : — Hie jacet D. Nicholaus White Armiger virpietate constantia mansu- 
 etudine et integritate morum conspicuus et amabilis, obiit 30 die Augusti 1622 , 
 eius corpus ex antecessorum capella quae borealemsacelli hujus partem respicit in 
 
 •• See these epitaphs in the Rev. C. P. Meehan's Fate and Fortunes of Tyrone and 
 Tyrconnell, pp. 446, 477, 476, 474. 
 
356 STATE OF IRELAND ANNO I 598. 
 
 hoc monumentum 22 die Decembris 1623 translatum est, cuius animas pro 
 pitietur Deus. Sacellum hoc S Nui Jesu eius que genetrici B Maria? Virgin' 
 dicatum construxerunt in perpetuam dicti Nicolai memoriam Barbara White 
 uxor eius vidua et Henricus White Alius eius et haeres. 
 
 No 5 • — A small tablet, bearing three roses (the device of the White family,) 
 underneath which is this inscription ■ — 
 
 Et trias est Numero et Natura est una colorem 
 En ubi presidium Vitus et arma locat. 
 
 At the R. C. Church, Irishtown. 
 
 No. 6 : — A massive tablet, which, perhaps, was set in some conspicuous part 
 of the old chapel of the Whites. It bears in full relief the arms of the family, 
 and around the margin, and at the foot, this legend : — 
 
 " Insignia Joanis White armigeri quondam comit. Palatini Tipperarias 
 Seneschal, comitati Wa'erfordiae vice-comiti. Clonmel primi majoris sic transit 
 mundi gloria Benedictus Vitus hasres dicti Joani et Alsona haec fieri fecerunt 
 1615.'-* 
 
 In the Franciscan Church is a chalice with the inscription : Orate pro- 
 animabus Edmundi Everard, et Joannae Naish uxoris ejus 1645. In the C. 
 Church of Cappoquin there is a chalice with the inscription : Ora pro animabus 
 D. Ricardi Everard et Catharinae Tobyn. 
 
 See 120 epitaphs wayside crosses or other souvenirs of the families 
 of the 1 6th century, in this book, pp. 24, 45, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 80, 
 
 97. 98, 99. I°°. i°5. II0 > "I, 133. 1 34, 139. l6 °> l6l > l6j . l6 3> 164, 167, 170, 
 171, 179, 180, 183, 184, 190, 192, 194, 197, 198, 201, 203, 204. 205, 209, 210, 
 211, 212, 214, 225, 234, 236. 
 
 Corrigenda. 
 
 p. 211, notes ' and *. The Rev. J. Everard, C.C., Clonmel, to whom I owe 
 the two last inscriptions, represents the Everards of Burntcourt. There are still 
 direct male descendants of the Everards of Fethard — the " Little Girl," who is 
 said, at p. 210, to be the sole representative, had six brothers and five sisters 
 older than herself, and her father's brother had a large family. 
 
 Clonmel Chronicle. 
 
 p. 296— Camden's description of Armagh was accidentally omitted. He 
 
 • Inscriptions copied and published by Mr. Kearney, C. E., of Clonmel, and to be republished 
 in Mr. Clark's forthcoming History of Clonmel. 
 
LIST OF THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND 357 
 
 say- — "Armagh church and City burnt by Shane O'Neill lost its ancient splen- 
 dour; at present it consists of a very few huts covered with twigs, and the ruined 
 walls of the monastery, priory and Archbishop's palace." 
 
 Reference letters have dropped out in the notes, before " Angus, p. 16 ; ' In 
 the Fews, p. 21 ;' O'Donnell dwelt, p. 31 ;' Quaere, p. 32 ; b Belonging to, p. 51; 
 p Lords to whom, p. 87 ; e In 1601 Emann, p. 119 ; 'In 1585 lived Teig, p. 154; 
 James Wyse, p. 161 ; z Supple of Kilmocua, p. 203 ; ' Christopher, 9th Baron, 
 p. 227. At p. 64 line 6 supply in the brackets, [Cavanagh, slain] ; at p. 266, 
 for ' Carvagh ' read Carnagh. 
 
 Two ancient maps, specially lithographed for this work, were lost after the 
 death of Mr. Kelly, who was to have been the publisher of the book. 
 
 LIST OF THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. 
 
 (Compiled from the works of Ledwich, Gough, Wilkinson, Petrie, 
 
 Keane, Stokes, O'Neill, and others.) 
 
 In Co. Dublin . . . 8. — Clondalkin, Lusk, Swords, Rathmichael ; St. Michael's' 
 
 (Ship Street), Christ Church/ Inismacnessan,' 
 
 Finglas/ 
 „ Meath 8. — Donaghmore, Kells, Ardbraccan/ Clonard/ Duleek,' 
 
 Slane/ Trim/ Tullaghard.' 
 „ Kildare 6. — Kildare, Kilcullen, Killossy, Oughterard, Teghadoe, 
 
 Castledermot. 
 „ Kilkenny .... 6. — Aghaviller, Fertagh, Kilkenny, Kilree, Tullaherin, 
 
 Tullamain. 
 „ Kings Co. . . . 6. — Clonmacnoise, (2) Ferbane, Ferbane, d Seir-Kieran, 
 
 Durrow. d 
 ,. Queen's Co. . . 5. — Dysert, Killeskin, Teampul na Cailleach-dubh, Tima- 
 
 hoe, Rosenallis/ 
 ,, Louth 4. — Dromiskin, Monasterboice, Drogheda/- Louth/ 
 
 Wicklow 
 Carlow . 
 Wexford 
 Longford 
 Cork . . 
 
 . . . 4. — Glendalough (2) Glendalough/ Aghowle, d 
 . . . 3. — Kellystown, Killeshin/ Lorum/ 
 . . . 2. — Ferns, Ferry Carrig. d 
 . . . 2. — Inchcloran/Granard/ 
 
 . . . 9. — Cloyne, Kinneagh, Ballybeg,' Nohoval Daly/ Bally- 
 vourney/ Ballywerk, Brigoon/ Cork/ Rosscarbery. d 
 
 N.B. — '■ means foundations ; ! ' stump ; d ' destroyed. 
 
35^ LIST OF THE EOUND TOWERS OF IRELAND. 
 
 In Co. Clare .... 9. — Iniscattery, Inisceltra, Drumcleeve, Dysert O'Dea, 
 
 Kilnaboy, 5 Rath, 5 Killaloe, Clare, Tomgraney. d 
 ,, Limerick .... 6. — Dysert, Carrigeen, Kilmallock, Ardpatrick, 5 Limerick,' 
 
 Dunaman/ 
 
 „ Kerry 4. — Rattoo, Aghadoe, s Currane, 5 Ardfert.' 
 
 „ Tipperary . . . 4. — Cashel, Roscrea, Roscrea/ Emly. d 
 
 ,, Watcrford . . . 2. — Ardmore, Dungarvan. d 
 
 „ Down 7. — Drumbo, Maghera, Cloch-Teach, Mahee Island,* 
 
 Dundrum, Down-Patrick,' Castlereagh. 
 
 ,, Antrim 4 — Antrim, Trummery, Ram Island, Armoy. 
 
 „ Derry 4 — Deny,' Drumachose, ' Dungiven, d Tamlacht. ' 
 
 „ Armagh 3 — Armagh, d Armagh, ' Killeevy. 
 
 „ Donegal 3 — Tory Island, Braade, Raphoe. d 
 
 ,, Monaghan .... 3 — Clones, Clones, " Iniskeen. 
 
 ,, Cavan 1 — Drumlane. 
 
 „ Fermanagh . . . 1 — Devenish, 
 
 ,, Tyrone 1 — Erigel. d 
 
 „ Galivay .... jo— Kilmacduagh, Kilbannon, Ruscam, Ardrahen,' Aran- 
 more, s Killcoona," Ballygaddy, Annadown,' Fertamore, 4 
 
 Meelick.* 1 
 „ Mayo 8— Killala, Turlough, Meelick, Aghagower, Ballagh, Baal, 
 
 Newcastle, Moat. ' 
 
 ,, Sligo 4 — Ballymote, Drumcliff, Sligo (2.) 
 
 „ Roscommon . . . 4 — Boyle, ' Oran, * Assylin, ' Roscommon. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 359 
 
 Abbey Leix, 75, 78. 
 
 Abbotstown, 271. 
 
 Abelles, 352. 
 
 Achar, 95. 
 
 Achonry, 237. 
 
 Acquaviva, 286. 
 
 Adams, ill, 171, 236. 
 
 Adamstown, 57, 95 
 
 Adare, 197, 283. 
 
 Adrain, 99. 
 
 Agarde, 35 1 • 
 
 Aghadoe, 281. 
 
 Agher, 95, 100. 
 
 Aghery, 264. 
 
 Aghviller, 235. 
 
 Aha, 253. 
 
 Aldworth, 281. 
 
 Alene, 256. 
 
 Alford, 102. 
 
 Allardstown, 264. 
 
 Allen, 5, 37, 44, 46, 48, 57, 95, 
 
 235, 252, 351. 
 Allen, Bog of, 75. 
 Allenstown, 94, 95, 100. 
 Amerson, 31. 
 Amalies (recte O'Reillies), 1 1 7, 
 
 Il8, 119, 120. 
 Anaghes, 255. 
 Andrews, 353. 
 Annagh, 273. 
 Annaghmore, 276 
 Annesley, 282, 353. 
 Annogh Castle, 249. 
 Antislon, 96. 
 Antrim, 13, 31, 240, 260, 261, 
 
 296. 
 Antwerp, 162. 
 Arbracan, 92, 93. 
 Archbolds, 37, 38, 263, 350. 
 Archdeacon, 66, 70, 167, 278, 
 
 352- 
 Archer, 66, 67, 70, 72, 210, 
 
 291. 342.344.347, 35'- 
 Archertone, 106. 
 Arclo, 41, 52, 208, 239. 
 Ardagh, 168, 234, 285. 
 ,, Bishop of, 234. 
 
 Ardahill, 279. 
 Ardchille, 49. 
 Ardclony, 271. 
 Ardcrony, 215, 348. 
 Ardee, 3, 5. 
 Ardenoch, 239. 
 Ardes, 6, 10, II, 232, 260. 
 Ardfert, 189, 190. 
 
 ,, Bishop of, 191, 236, 
 
 263. 282. 
 Ardfry, 272. 
 Ardglass, 12,238, 239. 
 Ardloman, 95, 96. 
 Ardmolchan, 93. 
 Ardmollan, 92. 
 Ardmore, 165. 
 Ardmothe, 95, 96. 
 Ardre, 252. 
 Ardremakow, 239. 
 Ardriston, 254. 
 Ardroute, 239. 
 Arland, 67. 
 Armagh, 3, 5, 10, 19, 20, 23, 
 
 24, 25, 95, 233, 235, 237, 247, 
 
 250, 251, 260, 285, 296, 306, 
 
 322. 
 Armie, English, 3. 
 Armoy, 167. 
 Armstrong, 83. 
 Arnold, 71. 
 Amy, 198. 
 Arolstone, 95. 
 Aronston, 97. 
 Arran, Isle of, 138, 238. 
 „ Earl of, 238, 266. 
 Arspoll, 254. 
 Artlanan, 239. 
 Arthur, 204, 210, 283, 351. 
 Arward, 100. 
 Ashbrook, 270. 
 
 Ashe, 50, 91, 94,239, 265,352. 
 Asheroe, 31. 
 Ashpoole, 37. 
 
 Askton, or Askeaton, 198, 233. 
 Asoalye, 256. 
 Asscy, 92. 
 Assye, 96. 
 Athboy, 91, 92, 96, 101, 102. 
 
 Athcarne, 93, 98, 99, 260. 
 Athcourie, 237. 
 Athenrie, 131. 
 
 ,, Baron of, 226. 
 Athleag, 151, 277. 
 Athlone, 102, 104, 152, 224, 
 
 264, 277. 
 Atronan, 95. 
 Athlumney, 92, 106. 
 Athshe, 95. 
 Athy, 44, 272. 
 Atkinson, 102, 353. 
 Audley, 9, 101. 
 Aughrim, 274. 
 Austria, 64. 
 Ayle, 271. 
 Aylemers, 37, 43, 46, 48, 93, 
 
 94, 96, 99, 107, 260. 
 Aylewards, 161, 163, 255, 350. 
 Aylewardstown, 71, 255. 
 
 B. 
 Babbarne, 259. 
 Babe, 4, 352. 
 Baggad, 72. 
 Bagnal, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 51, 52, 
 
 53. 253. 349, 35°- 
 Bagot, 281. 
 Bagolstown, 281. 
 Baigre, 256. 
 Baker, 350. 
 Balaghene, 8. 
 Balala, 239. 
 Balandsox, 253. 
 Balankey, 99. 
 Balduff, 253. 
 Baldwinstown, 266. 
 Ba'ebeg, 256. 
 Baleclockan, 78. 
 Balecowanne, 256. 
 Baledungan, 92. 
 Baleguffindowe, 258. 
 Balehartin, 256. 
 Balehorron, 256. 
 Balemakeyan, 256, 
 Balenfane, 256. 
 Balenosky, 258. 
 Balera, 258. 
 
360 
 
 IXDEX. 
 
 Balerotherie, 36, 37, 90. 
 Baletrasnie, 258. 
 Balevolo, 258. 
 Balf, 91, 95, 96, 99, 352. 
 Balgan, 257. 
 Balgard, 37. 
 Balgath, 94. 
 Balglunin, 272. 
 Balgriffin, 37, 38. 
 Baliburtane, 151. 
 Baliesko, 101. 
 Balinesloe, 134, 151. 
 Ball, 93, 351. 
 Ballaghan, 31. 
 Ballaghtobin, 71. 
 Ballaigh, 259. 
 Ballaighene, 257. 
 Ballakit, 32. 
 Ballashannon, 32. 
 Ballawlie, 38. 
 Ballebockrane, 259. 
 Ballebragane, 5. 349. 
 Ballebrennan, 256, 349. 
 Balleconchin, 166. 
 Balleconnor, 256. 
 Ballegerce, 256. 
 Ballegrand, 258. 
 Ballegray, 96. 
 Ballegresaigh, 238. 
 Ballemony, 258. 
 Ballenacaldde, 96. 
 Ballencurre, 258. 
 Ballendel, 95. 
 Ballenemone. 103. 
 Balleneskeagh, 96. 
 Ballentrton, 107. 
 Ballenrana, 258. 
 Ballensar, 257. 
 Balleouddane, 256. 
 Balleoulouagh, 238. 
 Bailer, 145. 
 Balleragat, 66, 67. 
 Balleteg, 256. 
 Ballevalie, 258. 
 Ballevodick, 258. 
 Ballewallken, 258. 
 Ballgath, 94. 
 Ballibrayen, 5. 
 Ballibnrlie, 82, 91. 
 Ballibyan Mountains, 144. 
 B:\llicallie, 254. 
 Ballicappock, 62. 
 Balliconiel, 106. 
 Balliconnicke, 61. 
 Balliconnor, 61, 63. 
 Ballicotlan, 48. 
 Ballicranigambege, 254. 
 Ballidufie, 254, 
 
 Balliellen, 253, 263. 
 
 Ballifenyne, 253. 
 
 Ballihack, 57. 
 
 Ballihemoge, 254. 
 
 Balliloughreagh, 57. 
 . Ballilowe, 254. 
 j Ballimolchan, 93. 
 ; Ballimore, 102, 106. 
 I Ballinabay, 315. 
 
 Ballinagard, 283. 
 
 Ballinagir, 256. 
 
 Ballincapoch, 48. 
 
 Ballincor, 40, 41. 
 
 Ballinecorly, no. 
 
 Ballinedramey, 96, 101. 
 
 Hallinekelly, 56. 
 
 Ballinelock, no, 258. 
 
 Ballinerali, 56. 
 
 Ballineskelligy, 239. 
 
 Ballingarry, 200, 331. 
 
 Ballingtoughe, 67. 
 
 Ballinhawnemore, 58. 
 
 Ballinlough, 105, 106, 270, 271. 
 
 Ballinmore, 37. 
 
 Ballinree, 266, 270. 
 
 Ballintabler, 152,256. 
 
 Ballinter, 269. 
 
 Ballintlea, 264, 279. 
 
 Ballintubber, 152, 256. 
 
 Ballinvacky, 58. 
 
 Ballinvilla, 2S4. 
 
 Balliot, 96. 
 
 Balliroe, 58. 
 
 Ballithanon, 249. 
 
 Ballitample, 254. 
 
 Balliterney, 254. , 
 
 Ballivaghan, 126. 
 
 B.illneagh, 106. 
 
 Ballnekill, 95. 
 
 Ballohell, 256. 
 
 Ballough, 254. 
 
 Ballown, 39. 
 
 Ballrodan, 95. 
 
 Ballstown, 95. 
 
 Balltraseney, 96. 
 
 Ballunalheu, 97. 
 
 Ballvomen, no. 
 
 Ballyadams, 78. 
 
 Ballyaghbregan, 255. 
 
 Ballyancaislean, 336. 
 
 Ballyandun, 348. 
 
 Ballyasshin, 62. 
 
 Ballybarna, 265. 
 
 Ballybege, 254. 
 
 Ballybirr, 255. 
 
 Ballybollen, 275. 
 
 Ballybort, 77, 8l. 
 
 Ballyboy, 83. 
 
 Ballybracke, 253. 
 Ballybranagh,_ 1 05. 
 Ballybrennan, 58, 349. 
 Ballybrett, 233. 
 Ballybrit, 81, 77. 
 Ballybrittan, 82. 
 Ballybrittas, 79, 84. 
 Ballybunnion, 283. 
 Ballybur, 70. 
 Ballyburlie, 82, 91. 
 Ballyburtane, 82. 
 Ballycallen, 50. 
 Ballycashen, 166. 
 Ballycavoge, 166. 
 Ballyclough, 166. 
 Ballyco^ly, 60. 
 Ballycomask, 209. 
 Ballyconin, 104. 
 Ballyconnor, 63. 
 Ballycoiky, 104. 
 Ballycorry, 100. 
 Ballycowan. 83, 85. 
 Eallycre, 255. 
 Ballycronigan, 253. 
 Ballycallen, 283. 
 Ballycurrin, 209. 
 Ballydarmyne, 254. 
 Ballydonelan, 274. 
 Ballyeane, 39. 
 Ballyen, 68. 
 Ballyfarnage, 266. 
 Ballyfarnocke, 58. 
 Ballyfennon, 71. 
 Ballyfoell, 255. 
 Ballyforan, 266. 
 Ballyfoyle, 68, 255. 
 Ballygeary, 58, 61. 
 Ballygrant 277. 
 Ballyhaire, 277. 
 Ballyhaly, 60, 265. 
 Ballyharth, 62. 
 Ballyheige, 282. 
 Ballyheney, 166. 
 Ballyhinch, 60. 
 Ballyhire, 60, 266. 
 Ballyhomyn, 255. 
 Ballyhubbert, 281. 
 Ballyhymickny, 209. 
 Ballykeogh. 61. 
 Ballykey, 38. 
 Ballyknockan, 79. 
 Ballyleagh, 53. 
 Ballyleigh, 265. 
 Ballyline, 271. 
 Ballylorcan, 71. 
 Ballylorka, 255. 
 Ballymacarne, 61. 
 Ballymack, 70. 
 
rxnF.x. 
 
 #1 
 
 Ballymackeogh, 284. 
 
 Ballymager, 62, 265. 
 
 Ballymaka, 72. 
 
 Ballymartin, 68. 
 
 Bally McCloghny, 255. 
 
 Bally McCrony, 255. 
 
 Ballymoe, 2S3. 
 
 Ballymoge, 253. 
 
 Ballymore, 58, 60, 8g, 10 3. 274. 
 
 326. 
 Ballymorough, 255. 
 Ballymote, 145, 336, 247. 
 Ballymount, 106. 
 Ballymoyer, 266. 
 Ballymurray, 277. 
 Ballynacor, 270. 
 Ballynafad, 273. 
 Ballynalacken, 272. 
 Ballynatine. 
 Ballyneale, 72. 
 Ballynebally. 
 Ballynerowly, 255. 
 Ballynitie, 199. 
 Ballynonelie, 209. 
 Ballyraddy, 255. 
 Ballyrankin, 265. 
 Ballyreddy, 72. 
 Ballyrian, 253. 
 Ballyroghy, 256. 
 Ballysax, 252. 
 Ballyshannon, 31, 32. 
 Ballysonan, 48. 
 Ballsop, 61. 
 Ballystrew, 260. 
 Bally teige, 62, 254. 
 Ballytramon, 266. 
 Ballyvannon, 284. 
 Ballyvorish, 209. 
 Ballywhyghan, 239. 
 Bally William Roe, 254. 
 Balmadon, 37. 
 Balmadroght, 39. 
 Balmagere, 59, 62. 
 Balmakeyrie, 256. 
 Balnegin, 95. 
 Baloebrack, 107. 
 Balrath, 95, 106, 269. 
 Balreske, 95. 
 Baltimore, 168, 239. 
 Baltinglass, 45, 48, 49, 226, 23- 1, 
 
 284, 349. 
 Baltrasna, 271. 
 Balsound, 101. 
 
 Balyna, 80, 261, 267. 270, 27 ;. 
 Banagh, 248. 
 Banelagh, 36. 
 Bangor, 259. 
 Baniekard, 258. 
 
 Bann, 15, 17, 20, 28, 234, 25S. 
 
 Bannockburn, 16. 
 
 Bannow, 64, 256. 
 
 Bantrie, 62, 168, 256, 257. 
 
 Barclay, 198, 206. 
 I Barge, 56. 
 1 Bargie, 256. 
 ; Bargy, 60. 
 
 Barick, 291. 
 1 Barker, 269. 
 ; Barna, 273, 274. 
 
 Barnet, 46. 
 
 Barne Veddon, 255. 
 
 Bamwall, 4, 5, 38, 39, 96, 97, 
 228, 269, 270, 290, 291, 292, 
 
 349,351-352- 
 Barret, 182, 350. 
 Barrelstown, 284. 
 Barriestown, 257. 
 Barrington, 79, 352. 
 Barringston, 48. 
 Barron, 68, 253, 355. 
 Barrowe River, 50, 56, 64. 73, 
 
 75. 73, 81. 
 Barry, 54, 61, 167, 169, 171, 182, 
 
 198, 224, 254, 257. 278, 351. 
 Barrymore, 1 68, 278. 
 Barry Oge, 1 72. 
 Barryscourt, 271, 278. 
 Barton, 262. 
 Basset, 353. 
 Bathes, 5, 37, 38, 39, 93, 94, 98, 
 
 99,252,269, 290, 291, 292.351. 
 Bauk, 265. 
 Bawnmore, 266, 273. 
 Bealalahun, 275. 
 Bealan, 253. 
 Bealing, 35, 38, 4 S. 
 Bealingston, 38 . 
 Bearchin, 168. 
 Beare, 372. 
 Bearra, 168. 
 Beccanston, 39. 
 Bective, 92. 
 Beckell, 23. 
 Bedge, 97. 
 Bedlovv (or Bellew), 4. 3S, 39, 
 
 45,94, 100. 
 Bedlowston, 92. 
 Beecher, 281. 
 Beechwood, 277. 
 Beerford, 100. 
 Beg, 38, 92, 94, 96, 552. 
 Belaclare, 239. 
 Belalem, 239. 
 Belanamore, 276. 
 Belatha Lagain, 5. 
 Beleareele, 58. 
 
 Beleeke, 31, 143, 297. 
 
 Belfield, 78. 
 
 Belgard, 37. 
 
 Bellaborow, 256. 
 
 Bellabow, 256. 
 
 Bellame, 93. 
 
 Bellander, 92. 
 
 Belfast, 18. 
 
 Belletston, 106. 
 
 Bellot, 353. 
 
 Belling, 38, 48, 252, 35 1. 
 
 Belleushen, 256. 
 
 Bellews (see Bedlow), 4, 38, 39, 
 
 45, 94, 100, 260. 263, 351. 
 Bellewstown (see Bedlowstown), 
 
 92, 94, 100. 
 Bellowe, 252. 
 Belturbet, 247. 
 Benburbe, 27. 
 Benford, 46. 
 Bengley, 5. 
 Bennecerry, 254. 
 Bennet, 35 1. 
 Benson, 9. 
 Bere, 353. 
 Berkeley, 2J3, 350 
 Berks, 280. 
 Berlagh, 256. 
 Berminghams, 45, 46, 48, 50, 
 
 91,93,101, 105,235,272,349, 
 Bernard, 281. 
 Bertiers, 13. 
 Beste, 92. 
 Bethe, 351. 
 Betagh, 95, 99. 
 Bettifield, 277. 
 Bewlie, 5. 
 Bierweisour, 239. 
 Billingesley, 206. 
 Bingerstown, 94. 
 Bingham, 33, 275, 276, 350,353 
 Birford, 93. 
 Birkenshaw, 353. 
 Birne (see Byrne), 253, 254. 
 Birr, 83. 
 Birrell, 5. 
 Birt, 32, 94. 
 Birton, 253. 
 Bishops, 233, 285. 
 Bishopscourt, 72, 252. 
 Bishopstown, 104, 1 10. 
 Bisset, 5, 16. 
 Black, 101. 
 Blackcastle, 72, 94". 
 Blackfort, 78. 
 
 Blackhall, 98, 252, 253, 257. 
 Blackhill, 46, 93. 
 Blackine, 94, 263. 
 
 2 Z 
 
362 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Blacklowne, 82. 
 
 Blackney, 38, 351, 352. 
 
 Blackrath, 47. 
 
 Blackwater, 20, 25, 46, 90, 304, 
 
 306, 315. 
 Blackwood, 252. 
 Blake, 96, 133.272,273,351,352 
 Blakeney, 274. 
 
 Blanchfield, 71, 255, 284, 349. 
 Blanchveldstoune, 255. 
 Blaney, 12. 
 Blarney, 279. 
 Blatherwick, 272. 
 Blayne, 97. 
 Blayney, 233, 261. 
 Bleachfield, 254. 
 Blindwell, 274. 
 Blood, 353. 
 Bloomfeld, 67. 
 Blount, 128, 233. 
 Blundel, 353. 
 Boanstown, 93. 
 Bobsgrove, 271. 
 Bodkin, 132, 133, 273, 352. 
 Bodlen, 12. 
 Bolan, 266. 
 Boles, 94. 
 Bolgan, 61. 
 Bolger, 72. 
 Bollintollin, 254. 
 Bolton, 95, 351. 
 Bonecarry, 61. 
 Bonneltstown, 69, 70. 
 Bonnoght, 7. 
 Boreduffe, 253, 254. 
 Boresheis, 255. 
 Borranstown, 38, 39. 
 Borris, 265. 
 Bosher (Busher or Bouchier), 
 
 61,82, 86,87,205. 
 Bostock, 167. 
 Botford, 94. 
 Bothnan, 5. 
 Bouchier, 271, 350. 
 Bourk, 163, 350. 
 Bouth, 164. 
 Bowdrave, 2S9. 
 Bowen, 78, 79, 80. 
 Boylan, 50. 
 Boyle, 353. 
 Boyne, 23, 35, 90. 
 Boyle, 150, 277, 281. 
 Boys, 95, 258. 
 Boyton, 210. 
 Boyton-Rath, 210, 289. 
 Brabazon, 134, 154, 242, 246. 353 
 
 Brack, 163. 
 
 Bracklon, 106. 
 
 Brackloonmore, 273. 
 
 Brady, 271, 352, 353. 
 
 Branan, 352. 
 
 Brandon, 4, 5, 269. 
 
 Branganston, 48. 
 
 Brangastowne, 253. 
 
 Brasell, 66, 258. 
 
 Brasilagh, 12, 23, 30. 
 
 Bray, 35, 37, 38, 282, 352. 
 
 Breafy, 275. 
 
 Brecaston, 48. 
 
 Breeze, 274. 
 
 Brefney, 90, 348. 
 
 Brenan 50. 72. 
 
 Brereton, 267, 353. 
 
 Bresilagh, 25 1. 
 
 Brett, 5. 
 
 Breton, 48. 
 
 Brewers, 164, 289. 
 
 Breynd, 208, 350. 
 
 Breyne, 2. 
 
 Brianstown, 256. 
 
 Bridges 99. I0 °. '33- 
 
 Bridgetown, 59. 
 
 Brigbargye, 256. 
 
 Brierton, 78. 
 
 Briscoe, 26S. 
 
 Briver, 164, 291. 
 
 Bromestone, 57. 
 
 Bromoyle, 32. 
 
 Broncard, 242. 
 
 Brooke, 42, 262. 
 
 Brosenaghe, 104. 
 
 Browalstown, 254. 
 
 Brown, 3, 13, 16, 21, 33, 38, 47, 
 59,61,91, 134, 163, 254, 256, 
 257, 273, 275, 283, 289, 350, 
 
 352- 
 Brownesborne, 255. 
 Bruwnsford, 6S, 72. 
 Brownstown, 39, 47. 253. 
 Broy, 258. 
 Broymore, 38. 
 Bruce, 16. 
 Brune, 57. 
 Brussel, 275. 
 
 Bryan, 62, 214, 293, 331, 350. 
 Brian Carroghe's County, 13. 
 
 14- 
 Bryanston, 62. 
 Brvmingham (see Bearmingham) 
 
 135. 252, 253. 
 Budge, 97. 
 Buckingham, 270. 
 
 Buggon, 48. 
 Bunburbe, 34. 
 Buncrana Castle, 32. 
 Bundroose Castle, 31. 
 Bunes, 254. 
 Bunnyconnelan, 275. 
 Bunowen, 270. 
 Bunratty, 126. 
 Buolebrack, 2S4. 
 Burdensgrange, 209. 
 Burg, 35. 
 Burgate, 167. 
 Burgo. 73, 293. 
 
 Burkes, 113, 139, 141, 199, 205, 
 209, 220, 229, 255, 272, 273, 
 
 277, 321. 3 2 7. 347. 348- 
 
 Burleigh, 7, 59. 
 
 Burnchurche, 58, 66, 68, 255, 
 266. 
 
 Burnell, 38. 96, 349, 351. 
 
 Burrowes, 22, 31, 80, 265. 
 
 Burris Leigh, 209. 
 
 Burske, 239. 
 
 Burtall, 194. 
 
 Burweisnowe, 239. 
 
 Burwis Oare, 239. 
 
 Buss, 236. 
 
 Butler, 5, 51, 52, 62, 65, 67, 6S, 
 69, 70, 71, 76, 80, 163, 164, 
 171, 209, 211, 212, 217, 226, 
 228, 231, 271, 254, 255, 256, 
 257, 265, 266, 271, 273, 284, 
 289, 292, 305, 326, 331, 335, 
 
 349. 35°- 
 Butlerstown, 256. 
 Butlerswood, 68. 
 Buttevant, 174, 224, 278, 349. 
 Buxton, 265. 
 Byrne, 35, 39, 41. 54- 62, 253, 
 
 264, 266, 290, 350. 
 Bysse, 102. 
 Bwy, 25S. 
 
 C 
 Cabboyhe, 135. 
 Cabinteely, 264. 
 Cabra, 263. 
 Cabry, 270. 
 
 Caddell, 38, 39. 93, 94. 97- 
 Cahir, 284, 2S9, 335, 349- 
 Cahirminane, 336. 
 Cahir Trant, 282. 
 Caire, 30. 
 
 Caire MacEwlyn, 32. 
 Caisleannua, 31. 
 Calais, 83. 
 Calavan, 289. 
 
rXDEX. 
 
 Calboy, 30. 
 
 Calcestown, 94. 
 
 Calcutta, 274. 
 
 Caldanglie, 32. 
 
 Calebegge, 33, 23S, 239. 
 
 Calf, 4 S. 
 
 Calfer, 57. 
 
 Calmore, 30, 32. 
 
 Callan. 66, 67, 70, 207. 
 
 Callonok, 25S. 
 
 Calry, 104. 
 
 Camas, 283. 
 
 Cambridge, 234. 
 
 Campier, 350. 
 
 Campion, 23. 
 
 Cancrston, 1 10. 
 
 Cantaule, 20. 
 
 Canton, 58. 
 
 Cantwell, 70, 88, 209, 212, 291. 
 
 Cantwellstown, 70, 88. 
 
 Cantyre, 15, 16. 
 
 Cappagh, 266. 
 
 Cappahun, 165. 
 
 Cappanacus, 2S0. 
 
 Car, Lord, 5, 211, 288. 
 
 Car, 215. 
 
 Carberie. 45, 48, 167, 233, 253, 
 
 279, 280, 284. 
 Cardiff, 38, 101. 
 Carduff, 38. 
 Caregeschurche, 257. 
 Carew, 51, 53, 286. 
 Cargan, 31. 
 Cargmannan, 257. 
 Carhampton, 263. 
 Carie, 15, 353. 
 Carig, 266. 
 Carlands, 270. 
 Carlandstown, 265, 270. 
 Carlingford, 3, 5, 12, 18, 238, 
 
 244. 
 Carlow, 18, 35, 36, 41, 44, 50, 
 
 51, 56, 63, 64, 226, 233, 241, 
 
 242, 253, 254, 265, 267, 271, 
 
 2S3, 29S. 
 Carne, 60, 106, 357. 
 Carnegilla, 263. 
 Carney, 226, 291. 
 Carolan, 262. 
 Carraduff, 272. 
 Carraghmore, 1 65. 
 Carraig Locha Ce, 276. 
 Can an, 211. 
 Carrick, 34, 67, 94, 199, 211, 
 
 215, 292. 
 Carrick, Earl of, 284. 
 Carrickbeg, 164. 
 Carrick, 211. 
 
 Carrickfergus, 18, 238. 
 Carrickmayne, 38. 
 Carrickstowne, 253. 
 Carricknestayne, 254. 
 Carrig-an-chobhlaigh, 336. 
 Carrig Teage, 34. 
 Carrigbraghey, 32. 
 Carrigfoyle, 189, 196, 282. 
 Carrigogonnell, 198. 
 Carrigmenan, 
 Carrignavar, 279. 
 Carrignegany, 255. 
 Carrignory, 255. 
 Carrigslany, 267. 
 Carroll, 50. 
 Carron, 254. 
 Carrigonede, 28 1. 
 Carroughmore, 160, 165, 231. 
 Carrowkeel, 275. 
 Carrymar, 108. 
 Carton, 264, 349. 
 Carty, 278. 
 Cary, 353. 
 Casie, III, 352. 
 Caslan-Stoke, 32. 
 Cashell, 125, 209,211,233,235, 
 
 236, 237, 286, 288. 
 Cashell, 4, 5, 351. 
 Cashiel, 94. 
 Cassane, 239. 
 Castles, passim. 
 Castle Archdall, 262. 
 Castlebar, 83, 263, 268, 275. 
 Castle Blakeney, 274. 
 Castle Carbery, 97, 265. 
 Castle Connell, I99, 2S3, 229, 
 
 349- 
 C. Cook, 281. 
 C. Cosby, 80. 
 C. Cuffe, 268. 
 Castledermott, 44, 252. 
 C. Dirrhy, 78. 
 C. Dobbs, 261. 
 C. Donovan, 279. 
 Castle Durrow, 267. 
 Castle Fene, 31. 
 C. Ffrench, 273. 
 C. Fleming, 231. 
 C. Fogarty, 284. 
 Castle Gregory, 282. 
 Castlehacket, 271, 273. 
 C. Hely, 70. 
 Castlehaven, 168. 
 Castlehaystown, 60. 
 C. Howel, 70. 
 C. Irvin, 269. 
 C. Ishin, 48, 283. 
 C. Island, 109. 
 
 C. Jordan, 82, 92. 
 C. Kelly, 274, 276. 
 C. Kevin, 43, 96. 
 C. Knock, 37, 38. 
 C. Lamerby, 92. 
 C. Lyf, 71. 
 I C. MacAwliffe, 279. 
 C. Martin, 18, 45, 46, 60, 252. 
 C. Mayne, 244. 
 C. Minard, 282. 
 C. More, 275. 
 C. Morres, 284. 
 C. Pigot, 75. 
 C. Pollard, 270. 
 C. Quin, 280. 
 C. Richard, 96. 
 C. Reagh, II, 12, 166. 
 C. Ring, 4. 
 C. Roe, 28. 
 C. Talbot, 266. 
 Castleton Kildrought, 98, 252. 
 C. Town, 48, 60, 92, 93. 94, 99, 
 
 104, 108, 199, 231, 256. 
 Castletown Roche, 225, 278. 
 Castletown Lord, 79, 268, 280, 
 
 284. 
 C. Troy, 283. 
 Castle Upton, 261. 
 Castle Warde, 260. 
 Cathaoir Mor, 81. 
 Catherine St., 98. 
 Caufelston, 97. 
 Caufield, 12,261, 350. 
 Cavan, 24, 89, 90, 102, 107, 1*7, 
 
 121, 148, 241, 246, 247, 263, 
 
 271,300. 
 Cavanagh, 35, 40, 50, 51, 52, 53, 
 
 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 
 
 120, 226, 302, 328, 349. 
 Cavin, 66. 
 Celcarne, 92. 
 
 Chamberlaine, 5, 39 : 102. 
 Chaple, 257. 
 Chapman, 282. 
 Charbs, 84. 
 Charden, 235. 
 Charlemont, 261. 
 Charleville, 268. 
 Chatterton, 19. 
 Cheevers, 48, 60, 62, 93, 94, 99, 
 
 256, 265, 269, 349. 
 Chellyner, 352. 
 Chester, 237. 
 Cheshire, 282. 
 Chichester, 15, 18, 25, 244, 246, 
 
 248. 
 Choiseul, 278. 
 Churchtown, 94, 281. 
 
3^4 
 
 1NDLX. 
 
 Ciannacta, 28. 
 
 Clagh, 71. 
 
 Clancasters, 16. 
 
 Clanalasters, 16. 
 
 Clanant, 19. 
 
 Clanbrasels, 2, 1 1. 
 
 Clanbrassel, 19, 20, 261. 
 
 Clancanane, 20. 
 
 Clancan, 2, 20. 
 
 Clancar, 167, 349. 
 
 Clancark, 167. 
 
 Clancarties, 168. 
 
 Clancarvell, 24. 
 
 Clancathal, 279. 
 
 Clanchy, 350. 
 
 Clanconcane, 21. 
 
 Clancurry, 48. 
 
 Clandeboye, 2, 6, 8, 11, 13. 14, 
 
 17, 34, 260, 261. 
 Clandonnels, 14, 16, 26. 
 Clane, 47, 252. 
 Clankonkeyne, 28. 
 Clanlochlain, 280. 
 Clanmore, 267. 
 Clanmorris, 275, 276. 
 Clanrickard, 134, 135, 139. 220, 
 
 244, 272, 347. 
 Claragh, 255. 
 Claranclaris, 257. 
 Clare 123, 124, 126, 240, 261, 
 
 264, 271, 272, 274, 283, 284. 
 
 348 
 Clare, 291. 
 Clashmore, 277. 
 Clastnoe, 255. 
 Clavagh, 71. 
 Clayland, 58. 
 Cleere, 238. 254. 
 Cleggan, 261 . 
 Cleggs, 99. 
 Clelande, 56. 
 Clement, the 8th, 349. 
 ClenghUh, 2S3. 
 Clergy, 233, 285 
 Clery, 66. 
 
 Clifford, 33, S5. 303. 
 Clinch, 100. 
 Clinshe, 39. 
 Clinton, 4, 5. 
 Cloane, 257, 25S. 
 Cloesse, 256. 
 Cloghatrabally, 280. 
 Cloghcully, 350. 
 Clogher, 234, 235, 250, 278, 2S5, 
 
 287. 
 Cloghla, 254. 
 Cloghlack, 166. 
 Clohn, 25. 
 
 Cloine McKnosha, 104. 
 
 Clomeen, 168. 
 
 Clomen, 256. 
 
 Clomesse, 100. 
 
 Clomochain, 97. 
 
 Clomore, 254. 
 
 Clonard, 96, 97. 
 
 Clonardran, 93. 
 
 Clonbela, 83, 268. 
 
 Clonbrassel, 20, 69. 
 
 Clonbreve, 96. 
 
 Clonbrock, 273. 
 
 Cloncare, 169, 222. 
 
 Cloncoscoran, 277. 
 
 Cloncurry, 252, 264. 
 
 Clondae, 257. 
 
 Clondalkin, 37. 
 
 Clondaly, 96. 
 
 Clondonnells, 250, 251. 
 
 Clone, 68, 180. 
 
 Clone Bishoprick, 170. 172, 
 
 263. 
 Clonebrassel McBooleclian, 9. 
 Clonecollain, 107. 
 Clonegawny, 84. 
 Clonekevan, 96. 
 Clonelly, 262. 
 Clonemcknois, 234. 
 Clones, 24. 
 
 Clonfert, 131, 134. 237, 286. 
 Clongell, 94, 97. 
 Clongoweswood, 47, 245. 274, 
 
 284. 
 Clonin, 103. 
 Clonkeraigh, 257. 
 Clonkyraghe, 62. 
 Clonlisk, 87. 
 Clonlonnon, 104. 
 Clonlost, 105, 270. 
 Clonmacnoise, 83. 
 Clonmaghan, 96. 
 Clonmeen, 279, 2S0. 
 Clonmel, 159, 210, 213, 229, 
 _ 283, 288, 289, 355. 
 Clonmeny, 31. 
 Clonmillier, 81, 84. 
 Clonmoney, 265. 
 Clonmore, 349. 
 Clonmoynagh, 271. 
 Clonmore, 4, 5, 52, 92, 280. 
 Clon na Ross, 236. 
 Clonnor, 5. 
 Clonolyn, 53, 54. 
 Clonranye, 258. 
 Clonresse, 93. 
 Clontarf, 38. 
 Clonyardom, 259. 
 Clonygagh, 253. 
 
 Clonyn, 270. 
 
 Clough, 254. 
 
 Clougharde, 34. 
 
 Cloughchricke, 253. 
 
 Cloughgrenan, 51, 52, 264, 265. 
 
 Cloughouter, 247. 
 
 Clovey, 165. 
 
 Clowater, 253. 
 
 Clownebolche, S3. 
 
 Clowrann, 25S. 
 
 Cloyduff, 83. 
 
 Cloyne, 286, 288. 
 
 Cluain (see Clone;, 330. 
 
 Cnock-fionn, 34S. 
 
 Cnoc-lacha, 348. 
 
 Coaleshill, 258. 
 
 Cockburn, 266. 
 
 Code, 57. 
 
 Codd, 60, 256, 349. 
 
 Coe Lough, 22. 
 
 Coffee, 50. 
 
 Cogan, 167, 350. 
 
 Coghlan, 83. 
 
 Cohery, 289. 
 
 Coill-ui-Fiachrach, 347. 
 
 Colambre, 105. 
 
 Cole, 256. 
 
 Cole, 96. 
 
 Cole Brook, 262. 
 
 Colclough, 233, 253. 
 
 Coleraine, 2, 25, 28, 249, 26.1. 
 
 262, 297. 
 Coleman, 170. 
 Collan, 9, 20, 64. 
 Collanhroe, 1 10. 
 Collanstowne. 48. 
 Collaton, 254. 
 Collbaneghar, 78. 
 Collbinstown, 253. 
 Collen,3Sl. 
 Colleges, 295. 
 Colley, 48, S2, 97, 233. 
 Colleybeg, 168. 
 Collymore, 2S0. 
 Collmanstown, 39. 
 Collmoolestone, 96, 99. 
 Collmollen, 95. 
 Collum, 236. 
 Coltsman, 278. 
 Comerford, 67, 70, 72, 166, 21 1, 
 
 255, 289, 291, 292, 352. 
 Compostella, 286. 
 Comsey, 71. 
 Comshen, 351. 
 Comyn, 271, 
 Conagh, 271. 
 Condon, 163, 178, 179, 1S2 22$, 
 
 335- 33°- 
 
INDEX. 
 
 30; 
 
 Coniy, 39, 47. 
 Conmee, 270. 
 Connaghe, 201. 
 Connagher, 227. 
 Connaght, 35. 
 Connally Barony, 253. 
 Connaught, I, 2, 35, C4, 112, 
 122, 237, 239, 273, 241, 287, 
 
 303, 304, 336. 
 Connor, 2, 83, 235, 271, 285. 
 Conogarhen, 32. 
 Conran, 37, 38. 
 Conry, 286. 
 Conshelaghe, 208. 
 Contaule, 20. 
 
 Conway, 72,101, 193,291.351,610. 
 Coodurragha, 279. 
 Cooke, 5, 245, 254, 281. 
 Cookstown, 4, 93, 95, 101. 
 Coolambre, 106, 270. 
 Coolavin, 275, 276. 
 Cooledovne, 5S. 
 Cooley, 85. 
 Cooleybeg, 168. 
 Cooleymore, 168. 
 Coolgreany, 266. 
 Coolie, 45. 
 Coolmoyne, 263. 
 Coolnamuck, 164. 
 Cooloo, 273. 
 Cooly, 87. 
 Coomlegane, 279. 
 Coote, 268. 
 
 Coppinger, 170, 171,271,278,351 
 Coran, 37, 38. 
 Corballies, 37, 93, 94,98. 
 Corbally, 101,255. 265. 
 Corbetstown, 83, 106. 
 Corcabhascin, 271. 
 Cordangan, 281. 
 Cork, County, 156, 158, 167, 1 70. 
 
 188, 196, 216, 279, 2S0, 281, 
 
 282. 
 Cork, Bishop of, 172, 236, 286, 
 
 288. 
 Cork, City, 167, 239, 240, 241, 
 
 271, 278, 283, 284. 
 Corkbeg, 278. 
 Corlod, 255. 
 Cormicke, 72. 
 
 Corolanstown, 103, 105, 106. 
 Coronary, 271. 
 Corr, 273. 
 
 Corraghmore, 231, 232: 
 Corran, 18, 347. 
 Corranvreddy, 25S. 
 Corratobbann, 258. 
 Correndestown, 39. 
 
 Correndoo, 266. 
 
 Correstone, 5. 
 
 Corrikeris, 48. 
 
 Coruagh, 266. 
 
 Cosby, 78, 79, 80, 267, 352. 
 
 Cosfeale, 282. 
 
 Cosheshany. 208. 
 
 Coskayll, 257. 
 
 Cosse, 256. 
 
 Costelloe, 275, 276. 
 
 Costilaghe, 
 
 Cotos Lough, 22. 
 
 Cotter, 279. 
 
 Coubrey, 168. 
 
 Council, The, 244. 
 
 Courcy, Lord, 9, 171, 229, 27S, 
 
 349- 
 Courte, The, 257. 
 Courtney, 205. 
 Courtown, 46, 264. 
 Courtstown, 70. 
 Coutin, 290. 
 Cowbrodd, 258. 
 Cowik, 67. 
 Cowland, 126. 
 Cowledoynge, 257. 
 Cowle Ishell, 255. 
 Cowlneallven, 94. 
 Cowley, 18, 82, 252, 265, 352. 
 Cowlniagh, 79. 
 Cox, 281. 
 
 Coyne Lough, 10, 12. 
 Crackanston, 97. 
 Cradockstown, 47, 349. 
 Craghes, 163. 
 
 Craigfergus, 13, 14, 18, 33. 
 Creaf, 48. 
 Creagh, 205, 278, 283, 288, 289, 
 
 290. 
 Creagh Ballraen, 258. 
 Crean, Lynch, 275. 
 Crebilly, 261. 
 Creegh, 258. 
 Creen, 30. 
 Creey-Toune, 67. 
 Cremorne, 261. 
 
 Cregg, 267, 273, 274, 280, 281. 
 Crew, 353. 
 Crickstown, 91, 93, 96, 105, 269, 
 
 270. 
 Crint, 256. 
 Crinton, 92. 
 Croagh, 280, 
 Croambeg, 255. 
 Crobey, 96. 
 Crolt, 73,281. 
 Crofton, 277. 350. 
 Crofty, 106. 
 
 Croghan, 82, 85, 233, 239, 26S 
 
 Croaghe Patrick, I, 
 
 Croghfenaly. 
 
 Croke, 67. 
 
 Crome, 198. 
 
 Cromelin, 39. 
 
 Cromok, 259. 
 
 Ciommer, 255. 
 
 Cromp, 101, 269. 
 
 Cromwell, 9, 45, 70, 89, 266. 
 
 Crooke. 71, 353. 
 
 Crook Haven, 239. 
 
 Crookestown, 253. 
 
 Crosbie, 236, 282. 
 
 Cross, 272. 
 
 Crosses, Wayside, 68, 69, 70, -2, 
 
 97. 98, 231,239. 
 Crosshaven, 167. 
 Crowe, 353. 
 Cruachan, 81. 
 Cruise, 38. 
 Crumpe, 95, 269. 
 Cuba, 271. 
 Cuff, 185, 272. 
 Culkieragh, 262. 
 Cullen, 61, 64, 166. 
 Cullendragh, 95. 
 Cullenston, 61. 
 Cullentraigh, 258. 
 Culliebege, 254. 
 Cul Mac Tryne, 31. 
 Culme, 353. 
 Culmore, 30, 249. 
 Cummer, 272. 
 Cumshaiagh, 225. 
 Curliews, 144, 303. 
 Curluddy, 72. 
 Curmollen, 95. 
 Curraboy, 273. 
 Curragh, 37,38. 
 Curraghleagh, 275. 
 Curraghmore (see Corraghniore 
 
 and Carraghmore), 280, 347. 
 Curran, 34, 284. 
 Curry glas, 281. 
 Cusacke, 5, 27, 91, 93, 94, 95, 
 
 96, 97, 105, 129, 269, 296, 
 
 336. 353- 
 Cushingstone, 94, 97. 
 Cuskenny, 279. 
 Cussyn, 352. 
 Cutmollen, 92. 
 
 D 
 
 Daideston, 99. 
 Daingean ni-Hushy, 282. 
 Dale, 256. 
 Dalgan, 272. 
 
3 66 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Dalgin, 274. 
 
 Daljoy, 239. 
 
 Dalkey, 36, 238, 239. 
 
 Dallway, 252, 261, 353. 
 
 Dalton, 71, 103, no, 163. 
 
 Dalystown, 271. 
 
 Danesfort, 273. 
 
 Daneston, 93, 99. 
 
 Dangan, 70, 85, 125, 265, 283. 
 
 Dangan, I. Beirn, 276. 
 
 Danganmore, 70, 72. 
 
 Danganstown, 71. 
 
 Danyell, 252. 
 
 Darcy, 64, 92, 93, 94, 96, 100. 
 
 103, 106, 107, 133, 273. 
 Dardesse, 96, 106. 
 Dardestowne, 93, 94. 103. 
 Darinlar, 165. 
 Darlington, 264. 
 Darrynane, 282. 
 Dartry, 23, 24, 264. 
 Daton, 67, 266, 255, 292. 
 Darent, 281. 
 Davanargh, 257. 
 Davels, 72, 79, 253. 
 Davers, 43. 
 Davidstown, 57, 263. 
 Daviestown, 257. 
 Dawmans, 13. 
 Dawson, 261. 
 Daxe, 91, 352. 
 Dayrane, 257. 
 Dealbhna Eathra, 83. 
 Deanes, 68, 70, 254. 
 Dease, 269, 270, 279. 
 De Bathe, 269. 
 De Beauvoir, 275. 
 De Burgo, 283, 287. 
 Decies, 158, 160, 161, 165, 225, 
 
 226, 277. 
 
 De Freyne, 276. 
 
 Degert, 216. 
 
 Delahoyde, 39, 49, 92, 93, 95, 
 
 96, 99, 267. 
 Delamaire, 10, no. 
 Delvin, Lord, 103, 105, ic6, 
 
 227, 228, 270, 349. 
 Dempsy, 84. 
 
 Den. 39. 68, 232, 254. 
 Dengan, 95, 96, 98. 
 Denny, 190, 283. 
 
 „ Barony of, 255. 
 De Oviedo, 285. 
 Derite, 50. 
 Dermebeer, 165. 
 De Robeck, 267. 
 De Ros, 97, 264. 
 Derpatrick, 95, 96, loo. 
 
 Derran, 85, 100. 
 
 Deny, 28, 31, 80, 234, 239, 
 
 249, 262, 285, 2S7, 297. 
 Derrymollin, 83. 
 Derrymore, 336. 
 Derver, 4. 
 Desart, 268. 
 De Rythre, 264. 
 Deseret, 232. 
 Desert, 267. 
 Desmond, 45, 52, 67, 76, 156, 
 
 166, 168, 170, 1S1, 195, 199, 
 
 206, 219, 231, 278, 286, 331, 
 
 333- 338, 349- 
 Devereux, 57, 59, 62, 164. 256, 
 
 257, 265, 266. 
 Devonshire, 9, 235. 
 De Vesci, 261. 
 Dexter, 92, 97. 
 Digby, 252, 352. 
 Dillon, 38, 39, 86, 93, 94, 95, 
 
 96, 98, 99, 103, 104, 107, no, 
 
 »3. 137, 154. 269, 273, 
 
 276, 350. 
 Dingan, 82. 
 
 Dingle, 157, 189, 239, 282. 
 Dipper, 256. 
 Dirr, 257. 
 Disert, 78, 349. 
 Disert Cealaigh, 338. 
 Dobbin, 67, 71, 163. 
 Dobbs, 261. 
 Docwra, 102, 261. 
 Documents, Original, 124, 290, 
 
 339. 348. 
 Dod, 252, 256. 
 Dodwell, 276. 
 Doe, 248, 249. 
 Doinfert, 45, 48, 50. 
 Doire-Mac-Lachtna, 338. 
 Doire-ni-Donnell, 34S. 
 Doherty, 262. 
 Dollardstown, 93. 
 Dolphin, 136, 273. 
 Domano, 165. 
 Domaston, 38. 
 Domville, 234. 
 Don, 276. 
 
 Donadea, 46, 48, 107, 264. 
 Donfort, 253. 
 Dongan, 48, 98. 
 Donagh, 36. 
 Donakernie, 93. 
 Donamore, 37. 
 Doncannon, 57. 
 Dondonnell, 103. 
 Dondrome, 244, 257. 
 Doneames, 106. 
 
 Donegal, 2, 29, 31, 248, 260, 
 
 262. 
 Donell, 300. 
 Donelan, 139, 234. 
 Donemore, 100. 
 Doneraile, 282. 
 Donewer, 104, 105. 
 Dongalpe, 257. 
 Dongarvan, 164. 
 Donibroke Castle, 37. 
 Don Owen, 32. 
 Donmoghan, 4. 
 Donmore, 94. 
 Donnelaghs, 33. 
 Donnell, 79. 
 Donnhiel, 262. 
 Donnybrook, 38, 236. 
 Donore, 103, 104, 105, 270, 283. 
 Donoughmore, 284. 
 Donovan (see O'Donovan), 
 Doramestown, 95. 
 Dormers, 70, 351. 
 Dormondus, 66. 
 Dorrown, 82. 
 Douay, 285. 
 Dougan, 253. 
 Doughcloyne, 281. 
 Dour, 46. 
 Dovea, 282. 
 Dowalla, 225. 
 Dowdall, 5, 96, 98, 99, 231, 
 
 232, 252, 349. 352. 
 Dowdingleston, 48. 
 Dowdontonne, 5. 
 Dowell, 53. 
 Dowleck, 91. 
 Dowley, 72. 
 Dowlin, 252. 
 Down, 2, 6, 12, 235, 240, 245, 
 
 260, 265, 266, 271, 285, 296. 
 Downelong, 239. 
 Downemore, 239. 
 Downeshead, 239. 
 Downings, The, 50, 252. 
 Downshire, 260. 
 Downton, 252, 353. 
 Dow O'Loyaghe, 88. 
 Dowrig, 239. 
 Dowstown, 93, 97. 
 Dowth, 91, 94, 98, 269. 
 Doyle, 265. 
 
 Doyne, 50, 252, 267, 353. 
 Dracot, 93, 102, 106, 352. 
 Drake. 5, 95, 98, 269. 
 Drakerath, 95, 98, 269. 
 Drakestown, 5, 94. 
 Draper, 91, 234. 
 Drew, 278. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 367 
 
 Drewscout, 278. 
 Drinagh, 62. 
 Drishane, 279, 281. 
 Drogheda, 3. 46, 90, 239, 240, 243 
 Dromahare, 276, 300. 
 Dromaleague, 2S0. 
 Dromane, 126, 160, 226. 
 Drombar, 96. 
 Dromconragh, 99. 
 Di'omconran, 37. 
 Dromehaire, 276. 
 Dromes, The, 36. 
 Dromgold, 5. 
 Dromgoldstoune, 5. 
 Dromkeen, 2S3. 
 Dromnagle, 37. 
 Dromoland, 272. 
 Dromore, 235. 
 Dromore, Bishop of, 285. 
 Dromore Castle, 2S0. 
 Dromsaurie, 96. 
 Drought, 265. 
 Drum-tidhneach, 330. 
 Drumcar, 263. 
 Drumcashell, 4. 
 Drumneen, 168. 
 Drumsallagh, 283. 
 Drumfinnin, 286. 
 Drylin, 71, 255. 
 Dryneham, 38. 
 Duagh nafealla, 282. 
 Duagh, 272. 
 
 Dublin, 26, 48, 36, 59, 98, 112, 
 232, 262, 263, 264, 2S7, 298, 
 
 344. 345- 
 Dublin, County, 35. 36, 39, 40, 
 
 42, 44, 64, 89, 9c, 113, 269, 
 
 280, 298, 299. 
 Dublin, Archbishop, 37, 103, 285. 
 Dudley, 264. 
 
 Duff, 63, 198. 227, 256, 25S, 351 
 Duffree, 56, 61. 
 Duffrin, 6, 9, II, 36. 
 Duggan, 279. 
 Dugin, 291. 
 
 Duhallow, 278, 335, 336. 
 Duharra, 331. 
 Duiske, 69, 266. 
 Duleek, 93, 94, 98, 100. 
 Dullagan, 6. 
 Dullardstown, 269. 
 Duna, 279. 
 
 Dunamore, 24, 93, 99. 
 Dunamase, 75. 
 Dunamond, 273. 
 Dunan-Oir, 16S. 
 Dunas, 78. 
 Dunavall. 34. 
 
 Dunbeg. 336. 
 
 Dun boy, 31, 83. 
 
 Dunboyne, 31, 36, 92, 93, 211 
 
 231, 269, 284, 349. 
 Dunbroc, 38. 
 Dunbrodie, 57. 
 Dunburie, 239. 
 Duncanon, 244. 
 Duncomiack, 61. 
 Duncowig, 167. 
 Dundalke, Town, 6, 236, 269. 
 Dundanell, no. 
 Dundannion, 279. 
 Dundeedy, 167. 
 Dundermott, 276. 
 Dunderrane, 261. 
 Dundrum, 12. 
 Duneen. 167. 
 Dunnrth,'45, 48. 5°- 
 Dungan, III. 
 Dunganmore, 70, 72. 
 Dungannon, 27, 223, 224, 250, 
 
 260, 297, 349. 
 Dungarberry, 300. 
 Dungarestown, 257. 
 Dungarvan, 159, 164, 239, 244. 
 Dungiven, 249, 262. 
 Dungorly, 167. 
 Dun-Guaire, 337. 
 Dunkellyn, 23, 220. 
 Dnnkerron, 168. 
 Dunkit, 91. 
 Dunlaghlen, 134. 
 Dunlockney, 254. 
 Dunloe, 280, 350. 
 Dunluce, 17. 
 Dunmanway, 279, 281. 
 Dunmore, 69, 92, 96, 267. 
 Dunmow, 100, 106, 107, 269. 
 Dunmoylan, 236, 284. 
 Dunnangall, 16S. 
 Dunnas, 126. 
 Dunne, 79, 80, 263, 267. 
 Dunnocks, 48. 
 Dunore, (See Donore and 
 
 Donewer) 47, 167. 
 Dunowen, 167. 
 Dunraven, 283. 
 Dunsandle, 274. 
 Dunsany, 92, 93, 101, 231, 269, 
 
 349- 
 Dunscombe, 281. 
 Dunshaghlin, 37, 93. 
 Dunsinane, 2S1. 
 Dunsink, 38. 
 
 Dunsoghly, 38, 90, 99, 263. 
 Dunworley, 167. 
 Duriforth. 4S. 
 
 Durhamstown, 234. 
 
 Durrough, 84. 
 
 Durnam, 13. 
 
 Dyngell, 239. 
 
 Dysart, 79, 85, 105. 267, 270. 
 
 Dyrr, 252. 
 
 Eaghe Lough, 11, 12, 13. 18, 
 
 25- 
 Earlstown, 255. 
 Earne, 29, 122, 144, 148. 
 Eastmeath, 120. 
 Edenderrie, 82, 233. 
 Edenduchar, 18. 
 Edenduffcarrick, 18, 82, 260. 
 Edgeworth, 271. 
 Edgeworthstown, 271. 
 Egerton, 5. 
 Eichter, 232. 
 Elfin, 150, 257. 
 Elie, 87, 89, 264. 
 Eliot, 61, 95, 101, 256. 
 Ellis- Flynn, 34. 
 Elloghe, 32. 
 Emly, 207, 211, 236. 
 Enagh, 271. 
 Ench, 32. 
 Eneas, 50, 289. 
 Enfield, 45. 
 Englysh, 213. 
 Ennis, 210. 
 Enos, 50, 289. 
 Eniscorthy, 57, 63, 64. 
 Ennistymon, 272. 
 Erne, 24, 292. 
 Erwarde, 95. 
 Esherowean, 95. 
 Eske, 31. 
 Esker, 256. 
 Echingham, 62. 
 Esmond, 50, 61, 265, 353. 
 Essex, 11, 14, 22, 23, 24 25. 59. 
 
 63. 77. 85, 86, 262, 271, 
 
 97- 
 Etherunton, 253. 
 Eustace, 39, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. 
 
 50, 61, 63, 94, 95, 100, 252, 
 
 253. 265, 349. 
 Evaghe, (Neagh) 6, 7, 12. 
 Evallo, 257. 
 Evans, 284. 
 Everard, 66, 95, 163, 210, 269, 
 
 290. 349. 352. 356. 
 Evers, 43, 93, 94, 97. 
 Everson, 254. 
 Evrell. 108. 
 
3 68 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fagan, 38, 254, 263, 348. 
 
 Fahalea, 281. 
 
 Failghe, 81. 
 
 Fainge, 255. 
 
 Fair, 255. 
 
 Faly O'Connors, 85. 
 
 Fanagh, 248. 
 
 Fanne Castle, 30, 31. 
 
 Fanning, 67, 255, 351. 
 
 Farinhamon, 56. 
 
 Farmar, 281. 
 
 Farrell, 231. 
 
 Fasagh, 255. 
 
 Fask, 37. 
 
 Fathrath, 96. 
 
 Fatlock, 161, 350. 
 
 Fawlestoune, 257. 
 
 Fattra Kattra, 239. 
 
 Feara Ceall, 83. 
 
 Feddens, 166. 
 
 Feiva, 261. 
 
 Felten, 96. 
 
 Feltrim, 38, 39. 
 
 Fenes, 54. 
 
 Fenton, 92, 245, 349. 
 
 Fercal, 81, 83, 84, 85, 89, 241, 
 
 268. 
 Fercuolen, 43. 
 Ferderrogh, 36. 
 Fermanagh, 2, 24. 210, 220, 
 
 233, 247, 261, 262, 297. 
 Fermoy, 169, 171, 225,335. 349 
 Fermor, 2S1. 
 Femes, 35, 56, 57, 59, 61, 63, 
 
 235. 236, 244, 253, 256, 266. 
 
 300. 
 Ferney, 14, 23, 24, 302. 
 Fen ell, 91. 
 Ferriter, 192. 
 Ferto, 11. 
 Fertullaghe, 107. 
 Fethard, 99, 210, 235, 256, 2S8. 
 Fewes, 3, 19, 21, 23, 36. 
 Feydorffe, 93. 
 Ffrench, 273. 
 Field, 38, 99, 292, 293. 
 Fieldstowne, 37. 
 Fingall, 46, 26S. 
 Finglass, 37, 38, 39, 349. 
 Finne, 258. 
 Finvara, 274. 
 Fishmoyne, 284. 
 Fitton, 199, 205. 
 Fitz Archer, 70. 
 Fitz Brian, 253. 
 Fitz Bryan, 252. 
 
 Fitz Edmond, 179, 180, 181, 
 191, 217, 253. 
 
 Fitz Edward, 70. 
 
 Fitz Garret, 38, 94, 163. 
 
 Fitz Gerald, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 
 50, 68, 83, 87, 96, 101, 104, 
 108, 202, 220, 226, 230, 232, 
 252, 253. 254, 255, 266, 270, 
 271, 277. 278, 281, 282, 283, 
 
 335- 338, 35°. 352- 
 Fitz Gibbon, 197, 335, 336. 
 Fitz Harvie, 256. 
 Fitz Henrie, 58,59, 349-351.352 
 Fitz James, 46, 50, 257. 
 Fitz John, 62, 67, 94. 
 Fitz Laurence, 70. 
 Fitz Maurice, 103, 191, 225, 
 
 282, 349. 
 Fitz Neal, 62. 
 Fitz Nicholl, 62, 256. 
 Fitz Nicholas, 289. 
 Fitz Patrick, 67, 79. 80, 267. 349 
 Fitzphillips, 49. 
 Fitzpiers, 78. 
 Fitz Piers, 49, 74. 
 Fitz Redmond, 50. 
 Fitzsimon, 9, 38, 39, 106, 291, 
 
 293, 302, 342, 348. 352. 
 Fitz Theobald, 163. 
 Fitz Thomas, 272. 
 Fitz Urse, 23. 
 Fitz Williams, 39, 93, 349. 
 Flain, II. 
 
 Flattesburie, 46, 50, 349. 
 Fleming, 4, 5, 48, 94, 95, 96, 
 
 100, 167, 182, 227, 260, 314. 
 Flemingston, 94.97, 101. 
 Fleshillstone, 94. 
 Flood, 50. 
 Foaty, 278. 
 Follyot, 73, 74, 351. 
 Flower, 267. 
 Fount, 39, 47, 273. 
 Founteston, 47, 48. 
 Fonn Iartarach, 2S0. 
 Foord, 101. 
 Koordston, IOI. 
 Forde, 95. 
 Fordston, 95. 
 Fore, 90, 102, 103. 111. 
 Forstall, 67, 69, 71, 255. 
 Forstallstown, 255. 
 Forster, 69. 
 Fortanolan, 51, 52. 
 Forth, 55, 56, 60. 253. 256. 
 Foster, 38, 101. 
 Fotherde, 256. 
 Fnulkes, 43. 
 
 Foulksrath, 68, 255. 
 
 Fowleing, 93. 
 
 Fox, 45, 81, 84, in, 205, 268 
 
 270. 
 Foxville, 84. 
 Frame, 96. 
 France, 105. 
 Frankfort, 284. 
 Franstone, 95, 100. 
 Frayne, 72, 100, 267. 
 Freckleton, 12. 
 Freerstown, 254. 
 Frefans, 96. 
 Freghanes, 209. 
 French, 61, 133, 272, 273, 276, 
 
 279. 
 Frencheston, 97. 
 Freyne, 72, 352. 
 Freny, 255. 
 Frinss, 256. 
 Fues, 21, 302. 
 Fullerton, 245. 
 Furlong, 256, 257, 349,351. 
 Furnaghts, 252. 
 Fursetime, 256. 
 Fyan, 252. 
 
 Fynn, 25, 29, 30, ^. 254. 
 Fynne, 29, 30, 33. 
 
 Gafney, 285. 
 
 Gaille, 276. 
 
 Gainstown, 94. 
 
 Gall, 72, 255, 349. 
 
 Galleystone, 257. 
 
 Gallagh, 274, 277. 
 
 Gall von Bourckh, 73. 
 
 Gallgath, 95. 
 
 Gallin, 36. 
 
 Gallocar, 32. 
 
 Galloways, 183. 
 
 Gallstown, 72, 255. 
 
 Galmoweston, 96. 
 
 Galmoy, 69, 255, 266. 
 
 Galtrim, 91, 92,95, 96, 232, 349. 
 
 Galtrom, 291. 
 
 Galway, County, 69, 123, 125, 
 130, 141, 150, 183, 226, 238, 
 240, 241, 267, 270, 272, 273, 
 274, 300. 
 
 Galway Town, 125, 131, 138, 
 
 "39. 279- 
 Galwey, 290, 351. 
 Gardenmorris, 69, 267. 
 Gareston, 39. 
 Garesinotte, 259. 
 Garisker, 252, 253. 
 Garland, 4, 5, 95. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 369 
 
 Garlondstonne, 5. 
 
 Garnegall, 32. 
 
 Garrard, 66. 
 
 Garreden, 257. 
 
 Garrendenny, 266. 
 
 Garrenusky, 258. 
 
 Garretstown, 283. 
 
 Garrevadden, 257. 
 
 Garrycastle, 81, 83. 
 
 Garryhill, 51, 53, 54. 
 
 Garryhundon, 265. 
 
 Garrymusky, 58. 
 
 Garve, 31. 
 
 Garvey, 95, 167. 
 
 Gavin, 206. 
 
 Gavel Rannal, 302. 
 
 Geashill, 75. 
 
 Geere, 254, 258. 
 
 Gellouse, 93. 
 
 Gelloustone, 93. 
 
 Gelston, 274. 
 
 Gentestowne, 257. 
 
 Geoghegan, 261. 
 
 Geradstown, 93. 
 
 Geraldines, 45, 49, 71, 101, 104 
 160, 162, 171, 197, 205, 291 
 
 Gerardstown, 269. 
 
 Gerlone, 5, 349. 
 
 Gerlonstown, 97. 
 Gernon, 4, 98, 260,349. 
 Gernonstown, 4, 94, 260. 
 Gerrot, 9, 166, 290. 
 Geer, 258. 
 Gertrough, 284. 
 Gibbonston, 106. 
 Gibston, 95, 96. 
 Gifford, 49. 
 Gilagh, 95. 
 Gilliglas, 50. 
 Gillrauston, 92. 
 Gillston, 95. 
 Gilltown, 265. 
 Glanarme, 15, 16, 18. 
 Glanarought, 168. 
 Glancarvell, 24. 
 Glancomkeyne, 250. 
 Glandeboy, 9. 
 Glandelagh, 235. 
 Glandilore, 36. 
 Glandore, 168, 236. 
 Glanemagh, 239. 
 Glanfyne, 248. 
 Glanomera, 283. 
 Glaskarge, 258. 
 Glasscarrig, 56, 62. 
 
 Glasse, 86. 
 
 Glassepistell, 4, 5. 
 
 Glean-an-Chroim, 279. 
 
 Gleann, 168, 335. 
 
 Glencarra, 277. 
 
 Glencolumkille, 272. 
 
 Glencorbraighe, 331. 
 
 Glenflesk, 278, 282. 
 
 Glengall, 165, 2S4. 
 
 Glenmalure, 40, 45. 
 
 Glenmore, 276. 
 
 Gleveckloan, 96. 
 
 Glin, 53, 59, 283. 
 
 Glinsk, 273. 
 
 Glomemore, 7. 
 
 Glynnes, The, 13, 15, 17, 18, 42, 
 250, 261. 
 
 Godolphin, 245. 
 
 Golding, 38, 48, 95, 106. 
 
 Golmoorstown, 48. 
 
 Goodall, 96. 
 
 Goodman, 39, 151. 
 
 Goorte, 134. 
 
 Gorchins, 61. 
 
 Gore, 263, 266. 
 
 Gorey, 63. 
 
 Gormagan, 254. 
 
 Gormanstone, 92, 93, 94, 225, 
 226, 268, 349 
 
 Gortenacuppoge, 273. 
 
 Gorst, 253. 
 
 Gort, Viscount, 284. 
 
 Gortgrenane, 281. 
 Gortineeher, 280. 
 
 Gortnamona, 268. 
 
 Gortrassy, 276. 
 
 Gorvey, 94. 
 
 Gough, 164, 350. 
 
 Gould, 167, 182, 183, 279, 29I. 
 
 Goulding, 253. 
 
 Gowlding, 94. 
 
 Gowran, 66, 67, 71, 254. 
 
 ,, Grange, 267. 
 Grace, 67, 70, 226, 254, 255, 
 
 266, 349. 
 Gragene, 256. 
 Gragrobben, 257. 
 Granahan, 272. 
 Granard, 114, 261. 
 Grange, The, 5, 38, 39, 48; 253, 
 
 283. 
 Grange Castle, 72. 
 Grangowin, 255. 
 Grant, 72, 162, 164, 167, 255, 
 
 277, 289. 
 Grantstovvn, 267. 
 Gratkerock, 58. 
 Gratz, 162. 
 Graves, 73. 
 Graye, 62. 
 Greame, 48, 49, 252. 
 
 Great Fornaughts, 265. 
 Great Ardes, ir, 12. 
 Green-Castle, 12, 31, 32. 
 Greenfields, 185. 
 Greenore, 60. 
 Grehan, 72, 2S0. 
 Grenan, 68. 
 
 Grenanstown, 269, 284. 
 Greville, 270. 
 Grey, 194. 
 Griphy, 292. 
 Grogan, 261. 
 Growe, 254. 
 Growgane, 256. 
 Gruanfurt, 254. 
 Guatemala, 1621 
 Guillamore, 283. 
 Gun, 283. 
 
 Gurteen, 254, 255, 277. 
 Guyre, 91, 352. 
 Gwery, 258. 
 Gyanan, 289. 
 Gybbes, 66. 
 
 H 
 Hacket, 38, 352. 
 Hacketstown, 164. 
 Hacklee, III. 
 Hadsor, 5- 
 Hagans, 21, 24, 26. 
 Hah. (Howth?) 238. 
 Hacket. 66. 
 Hall, the, 256. 
 Halvestown, 252. 
 Haly, 197, 284, 289, 290. 
 Hambige, 94. 
 Hamill, 344. 
 
 Hamilton, 10, II, 271, 350. 
 Hamlin, 38, 94, 101, 290, 291. 
 Hammondstovvn. 260. 
 Hamon, 91, 94, III, 352. 
 Hane, 256. 
 
 Harberston, 48, 99, 252. 
 Hardwell, 48. 
 Harman, 253. 
 Hare, 256, 257. 
 Harestown, 256. 
 Harperstown, 62, 266. 
 Harpole, 53, 350. 
 Harpoole, 78, 79, 253. 
 Harrington, 37, 43, 45, 48, 76, 
 
 245. 350. 
 Hartpoole, 253. 
 Hartley Mauduit, 263. 
 Harvey. 93, 102. 
 Haskinston, III. 
 Hasquin, 252. 
 Hasson, 62. 
 
 3 a 
 
37° 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ilatton, 94, 185. 
 
 Hauberston, 253. 
 
 Havens, 238. 
 
 Howlet, 48. 
 
 Hay, 59. 
 
 Hea, 256. 
 
 Headborough, 281. 
 
 Heath, 
 
 Hegan, 208. 
 
 Herbert, 43, 48, 82, 269. 
 
 Herbertstown, 93. 
 
 Herford, 67. 
 
 Hetherington, 79. 
 
 Hewitt, 39. 
 
 Hickie, 271. 
 
 Hickson, 283. 
 
 Hide, 93. 
 
 Higgins, 275. 
 
 Higgs, 252. 
 
 Hi-Kinselagh, 63. 
 
 Hill, 94, 95, 100, 266. 
 
 Hill's Court, 282. 
 
 Hillswood, 274. 
 
 Hinch The, 39. 
 
 Hoar, 256, 257. 
 
 Hodnett, 269. 
 
 Hogan, 208, 283. 
 
 Holde, 94. 
 
 Holdhall, 257. 
 
 Holicrosse, 211, 
 
 Holywood, 28, 93, 285, 
 
 290 
 Holme-Patrick, 37. 
 Holmpatrick, 38, 239. 
 Holstein, 73. 
 Hoodgrove, 71. 
 Hooke, 59, 61, 164. 
 Hoorton, 59. 
 Hops, 104. 
 Hore, 62, 164, 266. 
 Horsfall, 235. 
 Hovendon, 79. 
 
 „ Captain, 22. 
 Howeli 67. 
 Howling, 67, 255. 
 Howth, 1, 37, 92, 97, 227, 
 
 272, 349. 
 Hughstown, 277. 
 Hullen, 91. 
 Humble, 277. 
 Huntingdon, 277. 
 Huntstown, 38. 
 Hurlestone, 5. 
 Hurley, 201, 283, 352. 
 Hussey, 95, 96, 99, 232, 282, 
 Huysceethy, 54. 
 Hyde, 281. 
 Hyde Park, 107. 
 
 Hy-Many, 274. 
 
 Ibaun, 224. 
 
 Iberton, 255. 
 
 Ibrackan, 221. 
 
 Ichers, 93. 
 
 Ida, 255. 
 
 Idrone, 51, 64, 253. 
 
 Idough, 54, 71, 255. 
 
 Igroin, 255. 
 
 Ikethy, 252. 
 
 Ila, 30. 
 
 Hand Castle, 109. 
 
 Hand Magie, 13, 14. 
 
 Ildefonse, 162. 
 
 Illanstrassock, 258. 
 
 Imokillie, 179. 
 
 Inch, 284. 
 
 Inchequin, 126, 127, 228, 272, 
 
 349- 
 
 Inchy O'Fogarty, 284. 
 
 Ingland, 148, 152. 
 
 Inisbafin, 238. 
 
 Inishannon, 167. 
 
 Inishowen, 32, 263, 337. 
 
 [niskillen, 25, 227, 248. 
 
 Inistiuge, 66, 67, 68. 
 1 Inniscoe, 275. 
 
 Inniskae, 239. 
 286, 1 Inver, 238. 
 
 Ionoclestowne, 256. 
 • Iregan, 79. 
 
 Ireland's Eye, 36. 
 
 Iriell, 23. 
 
 Irish Exiles, 341. 
 1 Irishtown, 95, 96. 
 
 Itchinghane, 256. 
 
 Isham, 62. 
 
 Isle of Wight, 280. 
 
 Iveragh, 168. 
 
 Ivers, 94, 95, 97. 
 
 Jacob, 252. 
 263, Jacobus, St., 99. 
 
 Jamestown, 270. 
 
 Jansenius, 286. 
 
 Jenkinstown, 266. 
 
 Jephson, 43. 
 
 Jesucellin, 92. 
 
 Jesuits, 290, 295, 340, 348. 
 I Jobston, 38. 
 
 Johnston, 46, 50, 61, 100, 357. 
 352 Johnstown, 265, 275. 
 
 Jones, 91, 97, 103, 233, 234, 
 244. 269, 352. 
 
 Jordan, 9, 38. 205, 275. 
 
 Jordanstown, 93, 96. 
 Jura, 30. 
 
 K 
 Kalbally, 239. 
 Karne The, 104. 
 Karron, 67. 
 Kavanagh, (see Cavanagh) 41, 
 
 62, 67, 76, 253, 254, 256, 265. 
 Kealy, 66. 
 
 Kearney, 268, 283, 284, 352. 
 Keating, 50, 52, 60, 96, 256, 
 
 257, 266, 288. 
 Keelan-a-long, 88. 
 Keenan, 236. 
 Kell, 67. 
 Kellis, 13, 14. 
 Kells, 90, 91, 101, 255. 
 Kelly, 223, 252, 274, 276, 277, 
 
 287, 288. 
 Kenmare, 279, 280, 282. 
 Kenna, 252. 
 Kennadies, 212. 
 Kenny, 235, 266. 
 Kent, 60, 93, 94, 99. 
 Keogh, 283. 
 Keppoch, 5, 39. 
 Keranston, 96. 
 Kerbs, 255. 
 Kerovan, 237. 
 Kerry, 156, 167, 170, 187, 195 
 
 240, 263, 271, 278, 280, 282, 
 
 284. 
 Kerrycurrihy, 167, 280. 
 Keudagh, 279. 
 Kidderminster, 233. 
 Kieran, St., 99. 
 Kieran, 390. 
 Kierie, 239. 
 Kilamonine, 254. 
 Kilary, 255. 
 Kilayne, 254. 
 Kilballyowen, 283. 
 Kilbeggan, 38, 104. 
 Kilberagha, 255. 
 Kilboy, 94. 
 Kilbracan, 253. 
 Kilbreede, 254. 
 Kilbrew, 93, 94, 99. 
 Kilbride, 94, 95, 97, 107, 258, 
 
 283. 
 Kilbrogan, 281. 
 Kilcarne, 93, 99. 
 Kilcaskan, 281. 
 Kilcashe, 284. 
 Kilclogher, 57, 239, 266. 
 Kilcoan, 266. 
 Kilconelin, 56. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 371 
 
 Kilconnell, 135. 
 
 Kilconyney, 253. 
 
 Kilcorney, 271. 
 
 Kilcoursey, 84, 268, 282. 
 
 Kilcowan, 60. 
 
 Kilcullen, 44, 226, 230. 
 
 Kildalkey, 96. 
 
 Kildare, 35, 36, 41, 44, 45, 49, 
 
 51, 61, 81, 82, 90, 106, 112, 
 
 231, 240, 252. 
 Kildare, Town, 44, 65, 66, 70, 
 
 72, 73, 241, 252, 260, 261, 
 
 264, 265, 328. 
 Kildare, Earl, 217, 252, 264. 349. 
 Kildare, Bishop of 81. 235, 265, 
 
 286. 
 Kildergan, 74. 
 Kildowdy, 258. 
 Kildrought, 252. 
 Kilfeacle, 215. 
 Kilfeneraghe, 125. 
 Kilferagh, 69, 255. 
 Kilgholm, 239. 
 Kilgorey, 279. 
 Kilgrage, 101. 
 Kilgreany, 253. 
 Kilheele, 48, 252. 
 Kilhobock, 56. 
 Kilhussey, 48. 
 Kilkallatin, 254. 
 Kilkea, 245. 
 Kilkele, 239. 
 Kilkenny, Co. 56, 207, 208, 240, 
 
 254, 266, 267, 277, 284. 
 Kilkenny City, 67, 70, 98, 254, 
 
 289. 
 Kilkenny, West, 99, 102, 104. 
 Kilkevan, 256. 
 Kilkerell, 255. 
 Kilkregan, 254, 255. 
 Kilkullin, 253. 
 Killagh, 274. 
 Killagher, 2S2. 
 Killala, 237. 
 Killaloe, Bishop of 115, 236, 
 
 237, 271, 274,284, 28b. 
 Ktllalon, in. 
 Killany, 5, 264. 
 Killare, 104. 
 Killarie, 94. 
 Killasonna, 270. 
 Killa, 280. 
 Killaughe, 106. 
 Killconkey, 256. 
 Killcowlen, 259. 
 Killeen, 105, 268, 269, 349. 
 Killeglan, 38, 93. 
 Killegagre, 38. 
 
 Killeigh, 75. 
 
 Killelongart, 254. 
 
 Killelton, 271. 
 
 Killen, 252. 
 
 Killenan, 103, 107. 
 
 Killencowle, 260. 
 
 Killenfaghney, 104. 
 
 Killenkillie, 239. 
 
 Killensu, 257. 
 
 Killeon, 103. 
 
 Killerghe, 38. 
 
 Killester, 38. 
 
 Killglass, 144. 
 
 Killian, 256. 
 
 Killineighnan, 95. 
 
 Killinessan, 95. 
 
 Killiney, 283. 
 
 Killmanahan, 257. 
 
 Killmehell, 258. 
 
 Killmurry, 283. 
 
 Killnehell, 258. 
 
 Killollegha, 255. 
 
 Killoncowle, 5. 
 
 Killough, 260. 
 
 Killoutry, 2. 
 
 Killovany, 257. 
 
 Killowen, 283. 
 
 Killpatrick, 258. 
 
 Killred, 255. 
 
 Killrowe, 93. 
 
 Killta, 253. 
 
 Killtymen, 258. 
 
 Killua, 282. 
 
 Killuber, 104. 
 
 Killulto, 2, 7, 8, II, 28. 
 
 Killyan, 62, 233, 265. 
 
 Killyen, 93. 
 
 Killymore, 274. 
 
 Kilm, 165. 
 
 Kilmacduagh, 131, 237, 287. 
 
 Kilmacoole, 98. 
 
 Kilmadin, 165, 166. 
 
 Kilmaine, 275. 
 
 Kilmainham, 348. 
 
 Kilmaledie, 85. 
 
 Kilmallock, 107, 229, 279, 283, 
 
 332- 
 
 Kilmanahim Castle, 165. 
 
 Kilmannaigh, 257. 
 
 Kilmarocke, 37. 
 
 Kilmarton, 100. 
 
 Kilmerrish, 3 1 . 
 
 Kilmlapock, 253. 
 
 Kilmodalin, 226. 
 
 Kilmodally, 255. 
 
 Kilmore, 38, 63, 121, 235, 285, 
 
 2S7. 
 Kilmorey 260. 
 
 Kilmac Thomas, 165. 
 
 Kilmurry, 277. 
 
 Kilnacrott, 271. 
 
 Kil O'Donnel, 31. 
 
 Kilree, 253, 255. 
 
 Kilrmdony, 255. 
 
 Kilruane, 270. 
 
 Kilruddery, 264. 
 
 Kilrue, 269. 
 
 Kilshany, 168. 
 
 Kilshaughlin, 37. 
 
 Kilsheshane, 215. 
 
 Kilshrewly, 271. 
 
 Kilskeagh, 273. 
 
 Kilsoghlie, 39. 
 
 Kiltannon, 272. 
 
 Kilternan, 289. 
 
 Kiltimon, 263, 281. 
 
 Kiltober, 107. 
 
 Kiltulla, 273. 
 
 Kiltullagh, 273. 
 
 Kilulto, 6, 7, 11. 
 
 Kilune, 48. 
 
 Kilvashlan, 62. 
 
 Kilwarlin, 2, 6, 8. 
 
 Kilwarten, 8. 
 
 Kilwinny, 278. 
 
 Kilworth, 281. 
 
 Kinalea, 85. 
 
 Kinaleaghe, 270. 
 
 Kinalewarten, 6, 8. 
 
 Kinalmeaky, 278. 
 
 Kincleartie, 8. 
 
 Kinel-Connel, 34. 
 
 Kinel-Owen, 260. 
 
 Kindellane, 95. 
 
 King, 38, 96, 277, 350. 
 
 King's County, 35, 44, 76, 77, 
 78, 81, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 
 92, 102, 240, 241, 268. 
 
 Kingsland, 37, 270. 
 
 Kingston, 277. 
 
 Kingstown, 83, 98. 
 
 Kinnafad, 92. 
 
 Kinnalmeaky, 168. 
 
 Kinnals, 167. 
 
 Kinsale, 1, 171, 229, 233, 238, 
 278, 281, 349. 
 
 Kinsellagh, 56, 57, 61. 
 
 Kinvarre, 239. 
 
 Kirwan, 271, 273, 274. 
 
 Kissak, 38. 
 
 Kirvarlin, 6. 
 
 Knapton, 267. 
 
 Knaresborough, 66, 72. 
 
 Knight, 233. 
 
 Knightstown, 269. 
 
 \ Knock Abbey, 271. 
 
372 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Knockconor, 99. 
 
 Knockcosger, 104. 
 
 Knocke, 95, 101. 
 
 Knocklough, 
 
 Knockfergus Bay, 6, II, 38, 
 
 244. 
 Knock la Glynche, 34. 
 Knocklig, 201. 
 Knocklofty, 165. 
 Knockmarke, 95. 
 Knockmoan, 166. 
 Knockmoella, 255. 
 Knocknagur, 273. 
 Knockscur, 253. 
 Knocktopher, 67, 69, 255. 
 Knockyngen, 38. 
 Kowlungiste, 259. 
 Kyan, 262. 
 Kylbrowe, 100. 
 Kyledonoghoue Killy, 72. 
 Kyllyne, 92. 
 Kylmorry, 252. 
 
 Laccagh, 252. 
 
 Lacie, 67, 200, 205, 257, 330. 
 
 Lade, 15. 
 
 Ladie Rath, 94. 
 
 Laffan, 61, 350. 
 
 Laffer, 25. 
 
 Lalor, 80, 267, 2S6. 
 
 Lambay, 36, 239. 
 
 Lambert, 57, 6o, 73, 74, 245, 
 
 266, 271, 350. 
 Lanan, 31. 
 Lanesborough, 276. 
 Landsdowne, 282. 
 Langton,66, 71, 72, 287,321,351 
 Laragh, 47, 50, 104, 107. 
 Larha, 274. 
 Larne, 15, 18. 
 Laspelston, 39. 
 Latin, 286, 252. 
 Laughanston, 39. 
 Lawless, 66, 72. 
 Lawrence, 274. 
 Lea, 42, 43, 49, 50, 163. 
 Leamlara, 278. 
 Leap, The 168. 
 
 Leas or Lees, 163, 2S9, 292, 293. 
 Lease, 78. 
 Leath, 163. 
 Leaugh, 253. 
 Lecagh Castle, 45, 47. 
 Leek, 39. 
 Lechaell, 8, 9. 
 
 Ledwich, 72, 95, 105, 110,352. 
 Lee, 45, 46, 93, 100, 284. 
 
 Lefallyan, 254. 
 
 Leganlic, 261. 
 
 Leigh, 12. 
 
 Leighlin, 51, 52, 53, 234, 244, 
 
 253. 256. 
 Leinerocke, 53, 122. 
 Leinich, 290, 344. 
 Leins, 96. 
 Leinster, 3, 46, 135, 235, 236, 
 
 264, 271, 298, 302, 304, 325, 
 
 327- 
 Leipsig, 73. 
 Leitrim, 2, 24. 1 13, 120, 123, 134, 
 
 147, 266, 276, 277, 300, 303. 
 Leix, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 86, 
 
 231, 267, 328. 
 Lemavadie, 249. 
 Lemonfield, 274. 
 Leixlip, 44, 48, 49, 252, 265. 
 Lenough, 34. 
 Lenan, 290. 
 Lenigan, 281. 
 Lentaigne, 161, 169. 
 Le Poer, 72. 
 Lescartan, 94, 95, 100. 
 Lesmollen, 91. 93, 97, 99. 
 Lettybrook, 265. 
 Leverough, 36. 
 Leweston, 62. 
 Lewin, 272. 
 Lewis, 62. 
 
 Lexnaw, 190, 191, 230. 
 Ley, 66, 244, 246, 257. 
 Leyn, 254. 
 Licianstown, 93. 
 Lickdovvne, 201. 
 Liegan, 226. 
 Lifter, 25, 30, 31, 32, 249, 250, 
 
 262. 
 Lighe, 79. 
 Limerick. Co., 125, 156, 158, 
 
 169, 188, 196, 216, 229, 234. 
 
 241, 244, 274, 278, 283, 2S6. 
 Limerick Cittie, 196, 283, 284, 
 
 289, 300. 
 Limevadie, 28, 89. 
 Linch, 39, 95, 96, 101, 132, 235, 
 
 274, 275, 291. 
 Lincol, 289. 
 Lingstown, 58. 
 Lington, 18. 
 Liscarrol, 225. 
 Liscarton, 92. 
 Lisheens, 279, 281. 
 Lislee, 278, 279. 
 Lismain, 68. 
 Lismallon, 284. 
 Lismora, 158, 159. 166, 233. 
 
 Lismoyne, 104. 
 Lismoyny, 83. 
 Lisnabin, 264. 
 Lisnawilly, 264. 
 Lisnegan. 278. 
 Lisquinlan, 278, 281. 
 Lisregghan, 274. 
 Lissadill, 266. 
 Lissinuskie, 85. 
 Lister. 
 
 Listrange, 152. 
 Lisurgh, 257. 
 Little, 266. 
 Little Cappoth, 252. 
 Little Frefan, 95. 
 Little Island, 267, 277. 
 Little Rath, 252. 
 Lixnaw, 190, 191, 349. 
 Lobenstone, 94. 
 Lock, 39. 
 
 Loch Gorman, 303. 
 Lodi, 282. 
 
 Loftus, 37,43.5°. 57.79. 256,264 
 Logh, 58. 
 Loghbracon, 94. 
 Loghgiel, 261. 
 Loghmoe, 212, 289. 
 Loghtie, 23. 
 Loghuen, 239. 
 
 Lombard, 164, 166, 285, 291. 
 Londonderry, 262. 
 Long, 46, 167, 252. 
 Longfield, 300. 
 
 Longford, 89, 90, 102, 113, 116, 
 148, 149, 231, 240, 267, 270, 
 
 271. 
 Lords passing, 2 1 7, 349. 
 Lorknan, 67. 
 Lota, 279. 
 
 Lougharlachnought, 108. 
 Loughbrickland, 265. 
 Luughcrey, 96. 
 Lough Earne, 297. 
 Lougherne, 24 
 Loughfoyle, 230, 238. 
 Loughmey, (see Loghmoe' 216. 
 Loughglynne, 275, 276. 
 I.oughgoure, 93. 
 Lough Hyne, 168. 
 Loughrowe, 24. 
 Loughshearnes, 213. 
 Loughsv/illy, 239. 
 Louth, 2, 3, 5, 24, 33, 88, 90, 
 
 94, 98, 100. 231, 232, 240, 
 
 260, 271, 296, 349. 
 Lough'on, 39. 
 Loughty, 23. 
 Louvain, 162, 286, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 373 
 
 Lovell, 72. 
 
 Lowgrange, 69. 
 
 Lowyston, 68. 
 
 Loynes, 97. 
 
 Lucan, 37, 50, ioo, 262, 275. 
 
 Luffane, 257. 
 
 Lamaigh, 258. 
 
 Lurgan Rac, 233. 
 
 Luske, 36. 
 
 Lusmagh, 83. 
 
 Luston, 93. 
 
 Luttrell, 39, 95. 97. 9§. >°5. 263. 
 
 Luttrelstone.37,39, 105,263,349 
 
 Lye, 66, 252. 
 
 Lyle, 279. 
 
 Lynam, 95, 96. 
 
 Lyons, 46, 4S, 107, 234, 236. 
 
 Lyrath, 254. 
 
 Lysaght, 279. 
 
 Lystmayne, 256. 
 
 Lyster, 71. 
 
 Lysterfield, 277. 
 
 M 
 
 McAdam, (Barry) 183, 278. 
 
 McAdin, 277. 
 
 McAlexander, 80. 
 
 McAndrew, 194. 
 
 McAronlby, 16. 
 
 McArte, 7, 8, 19, 24, 34, 250, 257. 
 
 McArtmore, 259. 
 
 McAtagart, 279. 
 
 McAuly 100, 102, 104, 108, 
 
 no, 128 167, 169, 176, 270. 
 McAwliffe, 169, 176, 177, 279. 
 McAwnly, 16. 
 McBardill, 285, 287. 
 McBaron, 23, 34, 251, 322. 
 McBrady, 1 18, 120. 
 McBrane, 257, 258, 259. 
 McBrasil, 136. 
 McBrenan, 151. 
 McBrene, 257, 258, 259. 
 McBrian, 11, 13, 34, 88, 145, 
 
 157, 194, 201, 212, 253, 331. 
 McCabe, 247. 
 
 McCahir, 32, 53, 63, 258, 259. 
 McCann, 20, 25 1. 261. 
 McCanna, 261. 
 McCanny, 205. 
 McCamock, 16. 
 McCarr, 258. 
 McCartan, 8. 
 McCarthy, 8, 157, 158, 160, 16S, 
 
 178, 1S3, 185, 187, 194. '95. 
 
 20I> 205, 219, 221, 222, 225. 
 
 229, 230, 239, 278, 279, 280. 
 
 283. 335. 35°- 
 
 McCawell, 102, 253, 297. 
 McCawer, 53. 
 McClanchy, 125, 126, 127, 
 129, 130, 149, 199, 205, 206, 
 
 3°o. 338- 
 McCleyne, 27. 
 McClintock, 263. 
 McClosky, 249. 
 McCnavin, 139. 
 McCochlan, 35, 81, 82, 83, III, 
 
 112, 132, 213, 268. 
 McCogh, 152. 
 McConmea, 124. 
 McConnell, 15, 16, 31, 32. 
 McConnor, 124, 127. 
 McConsidine, 127. 
 McCoolechan, 6, 139. 
 McCooly, 24. 
 McCorcran, 87. 
 McCorman, 193. 
 McCormac, 177, 178, 182, 186, 
 
 194, 258. 
 McCostilagh, 140, 141, 232, 
 
 275- 
 McCotter, 279. 
 McCragh, 127, 163, 206, 208, 
 
 215, 233, 234, 2S6, 288. 
 McCreen, 258. 
 McCrohan, 168, 194. 
 McCrossan, 193, 282. 
 McCrylly, 283. 
 McCual, 285. 
 McCullenan, 231. 
 JfcDa, 206. 
 McDamore, 56, 63. 
 McDarig, 258. 
 McDavy, 135, 153, 155. 
 McDermond, 155, 157, 174. 
 McDermot, 56, 123, 144, 150, 
 
 «5>> '53. 254, 257, 258, 
 
 276. 
 McDongonry, 31. 
 McDonnell, 15, 16, 17, 26, 34, 
 
 43- 79. 80, 85, 115, 124, 138, 
 
 170, 183, 194, 254, 257, 258, 
 
 259. 261, 337. 
 McDonogh, 139, 144, 145, 157, 
 
 167, 168, 169, 174, 178, 209, 
 
 223, 225, 254, 256, 258, 337, 
 
 338, 35°- 
 McDonoghoe, 72. 
 McDonologe, 32. 
 McDowny, 136. 
 McDuff, 32. 
 McDuilechan, 6. 
 McDurlaigh, 258. 
 McEae, 206. 
 McEdmond, 36, 70. 115, 135. 
 
 136, 151, 154, 183, 191, 257, 
 
 258, 259. 
 McEdward, 43. 
 McEf, 258, 259. 
 
 McEgan, 28, 208, 214, 215, 284. 
 McElligott, 190, 191, 193, 236. 
 McEnaw, 147. 
 McEnery, 125. 
 McEnn, 257. 
 McEnroe, 118. 
 McErydry, 143. 
 McEvally, 29. 
 McEvilly, 138, 143. 
 McEvoy, 80, 96. 
 McFeagh, 40, 63, 64, 78. 
 McFirbis, 147. 
 McFollan, 132. 
 McFun, 190. 
 McFynyn, 125, 177, 187, 188, 
 
 190, 192, 194. 
 McGagh, 157, 193. 
 McGarrett, 154, 166, 206, 253, 
 
 254, 258, 259. 
 McGauran, 121, 2S5. 
 McGenis, 6, 7, 8, 13, 19, 33, 34, 
 
 80, 257, 258, 259, 260. 
 McGeoghagan, 83, 104. 107, 
 
 108, 109, 112, 270. 
 McGibbon, 144. 
 McGie, 13. 
 McGilfoyle, 87, 215. 
 McGillapatrick, 35, 74, 76, 79, 
 
 330. 
 McGillegan, 249, 297. 
 McGillicuddy, 168, 187, 190, 193, 
 
 236, 2S2. 
 McGillo-Newlan, 1 77. 
 McGlane, 148. 
 
 McGranel, 147, 149, 276, 300. 
 McGray, 190. 
 McGuire, 23, 24, 25, 33, 121. 
 
 148, 247, 262, 319, 322, 323. 
 McGuyvelin, 31. 
 McGyleragh, 127. 
 McHenrick, 163. 
 McHenry, 21, 23, 34, 135, 191, 
 
 251. 
 McHubberd, 54, 136, 
 McHubert, 338. 
 McHugh, 8, 17, iS, 36, 39, 42, 
 
 115. x 37> 155, 254- 
 McHugh Duff, 31, 33. 
 Mcl-Brian-Arra, 88, 207, 208, 
 
 214, 284. 
 Mcjordan, 140, 141, 143, 275. 
 McKay, 16. 
 McKeen, 258. 
 McKenee, 258. 
 
374 
 
 IXDEX. 
 
 McKenna, 322. 
 
 McKeon, 16. 
 
 McKeough, 205. 
 
 McKerra, (Castle) 143. 
 
 McKilkelly, 136. 
 
 McKowge, 136. 
 
 McKowlse, 259. 
 
 McLaffan, 61. 
 
 McLisagh, 258. 
 
 McLoghlin, 32, 124, 125, 147, 
 
 300. 
 McMahon, 3, 20, 23, 24, 33, 34, 
 
 87, 121, 124, I25. 126, 128, 
 206, 23I, 257, 271, 272, 285, 
 
 336. 338, 351- 
 McMajoke, 163. 
 McMalachlin, 259. 
 McManus, 31, 151. 
 McMaurice, (McMorris) 50, 57, 
 
 140, 193, 225, 230, 253, 282, 
 
 335. 349. 
 McMawen, 257. 
 McMiertagh, 257, 258. 
 McMoigh, 257. 
 KcMorghe, 206. 
 McMoriartagh, 157, 190, 191, 
 
 "94. 257. 
 McMoragh, 45, 52, 53, 54, 62, 
 
 65, 127, 128, 254, 257, 258. 
 McMorris, 140, 143. 
 McMortogh, 42, 253. 
 McMoussoge, 258. 
 McMoyler, 135. 
 McMulmurry, 206. 
 McMurry, 147. 
 McNachton, 261. 
 McNamara, 124, 130, 222, 271, 
 
 272, 288, 336. 
 McNeill, 7, 8, II, 18, 21. 
 McNygel, 16. 
 McOdo, 167. 
 McO'Nulles, 13. 
 McOwen, 182, 194. 
 McOyn, 257, 258. 
 McPhadden, 140. 
 McPhelim, II, 13, 258. 
 McPherson, 259. 
 McPhilip, 206. 
 McPhilpin, 144. 
 McQuillin, 13, 17, 31. 
 McRedmond, 135, 136. 
 McRicard, 206. 
 McRicharci, 253. 
 McRory, 8, 74, 124, 256. 
 McRoss, 258. 
 McShane, 34, 135, 167. 190, 191, 
 
 254, 258. 
 McShanery, 125. 
 
 McSheehy, 183, 191, 194, 
 
 204, 206. 
 McShemes, 259. 
 McShemon, 258. 
 McSheron, 254. 
 McShida, 125. 
 McSimon, 254. 
 McSleyne, 27, 148. 
 McSureton, 232. 
 McSurley, 15, 17, 34- 
 McSwiny, 29, 32, 33, 34, 
 
 135, 136, 144, 145, 148, 
 
 155, 157. 158, 173- "75. 
 
 178, 186, 248, 279. 
 McTeg, 125, 145, 157, 167, 
 
 173. >74. 175. >7«. 185. 
 
 253- 257- 
 McTelligh, 121, 
 McTerlagh, 34, 121, 144, 
 
 251. 
 McTernan, 147. 
 McThomas, 137, 13S, 206, 
 McThomyne, 135, 144. 
 McTibbot, 137. 
 McTighe, 206. 
 McTowaltagh, 151. 
 McUlick, 190, 191. 
 McVadin, 146. 
 McVadock, 56, 63. 
 McWalter, 88, 135. 
 McWilliam, 29, 34, 123, 
 
 140, 141, 275, 308, 338. 
 He y Gilles, 10. 
 McVllrem, 258. 
 McYnnes, 13, 258, 259 
 Macetown, 93. 
 Machill, 66. 
 Macroom, 185. 
 Madden, 72, 161, 163, 274. 
 Magheraleny, 145. 
 Magheramorne, 58, 
 Magh Rein, 276. 
 Maglass, 256. 
 Magner, 179. 
 Magonitry, 187. 
 Malahide, 37, 38, 106, 238, 
 Malbie, 113, 115, 150, 154, 
 Mallefort, 182, 183. 
 Mallow, 171, 183, 186,281, 
 
 334- 
 Malone, in, 291- 
 Mandeville, 10, 162, 163, 2 
 Mang, 187. 
 Mangen, 39. 
 Manglisse, 259. 
 Mannering, 254. 
 Mansfield, 265, 277. 
 Mantua, 266. 
 
 199. 
 
 127, 
 J 77. 
 
 168, 
 193' 
 
 I9°> 
 258. 
 
 '32. 
 
 263. 
 •73- 
 
 282, 
 
 77- 
 
 Manulla, 275. 
 
 Mape, 95, 101. 
 
 Mape-Rath, 95, 10 1. 
 
 Mapston, 101. 
 
 Marble Hill, 273. 
 
 Marchell, 66. 
 
 Hargue, 167. 
 
 Marinel, 210. 
 
 Mariner, 208. 
 
 Markham, 85, 102. 
 
 Marranston, 102. 
 
 Marshall, 66. 
 
 Marshalstown, 95, 209, 259. 
 
 Martel, 182, 352. 
 
 Martelston, 182. 
 
 Martin, 133, 137,274. 
 
 Marwarde, 232. 
 
 Mary's Abbey, 348. 
 
 Maryborough, 75, 78, 244, 327. 
 
 Mason, 39. 
 
 Mastersone, 50, 56, 57, 64, 228, 
 
 253-256,350. 
 Mastoston, 94. 
 Matthews, 285, 352. 
 Mattei, 34. 
 
 Mayler, (see Meyler) 61. 
 Mayne, no, 187, 1S8, 259. 
 Maynooth, 44, 260. 
 Mayo, 123, 140, 144, 150, 237, 
 
 240, 273, 274, 275, 277, 300. 
 Meade, 167, 279. 
 Meaghe, 171, 182, 183, 197. 
 Meagher, 209. 
 Measton, 93. 
 Meath, I, 2, 35, 36, 44, 46, 89, 
 
 92, 93. 94, 95. IC| 2. >°4. 106, 
 
 234, 237, 240, 241, 244, 268, 
 
 303, 328. 
 Meehan, 287. 
 Meelick, 274. 
 Melaghe, 53. 
 Melans, 250. 
 Meleck, 104. 
 Meleeke, 134. 
 Mellefont, 260. 
 Menlo, 133, 272. 
 Menrice, 32. 
 Meredith, 265. 
 Merlinstovvn, 4. 
 Merrifield, 163. 
 Merriman, 5- 
 Merrion, 37, 38. 
 Meskill, 182. 
 Mey, 94. 
 Meylaughe, 92. 
 Meyler, (and Mayler) 58, 61, 
 
 164, 165, 227, 257. 
 Meynlagh, 145. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 375 
 
 Meyres, 252. 
 
 Michmore, 95. 
 
 Middlethird, 20. 
 
 Middleton, 194. 
 
 Milbome, 42. 
 
 Milltown, 135, 277. 
 
 Milton, 103, 109, no, 255, 276. 
 
 Misset, 16, 48, 95, 96, 100. 
 
 Mitchellstown, 94. 
 
 Moat Farrell, 114. 
 
 Mocollop, 165. 
 
 Mockler, 208, 209, 215. 
 
 Mocklerstown, 215. 
 
 Moetullen, 130. 
 
 Mogangolic, 58. 
 
 Moghenees, 126. 
 
 Moglass, 215. 
 
 Mohearnain, 284. 
 
 Mohill, 277. 
 
 Moghoony, 127. 
 
 Molahae, 99, 
 
 Mollenlyeth, 109. 
 
 Mollinmighan, 103, no. 
 
 Molyneux, 264. 
 
 Molony, 272. 
 
 Monaghan, 2, 3, 23, 24, 120, 
 
 241, 261, 262, 296. 
 Monalstrum, 257. 
 Monasterevan, 36, 45, 75. 
 Monaster Orys, 82. 
 Moncell, 215. 
 Moncktown, 37. 
 Monclough, 257. 
 Moneanimie, 278. 
 Moneycrower, 275. 
 Monganagh, 248. 
 Monganestone, 259. 
 Mongaroe, 258. 
 Monilea, 107. 
 Monivea, 133, 273. 
 Monkstown, 167. 
 Monroe Lististy, 215. 
 Montaghs, 300. 
 Montauban, 274. 
 Montgomerie, II, 234, 350. 
 Montpellier, 279. 
 Monyvilleog, 58. 
 Moone, 253. 
 Mooney, 50. 
 Moore, 4, 5, 82, 85, 91, 94, 95, 
 
 96, 101, in, 194, 233, 245, 
 
 260, 274, 281, 283. 
 Moore Abbey, 260. 
 Mooreston, 100. 
 Mor, 258, 259. 
 Moran, 287. 
 
 More, 85, 168, 292, 301, 390, 350 
 Morenstown, 95, IOI. 
 
 Moreton, 38, 48, 99, 105, 106, 
 269. 
 
 Moretown, 208, 252. 
 
 Morett, 75, 79. 
 
 Morgan, 50, 152, 163, 164, 261, 
 291, 292. 
 
 Moriarty. 188. 
 j Morlow, 96. 
 
 Morne Park, 260. 
 
 Mornigane, 190. 
 
 Mornin, 105, 114, 115, 270, 
 271. 
 
 Mornington, 228, 264, 265. 
 
 Morphue, 254. 
 
 Morres, 68. 
 
 Morrice, 133, 194, 288. 
 
 Morris, 268. 
 
 Morristown Lattin, 265, 277. 
 
 Morrough, 254. 
 
 Morska, 275. 
 
 Morty, 291. 
 
 Moryson, 102, 245. 
 
 Mostyne, 129. 
 
 Moteing, 67. 
 , Mothell, 255. 
 j Mothinsey, 43. 
 
 Moumecloigh, 258. 
 
 Mouncktown, 93. 
 
 Mounsell, 67. 
 
 Mount Bellew, 260. 
 
 Mountgarret, 56, 61, 62, 64, 67, 
 °9> 7 2 > 73> 2I2 > 22 6, 2 54, 266, 
 335. 349. 
 
 Mount Hawk, 284. 
 
 Mountjoy, 75, 77, 249. 
 
 Mount Leinster, 60. 
 
 Mountmorris, 284. 
 
 Mountnorth, 279. 
 
 Mount Palles, 263. 
 
 Mount Pleasant, 268. 
 
 Mount Talbot, 263. 
 
 Mourney, 6. 
 
 Moville, 32. 
 
 Mowberry, 15. 
 
 Moy, 145. 
 
 Moyagher, 96, 
 
 Moyaliffe, 212. 
 
 Moyartagh, 129. 
 
 Moycarkey, 209. 
 
 Moyashal, 108. 
 
 Moycashie!, 83, 104, 107, 109. 
 
 Moycullen, 137. 
 
 Moygare, 92. 
 
 Moygarry, 145. 
 
 Moyglare, 49, 95, 96, 22S. 
 
 Moygare, 92. 
 
 Moyhill, 253, 254. 
 I Moylagh, 96, 97, 99. 
 
 Moylaghoo, 96. 
 
 Moyle, 24. 
 
 Moybury, 153. 
 
 Moylehussey, 95, in. 
 
 Moymmer, 258. 
 
 Moymet, 92, 94, 99. 
 
 Moyna, 275. 
 
 Moynally, 50. 
 
 Moyne, 144, 147, 238, 273, 
 
 274. 
 Moynealty, 95, 99. 
 Moynengeanagh, 124. 
 Moynish, 147. 
 Moyntertagan, 81. 
 Moynterrolis, 148. 
 Moyobracan, 127. 
 Moyoise, 104. 
 Moyrath, loo, 105. 
 Moyrit, 79. 
 Moyvally, 92. 
 Moyvore, III, 270. 
 Muchardroms, 95. 
 Muchalton, IOI. 
 Muchwodd, 257. 
 Muchalstown, 269. 
 Muckland, 50. 
 Mucklane, 257. 
 Mucknoe, 19. 
 Muckross, 194. 
 Muctionoe, 20. 
 Muinter-Vary, 186. 
 Mullahassse, 47. 
 Mouldowny, 287. 
 Mull, no. 
 Mullagha, 94. 
 Mullaghenonie, 209. 
 Mullaghgane, 261. 
 Mullaghmore, 274. 
 Mullagrash, 252. 
 Mullinderry, 266. 
 Mullingar, 107, in, 115, 325. 
 Mulloy, 83, 277, 
 Mulpit, 273. 
 
 Mulrancan, 59, 225, 256. 
 Mulrian, 200. 
 Mulron, 390. 
 Munckton, 37. 
 Munster, 1, 2, 156, 181, 186, 195, 
 
 237, 241, 247, 281, 303. 330, 
 
 343- 
 Murphy, 352. 
 Muscry, 208, 308. 
 Muscry-Wherk, 208. 
 Mushanaglass, 186. 
 Musketry, 157, 167. 168, 261, 
 
 283. 
 Muyno, 124. 
 Myagh, 157, 197. 
 
3 76 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Myller, 289. 
 Mynloch, 135. 
 Myross, 279. 
 Myshall, 271. 
 Myssell, 254. 
 Mysett, 252. 
 
 N 
 Naale, 38. 
 Naas, 35, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 90, 
 
 233, 252, 263. 
 Nagle, 83, 171, 192, 278. 
 Naish, 66, 206, 283, 290,352, 356 
 Nail, 94, 97. 
 Nangle, 92, 96, 103, 104, no, 
 
 113, 232, 252. 
 Narraghe, 232. 
 Naughton, 277. 
 Naul, 92, 103. 
 Xavan, 91, 92, 94, 95, 98, 99, 
 
 101, 232. 
 Xazeby, 47. 
 Xeagh, (see Evagh and Eagh) 
 
 20. 
 Xeal McBryan, II. 
 Xeale The, 275. 
 Neece, 15. 
 Needham, 260. 
 Nelson, 102. 
 Netterville, 37, 39, 91, 94, 98, 
 
 101, 269, 291, 349, 350. 
 Neur, 56, 66, 68. 
 Nevill, 62, 257. 
 Nevinstown. 
 Newbro k, 276. 
 Newcastle, 27, 30, 37, 39, 45, 
 
 69, 92, 95, 103, 104, 106, 164, 
 
 ■99. 256. 
 Newcastle Prendergast, 284. 
 Newforest, 273. 
 Newhall, 47, 258. 
 Newlande, 47, 231. 
 Newmarket, 281. 
 Newport, 275. 
 Newrie, 6, 12, 33. 
 New Ross, 50, 58, 72, 226. 
 Newton, 5, 47, 99. 
 Newton O'Clane, 252. 
 Newton O'More, 252. 
 Newtown, 71, 250, 272, 273, 
 
 274, 275. 
 Newtown-Anner, 284. 
 Neylan, 233. 
 Neyles, 27. 
 Nimestowne, 256. 
 Niemann, 64. 
 Nogha, 255. 
 Nolan, 254. 290. 
 
 Noraghe, 47, 50, 253. 
 
 Normanton, 93. 
 
 Norris, 5, 51, 33, 84, 186, 230, 
 282, 350. 
 
 Xorton, 18. 
 
 Xorthampton, 281. 
 
 Northerborne, 239. 
 
 Nottingham, 46. 
 
 Nuehowse, 4. 
 
 Nugents, 5, 12, 34, 38,85, 93, 
 99, IOO, IOI, 102, I03, I05, 
 I06, 154, 162, 163, 166, 227, 
 260, 270, 271, 290, 302, 349 
 
 O 
 Oakley, 281. 
 Oak Park, 263. 
 O'Banan, 87. 
 O'Beirne, 104, 151, 152, 153, 
 
 203, 276. 
 O'Bolger, 258. 
 
 O' Boyle, 31, 32, 33, 34, 248, 285 
 O'Breen, in, 196. 
 O'Brena, 255, 256. 
 O'Brennan, 54, 72, III, 190. 
 O'Bric, 158. 
 O'Brien, 59, in, 124, to 130. 
 
 138, 163, 171, 172, 198, 201, 
 
 202, 203, 214, 221, 222, 228, 
 
 236, 271, 272, 2S4, 336,350. 
 O'Burney, 104. 
 O'Byme, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45, 50, 
 
 53. 54. I°4. m. 264, 302, 
 
 326, 331. 
 O'Cahan, 28, 33, 34, 249, 262, 
 
 289, 297, 322, 338. 
 O'Callaghan, 157, 158, 167, 168, 
 
 '75. "76, 177. '83. '94. 279. 
 
 297 
 O'Carolan, 262. 
 O'Carran, 215. 
 O'Carroll, 82, 87, 88, 89, 207, 
 
 215, 241, 268, 284, 330. 
 O'Casy, 289. 
 O'Cherony, 288. 
 O'Clanchy, 129. 
 O'Clery, 215, 288, 294, 295, 313. 
 O'Coffy, 50, 139. 
 O'Concannon, 135. 
 O'Connell, 190, 282. 
 O'Connery, 163. 
 O'Connor, 32, 35, 78, 81, 83, 
 
 85, 86, 91, 105, 126, 138, 141, 
 
 145, 146, 152, 153, 155. 189. 
 
 194, 219, 226, 230, 237, 268, 
 
 295. 302, 327. 
 O'Conor Dun, 143, 150, 151, 
 
 152, 276. 
 
 O'Conor Faly, 85, 86, 109. 
 O'Connor Kerry, 157, 189, 190, 
 
 191, 192, 194. 
 O'Conor Roe, 123, 150, 151, 
 
 276. 
 O'Connor Sligo, 123, 144, 145, 
 
 275, 276. 
 O'Corres, 250. 
 O'Crean, 145, 275. 
 O'Cowig, 167. 
 O'Crowley, 158, 177, 186, 
 
 229. 
 O'Cullen, 177, 194, 201. 
 O'Daly, 83, 88, 129, 134, 142, 
 
 169, 177, 186, 194, 274, 294. 
 O'Dea, 127, 129. 
 O'Dempsy, 35, 49, 79, So, 81, 
 
 84. 
 O'Der, 93. 
 
 O'Devany, 285, 294. 
 O'Devlin, 250. 
 O'Devoy, 80. 
 O'Docherty, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 
 
 39, 250, 263, 337. 
 O'Doghe, 255. 
 O'Doiran, 257. 
 O'Donelan, 139, 274. 
 O'Donichan, 193. 
 O'Donin, 186. 
 O'Donnell, 24. 29, 30, 31, 33, 
 
 34, 50, 51, 115, 122, 123, 142, 
 
 145, 147, 149, 223, 238, 248, 
 
 251, 262, 263, 302, 303, 304, 
 
 308, 319, 337. 338, 355- 
 O'Donnely, 22, 27. 
 O'Donnoles, 250. 
 O'Donoghue, 177, 187,282, 335, 
 O'Donoghue Glann, 187, 188, 
 
 282. 
 O'Donoghue Mor, 187, 188. 
 O'Donovan, 72, 177, 180, 186, 
 
 187, 195, 279, 280. 
 O' Dooly, 87. 
 O'Doonelles, 26, 27. 
 O'Doran, 80, 257. 
 O'Dome, 254. 
 O'Dowda, 144, to 147, 275. 
 O'Dowling, 80. 
 O'Downy, 207. 
 O'Driscol, 168, 172, 173, 176, 
 
 177, 186, 191, 239, 280. 
 O'Drycan, 256. 
 O'Duigenan, 294. 
 O'Dunn, 35, 73, 79, 80, 267. 
 O'Dwyer, 177, 208, 209, 2lo, 
 
 212, 213,331. 
 , O'Fahy, 138, 289. 
 I O' Faly, 81. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 0/ 
 
 7 
 
 0' Fallon, 151, 154. 
 
 O'Fane, 32. 
 
 O'Fanet, 32. 
 
 O'Felan, 158. 
 
 O'Feolan, 163. 
 
 O'Ferrall, 80, 89, 105, 109, 113, 
 
 114, 115, 1 16, 226, 231, 267, 
 
 270, 271, 286, 323, 350. 
 O'Ffalie, 75, 81,85, 87, 217. 
 O'Fiernagh, 134. 
 O'Flaherties, 137. 138,141,273, 
 
 274. 
 O'Flanagan, 87, 151, 153, 277. 
 O'Flinn, 151, 167. 
 O'Foda, 132. 
 O'Fogarty, 215, 284. 
 O'Fox, 82, 84, 86, in, 112. 
 O'Furrie, 17. 
 O'Gallagher, 29, 30, 31, 32, 248, 
 
 276, 285, 287. 
 O'Gallogan, 175. 
 O'Gara, 145. 
 O'Gardie, 129. 
 O'Gilmore, n. 
 O'Glacan, 294. 
 O'Goonagh, 196. 
 O'Gormagan, 254. 
 O'Gorman, 68. 
 O'Gorhye, 288. 
 O'Gormoghan, 54. 
 O'Giady, 124, 125, 130, 283. 
 O'Griffie, 127. 
 O'Griffin, 187. 
 O'Guin, 17, 34. 
 O'Hagan, 21, 26, 34, S4, 208, 
 
 250, 251. 
 O'Halagan, 29, 50. 
 O'Halloran, 137, 139, 274. 
 O'Hanlie, 151, 152, 153. 
 O'Hanlon, 3, 19, 23, 34, 50, 
 
 250, 323. 
 O'Hara, 17, 144, 145, 261, 276. 
 O'Harrie, 17, 350. 
 O'Hart, 144, 145, 286. 
 O'Healy, 186. 
 O'Hegan, 186, 208. 
 O'Heher, 193. 
 O'Heine, 136, 139, 206. 
 O'Heny, 297. 
 O'Herlihy, 182, 186. 
 O'Hery, 137. 
 O'Hetheriscol, 239. 
 O'Hicky, 46. 
 O'Hiffeman, 209, 215. 
 O'Higgins, 135, 275, 2S6. 
 O'Hillane, 289. 
 O'Hogan, 128, 129, 201, 208, 
 
 215, 272, 238. 
 
 O'Holen, 289. 
 O'Hologlian, 137. 
 O'Horan, 129, 13S. 
 O'Hosy, 295. 
 
 O'Hurly, 62, 177,201,227,229. 
 O'Hynowran, 206. 
 Oireacht-Redmond, 337. 
 O'Kearney, 84, 210, 270, 284, 
 
 285, 295. 
 O'Keefe, 158, 167, 168, 169, 
 
 175. 176, 177- 
 O'Kelly, 50, 80, 132, 134, 136, 
 
 151, 153, 154, 163,27310277. 
 O'Kennedy, 208, 212, 213, 216, 
 
 284. 
 O'Lally, 138. 
 
 0'Lalor,8, 80,236, 267,280,282. 
 Old Abbey, 69. 
 Old Aboy, 255. 
 Oldcastle, 96. 
 Oldcourt, 61, 257. 
 Oldcross, 57. 
 Olderfleet, 14, 15, 18, 238, 239, 
 
 260. 
 Oldtown, 253. 
 O'Lery, 186, 187, 195, 279. 
 O'Levy, 186. 
 O'Loghlin, 126, 127, 129, 130, 
 
 272, 337- 
 O'Long, 186. 
 Olortleighe, 257. 
 O'Lughairen, 2S5. 
 O'Lyne, 138. 
 O'Madden, 112, 136, 139, 205, 
 
 274. 
 Omaghe, 27. 
 O'Maghe, 140. 
 O'Magher, 88, 163, 202, 208, 
 
 209, 210, 214, 215, 216. 
 O'Mahon, 168, 186. 
 O'Mahon Carbry, 158, 167, 168, 
 
 177, 186. 
 O'Mahon Fionn, 158, 177, 186. 
 O'Mahony, 177, 182, 280, 295. 
 O'Mally, 140 to 144, 238, 275. 
 O'Mallon, 34. 
 O'Mannin, 134. 
 O'Many, 132. 
 O'Mare, 208. 
 O'Meara, 234, 294. 
 O'Melaghlins, 78, 102, 104, 112. 
 O'Melies, 2, 24. 
 O'Mey, 250. 
 O'Mollhane, 132. 
 O'Molony, 272, 286. 
 O'Moloy, 81, 83, 86, 88, 268, 
 
 277. 33°' 
 O'More, 35, 41, 51, 65, 73, 76 
 
 to 80, 83, 86, 107, 231, 267. 
 300, 302, 305, 326, 327, 331 
 
 334- 
 O'Moroghoe, 54, 56, 57, 58, 352, 
 O'Mulhonery, 125. 
 O'MuIconry, 277, 294. 
 O'MulIanes, 249, 297. 
 O'Mulreny, 16. 
 O'Mulrian, 88, 200, 203, 206, 
 
 207, 208, 214, 216, 253, 255, 
 284, 331. 
 
 O'Murrihie, 186. 
 
 O'Murry, 151, 154, 300. 
 
 Onacht, 187, 208, 335. 
 
 O'Nachton, 151, 154, 277. 
 
 O'Nahan, 288. 
 
 O'Neill, 3,6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, 
 
 21, to 34, 76,87, 97, IOO, 103, 
 108, 223, 224, 226, 230, 247, 
 250, 251, 253, 260, 26l, 267, 
 270, 286, 301, 302, 304, 352. 
 Oneyland, 21, 129. 
 Oneylan, 19, 128, 129, 235. 
 Ongestown, 94. 
 1 O'Nolan, 16, 52, 54, 253, 254. 
 Onulchalons, 13. 
 Onye, 34. 
 Ophaly, 253. 
 I O'Quin, 17, 21, 26, 250, 251, 
 
 ,283. 
 O Quirivane, 274. 
 Oranmore, 273. 
 
 O'Reilly, 2, 9, 24, 89, 105, 117 
 to 122, 134,231,246,247,271, 
 279, 287, 300, 311, 321, 350. 
 O'Relly, 9, 89. 
 Ordriscall, 160. 
 * O'Regan, 177. 
 I Orey, 30. 
 Orgial, 90. 
 O'Rhawley, 50. 
 
 O'Rian, 88, 200, 203, 206, 208, 
 [ 214, 253, 255, 284, 331. 
 Oriel, 23. 
 O'Riodially, 26. 
 , O'Riordan, 205, 283. 
 Ovme, 102. 
 
 Ormond, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59, 64, 
 67. °9> 70. 71, 72, 73. 74. 76, 
 77, 79, 84, 87, 88, 143, 207, 
 
 208, 209, 211, 215, 217, 225, 
 226, 254, 301, 302, 304, 330, 
 
 332. 349- 
 Ornaugh, 19. 
 O'Roddy, 149. 
 Orpen, 283. 
 O'Renehan, 286. 
 O'Rourk, 34, 141, 147, 148, 149. 
 
 3 B 
 
378 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 i5 2 > 2 55, 2 ?6, 300, 303, 304, 
 
 325. 329- 
 Osbertstown, 45, 46, 252. 
 Osborne, 163, 278, 284. 
 O'Scott, 50. 
 O'Shagnessy, 131, 136,137,227, 
 
 274. 
 O'Shee, 69, 267. 
 Ossory, 61,65, 67, 71, 73, 76, 79, 
 
 80, 217, 230, 231, 235, 254, 
 
 266, 285, 349. 
 Ossory, Upper, 73, 76, 216, 230, 
 
 349- 
 O'Sughrue, 168. 
 O'Sullevan, 128, 157, 167, 16S, 
 
 172, 173. 180 to 195, 2S0, 288, 
 
 289, 350. 
 O'Sullevan Beare, 136, 168,225, 
 
 282. 
 O'Sullevan Mor, 168, 230, 282. 
 O'Toole, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43, 54, 
 
 62, 264, 302. 
 Ouran, 134. 
 Outrich, 206. 
 Overke, 255. 
 Owen, 254. 
 Ower, 137, 273. 
 Owgan, 47. 
 Owlert, 58. 
 Owles, 142, 337. 
 Owlortvicke, 58. 
 Owney, 203, 206, 2S4. 
 Ownhy, 135. 
 Ownilechabees, 13. 
 Ovvr, 258, 259. 
 
 Tace, 92, 103, 107. 
 Packenham, 270. 
 Painstown, 46, 94, 264. 
 Pale, The, 4. 
 Pallace, 78. 
 Palles, 97, 263. 
 Pallestown, 281. 
 Palmerston, 37. 
 Parke, 15, 58. 
 
 Parliament (Members of), 349. 
 Parres, 107. 
 Parsons, 268. 
 Parsonstown, 93, 268. 
 Passage, 161, 164, 165, 239. 
 Payen, 255- 
 Paynestown, 94, 99. 
 Pembroke, 60. 
 Pennant, 277. 
 Pentenie, 93, 99. 
 Peppard, 5, 47, 62, 252, 258, 266, 
 300. 
 
 1 Peppardstown, 260. 
 Perce, 122. 
 Percy, 18. 
 Perrot, 13, 16, 19, 26, 104, 107, 
 
 119. 
 Peter's Well, 274. 
 Pettetstowne, 256. 
 Petits, 104, 107, 352. 
 Phersone, 259. 
 Phelin, 258. 
 Phillipstown, 76, Si, 82, 85, 87, 
 
 244, 263. 
 Philpotstown, 94. 
 Phippes, 92, ioo, 352. 
 Phoores, 253. 
 Phypo, 38. 
 
 Piercy, 102. 
 
 Piers, 39, 103, 104, 270. 
 
 Pierstone, 94. 
 
 Pigotts, 78, 79, 267, 350. 
 
 Pilsworth, 235. 
 
 Piltown, 165. 
 
 Pincher's Grange, 253. 
 
 Pinner, 73. 
 
 Platten, 92, 93, 94, 101, 106, 
 
 107. 
 Plunket, 4, 5, 38, 39, 91, 93,94, 
 
 95,96, 97, 98, 227, 231, 232, 
 
 260, 263, 268, 269, 352. 
 Poble, 53. 
 
 Poer, 162, 225, 231, 350. 
 Pole Hore, 62, 257, 266. 
 Pollard, 270. 
 Polomonty, 226. 
 Polrancton, 256. 
 Polrankan, 62. 
 Pope, 86. 
 Pormanston, 232. 
 Portaferry, 105, 106, 260. 
 Portarlington, 80. 
 Portcroisi, 336. 
 Porter, 93, 98, III, 2S9, 352. 
 Porterstown, 106, III. 
 Portmuck, 18. 
 Portnahinch, 73, 81. 
 Portnehill, 255. 
 Portrane, 97. 
 Portriff, 93. 94, 95, 96. 
 Portumna, 134, 272. 
 Possicktown, 94, 96. 
 Pottinger, 260. 
 Poulescastle, 225. 
 Prover, 282. 
 Powers (see Poers and Poors), 
 
 67, 78, 161,165, 166,205, 231, 
 
 245, 255, 277, 282, 284, 289. 
 Powerscourt, 43, 264. 
 Powerstoune, 38, 39. 
 
 Powers Wood, 72, 255. 
 Prague, 64, 106, 162. 
 Prenderfoote, 102. 
 Prendergast, 61, 162, 163, 257, 
 
 284, 350. 
 Preston, 37, 93, 95, 225, 26S, 
 
 269. 
 Priests, 287, 294, 295. 
 Priesthaggard, 61. 
 Prim, 73. 
 Prisugard, 257. 
 Prospect, 280. 
 Protfords, 39, 97. 
 Protfortstone, 94. 
 Proudestown, 99. 
 Proudfootstown Cas., 92. 
 Prountford, 95, ioi. 
 Pullen, 280. 
 Purcell, 66, 67, 68, 203, 210, 
 
 212, 254, 255, 256, 267, 280, 
 
 335- 
 Purcellstiers, 255. 
 Purdon, 264. 
 Pygot, 78. 
 
 Q 
 
 Queitrot, 290. 
 
 Queen's Co., 34, 36, 44, 51, 73, 
 
 74, 75, 81, 82, 84, 86, 89, 
 
 261, 267, 327. 
 Queen's Fort, 78. 
 Queenstown, 279. 
 Quin, 21, 26. 
 
 Quin Abbey, 125, 128, 338. 
 Quoniamstown, 279. 
 Quylan, 91. 
 
 R 
 
 Raaour, 66. 
 Raban, 239. 
 Rachtor, 66, 28S. 
 Radboy, 15. 
 Rafeig, 98. 
 Raferghe, 5. 
 Raffin, 94, 98. 
 Raffniall, 98. 
 Rafoe, 31, 235. 
 Ragget, 66, 255. 
 Raghlins, 15. 
 Rahedin, 253. 
 Rahellin, 253. 
 Rahen, 256, 275. 
 Rahenderry, 265. 
 Rainduf, 257. 
 Rahine, 258, 279. 
 Rahenderg, 257. 
 Rakeall, 197, 331. 
 Raleigh, 185, 532. 
 Ram, 235, 266. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 379 
 
 Ramshead Island. 
 Ramalton Castle, 31, 32. 
 Ramellon Castle, 32. 
 Randallston, 95, 269. 
 Ranelagh, 234, 269. 
 Randol, 15. 
 Randolfston, 190. 
 Ranechadie, 12. 
 Raphesk, 93. 
 Raphoe, 32, 234, 285. 
 Rarrody, 136. 
 Rarush, 254. 
 Rath, 101, 253. 
 Rathaldron, 94, 97. 
 Rathangan, 45. 
 Rathalvey, 58. 
 Ratharding, 254. 
 Rathannan, 2S2. 
 Rathbride, 48, 252. 
 Rathcally, 72, 255. 
 Rathclare, 4. 
 Rathcoffy, 45, 47, 252. 
 Rathcon, 94. 
 Rathconnyl, 91. 
 Rathcormack, 278. 
 Rathcredon, 38. 
 Rathdowney, 58, 256. 
 Rathdrome, 42. 
 Rathengerge, 54. 
 Rath Reynolds, 94. 
 Rathesker, 4. 
 Rathetam, 267. 
 Rathfarnham, 264. 
 Rathfeigh, 94. 
 Rathfernen, 37. 
 Rathgarvan, 254. 
 Rath House, 264, 
 Rathkeale, 197, 331. 
 Rathktnny, 94. 
 Rathlin, 16. 
 Rathlion, 97. 
 Rathlonnane, 256. 
 Rathmagolduld, 84. 
 Rathmanee, 59, 60. 
 Rathmokue, 60. 
 Rathmore, 48, 51, 92, 96, 
 
 252, 269. 
 Rathnegarry, 51. 
 Rathnetesky, 258. 
 Rathode, 94, 95. 
 Rathperise, 258. 
 Rathpodenboy, 257, 
 Rathronarie, 257. 
 Rathroe Cas., 257. 
 Rathsilben, 239. 
 Rathshillane, 256. 
 Rathtain, 94. 
 Rathvilley, 51, 52. 
 
 Rathwire, 103, 27 it 
 
 Ratoathe, 95, 98. 
 
 Ratoryn, 97. 
 
 Ratroge, 254. 
 
 Ratten, 106. 
 
 Rattoo, 283. 
 
 Raville, 253, 254, 
 
 Rawyre, 102, 103. 
 
 Raymond, 283. 
 
 Raynolds, 83. 
 
 Reade, 93, 269. 
 
 Reagh, 257, 258, 259, 271, 276, 
 
 279, 283. 
 Reban, 232, 252. 
 Reken, 289. 
 Redbaye, 15, 18. 
 Redestoune, 256. 
 Red Haven, 32. 
 Redington, 272. 
 Redmond, 61, 25*6. 
 Redsherd, 196. 
 Reeks, The, 282. 
 Reg, 240. 
 Rehins, 275, 350. 
 Reilly, 102. 
 Remotestoune, 256. 
 Remremonde, 258. 
 Renville, 272, 338. 
 Reough, 253. 
 Representatives of the Old 
 
 Families, 260, 
 Revenue, 240. 
 Reynel, 73. 
 
 Reynolds, 39, 276 35r. 
 Reynoldstown, 39. 
 Rhahin, 79, 80. 
 Rheban, 265. 
 Ribera, 286. 
 
 Rice, 4, 163,192, 205, 2S2, 350. 
 Richardstown, 5. 
 Rider, 252, 264. 
 Ridgway, 244, 351. 
 Ricknhore, 38. 
 Rincalisky, 168. 
 Risserd, 167. 
 97, J Riverstown, 92, 93. 
 Riversdale, 268. 
 Roan, 92. 
 Robertstown, 45, 91, 93, 95, 
 
 97. 99. '99, 265. 
 Robinson, 167. 
 Robinstone, 95, 107. 
 Roche, 57, 58, 60, 62, 164, 167, 
 
 171, 184, 197, 199, 210, 223, 
 
 225, 256, 257, 278, 280, 290, 
 
 3°°. 351- 
 Rochesland, 57, 60. 
 Rochestown, 5, 69, 262. 
 
 Rochford, 47, 50, 57, 61, 72, 
 94. 95. 96,97, 163, 252, 256, 264 
 Rockforest, 269. 
 Roe, 5, 167, 276, 303, 351. 
 Rogerstown, 93, 2=15. 
 Rome, 288. 
 Ronayne, 164, 184, 
 Rooe, 94. 
 Roold, 167. 
 Rooth, 70. 
 Rorie, 226. 
 Rosbare, 239. 
 Roristown, 269. 
 Roscarbery, Bishop, 172. 
 Rosbrien, 279. 
 
 Roscommon, 123, 131, 240, 241, 
 255, 263, 266, 275, 276, 277. 
 Roscrea, 215. 
 
 Rosegarland, 57, 60, 62, 257. 
 Rose Hill, 275. 
 Rosemeane, 99, m, 141, 144, 
 
 150, 15'- 
 Roses, 96. 
 Rosewood, 48. 
 Roskain, 239. 
 Rosmaynock, 258. 
 Rosroe, 271. 
 Ross Carbery, 236, 239, 274 
 
 283, 286. 
 Rosse, 56, 59, 61, 167, 170, 
 
 262, 268, 282. 
 Rosselltoune, 257. 
 Rossiter, 59, 60, 66, 256, 257, 
 Ross Hill, 272. 
 Ross Levin, 275. 
 Ross Lewin, 272. 
 Rossmine, 95. 
 Rossnarowe, 255. 
 Rothe, 56, 66, 254, 286, 352. 
 Round Towers, 357. 
 RouteThe,i3, 15, 17, 18,34,261. 
 Rovan, ioo. 
 Rowe, 48, 93, 258. 
 Rowen, 93. 
 
 Rowestown, 93, 94, 97. 
 Rowthstown, 94. 
 Rush, 78, 238, 356. 
 Russell, 9, 12, 27, 38, 39, 41, 
 
 93, 101, in, 183, 260. 
 Russellston, III. 
 Russellswood, 253, 
 Ryan, 198, 203, 214, 284. 
 Rynana, 271. 
 
 S 
 Saintleger, 232. 
 Sale, 93, ioo, 290, 352. 
 Salamanca, 343. 
 Salestowne, 93, 100. 
 
380 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Salisbury, 251. 
 
 Sail, 215, 290. 
 
 Sanders, 8, 28, 252. 
 
 Sankey, 82, 161. 
 
 Sanshill, 257. 
 
 Sarsfield, 37, 48, 50, 60, 99. 100, 
 
 167, 170, 252, 279, 281, 351. 
 Sault, 252. 
 Saunderscourt, 266. 
 Saunderson, 263. 
 Savages, 9, 10, 14, 48, 60, 105, 
 
 232, 260, 265. 
 Scarvagh, 271. 
 Scarriff, 336. 
 Scatterig, 12. 
 Scotland, 234. 
 Scoyne, 100. 
 Scraghe, 268. 
 Scryne, 93, 232, 276. 
 Scurlogstown Castle, 92, 100. 
 Seaforde, 266. 
 Seaton, 38, 283. 
 Segerson, 252. 
 Segrave, 5, 38, 39, 93, 263. 
 
 293- 
 Sergeant, 253. 
 Serment, 254. 
 Seskinrem, 254. 
 Sessueman, 276. 
 Sexton, 284. 
 Seymour, 284. 
 Shaen, 134, 135. 2 7'- 
 Shanagollen, 271. 
 Shanamullen, 267. 
 Shandon, 164. 
 Shane, 28, 88, 89, 103, 104, 106, 
 
 114, 116, 350. 
 Shane's Castle, 260, 261. 
 Shanganagh, 38. 
 Shangarry, 254. 
 Shankhill, 277. 
 Shannon (see Sheynin), 172, 
 
 216, 300, 303. 
 Shee, 66, 69, 70, 205, 226. 254, 
 
 267, 291, 351. 
 Sheemore, 276. 
 Sheerhes, 204. 
 Sheestown, 69, 267. 
 Sheffield, 73. 
 Shelmalin, 56. 
 Shenet Castle, 199. 
 Sherberre, 56. 
 Sherkin, 168. 
 Sherlock, 5, 38, 47, 60, 61, 96, 
 
 100, 162, 163, 166, 252, 256, 
 
 257, 292, 292, 350. 
 Sherlockstown, 48, 252. 
 Shewroyher, 188. 
 
 : Sheynan, 166, 196. 
 Slieyne, 290. 
 Sheynen, 81, 82, 102, 104, 113, 
 
 122, 125, 131, 187, iSS, 196, 
 
 216, 238, 
 Shebbirne, 256, 257. 
 Shilelagh, 41. 
 Shillecker, 255. 
 Shilmalyre, 257. 
 Shilogh, 36. 
 Shirley, 22, 23. 
 Short Castle, 281. 
 Shortall, 67, 71, 255. 
 Shroughbooe, 254. 
 Shyan, 166. 
 Shynan Castle, 78, 79. 
 Sidon, 100. 
 Sigen, 256. 
 Siggenston, 253. 
 Sinot Court, 38. 
 Skerrets, 133, 274. 
 Skerries, 238. 
 Skibbereen, 280. 
 Skiddies, 164, 183. 
 Skryne, 93. 
 Slade, 60, 61. 
 Sladde, 256, 257. 
 Slane, 60, 69, 92, 94, 99, 227, 
 
 260, 349. 
 Slaney, 50, 56. 
 Slaune, The, 258. 
 Sleggar, 71. 
 Sleumaghe, 73. 
 Slevey, 257. 
 Slevoy, 60. 
 
 Slewlogher, 169, 196, 331. 
 Slewmargie, 30, 74, 232. 
 Slievebloom, 75, 78, 82, 89. 
 Slievecomer, 75. 
 Slieve Gallen, 297. 
 Sligo, 2, 29, 123, 141, 144, 145, 
 
 147, 148, 150, 238, 240, 275, 
 
 276, 
 Slingesby, 175. 
 Sinarmore, 5, 260. 
 Smith, 10,67, 71.80,97,252,281 
 Smithstown, 38, 72, 94, 101. 
 Sobieski, 47. 
 Sonagh, 270. 
 Sourley Buy, 16. 
 Southampton, 49. 
 Sowa Castle, 186. 
 Sparke, 93. 
 Spencer, 23. 
 Spring. 194, 350. 
 Stackallan, 92. 
 Stackallen, 94. 
 Slackpole, 204, 289. 
 
 Stackes, 192. 
 
 Stafford, 12, 34, 57, 61, 63, 7r 
 
 244, 256. 
 Stalorgan, 39. 
 Stamen, 100. 
 Stanihurst, 48, 58. 
 Stanley, 4, 93, 343, 349, 351. 
 Staples, 94. 
 Staplestowne, 254. 
 Stapleton, 284. 
 Starallen, 94. 
 Strangford, 238. 
 Starr, 62. 
 
 Starrowalshe, 258, 250. 
 Staunton, 66. 
 
 St. Canice, 68, 70, 71, 72, 226. 
 Stevenston, 91, 94, 100. 
 Stephen St., 98. 
 St. Gudule, 275. 
 St. James' Castle, 70. 
 St. John, 61, 62, 151, 244, 350. 
 St. John's Bower, 265. 
 St. Kathrens, 39, 45. 
 St. Laurence, 73, 86, 102, 227. 
 St. Leger, 52, 71, 78, 185, 244, 
 
 255, 262, 282, 350. 
 St. Mallins, 265. 
 St. Michell, 46, 232. 
 St. Mollines, 36, 51, 52, 53, 54, 
 
 64, 253, 254. 
 St. Molyn, 253. 
 Stokes, 38, 252, 284. 
 Stookes, 94. 
 
 Strabane, 27, 250, 297, 349. 
 Stradbally, 78, 267. 
 Straffane, 262. 
 Straghmor'259. 
 Strahard, 80. 
 Strancally, 166. 
 Strange, 71, 154, 350. 
 Strangford, 10, 12, 238, 264. 
 Streamstown, 274. 
 Street, no. 
 
 Strong, 70, 71, 164, 2S6, 351. 
 Sluart, 263. 
 Stukeley, 59. 
 
 St. Wolstans, 37, 44, 48, 252. 
 Suck, 131, 150. 
 Suer, 33, 35, 56, 64, 157. 15S. 
 
 303. 
 Suffolk, 152, 267, 
 Sullevan, 280, 350. 
 Sunnagh, 104, 107. 
 Supple, 203, 281, 
 Surleboy, 16. 
 Surnings, 252. 
 Sutton, 38, 45, 46, 47, 6l, 252, 
 
 256,257, 3}9. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 58l 
 
 Swan, 296. 
 
 Swayne, 66, JU 
 
 Swedy Lough, 103. 
 
 Sweetman, 67, 71, 
 
 Swilly Lough, 30, 33. 
 
 Swords, 36, 37, 38. 
 
 Sydley, 102. 
 
 Sydney, 19, 20, 23, 55, 76, 131, 
 
 270. 
 Sygin, 61. 
 Syginston, 61. 
 Sylane, 274. 
 Syney, 102. 
 Synot, 38, 56, 57, 58, 61, 64, 
 
 256, 257, 25S, 266, 300, 350. 
 Syonan, 104. 
 
 Taffe, 4, 5, 73, 79, 93, 97. 260. 
 
 Taghmon, 59, 62, 105. 
 
 Taghunan, 61. 
 
 Tagomane, 256. 
 
 Tailten, 90. 
 
 Tailor, 38,39,351. 
 
 Talbot, 4, 37, 38, 43, 47, 92, 93, 
 
 94. 95. 99. 10 °. IO °. 2 5°. 259, 
 
 263, 292,349, 351. 
 Talbotstown, 41. 
 Tallaght, 261, 264, 269. 
 Tallniall, 106. 
 Tallon, 93, 94, 101. 
 Tallow, 37, 166, 171. 
 Taman, 256. 
 
 Tample Wodekann, 257. 
 Tanconshanee, 59, 60. 
 Tankard, 93, 99. 
 Tankardstown, 79, 95. 
 Tanrago, 276. 
 Tappock, 39. 
 Tara, 90, 93, 98. 
 Tarbert, 109. 
 Tarturs, 13. 
 Tartayne, 38. 
 Tassagard, 39. 
 Tath-Rath, 95. 
 Taylor, 38, 39. 
 Teaquin Castle, 134. 
 Teara, 43. 
 
 Teaghcroghan, 95, 101. 
 Teeling, 269. 
 Teenes, 3. 
 Teffia, 84. 
 Teighin, 258. 
 Teling, 94, 95, 100. 
 Telinstown, 101. 
 Templemichael, 166. 
 Templemore, 215. 
 
 Templeoge, 37. 
 Templeton, 262, 
 Tempo, 262. 
 Tempodessel, 262, 
 Tenche, 266. 
 Tennecarricke, 254. 
 Tenne-Killeh, 79. 
 Tennekille, 80. 
 Tennelick, 231, 
 Tentober, 257. 
 Termingraghe, 24. 
 Termonfecken, 92, 2J2. 
 Terry, 192. 
 Teurelan, 254. 
 Tew, 163. 
 Thistle-Keran, 93; 
 Thomas Court, 348. 
 Thomond, 124, 127, 1 30, 
 221, 231, 302, 336, 349. 
 Thomnebaghy, 255. 
 Thomyne, 254. 
 Thomas St. 99. 
 Thomaston, 48, 66, 68. 
 Thomastowne, 96. 
 Thornburgh, 236. 
 Thorne, 163. 
 Thornton, 201, 206, 
 Thurlesbeg, 284. 
 Thurles, 215, 218. 
 Thyvyn, 66. 
 Tibbotnelong, 142. 
 Ticooly, 274, 277. 
 Ticroghan, 92, 
 Tinerana, 264* 
 Tinnahinch, 73, 79, 81. 
 Tinraheene, 58. 
 Tinterne, 57, 6o, 233. 
 Tintubber, 257. 
 Tipp, 252. 
 Tipper, 45, 47, 349; 
 Tipperary, 65, 68, 71, 74 
 156, 158, 196, 207, 211, 
 226, 234, 252, 262, 263, 
 267, 270, 273, 278, 2S1, 
 Tippersold, 38, 39. 
 Tippston, 252. 
 Tiranly, 142, 337. 
 Tir-Bruinna Sinna, 276. 
 Tirerrill, 144, 145, 338. 
 Tirhugh, 32. 
 Tirke, Mayne, 23S. 
 Tirrell, 34, 100, 103, 107 
 
 302, 327, 352. 
 Tirriaugh, 19. 
 Tirriaughelie, 20. 
 Tiscorre, 259. 
 Tlachta, 90. 
 Toam, 234, 237. 
 
 2l6, 
 
 88, 
 225, 
 264, 
 284. 
 
 Tobberton, 38. 
 
 Tobercaoch, 274. 
 
 Tobin, 71,163, 210,225, 2 55>35° 
 
 Tobragney, 208. 
 
 Todd, 66, 235. 
 
 Voghrighie, 251. 
 
 Tohyrly, 54. 
 
 Toledo, 286. 
 
 Tolghan, 85. 
 
 Tolmalag Haven, 239. 
 
 Tumand, 253. 
 
 Tombs, 45, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, 
 
 69. 7'. 72. 355. 35 6 .e'pas s 'n>- 
 Tomcoyle, 258. 
 Tomduff, 258. 
 Tomgarrough, 253. 
 Tomger, 257. 
 Tomhaggard, 60, 61. 
 Tomies, 280. 
 Tomlaine, 257. 
 Tomm Dire, 259. 
 Tomona, 276. 
 Tomyne, 253. 
 Tooles, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43. 
 Togau, 73, 262. 
 Towers, Round, 357 
 
 Towany, 15. 
 Tracie, 8. 
 
 Tract on Abbey, 281. 
 Tralee, 239, 283. 
 Traley, 189. 
 Traley Castle, 190. 
 Tramore, 164. 
 Tram, 282, 352. 
 Traunts, 192. 
 Travers, 38, 
 
 Trent Council of, 286, 287. 
 
 Trevers, 42. 
 
 Trevor, 50. 
 
 Tribleston, 94. 
 
 Trim, 91, 92, 94, 95, 102, 234, 
 244. 
 
 Trimberton, 95. 
 
 Trimleston, 92, 93, 94, 269, 349, 
 
 Triscornagh, 104. 
 
 Tristernagh, 234. 
 
 Tristernagh Abbey, 270. 
 
 Tristinaughe, 103. 
 
 Troddye, 67, 721 
 
 Tromer, 62. 
 
 Troneblie, 95. 
 
 Trow, 23. 
 
 Trough, 322. 
 
 Trubly, 92, 97. 
 
 Tuadrommeen, 278. 
 
 Tuam, 125, 131, 227, 234, 237, 
 273, 274, 286. 
 
 Tubberlomunaugh, 257. 
 
3 S2 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Tuberngan, 253. 
 
 Tuite, 90, 96, 103, 104, 107, 
 
 154, 268, 270. 
 Tuitestown, 103, 104, 107. 
 Tullagh, 253, 254. 
 Tullaghan, 105. 
 Tullaghanbroge, 71. 
 Tullaghagrory, 252. 
 Tullaghard, 94. 
 Tullamore, 268. 
 Tullophelim, 51. 
 Tullock, 94. 
 Tullon, 277. 
 Tullow, 65, 23!. 
 Tully, 48, 51, 79, 252. 
 Tullynally, 270. 
 Tully O'Dea, 127, 338. 
 Tullyra, 274. 
 Turbotstown, 270. 
 Turner, 46, 62, 256, 351. 
 Turning, 48. 
 Turoe, 273. 
 
 Turvey, 37, 38, 97, 99, 101. 
 Tusher, 257. 
 Tylin, 99, 101. 
 Tymog, 79. 
 Tymoghe, 252. 
 Tynan, 34. 
 Tynehinch, 226. 
 Tynt, 97. 
 
 Tyrconnell, 24, 25, 29, 30, 34. 
 Tyrconnell, Earl, 31, 47, 223, 
 
 248, 251, 263. 
 Tyrmin-Omungan, 24. 
 Tyrone, 23, 24, 25, 120, 223, 
 
 249, 250, 251, 262. 
 Tyrone, Earl, 8, 19, 20, 21, 22, 
 
 23, 24, 26, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 
 34. 63, 67, 70, 99, 119, 223, 
 246, 251, 261, 297, 301, 302, 
 303, 304, 349. 
 
 Tywe, 67. 
 
 U 
 
 Ublogahell, 297; 
 
 Uchterthera, 277, 
 
 Uisnech, 83, 90, 
 
 Ullard, 2, 255. 
 
 Ulster, I, 29, 34, 223, 237, 246, 
 251, 287, 288, 302, 305, 343. 
 
 Ulverston, 59. 
 
 Uniacke, 281. 
 
 Upper Court, 226. 
 
 Upton, 26r. 
 
 Urquhart, 270. 
 
 Uriel, no. 
 
 Usher, 38, 95, 101, 233, 263, 
 264, 351. 
 
 Uskerower, 101. 
 
 Uskertye, 256. 
 
 V 
 
 Valdesoto, Count, 106. 
 
 Valentia, 222, 239, 282. 
 
 Valley, Knight of the, 202. 
 
 Vaughan, 46. 
 
 Veldon, 94, 98. 
 
 Velvetstown, 281. 
 
 Verdon, 4, 5, 107, 203, 352. 
 
 Verona, 106. 
 
 Vesey, 261, 263. 
 W 
 
 Wadding, 60, 161, 163, 164, 256, 
 2S9, 290, 292, 293, 351. 
 
 Wafer, 94,100, 258. 
 
 Wakeley, 82, 91, 352. 
 
 Wale, 53, 98, 164, 211, 253, 254, 
 290, 352. 
 
 Waleslogh, 255. 
 
 Walker, 46. 
 
 Wallentimore, 239. 
 
 Wallis, 281. 
 
 Wallscourt, 272. 
 
 Wallop, 56, 57, 63, 64, 235,349. 
 
 Walshe, 38, 42. 43, 48, 50, 62, 
 66, 67, 70, no, 126, 129, 160, 
 161, 164, 170, 198, 203, 214, 
 244, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 
 258, 291, 292, 298, 351. 
 
 Walterstown, 95. 
 
 Walton, 264. 
 
 Walworth, 264, 
 
 Warbeck, 278. 
 
 Ward, 260. 
 
 Ward Castle, 37. 
 
 Ward Hill, 90. 
 
 Ware, 282. 
 
 Waring, 92, 95, 350. 
 
 Warringstone, 93, 95. 
 
 Warren, 4, 38, 43, 48, 82, 87, 92, 
 
 94. 99, 233. 35 2 - 
 Warrenstown, 4, 99, 233. 
 Water Castle, 231. 
 Waterford, 35, 56, 59, 156, 157, 
 
 159, 166, 216, 233, 236, 239, 
 
 241, 267, 277, 280, 281, 2S9. 
 Waterhous, 126, 129. 
 Waters, 278. 
 Waterston, 103, no. 
 Waton, 67, 71, 254. 
 Weafy, 93. 
 Weil, 95. 
 Welchetown, 104, 
 Weldon, 265, 352. 
 Wellesley, 87, 232, 252, 253, 
 
 268. 
 Wellfort, 273. 
 Wellington, 48, 265. 
 
 Wells, 267. 
 
 Wesley, 47,48,50,95, 96, 98, 352 
 
 Wespelston, 39, 349. 
 
 Westmeath, 82, 83, 89, 90, 100, 
 102, 105, 106, 107, 112, 113, 
 120, 149, 234, 240, 264, 268, 
 269, 270, 271. 
 
 Weston, 38, 39, 263. 
 
 Westport, 275. 
 
 Wexford, 35, 36, 41, 50, 54, 55, 
 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 166, 
 225, 226, 241, 243, 256, 261, 
 264, 266, 267, 295, 298, 303. 
 
 Wharton, 48. 
 
 Whitechurch, 235, 352. 
 
 White Knight, 231. 
 
 Whitfieldstown, 163. 
 
 Whyte, 10, 12, 39, 44, 45, 48, 
 62, 67, 94, 97, 129, 162, 200, 
 204, 213, 256, 265, 289, 291, 
 292, 351, 352, 355, 356. 
 
 Whytney, 76. 
 
 Whytty, 62, 63, 256, 257. 
 
 Wicklow, 35, 36, 39, 41, 56,80, 
 233, 238, 239, 259, 262, 264, 
 282, 303. 
 
 Wilkenstone, 94, 104, 350. 
 
 Williams, 50, 85, 306. 
 
 Williamstown, 264. 
 
 Wilmington, 280. 
 
 Winch, 244. 
 
 Windsor, 235. 
 
 Wingfield, 42, 244, 252, 264, 351 
 
 Wirtemburg, 168. 
 
 Wise,l6l, 163, 277, 290, 351. 
 
 Witchurch, 256. 
 
 Wogan, 45, 47, 50, 252, 253. 
 
 Woghterard, 252. 
 
 Woghtereay, 252. 
 
 Woncestowne, 255. 
 
 Woodbine Hill, 280. 
 
 Woodford, 266. 
 
 Woodfort, 282. 
 
 Woodgrage, 257. 
 
 Woodhouse, 281. 
 
 Wood Parks, 269. 
 
 Woodstock, 45, 271. 
 
 Worrall, 5. 
 
 Wotton, 5. 
 
 Woulfe, 46, 197, 265. 
 
 Wray, 263. 
 
 Writers, 294. 
 
 Wyartstone, 37, 38. 
 
 Wycam, 38. 
 
 Y 
 
 Voughall, 15S, 167,170, 239,281. 
 
 Young, 39, 47, 289. 
 
 Youngstone, 47. 
 

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